DHAKA: Facebook is no longer as cool a place for teenagers to hang out, according to a new report.The percentage of teens ages 13 to 17 who use Facebook in the United States fell to 88 percent this year, says a report based on a survey conducted by research firm Frank N. Magid

DHAKA: Facebook is no more a way of ‘passing time’ for the teenagers or just a website to visit once in a month. Now-a-days people are gathering there to find old or new friends or to be connected with soul mates in home and abroad. As you can ‘share’ anything with your nearest

DHAKA: Those who have the opportunities to migrate to the USA will be most benefited. They can prepare themselves before going to the dream country which will make them the fortunate five percent migrants who enjoy high salary. They, otherwise, will belong to those 95 percent of

DHAKA: As part of the government initiative to make a ‘Digital Bangladesh’, the country’s secretariat has now been brought under WiFi coverage.State Minister for Information and Communication Technology Zunaid Ahmed Palak inaugurated the service at conference hall of Public

DHAKA:  Snapchat, the mobile messaging app that’s popular with teens, hired a Bangladesh-origin star tech banker to help young chief executive Evan Spiegel justify the startup’s multibillion-dollar valuation.The startup named Imran Khan, the former head of Internet banking at Credit

DHAKA: Google announced its annual Year in Search, which looks back at 2014 through the collective eyes of the Web and offers a unique perspective on this year’s major events, top newsmakers and hottest trends based on searches conducted on google.com.bd.Education related searches

DHAKA: The government is going to bring the secretariat under WiFi coverage with a view to providing faster Internet service to officials.State Minister for ICT Zunaid Ahmed Palak will inaugurate the service on Sunday.Project director (PD) Saiful Islam Wednesday said the secretariat is

DHAKA: It may look like a toy car for a child but this miniature automobile - complete with an engine, accelerator and brakes - is one man's solution for avoiding gridlock.Chinese inventor Xu Zhiyun, 60, is the brains behind the quirky car which took him two years to build at a cost

DHAKA: Security measures are usually taken in all the offices at their level best. They keep their computers as password protected. But still, information is being leaked from different government offices, forces’ headquarters, telecom companies, banks, power offices, media and

DHAKA: Looking for a nice little burst of nostalgia? Don’t feel like going through the process of installing MAME and lurking for ROMs, but still want to get your classic arcade on?Back in December of last year, the Internet Archive (in their effort to backup the entire digital world,

DHAKA: This is the Samsung Z1—the world's first Tizen phone. After one of the bumpiest pre-launch situations in recent memory, Samsung's home-grown OS has finally hit smartphones.Tizen, if you'll recall, is Samsung's "Android Killer." While Samsung rose to power on a wave of Android

DHAKA: Google has defended its decision to stop providing patches for versions of essential software used in versions of Android previous to 4.4 "KitKat".However, this effectively leaves Android 4.3 and earlier susceptible to security exploits, reports computing.co.uk recently.According

DHAKA: SMART Technologies has brought the Samsung Z1 - first Tizen smartphone – to local markets.However, the Z1 comes with a 4" WVGA display and runs on a dual-core 1.2GHz Cortex-A7 processor with 768MB RAM, said a press release.The price has been set as Tk 6,900, the release

DHAKA: The HTC One M8 was a critical darling among Android smartphones in 2014, although that didn’t necessarily translate to big sales. Based on a few early spec leaks, it looks as if its successor isn’t going to be a radical change.HTC’s preparing a high-end phone codenamed the

DHAKA: Weddell seals (Antarctic Ice Seals) are somehow able to dive to the deepest depths to hunt, yet they are able to find breathing holes in the ice.Researchers supported by the US National Science Foundation (NSF) think they have figured out the seals' trick: the seals use the Earth's

DHAKA: Tech geeks the world over will be flocking to Las Vegas after the holidays to attend the annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES), the world's largest tradeshow for consumer electronics.The event, which kicks off January 6 and runs through Jan 9, promises something for everyone,

DHAKA: The three-day exposition of smartphones and tablet computers, which is being held at Bangabandhu International Conference Center (BICC) in city’s Agargaon area, has drawn the attention of a good number of visitors on the second day.The ‘Grameenphone Smartphone and Tab

DHAKA: Facebook is well aware that its community wants a way to dislike something negative, rather than having to “like” everything. Asked by a U.C. Davis law student during a public Q&A on Thursday if Facebook will ever add a dislike button, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that the company

DHAKA: Facebook has launched a new update to its search product allowing users to search for specific posts and not just other people and pages using keywords.Now, when users type an entry into Facebook’s search box, it would offer keyword suggestions for any name that is entered,

DHAKA: Country’s leading business conglomerate Bashundhara Group has great contribution in significant establishments using latest technology.     Deputy Managing Director (DMD) of Bashundhara Industrial Complex (cement sector) Engineer AKM Mahbub-Uz-Zaman made the remark while