Articles by Richard Adhikari

Microsoft's Windows Phone operating system may become an option on HTC's Android-based smartphones, Bloomberg reported Terry Myerson, head of Microsoft's operating systems unit, made the request to HTC last month, according to unnamed sources, and will meet with senior HTC executives in Taiwan later this month to discuss the idea....

Intel on Thursday announced Galileo, a microcontroller development board made jointly with open source hardware company Arduino for the education and maker markets Based on Intel's recently announced Quark system on a chip, the Galileo board will be available by the end of November for less than US$60, Intel spokesperson Kari Aakre told TechNewsWor...

Microsoft has topped the Reputation Institute's Global CSR RepTrak 100 Study for the second year in a row The institute surveyed 55,000 consumers worldwide about their attitudes toward the reputations of companies in terms of corporate social responsibility....

Dell on Wednesday released new tablets and updates to its XPS line of laptops for geeks, less than three weeks after founder Michael Dell won a long and bitter battle to take the company private again The company launched two Windows 8.1 tablets and two Android tablets under the revived "Venue" name....

AOL on Monday launched a limited version of Gathr, which aggregates online services for subscription at discounts of up to 60 percent of what they would cost on their own Monthly subscriptions to prebundled packages start at US$15, and some come with a bonus $10 Amazon gift card....

Symantec has removed more than 500,000 infected PCs from the botnet created by the ZeroAccess Trojan ZeroAccess uses a peer-to-peer mechanism. It is the latest technique botnet authors have adopted to avoid having their networks taken down by security experts....

Apple has displaced Coca-Cola as the leading global brand in Interbrand's 14th annual Best Global Brands report, ending the soda maker's 13-year rule Google took second place, pushing Coke into third....

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 -- that is, photons can bond and create a molecule ...

Ford on Thursday announced the acquisition of Livio Connect, a 5-year-old Michigan company that wields influence in the car connectivity field out of proportion to its size That's partly because Livio's technology is used by some major players, including General Motors, and partly because Livio's Keys marketplace is a B2B exchange where automakers...

Amazon on Wednesday announced the Kindle Fire HDX, the third generation of its line of tablets. It comes in 7-inch and 8.9-inch versions and has an HDX display, a quad-core 2.2 GHz processor, more memory and dual stereo speakers It includes free 24x7x365 tech support and a host of new features.

Valve Software will later this year beta test 300 hardware boxes running its Linux-based SteamOS, a standalone operating system for entertainment appliances in consumers' living rooms The prototype box for the Steam platform, which is optimized for gaming in the living room, is completely upgradable and open....

Google on Tuesday rolled out a feature for its recently launched Android Device Manager that lets users lock down a stolen Android device from anywhere, via the Web "This is something that should be built into the OS and the platform because it's an inherent security feature," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told LinuxInsider....

Google reportedly is developing its own anonymous identifier for advertising, AdID, that will replace third-party cookies as a way for advertisers to track consumers' online browsing activity AdID will give consumers more privacy and control over their Web browsing, an anonymous source at Google told USA Today last week.

Facebook has set up an eight-person team to look into how artificial intelligence can help it further analyze data it gathers on its members, the MIT Technology Review reported. The team will work with an emerging AI technique called "deep learning."

Oracle on Monday announced an in-memory option for Oracle Database 12c that will accelerate analytics, data warehousing, reporting and online transaction processing for Oracle in-memory applications These applications "deliver extreme performance on Oracle Engineered Systems," the company said....

Microsoft on Monday announced the Surface 2 and Surface Pro 2 tablets They are faster and have more battery life than their predecessors....

Security firm RSA has advised its customers to make a configuration adjustment to its BSafe security software products. [*Correction - Sept. 25, 2013] This follows an announcement issued by the United States National Institute of Standards and Technology not to use a security standard it designed and published....

Sony on Thursday went on a media blitz in Tokyo, disclosing more details and outlining ambitious sales targets for its upcoming PlayStation 4 The gaming device is due to arrive on shelves in the United States Nov. 15, and Sony aims to sell 5 million PS4s by March 31, it reportedly said at the Tokyo Game Show....

HP on Thursday announced the first computer with integrated 3D motion-control technology from Leap Motion: the HP Envy 17 Leap Motion Special Edition Priced starting at US$1,050, the 17.3-inch device will be available for preorder in the United States starting Oct. 16....

The Cyanogen free and open source Android firmware project on Wednesday announced that it had received US$7 million in a Series A round of funding in April The investment came from Benchmark Capital and Redpoint Ventures....