Articles by Richard Adhikari

Netflix has announced changes to its public API (application programming interface) that will prevent developers from accessing information about its customers As of September 15, users' rental history and information about what they viewed will no longer be included in the API, putting that data out of reach for developers creating third-party app...

Microsoft on Monday announced two Windows tablets in its new Surface line -- one running Windows 8 RT, and one running Windows 8 Professional ...

Samsung's forthcoming Galaxy S III smartphone will be the company's first device to be officially branded and sold under its new SAFE program. SAFE stands for "Samsung Approved for Enterprise."

IBM's Sequoia supercomputer has headed up the most recent Top500 list of the world's fastest supercomputers The list, released on Monday at the 2012 International Supercomputing Conference in Hamburg, Germany, is compiled twice a year....

Acer on Thursday announced the Iconia Tab A700, an Android tablet with a 1080p high-definition display ...

Vizio rolled out its first line of computer devices Thursday, including CN15 laptops, the CT14/C15 Ultrabooks, and CA24/CA27 all-in-one PCs ...

President Barack Obama on Thursday signed an executive order intended to make broadband construction along federal roadways and properties in the United State more effective and up to 90 percent cheaper Building a nationwide broadband network will strengthen the U.S. economy and put more Americans back to work, the president said....

Sony has launched its first Xperia smartphone since buying out Ericsson in February. The Xperia Ion is a 4G LTE device that will be available from AT&T June 24 for US$100 with a two-year agreement ...

AMD on Wednesday announced it will develop a platform security processor based on the ARM Cortex-A5 processor. The company has entered a strategic partnership with ARM that will let it use ARM's TrustZone technology AMD plans to provide development platforms with TrustZone security features on select APUs in 2013 and expand that to more products la...

Sprint, a carrier that offers at least five smartphones preloaded with Google Wallet, is reportedly working on its own digital wallet system, separate from Google's offering Slides from a presentation on the so-called Touch wallet were recently posted by Android Central....

The Flame malware has reportedly begun to self-destruct Some command-and-control (C&C) servers for the malware sent an order recently that completely removes it from infected systems, according to Symantec....

One in three high school students has texted or emailed someone while driving a vehicle over the past 30 days, a study by the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has found The CDC said motor vehicle crashes account for more than one-third of U.S. teen fatalities each year....

Eight months after the multinational Opera research team caused an uproar among physicists with its findings that some neutrinos appeared to travel faster than light, its findings have been officially refuted CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, on Friday said that four experiments have found that neutrinos actually travel no faste...

Foursquare has released a fully made-over version of its geolocation app "They told me it was a byproduct of everything they learned over the past three years," Greg Sterling, senior analyst at Opus Research, told TechNewsWorld.

Oracle on Wednesday announced what it described as the industry's broadest cloud strategy, outlining a vision of offering customers a soup-to-nuts cloud solution. The development has been seven years in the making, involving relentless engineering and innovation, key strategic acquisitions, and billions of dollars in investment, Oracle CEO Larry E...

Samsung on Tuesday deepened its involvement in the Linux ecosystem, reportedly upgrading its silver membership in The Linux Foundation to platinum and forking over the US$500,000 annual membership dues its new status requires The move will give Samsung a seat on the Foundation's board alongside six other industry heavyweights, including IBM, Intel...

Google has begun informing certain individual users whom it believes may be the target of state-sponsored cyberattacks Those users will see a pink ribbon at the top of their Google pages bearing a warning notice....

Encryption on the Go, Part 1 The growing consumerization of IT is turning into a security nightmare for many IT departments, but it's perhaps hitting the healthcare industry worst....

Microsoft demoed its new Xbox SmartGlass system at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) in Los Angeles on Monday SmartGlass will connect devices running Windows 8, Windows 8 RT (for mobile devices), Windows Phone, iOS, and Android to a user's Xbox 360 console....

The fallout from Facebook's May IPO continued Tuesday as venture capitalist Paul Graham of Y Combinator warned Silicon Valley startups that they may be in for a stretch of hard times In Graham's letter to Y Combinator companies, he states that a prominent investor he knows seems sure that the bad performance of the Facebook IPO will hurt the fundin...