Articles by Richard Adhikari

Despite being hit by a lawsuit from T-Mobile over its use of the color magenta in its marketing materials, AT&T subsidiary Aio Wireless has announced plans for a nationwide online rollout starting mid-September ...

Despite being hit by a lawsuit from T-Mobile over its use of the color magenta in its marketing materials, AT&T subsidiary Aio Wireless has announced plans for a nationwide online rollout starting mid-September ...

NASA is poised to launch a mission next week that will use lasers in a test of two-way communications between the Earth and the moon The Lunar Laser Communication Demonstration will herald a new area of space communications....

Google executive Hugo Barra, one of the leading public faces for Android, has left for up-and-coming Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi ...

Flailing Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC is developing its own mobile operating system for the China market in the hope of reviving its fortunes, according to The Wall Street Journal Likely slated for introduction by the end of the year, the OS reportedly will be closely integrated with services such as China's popular Twitter-like microblog Sina W...

The Syrian Electronic Army -- widely suspected of being comprised of pro-Syrian government hacktivists -- on Tuesday hijacked The New York Times' website and briefly took over Twitter's domain name system servers The SEA's main motive is to gain visibility for its cause, said Jaeson Schultz, a Cisco threat research engineer....

Apple must hire an external monitor to ensure it does not engage in fixing the prices of e-books, U.S. District Court Judge Denise Cote said Tuesday, according to Reuters. Cote had found Apple guilty of price-fixing in a trial that concluded last month. Cote's latest decision followed discussions over penalties between Apple and the Department of...

Chinese websites with the ".cn" domain name extension fell on Sunday to a distributed denial of service, or DDoS, attack, the state-run China Internet Network Information Center reported Two attacks reportedly were launched -- the first at midnight on Sunday and the second at 4 p.m., according to this translation of CINIC's post....

Amazon Web Services were impacted in some areas on Sunday, six days after Web stores on the service in the United States and Canada went down for about 30 minutes, causing losses estimated at up to US$45 million The outage lasted about an hour and impacted Facebook's Instagram app, Twitter's Vine app and Airbnb, among others....

Amazon has run tests on WiFi technology that could give Kindle users direct Internet connectivity, according to a recent Bloomberg report The technology uses spectrum controlled by satellite communications company Globalstar, which is perhaps best known as a global satellite phone service provider....

Former Microsoft executive Steven Sinofsky, who shocked the high-tech industry when he abruptly parted ways with the company shortly after Windows 8 was launched, has joined venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz as a board partner Sinofsky, a 23-year veteran at Redmond, led the creation of Windows 7 and 8 and six versions of Microsoft Office. He...

Canonical raised more than US$12 million over 30 frantic days of crowdfunding its ambitious Ubuntu Edge superphone project, but it was still short some $20 million by the time the effort closed on Wednesday The company's target was $32 million....

There's no denying the growing impact of open source software in today's business landscape, but for those who want additional proof of the open approach's viability, there's OpenStax College. Since 2012, the initiative has been producing peer-reviewed open source textbooks under a Creative Commons license This year, the organization expects to sav...

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday launched Internet.org, a project with a goal no less lofty than to provide Internet access to everyone on the planet With other founding members including Ericsson, MediaTek, Nokia, Opera, Qualcomm and Samsung, the project aims to develop joint projects, share knowledge, and mobilize industry and governments ...

The continuing flood of news about the NSA's surveillance of Americans' communications, which has already forced secure email providers Lavabit and Silent Circle to shut down, has now claimed yet another victim Specifically, award-winning tech legal news site Groklaw, which served the free and open source software community, on Tuesday announced th...

Facebook, which offers a bounty of US$500 or more to anyone who discovers a bug in its system, has come under fire for refusing to reward an out-of-work Palestinian programmer who reported a vulnerability that let people post to strangers' accounts without authorization The programmer, Khalil Shreateh, resorted to hacking Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerbe...

Most of us have a hard enough time keeping track of the security implications of the services we've signed up for, but recently an assertion was made that should send chills down the spine of virtually anyone who ever uses the Web Namely, Google can scan and use the electronic communications not just of its own customers, but also those of anyone ...

There's no doubt phablets have become increasingly commonplace in the mobile computing arena, but several new devices promise to take the tablet-smartphone hybrids to bigger size extremes than ever Samsung, for instance, announced on Monday that it is bringing its Galaxy Mega smartphone -- featuring a 6.3-inch screen -- to the United States market....

Researchers at ETH Zurich, a university of science and technology, have teleported information from one end of a superconducting circuit to another -- a distance of 6mm ...

Ubi Interactive, a graduate of the Microsoft Kinect Accelerator program, has begun taking orders for software that will turn almost any surface into a 3D touchscreen when combined with a Kinect device and a projector ...