DHAKA: The EU’s top court, in a surprise ruling on Tuesday, said that individuals do have the right to ask US Internet giant Google to delete personal data produced by its ubiquitous search engine. Taking up a complaint concerning a Spanish citizen, the European Court of Justice said

DHAKA: Mozilla has said it will test a plan that puts ads and sponsored content on the boxes that appear when Firefox users launch a new tab on the browser. Firefox displays nine boxes or ‘tiles’ showing screenshots of the websites visited most often by the user. Many users were

DHAKA: Daffodil Institute of IT and Bangladesh ICT Journalist Forum jointly arranged award giving ceremony for Basis outsourcing on Saturday. Executive Director of Daffodil Institute of IT Nuruzzaman presided over the program at the auditorium of Daffodil University. Post,

DHAKA: An appeals court on Friday breathed new life into Oracle’s big-money lawsuit against Google by ruling that software commands can be copyrighted just like classic books. The case stems from a 2012 trial, in which Oracle claimed Google owed them billions in damages for using parts

DHAKA: Country’s largest information technology fair ‘Digital World Fair-2014’ is scheduled to be held at Bangabandhu International Conference Center (BICC) in the city on June 4-7. The disclosure came from a press conference at a city hotel on Saturday. Soft Expo, E-Governance

DHAKA: Apple is in advanced talks to acquire headphone maker and music streaming operator Beats Electronics for USD 3.2 billion, Apple's largest purchase to date. The deal could be announced as early as the week of May 12. Apple is expected to buy Beats’ streaming service and its

DHAKA: The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) have launched a live-streaming from the International Space Station (ISS), which providing NASA all the movement around the world. The NASA informed that they have activated four HD cameras attached to the ISS on April 30,

DHAKA: Huawei Technologies said the Chinese telecommunications-equipment maker plans to increase investment and hiring in Europe as part of an effort to change perceptions of a company he acknowledged has been seen as ‘mysterious’. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal,

DHAKA: Some 25,000 government websites (National Portal) are going to be launched soon.The information installations of those national portals have already been completed. The service will be opened after the inauguration by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.Prime Minister's Office of

DHAKA: Being the target of allegations that include excessive drug use, keeping company with prostitutes, and murder, tech multi-millionaire John McAfee is likely someone who appreciates a bit of privacy, report CNET.So, clearly, he would be involved in a company that's working on

DHAKA: A California jury found both Apple and Samsung guilty of patent infringement over each other’s smartphones.The jury awarded Apple less than USD 120 million in damages for three patents infringed by Samsung, far below the USD 2 billion Apple sought from a total of five patents at

DHAKA: Social networking site Facebook said the website may have over 100 million ‘duplicate’ accounts, and their percentage being higher in developing countries, besides 5 to 15 million ‘undesirable’ accounts registered with it worldwide, as per company’s estimations. ‘There

DHAKA: The official Periodic Table of the Elements is likely to add the element 117 to its rank as an international team of scientists successfully created several atoms of element 117, which is currently known as Ununseptium until it’s given an official name.The paper for this

DHAKA: In continuation of their agreement signed in April, 2014 in Copenhagen, the Danish Company Coders Trust and Grameen Solutions Limited (GSL) announced their collaboration at a local Hotel in Dhaka on Friday. Danish Minister of Trade and Development Cooperation Mogens Jensen in a

KHULNA: Scientists at the developed countries are making astonishing invention of latest robots everyday and the Bangladeshi scientists are not staying far behind from it.  Young along the elder scientists at Bangladesh are putting their efforts to create new robots and they have been

DHAKA: I have been using Airtel mobile phone from 2007 as residing in Mugdapara area of the capital.  But for the last two years I have been facing untold sufferings due to poor network in the area. The operator’s network frequency has deteriorated much rather any improvement in these

DHAKA: It may be safe now to use Microsoft’s Web browser Internet Explorer, earlier reported to have a serious security hole, after the software giant released a patch on Thursday. Microsoft has released a fix for its newer Windows 7 and 8 operating systems, as well as for the older

DHAKA: Samsung has been ordered to pay $119.6m (£71m) to Apple by a US court for infringing two of its patents.   A jury in California delivered its verdict in a federal court in San Jose on Friday in the latest lawsuit involving the two tech giants.   During the month-long trial,

DHAKA: Mentioning ‘Cyber Attack-- the biggest threat for internet’ country’s IT experts and professional said that awareness can save anyone from being affected by cyber criminal. They came to this assertion on a discursion arranged by CTO Forum at the Hotel Pan Pacific Sonargaon

DHAKA: Microsoft will later this year start offering its Xbox One game console with a local partner in China, where such devices were banned for more than a decade. ‘Today marks a monumental day for Xbox, as together with our partner BesTV New Media Co, we announced we will bring Xbox