Articles by Richard Adhikari

Hulu stepped into the Adobe-Apple war Thursday with the announcement that it's sticking to Flash for now "We continue to monitor developments on HTML5, but as of now it doesn't yet meet all of our customer needs," Hulu VP of Product Eugene Wei wrote on the company's blog....

The face of computing may be undergoing a massive change, and tablet PCs appear to be at the heart of it "There's a fundamental shift in the computing industry, which is moving to being cloud-based and mobile," Maribel Lopez, founder and principal analyst at Lopez Research, told TechNewsWorld....

Twitter has stomped out a bug that for a brief period allowed users to force other users to follow them on the microblogging site. In eliminating the glitch, however, Twitter emptied out some users' list of followers entirely "Like other social networks, Twitter was originally designed to serve a pretty small community, and when it grew so big, fun...

TV viewers may soon be able to watch videos without interruption over wireless networks as they move from their television sets to their PCs to their handheld devices, with the signing of an agreement Monday between the Wireless Gigabit (WiGig) Alliance, the WiFi Alliance and semiconductor developer SiBeam The WiGig Alliance's specifications enable...

FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski announced his third attempt at gaining acceptance for Internet neutrality last week, sparking yet another furor over the issue This time, he's proposing a narrower approach toward reclassifying broadband access services as telecommunications services, in the hope that this might win over the industry....

Google began rolling out a new look and feel for search results on both its desktop and mobile platforms Wednesday For the desktop, it has added navigation options to the left-hand side of the results page, listing the most relevant search tools and refinements for a user's query. For the mobile platform, iPhone and Android device users can now tap...

On the heels of news that the Google Chrome Web browser is gaining market share while Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser is losing ground, both companies took the wraps off faster, next-generation browsers Wednesday Google released a new beta of its Chrome browser which is much faster than the previous version and has several new features....

The Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox Web browsers are gaining market share at the expense of Microsoft's dominant Internet Explorer Statistics from NetApplications.com show that Chrome had 6.73 percent of the browser market in April. Firefox had nearly 25 percent, and Internet Explorer continued the decline it's experienced over the last few years...

China is apparently planning to step up its efforts to crack down on online crime Wang Chen, head of China's Information Office of the State Council, has promised severe punishment for those perpetrating crimes over the Internet, which in China includes the distribution of pornography. He specifically mentioned information from "overseas hostile fo...

Adobe has lashed back at Apple following Steve Jobs' public letter of criticism of Flash, which the Apple CEO posted on his company's site Thursday In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen responded specifically to several of Jobs' critiques. Regarding Jobs' assertion that Flash is the primary reason Macs crash, Nara...

HP said Wednesday that it has agreed to buy the ailing Palm at US$5.70 a share, for a total of about $1.2 billion The acquisition is expected to close during HP's fiscal 2010 third quarter, which ends July 31....

Android 2.2, code-named "FroYo," will fully support Adobe's Flash platform, Andy Rubin, Google's vice president of engineering, told The New York Times' Bits blog Tuesday Google's show of Flash support came weeks after Apple, Android's rival, announced changes that made it more difficult for Flash application developers to create apps for its iPhon...

Part 1 of this series explored the market for robots, Japan's robotics program and some of its results, and the love some people have for their robots Is it abnormal to love robots? Do people who love robots, adopt them as friends or members of the family, give then names and bring them along on family vacations have an unnatural fixation on robots...

Salesforce.com and VMware jointly announced Tuesday a new platform for enterprise application development in the cloud They will offer application development as a service in their VMforce venture....

Research In Motion on Monday unveiled two new BlackBerry smartphones and a voice over WiFi feature to its voice technology ...

IBM researchers in Switzerland said they've come up with a patterning technique that lets them create structures as small as 15 nanometers ...

Things are looking bleak for McAfee after the security software company sent a bad virus definition to its users Wednesday The file was created to combat a new threat, but once it was distributed, it caused thousands of PCs running Windows XP Service Pack 3 worldwide to crash....

The Garmin-Asus partnership Wednesday announced the new Garminfone, an Android-based smartphone that will be available on the T-Mobile USA network ...

Robots haunt our art and our dreams. Science-fiction author Isaac Asimov wrote a whole series of novels around the idea of robotics -- the "Robot" series, one of which was made into the movie "I, Robot." The "Terminator" movies were all big hits, and science-fiction series such as Britain's "Dr. Who" and America's own "Caprica" and "Battlestar Galactica" all have robots, more or less humanoid, in their casts...

Microsoft is targeting Realtors, insurance agencies and other small businesses that use a highly mobile, distributed workforce with Windows Intune, the new desktop management service it announced Monday Intune, aimed at businesses with 25 to 500 PCs, offers online PC management and security in the cloud as a service....