DHAKA: Huawei announced that it sold 138 million consumer devices in 2014, an increase of 7.8 percent on the previous year.Smartphone shipments rose 45 percent to 75 million, and the company said it targets 100 million units in 2015.Richard Yu, CEO of Huawei’s consumer business group,

DHAKA: After an hour-long effort, users in Bangladesh and elsewhere in the world can now connect to Facebook, both on the Web and via mobile apps.The websites of popular social media networks Facebook and Instagram were not been available for the period of time.It was not clear what

DHAKA: Users in Bangladesh and elsewhere in the world are experiencing problems in connecting to Facebook and Instagram, both on the Web and via mobile apps.The websites of popular social media networks haven’t been available for some time.It’s not clear what’s causing the outage,

DHAKA: Kodak, with the help of UK phone manufacturer Bullitt, is trying to make a smartphone for people who don’t use smartphones. The Kodak Instamatic 5 won’t be the first device with that ambition, but it will be one of the first to wear the name of a brand many smartphone

MALAYSIA: Excel, Microsoft’s spreadsheet application (also compatible for Mac OS), features calculation, graphing tools, pivot tables, and a macro programming language called Visual Basic for Applications.Many of us know that MS Excel can be used for the above purpose but do not know

DHAKA: Google boss Eric Schmidt predicted on Thursday that the internet will soon be so pervasive in every facet of our lives that it will effectively "disappear" into the background.Speaking to the business and political elite at the World Economic Forum at Davos in Switzerland,

DHAKA: With more than 700 million monthly active users, there's no doubt that WhatsApp is one of the largest mobile-focused messaging services. A large number of these users have been demanding a PC interface for the service to stay connected with their favorite people even when they

DHAKA: Microsoft Corp surprised the tech world with a prototype hologram visor that can bring the Minecraft video game, Skype calls and even the landscape of Mars to three-dimensional life. The ageing tech pioneer, which long ago lost the mantle of the world's most inventive company, is

DHAKA: Popular microblogging site Twitter can accurately predict a community's rate of coronary heart disease, the leading cause of death worldwide, researchers, including those of Indian-origin, have found.Studies have identified many factors that contribute to the risk of heart

DHAKA: Xiaomi has announced that the Redmi Note 4G smartphone will go on sale starting Saturday via Flipkart without registration, lasting till Chinese Republic Day on Monday. The company has not announced exactly when the sale will begin and how many units will be available to buy.The

DHAKA: Bangladesh gets Google Street View. Initially Dhaka, Chittagong and Dhaka-Chittagong highway open for viewing. It has been a while since street view cars were here. Google Street View 360 degree imagery from Bangladesh has finally gone live on Google Maps! Google officially

DHAKA: The popular mobile messaging application WhatsApp, acquired by Facebook last year for nearly US$22 billion, unveiled a new service Wednesday for sending messages from a Web browser.WhatsApp, which claims some 500 million users, said its Web service will be a ‘mirror’ and would

DHAKA: Microsoft has revealed that Windows 10 will bring its voice-controlled assistant Cortana to PCs.It also unveiled a headset that it said would one day project the operating system over views of the real world.In addition, the firm announced that the OS upgrade would be offered free

DHAKA: Government has unblocked popular online voice and instant messaging services – Viber and WhatsApp – early Thursday. Users began receiving full services of Viber and WhatsApp around 12:15am. On January 17, Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) blocked Viber

DHAKA: Please sit down. We need to have a talk. It seems some important points about computer safety and security have completely gone over the heads of a certain portion of the population.If you're one of those people whose passwords look like "9$RxkU#55zx!%winning1," you can go

DHAKA: Japan has the oldest population in the world and in the next 50 years it is set to shrink by 40 million, leading to its end-of-life industry booming.According to a report, published on abc.net, almost all Japanese people get cremated and have their ashes put into family crypts

DHAKA: Bangladesh Computer Council (BCC) and Bangladesh Association of Software and Information Services (BASIS) jointly organized a workshop for the stakeholders.The workshop, under Leveraging Information, Communication and Technology (LICT) for Growth project of BCC, was recently held

DHAKA: The next chapter in Microsoft's corporate history may be called Windows 10, but the name of the device should be "Once More, With Feeling”. However, Microsoft is going to host a Win 10 event at its Redmond, Wash., headquarters in USA on January 21, expected to focus on the

DHAKA: In addition to rolling out an updated version of the Skype for iPhone mobile application this week, Microsoft also announced the launch of a new testing program for Skype iOS users who are willing to download, use and give feedback on pre-release versions of the mobile calling and

DHAKA: The government has blocked Viber, the internet-based free voice calling and message services, in Bangladesh due to security reason.Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) issued letters to mobile-phone operators and internet gateway operators to this effect.A