DHAKA: Samsung is increasing its focus on the connected car after the Korean firm announced plans to buy auto and audio product maker Harman in an all cash deal worth $8 billion. You may best associate the name with audio equipment, but Harman is big on cars, too. The acquisition is

DHAKA: An unusual bug on Facebook briefly labelled many people, including Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, as dead. The error on Friday caused the social network to show a memorial banner on user profiles for people who were still alive. Users posted status updates to reassure friends

DHAKA: Facing criticism that fake news on Facebook aided the rise of Donald Trump, founder Mark Zuckerberg has strongly defended his network. Speaking on stage at Techonomy, a technology conference in California, Mr Zuckerberg said Facebook should not be held responsible. “The

DHAKA: People on Twitter want another first lady to become the first female president of the United States. After Donald Trump won the 2016 election, people sounded off on the social media platform about whom they’d like to see in the Oval Office in 2020: Michelle Obama. The surge

DHAKA: The first ever Smart City Hackathon will began on Friday (November 11) at GP House, the corporate head office of Grameenphone in city. Preneur Lab and White Board, an initiative of Grameenphone, arranged the event aiming to find digital solutions for many problems of Dhaka.

DHAKA: New Zealand’s immigration website has said it saw a surge in traffic, as the results of the US election came in. Immigration New Zealand (INZ) said its website received 56,300 visits in a 24 hour period, an increase of almost 2,500%. The site has a daily average of 2,300

DHAKA: A two-day workshop on “Innovation Project Design” has ended on Thursday (November 10). The two-day long workshop was held at BCS Administration Academy from 8-10 November, said a press release. Cabinet division and Access to Information (A2I) jointly organized the

DHAKA: The government will set up 5,275 digital centers across the country as a bid to prepare the e-government master plan. It will help reduce the usage of paper in all government and private activities. It will make things easier, curb corruption and harassment apart from reaching

DHAKA: Robi has introduced a Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) based gaming portal named Mystery Zone. Robi subscriber can play the role of a police inspector and solve various cases across the virtual world in this gaming portal. Playing this game, subscribers can win attractive

DHAKA: Facebook has agreed to suspend sharing personal data from WhatsApp in the UK for ads and product development, following an investigation by the UK privacy regulator. The Information Commissioner said already in August, shortly after Facebook announced the change in WhastApp’s

DHAKA: Banglalink’s parent company VimpelCom’s Head of Emerging Markets Jon Eddy and ICT minister Zunaid Ahmed Palak visited country’s first digital incubator. It was established as a private public partnership to nourish the local entrepreneurial talents in developing digital

DHAKA: Axiata Managing Director and Group Chief Executive Officer (GCEO), Tan Sri Jamaludin Ibrahim has urged Robi talents to lead the company’s drive towards delivering on Axiata Group’s vision of becoming the Next Generation Digital Company by 2020. He made this appeal to the

DHAKA: Liberia has been repeatedly cut off from the internet by hackers targeting its only link to the global network. Recurrent attacks on November 3 flooded the cable link with data, making net access intermittent. Researchers said the attacks showed hackers trying different ways

DHAKA: Robi officials have bid farewell to their immediate-past Managing Director and CEO, Supun Weerasinghe. Supun handed a cricket bat to Mahtab Uddin Ahmed, the company’s first Bangladeshi Managing Director and CEO. The cricket bat had the writing “From Lankan Lion to Bengal

DHAKA: Thailand’s TakeMeTour took top honor ‘Digital Winners Asia Champion 2016’ title after competing with seven other leading startups from Pakistan, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand and Malaysia at the first regional Digital Winners Asia startup event by Telenor. Following the

DHAKA: The Supreme Court (SC) on Thursday (November 3) directed authorities concerned to reinstate spectrum allocation for Citycell. It also asked the mobile operator to pay Tk 100cr in dues by November 19. The four-member bench of the Appellate Division headed by Chief Justice SK

DHAKA: Robi Axiata Limited and InterCloud Limited (a concern of Novo group) have recently signed an agreement to jointly work on various Over-The-Top (OTT) projects with the aim of facilitating smooth transition of its subscribers to digital lifestyle. Robi’s immediate past Managing

DHAKA: A 2-day event Technovanza was held on North South University (NSU) campus in city from October 21. The event aiming to showcase creativity and thirst for innovation was organized by Women in Engineering (WIE) Affinity Group, IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics

DHAKA: Apple has reported its third quarter in a row of falling iPhone sales and revenue, but sales beat analyst expectations. The tech giant sold 45.51 million iPhones in the three months to 24 September, beating an average estimate of 44.8 million. The company also forecast

DHAKA: The use of camera drones has been made illegal in Sweden unless they are granted a special surveillance permit. Under new rules set down by the Supreme Administrative Court of Sweden, camera drones qualify as surveillance cameras and require a license. Permits can be