Articles by Richard Adhikari

The e-ticketing systems of eight airlines, including Southwest Airlines and Dutch carrier KLM, have a vulnerability that can expose passengers' personally identifiable information (PII), mobile security vendor Wandera reported Wednesday They use unencrypted links that hackers can intercept easily. The hackers then can view and, in some cases, even ...

In a post musing about Facebook's 15 years of existence, CEO Mark Zuckerberg positioned the platform as a David confronting a Goliath composed of hierarchical institutions Facebook gives the masses a voice, he wrote. It brings communities together and provides businesses with low-cost means of outreach.

Americans received 26.3 billion robocalls on their mobile phones in 2018, according to Hiya. That was 46 percent more than in 2017 Consumers received an average of 10 spam calls per month, Hiya found....

The Samsung Galaxy S10, scheduled for launch on Feb. 20, will likely incorporate a cryptocurrency wallet Samsung last month filed applications in the EU for trademarks on three terms:...

YouTube TV will be rolling out to an additional 95 markets in the United States, almost doubling its coverage, YouTube announced Wednesday The streaming video service already covers the top 100 markets in the country, and the expansion will enable it to reach more than 98 percent of households in the U.S., YouTube said. The rest will follow shortly...

Apple on Tuesday announced more large retailers will accept Apple Pay: Target, Taco Bell, Hy-Vee supermarkets in the Midwest, Speedway convenience stores, and the Jack in the Box fast food chain With those additions, 74 of the top 100 merchants in the United States, and 65 percent of all retail locations across the country, now support Apple Pay, t...

The Motorola Razr -- once the hottest flip phone available -- is being revived as a smartphone with a foldable screen, according to The Wall Street Journal It will be offered exclusively through Verizon in the United States, possibly in February, although the device is still being tested and the launch date is not firm....

Netflix has decided to hike prices by US$1 to $2 for all 58 million of its subscribers in the United States, as well as customers in about 40 Latin American countries who are billed in U.S currency Customers in key international markets such as Mexico and Brazil reportedly will be exempt from the increases....

Google this week debuted a slew of new capabilities for its artificial intelligence software, Google Assistant, at CES in Las Vegas One of the headliners was a preview of Google Assistant Connect. The new platform lets device manufacturers incorporate Google Assistant into their products easily and cost-effectively.

Microsoft and Kroger on Monday announced a collaboration on Retail as a Service, or RaaS, to equip retail stores with Kroger Technology products that run on Microsoft Azure The technology utilizes the Internet of Things, connectivity, the cloud, and data collection and analysis to improve both customer experiences and store bottom lines....

Women are abused on Twitter every 30 seconds, and minority women are harassed more often, according to an Amnesty International report released Tuesday Volunteers for Troll Patrol, a crowdsourcing project set up by Amnesty International to process large-scale data about online abuse, sorted through 288,000 tweets sent to 778 woman politicians and j...

Website building platform provider Wix on Tuesday launched Ascend, a CRM suite Ascend consists of 20 products, including tools for site promotion, cross-channel customer interaction management, intuitive search engine optimization, content creation for social media channels, lead capture, and the ability to respond to queries automatically, along w...

Supermicro CEO Charles Liang on Tuesday informed customers that a leading third-party investigations company found "absolutely no evidence of malicious hardware" on its motherboards. The investigation was undertaken in response to Bloomberg's recent claim that bad actors had inserted spy chips in the firm's motherboards on behalf of the Chinese Pe...

Salesforce on Wednesday announced the addition of IoT Insights to Field Service Lightning The new tool enables signals from Internet of Things devices to appear directly on the Salesforce Service Cloud and Field Service Lightning mobile app consoles, alongside CRM data....

Google hasn't released consumers from its filter bubble -- the package of personalized search results it delivers -- despite having promised to do so, according to study results DuckDuckGo released Tuesday DuckDuckGo's findings:...

Facebook at one time considered charging companies for access to its user data, according to a Wall Street Journal report based on three pages of unredacted material from an 18-page document showing portions of some internal Facebook emails, mainly from about 2012 to 2014 The documents are linked to a lawsuit, Six4Three LLC v. Facebook Inc., filed ...

Amazon on Tuesday announced Amazon Comprehend Medical, a language processing service that lets users gather information -- such as a patient's medical condition and medication dosage, strength and frequency -- from sources including doctors' notes, clinical trial reports, hospital admission notes and patient health records. Most health and patient...

The gap between business-to-business buyers and sellers has been growing, according to CSO Insights, the research division of Miller Heiman Group. Its survey of 500 B2B buyers at mid-to-large companies around the world delivered the following findings:...

Mozilla earlier this week launched the first full edition of its Internet Health Report The report is "an open source effort to explore the state of human life on the Internet," wrote Mozilla Executive Director Mark Surman in an online post....

A national debate over civility erupted after Stephanie Wilkinson, a co-owner of a Red Hen restaurant in Virginia, asked White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders to leave her premises. However, that wasn't the only consequence of the incident. In its aftermath, restaurant owners in various parts of America whose businesses had the words ...