Articles by Richard Adhikari

Sprint Chairman Masayoshi Son reportedly was scheduled to meet with the United States Federal Communications Commission on Monday to discuss a possible purchase of T-Mobile, although the U.S. Department of Justice already has signaled its opposition Both U.S. government bodies would have to approve of a merger, but they would view it from different...

The Target data breach exposed more than 100 million customers, riled up the United States' intelligence agencies, sparked an investigation by the Justice Department, involved the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the FBI, triggered several congressional hearings, and led several banks to re-issue their credit cards The hacker has variously ...

Google is close to settling the antitrust case the European Commission brought against it more than three years ago, according to a Reuters report This is its third offer to the EC so far, and it reportedly includes commitments from Google on how it will treat rivals and how it will use content from other providers....

The United States Department of Justice on Monday announced two new options for tech companies to report on government requests for information about their customers In response, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, LinkedIn and Yahoo withdrew their lawsuits against the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court over the issue....

News that Google is purchasing artificial intelligence companyDeepMind for between US$500 million and $650 million surfaced Monday Google spokesperson Tim Drinan confirmed the deal to the E-Commerce Times but declined to provide further details....

CNN on Thursday became the latest media outlet to fall victim to hacking by the Syrian Electronic Army, and the group's second victim this week. Microsoft was targeted by the group on Monday The SEA hacked into and defaced various CNN social media accounts and blogs, the network's Catherine Shoichet reported....

The United States National Security Agency should end its controversial bulk telephone metadata collection program, recommended the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board The board's report, issued Thursday, says Section 215 of the U.S. Patriot Act, which provides the foundation for the NSA's authority, "does not provide an adequate legal basi...

VMware on Wednesday announced it is acquiring enterprise mobile management and security solutions provider AirWatch The deal, which is expected to close later this quarter subject to the usual regulatory approvals and closing conditions, will expand VMware's reach into the mobile space....

The Syrian Electronic Army, which is notorious for launching cyberattacks against the media, on Monday defaced the Microsoft Office blog site It posted a screenshot of its mischief on its Twitter site....

More than 100,000 Internet-connected home consumer devices, including a refrigerator, spammed enterprises and consumers worldwide for about two weeks, between Dec. 23 and Jan. 6, according to security firm Proofpoint The devices were part of a botnet that sent out 750,000 spam emails, the company claimed....

In a keenly anticipated speech, President Obama on Friday announced reforms to the United States National Security Agency's surveillance activities, but his pronouncements failed to please just about everyone ...

A federal appeals court's Tuesday ruling on Net neutrality has sparked dire predictions: Streaming video will cost more; Internet-based multiplayer games could get expensive; and innovation might be stifled Credo Mobile is gathering names for a petition to Federal Communications Commission Chair Tom Wheeler....

The United States National Security Agency's surveillance efforts include radio transmissions from circuit boards and USB cards inserted surreptitiously into computers, The New York Times reported Tuesday. This apparently has been going on since 2008 The story bears out Der Spiegel's December report that the NSA had a 50-page catalog of surveillanc...

Advanced persistent threats and stealth malware attacks have been making the rounds for years. Now, University of Michigan researchers Robert Axelrod and Rumen Iliev have created a mathematical model that, in essence, lays out the best time for nation-states to launch cyberattacks. Axelrod is a professor of political science and public policy at the university's Ford School of Public Policy, and Iliev is a post-doctoral student at the school...

NoSQL, Part 1: Coming of Age Back in 2009, SQL databases began emerging, mainly to handle modern Web-scale databases. They could handle massive amounts of data; tackle the exponential growth of newly created digital content from social media sites and websites; and help build value around data by connecting the dots -- no small task when a plethor...

Microsoft will discuss its vision for the future of Windows at its Build developer conference, to be held in San Francisco April 2-4, according to Paul Thurrot's Supersite for Windows The company also will talk about the next version of its operating system, code-named "Threshold," which will be officially named "Windows 9," Thurrot speculated. It ...

Further proof that the NSA surveillance scandal is impacting the United States IT industry came on Friday with the publication of a study conducted for Canadian Web hosting and cloud services provider Peer1 Hosting Fully 64 percent of the 300 UK- and Canada-based respondents to the survey hoped to move data from U.S.-based cloud service providers t...

The Internet of Things, wearables, mobile devices and the next generation of automobiles were the standouts at CES 2014 "The Internet of Things will probably have the broadest impact, since it includes quickly evolving, increasingly intelligent and highly mobile technologies of every kind," Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT, told TechNewsW...

Salesforce on Wednesday kicked off its Salesforce1 world tour in New York, touting the allure of the social, mobile and cloud customer platform to clients Launched in November at Dreamforce 2013, Salesforce1 drove a 96 percent increase in mobile app active users and a 46 percent increase in active users of custom mobile apps, Salesforce claimed....

Rumors that Samsung will include iris-recognition technology in its forthcoming Galaxy S5 smartphone, widely expected to be launched in April, were given a boost on Thursday through a Bloomberg interview of Lee Young Hee, executive vice president of Samsung Mobile People are "fanatical" about iris recognition technology and Samsung is "studying the...