Articles by Richard Adhikari

Video streaming site Hulu has struck a deal with Disney to make the media conglomerate's programming, including shows from its ABC television network, available online through its channel In addition to taking a nearly 30 percent stake in Hulu, Disney will put full episodes of its ABC TV subsidiary's shows on the site....

Windows 7 has been tweaked and tuned a bit since the launch of the operating system's initial public beta in January, as is evident in the new release candidate (RC) Microsoft unveiled Thursday. The RC is now available to MSDN (Microsoft Developer Network) and TechNet subscribers, and it will be released to the general public May 5.

Although Twitter is growing at an incredible rate, it's having trouble retaining users, according to online activities research firm Nielsen Online The Twitter micro-blogging service only retains about 40 percent of users month-over-month, Nielsen Online Research Vice President David Martin claims in a company blog post....

HP on Tuesday announced its new ProBook s-series, a new line of low-cost notebooks for business users Aimed at small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), the laptops focus on security, reliability and ease of use....

IT developers are moving toward higher-level languages that make their work simpler in order to keep up with business needs That simplicity is found in lingos such as Java, C Sharp (C#), Visual Basic and .Net....

Having developed Deep Blue, the supercomputer that famously beat out world chess champion Gary Kasparov back in 1997, IBM is now working on a computer built to compete in the TV quiz show "Jeopardy." It will use a system based on Question Answering, a computer science approach that tries to build software systems that can provide accurate, useful a...

Yahoo announced Wednesday that first-quarter earnings fell by nearly 80 percent and that it will cut 675 jobs as CEO Carol Bartz struggles to revive the ailing Internet company The news was not generally jeered by investors, however. Between opening time Tuesday, when they stood at US$13.94, and mid-day Wednesday, when they stood at $14.88, Yahoo s...

If it goes through without a hitch, Oracle's purchase of Sun Microsystems, announced Monday, could fill significant gaps in the database vendor's offerings In addition to getting technologies in hot areas such as virtualization and cloud computing, Oracle will get access to patents that could prove to be cash cows....

Oracle's announcement Monday that it is buying Sun Microsystems for $7.4 billion in cash ($9.50 per share) has the potential to rock the hardware and software markets Oracle expects the deal will boost its earnings considerably over the next few years....

The music industry cheered as a Swedish court on Friday found the four proprietors of The Pirate Bay guilty of copyright law violation The Pirate Bay is a torrent tracker site in Sweden that helps users find and download files used to swap movies, music, TV shows, games, books and software via BitTorrent file-sharing applications. It was accessed b...

We know spammers are often the crooks behind online fraud, ID theft, data breaches and other acts of cybercrime. Now, however, we've learn that they're guilty of jacking up the planet's CO2 emission count as well The average spam message generates 0.3 grams of CO2, according to a study conducted by consultant firm ICF International for security ven...

Application creators can get an early look at the software developer kit (SDK) for Android 1.5, the next version of the mobile operating system, according to Google Based on the "Cupcake" branch from the Android Open Source Project, the SDK has application programming interfaces (APIs) for new features, including soft keyboards. Android phones with...

Microsoft has reportedly resumed its on-again, off-again talks with Yahoo on teaming up for online search and advertising. The discussions are apparently being held between Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and his Yahoo counterpart Carol Bartz Both companies may need each other if they want to grow their online market share. Microsoft is a poor third af...

The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) has confirmed that an update to the wireless technology will be unveiled later this month "Bluetooth 3.0, aka 'Seattle,' will be unveiled at the All Hands Meeting in Tokyo," Bluetooth SIG spokesperson Starr Baker told TechNewsWorld....

On Tuesday, computers infected by the Conficker worm woke up and downloaded a new variant Named "Worm.Downad.E" by Trend Micro, "Conficker.AQ" by antivirus vendor Eset and "Trojan-Dropper.Win32.Kido.o" by antivirus vendor Kaspersky Lab, this new variant has left many security threat researchers bewildered....

It's tax time again, and the online scammers are crawling out of the woodwork. Their goals are to intercept personal information about taxpayers nationwide, and in some ways, they may be benefiting from the IRS' push for people to electronically file their returns Some scammers are "phishing" taxpayers by sending emails that claim to be from the IR...

A funny thing happened to visitors to the New York Auto Show on Tuesday -- they got to see a concept electric car created jointly by two companies: Segway and General Motors The prototype vehicle, named "Project PUMA" (Personal Urban Mobility and Accessibility), is an electrically powered two-seater with two wheels that can travel up to 35 miles be...

Dell on Monday made a slew of announcements that considerably beefed up its offerings for the healthcare IT industry These include a mobile clinical computing solution, virtualized systems, cloud-leveraging solutions and partnerships with several other vendors. The computer maker is also teaming up with retailer Sam's Club....

Is Google close to making a bid for Twitter? Yes, according to a report from TechCrunch, though neither company has made an official announcement Google declined to discuss the issue. "We don't comment on rumor or speculation," Google spokesperson Rachel Nearnberg told the E-Commerce Times....

Aiming to rev up momentum behind its yet-to-be-released Pre smartphone, Palm has offered a few more details about the handset and the software running on it, webOS Palm will open up its Mojo software development kit (SDK) for webOS to more developers later this year. The Pre smartphone will also tap cloud computing capabilities....