DHAKA: Ride-hailing service Uber has submitted a bid for Nokia’s map business, HERE, for as much as US$3 billion.The New York Times reported, citing people with knowledge of the offer, says The Straits Times.Finland’s Nokia said last month it had started a strategic review for HERE, a

DHAKA: Yahoo! Inc is reportedly shutting down its office in China, a move that will eliminate 200 to 300 jobs, according to a person with knowledge of the matter.The Web portal, which has been consolidating offices and trimming staff around the world, told employees based in Beijing that

DHAKA: Facebook is providing the public with more information about what material is banned on the social network.Its revamped community standards now include a separate section on ‘dangerous organisations’ and give more details about what types of nudity it allows to be posted.The

DHAKA: Can you believe it has been three decades since the birth of the first web address? While it seems difficult to remember a time when .COM didn’t exist, the exponential growth of the industry has been relatively recent.In 1985, only six domains were registered. That number

DHAKA: It was just discovered that Google leaked the personal data from almost 280,000 websites registered through its Google Apps For Work service since 2013, according to Ars Technica. The leak was revealed in a blog post by Cisco Systems researchers.Unlike most leaks, which are

DHAKA: Google launched a virtual tour of Nepal’s Everest region on Thursday, allowing armchair tourists a rare glimpse of life in one of the toughest and most inaccessible places on earth, home to the world’s highest mountain.The Street View project takes viewers into the heart of

DHAKA: A gaming carnival is going to be held to create a match making of all the game developers, gamers and sponsors who are going to participate in the carnival. It will be held in Bangabandhu International Conference Center (BICC) in city’s Agargaon on April 24 and 25 jointly

DHAKA: Apple has announced that its Apple Watch will be available on April 24 to customers of nine countries and the preview from April 10.The countries are Australia, Canada, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, the UK and the US.The smartwatch will be available in three

DHAKA: Microsoft Corp. introduced Lumia 640 and Lumia 640 XL, two new smartphones at Mobile World Congress 2015 on March 2 with the view to provide people greater flexibility and freedom to choose when and where they get things done.Of the two models, the 3G based Lumia XL, which is

DHAKA: Infocomm and CTO Forum will jointly organize a two-day international ‘Tech Summit-2015’ at Pan Pacific Sonargoan hotel in city from March 20.Over one hundred information technology experts from India, Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka and host Bangladesh, will participate in the

DHAKA: Sony revealed the latest prototype of its virtual reality headset on Tuesday, when it announced it will release the Playstation 4-compatible device to consumers in the first half of 2016.The Project Morpheus prototype displayed at the Game Developer Conference (GDC) doesn’t look

DHAKA: Do you know that certain people can access Facebook accounts without the need for passwords? Some Facebook employees have direct access to your account.But Facebook has explained that this is part of a tiered and strictly-managed customer support set-up, with employees abusing this

DHAKA: After months of speculation that inspired its own parody site, Samsung finally put all the rumors to rest and unveiled the Galaxy S6, or to be more specific, its two versions of the Galaxy S6.At Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, the year’s largest cellphone exhibition,

DHAKA: Popular dating app Tinder announced it has added a premium features to its dating app, including the ability to reconsider rejected profiles, BBC reports Tuesday.In a surprise move, it announced the pay-to-use add-ons would cost more for older people to use.In the UK, people over

DHAKA: ISIS supporters on Sunday called on jihadists around the world to kill Twitter employees because of the company’s frequent blocking of their social media accounts.“Your virtual war on us will cause a real war on you,” reads an online post addressed to Twitter founder Jack

DHAKA: Search engine giant Google Inc. planed to launch a wireless service in a small-scale across the USA to “drive innovations”, reports The Wall Street Journal.Google’s plan is likely to raise a new risk of tension between the Internet company and the wireless carriers in the

DHAKA: Samsung Electronics presented at Mobile World Congress its latest flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S6.The premium unibody design sports a metal frame and Corning’s Gorilla Glass 4, with a 5.1-inch Super Amoled display. While the display is the same size as its predecessor, the

CHITTAGONG: The government will set up a Cyber City in Bakalia of the port city and Hi-Tech Park at Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology (CUET).State Minister Junaid Ahmed Palak for Ministry of Posts, Telecommunications and Information Technology made assertion while

DHAKA: We may all feel like we're under a cloud from time to time, but in hot and dry climates having your own personal misting cloud is as uplifting as it can get.In Dubai, the Gulf State mega-city situated in one of the hottest parts of the world, the benefits of evaporative cooling

DHAKA: Way out beyond Mars, but before you get to Jupiter, is a planet.You read that right. There's a planet between Mars and Jupiter, reports The CNN.You may not have heard of it, but it was discovered in 1801 -- 129 years before Pluto. It originally was called a planet, then later an