Articles by Richard Adhikari

Server-side Linux has been pushing into the enterprise for some years now, and 42 percent of respondents to a survey conducted on behalf of Linux vendor SUSE said it was either their primary server OS or one of their top server platforms Perhaps more importantly, Linux is extending its reach beyond its traditional areas of supercomputing, Web serv...

Microsoft on Wednesday announced that it will begin rolling out Windows 8.1 to the general public on Oct. 18 Win 8.1 will be available as a free update for Windows 8 users through the Windows Store, and it will also be available at retail outlets and on new devices running the Windows OS....

Hackers have hit the website of the Central Tibetan Administration, the Tibetan government-in-exile established by the Dalai Lama in 1959 after he was forced out of Tibet, according to Kaspersky Lab Senior Security Researcher Kurt Baumgartner They installed some code that redirects visitors from Chinese-language websites to a Java exploit that dro...

In the wake of the voluntary shutdown of two secure email services this past week to prevent the NSA from obtaining information about their subscribers, Internet bad boy Kim Dotcom's cloud-based file hosting service Mega is stepping up. The company is working on a secure, encrypted email service that will extend the end-to-end encryption and conta...

Uber-industrialist Elon Musk on Monday released the alpha plans for his proposed Hyperloop high-speed travel system between San Francisco and Los Angeles The Hyperloop will consist of streamlined capsules riding like hovercraft on an air cushion in a steel tube with solar arrays on its roof to provide power to the system. The tube will be supporte...

Android device owners who use Bitcoins may have their digital currency stolen because of a security flaw in Android, the Bitcoin Foundation has warned The problem may lie in Android's implementation of the java.security.SecureRandom application programming interface in Java....

Researchers at the University of Hamburg in Germany have, for the first time, written and deleted data on single hypothetical particles called "skyrmions." Skyrmions have been reported to exist in thin magnetic films and superconductors, among other things, but this has not been conclusively proven....

IBM on Thursday announced a software ecosystem tailored for what in essence amounts to a computing architecture that works like the human brain It supports the programming cycle from design through development, debugging and deployment....

The NSA is reading communications between Americans and foreigners abroad, despite its denials, The New York Times reported The NSA responded to the allegations by stating its activities are lawful attempts to gather intelligence about foreign powers and their agents, foreign organizations, foreign persons or international terrorists, and not Amer...

Samsung this week launched a marketing blitz for its Galaxy Note III phablet, which will be unveiled in Berlin Sept. 4, just before the IFA consumer electronics show, which will run Sept. 6-11 That timing has become a Samsung tradition, as have the orchestrated leaks about its forthcoming product....

Amazon on Wednesday launched support for HTML5 Web apps in its Mobile App Distribution Program Developers can now submit URLs for their HTML5 apps to Amazon and leverage the company's In-App Purchasing API for JavaScript....

LG -- the other major Korean smartphone maker -- on Wednesday unveiled its G2 device in New York, in what might be construed as an attempt to pip Samsung, which is slated to unveil its Galaxy Note III phablet on Sept. 4 in Berlin ...

The buzz about Samsung's plans for a smartwatch has intensified with the discovery of trademark and patent filings in the United States and Korea The U.S. Patent and Trade Office filing lists the name of the patented device as "Samsung Galaxy Gear" and essentially describes a smartwatch....

Ireland-based Freedom Hosting, which hosted several servers on the Tor Project's hidden network, has been taken down through a vulnerability in the Firefox browser -- and the FBI is widely suspected of being the attacker The FBI is seeking to extradite Freedom Hosting's owner, Eric Eoin Marques, to the United States on a Maryland warrant, accordin...

Google might be thinking about invading the hyperlocal news field It is testing a local news card in its Google Now service, Quartz reported. The beta service dishes up location-based information to owners of mobile devices, and it could possibly work well with Google Glass....

Mobile device users' privacy will be safeguarded under a new transparency code of conduct created in an effort involving 40 groups ranging from businesses to advocacy groups and led by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration NTIA Administrator Lawrence E. Strickling hailed the code as "a seminal milestone in the efforts to en...

Motorola on Thursday unveiled its Moto X sensor-laden smartphone at meetings with the media and analysts in New York As expected, the device is chock-full of sensors and is controlled directly by voice....

Politics may make for strange bedfellows, but there's no comparison to the match-ups that occur in the business world. Consider this: Mozilla, which has been flexing its muscles of late and pushing into the smartphone business and foreign markets, announced on Wednesday that it has teamed up with the flailing and failing BlackBerry, which is hemorrhaging market share, to conduct research on bugs in browsers...

The Federal Communications Commission is looking into a complaint that Google Fiber's ban on hosting computer servers on its network violates the FCC's Open Internet Order and Rules In its response to Douglas McClendon's complaint, Google Fiber told the FCC, among other things, that its policy was fully consistent with the Order and Rules....

Researchers using the United States Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory at Stanford University have created an experimental switch that goes between on and off in one trillionth of a second This was done by blasting samples of magnetite with a laser to rearrange their atomic structure....