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…
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Apple iPhone 7 catches fire, explodes in transit
It’s a season of exploding devices. Apple Inc. shipped one iPhone 7 Plus that exploded even before it could reach the owner. This incident reminds all of us of the problem that Samsung’s new Note 7 has been facing. The…
N .Korea building new submarine: US think tank
Recent satellite imagery suggests North Korea may be building a new, larger submarine for ballistic missiles, a US think tank has said, as the isolated state pushes its nuclear weapons programme. The news comes after the North in August test-fired…
Rare ‘black moon’ rises over Western Hemisphere Friday night
A rare “black moon” rises Friday night over the Western Hemisphere, but don’t expect to see it.NASA says a black moon is the second new moon in a calendar month.
Rosetta spacecraft crashes on comet ends life
spacecraft Rosetta headed for a crash landing Friday on the comet it has stalked for two years, a dramatic end to a 12-year odyssey to demystify our Solar System’s origins. Sent by ground controllers on a leisurely, 14-hour freefall, Rosetta…
Apple teams with Deloitte to push deeper into work
Apple on Wednesday announced an alliance with professional services group Deloitte to get more businesses using iPhones and iPads as workplace tools. Deloitte is creating an Apple practice with more than 5,000 strategic advisors devoted to helping businesses adopt new…
Hi-tech park implementation can enrich software technology: Speakers
Implementation of the proposed high-tech park in RajshahI within a shortest possible time could be the effective means of enriching the local software technologies which is very important for bolstering overall economy, speakers at a public consultation here viewed on…
IMEI database to stop fake cellphone handset import
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…
What is a knowledge economy?
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…
Sylvan to produce hi-tech electrical equipment
Sylvan Technologies Limited (STL), a concern of PRAN-RFL Group, signed an agreement with a Switzerland-based multinational company ABB to produce world-class electrical equipment. Engineer Mustafizur Rahman Khan, STL chief operating officer and Moshfeq Ullah Rafiq, General Manager of ABB Limited…
China’s great space telescope begins operations
The world’s largest radio telescope has began operating in southwestern China, a project which Beijing says will help humanity search for alien life.The mega telescope began working around noon, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Sunday, adding that it…
World’s largest radio telescope starts operating in China
The world’s largest radio telescope began operating in southwestern China Sunday, a project which Beijing says will help humanity search for alien life. The Five-hundred-metre Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST), nestled between hills in the mountainous region of Guizhou, began…
ICT export to cross $1b mark by 2018: Palak
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…
NASA to reveal ‘surprising’ activity on Jupiter’s moon
There’s something going on beneath the surface of Jupiter’s icy moon Europa. But what? NASA teased a “surprising” announcement for Monday, based on Hubble Space Telescope images of the celestial body, which many experts believe could contain a subsurface ocean,…
First rooftop-based carbon fibre tower installed
Mobile phone tower company edotco Bangladesh today successfully installed the first rooftop-based carbon fibre tower in Bangladesh in Technical Mor in the capital. The deployment was possible by the continuous research and development of edotco, in exploring the usage of…
Int’l conference on electrical engineering starts at MIST
A 3-day long International Conference on Electrical Engineering and Information & Communication Technology (iCTEEiCT 2016) started today at Military Institute of Science and Technology (MIST) at Mirpur Cantonment. Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid, MP, graced the inauguration ceremony as the…
500m accounts hacked by “state-sponsored actor”- Yahoo
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…
Tesla fixes Model S software after Chinese hack
Tesla said Wednesday that it had fixed a software vulnerability in its luxury electric Model S sedan after a Chinese security team hacked a car’s systems and remotely controlled it. The newest hacking case of remote manipulation of a car…
Chinese space station to crash to earth in 2017
China appears to have confirmed speculation that it has lost control of its 8.5-ton space station, which is expected to come crashing down to Earth in 2017. Officials speaking at the launch of the Tiangong-2 space lab said the Tiangong-1,…
AG lauds country’s achievement in ICT
Attorney General Mahbubey Alam today lauded Bangladesh’s achievement in information and communication technology (ICT) sector. Alam, , who returned home last night after attending 19th conference of the Asia/Pacific Group on Money Laundering (APG) in the US, said now the…
The science behind the 1.5 °C climate goal
What is the science behind the climate goals set at the historic Paris Agreement? Researchers are in Oxford to discuss the feasibility and options, with their findings contributing to an IPCC paper in 2018. The ambition of the 2015 Paris…
Joy receives ‘ICT for Dev Award’ in NY
Sajeeb Wazed Joy, information and communication technology adviser to the Prime Minister, has been conferred upon “ICT for Development Award, 2016” in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the people of Bangladesh through implementation of “Digital Bangladesh” initiative.Joy was given…
‘Digital World-2016’ to be held next month
Country’s largest digital expo – Digital World 2016 – will be held in the capital on October 19-21 showcasing the technology-based innovations and achievements and a single platform for sharing ICT knowledge and idea. In this regard an advisory committee…
RUET to launch advance level ICT course
The Rajshahi University of Engineering and Technology (RUET) is going to launch advance level course on Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in order to make its teachers, officers and employees skilled on the subject. RUET Vice- chancellor Prof Rafiqul Alam…
Robot, spy devices seized at Shahjalal Airport
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.
Use of ICT accelerating development: Mayor Jhantu
Mayor of Rangpur City Corporation (RpCC) Alhaj Sarfuddin Ahmed Jhantu has said use of information and communication technologies (ICT) has been accelerating national development in building a digital Bangladesh. “Bangladesh would become a middle income nation by 2021, and a…
‘Female farmers to get digital technology training’
Dhaka – State Minister for ICT Zunaid Ahmed Palak on Sunday said rural female farmers will be trained with digital technologies so that they can properly promote their agricultural products, UNB news agency reported.
Bangladeshi-origin girl wins global video award
A Bangladeshi-origin girl won a global video competition beating nearly 400 participants from over 60 countries.Tanzina Nowshin won the Grand Prize of the Education Youth Video Challenge, organised by the US-based International Commission on Financing Global Education Opportunity known as…
Samsung says sold off shares in four tech firms
Samsung Electronics said Sunday it had sold shares it held in four technology companies including US chipmaker Rambus and Japan’s Sharp to free up money and focus on its main business. The South Korean tech giant also sold shares in…
Apple, Samsung struggle in face of Chinese competition
The global launch of the iPhone 7 on Friday is crucial to Apple’s fortunes in China, but both it and its biggest rival Samsung, hit by a recall over exploding batteries, are struggling in the face of upstart local competitors.…