Google this week announced it is bidding adieu to Chrome Frame, a plugin that brings a modern Chrome engine to old versions of the Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser.
Category: ICT Horizon
Google Balloons to reach Internet to Hinterlands
Google has launched 30 balloons into the stratosphere from New Zealand as it experiments with ways to bring affordable internet access to the world.
Apple didn’t fix e-book prices
A top Apple Inc. executive described as Steve Jobs’ right-hand man took the witness stand at a Manhattan price-fixing trial and denied scheming with major book publishers to drive up the cost of electronic books.
Ban on YouTube lifted
An eight-month old ban on popular video sharing website YouTube in the country has been lifted, BTRC Chairman Sunil Kanti Bose told bdnews24.com on Wednesday.
Charge phone in 20 seconds!
An 18-year-old Indian-American girl has invented a super-capacitor device that could potentially charge a cellphone in less than 20 seconds.
Yahoo ‘to buy Tumblr for $1.1bn’
Yahoo’s board has approved a deal to buy New York-based blogging service Tumblr for $1.1bn (£725m), US media reports say. The acquisition is expected to be announced as early as Monday.
IT parks to be set up in country’s 7 cities
Information and Communication Technology Ministry has taken long term initiatives improving quality and infrastructural development of ICT sector of the country.
S Korean banks, broadcasters hacked
A cyber-attack on South Korean banks and broadcasters came from an internet address in China, South Korean officials say, but the identity of those behind it cannot be confirmed.
World`s smallest 6,800mAh battery!
Innergie, a consumer power solutions company with an office in Singapore, launched the world`s smallest 6,800mAh battery pack with PocketCell Duo.
1000 New Internet domains in 2013
banglanews24.com Around 1,000 new internet domain names, such as Christmas and search, are to launch in 2013. Just like Christmas coming early, a new internet domain name for all things festive could be among the first to go live in…
2.4b people using the Internet
banglanews24.com If a maven is, as Wikipedia maintains, “a trusted expert in a particular field, who seeks to pass knowledge on to others”, then Mary Meeker is definitely a maven.