Articles by Richard Adhikari

The United States Army Research, Development and Engineering Command has commissioned two companies to develop hoverbike technology Malloy Aeronautics earlier this month demoed a working hoverbike at the Paris Air Show....

IBM and Box have entered a global partnership to combine the two companies' best-in-class technologies and resources to transform work in the cloud The two will offer customers IBM analytics and social solutions, IBM security technologies, the IBM cloud, and Box's cloud content collaboration platform....

Samsung has been disabling Windows updates by means of an executable file, Disable_Winduwsupdate.exe, that is part of its SW Update software The issue came to light on Tuesday, when Microsoft MVP Patrick Barker published a blog post about his discovery when helping a user who was having problems....

The United States' National Security Agency (NSA) and the UK's Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) have been attacking antivirus and other security software since at least 2008, The Intercept reported Monday The aim is to infiltrate networks and track users....

An Electronic Frontier Foundation survey published last week gave AT&T, Verizon and WhatsApp the thumbs down when it comes to protecting user privacy. Google and Twitter also got a black eye The five were among 24 companies the EFF evaluated on criteria worked out over the past four years....

An Electronic Frontier Foundation survey published last week gave AT&T, Verizon and WhatsApp the thumbs down when it comes to protecting user privacy. Google and Twitter also got a black eye The five were among 24 companies the EFF evaluated on criteria worked out over the past four years....

An Electronic Frontier Foundation survey published last week gave AT&T, Verizon and WhatsApp the thumbs down when it comes to protecting user privacy. Google and Twitter also got a black eye The five were among 24 companies the EFF evaluated on criteria worked out over the past four years....

SpaceX this week announced plans to construct a mile-long Hyperloop test track next to its headquarters in Hawthorne, California, scheduled for completion by June 2016 The company concurrently announced an opencompetition for university students and independent engineering teams to design and build the best Hyperloop pod. Entrants will be able to t...

Salesforce on Wednesday announced its next-generation marketing cloud at the Salesforce Connections digital marketing event held in New York this week ...

Google last week announced the formation of a new company that will develop technology to improve city life for residents, businesses and governments Google has teamed up with Dan Doctoroff -- former Bloomberg CEO and ex-deputy mayor of economic development and rebuilding for the City of New York -- to advance the effort. Doctoroff will be CEO of S...

At least 600 million Samsung smartphones are vulnerable to remote attacks because of the way the company implemented the SwiftKey keyboard, NowSecure researcher Ryan Welton warned Tuesday A phone can be attacked if it's connected to a compromised or malicious WiFi network and the SwiftKey app is updating existing languages or adding a new language ...

Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Sen. Dean Heller, R-Nev., on Wednesday introduced the Protecting Individuals From Mass Aerial Surveillance Act, which would require federal government agents to get a warrant before snooping from the sky "Americans' privacy rights shouldn't stop at the treetops," Wyden said.

The city of San Jose, California, recently decided to undertake an Internet of Things pilot project Under a deal finalized last month,anyCOMM, will deploy WiFi sensors on 148 streetlights in the city center, connecting through the lights' photocell receptacle....

Veeva Systems last week introduced several new CRM products for the pharmaceutical industry at its 2015 Customer Summit in Philadelphia Veeva CRM Suggestions offers recommendations on the best action and right channel for the next customer interaction. It's designed to accelerate the transition to a new multichannel model. All Veeva CRM customers w...

Twitter is changing CEOs for the fourth time in four years Incumbent Dick Costolo is stepping down July 1 and company cofounder Jack Dorsey will take over as interim CEO while the board searches, both internally and externally, for a suitable candidate to hold the post....

Russia's advanced military combat robot -- which has drawn alarmed comparisons to Hollywood's Terminator -- will be able to run and clear an obstacle course by late this year, according to reports that surfaced this week. That's just the latest news fueling the already-fiery debate over what to do about killer robots....

Spotify has raised US$526 million in its latest round of funding, according to reports that surfaced Wednesday. That's more than half the $1 billion Spotify raised in funding over the past nine years, said Susan Schreiner, analyst at C4 Trends....

U.S. federal CIO Tony Scott on Monday sent a memo to the heads of executive departments and agencies requiring that all publicly accessible federal websites and Web services use HTTPS -- "the strongest privacy and integrity protection currently available for public Web connections." Some federal websites currently use HTTPS, but there has not been...

Apple this week announced Swift 2 and said it would open-source it later this year.Swift 2 is a programming language for iOS, OS X and watchOS. It has a new error handling model that works with Apple SDKs and NSError. Two new features in Objective-C -- nullability annotations and generics -- make Swift 2 work better with Apple SDKs.

OpenStack, a free and open source (FOSS) cloud controller package that has been struggling to gain acceptance in the enterprise, took a giant stride forward when IBM and Cisco opened up their wallets last week IBM announced it would buy hosted OpenStack private cloud provider Blue Box Cloud....