Articles by Richard Adhikari

Samsung reported record second-quarter profits on Friday, but investor concerns drove down the company's share prices nevertheless. Its flagship Galaxy S4 smartphone did not sell as well as expected, and there are indications that demand for high-end devices that fetch a premium price and offer maximum profits is falling....

Nvidia demoed the first processor from Project Logan, its next-generation CUDA-capable mobile processor, at the Siggraph conference and exhibition held in Anaheim, Calif., this week The processor uses the efficient processing cores from Nvidia's Kepler high-performance computing architecture....

American cloud service providers seeking to do business abroad are feeling the fallout from the NSA's PRISM surveillance program, suggests a month-long online survey the Cloud Security Alliance initiated in June Fifty-six percent of more than 200 overseas respondents said they were less likely to use United States-based cloud providers, and anothe...

Businesses depend on their customers, and it would make sense that good customer service would translate into loyal customers and more sales, but high-tech vendors don't seem to have gotten the message The average customer experience rating for tech vendors fell from 58 percent to 52 percent since last year, in on a survey of 800 IT professionals ...

A proposal to restrict the NSA's surveillance of Americans' phone calls was defeated by a mere 12 votes in the House of Representatives on Wednesday in a battle that drew unusual bipartisan support at a time when partisanship is running at an all-time-high Reps. Justin Amash, R-Mich., and John Conyers, D-Mich., introduced an amendment to the defen...

Google on Wednesday unveiled a new Nexus 7 as part of its latest assault on the market for the connected living room ...

Nokia on Tuesday unveiled the Lumia 625, its latest Windows Phone 8 device and the one with the largest screen so far -- 4.7 inches Apart from that, it has little to distinguish it from other models in the Lumia lineup, and its 1.2 GHz processor appears weak beside the 1.6- and 1.7-GHz CPUs sported by some high-end smartphones....

About 25 percent of mobile phones currently in use may be vulnerable because they rely on 1970s-era Data Encryption Standard security, according to Security Research Labs Out of 1,000 SIM cards it tested over two years, 250 used DES instead of more advanced approaches such as triple DES or the Advanced Encryption Standard, the lab said....

Zenmonics has announced mobileBanker, a tablet solution that lets bank staff interact with customers on the move by tapping into a bank's back end servers Among its benefits: customer identification and authentication; the ability to serve customers outside the teller line; paperless processing; and more personal service. It lets bank staff conduc...

The International Lunar Observatory Association and Moon Express have definitively announced the first mission to the Moon's south pole, tentatively scheduled for 2016 It will involve delivering the International Lunar Observatory to Malapert Mountain, a roughly 3-mile-high rise on the surface of the Malapert lunar crater, to conduct astronomical o...

Just weeks after purchasing Neolane, Adobe on Thursday pushed further into marketing automation with the launch of Adobe Social, an application that expands the company's integrations with social networking sites and pretty much gives users a 360-degree view of their customers Integrated with Flickr, Foursquare, Instagram and LinkedIn, Social will...

Google, which is fighting government requests for data in two courts and demanding greater transparency in the wake of the brouhaha over the NSA's PRISM program, is also experimenting with encrypting files on Google Drive, according to a CNET report Some files on Drive may already have been encrypted....

GlassUp is seeking to raise US$150,000 on Indiegogo to fund production of its eponymous product The GlassUp glasses will serve mainly as a display and will connect to mobile devices through Bluetooth. Models equipped with a camera or a prescription glasses option, or both, are also being planned....

In the wake of rising public anger against Microsoft over allegations of its involvement in the National Security Agency's PRISM program, the company on Tuesday urged U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to let it share more details about the way it handles government requests for information about its customers There are "significant inaccuracies" in...

Indefatigable tech pioneer Elon Musk of SpaceX and Tesla electric car fame is poised to publish the alpha design of his proposed "Hyperloop" futuristic transportation technology "Elon Musk will hold a media conference call after his Hyperloop announcement on Aug. 12," Christina Ra, communications director of SpaceX, told TechNewsWorld.

Two researchers at cybersecurity firm iSec Partners have cracked the security of a Verizon femtocell Femtocells, also called "small cells," are low-power cellular base stations that wireless carriers, including Verizon, AT&T and Sprint, either sell or give to consumers. They connect to the service provider's network through broadband and support mu...

Google is planning to spend US$500 million or more promoting the Moto X smartphone, which is scheduled to launch this summer, The Wall Street Journal reported, sparking speculation that a new round of mobile marketing wars is about to begin One reason for the intensified focus on advertising could be the narrowing differentiation among high-end sm...

Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed four techniques to create freestanding structures from liquid metal using 3D printers ...

Microsoft announced a sweeping reorganization on Thursday, possibly lurching from controlled chaos to total chaos The company will now focus on a single strategy, emphasize engineering, and increase collaboration among departments, with some sort of political commisar -- the evangelism and business development team -- driving ecosystem partners....

"City authorities: More areas have reported that the bodies of the dead are rising from their graves and attacking the living," warned a voice over the emergency alert system on Montana station KRTV during an airing of a regularly broadcast program in February That incident, which has become known as the "Zombie Apocalypse," was the first sign tha...