DHAKA: Booming Chinese handset maker Xiaomi recently held a flash sale to celebrate its fifth anniversary. To say the sale was a success would be a gross understatement as the company managed to sell 2.11 million phones en route to setting a new Guinness World Record.A Guinness official

DHAKA: An Indian court has sentenced the former head of Satyam Computers and nine others to seven years in prison in one of the country’s biggest ever corporate scandals.B Ramalinga Raju, who founded the software services giant, denied charges of conspiracy, cheating and forgery but

DHAKA: Facebook is being sued by some 25,000 users for alleged violations of European privacy laws in a class action suit due in a Vienna court later.The claim, led by Austrian data protection campaigner Max Schrems, focuses on the way Facebook collects and forwards data.It has been

DHAKA: Samsung Electronics reported preliminary revenues of KRW 47 trillion for the first quarter, down from KRW 54 trillion a year earlier.Operating profit fell to KRW 5.9 trillion from KRW 8.5 trillion a year ago.While the company continued to post lower results, the drop in profit was

DHAKA: Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) detained six persons from city’s Mohammadpur area on Saturday for their alleged involvement in cyber crime. Acting on tip off, a team of RAB-2 conducted drive at a residence in the area this morning and picked up them.Major Maksudul Alam,

DHAKA: The mobile advertising market is set to expand to over $100 billion in 2016.According to a new report from research firm eMarketer, advertisers will spend $101.37 billion placing ads on mobile phones and tablets globally in 2016.Mobile ads will account for more than 50 percent of

DHAKA: World's largest and highest valued semiconductor chip makers Intel Corporation’s chief executive Brian Krzanich received $11.2 million in compensation in 2014, up about 17 percent from $9.6 million the year before.Krzanich saw his base salary rise to $1 million in 2014 from

DHAKA: Google said that malware infections on Android devices have been cut in half in the past year following security upgrades for the mobile platform.In a security review for 2014, Google said it made significant strides for the platform long seen as weak on security.Android security

DHAKA: A group of Bangladeshi hackers took over Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) website just after three days of its official launch.The site (www.acc.org.bd) from Thursday midnight showed a black page with a message of ‘Hacked by FS’.The hackers also uploaded a popular Bangla song

DHAKA: Google and Taiwan’s Asus are launching a ‘computer on a stick’ which can plug into a display to turn it into a PC.Google said in a blog post that the Asus Chromebit would be arriving mid-year with a low price tag, reports the NDTV.“Smaller than a candy bar, the Chromebit is

DHAKA: Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) chairman M Badiuzzaman on Tuesday inaugurated a website (www.acc.org.bd) for the anti-graft body of the state.After the inauguration, Badiuzzaman said henceforth anybody from any country can come to know the activities of ACC by a click.People also

DHAKA: Apple chief Tim Cook slammed what he called a wave of ‘dangerous’ laws in several US states that he said promote discrimination and erode equality, in an editorial published Sunday.Cook, one of the most prominent chief executives to publicly acknowledge his homosexuality, wrote

DHAKA: The chief executive of Apple, Tim Cook, has announced he is donating most of his wealth to charity before he dies.The head of the world’s most profitable company is worth over $800m.Cook told Fortune Magazine that he would leave his wealth to philanthropic causes but not before

DHAKA: Bangladesh set a new record by contributing more than seven lakhs Bangla words in one day in Google Translate, a free online translation service.Target was to add 4-lakhs words in Google. But Bangladesh has crossed the target and set a new world record by adding seven lakhs Bangla

DHAKA: Google joined the celebration of the 45th Independence and National Day of Bangladesh on Thursday changing its doodle with green-red color.The Doodle depicts a sitting Royal Bengal Tiger beside a river inside a red-colored sun – the third alphabet, O, of ‘Google’ word –

DHAKA: Jordan will sign an agreement with Russia’s State Corporation- ROSATOM for construction of a nuclear power plant in their territory by the end of current month.Chairman of Jordan Atomic Energy Commission Khalid Toukan disclosed the information while addressing a press conference

DHAKA: The total number of country’s mobile phone subscribers reached nearly 122 million at the end of January with addition of 1.514 million new users in the first month of the year, statistics of the country's telecom regulator showed Tuesday.According to Bangladesh Telecommunication

DHAKA: India’s top court on Tuesday struck down a controversial law that made posting ‘offensive’ comments online a crime punishable by jail, a ruling which free speech campaigners hailed as a victory.The Supreme Court said the 2009 amendment to India’s Information Technology Act,

DHAKA: Facebook might soon launch a new app that would enable users to know who is calling and automatically block unwarranted calls.The new app - named Phone - would be an addition to Facebook's lengthy repertoire of offshoot apps that include Messenger, Home, Rooms, Groups and

DHAKA: The first ever South Asian regional Tech Summit, with the tagline of Driving ICT Innovations and Security, ended on Saturday promising to lead the future world with ICT based young forces.CTO Forum Bangladesh and Ananda Bazar Patrika (ABP) technology concern INFOCOM of India