Articles by Richard Adhikari

Samsung Electronics will demonstrate the first 10.1-inch tablet with a WQXGA PenTile screen at the SID Display Week symposium, to be held in Los Angeles May 17 to 19. The display offers a resolution of 2,560 by 1,600 pixels The screen's resolution translates to 300 dpi, not too far behind the 326 dpi offered by the iPhone's Retina Display screen....

Adobe has released Flash Player 10.3 for the Windows, Linux;, Mac OS X and Android platforms This latest update offers better security and user privacy protection, makes it easier for end users to manage their Flash Player settings and provides new desktop video and audio capabilities for enterprises and developers....

The online music storage and streaming field is heating up, with Amazon having launched its own service recently and Apple reportedly readying its own. Recently Google put out its own cloud music service, Google Music, though it didn't arrive without its share of rough spots Currently, users can upload their music collections to the service in orde...

This week's Google I/O conference ushered in an array of new and future developments from the Web search leader, touching on everything from new ideas for laptop computers to Google's own online music storage system Google's Android mobile OS received several moments in the spotlight as well. One new Android development to make its debut was Androi...

Google revealed on Wednesday a Chrome OS-based notebook, a device it's been talking about for several months Called "Chromebooks," the laptops will initially be available from Samsung and Acer June 15 through Amazon and Best Buy....

Microsoft's announcement Tuesday of its purchase of Skype for US$8.5 billion stunned industry watchers, who had seen Facebook, Google and perhaps Cisco sniff around the VoIP giant in recent weeks The impact of that deal, if it gets the thumbs-up from regulators, will reverberate through the online services industry....

Microsoft has announced that it would hold a VIP preview of the next major release of its Windows Phone 7 mobile operating system May 24 in New York City This release is expected to be the one that's been discussed under the code name "Mango."

The phrase "In the beginning was the Word" may soon take on a whole new meaning for cellphone users, if work being done by a researcher at South Korea's Sungkyunkwan University pans out The scientist, Sang-Woo Kim, has been working on converting sound into electricity....

AT&T has announced that the 4G Samsung Infuse smartphone, which it is reportedly positioning as a "supermodel of smartphones," will be available to the public May 15 ...

Americans seem to love television as much as ever. But they're increasingly viewing it through non-traditional means, usually involving the Web The number of mobile subscribers watching TV on their mobile phones, for example, increased 41 percent year over year in the fourth quarter of 2010, Nielsen has reported....

Microsoft has warned owners of Windows Phone 7 devices who installed its delayed NoDo software update with a certain third-party tool that they won't be able to download its latest security update, the 7392 build The NoDo update, officially titled the 7390 update, had been delayed repeatedly and is being rolled out in stages....

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced Tuesday that Bing will become the default search engine and mapping application on Research In Motion's BlackBerry platform Ballmer unveiled news of the team-up during an apparently unexpected appearance at the BlackBerry World conference, being held in Florida through Thursday. His speech wasn't on the list of...

Research In Motion announced two new BlackBerry Bold smartphones as well as version 7 of its BlackBerry operating system Monday at the BlackBerry World conference, being held in Orlando, Fla., through Wednesday ...

Well, well, well, so Linux has turned 20 at last While we were reading about the inroads Android is making into the mobile market and weeping over the news that Groklaw is about to pack its bags and move on, we began wondering: Just what would the world have been like if Linus Torvalds hadn't sat down and written Linux?...

Although security breaches make the headlines regularly and Washington has plans to upgrade the security of the United States' national infrastructure, up-and-coming IT security companies are having difficulty securing investment funds The U.S. Defense Department plans to spend US$500 million on researching new cybersecurity technologies, and the U...

You've gotta love social networking. It lets us make zillions of "friends" all over the world, it's making corporations scramble to meet customer requirements, and it's made Mark Zuckerberg and a few other people very, very rich Unfortunately, cybercriminals are among those other people enriched by social networking....

Computer software requires an enormous amount of support. That fact has enriched companies such as Oracle and SAP, which levy annual support fees of about 20 percent of the sale prices of their applications That's one of the things that just sticks in the craw of Clint Oram, chief technology officer and a co-founder of SugarCRM, as he told CRM Buye...

Cisco pulled the plug on its Flip digital video camera earlier this week, putting an end to its line of popular, relatively low-cost dedicated digital video cameras ...

Five years after Nintendo launched the now-legendary Wii, the company's rumored to have its successor -- the Wii 2 -- in the wings Hearsay abound about the Wii 2, which is expected to be unveiled at the Electronic Entertainment Expo, better known as E3, to be held in Los Angeles in June....

In the past month or so, we've been inundated with announcements by browser makers of the latest versions of their products Google, Microsoft, the Mozilla Foundation and Opera have all unveiled their latest and greatest browsers....