DHAKA: Xiaomi India on Thursday launched its 16000mAh power bank and 5000mAh Mi Power Bank portable chargers, priced at Rs. 1,399 and Rs. 699 respectively. The power banks will go on sale from June 9, reports NDTV. Announced via the company's Facebook page, the power banks feature

DHAKA: Facebook, after much, much ado, has finally added GIF support. And no, not the halfway-workaround that it launched two years ago, reports Wired Magazine.There’s now a real way to post a GIF in your status update, making words just that much less necessary to this whole internet

DHAKA: Ross Ulbricht, the convicted founder of Silk Road, has been sentenced to life in prison for running the underground online drug bazaar, signaling the government’s seriousness in combating Internet crimes, reports Washington Post.The punishment is a heavy price to pay for the

DHAKA: Student’s Forum ULAB Chapter, ULAB Department of CSE and Bangladesh Association of Software and Information Services (BASIS) is set to organize a panel discussion session at University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh (ULAB) on May 29.The discussion session titled ‘IT Career

DHAKA: Star Computer Systems Limited’s (SCSL) software department announced that it has been appraised at Level 3 of the CMMI Institute’s Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI). The appraisal was performed by QAI India Limited, said a press release.CMMI is a capability

DHAKA: Bitdefender has launched the New GravityZone, bringing an unprecedented level of versatility, efficiency and support to the world’s most effective enterprise security solution.The agility of the New GravityZone has its root in the original GravityZone, which was proven in April

DHAKA:  Prime Minster Sheikh Hasina on Monday said country’s 99 percent area has come under the coverage of 3rd generation mobile network (3G mobile network).The premier hopped that 4th generation network will be launched soon and the more opportunities in using information and

DHAKA: The US-based international organization ‘PeopleNTech’ is offering scholarship for professional IT course to build successful careers of Bangladeshi youths and to make them enable in becoming a part of the country’s development.The organization will provide scholarship to 50

DHAKA: Editors' Forum on Digital Newsportal (EFDN) has demanded a tax-free access to internet for the country’s digital newsportals. The organization pressed the demand sending letter to Finance Minister AMA Muhith on Sunday. EFDN wanted to see its reflection in the upcoming

DHAKA: Penn State University, which develops sensitive technology for the US Navy, disclosed Friday that Chinese hackers have been sifting through the computers of its engineering school for more than two years, reports Bloomberg.The hackers are so deeply embedded that the engineering

DHAKA: The 15th Dhaka Laptop Fair at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre in city has rolled into the last day on Saturday amid special offers and price discounts to the buyers.Several internationally acclaimed brands are conceding from Tk 1,500 to Tk 10,000 on the price of laptops

DHAKA: Visitors and buyers were seen gathering on Friday, the weekly holiday, on the second day of the 3-day laptop fair at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre in city.Several internationally acclaimed brands are conceding from Tk 1,500 to 10,000 on the price of laptops for the

DHAKA: Hackers tried to obtain access to an official email address of country’s leading news portal Banglanews24.com Thursday evening.One or more people made repeated efforts to log in the email from IP address 103.55.144.1 somewhere in Kamrangirchar area of the city at 7:26am.After

DHAKA: With the slogan of ‘Laptop for Everyone’, a 3-day laptop fair displaying the latest models of laptops and tabs of popular world famed brands has begun in city.Information minister Hasanul Haq Inu inaugurated the fair at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre on

DHAKA: The High Court, in its order, said there is no barrier for Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) to monitor international call traffic.The HC bench of Justice Naima Haider and Justice Mostafa Jaman Islam on Thursday rejected the writ petition filed by three

DHAKA: Microsoft-owned Skype has cleared the way for anyone to use a new feature that translates video chats or instant messages in real time.People no longer need to sign-up to use a preview version of Skype Translator, which handles spoken English, Spanish, Italian and Mandarin, reports

DHAKA: Social networking website Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg updated his Facbook account on Tuesday posting a status with a picture on recently launched free internet services across Bangladesh.Zuckerberg said “We just launched Internet.org in Bangladesh on the Robi network!

DHAKA: Robi subscribers of the country started getting free internet services under the facebook project titled internet.org.Government’s information and communication technology (ICT) department, Facbook and Robi Axiata jointly launched the services at a city hotel on Sunday.Customers

DHAKA: Bitdefender, world’s no. 1 ranked antivirus technology, appointed popular music band of Bangladesh ‘Shunno’ as its Brand Ambassador in the country.An announcement was made at a press meet regarding the appointment in a city hotel on Saturday, says a press release issued by

DHAKA: Under the project of internet.org, the government is going to introduce free internet services from Sunday in the country.Government’s information and communication technology (ICT) department, Facbook and Robi Axiata joined hands to provide the facilities.Officers of ICT