Articles by Richard Adhikari

HP says it has begun customer evaluation of a Windows 7 tablet that appears to resemble the Windows-based touchscreen device that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer trotted out in January at the 2010 Consumer Electronics Show The device, apparently called the "HP Slate 500," will run Windows 7 Premium. It will have two cameras and a stylus....

A Windows Shell flaw for which Microsoft released a security advisory Friday could lead to widespread attacks, security experts fear The vulnerability attacks through Windows shortcuts, icons for which are displayed on users' computer screens....

Microsoft has put its Windows Phone 7 mobile operating system out for technical preview "Starting today, thousands of prototype phones from Asus, LG and Samsung are making their way into the hands of developers over the next few weeks," Terry Myerson, corporate vice president, Windows phone engineering, announced on the Windows Phone blog Sunday....

At a hastily called press conference on Friday, Apple chairman and CEO Steve Jobs offered free cases to all iPhone 4 users to make amends for widespread complaints about the design of the smartphone's antenna, which causes it to lose signal strength when the phone is held a certain way without a case Users who have already bought Apple's cases, cal...

Linux will dominate the non-smartphone mobile device market by 2015, a study by ABI Research indicates, and Google will likely play a prominent role in this "Linux-enabled mobile devices, led by the success of Google's Android and upcoming Chrome OSes, will comprise 62 percent of the operating systems shipping in all non-smartphone mobile devices b...

HP has delayed the launch of its Android tablet device, All Things Digital reported on Thursday The tablet had been scheduled for release at the end of the year....

Zuora, a provider of on-demand subscription billing and payment services, was cofounded in March 2008 jointly by Tien Tzuo, who serves as its CEO; Cheng Zou and K.V. Rao. It received $6.5 million in Series A funding later that month and $15 million in Series B funding in October of 2008. It has been profitable since. The company's more than 100 cu...

Zuora, a provider of on-demand subscription billing and payment services, was cofounded in March 2008 jointly by Tien Tzuo, who serves as its CEO; Cheng Zou and K.V. Rao. It received $6.5 million in Series A funding later that month and $15 million in Series B funding in October of 2008. It has been profitable since. The company's more than 100 cu...

Zuora, a provider of on-demand subscription billing and payment services, was cofounded in March 2008 jointly by Tien Tzuo, who serves as its CEO; Cheng Zou and K.V. Rao. It received $6.5 million in Series A funding later that month and $15 million in Series B funding in October of 2008. It has been profitable since. The company's more than 100 cu...

Microsoft on Monday announced the release of the Windows Phone Developer Tools beta; this was followed on Tuesday with the announcement of WinPho7 integration with the Windows Live and Zune services The moves come as Microsoft works to consolidate its mobile efforts around the Windows Phone 7 platform and remain a player in the mobile phone market....

Research In Motion on Monday announced BlackBerry Protect, a free service that will enhance the security of both enterprise and private BlackBerry device owners BlackBerry Protect will enable remote wipe and wireless backup and restore, among other things. It is being launched in limited beta this week....

Google on Monday threw open its App Inventor beta program to the public The tools used in this program let the user create mobile apps for the Android operating system, even if the user has very little programming knowledge....

The National Security Agency claims a report this week inaccurately asserted that the agency's so-called Perfect Citizen program is designed to monitor critical U.S. cybernetworks. The Wall Street Journal reported recently that an NSA-headed project dubbed "Pefect Citizen" is aimed at monitoring networks for America's critical infrastructure and t...

The federal government is launching a program to detect cyberattacks on America's critical infrastructure installations, such as the nationwide electricity grid and nuclear power plants, according to The Wall Street Journal. The National Security Agency will allegedly run the program, dubbed "Perfect Citizen."

Microblogging service Twitter has announced its second major attempt to monetize -- the @earlybird service This will let advertisers pay a fee to promote exclusive events, tout time-sensitive special deals and offer sneak peeks at products to Twitter users....

Hackers hit YouTube over the weekend, injecting pop-ups, disabling comments and redirecting viewers to porn sites when they tried to access videos Google clamped down on the problem swiftly and is attempting to figure out who was behind the attack....

Microsoft is killing off the line of Kin handsets it introduced about six weeks ago. The company has canceled plans to launch the Kin in Europe this fall and has rolled over its Kin development team into its Windows Phone 7 team Microsoft said it will continue selling "current" Kin phones with Verizon Wireless in the United States, though with the ...

Part 1 of this series focuses on development in regard to cloud computing and mobile devices. Part 2 explores how a more social approach might change the process of app development Application development in the cloud requires special data models such as schema-less and sometimes typeless databases, and that could lead to a new battleground in whic...

Google has begun rolling out Android 2.2 in over-the-air updates to owners of its Nexus One smartphone Android 2.2, also known as "Froyo," has several new features, including a few that target the business market....

Intel and Nvidia are locked in a war of words over processor speed. The battle appears to have been triggered by a paper Intel engineers presented last week at the International Symposium on Computer Architecture in France That paper, entitled "Debunking the 100x GPU vs CPU Myth: An Evaluation of Throughput Computing on CPU and GPU," asserts that g...