DHAKA: Facebook may have missed Wall Street’s estimates for its latest quarter, but it continues to grow at a healthy clip when it comes to users.There are now 1.44 billion people who use Facebook every month, up from the 1.39 billion last quarter.During the social network’s Q1 2015

DHAKA: LG has launched the world’s first smartphone that supports microSD cards with capacities up to as much as 2TB. Unveiled in South Korea, the new LG G Stylo smartphone will be available in international markets from May.The latest LG smartphone has a 5.7-inch IPS display of HD

DHAKA: In 1970, 20 million Americans took to the streets to spread the message of environmental awareness, and in the process created the first ever Earth Day. To honor what has become a global observance, a new Google Doodle has been created for Earth Day 2015. The brainchild of the late

DHAKA: Windows 10, Microsoft's new operating system, will release sometime late July, according to AMD president and CEO Lisa Su."With the Windows 10 launch at the end of July, we are watching sort of the impact of that on the back-to-school season, and expect that it might have a bit of

DHAKA: Google search on Tuesday will start factoring in how easy websites are to read on smartphones or tablet computers, underlining the changing way people surf the internet.The web titan said that the ‘mobile-friendliness’ of websites will be a factor in ranking results to online

DHAKA: Those shiny new Microsoft Office apps are finally coming to Windows smartphones and tablets.Microsoft revealed its new universal Office apps for Windows Phones and tablets Friday. When the apps become available later this month, it will be the first time Windows Phone users have

DHAKA: Foreign Minister Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali reaffirmed Bangladesh’s growing stakes and interest in engaging in cyber diplomacy as a foreign policy.The minister made the remark while speaking at the Plenary Session of the Global Conference on Cyber Space (GCCS) 2015 at The Hague on

DHAKA: Microsoft Mobile Devices & Services (MMDS) Bangladesh and Grameenphone Limited have entered into a strategic alliance in a bid to provide consumers with integrated telecommunication solutions. The alliance is expected to offer complete telecommunications solution for individuals

DHAKA: Russia is preferred in the global market for its willingness to share knowledge in nuclear power technology, cheaper price and safety, says World Nuclear Association (WNA) in one of its research report, published recently. The report further says that Russia is now world leader in

DHAKA: Microsoft has announced yet another low-end smartphone, this time it's the Lumia 540 Dual SIM crowning the 5XX series. This is a 5-inch HD screened smartphone which offers an 8MP main camera with LED flash, a 5MP selfie cam and a 1.2GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 200 quad core processor,

DHAKA: The European Union accused Google Inc on Wednesday of cheating competitors by distorting Internet search results in favor of its Google Shopping service and also launched an antitrust probe into its Android mobile operating system.In a statement, Competition Commissioner Margrethe

DHAKA: Nokia is in talks to buy Alcatel-Lucent, a deal that could create a European telecoms equipment group worth over 40 billion euros, and cut costs at two of the industry’s weaker players.In a joint announcement, the Finnish and French companies said there could be ‘no certainty

KUALA LUMPUR: Google Malaysia was hacked on Tuesday and visitors were taken to a defaced landing page.In what seems to be case of DNS hijacking, hackers hijacked the Google Malaysia page and redirected the visitors of Google Malaysia’s website to black page proclaiming that it has been

DHAKA: Search engine Google came up with a doodle on its cover page with colors portraying the essence of Pahela Baishakh.Google is celebrating Pahela Baishakh, the first day of the Bangla year.Welcoming the Bangla New Year 1422, Google has outlaid its cover page with colours and

DHAKA: Apple has approached more than a dozen musicians, including British band Florence and the Machine, in an effort to sign exclusive deals for some of their music to be streamed on Beats, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the matter.The company is in talks with Florence

DHAKA: Booming Chinese handset maker Xiaomi recently held a flash sale to celebrate its fifth anniversary. To say the sale was a success would be a gross understatement as the company managed to sell 2.11 million phones en route to setting a new Guinness World Record.A Guinness official

DHAKA: An Indian court has sentenced the former head of Satyam Computers and nine others to seven years in prison in one of the country’s biggest ever corporate scandals.B Ramalinga Raju, who founded the software services giant, denied charges of conspiracy, cheating and forgery but

DHAKA: Facebook is being sued by some 25,000 users for alleged violations of European privacy laws in a class action suit due in a Vienna court later.The claim, led by Austrian data protection campaigner Max Schrems, focuses on the way Facebook collects and forwards data.It has been

DHAKA: Samsung Electronics reported preliminary revenues of KRW 47 trillion for the first quarter, down from KRW 54 trillion a year earlier.Operating profit fell to KRW 5.9 trillion from KRW 8.5 trillion a year ago.While the company continued to post lower results, the drop in profit was

DHAKA: Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) detained six persons from city’s Mohammadpur area on Saturday for their alleged involvement in cyber crime. Acting on tip off, a team of RAB-2 conducted drive at a residence in the area this morning and picked up them.Major Maksudul Alam,