DHAKA: Grameenphone, the largest telecommunications company of the country thanks its customer for voluntarily re-registering their SIM through the biometric process. Grameenphone has 51.7 million biometrically registered customers as of May 31, 2016 which is around 90 percent of the

DHAKA: The mobile phone users will have to pay more as the supplementary tax on service of SIM or RIM has been proposed to increase by five percent from three percent this year. Finance minister AMA Muhith came up with the disclosure while placing budget of 2016-17 fiscal year on

DHAKA: A clone of the Facebook social media site has briefly appeared in North Korea before quickly going offline. Hosted on the StarCon.net.kp address in North Korea it had many of the features of other social networks. It is not clear who created StarCon but it is thought to be a

DHAKA: Robi customers under Dhonnobad programme can now avail special discounts while enjoying Indian delicacies at Sigree.   Robi’s General Manager (Loyalty & Winbacks) Tawfique Imam and Sigree’s Deputy General Manager M Emdadul Hoque have recently signed an agreement on behalf of

DHAKA: Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) said the disconnected SIMs can be activated within 450 days after biometric verification and paying fee. The unregistered SIMs will be disconnected on Tuesday (May 31) after 11:59pm. BTRC director (system and services)

DHAKA: Google has won a major US court scrap with software firm Oracle after a jury ruled, it did not unfairly appropriate parts of the Java programming language. Oracle had argued that Google had infringed its copyright and had sought nearly $9bn in compensation, BBC reports on Friday

DHAKA: ‘Symphony Bombastic Offer’ winner received the key of the car from the organizers at the prize giving ceremony held at Basundhara City Shopping Mall in city. The winner Mohsin received the key of the car from Jakaria Shahid Managing Director of Edison Group, said a press

DHAKA: Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi has announced its first drone, pricing it significantly lower than a comparable model by the market leader DJI. The Mi Drone can stay airborne for nearly half an hour and will be sold with a choice of stabilised cameras. The move gives Xiaomi

DHAKA: Huawei is suing its tech rival Samsung over claims that its patents have been infringed. The Chinese firm said it was pursuing its South Korean rival in two courts - one in California, the other in Shenzhen. According to Huawei, several of its cellular communications and

DHAKA: Twitter is overhauling some of its rules to try to make itself simpler to use and more attractive to newcomers. Members will be able to add multimedia to tweets - including pictures and videos - without eating into the 140-characters-a-post limit. The service is also changing

DHAKA: The authorities of Digital Security Summit 2016 have shifted the date of the summit from May 28 to October 14. The two-day summit will be held at Krishibid Institute of Bangladesh (KIB) Auditorium in city. According to the organizers, the upcoming summit will provide a unique

DHAKA: India’s space agency ISRO has launched a rocket from its facility north of Chennai carrying an experimental spacecraft it hopes will mark an important step towards the country’s first re-usable space shuttle. "We have successfully accomplished the RLV mission as a technology

DHAKA: Robi has organized an awareness session “Internet4U” to help the people with networking, learning and self-development those are lagging behind in leveraging this technology.   The session was organized with support of the Business Club of the Institute of Business

DHAKA: Country’s largest telecom operator Grameenphone (GP) is offering one smartphone every 20 minutes for the customers who are re-registering their SIMs to strengthen re-registration process. The offer will be available everyday from 10:00am to 8:00pm till May 31. According to

DHAKA: A two-day BizTech B2B conference has begun in city on Saturday (May 21) with the aim of enhancing ICT service in domestic market and increasing abilities of local companies to compete international market. The conference, jointly organized by government’s ICT division and

DHAKA: Nextech Limited with partnership of technology vendor Skyline Communications, a European company based in Belgium, launched most advanced end-to-end multi-vendor Network Management and OSS Solution “DataMiner”. Nextech Limited has organized the product launch ceremony on

DHAKA: Facebook's CEO Mark Zuckerberg has met with a group of conservative pundits and media personalities to defend the site against allegations of bias. The perspective practices at the world’s largest social network came under inquiry after a former Facebook contractor

DHAKA: Robi and Symphony have recently launched the cheapest smartphone Symphony E12 and E58 at Tk 2,390 and Tk 2,590 respectively with Robi bundle offer. With purchase of either of these handsets, the Robi subscriber will enjoy 500 minutes free talk-time (any mobile operators’

DHAKA: A hacker is advertising what he says is more than one hundred million LinkedIn logins for sale. The IDs were reportedly sourced from a breach four years ago, which had previously been thought to have included a fraction of that number. At the time, the business-focused social

DHAKA: Samsung Mobile Bangladesh has recently announced an exclusive bundle offer for its J series handsets in collaboration with telecom operator Robi. With this exclusive offer, Robi subscribers can enjoy bundle with Samsung Galaxy J1 Nxt, J1 Ace, and J2 handsets worth Tk 4,000,