DHAKA: CTO Forum Bangladesh in association with SAVRONIK Inc. organized a seminar on “E-payment Solutions: Issues and Best Practices” at Ruposhi Bangla Hotel in the capital recently.  Turkish Ambassador to Dhaka Hüseyin MÜFTÜOĞLU, additional secretary, ICT Division of Ministry

DHAKA: Facebook is to release a new feature on its mobile app that "listens" to your music and TV shows. If the song or show is recognised by the app, users can publish the information on their profile or to selected friends. The service hopes to take advantage of the "second screen"

  The everyday smartphone: Apple iPhone When? 2007   It wasn't the first smartphone, the first glass rectangle, or the first handset to deliver most of its hyped features, but the original iPhone packaged all of those points in a new way. Though rather dull and even ugly by

  The camera phone: Sharp J-SH04 When? 2000   Selfies owe their existence to this unassuming Japan-only phone. It took 0.1-megapixel photos and you could share them with a friend electronically. New cameras weren't far behind, and shooter resolution quickly multiplied with the

DHAKA: Today's fancy phones, they all came from somewhere. Every mobile phone we use today, from basic handsets to the most advanced computer-in-your-pocket, wasn't created in a vacuum. Instead, they were built using the parts of many groundbreaking phones that came before them. Even if

DHAKA: Aliens are real - not little green men visiting Earth as depicted in movies, but rather microbial life in our own solar system and intelligent life beyond.That’s according to two leading Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (Seti) researchers, who Thursday took part in a

DHAKA: Samsung Galaxy S5 Active has been rumoured and leaked multiple times but this is the first time the phone is seen in a complete, detailed hands-on video. Quite reminds us of the time when the HTC One M8 hands-on video went viral before launch!, reports indiatimes.com. The

DHAKA: Imperial College London is leading a new study into whether the use of mobile phones and wireless technologies might affect children’s cognitive development. The Study of Cognition, Adolescents and Mobile Phones (SCAMP) will focus on cognitive functions such as memory and

DHAKA: eBay Inc. has asked its users to change their passwords because of a cyber attack that compromised a database containing encrypted passwords and other non-financial data.  After conducting extensive tests on its networks, the company said it has no evidence of the compromise

DHAKA: Microsoft has introduced the Surface Pro 3, its most powerful, thinnest and lightest Surface Pro to date. The Surface Pro 3 features a 12-inch ClearType full HD screen with 2160 x 1440 resolution and comes equipped with a fourth generation Intel Core Processor (with Core i3, Core

DHAKA: The Executive Committee of National Economic Council (ECNEC) on Wednesday approved a project involving Tk 956.84 crore to provide internet at low cost. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, also ruling Awami League president, presided over the meeting, held at the NEC-2 conference room of

DHAKA: China’s Xiaomi took the country’s smartphone crown in the second quarter after the Beijing-based firm replaced Samsung Electronics as China’s largest smartphone vendor. Canalys data shows, reports The Straits Times. Xiaomi shipped just under 15 million units in the three

DHAKA: Apple's Mac operating system is getting a new design and better ways to exchange files, while new features in the software for iPhones and iPads include one for keeping tabs on your health. Apple executive Craig Federighi pointed out that data from various fitness-related devices

DHAKA: BCS and Bangladesh Association of Software and Information Services (BASIS) urge to use one of the most popular online social networking services ‘facebook’ in many ways by inaugurating Bangla language in it, setting up local office, developing local application and so on. The

DHAKA: Country’s ever biggest IT exposition titled ‘Digital World 2014’ will kick off at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre on June 4.                                                                      Ministry of Posts,

DHAKA: Mobile phone industry giants Apple and Google have agreed to dismiss lawsuits they had brought against each other over technology patents. In a joint statement, the companies said they would work together in "some areas of patent reform". But the deal did not include licensing

These smart women made for some significant and groundbreaking changes in technology.Augusta Ada King, (left) Countess of Lovelace who was commonly known as "Ada Lovelace," worked on a very early computer known as the Analytical Engine in the 1800s. The daughter of poet Lord Byron, King

DHAKA: Google has received fresh takedown requests after a European court ruled that an individual could force it to remove ‘irrelevant and outdated’ search results. The BBC publishes this report on Thursday. An ex-politician seeking re-election has asked to have links to an article

DHAKA: Pro Vice Chancellor of Chittagong University Dr Iftekhar Uddin Chowdhury, also Dean of Business Studies Department of Premier University underscored the need for incorporating ICT knowledge and training into academic learning to build better future of students.  He was addressing

DHAKA: Ministry of Posts & Telecommunications, Ministry of Information and Communication Technology and Bangladesh Association of Software and Information Services (BASIS) are going to jointly organize country’s largest information technology fair ‘Digital World Fair-2014’. In this