Articles by Richard Adhikari

Google this week announced that it has expanded its Google Shopping Express service to Chicago, Boston and Washington, D.C It has renamed the service "Google Express" and added several new merchants....

The first reviews are out on the Samsung Galaxy Note 4, unveiled last month in Berlin, and they're generally positive "The best big-screen phone you can buy right now," screams the headline of a review by Brad Molen for Engadget....

Open source developers apparently don't adhere to best practices such as using static analysis and conducting regular security audits, found Coverity's Spotlight report, released Wednesday The Coverity Scan service, which is available at no charge to open source projects, helped devs find and fix about 50,000 quality and security defects in code la...

Apple and other multinational companies that have been exploiting the notorious Double Irish tax loophole for years will have to look elsewhere for a comparable tax dodge The Irish government's budget, presented on Tuesday by Finance Minister Michael Noonan, closes the loophole....

Lenovo last week announced five new models in its Yoga product line, some running Windows and the others Android Three are tablets -- the Tablet 2 Pro and the Tablet 2 running Android, and the Tablet 2 running Windows. The others are the Yoga 3 Pro and the Thinkpad Yoga 14 laptops....

Samsung on Sunday announced that it has resolved issues hindering the commercialization of 802.11ad standard 60-GHz WiFi technology The company's solution maintains maximum speed by eliminating co-channel interference regardless of the number of devices on the network, using what it claims is the world's first method that allows multiple devices to...

Kaspersky Lab this week reported that criminals have been emptying ATMs and infecting them with malware dubbed "Tyupkin." About 50 machines have been infected in eastern Europe, and the attacks have spread to the United States, India and China, based on statistics culled from VirusTotal, Kaspersky said....

The U.S. National Security Agency's wide-ranging surveillance of people's communications worldwide is hitting America's high-tech industry hard, said panelists on Wednesday at a roundtable held by Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden in Palo Alto, California Wyden set the tone from the start: "This is going to cost America jobs." ...

Thync on Wednesday announced it had raised US$13 million in funding from "top-tier" investors, including lead investor Khosla Ventures Thync's product, possibly called the "Vibe," is a wearable device that purportedly uses neurosignaling to modify a user's state of mind in relation to energy, calm and focus....

Those wonderful hands-free communications capabilities now available in automobiles may carry the promise of making driving safer, but they're not fulfilling it, according to two studies conducted jointly by the University of Utah and the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety And forget about using your iPhone's Siri in the car, even hands-free -- it m...

Researchers led by Princeton University physics professor Ali Yazdani have developed an easier way to spot the much-sought-after Majorana fermion. "Theorists have proposed that Majorana can emerge at the edge of some superconductors as quasi-particles, and manipulating them can be used to test their properties as well as building interesting quant...

The United States Drug Enforcement Agency co-opted a woman's identity to create a fake Facebook page as a ruse to investigate suspects, BuzzFeed reported The agency posted racy pictures of the woman, then known as "Sondra Prince," as well as a photo of her young son and niece, to the sham page. The photos were taken from her cellphone, which the ag...

HP on Monday announced plans to separate its major business lines into two separate companies, possibly acquiescing to long-standing shareholder pressure to do so One, HP Inc., will offer PCs and printers; the other, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, will focus on IT infrastructure, software and services....

News Corp. and Google have lashed out at each other as the EU reconsiders the terms of its proposed antitrust settlement with the latter News Corp. essentially accused Google of nefarious behavior in a letter to outgoing European Commissioner for Competition Joaqun Almunia over the EU's proposed antitrust settlement with Google....

Amazon on Wednesday introduced a slew of new Kindle Fire tablets and Kindle e-readers. It also unveiled a new OS based on Android KitKat. The top-of-the-line product is the company's Fire HDX 8.9, which sports a Qualcomm Snapdragon 805 quad-core processor, with each core running at up to 2.5 GHz, and a GPU that's 75 percent faster than that of the...

Logitech has announced four new products for the smart home in its Harmony family that let users control TVs, set-top boxes, speakers, lighting, thermostats, door locks, window shades and more Users can trigger activities such as dimming the house lights in several ways: by pressing a button on their remote; passing a sensor; using the Harmony mobi...

Security consultant Benjamin Mussler last week warned that the Kindle e-book library had a cross-site scripting vulnerability It appears Amazon previously had fixed the XSS flaw but two months ago reintroduced it in a new version of the "Manage Your Kindle" Web application, according to Mussler....

Alibaba's forthcoming IPO will have a significant impact on Yahoo, but it's not likely to cause many ripples in the U.S. e-commerce market overall Although this one deal will make Yahoo more money than it has made in years of struggling, it could lead to its demise as an independent entity....

Stanford and Duke Universities will use Apple's HealthKit in medical trials, according to a Reuters report Doctors at Stanford are working with Apple to let physicians track blood sugar levels for children with diabetes, while Duke is developing a pilot program to track blood pressure, weight and other measurements for patients with cancer or heart...

Apple's unveiling last week of its Apple Pay NFC mobile payments system has triggered a clash between banks and the retail industry Apple has lined up support from banks and credit card companies, but Best Buy and Walmart have said they will not support Apple Pay, according to reports.