Articles by Richard Adhikari

IDG last week introduced Pipeline Activator, a global subscription-based service pinpointing verified projects and active sales prospects for those selling to enterprise IT Pipeline Activator, the latest addition to IDG's ABM360 suite of account-based marketing services, provides sales and marketing teams with detailed insights on target companies ...

Qualcomm on Wednesday announced a collaboration with Microsoft to accelerate next-generation cloud services on the 10nm Qualcomm Centriq 2400 ARM-based platform The collaboration will span multiple future generations of hardware, software and systems....

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff and IBM CEO Ginni Rometty on Monday announced a global strategic partnership to deliver joint solutions leveraging artificial intelligence Einstein, the AI that powers Salesforce applications, will be connected seamlessly with IBM's Watson AI platform....

CallidusCloud on Thursday launched ServiceMotivate, a call center sales performance management, or SPM, solution ServiceMotivate is tightly integrated with Salesforce to track and reward call center agents based on key performance indicators of their service center, such as quick issue resolution and case closure rates, data quality improvements an...

Twitter on Wednesday announced that over the next few months it will roll out changes designed to increase the safety of users: Its algorithms will help identify accounts as they engage in abusive behavior, so the burden no longer will be on victims to report it;...

Cloudflare last week announced that it has fixed the Cloudbleed software bug responsible for a buffer overrun problem that caused its edge servers to return private information in response to some HTTP requests. That private information included HTTP cookies, authentication tokens and HTTP POST bodies. However, SSL private keys weren't leaked, sai...

A new tool is available to check the persistent harassment of online trolls. Google's Jigsaw think tank last week launched Perspective, an early stage technology that uses machine learning to help neutralize trolls Perspective reviews comments and scores them based on their similarity to comments people have labeled as toxic, or that are likely to ...

Ajit Pai, the new chairman of the United States Federal Communications Commission, last week issued a call for activation of the FM chips in smartphones The vast majority of smartphones sold in the U.S. have FM chips, but they're activated in only about 44 percent of the top brands, Pai told attendees at the North American Broadcasters Association ...

Salesforce this week announced new features and an expanded partner ecosystem for its Health Cloud at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society conference in Orlando, Florida The new features are lead-to-patient conversion, risk stratification and advanced segmentation....

The United States Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has come under increasing fire from Republican lawmakers who now have the Trump administration to back their efforts Long-time critic Rep. Jeb Hensarling, R-Texas, who chairs the U.S. House of Representatives Financial Services Committee, compared the bureau to a tyranny in a recent interview w...

Verizon and Yahoo on Tuesday announced new terms for the acquisition deal they inked last summer. Verizon will pay US$350 million less than the original contract price, which places the new value of the deal at $4.48 billion Yahoo will be responsible for 50 percent of any breach-related cash liabilities incurred as a result of non-SEC government in...

Facebook this week announced new features for News Feeds videos, along with an app for TV News Feed videos now have sound turned on by default in mobile devices. This can be disabled in the Settings menu....

Amazon Web Services on Tuesday introduced Amazon Chime, a cloud-based unified communications offering that lets users engage in high-quality audio and HD video meetings across Windows and Mac desktops, and iOS and Android mobile devices. Companies just have to download the app; they don't need to make upfront investments in hardware or software....

Some early reviewers of the Samsung Chromebook Pro characterized it as a "MacBook killer," but others were more restrained in their enthusiasm. Jointly developed with Google and first demoed at CES 2017, the Chromebook Pro is slated for release next month Samsung's Chromebooks basically are lightweight productivity tools that rely heavily on access...

Twitter's share price plunged 12.3 percent Thursday, closing the day at US$16.41, after the company released its Q4 2016 financial report. It fell further on Friday, trading at $15.54 mid-day On the bright side, daily active usage grew for the third consecutive quarter and strong growth is expected to continue, the company said. Active monthly user...

Salesforce has announced new integrations for Quip, the collaboration startup it acquired last summer for US$582 million Quip, which operates independently, also added new capabilities to its product's existing feature set, which includes smart notifications, chat built into every document and spreadsheet, and a smart inbox. Quip lets users direct-...

Twitter on Tuesday announced yet another crackdown on abusers With the goal of making Twitter a safer place, it has come up with new ways to...

Is Avaya on the road to financial recovery? What will happen to business partners and customers if it is not? The company last month filed for Chapter 11 protection for itself and some of its United States subsidiaries -- a move that makes it "the first major established technology company that's dying as a direct result of the cloud," according to...

Snap Inc. last week filed for a US$3 billion initial public offering The company's private market valuation is $17.8 billion, but investors have valued it at between $20 billion and $25 billion, according to a Wall Street Journal report....

A Google search for a Facebook customer support phone number may direct users to a number set up by fraudsters, according to NPR The fraudulent number, 844-735-4595, appeared not only as top result in a Google search, but also as a featured snippet -- meaning Google highlighted it in a box at the top of its search results, NPR reported....