Articles by Richard Adhikari

Twitter on Wednesday announced two tools, "Publish" and "Curator," a Collections API, and an ecosystem of partners designed to let publishers organize tweets to better tell a tale The API creates a single Collection ID that can be used to edit, update and publish a story from any tool in the Twitter ecosystem....

YouTube on Wednesday introduced YouTube Red, a US$10 a month ad-free channel Membership extends across devices, and consumers can access the service from other YouTube channels or apps, including YouTube Gaming....

Many reviewers have responded to the preproduction version of Microsoft's Surface Book the way an average Joe would view a top-of-the-line luxury car: The features are great, but the price is daunting "Overall, we recommend it, especially to people who value performance, design and battery life above all else, and are willing to pay dearly for it,"...

Amazon and The New York Times this week engaged in a rehash of their dispute over the publication this summer of a story that describes harsh working conditions at the company NYT reporter Jodi Kantor misled Amazon, alleged spokesperson Jay Carney, as she failed to challenge the credibility of former Amazon employees whose negative comments formed...

The healthcare industry has become the favorite playground for many cybercriminals, suggests a report Trustwave released earlier this month Of the 398 full-time healthcare professionals surveyed, 91 percent of information technology respondents and 77 percent of nontechnical respondents believed criminals increasingly were targeting healthcare orga...

Beset by customer complaints and struggling to get approval from the United States Federal Communications Commission for a US$79 billion merger with Charter Communications and Bright House Networks, Time Warner Cable on Tuesday announced a virtual assistant The new Ask TWC Virtual Assistant lets customers use a mobile device or computer to type a q...

Researchers at theMassachusetts Institute of Technology last week announced they had developed an algorithmic system to analyze big data that eventually might replace humans The system, called the "Data Science Machine," designs the feature set and searches for patterns in big data....

The reviews are out for Google's Nexus 6P and 5X, unveiled late last month, and they can be summed up in two words: Love them! They're described as "the best Nexus devices ever produced" and "Google's answer to Apple's iPhones," but those tired phrases are rolled out with every new Nexus or flagship Android smartphone, so what else is new?...

The JPEG Committee last week met in Brussels to discuss a proposal to secure privacy information such as metadata for published pictures that includes geographical information enabling identification of people who have given anonymous interviews to journalists and pictures posted on social media intended only for a limited audience The proposal als...

Google won an important legal victory on Friday, when the Second United States Court of Appeals in New York upheld a lower court's judgment in its years-long battle with the Authors Guild over Google Books The case "tests the boundaries of fair use," Judge Pierre Leval wrote in the appeals court's ruling.

Yahoo on Thursday announced a password-free Yahoo Mail app that can manage email accounts from Outlook.com, Hotmail and AOL Mail There was no mention of syncing with Gmail or Apple's iCloud Mail....

HP and 3M on Wednesday announced a collaboration to integrate 3M privacy screens with HP notebook PCs The technology is intended to keep cyberspies from gathering information by doing nothing more sophisticated than looking over a user's shoulder -- what the companies call "visual hacking." HP and 3M consider it a significant risk....

A United States District Court jury earlier this week found that Apple's A7 processor infringes a patent held by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, the patent management arm of the University of Wisconsin -- Madison. WARF alleged patent infringement and claimed damages of up to US$862 million in a complaint filed early last year in the U.S....

Acer on Monday announced two new Windows 10 devices -- a convertible notebook and a portable all-in-one PC The Aspire R 14 convertible (pictured above) has four use modes -- one more than the just-unveiled Microsoft Surface Book -- while the Aspire Z3-700 all-in-one PC has a built-in battery with five hours' life....

Dell on Monday announced it would acquire EMC in a deal valued at $67 billion, maintaining VMware as a publicly traded company EMC shareholders will get $24.05 per share in cash, as well as 0.111 shares of new tracking stock per share of EMC linked to the company's economic interest in the VMware business....

Apple last week revealed that it had removed from its App Store several apps with root certificates that could allow data monitoring The monitoring could compromise Secure Sockets Layer and Transport Layer Security protocols, the company said. It suggested usersdelete the apps and their associated configuration profiles. However, it did not name th...

Reddit earlier this week announced the launch of Upvoted, a new publication featuring original content from a team of staff editors and writers Reddit has more than 202 million monthly users. Its podcast have been downloaded more than 1.6 million times since January, and its newsletter has hundreds of thousands of subscribers, according to product ...

Amazon on Thursday leapt into the Internet of Things market with the announcement of its AWS IoT platform AWS IoT lets devices -- ranging from cars and turbines to sensor grids and light bulbs -- connect to services from Amazon Web Services....

Verizon has announced it will begin sharing customer data with its AOL Advertising Network, triggering concerns about privacy and customer tracking AOL will use Verizon'ssupercookie -- which is difficult to get rid of -- to track users. [*Correction - Oct. 14, 2015]...

Google on Wednesday announced Accelerated Mobile Pages, or AMP, an open source initiative to speed up mobile Web page loading The aim is to have Web pages with rich content -- such as video, animations and graphics -- work alongside smart ads and load instantly, with one code working across multiple platforms and devices....