Friday, 29 Mar, 2024

Tech

Mozilla names interim CEO

DHAKA: Mozilla announced the appointment of Chris Beard as its interim CEO and a new member of the board of directors.At Mozilla since before Firefox 1.0, he was most recently CMO of the company and previously worked as head of the Mozilla product, marketing and innovation teams.The

Google to acquire drone maker Titan Aerospace

DHAKA: Search-engine giant Google likely to acquire Titan Aerospace, a 2-year-old start-up maker of high-altitude solar-powered drones.USAToday reports on Tuesday.Though the company did not disclose how much it would pay for Titan.Google’s gain came at the expense of Facebook, who

US users experience 7% rise in 6 months

DHAKA: A new study shows that 18 percent of US online adults have their personal information stolen, such as Social Security numbers, credit card numbers, and bank account data, some 7 percent higher than that of July 2013, CNET reports.Pew Research Center carried out the study on 1,002

Google spells out email scanning practices

DHAKA: Google updated its terms of service, informing users that their incoming and outgoing emails are automatically analyzed by software to create targeted ads.The revisions more explicitly spell out the manner in which Google software scans users’ emails, both when messages are

Android OS 4.1.1 run device poses vulnerability

DHAKA: Millions of smartphones and tablets running Google’s Android operating system 4.1.1 have the Heartbleed software bug, reports Bloomberg on Saturday.A post on Google Online Security Blog said, “All versions of Android are immune to CVE-2014-0160 (with the limited exception of

KUET students make SmartWatch

KHULNA: Nowadays, almost everyone has a smart-phone and people have to take their phone out of their pockets to receive a call or to check messages but this can cause disturbances while attending a meeting or in a bus full of passengers. How it would have been if even one could receive

Download ‘Dhaka International Airport’

DHAKA: Hazrat Shah Jalal International Airport, widely known as Dhaka International Airport or formerly known as Zia International Airport and Dacca International Airport, is the largest gateway to come in or go out from Bangladesh.The airport handles more than 5.6 million passengers and

Microsoft sued over browser error

DHAKA: Microsoft Corp`s board faces a lawsuit over the way it handled an error with its Internet Explorer browser that ended up costing the company a record-breaking $731 million fine by European antitrust regulators.The lawsuit, brought by shareholder Kim Barovic in federal court in

Apple’s iWatch coming in Q3!

Here’s the rumor; Apple will release its iWatch in Q3 (sometime this fall). Apple is supposedly so confident that its iWatch will be a hit that it has ordered 65 million units from factories in Southeast Asia, including from regular supplier Samsung. Here’s how likely it is that this

Google Glass on sale next week

DHAKA: Google will make it controversial internet-linked Glass eyewear available for purchase for a limited time in the United States beginning on April 15.Anyone in the United States with $US1,500 to spend on Glass will be able to join the ranks of ‘explorers’ who have gotten to test

China interested in BD info, tech sector

DHAKA: Bangladesh’s advancement in the information and technological sector drew attention of the people around the globe and institutions from around the world want to participate in the sector.This is why the country needs to exploit its information and technological potentiality to

Multimedia projector,laptop for 23,331 edu insts

DHAKA: The government is going to provide multimedia projector and laptop including internet connections to a total of 23,331 institutions that have power connections, said an official of Directorate of Secondary and Higher Education.The initiative has been taken under the “ICT for

Twitter getting ‘Facebook flavor’

DHAKA: Twitter, second giant social media is going to get ‘Facebook flavor’ following the leading social connector.It has already begun revamping profile pages to let users display more of their online personalities, giving the popular service a Facebook-like feel from Wednesday.Zee

Banglalink 3G in Sylhet

DHAKA: Country’s one of the largest mobile phone operators Banglalink has introduced 3G service in Sylhet.The company launched the service through a press conference at Rose View Hotel in Sylhet on Tuesday.Banglalink regional commercial head Sheikh Nur-ul-Alam said: “Banglalink always

Computer edu compulsory in schools

DHAKA: Information minister Hasanul Haque Inu said computer education will be made compulsory in secondary levels of the schools from next year.He came up with disclosure on Wednesday noon at a seven-day computer and mobile fair in Eastern Plus Shopping Centre in city’s Shantinagar

Major movie studios sue Megaupload

DHAKA: Six of the biggest movie studios have sued Megaupload and its key operators, including founder Kim Dotcom.They have alleged the site and its operators ‘facilitated, encouraged, and profited’ from copyright infringement.Megaupload was one of the largest file-sharing sites before

Samsung sees flat sales, lower opg profit in Q1

DHAKA: Samsung expects to report flat sales and lower operating profit for the first quarter.The company said it expects revenue at KRW 53 trillion, little changed from the year-earlier period, and operating profit of KRW 8.4 trillion, down from KRW 8.8 trillion in Q1 2013.This would be

China clears Nokia handsets sale to Microsoft

DHAKA: Nokia announced that the planned sale of its mobile phone business to Microsoft has received regulatory clearance in China.This was the final major country to approve the deal and the last condition to completing the acquisition.Nokia and Microsoft expect the transaction to close

Samsung Galaxy S5 priced at Rs 54,300 in India

DHAKA: Though Samsung is yet to officially announce the price of Galaxy S5, the company’s flagship Android phone, retailers are jumping the gun ahead of April 11, the day when the device will go on sale.Manish Khatri, a retailer in Mumbai, on Monday revealed that Galaxy S5 carries a

BIEL shows 1st real LTE FDD 4G network

DHAKA: Bangladesh Internet Exchange Ltd (BIEL) has shown first LTE FDD network trial to Bangladeshi telecom community and journalists.Upon receiving BWA license and fulfilling their financial obligations, BIEL is starting LTE 4G network rollout. BIEL started LTE trial network in Dhaka