Articles by Richard Adhikari

AT&T Mobility CEO Ralph de la Vega caused a stir at a press conference at CTIA Wireless 2008 in Las Vegas Wednesday when he expressed interest in Google's Android platform Some reports even had him committing to shipping phones running Android later this year....

Intel on Wednesday unveiled the Centrino Atom family of low-power processors for mobile Internet devices (MIDs) It also announced a new class of inexpensive, simple Internet-centric computers, called "netbooks," which will hit the market later this year, and new developments in other chip families....

After a long and bitter battle, Microsoft's Office Open XML (OOXML) appears to have finally been accepted as a standard for open documents by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) Or has it?...

After three days of attacks by leading hackers, a laptop running Ubuntu remained untouched while two others, running Mac OS X and Windows Vista Service Pack 1, succumbed The attacks were launched at the CanSecWest PWN 2 OWN contest in Vancouver, Canada....

AT&T will launch AT&T Mobile TV on Qualcomm's MediaFLO in May The service will be available on two new handsets available exclusively at AT&T, the LG Vu and the Samsung Access....

A few short months after their last joint venture to build a nationwide wireless network based on WiMax tanked, Sprint Nextel and Clearwire are at it again This time, they are holding talks with various partners, and reports are that they are trying to raise US$3 billion for the project....

Having induced the Federal Communications Commission to open up the C block of wireless airwaves at the recent wireless auction, Google is now seeking access to another set of airwaves in pursuit of openness This time, it wants to open up the unlicensed parts of the TV broadcast spectrum, the so-called white space, for wireless broadband Internet a...

Don't open that Word file attached to your e-mail; it might contain malware And don't click on that e-mail or Web site links from strangers. Heck, don't even open Word e-mail attachments from trusted sources unless you're expecting them....

As corporations increasingly virtualize their environments, they are finding that traditional physical security and network applications are not adequate for their needs "Most network security solutions are based on custom-made ASICs (application-specific integrated circuits) running customized software, and don't provide adequate security in a vir...

The wireless spectrum auction is over and the big boys have won the day -- America's two biggest carriers, Verizon Wireless and AT&T, shelled out a total of more than US$16 billion for tons of spectrum AT&T, America's largest wireless carrier, has to dig deep to pay the $6.64 billion it owes, and is tapping operating funds and taking out a loan....

Battling furiously to catch up to market leader VMware in the hypervisor market, Microsoft has unveiled what it calls a "feature-complete" version of its Hyper-V product A hypervisor is a virtualization platform that lets multiple operating systems run on one host computer at the same time....

Since its launch, renegade developers have been working to make the iPhone a Linux workstation, porting tools to the device. And why not? It has enough RAM and hard disk space to make the work worthwhile "My iPhone has 16 GB of disk space, 128 MB of RAM, a 600-plus MHz processor and a much better display than my original computer, and it has Darwin...

Laying the groundwork for their continued business health, Intel and Microsoft have coughed up US$20 million to fund research into desktop and mobile parallel computing for consumers and businesses The money, to be paid out over the next five years, will be split evenly between new research centers at the University of California, Berkeley, and the...

Part 1 of this five-part series defines virtualization; Part 2 takes a look at the business drivers for virtualization; and Part 3 examines the challenges enterprises face when they virtualize their IT environment. Part 4 covers implementing and maintaining a virtualized system. This final installment focuses on security in the virtualized environment...

Intel this week laid out its lineup of new products, which take dead aim at some of the latest hot buttons in computing One is the Dunnington CPU (central processing unit), with six cores, which will be introduced in the second half of this year, and will support FlexMigration, a technology that allows live virtual machine migration across server p...

As Tibetans -- led by Buddhist monks -- rioted in the capital city of Lhasa, burning Chinese-owned businesses and attacking Chinese, Beijing clamped down on YouTube and other media outlets depicting the violence The trouble began a week ago, when Buddhist monks demonstrated peacefully March 10 on the anniversary of a failed uprising against Chinese...

Sweden, long the home of Internet pirates, may not be a safe haven for them any more. The Swedish government is working on legislation that will force Internet service providers (ISPs) to disclose IP (Internet protocol) addresses used for illegal file-sharing to the legal owners of those rights However, the owners of the rights must get a court ord...

Just 10 months after launching its Gemstone line in May 2007, Acer has introduced refinements to that line's design, unveiling two new notebooks in the Aspire Gemstone Blue line, the 6950 and the 8950 Both are equipped with a Blu-ray Disc drive, full high-definition LCD screens and native 16:9 resolution....

YouTube has opened up its application programming interfaces (APIs) to the world. This will let developers build what amounts to their own mini-YouTubes on their Web sites, blogs or Wikis "We now support upload, other write operations and internationalized standard feeds," wrote Stephanie Liu of the YouTube APIs and Tools Team on the YouTube blog....

In Part 1 of this five-part series, we define virtualization; in Part 2, we look at the business drivers for virtualization; Part 3 looks at the challenges enterprises face when they virtualize their IT environment. This installment covers implementing and maintaining a virtualized system Before you implement a virtualized environment, you have to...