Articles by Richard Adhikari

Once again, Microsoft and Google are locking horns in the office apps space, releasing their latest products within days of each other. Google unveiled a more feature-rich Google Docs on April 12, and Microsoft announced that Office 2010 had been released to manufacturing three days later Their products' functionalities seem to be inching toward ea...

Eva Chen, CEO of security vendor Trend Micro, wears many hats. She's a mom, a chief executive, a philosopher, an idealist and a highly savvy technologist who's guided the development of several award-winning security technologies while serving first as the company's executive vice president, then as its chief technology officer. Chen received a B.A. in philosophy and holds two master's degrees, in business administration and management information systems...

Eva Chen, CEO of security vendor Trend Micro, wears many hats. She's a mom, a chief executive, a philosopher, an idealist and a highly savvy technologist who's guided the development of several award-winning security technologies while serving first as the company's executive vice president, then as its chief technology officer. Chen received a B.A. in philosophy and holds two master's degrees, in business administration and management information systems...

Eva Chen, CEO of security vendor Trend Micro, wears many hats. She's a mom, a chief executive, a philosopher, an idealist and a highly savvy technologist who's guided the development of several award-winning security technologies while serving first as the company's executive vice president, then as its chief technology officer. Chen received a B.A. in philosophy and holds two master's degrees, in business administration and management information systems...

Google on Friday announced that it's working on Google Cloud Print, a service that will let any application on any device print to any printer over the Internet Instead of relying on the device's local operating system and drivers to print a job, applications will use Google Cloud Print to submit and manage print jobs. Google Cloud Print will then ...

Microsoft auditors are rushing to inspect a factory in China where workers are said to be turning out products for the software giant and other high-tech firms under prison-like conditions "We have a team of independent auditors en route to the facility to conduct a complete and thorough investigation," said Brian Tobey, a Microsoft corporate vice ...

Part 1 of this series discusses the different approaches being taken to design more efficient urban landscapes.Part 2 addresses the need for designers to take moral and ethical issues into account. Part 3 focuses on the risks and rewards of using cloud computing. As city administrators grapple with the notion of tying all their apps into one overa...

Microsoft on Monday unveiled two phones for the socialista set -- people whose lives revolve around social networking and being in constant communication with friends ...

Palm's share prices rallied Friday, boosted by rumors that the troubled handset maker was being pursued by prospective buyers At press time, its shares stood at US$5.16, up almost 11 percent over the previous day's close of $4.65....

HP on Thursday announced that its research arm, HP Labs, has discovered that the "memristor" -- a resistor with memory -- can perform logic ...

People can easily fold towels, but getting robots to do that has been a real challenge That's because the robot requires a complex combination of artificial intelligence, computer vision and machine learning in order to make an orderly stack from a jumbled pile of towels, doctoral student Jeremy Maitin-Shepard told TechNewsWorld....

Microsoft will hold a press conference on June 12, and expectations are high that it will use the event to launch two smartphones from its secretive "Pink" project Among those working on the Pink project are staff who joined Microsoft when it acquired Danger in 2008. Danger used to make the T-Mobile Sidekick, and the new devices are rumored to look...

Part 1 of this series discusses the different approaches being taken to design more efficient urban landscapes.Part 2 addresses the need for designers to take moral and ethical issues into account Cities, like other large organizations, will move increasingly toward virtualization and the cloud in order to save money on infrastructure.

Verizon Wireless is offering steep discounts on the troubled Palm Pre Plus and Pixi Plus handheld devices. On its site, it has slashed the prices of these devices from US$250 to $50, and $150 to $30, respectively. It's also offering customers a buy one, get one free deal Wal-Mart customers can get a $50 mail-in rebate for the Pixi Plus which they ...

The MeeGo community, formed by Intel and Nokia, on Thursday released the MeeGo distribution infrastructure and operating system base to developers.Images released are Intel Atom-based netbooks; ARM-based Nokia N900; and Intel Atom-based handsets running on the Moorestown chip Over the next few days, the MeeGo community will post more releases.

The Large Hadron Collider at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, finally smashed two beams of protons together at high speed on Tuesday after a couple of failed starts CERN was trying to get the two proton beams to collide at an energy level of 7 trillion electron volts (TeV), but problems with the electrical system forced the sci...

Part 1 of this series discusses the different approaches being taken to design more efficient urban landscapes Technologists tend to think of so-called smart cities as being tied together by technology. Their focus is on using technology to change our lives and make cities more efficient and smarter.

Victorinox, maker of the Swiss Army Knife, has come out with a model that would make James Bond proud: a pocket knife with a super-secure USB stick. ...

The Wall Street Journal might be available on a paid subscription basis on the iPad when that device hits retail shelves April 3, according to a story published Wednesday in the Journal A subscription to that publication on the iPad will cost nearly US$18 per month -- certainly more expensive than the discount offers for subscriptions to the print ...