Walmart is aggressively lowering the price on Apple’s iPhone 5 and iPhone 4S. Beginning Saturday, the iPhone 5 will sell for $129 (down from $189) and the iPhone 4S will sell for just $39 (down from $89). To get the…
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Plants have built-in capacity to do maths
Plants have a built-in capacity to do maths, which helps them regulate food reserves at night, research suggests.
France watchdog orders Google to change privacy policy
France’s data protection watchdog ordered Google on Thursday to change its privacy policy or face fines, leading a Europe-wide push to get the Internet giant to clarify its intentions and methods for collecting user data.
“Big Brain” : A 3D human brain
Researchers have created the first high-resolution 3D digital model of the human brain, which they have called “Big Brain”.
Switch between the Windows 8 and Android with Samsung’s new tab
Samsung has unveiled a tablet that can switch between the Windows 8 and Android operating systems.
Samsung goes big with Windows 8-powered Ativ line
NEW YORK — The Ativ name may be silly, but Samsung Electronics is betting heavily on it as the namesake for anything related to Windows.
Facebook brings video to Instagram
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World’s slimmest smartphone by Huawei
LONDON (Reuters) – China’s Huawei unveiled its flagship smartphone, the Ascend P6, at its first standalone launch event on Tuesday, underlining its ambitions to compete with Apple and Samsung in the top tier of mobile technology.
Tianhe-2: the superfast supercomputer in the world
China has built the world’s fastest supercomputer, almost twice as fast as the second-place U.S. computer, a step that underlines the country’s rise as a science and technology powerhouse.
Wanna Live Forever?
At the Global Future 2045 conference (GF2045) in New York City on June 15-16, 2013, emcee Philippe van Nedervelde said, “It used to be that the only sure things are death and taxes.
Bybye chrome & welcome IE: Google!
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.
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.
MS Office @ iPhone’s new device
By Matthew Miller
Will kill switch stop cell phones from being stolen?
Cellphone thefts are now the single biggest source of property crime in many American cities. A recent study found that lost and stolen phones cost consumers close to $30 billion a year. And 10 percent of smartphone owners say they’ve…
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.
Samsung bets on smartphone with zoom appeal
SEOUL—Samsung Electronics Co., a dominant player for an array of tech products from chips to smartphones, has a weakness: digital cameras.
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.
Smartphone sales to grow 18%
Global smartphone shipments are forecast to grow by 18 percent a year to reach 1.5 billion units and to account for 73 percent of all mobile phone shipments in 2017, according to Canalys.
Mysterious sea creature in UK shore was an eel
A mysterious sea creature with a set of sharp teeth washed up on a U.K. beach last week, prompting wide speculation as to what it could be—the wildest being a dinosaur or the Loch Ness Monster.
BTRC being warned by a parliamentary panel
A parliamentary panel has warned Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) against its earlier decision to reduce internet upload bandwidth. At a meeting on Sunday, the Parliamentary Standing Committee on the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications advised the telecom watchdog against…
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.
‘Telecom, IT sector given priority’
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina categorically said the government has given highest priority to the development of the telecommunication and IT sector.
‘Yuri Gagarin’s flight to the Outer Space’ remembered
To mark the 50th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin’s flight to the Outer Space, a programme was held at the Russian Centre of Science and Culture (RCSC) in the city’s Dhanmondi area recently.
First solar plane on cross-country US trip
The first-ever manned airplane that can fly by day or night on the sun’s power alone soared over the western United States late Friday on the first leg of cross-country journey.
Passenger spaceship completes rocket test flight
A six-passenger spaceship owned by an offshoot of Virgin Group fired its rocket engine in flight for the first time on Monday, a key step toward the start of commercial service in about a year, Virgin owner Richard Branson said.
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.
Research centre innovates six new fruits
The Rajshahi Fruit Research Centre has, so far, innovated six new fruit varieties through intensive field-level research during the last 18 years.
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.