Wednesday, 09 Oct, 2024

Tech

Samsung profit lowest in 3 years

DHAKA: Samsung Electronics has seen its quarterly operating profit fall to its lowest level in more than three years because of slowing smartphone sales. The South Korean company said profit fell 60% to 4.1tn won ($3.8bn) in the three months to September. The results were in line with

Oppo unveils world’s thinnest smartphone

DHAKA: Oppo Electronics unveiled R5, the world’s thinnest smartphone which will attract the attention of the fashion conscious smartphone users. On October 29 in Singapore, Oppo announced another handset, the N3, which will attract photography fans with a 16 megapixel camera mounted on

Microsoft unveils fitness band

DHAKA: Microsoft has unveiled a wearable device that can track a user's sleep and exercise as well as connect to a health service on smartphones. The Microsoft Band will retail for $199 (£125) on the company's online store. The device can operate for two days on a single charge and has

Govt to train 10,000 women in ICT

DHAKA: The government has taken steps to train more 10,000 women in Information, Communication and Technology (ICT) sector. However, they will be skilled under a World Bank financed ‘Leveraging ICT for Growth, Employment and Governance (LICT) Project’, the website of ruling Awami

iPhone sales, services at Computer Source Ltd

DHAKA: Computer Source Ltd (CSL), country’s one of the largest technology distributors, has started offering sales and services of iPhone in Bangladesh from this week.Apart from purchasing iPhone 5s, interested persons can experience the Apple products at Computer Source’s

Unique Business introduces Optoma S315

DHAKA: Unique Business Systems Ltd has introduced Optoma S315 model multimesia projector in Bangladesh market.Ideal for use in a meeting room or classroom, the bright 3200L S315 with 20,000:1 contrast allows you to project bright, crystal clear images with superb colours using DLP®,

Apple CEO fires back as retailers block Pay

DHAKA: Apple Inc CEO Tim Cook fired back at CVS and Rite Aid on Monday after the drugstore chains blocked the iPhone maker’s mobile payments service, saying there were plenty of other retailers around the world to sign up.Apple Pay launched about a week ago and saw more than a

Industries ministry introduces e-filing

DHAKA: Industries ministry has taken initiatives to introduce e-filing system in every sphere of the ministry aiming to provide prompt service to the entrepreneurs.The minister has experimentally initiated the system in its two branches and it is expected to be begun fully from

Don’t open strangers’ PP Presentations random

DHAKA: Heads up! In what feels like a throwback to the late 90s/early 2000’s, Microsoft has discovered one helluva bug in Microsoft Office.Executed properly, the bug could be exploited to take over your entire system running just about any version of Windows, reports

First look at 3D camera app 3DAround

DHAKA: What if you could shoot those cool 360-degrees, swivel-around photos you see on ecommerce sites or in The Matrix with just your smartphone?Then you’d be using the 3DAround camera app that launches next month from Dacuda, reports the Tech Crunch.Simply hit record, revolve your

Soft robotic exoskeleton to reduce fatigue and injuries

DHAKA: The term “robotic exoskeleton” conjures up images of a heavy contraption with a metal frame and powerful motors that endow the wearer with super-human strength.While that’s certainly one way to think of robotic exoskeletons — like some members of Daewoo’s workforce

Stephen Hawking joins Facebook

DHAKA: The famous theoretical physicist professor Stephen Hawking is now on Facebook, asking fans to be ‘curious’.In his first Facebook post, Hawking said, ‘I have always wondered what makes the universe exist. Time and space may forever be a mystery, but that has not stopped my

The Queen sends 1st tweet for Science Museum

DHAKA: "It is a pleasure to open the Information Age exhibition today at the @ScienceMuseum and I hope people will enjoy visiting. Elizabeth R."That was the Queen's first tweet - sent through the @BritishMonarchy account - heralding the launch of a major new exhibition at London's

Ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn released

DHAKA: The latest version of Ubuntu, 14.10, has been officially released.Version 14.10 — dubbed Utopic Unicorn — doesn’t bring much to the table in terms of new features, but it does mark an important anniversary.Ten years ago this week, the very first version of Ubuntu was

No more ‘Nokia’ phone: Microsoft

DHAKA: Microsoft has announced that the Nokia Lumia brand is dead; there will be no more Nokia-branded Windows Phones.Instead, we’ll now get Microsoft Lumia devices — and in the next few days, all of the existing branding, websites, and social channels will be rebranded as

ITEE examination Sunday

DHAKA: Some 450 local IT professionals and students will sit Sunday for International Standardized Information Technology Engineers Examination (ITEE) in Dhaka to get a global recognition of their IT skills. The examination will be held at Dhaka University, Bangladesh University of

Google launches new email service

DHAKA: Google Inc launched an email service called ‘Inbox’ on Wednesday that will better organize emails and display information such as appointments, flight bookings and package deliveries in a more user-friendly way.Google said it was sending out invitations to selected Gmail

Bangladesh’s mobile phone users now 12cr

DHAKA: Bangladesh is the 10th in world ranking with around 11.75 crore mobile phone subscribers out of its some 16 crore people.Out of 700 crores people of the world, 680 crores use mobile phones.The information was disclosed in a workshop titled ‘Development of Strategy and

Your Instagram picture is worth a thousand ads

DHAKA: Alina Tsvor, 24, is a freelance photographer who sometimes struggles to make ends meet. But when she wanted to charter a helicopter to take her and her friends for a ride over Chicago, she had the currency.Nikoletta Csanyi, 28, a banking consultant, leveraged her capital for a

Sony Xperia Z4 specifications, features leaked

DHAKA: Sony Xperia Z3 is less than two months old, but it seems that the Japanese manufacturer won't take long to launch its next top-end smartphone.According to a report by technology website AndroidOrigin, Sony Xperia Z4 is said to sport a 5.5-inch screen with a QHD 2560 x 1440