DHAKA: Sony plans to launch a cloud TV service in the US later this year, CEO Kazuo Hirai announced in a speech at CES in Las Vegas.He said the cloud-based service, building on the technology acquired with Gaikai, will combine ‘the live TV content people love most about cable’ with a

DHAKA: Yahoo announced new advertising and content services at CES, as well as another acquisition in the mobile sector.The acquisition is Aviate, an app to auto-categorize apps on Android devices and intelligently serve up apps and information based on a person’s context, using

DHAKA: Samsung has shown off the Bendable TV - an 85in (216cm) prototype that allows the curvature of its screen to be adjusted by remote control.The LED (light-emitting diode) set was unveiled at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.LG has also announced a smaller 77in (196cm)

DHAKA: ZTE will unveil new smartphones and its first smartwatch at CES in Las Vegas. The BlueWatch targets the fitness market, offering features such as a pedometer and recording of other physical activity and health measurements. The device connects to a smartphone over Bluetooth,

DHAKA: Lenovo announced its first LTE smartphone, the Vibe Z. The slim device, at 7.9-mm thick, comes with a 5.5-inch IPS screen with 1920x1080 resolution. It supports LTE at up to 150 Mbps as well as 802.11ac Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 4.0. The phone runs a Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 quad-core

DHAKA: Mark Zuckerberg was the second-biggest donor after Buffett in 2012, giving $500m to the Silicon Valley Community Foundation and the Breakthrough Prize in Life Science.After Zuckerberg, last year’s biggest donors were Nike chairman Phil Knight, who gave $500m to the Oregon Health

DHAKA: The Syrian Electronic Army, an amorphous hacker collective that supports Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, claimed credit for hacking into the social media accounts of internet calling service Skype.The group also posted the contact information of Steve Ballmer, Microsoft’s

While political alliances are yet to firm up for 2014 polls, the Election Commission (EC) has already entered a key partnership with US-based internet giant, Google, to help it manage online voter registration and facilitation services ahead of the democratic exercise.Over the next six

DHAKA: Google’s former CEO and current executive chairman Eric Schmidt has revealed what he calls his biggest mistake at the company.In an interview with Bloomberg, Schmidt said, ‘At Google, the biggest mistake that I made was not anticipating the rise of the social networking

DHAKA: The 2013 has involved many significant scientific events and discoveries. The list sees Argus II Retinal Prosthesis System, Atlas humanoid robot, Bounce Imaging Explorer, Google Glass and so on. CNN has made a list of top ten innovations. We present the list for our esteemed

DHAKA: While the South Korean giant hasn’t made an official announcement, a new Galaxy tablet has surfaced on US certification agency FCC’s website.The new tablet, bearing model number Samsung SM-T320, is expected to be called the Samsung Galaxy Tab Pro 8.4 and positioned as a

DHAKA: Twitter shares tumbled after a brokerage analyst warned the popular messaging network was overvalued following a meteoric rise since its initial public offering in November.Twitter shares closed down 12.99 percent at US$63.79. But the stock has more than doubled from its offering

DHAKA: Apple has asked a federal judge to bar US sales of Samsung smartphones and tablet computers in the blockbuster patent case involving the two electronics giants.In a court filing in California, Apple said the smartphones and tablets were found to have violated patents in a jury

Rumours of new iPhone and iPad models with screen larger than current ones have been doing the rounds for a while now. The latest report indicates that the large screen iPhone 6 may launch sooner than expected.Digitimes reports citing their sources that the iPhone 6 release is planned for

The Third  Annual General Meeting (AGM) of Bangladesh Women in Technology (BWIT) was held.Luna Shamsuddoha, President of BWIT and Vice President Sonia Bashir Kabir, and Treasurer Rumessa Hussain are seen in the picture along with other executive committee members.For 2014, BWIT is coming

DHAKA: Facebook Inc’s Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg will sell 41.4 million shares worth about US$2.3 billion.It will be a part of an offering of 70 million Class A common shares of the social network, reports The Straits Times.Facebook shares were down 4 percent at US$53.54 before the

DHAKA: The succinct presence of Banglanews is not only in i phone, Nokia, Windows phone, i pad mini, Samsung, Sony and Symphony, now it can be easily visited as app in i phone and Google play store.Banglanews disclosed that instant download, five slides news in at a glance, two top news,

DHAKA: The European Commission has agreed to support an industry initiative to develop fifth-generation mobile technology.The public-private partnership with the 5G PPP Association is one of eight strategic research projects co-funded by the EU.Working with a range of industry players,

DHAKA: Microsoft Wednesday published a short blog post from John Thompson, a member of its board and the chair of its search committee for its next CEO.The entry stated that from an initial pool of 100 candidates, Microsoft narrowed to 20, a figure that has since shrunk, and that the

DHAKA: Google has acquired the engineering company that developed Cheetah, the world`s fastest-running robot and other animalistic mobile research machines.Boston Dynamics, which contracts for the US military, is the eighth robotics company snapped up by Google this year.Both the price