Articles by Richard Adhikari

Google last week responded to the European Commission's statement of objections regarding its search practices by rejecting outright the Europeans' argument that its innovations were anticompetitive The SO, published in April, doesn't support the claim that the company's displays of paid ads diverted traffic away from shopping services, Google said...

Rapid7 on Wednesday released a report on an assortment of new vulnerabilities in baby monitors from several manufacturers: predictable information leaks; backdoor credentials; reflective, stored XSS; direct browsing; authentication bypass; and privilege escalation Backdoor credentials -- the vulnerability most frequently found -- showed up in five ...

Google on Monday rolled out Android Wear for iOS, allowing consumers to pair the iPhone 5, 5c, 5s, 6 or 6 Plus running iOS 8.2 and above with an Android Wear watch. They'll be able to check phone calls, messages and notifications; track fitness; and use Google Now instead of Siri to get smart help from their iPhones Using Google Now instead of Siri...

Salesforce last week launched Salesforce Lightning, combining its new Lightning Experience and new Lightning Design System with its Lightning App Builder and Lightning Components released last month Lightning Experience ensures that information is tailored to suit the screens of desktops, tablets and smartphones as required....

CEO John Legere has publicly declared war on data hogs who threaten to ruin T-Mobile for regular consumers "This week I am taking aim at a select group of individuals who have actually been stealing data from T-Mobile," he wrote. "If their activities are left unchecked, their actions could eventually have a negative effect on the experience of hone...

Police in North Dakota can use drones armed with what are optimistically called "nonlethal weapons," thanks to the passage of House Bill 1328, which Gov. Jack Dalrymple signed into law this spring The new law gives police the authority in a roundabout way: Section 5 states a law enforcement agency may not authorize the use of an unmanned aerial ve...

As part of a new strategic collaboration, Intel will lead a US$100 million funding round inMirantis, the companies announced earlier this week. Intel is a long-time investor in Mirantis This round includes existing investors August Capital, Insight Venture Partners, Ericsson, Sapphire Ventures and WestSummit Capital, as well as new investor Goldman...

Amazon has given the boot to dozens of engineers who worked on its ill-fated Fire Phone, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday The purged staffers reportedly worked at Lab126, Amazon's secretive Silicon Valley-based hardware development center....

Microsoft on Monday released a public beta of its Cortana personal assistant for Android The Cortana app can do most of the things Cortana does on Windows: set and get reminders; search the Web on the go; track information such as flight details; and begin and complete tasks across all a user's devices....

The Toronto Police Service on Monday held a press conference to report on the progress of Project Unicorn, the official investigation into the hack attack on Ashley Madison, an adultery-promoting website. The Toronto police are working closely with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the U.S. Federal Bureau...

Spredfast last week announced its acquisition of Shoutlet, a social data aggregator Shoutlet has been a "huge innovator" in the social CRM space, according to Spredfast CEO Rod Favaron....

Samsung last week filed a motion to stay the U.S. Court of Appeals' order in its multiyear patent war with Apple, indicating that it plans to take the case to the United States Supreme Court Samsung will ask the Supreme Court to hear its appeal of a 2012 federal jury's verdict that it violated Apple's iPhone patents, the San Jose Mercury News repor...

Spotify CEO Daniel Ek on Friday issued a public apology for poor communications regarding the company's new privacy policy The new policy, which took effect Wednesday, immediately triggered alarm. Several tech publications railed against the terms, and Minecraft creator Markus Persson engaged Spotify CEO Daniel Ek in a Twitter debate that ended wit...

Sony on Thursday unveiled its SmartBand 2 fitness tracker It has an advanced heart rate sensor and a variety of communications capabilities. It informs wearers when they get calls, messages, emails or notifications on social media sites.

Google on Monday announced the official SDK for Android 6.0, aka "Marshmallow."It also opened Google Play for devs to publish apps that target the new API Level 23 in Marshmallow Google further updated the Android Support Library to v23, giving devs an easier way to make new platform APIs, such as permissions and fingerprint support, backward compa...

Hackers on Tuesday dumped personal data of about 37 million members of the Ashley Madison website onto the Dark Web. The data was stolen last month in an attack on the site, which aims to hook up people who want to cheat on their spouses Parent company "Avid Life Media has failed to take down Ashley Madison and Established Men," the Impact Team wr...

Apple might be working on a heads-up display for windshields, Trip Chowdhry, managing director of equity research at Global Equities Research, said in a note sent last week to the firm's clients. It will have built-in sensor technology, and the entire surface will function as a HUD. It may be a "completely new device," he wrote....

The United States Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday announced that Smart City Holdings had agreed to pay a US$750,000 fine to settle allegations that it blocked personal mobile hotspots in several convention centers, forcing exhibitors and attendees to use its services instead, at $80 a day Blocking FCC-approved WiFi connections is "pate...

A full release of Bitcoin XT became available on Saturday, heaping fuel on the fire spreading throughout the community. The Bitcoin subreddit went so far as to ban XT-related posts, resulting in allegations that a small cabal had taken control of the community and was suppressing discussion and dissent....

The National Security Agency considered its relationship with AT&T unique and particularly productive, The New York Times and ProPublica reported Saturday. The information about the company's close ties with the agency came from the trove of documents released by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden AT&T, which NSA lauded for its "extreme willingness ...