Articles by Richard Adhikari

Although the T-Mobile Sidekick data disaster caused much gnashing of teeth among the device's users this week, the incident might not represent as dark a blotch on the concept of cloud computing as it may seem Sidekick users lost all their data, which is stored on the infrastructure of Danger, the company that developed the Sidekick and is now owne...

Research In Motion (RIM) has announced the BlackBerry Storm2 together with European carrier Vodafone ...

As global PC shipments rose 2.3 percent year over year in the third quarter, Taiwanese PC manufacturer Acer took the No. 2 spot in PC sales worldwide, according to market research firm IDC That pushed Dell into third place; market leader HP, however, maintains its commanding lead....

A set of supposedly leaked photos, along with a video posted on YouTube, have sparked rumors that bookstore giant Barnes & Noble plans to put out a branded e-book reader built by Plastic Logic However, close listening to the video reveals that the interviewee, apparently a Barnes & Noble employee, may have been speaking about a different Plastic Lo...

Korean device manufacturer LG, which makes everything from smartphones to washers and dryers, has unveiled a prototype solar-powered e-reader ...

When Amazon began offering cheap pay-as-you-go access to computing resources in the cloud to the public, it broke new ground. Independent developers, small businesses and individual departments of large businesses leaped at the chance to work on projects while keeping infrastructure costs down Users would plunk down their credit cards, get access t...

Microsoft on Friday announced that it will issue a record 13 security bulletins on its next scheduled Patch Tuesday, which will arrive Oct. 13 It rates eight of these as critical and the rest as important....

Sprint is adding another Android phone to its lineup -- the Samsung Moment ...

Sony on Thursday announced specs for its super-light Vaio X laptop, which was first unveiled in September at the IFA trade show in Berlin ...

Amazon.com on Wednesday announced it is bringing out a new global version of its Kindle 2 e-reader The company is also cutting the price of the original Kindle 2 from US$299 to $259, possibly to gain market share....

The European Commission on Wednesday announced that it will test a new Microsoft plan that could end a long-running battle the two entities have been having over Web browsers Microsoft has, in essence, agreed to offer Windows users a choice of browsers bundled into its Windows operating system. It will include mechanisms to let users turn off Inter...

Microsoft on Tuesday announced that smartphones running the Windows Mobile 6.5 OS are ready for the market It also announced the My Phone service, an online service similar to Apple's MobileMe for the iPhone....

Adobe on Monday released new details about its forthcoming Flash Player 10.1 application, designed for for smartphones, smartbooks, netbooks, PCs and other devices connected to the Internet A public developer beta of the browser-based runtime is scheduled to be released later this year. It will cover Windows Mobile and Palm webOS in the mobile real...

Microsoft on Thursday released Windows 7 XP Mode to manufacturing and said the final release will be generally available Oct. 22, as scheduled ...

While apparently iPhones rule the mobile ad marketplace, Android phones are making rapid headway and could soon overtake BlackBerry devices Mobile adverting marketplace AdMob on Thursday released a report indicating that 40 percent of the devices accessing its mobile ad network are iPhones....

Graphics processor vendor Nvidia on Wednesday announced its next-generation CUDA graphics processor unit (GPU) architecture, code-named "Fermi." The Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the Department of Energy's largest science and energy laboratory, has announced it will build a new supercomputer based on Fermi....

On Wednesday, Google announced that it will send out more than 100,000 invitations to preview Google Wave Several enterprises and individuals have already used Wave to build applications or in their work....

Microsoft released version 1.0 of Microsoft Security Essentials, a free basic anti-malware service from Redmond, on Tuesday This replaces Microsoft's discontinued Live OneCare Security-as-a-Service offering....

By Autumn of 2010, Apple may be ready to introduce a line of Macs using Light Peak, an optical interconnect technology just unveiled by Intel Intel showed off Light Peak at its developer forum in San Francisco last week....

Being on the Internet is like living in a village: Everyone knows who you are and all the details of your private life -- except that on the Internet, it's not just people you may have known all your life who know a lot about you; it's complete and utter strangers It's not just that those strangers may know stuff that could really make you uncomfor...