Articles by Richard Adhikari

Implanted electronic devices can be powered by a biological battery that exists in the ear, researchers at MIT, the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary and the Harvard-IT Division of Health Sciences and Technology have demonstrated for the first time Team member Konstantina Stankovich, assistant professor of otology and laryngology at Harvard Medic...

Microsoft is working on a 7-inch Xbox Surface gaming tablet, The Verge reports The 7-inch tablet has become a battleground of sorts lately, with Apple's iPad mini being the latest entrant....

Anonymous has been celebrating Guy Fawkes Day by engaging in various acts of mayhem online and turning out in person at sites across the globe to protest. Some of the reported hacks have turned out to be unsubstantiated The attack claims include Symantec and ImageShack. PayPal also was reported to have been hacked, but a spokesperson says that's no...

Android dominates the worldwide smartphone market, running on 75 percent of all smartphones shipped throughout the globe in the third quarter, IDC reported Samsung continued to hold sway over the Android market, but its market share slipped because of competition from a multitude of smaller vendors....

Researchers at the Tokyo University of Technology have developed software that lets users link up multiple mobile devices to create a giant display You just place a number of mobile devices together in any array desired, and use the pinch gesture familiar to touchscreen users to link them up....

The Windows 8 Live Tiles user interface already is the subject of a lawsuit, less than a week after Microsoft officially launched the OS SurfCast, a small company that has no products of its own, filed suit in the Federal District Court of Maine alleging that Microsoft is infringing one of its patents with its Windows 8 and Surface products, among ...

Why would venture capitalist firm Andreessen Horowitz lead a $15.5 million B round of funding for a company that's been working in stealth mode since 2008 on a technology it won't showcase until 2013? Because that company, ItsOn, was cofounded by a couple of former Cisco executives Greg Raleigh and Charles Giancarlo. Raleigh has taken the helm as I...

Microsoft on Monday officially launched Windows Phone 8 at an event in San Francisco, hot on the heels of its Windows 8 launch last week Windows Phone 8 "is not just having a lot of apps to choose from," Microsoft Vice President Joe Belfiore said during his presentation. He dismissed the "static grid of icons" introduced by Apple, which has become...

Small businesses in the United States are generally confident about their cybersecurity status, but they're wrong, according to a survey of 1,015 companies conducted for the National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA) and Symantec Apparently, SMBs aren't doing enough to keep their businesses safe and secure, and aren't following well established practi...

Google on Wednesday threw open the doors of its Lenoir, N.C. data center to the public, posting a virtual tour of the facility on Street View Meanwhile, a detailed story about the facility by author Stephen Levy, who toured the data center by invitation, is running in Wired.

Boxee on Tuesday announced a new device, Boxee TV, which combines live TV, Web apps and a digital video recorder (DVR) with cloud storage The box hardware is based on a new chipset from Broadcom and runs software written from scratch for the device....

Google on Monday made its new Android developer console available to devs everywhere on Google Play The console was announced at Google I/O in July, and devs were invited to test out a beta version....

EPEAT, a vendor-supported organization that bills itself as the definitive global registry for greener electronics, has certified ultrathin notebooks from four vendors as meeting its green rating requirements The vendors are Apple, Lenovo, Samsung and Toshiba....

In a wide-ranging speech on cybersecurity, U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta on Thursday warned about a cyber Pearl Harbor, indicated the Department of Defense would respond in such a situation, called for greater public-private cooperation in cybersecurity, and talked about the need for a presidential executive order on cybersecurity A cybera...

Samsung on Thursday announced the Galaxy S III mini, a smaller version of its Galaxy S III 4.8-inch smartphone With a 4-inch screen, the S III mini is aimed at consumers who are looking for more practical smartphones, Samsung said....

Mozilla has nipped a Firefox 16 security scare in the bud with an update that patches a flaw it considered so serious that it briefly pulled the day-old release, warning users to revert to an earlier version. Those who installed the new browser and didn't get -- or heed -- the warning will automatically receive the patch. The browser is once again available for download...

After years of chipping away at the cloud computing market, IBM on Wednesday announced that it has teamed up with AT&T to offer secure cloud computing as a service The two companies will combine IBM's SmartCloud Enterprise+ with AT&T's virtual private networking service to Fortune 1,000 companies worldwide....

After years of chipping away at the cloud computing market, IBM on Wednesday announced that it has teamed up with AT&T to offer secure cloud computing as a service The two companies will combine IBM's SmartCloud Enterprise+ with AT&T's virtual private networking service to Fortune 1,000 companies worldwide....

Ramping up for the holiday season, Acer this week announced the Iconia W510 Windows 8 hybrid tablet, just five days after it unveiled the W700 Win 8 tablet PC The W510 is offered in four versions -- as a standalone tablet PC with 32 or 64 GB of RAM, with a keyboard dock, or as a full-fledged business device running Windows 8 Pro....

Box on Tuesday unveiled Box Embed, a new HTML5-based framework, at its Boxworks 2012 conference in San Francisco This lets users embed Box's various features -- uploads, search, comments, sharing and file edits -- easily in their website, forum or blog....