Articles by Richard Adhikari

Following a 30-day period in which the company lost US$2 billion in value, Research In Motion executives faced shareholders Tuesday at the company's annual meeting On the positive side, CEO Thorsten Heins reportedly told shareholders the company remains strong in some market segments. However, he admitted it's weak in the North American market and ...

MeeGo, the ill-fated Nokia mobile operating system project that had the plug pulled on it earlier this year, is being revived JollaMobile, a company consisting of former Nokia executives and techies, has announced that it will release a new MeeGo smartphone later this year....

IBM's Sequoia supercomputer headed the latest Top500 list of the world's fastest supercomputers. The twice-yearly roster was released at the 2012 International Supercomputing Conference in Hamburg, Germany, in June Delivered to the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in 2011, Sequoia is scheduled for operational deployment this year. It's...

In a followup to its Galaxy Note hybrid phone-cum-mini-tablet, Samsung is reportedly planning to release its successor, the Galaxy Note 2, sometime this year The Galaxy Note 2 will apparently arrive with a 5.5-inch screen -- a fifth of an inch larger than the one found on the original Galaxy Note, which is itself an enormous handset....

After years of searching, particle physicists say they have all but certainly pinned down the elusive Higgs boson. Popularly known as the "God particle," this boson will help provide a better understanding of how most of the particles of nature acquire their mass, improving physicists' understanding of the universe ...

Facebook's email drama continues to unfold a week after it was revealed that the social network unilaterally switched its users' publicly posted email listings to their "@facebook.com" addresses More recently, users have begun complaining that Facebook's mobile app seems to be swapping out information contained in their smartphones' address books.

Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin have demonstrated that a civilian drone can be hijacked by spoofing its GPS signals The news comes as the United States Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) prepares to integrate drones into the country's national airspace system. This task is mandated by the FAA Reauthorization and Reform Act of 2012, s...

New Zealand police used invalid warrants to search and seize property from the mansion of Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom, a high court judge in that country has reportedly ruled The papers that authorities used were general warrants and fell well short of describing the offenses alleged, High Court Judge Helen Winkelmann said....

Google worked toward pulling together its ecosystem Wednesday, announcing an array of new products and services at its I/O Developer Conference In addition to its widely anticipated Nexus 7 tablet, the company unveiled its Nexus Q media streamer and its Google Cloud Messaging service for Android; made much of its enhancements to Google Play; and la...

Google launched its Nexus 7 tablet on Wednesday at its Google I/O developers conference in San Francisco ...

A neural network built over the years by researchers from Stanford University and Google has managed to teach itself to recognize faces and cats The network consists of 16,000 processors on a cluster of 1,000 computers. After being exposed to 10 million images downloaded from the Internet, the network software learned to recognize human and cat fac...

When Microsoft announced recently that Internet Explorer 10 will have its Do Not Track (DNT) feature turned on by default, it seemed those concerned about online privacy would hail the move as a step in the right direction Consumer advocates and other groups had been agitating for such a feature for some time. They eventually banded together to urg...

The month of June has not been kind to Microsoft hardware partners. Last week, Redmond revealed that it's getting into the Windows tablet game with the introduction of the Surface, meaning it will compete for sales with its own allies.

Google will unveil a 7-inch tablet based on the Nvidia quad-core Tegra 3 processor and running Android 4.1, aka "Jelly Bean," at the Google I/O developers conference this week, according to Gizmodo Australia The device will reportedly be dubbed the "Nexus 7" and be built by Asus....

Microsoft announced its Surface tablet just last week, and already the whispers have begun. It's going to be WiFi-only, some rumors say. Its battery isn't quite as good as the iPad's, according to others. Price has also been subject to speculation, and one report has indicated Redmond will price the device between US$600 and $1,000....

The United States is battling over proposed United Nations regulations that could place new burdens and restrictions on Internet companies and users The trouble is rooted in the decision of the UN's International Telecommunication Union to overhaul International Telecommunication Regulations (ITRs) that outline the principles governing the way inte...

Eager Windows Phone adopters with WinPho 7 devices will be out of luck when WinPho 8 rolls out. Existing phones won't be upgradable to the upcoming operating system Microsoft will throw a sop to WinPho 7 device owners by issuing an update, WinPho 7.8. It will include some user interface features from Windows Phone 8, but it won't be nearly as deep ...

Online commerce giant eBay on Thursday announced that it will expand its flagship data center in Utah and use renewable energy to power the addition This expansion will use 30 Bloom Energy fuel cells and will be the largest non-utility fuel cell installation in the United States....

Microsoft on Wednesday announced a plethora of new features for app developers in Windows Phone 8, its next mobile operating system Windows Phone 8 will share a core with Windows 8, meaning app devs can write one app and have it run across mobile devices as well as desktops supporting Windows 8....

HP announced on Monday that it will use an Intel Atom chip code-named "Centerton" in the first production server in its Project Moonshot program. This server is code-named "Gemini." Moonshot is aimed at creating servers with low power requirements that will cut data-center energy and space requirements, as well as costs....