Articles by Richard Adhikari

The Linux Foundation on Thursday announced that Brian Behlendorf, a primary developer of the Apache Web server and a founding member of the Apache Software Foundation, has joined theHyperledger Project as executive director The project is a collaborative effort to advance blockchain technology by identifying and addressing important features for an...

China is investigating the encryption and data storage features of technology products sold there by large foreign companies such as Apple, The New York Times reported this week Authorities apparently are focusing on whether the products pose a security threat....

Motorola on Tuesday unveiled three new smartphones: the fourth-generation Moto G, the Moto G Plus and the Moto G Play The Moto G and Moto G Plus can be customized using Moto Maker, while the Moto G Play can not. All three run Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow....

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg last week announced that the company would investigate allegations that its Trending Topics feature had an anticonservative bias "We have found no evidence that this report is true," he said, referring to a news report earlier this month that kicked off the storm. "If we find anything against our principles, you have my...

Concern about online security and privacy are leading Americans to curtail online activity, the United States National Telecommunications and Information Administration reported last week More than 41,000 households with at least one Internet user in July responded to several privacy and security questions the U.S. Census Bureau posed for the NTIA....

Walmart on Thursday began testing a two-day unlimited shipping service priced at US$49 a year Subscribers will get more than a million items, including the most commonly purchased items on Walmart.com, delivered to their door in two days or fewer, Walmart spokesperson Bao Nguyen said....

Opera on Thursday announced a dedicated power-saving mode in the developer version of its Web browser Tests showed it extended laptop battery life by up to 50 percent against Google Chrome, the company said....

SugarCRM on Tuesday unveiled Sugar 7.7, the latest version of its CRM package, with several enhancements. A custom tag feature lets any record in the application be tagged for better classification and sharing. A new search UI automatically expands upon selection. The Sugar 7.7 Knowledge Base has been enhanced with an intelligence panel that displays context-sensitive information...

Facebook hired promising journalists in their 20s and early 30s to work on its secretive trending news project but did not treat them -- or journalism -- well, according to a recent Gizmodoreport based on interviews with ex-curators The curators served as training modules for Facebook's algorithm, they said. They selected trending news, and decided...

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission and the Federal Communications Commission on Monday announced a joint investigation into the issue of mobile device security updates The FTC issued an order requiring eight mobile device manufacturers -- Apple, BlackBerry, Google, HTC America, LG Electronics USA, Microsoft, Motorola Mobility and Samsung Electronics...

IBM on Tuesday announced Watson for Cyber Security, a cloud-based version of its AI technology, trained in cybersecurity as part of a year-long research project "This technology is about using Watson's learning capability and ability to understand the meaning and context of human language, and applying that to the massive amount of unstructured sec...

Pivotal last week announced a US$253 million round of Series C financing Led by new investor Ford, together with Microsoft and previous investors GE, EMC and VMware, the deal is expected to close this month....

Microsoft last week announced that Windows 10 was running on 300 million PCs and reminded customers that its free upgrade offer would end July 29. After that date, the price to upgrade to Windows 10 Home will be US$119 "We're pleased to see Windows 10 become one of the largest online services in less than a year," said Yusuf Mehdi, corporate VP of ...

IBM last week announced that it would allow researchers and scientists to run experiments using its quantum processor The IBM Quantum Experience runs on the IBM Cloud. Users will be able to run algorithms and experiments on the quantum processor; work with individual quantum bits, or qubits; and explore tutorials and simulations on the possibilitie...

GetHuman last week launched a service designed to help consumers with the tangle of customer service For between US$5 and $25, one of the eight-person company's five dedicated problem solvers, aided by bots, will call a customer service line on a client's behalf to sort things out....

Adblock Plus, which has been in the forefront of online ad blocking, this week announced the beta of Flattr Plus, a joint project with micropayment site Flattr, which promises no less than to revolutionize Web monetization Users decide how much money they want to have distributed among their favorite sites, and the Flattr Plus algorithm automatical...

Microsoft this week announced that SQL Server 2016 will be generally available June 1 It will deliver an end-to-end data management and business analytics solution with mission-critical intelligence, according to the company....

The Linux Foundation's Core Infrastructure Initiative project on Tuesday announced a free badge program to help foster security, quality and stability in open source software projects Through an online app, the CII lets devs determine whether they're following best practices, generally within an hour or so.

Oracle on Monday announced that it has agreed to acquireOpower for US$532 million in cash More than 100 global utilities, including PG&E, Exelon and National Grid, use Opower's customer engagement and energy efficiency cloud services, Oracle said. Opower's big data platform stores and analyzes more than 600 billion meter reads from 60 million end c...

SpaceX last week announced plans to launch a mission for Mars in 2018, with help from the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration The Red Dragon, a variant of the SpaceX Dragon 2 spacecraft, will make the unmanned journey. The Falcon Heavy 9 space launch vehicle will send it on its way....