Articles by Richard Adhikari

Eying what could be a substantial business advantage, enterprises are racing to make their workforces mobile. Salesforce.com's ongoing love affair with the Apple iPad extends beyond equipping its executives with the device to singing its praises at every opportunity Mercedes-Benz distributors are giving their staff iPads, banker JPMorgan Chase plan...

Microsoft may unveil a version of its Windows operating system that runs on the ARM chip platform at the Consumer Electronics Show to be held in Las Vegas in Jan., according to Bloomberg The report cited two unnamed sources who said the software will be tailored for battery-powered devices such as tablet computers and other handhelds....

Microsoft launched an HTML5 laboratory for developers on Tuesday. The company intends the project to be a site where Redmond prototypes early and unstable Web standard specs from standards bodies such as the W3C and shares them with the developer community One reason for establishing the lab could be that Microsoft wants to leverage its strong rela...

In terms of tablet market share, Android tablets will be running a close second to the iPad within two years, according to Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster While the iPad will have 44 percent of the market, Android tablets will have 39 percent, Munster reportedly predicted....

CIOs are increasingly looking to move to the cloud to cut equipment and staffing costs. However, moving to the cloud can often be a difficult transition. It's not just a question of picking up your systems and going; enterprises need to do thorough and careful planning They must rethink their existing approaches to IT and mustn't assume that cloud-...

The British government has joined China, Iran and Australia in seeking to actively restrict access to certain portions of the Internet Communications officials have revealed plans to ask Internet service providers in the UK to restrict access to pornographic websites, especially for minors....

A quantum mechanics experiment performed by physicists at the University of California in Santa Barbara has been honored by the journal Science as its Breakthrough of the Year. The researchers' work may shed light on just what actually gravity is, among other things ...

Hot on the heels of its announcement of the Optimus 2X smartphone this week, LG is reported to be working on yet another Android mobile phone ...

Things took an interesting turn in the aftermath of Cablegate, which saw 250,000 documents, many of them sensitive, put on the open Web by WikiLeaks Julian Assange, the founder of the site, has been charged by Swedish police with a sex crime; the U.S. government is seeking to try Assange, who's currently out on bail; hundreds of mirrored WikiLeaks ...

South Korea's LG Electronics on Thursday unveiled the LG Optimus 2X, a smartphone with a dual-core processor ...

If anyone had doubts that Richard Stallman dislikes Google's new Chrome OS, he laid them to rest in an interview with the Guardian Tuesday The Chrome OS will push people into careless computing by forcing them to store their data in the cloud, said Stallman, who's the founder and president of the Free Software Foundation....

Allegations surfaced Tuesday that the FBI put backdoors into the network stack of OpenBSD They were made by a Gregory Perry, who claimed to be chief technology officer of NETSEC, a government contractor....

Microsoft will take yet another stab at the iPad's supremacy by demoing Windows 7 tablets at CES 2011, according to the New York Times Microsoft chairman and CEO Steve Ballmer will reportedly showcase devices from Samsung and Dell as well as other manufacturers at the show....

A flap has arisen between ITG Investment Research and market intelligence blog Asymco over data regarding Verizon, Android and Research In Motion sales figures Android's strong showing is killing off the RIM BlackBerry, according to an Asymco analysis, based on a report from ITG Investment Research....

LiveOps is a cloud-based company that has two businesses. It began by providing call center outsourcing services through a network of more than 20,000 independent home-based agents, then began offering its contact center Platform as a Service Monster.com describes LiveOps as the nation's largest domestic outsourced call center....

Hackers struck at the Gawker blog network's servers over the weekend, stealing more than 1 million rows of data, including cracked passwords Gawker has been scurrying to revamp security on its servers as a result, and has put up an FAQ page on this issue....

Dissident staff members at WikiLeaks, led by that site's former spokesperson Daniel Domscheit-Berg, reportedly plan to launch a spinoff to be named "OpenLeaks." This may be unveiled as early as next week....

The VGA port, the connection that's bridged computers to their monitors almost from the birth of the PC industry, is on its way out Chip manufacturers Intel and AMD, with backing from various computer vendors, have announced their support for the venerable technology will be phased out by 2015....

Former President Bill Clinton's keynote speech Wednesday at Dreamforce 2010 in San Francisco was delayed because his flight came in late, so Salesforce.com Chairman and CEO Marc Benioff got entertainer Stevie Wonder on stage to talk about his life When president Clinton finally appeared almost an hour late at 5:50 p.m., Wonder introduced him....

At Salesforce.com's Dreamforce 2010 conference this week, EDL Consulting showed off version 2.0 of CloudCraze, which it touts as the first e-commerce platform built natively on Force.com CloudCraze is claimed to provide the functionality of more expensive enterprise multi-channel commerce packages at a fraction of the price, and its implementation ...