Richard Adhikari

Software development can often be downright wasteful, with more than a third of software development projects at Fortune 500 companies being abandoned because user requirements cannot be verified. But with the recession drying up credit and putting a focus on squeezing out every last bit of productivity, that kind of waste is rapidly becoming unacceptable. […]

Facebook’s attempt to get users to reset their e-mail preferences has blown the lid off an an embarrassing loss of user data inside the social network. When the site recently e-mailed members asking them to reset their notification preferences, bloggers picked up the scent of a possible data loss at Facebook. “When it arrived in […]

Managing the virtual desktop end-to-end may be becoming easier thanks to new products from virtualization market leader VMware and virtual desktop software provider VDIworks. VMware (NYSE: VMW) today announced the general availability of VMware View 3, a hosted virtual desktop product that enables enterprises to centralize and host their desktops in the datacenter. VDIworks will […]

PayPal customers can now use their cell phones to authenticate their transactions through a new service that lets customers use SMS messaging to get a randomly-generated access code to log into their accounts. The service, called the PayPal SMS Security Key, is an extension of PayPal’s current Security Key service, which uses a hardware token. […]

Just weeks after the shutdown of major spam host McColo led to a sharp drop in unwanted e-mails, spammers and malicious botnets are showing signs of returning. McColo’s takedown by its ISPs also hit botnets like Srizbi hard, since they had been hosted on McColo — and their designs made them especially vulnerable to the […]

Enterprises have to do more than move to the cloud in order to shave their costs in these tight economic times. They also have to know how to develop applications rapidly, and know how to cope with the speed of change, said Jon Pyke, chief strategy officer at Cordys, which provides software for business process […]

Question: What does John Walsh, host of America’s Most Wanted crime-fighting television program have to do with an anti-malware software suite? Answer: They are both fighting crime. Up until now, Walsh, who is also co-founder of the Center for Missing and Exploited Children, focused on criminals in the physical world. Now, by teaming up with […]

An international identity theft ring is being accused of stealing funds from the credit unions for the U.S. Senate, Navy, Pentagon and State Department, while also having separately made off with millions from consumers’ home equity lines of credit. Several arrests have already been made in a case that has prompted U.S. attorneys in several […]

More than 59,000 employees of Luxottica Group may be at risk after a hacker made off with their personal information in the latest incident of a massive corporate data breach. Italy-based Luxottica Group S.p.A. owns the LensCrafters eyewear chain and is the world’s largest designer, manufacturer and distributor of high-end eyewear — including products bearing […]

The Verizon Wireless employees who accessed President-elect Barack Obama’s records without authorization have been fired, according to news reports. A CNN story quoted an unnamed source at Verizon as saying the employees in question could not have read any text messages Obama sent or received, and would not have been able to access the content […]

A federal court has awarded Facebook more than $873 million in damages against a spammer for showering the site’s members with unsolicited advertisements that pushed sexually oriented products. Judge Jeremy Fogel, of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, awarded statutory damages of more than $436.6 million against Adam Guerbuez and his […]

Only six weeks after a mixed offering ofon-premises and cloud computing applications to partners and affiliated independent software vendors (ISVs), IBM is aiming to move even more of its business into the cloud. Big Blue today said it would will begin extending its highly lucrative consulting and technology services to the cloud, building on work […]