Bhutan wants to import Bangladesh’s unused internet bandwidth as Dhaka in principle has decided to sell the surplus. The new Bhutanese High Commissioner Pema Choden expressed Thimphu’s interest in importing surplus bandwidth while meeting with State Minister for Foreign Affairs…
The Cabinet division website (http://www.cabinet.gov.bd), has been hacked. ‘Bl@Ck Dr@GoN, Indian Hackers Online Squad’, claimed that it hacked the site.
Popular online social networking site facebook has restricted access in Bangladesh to three pieces of content as ‘requested by the government due to violations of local law’.
Some 108 union parishads have already been connected with the optical fiber network as part of the government’s plan to expand the network to all union parishads, Posts, Telecommunication and Information Technology Minister told Parliament on Monday. With a view…
Speakers at a function here on Sunday underscored the need for the increased use of ICT and enforcing related laws effectively, aiming to stop violence against women in the country. They were addressing the concluding ceremony of a two-day anti-corruption…
Sajeeb Ahmed Wazed Joy, has taken it upon himself to manage loan on easy terms for building the Hi-Tech Park in Gazipur, north of Dhaka City. “There won’t be any problem if the World Bank does not lend on easy…
Bangladesh has touched a milestone completing online birth registration of 10 crore (100 million) people on Sunday, according to a message received from the Birth and Death Registration Project of the Local Government Division. So far more than 16 crore…
Necessary process for setting up of a High tech park in the city is progressing fast that creates high hopes among all quarters concerned particularly the business icons and ICT experts. A 50-acre site has been selected at Bulanpur area…
The Sports Xchange
Dr Carolyn Porco is one of the world’s leading planetary scientists and was part of the Voyager-1 imaging team. She helped Carl Sagan set up Voyager’s famous “Pale Blue Dot” portrait of Earth when the probe had reached beyond Neptune…
Los Angeles – When it comes to hyping next-generation hardware, the video game industry doesn’t typically opt for simplicity. However, during a presentation at the GameStop Expo in Las Vegas to promote the upcoming Xbox One console last week, a…
By Rahul Prakash
Erin Milligan has to surrender her cell phone to school officials before going back to college this year.
Microsoft Corp on Tuesday said it will buy Nokia’s mobile phone business for 5.44 billion euros ($7.2 billion).
They’re oversized, bulky and discriminate against those with smaller hands or tighter jeans, but according to the latest figures as well as being big physically, they’re also big in terms of popularity in the Asia-Pacific region where Chinese, Korean and…
Sony’s new lens-camera concept could boost the imaging performance of any compatible smartphone and breathe new life into the digital camera market.
Samsung is set to launch its much anticipated smartwatch on Wednesday, marking a major milestone in the emerging product category amid concerns that the smartphone market has reached its peak.
When Microsoft hits the market with the Xbox One in November, its $499 price point is going to stand out against Sony’s PS4 at $399 and a deluxe Wii U bundle at $299. Fans of the Xbox console franchise will…
By Joe Miller
By Min-Jeong Lee
Chloe Albanesius
Keeping you in the loop on some of the things that happened around Apple this week.
By David Murphy
By Bill Rigby and Dan Levine
A federal judge has quashed Samsung’s hopes for a new patent trial over Apple’s “bounce-back” patent, a key issue in the pair’s landmark trial last year.
We now have a launch date for Sony’s upcoming PlayStation 4 video game console.
Kelly Sheridan
Apple’s budget iPhone is looking anything but cheap. 9to5Mac points us to the latest research note from KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, who says that Apple is planning to price the lower-cost iPhone 5C at between $400 and $500 this…
AT&T’s version of the new Moto X phone has a special twist: Moto Maker, Motorola’s online phone configuration tool. We got early access to Moto Maker and had a lot of fun designing our own phone, but I couldn’t help…