Articles by Richard Adhikari

John Legere, T-Mobile's feisty CEO, on Wednesday gave a speech at CES best described as highly entertaining. His remarks came one day after being kicked out of AT&T's party at the international technology event ...

At least eight security experts who had signed up for the RSA 2014 security conference to be held Feb. 24-28 in San Francisco have publicly pulled out They include F-Secure Chief Security Researcher Mikko Hypponen; Taia Global founder and CEO Jeffrey Carr, who is also founder of the Suits and Spooks conference; Christopher Soghoian of the ACLU; Mar...

Nvidia this week announced the Tegra K1, a 192-core super chip that brings its Kepler architecture to the mobile space Kepler is used in what Nvidia claims is the fastest GPU on the planet, its GeForce GTX 780 Ti....

Devices ranging from the sublime to the strange are debuting this week at International CES 2014 Products unveiled at the show suggest growing trends toward wearable health-tracking products and increased human-gadget interaction. There's a bed, for example, that tells owners how they slept the previous night and what they can do to sleep better in...

Microsoft on Tuesday announced that it will acquire Parature, which provides customer engagement solutions as a service Parature's technology will add self-service, support ticketing and other capabilities to Microsoft Dynamics....

Amadeus, the world's largest travel reservation and ticketing system, handling bookings for 95 percent of flights worldwide, uses a variety of NoSQL databases to deal with the massive amounts of data that it handles Amadeus enables 3.7 million bookings on more than 700 airlines, 110,000 hotel properties, and 30 rental car agencies each day....

In partnership with Nvidia and several automakers, Google on Monday announced the creation of the Open Automotive Alliance, an effort designed to further its push into the automobile industry Audi, General Motors, Honda and Hyundai are among the effort's partners on the automotive side.

One of the biggest bugbears for gamers has long been the need to use a joystick to both track a target and control the motion of their avatar or weapons, but at International CES 2014 next week, Tobii Technology will demonstrate a new solution Tobii has teamed up with SteelSeries, the companies announced Friday, to produce what they claim will be t...

Surveillance Rights and Wrongs, Part 1: Begging the Questions Civil liberties groups and privacy advocates in the United States rejoiced when U.S. Federal District Court Judge Richard Leon ruled last month that the NSA's collection of bulk telephony metadata is likely a violation of the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution....

The NSA's surveillance of Americans' emails, Web searches and phone calls has angered the nation, but lawmakers remain divided on the issue. Bipartisan groups have spoken out against the surveillance and a few have introduced legislation to curb it, but some contend it is essential to protect America from its enemies Americans are not hesitant abou...

After its discovery of a security hole in Snapchat was ignored for months, Gibson Security earlier this week released the API for the Snapchat application along with two exploits One exploit lets hackers match phone numbers with Snapchat users' names en masse; the other enables hackers to create huge numbers of fake Snapchat accounts. Together, the...

This story was originally published on Sept. 30, 2013, and is brought to you today as part of our Best of ECT News series Scientists from Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the California Institute of Technology have demonstrated that light can behave in a way previously observed only in works of science fiction -- th...

Isopropyl alcohol is widely used as a solvent and a cleaning fluid, as well as in rubbing alcohol products, but researchers at two universities in Canada and the UK recently managed to use it to transmit a text message Nariman Farsad, a doctoral candidate at York University, led the experiment, working with Andrew Eckford, a professor at York, and ...

Facebook and CEO Mark Zuckerberg are selling close to 70 million shares of Class A common stock, which carries one vote per share, in advance of the company's being listed on the S&P 500 index this month Facebook will use its proceeds from the sale of 27 million shares for working capital and other general corporate purposes, but it does not yet ha...

Delta Air Lines this week announced that it will ban in-flight cellphone calls amid growing opposition to the U.S. Federal Communications Commission's proposal to allow them Delta employees, particularly flight crews, are opposed to on-board cellphone calls, CEO Richard Anderson said in a memo to the company's 80,000 employees worldwide.

A task force set up by President Obama to review the United States National Security Agency's surveillance activities has suggested a list of what it calls "significant" reforms, including restrictions on spying Among the recommendations:...

Facebook this week announced the rollout of video ads in the mobile and desktop News Feeds of some of its members The video will begin playing in silent mode when it appears onscreen. Clicking or tapping on it will turn on the sound....

Google on Tuesday released XE 12, the latest update to its Google Glass product. One of its new features lets users take a photo with a wink, something that previously could be done by using a third-party app ...

Tesla plans to debut its Model E electric vehicle, with a price tag south of US$40,000, at the 2015 North American International Auto Show in Detroit, according to reports that surfaced Monday on GreenAutoblog.com -- based on an Autobild interview with Franz von Holzhausen, Tesla's chief designer -- and theLos Angeles Times Tesla later told Green...

A federal judge has ruled that the United States National Security Agency's collection of telephone metadata is likely a violation of the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, adding another point of debate to this volatile issue U.S. District Judge Richard Leon's ruling has extra impact because he is a conservative appointed by George W. Bush...