Articles by Richard Adhikari

Users of apps from BIRT, the open source Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools project, will be able to access them on the iPhone starting Monday Actuate, which founded the BIRT project and coleads it with the Eclipse Foundation, is putting its BIRT Mobile Viewer on the iTunes App Store....

You have to hand it to Microsoft for chutzpah. Although its operating system and apps are so buggy that new vulnerabilities are discovered with frightening regularity, it now wants Internet users to pony up to cover the cost of cybersecurity The idea was put forth by Scott Charney, Redmond's vice president for trustworthy computing, during a speech...

YouTube on Thursday opened its previously restricted automated captioning beta program to the public, saying it will help the hearing-impaired Currently, the feature is only available for videos that contain speech in the English language, although YouTube plans to add other languages. In the interim, video uploaders can use a feature that translat...

The Federal Bureau of Investigation on Thursday joined the Department of Homeland Security in seeking to hire cybersecurity experts from the private sector "I want to send out an invitation to those of you in the audience who want to serve the country to join the FBI," FBI Director Robert Mueller said at the RSA Conference 2010 in San Francisco on ...

The United States needs the help of both the private sector and individual Americans to tackle cybersecurity, Janet Napolitano, Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, said at the RSA Conference 2010 in San Francisco on Wednesday "We need to have an ongoing two-way conversation and effort between the private and public sectors, and w...

In the wake of repeated warnings by former top-level government cybersecurity experts that the United States is ill-prepared for a cyberwar, White House Cybersecurity Coordinator Howard Schmidt disclosed Tuesday the Obama administration's plans to prepare for the cybersecurity needs of the future The administration is taking a multifaceted approach...

Security providers and businesses have to rethink their approach to cloud computing, RSA President Art Coviello, executive vice president of EMC, said at the RSA Conference 2010 in San Francisco on Tuesday Security should be designed and built into the cloud at the chip level with the same identity, infrastructure and management policies used in th...

Sony says a glitch that caused a global gaming lockdown for PlayStation 3 owners is due to a bug in the clock functionality of older PS3s. The lockdown affects owners of older PS3s as well as those who try to play newer games, which use trophies, such as "Heavy Rain" and "Final Fantasy XIII." It also prevents users from connecting to Sony's PlaySt...

Facebook last week won the right to call the news feed its very own. Patent 7,699,123 was issued by the U.S. Patent Office last Tuesday to CEO Mark Zuckerberg and seven other Facebook executives. It's described as a method for displaying a news feed in a social network environment. The method includes, in essence, generating information about a so...

Palm's warning Thursday that revenues for fiscal year 2010 will be "well below" its forecast of US$1.6 billion to $1.8 billion has raised questions regarding its ability to survive as an independent company. The company's stocks closed at $6.53 Thursday, $1.56 down from the previous day's close of $8.09.

At about the same time in January that Google reported its infrastructure had been hacked, someone broke into Intel's systems. However, unlike Google, which reported the attack publicly and ended up getting the federal government involved, Intel kept relatively quiet about its intrusion The only mention Intel made of the attack was in its SEC 10-K ...

Once again, Americans are hearing that the United States is a cybersecurity wimp, vulnerable to major damage should it ever suffer a large, organized cyberattack. The latest testimony underscoring that notion came from Michael McConnell, the former director of national intelligence, who spoke to the Senate Tuesday Testifying before the Senate Commi...

Global iPhone sales grew in 2009 at the expense of Windows Mobile devices, according to Gartner's worldwide mobile sales report, released Tuesday The report also showed sales of Android and Research In Motion's Blackberry devices going up year over year.

Developing nations will be buried under mountains of e-waste unless they quickly implement programs to collect and manage it, according to a report released Monday by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) By 2020, e-waste from old computers and other electronic devices will surge by 500 percent in India and by between 200 and 400 percent ...

Within about a year, the United States may be better prepared to defend itself against a cyberattack, if the Senate passes Bill H.R. 4061, also known as the Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of 2009. This bill is a combination of the Cybersecurity Research and Development Amendments Act of 2009 and the Cybersecurity Coordination and Awareness Act of 2...

Search marketing will undergo many changes in 2010, according to marketing agency Greenlight Among other things, Facebook will have to offer better ad tracking, mobile search will take off, and Google will rethink incorporating Twitter search data into its real-time search results as well as include video content in page relevancy scores....

News that students in two Chinese schools could be behind recent well-publicized online attacks on Google and other major U.S. corporations doing business in China has security experts running for cover. McAfee, which has dubbed the hacks "Operation Aurora," described the series of attacks as highly sophisticated and a watershed event in cybercrim...

As botnets go, the Kneber botnet, which has hit about 75,000 PCs in roughly 2,500 companies worldwide, is fairly minuscule. However, it's disproportionately dangerous because it's aimed at very specific targets -- corporations and government departments -- whose PCs store critically important information, such as Social Security numbers and corpor...

With the latest iteration of its mobile operating system, Windows Phone 7 Series, Microsoft aims to narrow the gap between its OS, the iPhone OS and Android. Built to focus on consumers, Windows Phone 7 Series -- or WinPho7 -- was designed from the ground up. "We made a very big decision to re-examine everything because the industries surrounding ...

Earlier this week, Cyber ShockWave, a simulated cyberattack on America, once again showed that the U.S.'s cybersecurity is not up to the task of protecting the country's infrastructure. Under the hypothetical scenario cooked up by Cyber ShockWave's planners, the attack was launched through smartphones, which are becoming increasingly plausible as ...