DHAKA: Motorola announced its new Moto X smartphone will be available in the UK, France and Germany from February 1.The Android phone will retail for GBP 380 or EUR 399 unlocked.Launched in North and South America last year, the Moto X is Motorola’s second major device, after the

DHAKA: Major Apple iPhone assembler Foxconn has shipped around 1.4 million iPhone 5S devices to China Mobile recently.This initial shipment, which does not represent the total sales at China Mobile for January, comes ahead of China Mobile’s iPhone launch on 17 January, the Wall Street

DHAKA: Sony Mobile has unveiled two new Android smartphones, the Xperia E1 and T2 Ultra.The E1 is a low-end phone with a 4-inch WVGA (800x480) display, HSPA+, 1.2 GHz dual-core processor, 4GB internal memory and the Walkman app with a 30-day trial of the Sony music streaming service.The

Here are some of the highlights and trends seen at the 2014 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas:WearablesFrom connected socks and bras to baby clothing, wearable technology with the ability to transform computing was an overriding theme at the huge electronics fair. There was no

DHAKA: Indian born British national Rajendra Pangrekar has taken the charge of LM Ericsson Bangladesh Ltd from February 2014 replacing Managing Director Gary Dewing.He has expressed his vision to empower Bangladesh with world class technologies by EricssonRajendra Pangrekar joined

DHAKA: Plant in Egypt’s Beni Suef has sold 10,000 computer monitors to Europe since last November.Egypt is positioned to become a regional export hub for Samsung products, with locally-manufactured computer monitors being shipped to Europe.Kinam Lee, president of Samsung`s factory in

DHAKA: Google has sold struggling US mobile phone company Motorola Mobility to Chinese computer maker Lenovo for $2.91bn, in a surprise move.Google had paid $12.5bn for the company less than two years ago.Lenovo plans to build up its smartphone unit through the Motorola purchase, which

DHAKA: Bangla Business Partner (BBP), Japan in association with Daffodil Institute of Information Technology (DIIT) will organise a “IT Talent Contest-2014” to create employment opportunity in Japan for the country’s younger students in the field of information technology.In the

DHAKA: Microsoft founder Bill Gates has been named as the most admired person on the planet in a list of 30 people compiled after a poll in 13 countries.The ‘World’s most admired people poll’ was conducted by YouGov for Times by surveying almost 14,000 people in Great Britain,

DHAKA: Chinese online game developer Snail Electronic has unveiled a new mobile internet strategy. The new strategy includes an own-branded mobile phone, a game download platform, and a mobile data package, the Marbridge Daily writes citing a DoNews report. The Snail phone is a customised

DHAKA: Samsung plans to release its next flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S5, by April and will present a new version of its Galaxy Gear smartwatch at the same time, said Lee Young Hee, executive vice president of the company’s mobile business. In an interview with Bloomberg, Lee said

DHAKA: Facebook has bought an Indian mobile technology start-up called Little Eye Labs, the first business deal in the country by the world’s biggest social network, the Indian firm said.With Facebook users increasingly logging in from mobile phones, Bangalore-based Little Eye will help

DHAKA: Apple announced that customers spent over USD 10 billion on its App Store in 2013, including over USD 1 billion in December alone.App Store customers downloaded almost three billion apps in December, making it the most successful month in the App Store’s history.Apple said

DHAKA: Sony plans to launch a cloud TV service in the US later this year, CEO Kazuo Hirai announced in a speech at CES in Las Vegas.He said the cloud-based service, building on the technology acquired with Gaikai, will combine ‘the live TV content people love most about cable’ with a

DHAKA: Yahoo announced new advertising and content services at CES, as well as another acquisition in the mobile sector.The acquisition is Aviate, an app to auto-categorize apps on Android devices and intelligently serve up apps and information based on a person’s context, using

DHAKA: Samsung has shown off the Bendable TV - an 85in (216cm) prototype that allows the curvature of its screen to be adjusted by remote control.The LED (light-emitting diode) set was unveiled at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.LG has also announced a smaller 77in (196cm)

DHAKA: ZTE will unveil new smartphones and its first smartwatch at CES in Las Vegas. The BlueWatch targets the fitness market, offering features such as a pedometer and recording of other physical activity and health measurements. The device connects to a smartphone over Bluetooth,

DHAKA: Lenovo announced its first LTE smartphone, the Vibe Z. The slim device, at 7.9-mm thick, comes with a 5.5-inch IPS screen with 1920x1080 resolution. It supports LTE at up to 150 Mbps as well as 802.11ac Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 4.0. The phone runs a Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 quad-core

DHAKA: Mark Zuckerberg was the second-biggest donor after Buffett in 2012, giving $500m to the Silicon Valley Community Foundation and the Breakthrough Prize in Life Science.After Zuckerberg, last year’s biggest donors were Nike chairman Phil Knight, who gave $500m to the Oregon Health

DHAKA: The Syrian Electronic Army, an amorphous hacker collective that supports Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, claimed credit for hacking into the social media accounts of internet calling service Skype.The group also posted the contact information of Steve Ballmer, Microsoft’s