DHAKA: Exploring the heavens with spaceships and fancy orbiting telescopes like the Hubble is pretty routine stuff for NASA. But the space agency is going low-tech to get a good look at an eagerly anticipated comet.The space agency plans to launch a balloon -- yes, a balloon -- to study

DHAKA: Yahoo email addresses reassigned to a new owner are receiving personal emails intended for the previous owner.One man told news site Information Week that he had received emails with some highly sensitive information in them.In June the web firm announced Yahoo addresses and IDs

DHAKA: Apple’s released yet another supplemental update for iOS 7, a little more than a week after the software was first released.The 7.0.2 update, which went out Thursday morning, fixes a bug that would let users bypass the passcode security on the lock screen. That security issue was

DHAKA: Bill Gates’ latest Harvard talk has rightly honed in on his acknowledgment that the control-alt-delete login was “a mistake.” Good for a headline, but there’s another big one buried in what was a fascinating interview conducted before a live audience with David Rubenstein,

DHAKA: Google has quietly retooled the closely guarded formula running its internet search engine to give better answers to the increasingly complex questions posed by web surfers.The overhaul came as part of an update called ‘Hummingbird’ that Google Inc has gradually rolled out in

DHAKA: A new service from Twitter allows government agencies and non-governmental organizations to send emergency messages directly to users` phones during natural disasters or times of crisis, the company announced Wednesday.Users that sign up for the service called Twitter Alerts will

DHAKA: Nokia has launched its new flagship smartphone, the Nokia Lumia 1020, in India.The Lumia 1020 will be available with retailers across the country starting October 11, and Nokia will only be revealing the cameraphone`s price a day before that, on October 10.The new Lumia 1020 comes

DHAKA: A group of Stanford researchers on September 25 unveiled the first computer built entirely with carbon nanotubes (CNTs) which would open the door to a new generation of digital devices.“Cedric” is only a basic prototype but could be developed into a machine which is smaller,

DHAKA: Jesus Christ was the world`s first tweeter because his pronouncements were "brief and full of meaning", Vatican cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi said Wednesday.Christ "used tweets before everyone else, with elementary phrases made up of fewer than 45 characters like `Love one another`",

DHAKA: Amazon unveiled its new line of three new Kindle Fire tablets consists of the redesigned Kindle Fire HD (2013), the Kindle Fire HDX 7, and Kindle Fire HDX 8.9 for 2013.Look for the HDX 7 to ship on October 18 starting at $229 ($329 for 4G, shipping November 14) with 16GB of

DHAKA: Worried about data from your lost Android phone or tablet getting into the wrong hands? You can now lock down your device remotely.Released in August, Google’s Android Device Manager is a handy service that allows you to see the location of a lost or stolen Android device. You

DHAKA: Banglalink, one of the largest mobile telecom operators of the country, has officially launched 3G on test demonstrating the services in real time.The telecom operator also introduced the 3G service in October this year. Chief executive officer of Banglalink Ziad Shatara launched

DHAKA: China`s smartphone market is set for an explosion over the next year, according to new data from research firm IDC.By the end of this year, total smartphone shipments in China will hit 360 million, according to data obtained by Reuters from IDC. Next year, that figure will rise to

DHAKA: The BlackBerry, once the most coveted gadget of Washington’s political and business elite, appears to be near extinction as its parent company recently announced nearly $1 billion in losses for the second quarter.It is the latest of dire announcements from BlackBerry in recent

DHAKA: Apple has sold nine million of its new iPhone models in three days.The company said that sales of the iPhone 5S and 5C had beaten previous launches of new phones.Apple said that demand for the 5S had outstripped supply and the company’s shares rose almost 6% following the

DHAKA: India’s Ahmedabad student Smit Sanghvi has bagged an annual salary package of USD 1,15,000 (Rs 93 lakh) plus 125 stock options from Google, US.This is arguably the highest offer ever that an engineering student from Gujarat has bagged, reports The Times of India.Sanghvi has been

DHAKA: Google has begun rolling out a redesign of its homepage - the world`s most visited web address.The revamp features a flattened, reshaped logo and replaces the previous menu bar with a smaller range of links on the page`s right-hand side.The move comes in the same month that Yahoo`s

DHAKA: Facebook has apologised for publishing a dating ad featuring a photo of a 17-year-old who had killed herself after complaining of being cyber-bullied.Canadian Rehtaeh Parsons took her own life in April having been severely bullied after a separate photo, showing her alleged rape by

DHAKA: The Iranian authorities have restored blocks on Facebook and Twitter after a ‘technical glitch’ briefly removed filters from the social networks overnight.The semi-official Mehr news agency quoted Abdolsamad Khoramabadi, from the board overseeing the internet in Iran, as saying

DHAKA: Former CIA and NSA chief Micheal Hayden has said Gmail is the most preferred email service for communication among terrorist outfits.According to a Washington Post report, while defending the alleged snooping programmes sanctioned by the Foreign Surveillance Intelligence Act