Articles by Richard Adhikari

LG on Tuesday unveiled its latest flagship smartphone, the G4. The official launch followed weeks of leaks about the device's design and features The G4 has an f1.8 aperture lens; a new IPS Quantum display, which is generally seen in the latest TVs; a body curved in LG's "Slim Arc" design; and six genuine leather color options, the company confirme...

Amazon on Tuesday announced Amazon Business, lifting its 3-year-old Amazon Supply business-to-business marketplace from beta status to full functionality with new features and benefits, and a massively increased product selection Amazon Business offers customers everything from IT and lab equipment to traffic signs, industrial deep fryers and 55-ga...

Google on Monday announced it will open an experimental portal to purchase patents from their holders between May 8 and May 22. The move is widely seen as an attempt to shut off patent trolls Patent holders have to set the price at which they're willing to sell their IP, and they will be told by June 26 whether Google wants to buy....

Nokia has kinda, sorta asserted that it's not returning to the smartphone business, in the wake of persistent reports that it's been eyeing a comeback Nokia "currently has no plans to manufacture or sell consumer handsets," reads a company statement. "The reports are false, and include comments incorrectly attributed to a Nokia Networks executive."

The day Apple initially picked to launch the Apple Watch was in some respects a dud The device was not available for sale in Apple Stores on Friday as previously scheduled, although it was available at some high-end fashion boutiques. Confusion reigned over shipments, with Apple earlier having announced that deliveries would be pushed back to June,...

Google on Wednesday announced Fi, a program that combines the wireless networks of Google carrier partners Sprint and T-Mobile with more than 1 million free, open WiFi hotspots Google has verified as fast and reliable. ...

Illumio, a 2-year-old cybersecurity startup, last week announced it had raised US$100 million in a Series C round of financing, bringing its total funding over the past 27 months to more than $142 million New investors Accel Partners and BlackRock Funds joined Investors Formation 8, Andreessen Horowitz and General Catalyst in the round. Other inves...

The CIA has been trying to hack into iOS for years. British and American agencies reportedly have collaborated to create a map of the Internet and Web users. The United States National Security Agency has, together with the UK's GCHQ, reportedly stolen SIM card encryption keys from Gemalto. The FBI is frothing at the mouth over Google's and Apple's encryption of their mobile OSes. Vulnerabilities in Signaling System 7 telephony protocols let third parties eavesdrop on cellphone calls and intercept text messages, despite encryption...

The U.S. Fleet Cyber Command, part of the U.S. 10th Fleet, is developing a strategy for modernizing its cyberoperations and transforming the Navy's network into a cyberwarfare platform, C4ISRNetworks reported earlier this month The strategy will seek to advance five key goals:...

China, which censors the Internet with its Great Firewall aka the "Golden Shield," has a new censorship tool that is causing alarm. It's known as the "Great Cannon." The University of Toronto's Citizen Lab identified the tool in a report released last week....

LG on Thursday confirmed rumors about the basic look of its upcoming G4 flagship smartphone with a post on its Facebook page ...

Apple on Tuesday announced that its 26th annual Worldwide Developers Conference will take place in San Francisco June 8-12 The event will include more than 100 technical sessions on developing, deploying and integrating the latest iOS and OS X technologies....

Five police departments in Maine, whose networks are linked together so they can share files, recently deposited bitcoins worth 300 euros into a Swiss bank account as ransom for their records. The departments' management system was locked down by Megacode ransomware, which scrambled their data and rendered it unusable The police decided to pay up a...

Early reviewers last week weighed in on Apple's new MacBook, and their reactions were tepid The new MacBook is 13.1mm thick, weighs 2 pounds, and has a 12-inch Retina display. Apple has touted it as the future of the notebook, pointing out that it had to reimagine every element to make the device lighter, thinner and better....

The Electronic Frontier Foundation this week filed a complaint against the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration for secretly collecting data on all telephone calls to as many as 116 countries, possibly going back to the 1990s The suit was filed on behalf of Human Rights Watch....

More than 10,000 software and hardware developers, scientists and space fans will spend this weekend huddling in rooms in 136 cities around the world to participate in NASA's fourth annual International Space Apps Challenge -- a hackathon for space wonks ...

The prelaunch reviews of the Apple Watch are out, and though they're generally favorable, they include a few niggling complaints A select group of reviewers were loaned an Apple Watch for a week. Overall, their consensus is that it's a fine device for tracking health and fitness, it's great for making digital payments, and it has excellent battery ...

Child and consumer advocacy groups on Monday filed a complaint with the United States Federal Trade Commission asking it to investigate Google over unfair and deceptive advertising practices in connection with its YouTube Kids app In essence, the app includes ads in a way that takes advantage of children's developmental vulnerabilities, the complai...

Oracle last week trumpeted a set of new Marketing Cloud features designed to improve the customer experience Oracle ID Graph, Rapid Retargeter and AppCloud Connect aim to boost sales by aggregating data from multiple sources and reacting to it in near-realtime....

Comedy talk show host John Oliver boldly went where few journalists from the mainstream media have dared to tread, grilling whistle-blower Edward Snowden about his leaking of thousands of NSA documents to the press in an interview that aired Sunday on Last Week Tonight Oliver raked Snowden over the coals for not having read every one of the documen...