DHAKA: Banglalink’s parent company VimpelCom’s Head of Emerging Markets Jon Eddy and ICT minister Zunaid Ahmed Palak visited country’s first digital incubator. It was established as a private public partnership to nourish the local entrepreneurial talents in developing digital

DHAKA: Axiata Managing Director and Group Chief Executive Officer (GCEO), Tan Sri Jamaludin Ibrahim has urged Robi talents to lead the company’s drive towards delivering on Axiata Group’s vision of becoming the Next Generation Digital Company by 2020. He made this appeal to the

DHAKA: Liberia has been repeatedly cut off from the internet by hackers targeting its only link to the global network. Recurrent attacks on November 3 flooded the cable link with data, making net access intermittent. Researchers said the attacks showed hackers trying different ways

DHAKA: Robi officials have bid farewell to their immediate-past Managing Director and CEO, Supun Weerasinghe. Supun handed a cricket bat to Mahtab Uddin Ahmed, the company’s first Bangladeshi Managing Director and CEO. The cricket bat had the writing “From Lankan Lion to Bengal

DHAKA: Thailand’s TakeMeTour took top honor ‘Digital Winners Asia Champion 2016’ title after competing with seven other leading startups from Pakistan, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand and Malaysia at the first regional Digital Winners Asia startup event by Telenor. Following the

DHAKA: The Supreme Court (SC) on Thursday (November 3) directed authorities concerned to reinstate spectrum allocation for Citycell. It also asked the mobile operator to pay Tk 100cr in dues by November 19. The four-member bench of the Appellate Division headed by Chief Justice SK

DHAKA: Robi Axiata Limited and InterCloud Limited (a concern of Novo group) have recently signed an agreement to jointly work on various Over-The-Top (OTT) projects with the aim of facilitating smooth transition of its subscribers to digital lifestyle. Robi’s immediate past Managing

DHAKA: A 2-day event Technovanza was held on North South University (NSU) campus in city from October 21. The event aiming to showcase creativity and thirst for innovation was organized by Women in Engineering (WIE) Affinity Group, IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics

DHAKA: Apple has reported its third quarter in a row of falling iPhone sales and revenue, but sales beat analyst expectations. The tech giant sold 45.51 million iPhones in the three months to 24 September, beating an average estimate of 44.8 million. The company also forecast

DHAKA: The use of camera drones has been made illegal in Sweden unless they are granted a special surveillance permit. Under new rules set down by the Supreme Administrative Court of Sweden, camera drones qualify as surveillance cameras and require a license. Permits can be

DHAKA: Banglalink has brought a lowest price smartphone with latest Android OS with exciting bundle offer for the students and limited earning people. Customers will get free 6 GB internet and 900 minutes talk time (450 off-net minutes, 450 on-net minutes). So the smartphone value

DHAKA: Hackers used internet-connected home devices, such as CCTV cameras and printers, to attack popular websites on Friday (October 21). Security analysts said Twitter, Spotify, and Reddit were among the sites taken offline on Friday. Each uses a company called Dyn, which was the

DHAKA: The 20th national council of ruling Awami League (AL) is being streamed live from Suhrawardi Udyan in Dhaka. It will be available on AL Facebook page. Anyone can watch the council live on Facebook by adding with the AL page. To watch council live one must click the following

DHAKA: Major websites, including Twitter, Spotify, Reddit, Soundcloud, PayPal, were inaccessible to people across a large part of the USA on Friday after a company that manages crucial parts of the internet’s infrastructure said it was under attack. All the firms are customers of a

DHAKA: ‘Digital World-2016’, country’s largest Information and Communications Technology (ICT)-based fair, ended at International Convention city, Bashundhara (ICC,B) in city on Friday (October 21).   The fair, which began on Wednesday (October 19), ended on Friday night. On

DHAKA: Bangabandhu-1, the first satellite of the country, will be launched on December 16 next year. Posts and telecommunications state minister Tarana Halim made the disclosure at a press conference at Mohakhali Telephone Bhaban in city on Friday (October 21). So far 50 percent

DHAKA: Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulation Commission (BTRC) terminated the transmission of private telecom operator Citycell on Thursday (October 20). The commission chairman Shahjahan Mahmud confirmed the matter to media. Citycell transmission has been shut down as the mobile

DHAKA: Bangladesh Telecommunication Company Limited (BTCL) said that country’s internet service will be disrupted from Sunday midnight (October 23) to Thursday noon (October 27). The interruption will happen due to maintenance works of submarine cable in Singapore portion.

DHAKA: Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) is conducting a drive at Citycell office in city’s Mohakhali area on Thursday (October 20). A joint force of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) and police is also participating in the drive. Banani Thana officer-in-charge

DHAKA: Yahoo’s profits more than doubled in the last three months, a boost for the beleaguered firm whose plan to sell its core business was thrown into doubt. Verizon Communications agreed to buy Yahoo for $4.8bn, but disclosure of a huge data breach put a question mark over the