DHAKA: Google will launch the sixth device of Nexus series titled ‘Nexus X’ on October 31. Motorola's much-leaked Shamu handset will now reportedly be called the ‘Nexus X’ and not ‘Nexus 6’ as previously rumored, NDTV reports on Tuesday. Another report said that the

DHAKA: American information technology research and advisory firm Gartner, Inc. forecasted that the market of mobile apps would be worth about 35 billion worldwide.  On the other hand, 90 percent mobile users in Bangladesh browse internet through their handsets and 86 percent of

DHAKA: Japanese entertainment giant Sony said on Monday its online music and gaming sites came under a cyber attack by a hacker group that also claimed there were explosives on a plane carrying a senior company executive. The company said a United States commercial aircraft carrying the

DHAKA: Xiaomi, one of the leading mobile hand sets manufacturing company, is going to launch the Redmi 1S smartphone on Tuesday in India. Following the mega success of Xiaomi Mi3, the Chinese smartphone company is going to release their new device at a very cheap rate. However, the

DHAKA: What will happen if one day you notice an advertisement of modern tools like facebook or amazon kindle?The Earth Pics just wanted to make the thought true and in this regard they published the photos which are the examples of some funny vintage ads for modern

DHAKA: Google Inc is considering allowing online accounts for children under the age of 13 and giving their parents control over how the service is used, according to media reports. Google has been working on a version of YouTube, its video-sharing site, for youngsters and is considering

RIYADH: State Minister for Home Affairs Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal on Monday inaugurated the Machine Readable Passport (MRP) activities for Bangladeshi expatriates in Saudi Arabia. The minister unveiled the MRP activities at a colorful ceremony at Hotel Sheraton in Saudi Arabia’s capital

DHAKA: Google is buying JetPac, the start-up that designs social travel applications disclosed on its website on Friday, without providing details.‘We’ll be removing Jetpac’s apps from the App Store in the coming days, and ending support for them on 9/15,’ stated a posting on

DHAKA: China-based smartphone maker Xiaomi has slid into legal hot water in Singapore, amid growing regional concerns about its apparent lack of privacy protection. A complaint has been filed by a phone user here, alleging that his personal data had been disclosed without consent. He

DHAKA: Apple Inc’s suppliers have begun manufacturing new iPad tablets in an attempt to revive flagging sales of the tablet. Bloomberg reported citing people with knowledge of the matter, says Hindustan Times. Apple, which helped create the tablet market in 2010 with its first iPad,

DHAKA: Xiaomi Inc said it had upgraded its operating system to ensure users knew it was collecting data from their address books after a report by a computer security firm said the Chinese budget smartphone maker was taking personal data without permission.The privately held company

DHAKA: Team Engine Limited has brought the first ever locally-made Optical Character Recognizer (OCR) to store, find and make editable all digital contents written in Bangla language. This software can read all hand written, typed and printed contents in Bangla language, identify

DHAKA: Apple and Samsung have agreed to withdraw all legal cases against each other outside the United States.The two rivals have sued each other over a range of patent disputes in nine countries outside the US, including the UK, South Korea, Japan and Germany.Samsung said the

DHAKA: Professional networking firm LinkedIn Corp. agreed to pay $6 million in wages and damages after regulators found it failed to account for all the hours worked by its employees.  This includes $3.3m in unpaid wages and $2.5m in damages to be paid to 359 former and current

DHAKA: When pharmacist Thuan Vuu plays basketball, he laces his feet into a pair of Nike Hyperdunk+ shoes fitted with a sensor that sends data to his iPhone. He can see how far he’s run and how high he’s jumped, and by setting himself goals – he aims for at least two kilometres per

DHAKA: Microsoft fired a legal salvo at longtime partner Samsung, accusing the South Korean giant of breaching a contract over licensing of technology used in the competitive smartphone market. ‘After becoming the leading player in the worldwide smartphone market, Samsung decided late

DHAKA: Personal data including text messages, contact lists and photos can be extracted from iPhones through previously unpublicized techniques by Apple Inc employees. The company acknowledged this week, reports gulfnews.com. The same techniques to circumvent backup encryption could be

DHAKA: Apple and Samsung have lost ground in the tablet computer market as growth cools in the once-hot segment.The research firm IDC said on Thursday, reports The Straits Times.An IDC survey said sales of tablets in the March-June period were 49.3 million, up a modest 11 percent from a

DHAKA: Once again demonstrating its mastery of the mobile computing wave, Facebook dazzled Wall Street on Wednesday by posting significant growth in revenue and profits for the second quarter, driven largely by ads shown in the news feeds of a billion Facebook users checking the

DHAKA: Apple reported a small increase in revenues for its fiscal third quarter to June, to USD 37.4 billion from USD 35.3 billion a year earlier, in line with its earlier guidance.The growth was driven by expanded distribution n China, where revenues rose 28 percent year-on-year to