DHAKA: He may be coming to the end of his presidency, but it’s apparently not too late in the game for President Barack Obama to get on Facebook.While many of the president’s initiatives make it to the White House Facebook page, Obama is using his new ‘public figure’ Facebook

DHAKA: A three-day ‘Edumaker Laptop Fair’ will begin at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre (BICC) in city on Thursday.Laptop manufacturing and marketing enterprises will show their latest products at the fair.The organizing group Expo Maker told this at a press conference in

DHAKA: Bangladesh Internet Exchange Ltd (BIEL) brand name Ollo, the first 4G LTE provider in the country, will provide the latest technology Gopalganj district.Ollo head of Commercial Niaz Mahmudul Islam, distributor and retailers, among others, were present on at the launching ceremony,

DHAKA: The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court (SC) Thursday upheld the High Court order that declared illegal the use of national anthem tune as ring tone or welcome tune in mobile phones.Three-member bench of appellate division, headed by Chief Justice SK Sinha passed the order

DHAKA: Facebook has reported a spike in profits in the third quarter on the back of increased advertising sales.The social media company reported net income was up 11% to $891m for the period between July and September compared with $806m last year.Facebook also reported strong user

DHAKA: Search giant Google has announced a date for the launch of its drone delivery service.Called Project Wing, the initiative aims to be delivering goods to consumers using the robot aircraft sometime in 2017.The announcement came from David Vos, the project leader for the delivery

DHAKA: Google plans to fold its Chrome operating system for personal computers into its Android mobile operating system, according to people familiar with the matter, a sign of the growing dominance of mobile computing.Google engineers have been working for roughly two years to combine

DHAKA: Google believes it is on course to have enough internet-beaming balloons in the stratosphere to form a ring over part of the world next year.It said the move would let it trial a continuous data service to people living below the balloons' path.The declaration coincides with the

DHAKA: Apple reported a jump in sales in the three months to September. The tech giant’s revenue was $51.5bn, up 22% compared with the same period last year.It sold over 48 million iPhones in the period, which it said were ‘record fourth quarter sales’, although the figure did miss

DHAKA: A new portable Windows 10 desktop mini PC has been launched this week called the Kangaroo and is now available to purchase price of $99 (Tk 7733.48). Offering a convenient way to carry your desktop PC in your pocket, reports the geeky-gadgets.comEquipped with an Atom x5 processor

DHAKA: Country’s largest mobile phone operator Grameenphone (GP) has introduced a new program to assist the ‘startup’ entrepreneurs in the country’s information and communications technology (ICT).SD Asia will cooperate in the ‘GP Accelerator’ program.The organizations made

DHAKA: Cyber threat has become a key concern all over the world living with the internet age, and Bangladesh is not from afar of this threat.Enterprises and social network community are also in the risk as it is clear that cyber-attacks are becoming ever more organized and subtle that

DHAKA: Business leaders have called for urgent action to tackle cyber-crime after an attack on TalkTalk, a British Telecom Group, calling it one of the biggest threats facing companies.The Institute of Directors (IoD) of UK said only “serious breaches” made the headlines, but attacks

DHAKA: The personal data of four million customers may have been stolen in a "significant and sustained cyberattack" targeting one of Britain's leading phone providers.U.K. telecom TalkTalk has admitted that its website was hacked earlier this week, and that information including the date

DHAKA: Facebook has announced a new system for alerting users when their accounts have been compromised by ‘state-sponsored actors’, the latest measure taken by the social network to convince users that it is a partner against unlawful government surveillance and espionage.Alex

DHAKA: Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulation Commission (BTRC) chairman Sunil Kanti Bose on Wednesday said they have completed composing the guidelines for fourth generation (4G) mobile telecommunications technology.“The announcement for spectrum allocation will come in 2016,” he

DHAKA: HTC Corporation, a Taiwanese manufacturer of smartphones and tablets, on Tuesday unveiled the HTC One A9, the latest addition to the company's family of One smartphone that looks similar to Apple's iPhone. The HTC One A9 will go on sale starting November and has been priced at

DHAKA: CTO Forum Bangladesh and Palo Alto Networks will organize a seminar on prevention of cyber attacks on October 26 in city.The seminar titled “Crack the Code – Prevent Advanced Threats” will begin at 7:00pm at Dhanmondi Club in city.The forum will arrange a press conference at

DHAKA: Apple TV will be shipped to people by the end of next week.That's according to CEO Tim Cook, who said that the TV will be available for purchase starting Monday, October 26.He made the announcement during the Wall Street Journal tech conference in Laguna Beach, Calif. on Monday

DHAKA: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s ICT affairs adviser Sajeeb Wazed Joy inaugurated the trial run of biometric registrations for SIM of cell phones.He opened the pilot project through buying a SIM and giving his fingerprint on the biometric device at secretariat in city around