Articles by Richard Adhikari

CEO Satya Nadella has begun his much-anticipated shakeup of Microsoft's leadership ranks, just weeks after taking the helm Tony Bates, executive vice president of business development and evangelism, and Tami Reller, executive vice president of marketing, are on the way out, Re/code reported....

Less than two months after publicly announcing that he was pulling out of the RSA Security Conference, which took place last week in San Francisco, because RSA had accepted a US$10 million contract from the United States National Security Agency, F-Secure Chief Researcher Mikko Hypponen appeared to take a somewhat mellower stance He alternated betw...

Mt. Gox, the largest Bitcoin exchange, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings in Tokyo, Just days after going offline following the publication on Scribd of an internal memo that alleged hackers had stolen nearly 745,000 Bitcoins from its servers over the years Blaming a weakness in the company's systems, CEO Mark Karpeles apologized publicly ...

Boeing this week filed an application with the United States Federal Communications Commission for a secure Android smartphone called the "Black" that will self-destruct if anyone tries to physically open the case The company will offer it to the U.S. defense and security communities....

The United States Department of Justice and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence have submitted four proposals to reform the National Security Agency's phone surveillance program, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday The recommendations come well before the March 28 deadline set by President Obama....

Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox, which has been troubled by repeated DDoS attacks, has gone offline, following publication on Scribd of a purported internal memo alleging a multiyear theft totaling nearly 745,000 Bitcoins from its servers At Tuesday morning's price of US$518.84CoinDesk, that would amount to about $386 million....

Nokia on Monday confirmed months of speculation with the unveiling of its X family of smartphones running Android The X, X+ and XL smartphones are priced at US$123, $136 and $150, respectively....

Google on Friday announced its purchase of online ad fraud fighter Spider.io It initially will include Spider's fraud detection technology in its video and display ad products.

The World Resources Institute on Thursday launched Global Forest Watch, a dynamic online forest monitoring and alert system to help fight the massive deforestation of the planet ...

Internet of Things, Part 1: God's Gift to the NSA So there I was, grinding my coffee beans when the grinder's AMOLED screen lit up with a message....

Technologist and serial entrepreneur Steve Perlman on Wednesday announced his new company, Artemis, and demoed its pCell technology ...

HP's problems following its 2011 purchase of Autonomy for US$11.1 billion are getting worse Various documents and internal emails indicate HP knew about the existence of loss-making hardware sales Autonomy allegedly used to bolster its revenue figures well before May 2012, when HP claimed to learn about them from a whistleblower, the Financial Time...

After months of being courted by both Comcast and Charter Communications, Time Warner Cable has agreed to be purchased by Comcast for US$45.2 billion in stock The deal, if approved by the United States Department of Justice and the U.S. Federal Communications Commission, will create the biggest broadband provider in the country, with 33 million cus...

Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has been more active than a kid on a sugar high. The company on Wednesday announced a partnership with Carnegie Mellon University to advance personalization and mobile technologies That was the same day Mayer told employees in a closed-door meeting that Yahoo would be partnering with Yelp, The Wall Street Journal reported....

The United States National Security Agency's salivary glands no doubt started working overtime when it became apparent that technological advances were moving the world toward an Internet of Things -- a world where everything would be connected to everything else wirelessly or over the Web Almost two years ago, David Petraeus, then director of the ...

Kaspersky Lab has released research findings on Careto, a malware toolkit that has hit more than 380 victims in 31 countries so far since 2007 "Careto" means "mask" in Spanish, Kaspersky notes....

Billionaire corporate raider Carl Icahn on Monday dropped his attempt to push Apple into repurchasing US$50 billion-worth of its stocks, after months of effort The move follows a recommendation against his proposal made Sunday night by proxy advisory firm Institutional Shareholder Services, Icahn said in a letter to Apple investors.

California Sen. Mark Leno and San Francisco District Attorney George Gascon on Friday announced the introduction of a bill in the legislature that would require all smartphones and devices sold in California to have a kill switch starting Jan. 1, 2015 Senate Bill 962 comes against a backdrop of rising smartphone theft. It is now the leading propert...

Twitter on Wednesday announced Q4 2013 revenue of US$243 million, up 116 percent year over year, and a 30 percent YoY increase in average monthly active users Wall Street reacted by sending its share prices down 21 percent, and analysts promptly downgraded the company....

The European Commission has accepted Google's latest proposal to settle a probe of its practices pending agreement with the 125 companies and organizations that filed complaints against the Internet giant Google last week made its third settlement offer, following a warning from the Commission on Jan. 15 that it would take action if the issue were ...