Articles by Richard Adhikari

When Microsoft rolled out its beta version of Hohm on Wednesday -- a Web site that helps consumers save electricity -- it scored a veritable hat-trick First -- good publicity from positioning itself as a public benefactor....

Taiwan-based HTC, a fast-rising star in the smartphone manufacturing industry, has unveiled its latest model, the Hero, its third offering based on the Android operating system The Hero comes with a new user interface called "Sense" that makes use the device almost intuitive....

In a move that could rock the printing world and set Amazon's Kindle e-reader on its ear, HP announced on Tuesday an all-in-one printer that can connect directly to the Internet The device, the HP Photosmart Premium, will let users download content and make purchases from the Internet. Partners for content on delivery include USA Today; Google; and...

Google has stepped up its efforts to fight Internet pornography in China, following Beijing's move on Friday to block some Chinese-language results delivered by its search engine "We are undertaking a thorough review of our service and taking all necessary steps to fix any problem with our results," Google spokesperson Scott Rubin told TechNewsWorl...

Less than three months after announcing a slew of products and services to propel its thrust into the data center market, Dell on Wednesday released several out-of-the-box virtualization solutions targeting both enterprises and SMBs. These are aimed at simplifying virtualization and helping customers cut their costs....

Back in January, friends of Seattle, Wash., resident Bryan Rutberg were stunned when they read e-mails from his Facebook account accompanied by his photo. In the messages, Bryan appeared to claim he was in big trouble and that he needed their help At least one friend wired him money. However, Rutberg wasn't really in trouble and was in no need of a...

MySpace on Tuesday announced it will lay off 420 staffers, or nearly 30 percent of its 1,420-strong workforce MySpace and parent company News Corp. both said, in effect, that the cuts would result in a more efficient and innovative company....

Research In Motion announced on Tuesday that its new BlackBerry 9630 Tour world phone will hit the shelves this summer What's really new about it is that it supports 3G EV-DO networks in North America, as well as 3G UMTS/HSPA and quad-band EDGE/GPRS/GSM networks abroad....

EnterpriseDB, which has commercialized the PostgreSQL open source database, announced on Tuesday the fifth version of its Postgres Plus Advanced Server This latest version of EnterpriseDB's relational database management system (RDBMS) is designed to let users easily migrate more Oracle applications in order to cut costs....

Samsung is set to unveil updates to its Omnia handset lineup, including new OmniaPRO units and the OmniaII, at the CommunicAsia information and communication technologies expo being held in Singapore through Wednesday The OmniaPRO comes in two form factors: a standard keypad/screen arrangement on the B7320 and a touchscreen design with slide-out QW...

Europe's nearly 18-month battle against the dominance of Microsoft's Internet Explorer has entered a new stage. The EC has rejected Microsoft's offer to strip Internet Explorer from some copies of Windows 7 destined to ship to the EU when the new operating system is released in the fall.

Although it's struggling against both giant rivals like Google and smaller ones like Microsoft's new search venture Bing, Yahoo is handing over the source code for its version of Hadoop to the community Hadoop, a top-level Apache project, is an open source distributed file system and parallel execution environment that lets its users process massiv...

HP on Wednesday announced its Extreme Scale-Out (ExSO) portfolio, intended to cut data center costs for businesses involved in heavy Web 2.0, cloud computing and high-performance computing activities Such companies typically have data centers with thousands of servers....

The Fedora Project on Tuesday announced Fedora 11, the latest version of its free open source operating system Code named "Leonidas," Fedora 11 takes another whack at virtualization, a technology market in which its sponsor, Red Hat, is working hard to carve out a niche....

Google this week released early developer channel versions of its Chrome browser for the Mac OS X and Linux platforms Google emphasized that both new versions are very much rough drafts intended for developers, not consumers looking for a smooth browsing experience....

The media buzz around the Palm Pre is rising to deafening levels as the countdown to the Pre's release on Saturday proceeds Generally, early reviewers like its design and ease of use....

Desperate to gain more traction in the video gaming market, where it trails behind rivals Nintendo and Microsoft, Sony on Tuesday demonstrated a new motion-sensing controller to an audience of gamers The demo at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) in Los Angeles showed off a device about the size and shape of a television remote control with a c...

Taiwanese computer manufacturer Acer, which seems to be having an on-again, off-again relationship with netbooks running Android, is now reportedly working on one. Jim Wong, the firm's president of IT products, made the announcement Tuesday at Computex Taipei, Asia's largest computer exhibition.

Like many others, I was salivating at the thought of getting my hands on a new, faster search engine, and so I was impatiently waiting for Wednesday when Microsoft was scheduled to unleash Bing on the world When it made Bing available on Monday instead, I leaped on the application and began running searches on the Web with little cries of joy....

Fresh off its attempt to sideswipe Apple with its "Laptop Hunters" ad campaign, Microsoft is apparently now gunning for Google with its upcoming search engine, Bing Announcing Bing on Thursday, Microsoft promised a worldwide launch by June 3 and pointed readers to a Web site where the service would be located....