DHAKA: Google has unveiled a prototype smartphone with ‘customised hardware and software’ that enables it to create 3D maps of a user’s surroundings.The device’s sensors allow it make over 250,000 3D measurements every second and update its position in real-time, a BBC report

DHAKA: Facebook, the world`s biggest social-networking company, says it is buying the mobile messaging service WhatsApp in a deal worth $19bn.The purchase, announced on Wednesday, will leave WhatsApp with its own independent board, reports Al-jazeera.WhatsApp is a cross-platform mobile

DHAKA: San Francisco may be seeing more Google engineers roaming the city`s Mission neighborhood in the upcoming future. According to Financial Times, the Web giant has reportedly leased a massive building in the area for employee office space.The 35,000-square-foot building is big enough

DHAKA: LG officially took the wraps off the G Pro 2 Android phablet in Korea. The successor of the Optimus G Pro features a larger 5.9” Full HD IPS display and feature-rich spec sheet.With a power/lock key and volume rocker located on its back, the LG G Pro 2 follows the design language

DHAKA: Lenovo reported revenues for its fiscal third quarter up 15 percent year-on-year to USD 10.8 billion, while net profit rose 30 percent to USD 265 million. Operating profit increased 37 percent to USD 334 million.The Mobile Internet and Digital Home division, which develops

DHAKA: Nokia faces a setback in plans to transfer its Indian handset assets to Microsoft, after a new court ruling set additional conditions on the deal.In December, Nokia appeared to win an important reprieve in the group’s USD 1.1 billion tax dispute in India, when a court in New

DHAKA: Apple is planning to introduce a new Apple TV set-top box and is negotiating with Time Warner Cable and other potential partners to add video content, people with knowledge of the matter told Bloomberg.Apple is aiming to unveil the device by April and have it available for sale by

DHAKA: Bangladesh Association of Software and Information Services (BASIS) president Shamim Ahsan met the World Bank’s country director to Bangladesh Johannes Zutt at the WB office in city’s Agargaon area on Tuesday.BASIS delegation asked for help from the WB officials about creating

DHAKA: Democracy International (DI) has launched a new web site under its ‘Narir Joye Shobar Joy’ (When Women Win, We All Win) campaign to increase political leadership among women in Bangladesh.The website (www.narirjoyeshobarjoy.org) features a database of female political leaders

DHAKA: An alleged leaked image of the Samsung Galaxy S5 retail box packing has been spotted on the Internet, days before the expected launch of the smartphone.Leaked box image suggests a 5.25-inch QHD (1440x2560pixels) Super AMOLED display, 2.5GHz quad-core processor, 3GB RAM and a

DHAKA: Nokia plans to introduce later this month at the Mobile World Congress its first smartphone powered by Google’s Android OS.People familiar with the matter told the Wall Street Journal, reports telecompaper.com.Nokia engineers had been developing the Android phone before Microsoft

DHAKA: GrameenPhone (GP), a leading mobile phone operator in the country, will provide opportunity to use 2.1 million hours internet service to the students free of cost with the help of BRAC in February.Chairman of GP board and Director and Executive Vice President of Telenor Group and

DHAKA: For the second time, Bangladesh Open Source Network (BdOSN) and a facebook based group ‘Chakri Khujbo Na Debo (We won’t look for job, we’ll provide job)’ arranged a three-day ‘Uddokta Haat’ (entrepreneurs market) from February 10.Following the program the organization

DHAKA: Google has celebrated the launch of the Sochi Winter Olympics with a special doodle which takes a swipe at Russia`s controversial laws on homosexuality.The doodle - in rainbow colours - features figures taking part in some of the Winter Games` most high profile sports, including

DHAKA: Sony on Thursday said it would cut 5,000 jobs from its workforce, saving more than US$1 billion annually.This cut will come as the Japanese electronics giant undergoes a painful restructuring, The Straits Times reports.The job losses, about 1,500 in Japan and 3,500 overseas, were

DHAKA: The European Commission accepted on Wednesday the latest proposals by US giant Google to remedy complaints it abuses its dominant position in the Internet search market, opening the way to a settlement.‘I believe that the new proposal obtained from Google after long and difficult

  DHAKA: India on Wednesday cheered the appointment of Satya Nadella as the new chief executive of Microsoft, the latest example of an Indian-born exec rising to the top of the US corporate world. Nadella, who became the giant company’s third CEO on Tuesday, was born and grew up in

DHAKA: The number of Bangladesh’s mobile-phone subscribers reached nearly 114 million at the end of December 2013 with addition of 16.604 million new users in the immediate past year, statistics of the country`s telecom regulator showed Monday, reports Shanghaidaily.  With 1.042

  DHAKA: As Facebook celebrates its 10th anniversary, the world’s biggest social network is finding its path as a maturing company, adapting to an aging user base. The company created in a Harvard dorm room in 2004 has established itself as a phenomenon, securing its place in the

DHAKA: Twitter is exploring ways to sell products directly from the 140-character missives the one-to-many text messaging service site is famous for, a technology news site has reported. Re/Code on Friday posted a screen shot of what this new service could look like, integrated into the