Articles by Richard Adhikari

Top executives are leaving HTC, as the smartphone company's market share dwindles rapidly, according to published reports. The latest to depart is HTC Asia CEO Lennard Hoornik, who joins at least five other senior executives. Those include product strategy manager Eric Lin, who issued a tweet urging colleagues to leave the company....

Qualcomm, which has been struggling to market its futuristic Mirasoldisplay technology, demonstrated the product at the 2013 Display Weekconference being held in Vancouver, Canada The company displayed a 5.1-inch panel with 2,560 x 1,440 pixel resolution, according to Engadget.It also showed off a 1.5-inch panel embedded on a smartphone and on a sm...

Yahoo has announced the overhaul of Flickr, its photo and video sharing site, after purchasing social microblogging website Tumblr The new Flickr has "a beautiful, completely reimagined experience that puts photos front and center," Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer wrote in a blog post that is reminiscent of what her Facebook counterpart, Mark Zuckerberg, ...

IBM on Tuesday announced that it will offer Watson -- its artificial intelligence software package that won the Jeopardy game show -- as a customer service solution called "Watson Engagement Advisor," a cognitive computing assistant that rapidly learns, adapts and understands a company's data Watson's data-crunching capabilities will be offered as ...

Interest in nanochemistry research and energy storage led 18-year-old Eesha Khare, a senior at Lynbrook High School in San Jose, to develop a supercapacitor that could potentially be used in flexible displays and fabrics Her effort won her first prize at the Intel Science Fair and the Project of the Year award in the California State Science Fair's...

Yahoo is reportedly looking to purchase microblogging platform and social networking website Tumblr for US$1 billion Tumblr is considered one of the coolest companies on the Internet because of its appeal to younger users -- the very demographic that Yahoo, which recently characterized its users as aging, is now attempting to reach....

Continuing its revamp of the Google+ social network that began in March, Google announced on Wednesday the addition of 41 new features and a redesign of the service, which it claims has 190 million active users The changes focus on three areas -- the Google+ stream, photos, and the Hangouts feature....

Android continues to rule the global smartphone marketplace with the OS accounting for 75 percent of shipments worldwide in Q1, according to the latest IDC report. Apple's once-dominant iOS had only 17.3 percent of the market....

Google Maps, already the de facto standard for online and mobile maps, is breaking new ground with added capabilities announced on Wednesday at the Google I/O Conference in San Francisco Maps will get 3D views, speech recognition, enhanced voice search capabilities and will leverage artificial intelligence, among other things. Google Maps for mobil...

Google on Wednesday announced new APIs for Google Play services and gaming, new features for the Google Play Developer Console, and a new Android Integrated Developer Environment (IDE) at the Google I/O 2013 Conference in San Francisco Google Cloud Messaging, which pushes data from servers to Android apps, has been made part of Google Play services...

HP on Wednesday announced the Split x2 Windows 8 hybrid laptop-tablet, the second such device in its lineup after the Envy x2, which debuted last year ...

BlackBerry, which had 3 percent of the global smartphone market in Q1, according to Gartner, is taking bold steps to turn around its fortunes. ...

Nokia on Tuesday unveiled the Lumia 925, which it described as a "new interpretation" of its flagship Lumia 920 smartphone ...

Sony on Monday announced the Xperia ZR, which can take photos and full HD videos underwater -- well, in 1.5 meters of water for up to 30 minutes, anyway The device is also dust-resistant....

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has warned American companies involved with energy and infrastructure operations to be on their guard against cyberattacks The warning was issued by the Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team (ICS-CERT), which works to help protect critical infrastructure....

As more airlines begin to offer WiFi, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission is proposing to increase the bandwidth available for inflight wireless broadband The FCC is essentially basing its proposal on Qualcomm's submission to the government from July 2011....

Rumors that Facebook is deep into the process of purchasing Waze -- makers of a mobile satellite navigation app that leverages crowdsourced mapping and traffic tips -- are making the rounds Facebook has apparently signed the terms and is conducting due diligence after six months of negotiations, according to published reports....

Time, Inc., together with Google, the U.S. Geological Survey, and Carnegie Mellon University's Create Lab, have set up a website featuring timelapse animations depicting changes in Earth's surface from 1984 to 2012 ...

Viber, a proprietary cross-platform instant messaging VoIP app for smartphones, is now available for Windows and Mac OS X desktops, Viber Media announced on Tuesday ...

Amid fears that state-sponsored cyberterrorists have set their sights on the U.S.'s critical infrastructure -- and complaints that the infrastructure's security is below par -- the Los Alamos National Laboratory said it has been testing a network using quantum cryptography for the past two years The network consists of a multinode experimental tes...