Articles by Richard Adhikari

In a move that further crowds an already over-served market, four newspaper giants -- New York Times, Hearst, Gannett and Tribune -- have created a new online advertising partnership. Their new venture, QuadrantOne, will be headquartered in Chicago Its interim CEO is Dana Hayes, Jr., who was named senior vice president of sales at Tribune Interacti...

Sparks flew at the GSMA mobile telephony conference in Barcelona, Spain, as members of the LiMo and Android consortiums demonstrated their products and announced new developments LiMo, a consortium of 32 major firms, including mobile phone companies, unveiled 18 commercial handsets and several prototypes at the show....

Panasonic has unveiled the world's fastest SDHC (Secure Digital High Capacity) card, with a whopping 32 GB of memory The new card, to be released April, will comply with the Class 6 speed specification of the SD Card Association, which develops and publishes technical standards for SD card technology....

A strong backlash from technical users of Windows Vista has forced Microsoft to revise its general release dates for Vista Service Pack 1, moving up the release date for technical users to the end of February Microsoft released Vista SP1 to manufacturing last week in the English, French, Spanish, German and Japanese-language versions. Release to ma...

The latest rumors buzzing around beleaguered Yahoo is that it is looking to restart merger talks with AOL, and might look at Google or Disney -- anyone but Microsoft According to the Times of London, Yahoo and its team of advisers from investment banks Goldman Sachs and Lehman Bros. have been evaluating possible deals in a bid to fight off Microsof...

The battle for the hearts and minds of social networkers goes on Facebook fired the latest shot Thursday with the launch of a Spanish-language version of its site. It plans to launch French and German versions by April....

Despite its problems, Yahoo is playing it cool when it comes to Microsoft's bid of US$31 a share, or $44.6 billion, even though the offer was 62 percent higher than its Jan. 31 closing price of $19.18 a share Yahoo is "thoughtfully evaluating a wide range of potential strategic alternatives," CEO Jerry Yang wrote in an e-mail to staff. Yang and cha...

As repair work gets under way, rumors are flying thick and fast about the cause of a series of undersea cable cuts in the Middle East in recent days The latest is that a fifth undersea cable has been cut -- or it could be a second cut to Flag Telecom's FALCON (Flag Alcatel-Lucent Optical Network) cable near the Egyptian port of Alexandria, which wa...

The FCC has approved AT&T's purchase of spectrum fromAloha Partners in a deal worth US$2.5 billion It comes with a rider -- Aloha qualified for 35 percent bidding credits for most of its licenses, while AT&T does not, so Aloha has to reimburse the FCC the amount of the bidding credit plus interest....

The FCC has approved AT&T's purchase of spectrum fromAloha Partners in a deal worth US$2.5 billion It comes with a rider -- Aloha qualified for 35 percent bidding credits for most of its licenses, while AT&T does not, so Aloha has to reimburse the FCC the amount of the bidding credit plus interest....

The FCC has approved AT&T's purchase of spectrum fromAloha Partners in a deal worth US$2.5 billion It comes with a rider -- Aloha qualified for 35 percent bidding credits for most of its licenses, while AT&T does not, so Aloha has to reimburse the FCC the amount of the bidding credit plus interest....

Intel has unveiled a trio of new technologies at the International Solid State Circuits Conference in San Francisco: the Tukwila Itanium chip -- which has a record 2 billion transistors; the Silverthorne mobile processor; and a method for doubling the capacity of phase-change products The conference started on Sunday and continues through Feb. 11....

For weeks, the war between Schaumburg, Ill.-based Motorola and maverick investor and corporate raider Carl Icahn, who owns nearly 3 percent of the company's shares and last year waged a proxy war against its board of directors, has been escalating On Thursday, Motorola announced that it would explore structural and strategic realignment of its busi...

If you think the Apple iPhone is cool, wait till you see the Nuvifone thatGarmin announced Wednesday in New York It combines GPS (Global Positioning System), mobile phone, still and video camera, and MP3 and video player functionality with Internet access capability....

It's long been acknowledged that small and medium-sized businesses provide the engine of growth for the economy, and IBM has been targeting this area for some time now Big Blue's latest whack at the SMB market is in the virtualization arena....