Savar: A man, who received burn injuries in a mobile phone explosion here, died at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) on Thursday. The deceased was identified as Zafar Miah. Hailing from Ruiyer Nag village in Nageswari upazila of Kurigram district,…
New York (AP/UNB) — Microsoft wants to bring life to common computing experiences by adding a third dimension to widely used software such as Windows and Office. The new tools, part of a free “Creators Update” to Windows 10 early…
Seoul (AP/UNB) — South Korea’s third-quarter growth slipped to its lowest level in more than a year in the first indication of the growing impact of Samsung Galaxy Note 7 recalls on the broader economy.
IT Desk Kaspersky Lab launches the latest 2017 version in Bangladesh. Introducing the Corporate sector to the new Kaspersky Security Intelligence based services portfolio in Dhaka on Saturday. In two separate events, Kaspersky Lab launches its latest 2017 versions of…
Dhaka- Musammat Begum has won the Tk 10-lakh prize money for the biometric SIM re-registration campaign that was run by mobile operator Robi.
New York (AP/UNB) — AT&T is buying Time Warner, the owner of the Warner Bros. movie studio as well as HBO and CNN, for $85.4 billion in a deal that could shake up the media landscape. The acquisition would combine…
Denial of service attack from unknown culprits on domain name system company Dyn caused access to be severely restricted for users on Friday US officials are investigating multiple attacks that caused widespread online disruption on both sides of the Atlantic…
Taking a chapter out of social media, the official page of Bangladesh Awami League aired the ongoing National Council live on Facebook, watched by over 280,000 viewers.More than 32,000 users liked the broadcast and 8,041 users shared it till writing…
Dhaka – Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) today suspended the spectrum of Citycell for failure of outstanding amount virtually shutting down the service of the country’s first mobile phone operator.
Internet service in Bangladesh would be disrupted temporarily for 7 days due to the maintenance work of submarine cable.”The SEA-ME-WE-4 Consortium would carry out maintenance work of the undersea cable at its Singapore end from 12am of October 23 to…
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday underscored the need for the foolproof cyber security of digitised documents so that the country can reap the maximum benefits from digitisation keeping cyber criminals at bay.”All need to remain alert so that the…
The anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks claimed Monday that the internet link of its fugitive founder, Julian Assange, has been “intentionally severed by a state party.”Writing on Twitter, WikiLeaks later said it had “activated appropriate contingency plans” for Assange, who has been…
State Minister for Posts and Communications Tarana Halim has said the dot bangla (.bangla) domain will be formally launched on December 16.Once launched, the people of the country can use Bangla language to enter and browse internet, she said during…
Dhaka-Digital World 2016, the country’s biggest ICT expo, will be held at the International Convention City, Bashundhara, from October 19-21.
Large-scale promotion and application of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is very important towards making the banking services time-fitting and client-friendly in the present era of globalization, said Md Awal Khan. “We have enormous opportunities of infusing dynamism into the…
South Korea (AP/UNB) — Samsung Electronics said Friday that the discontinuation of the Galaxy Note 7 would cost the company about $3 billion during the current and next quarters, bringing the total cost of the recall to at least $5.3…
Dan Goodin Malicious tools can cause infected computers to self destruct. A few months after hackers broke into Bangladesh’s central bank and came close to getting away with $1 billion (~£800M), researchers have uncovered evidence that a separate hacking group…
San Francisco (AP/UNB) — Samsung said it is halting sales of the star-crossed Galaxy Note 7 smartphone after a spate of fires involving new devices that were supposed to be safe replacements for recalled models. Separately, South Korean safety authorities…
St. Louis (AP/UNB) — Twitter says Sunday’s presidential debate was the most tweeted ever, with more than 17 million tweets related to the forum sent. The social media platform says the question of Republican nominee Donald Trump’s treatment of women…
Dhaka: A study report, released on Thursday in Washington DC, quantifies the economic cost of internet shutdowns around the world over the past year, including those that occurred in Bangladesh.
By Dr. Shamshad Akhtar GreenWatch Dhaka Desk – (IPS, Bangkok) Advances in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) have been instrumental in shaping and leading socioeconomic transformations across Asia and the Pacific. One key to this transformation is the technology bundled…
Dhaka: WowBox, country’s number one lifestyle application, has reached 5 million users, making it the most downloaded digital application in Bangladesh. Launched in May last year, WowBox has attracted youths through its unique offering of highly contemporary contents, exciting deals…
ICT Desk A day-long digital marketing summit will be held here on October 8 bringing together leading and global industry professionals and decision makers to share experiences. The Digital Marketing Summit-2016 will be held in city’s Le Meridien Hotel with…
New York (AP/UNB) – Yahoo scanned hundreds of millions of incoming emails at the behest of U.S. intelligence or law enforcement, according to a report published Tuesday. The internet company conducted the surveillance last year after receiving a classified demand…
New York (AP/UNB) — Facebook is launching a “lite” version of it Messenger chat app. It is aimed at emerging markets, where many people use older phones that don’t have enough room to store or ability to run the full-featured…
Dhaka – The government is going to create a database with international mobile equipment identity (IMEI) numbers to stop the illegal imports of fake cellphone handsets which have flooded the country’s markets, UNB news agency reported. A process is underway…
Jan Piotrowski The growing access to digital technologies could fundamentally transform developing economies. The move from hunter-gathering to the age of farming and the dawn of the Industrial Revolution 12,000 years later mark seminal transitions in human history, lifestyle and…
State Minister for ICT Zunaid Ahmed Palak today laid emphasis on enhancing export of software and IT products to reach the target of US$5 billion by 2021.”The ICT export may cross $1b by 2018 if the present trend of export…
In a statement, Yahoo on Thursday said user information — including names, email addresses, telephone numbers, birth dates, passwords and in some cases security questions — was compromised in 2014 by what it believed was a “state-sponsored actor.” It did…
Dhaka – Customs intelligence officials have seized a robot and some spy and networking devices, imported under false declaration, at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Capital Dhaka, UNB news agency reported.