Articles by Richard Adhikari

Businesses are signing on to cloud-based Software as a Service (SaaS) Web apps to cut costs, but that can give rise to another problem -- employees may have to sign on to multiple Web apps, and that could lead to security issues Employees may forget the passwords for some apps, for instance; or someone could hack into a Web application user's accou...

As anti-government protesters take over the streets in Egypt, the country's government has reportedly cut off most Internet and cellphone service Cairo has labeled its crackdowns on the protests as a response to restore public order....

Developers of the major browsers -- Microsoft, Google and the Mozilla Foundation -- plan to implement so-called do-not-track features into their browsers so consumers can indicate when they don't want their movements online to be observed and recorded by site hosts, which generally use the information to strengthen their advertising systems The in...

Sony Computer Entertainment has disclosed further details about the PlayStation Portable 2, nicknamed the "Next-Generation Portable," or NGP, at a press conference in Tokyo ...

Google will reportedly allow in-app payment abilities in Android applications sometime this quarter Android Developer Ecosystem Manager Eric Chu announced this at the Inside Social Apps conference in San Francisco Tuesday, according to reports....

Canonical, which leads the Ubuntu project, has reportedly decided to switch from the OpenOffice productivity suite to LibreOffice in future versions of the popular Linux distribution Version 11.04 of Ubuntu, also known as "Natty Narwhal," is expected to be the first release to incorporate LibreOffice....

Nvidia will reportedly ship a Tegra 2 3D processor, to be used in mobile devices, this year A slide from Nvidia's planned presentation at the Mobile World Congress, to be held in Barcelona, Spain, in February, shows the Tegra 2 3D, according to the TechEye blog, which broke the news....

This week, Sony will officially unveil the PlayStation Portable 2 (PSP2), the sequel to its original PSP mobile gaming device. Several rumors surround the upcoming gaming console, one of which is that it will incorporate a smartphone However, a Bloomberg News story, which fueled the latest buzz on the issue, reported that Sony will actually unveil ...

Twitter has been hit by fast-spreading spam using Google's goo.gl URL shortening service The attack sends malicious links that take recipients clicking on them to a website hosting the "Security Shield" antivirus software program....

Coffee shop chain Starbucks this week brought the power of mobile payments via cellphone to new users -- provided those customers happen to have the right kind of device. The company announced that customers at its retail outlets in the United States will be able to pay for purchases using its mobile payment app on select smartphones This covers al...

Together with mobile software maker Snaptu, Facebook on Thursday launched its branded mobile app for feature phones The app's immediately available in 14 countries worldwide....

New details and specifications have surfaced concerning the webOS tablet HP is expected to unveil Feb. 9 ...

AMD on Wednesday announced what it claims is the world's first accelerated processing unit (APU) for embedded systems, the Embedded G-Series The G-Series is the embedded version of Fusion APUs the company announced earlier this month....

Facebook has temporarily shelved plans to share members' home addresses and mobile numbers with app developers, following a strong backlash over privacy and safety concerns The social networking giant had announced late last Friday that it would make this information accessible to developers through its User Graph object, subject to certain restric...

Mobile malware may grow as a security threat this year, but security researcher Ralf-Philipp Weinmann says there's a worse threat lurking around -- the GSM baseband system The threat from hacking GSM baseband systems has been largely ignored, Weinmann reportedly told the audience at a presentation at the Black Hat security conference in Washington,...

HP has invited members of the media to what it describes as "an exciting webOS announcement." This will be held Feb. 9 in San Francisco....

Microsoft on Thursday released WebMatrix, a free Web development tool that it claims lets website developers of all skill levels create, customize and publish websites to the Internet easily It also announced an ecosystem of 40 open source application partners around WebMatrix....

Google announced Tuesday that its Chrome browser will stop supporting the H.264 codec in a couple of months and will support its own WebM and Ogg Theora technologies instead The announcement set off a firestorm. Some contended the move is a step backward for openness; others speculated that it might create a roadblock for adoption of the HTML5 stan...

In the wake of Cablegate, the massive release of sensitive documents released online by WikiLeaks and the subsequent DDoS (distributed denial of service) attacks by pro- and anti-WikiLeaks factions on each others' websites, a fact long-known to only a few cognoscenti became public -- free speech online is very much endangered Both sides claimed the...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology has set up a website to provide the public with information relating to the U.S. federal government's National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC) program, which is aimed at protecting people's identities online One of NSTIC's goals is to ensure that people give the minimum inform...