Articles by Richard Adhikari

Samsung has unveiled its much-discussed Galaxy Tab Android-powered tablet at the IFA consumer electronics show in Berlin, Germany ...

HP on Wednesday announced a restricted beta release of webOS 2.0, the operating system it acquired when it purchased Palm earlier this year This is open to developers belonging to Palm's Early Access program....

The number of businesses moving toward virtualization is growing constantly, and together they will lead to an important change in the face of IT, according to to VMware President and CEO Paul Maritz Speaking at his company's VMworld expo on Tuesday, Maritz told his audience that the focus will change from hardware efficiency to operational efficie...

VMware on Tuesday announced two purchases aimed at furthering its vision of the future of IT One is Integrien, which offers software that -performs real=time application and infrastructure performance analysis....

Trend Micro on Tuesday announced an agentless antimalware module for VMware virtual environments in its Deep Security 7.5 product The company also announced on Tuesday that it's throwing open its Trend Micro SecureCloud beta to the public....

Veeam Software on Monday demonstrated its new vPower technology for backing up and restoring virtual machines when disaster strikes The technology's capabilities include restoring an entire virtual machine (VM) within minutes; recovering individual items from any virtualized operating system; and verifying the recoverability of every backup of ever...

A cosmic ray detector designed to search for antimatter made its way to the Kennedy Space Center Friday in preparation for a February launch that will take it to the International Space Station on the final space shuttle flight. The detector, called the "Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer" (AMS), was flown in from the CERN Labs in Switzerland. CERN is t...

Technology is a wonderful thing. It has given us many good things, including the pacemaker, the radio, TV, prosthetic limbs and eyes that help the lame and the blind, instant communications by way of the Internet and mobile phones. Proponents of technology point to all this as evidence that technology gives us freedom But technology has also made i...

Garmin on Wednesday recalled 1.25 million Nuvi GPS navigation units worldwide due to a battery problem Of those, 765,000 were sold in the United States....

BlackBerry maker Research In Motion has purchased Cellmania, whose products drive mobile ecosystems for mobile operators, infrastructure providers and content operators "Cellmania has joined RIM and is bringing their expertise in application storefront development to the BlackBerry platform," Marisa Conway, of RIM's public relations agency Brodeur ...

Toshiba has reportedly confirmed it is working on technology for a 3-D television set that won't require viewers to use special glasses However, details are scant, and the company declined to say when such TVs will hit the market....

Intel on Monday announced that 12 new netbooks based on its dual-coremobile Intel Atom processors, code-named "Pine Trail," are nowavailable These are available from eight vendors, including Acer, Asus, Lenovoand Toshiba. Other vendors will announce their new netbooks runningthe N550 soon, Intel said....

Nokia on Friday announced that it will purchase San Francisco-based mobile analytics firm Motally The Finnish mobile phone giant did not disclose what it's paying for Motally, but it said the transaction is scheduled to close in the third quarter....

Chipmaker Intel on Thursday announced that it will acquire computer security vendor McAfee for about US$7.8 billion The deal will create a behemoth that may improve the semiconductor's position in the burgeoning mobile and cloud computing fields....

Google will launch a Chrome OS tablet on the Verizon network Nov. 26, know to retailers as "Black Friday," according to the Download Squad The device is being built by HTC, a company that's made several Android devices in the past....

Search engine optimization is the least expensive method of getting visitors to a website, Ralph Wilson, founder and editor-in-chief of Web Marketing Today, told the audience at the SES Conference and Expo in San Francisco Tuesday In a presentation on SEO basics, Wilson outlined tips on how to get the most out of SEO....

Lyric Semiconductor, a spinout from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, announced on Tuesday a new approach to a technology called "probability processing." Probability processing uses probability bits, which calculate the probability of an event happening. This technology required the company to redesign processors to natively process proba...

Green tech company A123 on Monday launched a spinoff, 24M, which will commercialize next-generation energy storage systems based on its technology 24M has received funding from the Department of Energy and the Department of Defense, as well as venture capitalists....

The Stuxnet worm, which targets industrial control systems, or "SCADA" systems, is one of the most sophisticated bits of digital malware security researchers have come across in a long time. Now, those researchers want to know where it came from. Was Stuxnet the product of a den of hackers working on their own accord, or did a national government somewhere in the world have a hand in its creation?...

Oracle on Thursday filed suit against Google for patent and copyright infringement in the latter's development of the Android operating system Google "knowingly, directly and repeatedly infringed Oracle's Java-related intellectual property," according to the suite, which "seeks appropriate remedies for their infringement," Oracle spokesperson Karen...