Articles by Richard Adhikari

Another Yahoo acquisition hit the news last week -- Flurry Analytics, and it was widely seen as a bid to raise the company's profile in the hot mobile ad market Mobile advertising will exceed US$31 billion this year, eMarketerhas predicted....

Google is seeking 175 volunteers from whom it will collect bodily samples in an effort to create their biochemical fingerprints and establish the baseline for a healthy body The Baseline study, to be run by Google X labs, will seek to connect traditional clinical observations of health, such as diet -- or habits, such as smoking -- with molecular-l...

Tablet sales will show dramatically slower growth this year, according to IDC's Q2 worldwide quarterly tablet tracker Worldwide tablet sales grew 11 percent year over year in Q2, with shipments totaling 49.3 million units....

Facebook chalked up US$2.68 billion in ad revenue in Q2, up 67 percent year over year, and mobile ads accounted for about 62 percent of that haul, totaling $1.66 billion Facebook cracked the $1 billion mark for mobile ads in Q1....

Microsoft will unify and streamline all its operating systems into one, and emphasize mobility and the cloud, CEO Satya Nadella told analysts in a call Tuesday after the company announced its earnings In a nod to the growing bring-your-own-device trend, the company's devices and applications also will merge life and work....

The frenzy over the forthcoming iPhone intensified Tuesday with a Wall Street Journal report that Apple has ordered up to 80 million units of the device Meanwhile, Samsung unveiled an ad poking fun at the "iPhone 6" and Xiaomi introduced its answer to the iPhone, the Mi4. Xiaomi, known for high specs at relatively low prices, is cutting inroads int...

The long-held belief that Android is the least secure of mobile OSes was shattered by security researcher and expert iOS hacker Jonathan Zdziarski at the Hope/X hackers' conference, held in New York over the weekend Zdziarski unveiled a host of iOS vulnerabilities, the scope of which was staggering.

Startup GoTenna has launched its eponymously named device, which lets users send and receive encrypted text messages without the need for a cell tower "This is an interesting concept," Jim McGregor, principal analyst at Tirias Research, told TechNewsWorld. "It's like a walkie-talkie on steroids."

Concerns about overly broad searches of digital data by law enforcement once again have emerged after a federal judge on Friday issued an opinion stating officials armed with a warrant can seize and hold a suspect's entire email account Such an action would not violate the suspect's rights under the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution, said U.S....

Apple has agreed -- conditionally -- to settle a lawsuit over allegations of fixing the prices of e-books brought against it by the attorneys general of 33 states in the United States, following a protracted legal battle The settlement is subject to approval by the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, which ruled on the case i...

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on Thursday announced the elimination of 18,000 jobs -- roughly one in seven of the company's workforce -- in the next year About 12,500 of the positions eliminated will be at Nokia....

The Gameover botnet is back -- more or less -- only six weeks or so after the United States Department of Justice announced that an FBI-led multinational effort had disrupted it Still, the botnet's downtime was longer than expected -- the UK's National Crime Agency had warned that the people running it would regain control within two weeks....

Chinese company Wico has cloned the yet-to-be-released iPhone 6, if videos posted by 86Digi can be believed One video provides a detailed view of the clone: ...

Apple and IBM have teamed up on enterprise mobility in an exclusive partnership that will create iPhone and iPad business apps incorporating IBM's Big Data and analytics capabilities, they announced Tuesday "Mobility has been very much a catch-as-catch-can solution in most businesses," noted Yankee Group Research Vice President Carl Howe, with ente...

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella may launch a massive round of layoffs, possibly as early as this week. Some details are still being worked out, unidentified sources with knowledge of the company's plans told Bloomberg Layoffs have been widely expected since Microsoft purchased Nokia, and Nadella's recent memo to Microsoft employees was viewed as a hint...

Google on Tuesday announced Project Zero, an effort to speed up the security bug-fixing process. A team of cybersecurity experts will go after vulnerabilities in any and all software, notify the vendors, and then file bug reports in a public database so users can track the issuance of patches The Project Zero team has promised to send bug reports t...

It's a given that hackers can and do penetrate websites with laughable ease, ranging from those of retailers to those of the United States government. It certainly doesn't help the security-minded to know that the U.S. National Security Agency and other countries' spy agencies, including the UK's GCHQ and the West German intelligence agency, are t...

Salesforce.com will shell out US$350 million in common stock for relationship intelligence firm RelateIQ in a deal expected to close by October It will provide another $40 million dollars in stock for RelateIQ's cash balance....

The competition to offer transparent and flexible OLED screens heated up last week, withLG's unveiling of two 18-inch OLED displays One is flexible and the other transparent....

Companies providing the world's critical infrastructure are woefully unprepared for cyberattacks despite the increasing threat level, evidenced by the release of the Stuxnet worm and the Shamoon virus in recent years, a survey conducted jointly by the Ponemon Institute and Unisys has found Nearly 70 percent of the 599 surveyed oil, gas, utility, en...