Articles by Richard Adhikari

Research conducted by payments software vendor ACI Worldwide suggests that as many as a quarter of the world's consumers were victimized by card fraud in the past five years, and financial institutions are losing customers as a result ACI and the Aite Group, which jointly surveyed more than 6,100 customers equally divided by gender in 20 countries,...

Microsoft is offering up to US$650 worth of in-store credit to MacBook Air owners who are willing to trade them in and purchase a Surface Pro 3 The campaign runs until July 31....

Two months after the Heartbleed vulnerability sent frissons of fear down the spines of IT managers everywhere, 300,000 servers still remain vulnerable, Errata Security said this weekend That figure has remained unchanged since May....

In the wake of overwhelming evidence that the kill switch Apple introduced in iOS 7 last year has reduced iPhone thefts, Google and Microsoft have agreed to follow suit San Francisco District Attorney George Gascon and New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, who have spearheaded the battle to implement smartphone kill switches, last week annou...

Path has hived off its mobile-only messaging service as a standalone app named "Talk," it announced Friday. It also ended limits on the number of friends users can communicate with, and announced its purchase of place messaging pioneer TalkTo as it sets itself for growth The Talk app has a new feature, Ambient Status, that shows users' current stat...

T-Mobile CEO John Legere was his usual controversial self when he took the stage at the company's Un-Carrier 5.0 event on Wednesday, striding on after being announced like a wrestling champ and lacing the air with profanities AT&T and Verizon were "greedy bastards" that were "raping" customers, he fumed. "Maps and charts and promises -- and happy f...

Amazon's share prices shot up by nearly US$10 on Wednesday after the company announced its Fire Phone, but by press time Thursday they had fallen by $5.76 to $328.62 That might be a pretty solid indicator of the device's chances in the market, despite its power-packed hardware and ecosystem....

The open-source Android operating system has long been considered by security experts to be the mobile OS most vulnerable to security threats, but iOS is just as vulnerable, Marble Security has found However, the two OSes expose users to different types of threats....

BlackBerry, whose share of the mobile phone market has been on a downward spiral, this week launched BBM Protected, the first in its planned eBBM Suite of secure enterprise-class messaging products BBM Protected targets regulated industries....

HP on Tuesday announced HP Enterprise Applications Services for Workday -- essentially consulting services for customers of Workday's Software as a Service Workday is a human capital management package that unifies human resources, talent management, payroll and financial management....

Google's Nest subsidiary has returned its Protect smoke and carbon monoxide alarm to the market, less than one month after recalling 440,000 units because of a defect The device has been discounted to US$99 from $130....

Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk threw the automotive industry into a tizzy last week, when he announced that he was throwing open the company's patents Some hailed the move as yet more proof of the abysmal state of the United States patent system; others opined that it would give the electric car industry a boost; others just penned paeans of praise to ...

Samsung this week unveiled two new additions to its Galaxy Tab line of tablets, the S series The Galaxy Tab S devices are its thinnest and lightest tablets, with very high-resolution screens, tons of content from third parties, and a high degree of connectivity, all of which make them strong contenders as the fourth screen....

CloudFlare on Thursday announced the launch of Project Galileo, a service designed to provide enterprise-grade protection against distributed denial of service attacks free of charge to certain sites, with the goal of protecting freedom of expression on the Internet Such sites must be engaged in news gathering, civil society, or political or artist...

Facebook on Thursday announced it will soon move to interest-based advertising, almost three years after archrival Google, and well after other major players such as Yahoo and Amazon It also will introduce "ad preferences," a tool accessible from every ad on Facebook that will explain why users were served an ad, and let them remove interests that ...

The latest court ruling in an ongoing battle between Microsoft and demands from the United States government for data about one of the company's users, seems to have a lot of folks running for cover In 2013, U.S. Magistrate Judge James Francis issued a search warrant requiring Microsoft to turn over all date pertaining to the subscriber, hosted on ...

Mozilla showcased the latest developments in its plan to offer inexpensive smartphones running the open source Firefox OS at the Mobile Asia Expo this week in Shanghai They include reference designs for production in India; plans to launch the smartphones in India within the next few months; the addition of Chunghwa Telecom, Taiwan's largest operat...

Honeywell on Tuesday launched its Lyric smart thermostat, a device widely seen as a challenge to Google's Nest product ...

Google this week released the alpha version of source code for End-to-End, a Chrome browser extension that encrypts email End-to-End uses the OpenPGP standard to encrypt, decrypt, digitally sign and verify signed messages within the browser....

A worldwide operation led by the United States involving law enforcement, private sector cybersecurity firms and software vendors has disrupted the GameOver Zeus botnet for now The U.S. also has filed criminal charges in Pittsburgh, Penn., and Omaha, Neb., against Russian national Evgeniy Mikhailovich Bogachev, and has charged a number of other sus...