DHAKA: Apple reported a 13% drop in its second quarter revenue on Tuesday as sales of iPhones slipped. The technology giant reported quarterly sales of $50.56bn down from $58bn last year - the first fall in sales for the company since 2003. Apple sold 51.2 million iPhones during the

DHAKA: Nokia is expanding in the healthcare market with the acquisition of Withings, a French provider of digital health devices and services. Healthcare is expected to be one of the largest vertical markets in the Internet of Things, a key growth area for Nokia. In particular

DHAKA: Posts and telecommunications state minister Tarana Halim categorically said that biometrically unregistered SIMs will be permanently deactivated soon after April 30. She made this assertion while taking part at a biometric SIM registration awareness program, organized by private

DHAKA: All companies, including Apple, should pay a 50% tax rate, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has told the BBC. He said he doesn’t like the idea that Apple does not pay tax at the same rate he does personally. Apple, Google and Amazon have been criticized for not paying enough

DHAKA: US tech giant Intel is shedding 12,000 jobs as it seeks to cut reliance on the declining personal computer market. The maker of computer chips will take a $1.2bn charge to cover restructuring costs. The job cuts, about 11% of Intel's workforce, will be made over the next

DHAKA: Banglalink, Country's second-largest telecom operator has partnered with Opera, to introduce the largest premium app store, the 'Banglalink App Store', in Bangladesh. Aligned with a focus towards digitalization, Banglalink has created an exclusive opportunity for its

DHAKA: Bangladesh Association of Software and Information Services (BASIS) expressed its eagerness to provide cyber-security for Bangladesh Bank (BB). This canopy organization will assist the central bank in implementing international-level security measures. A BASIS delegation, led

DHAKA: The dateline of SIM registration through biometric system will be ended on April 30 and it won’t be further extended. State minister for posts and telecommunications Tarana Halim made the comment categorically after inaugurating a SIM registration point at secretariat in city

DHAKA: The number of internet users in the country has cross six crores but the number of cell phone users has comparatively decreased in last three months. Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) in its March report said that the number of internet users is

DHAKA: Mobile operator Robi has extended its support towards 10 Minute School, an online platform that offers comprehensive study solutions anywhere, anytime “free of cost” for JSC, SSC and HSC students, university admission seekers, and university students. This is a part of

DHAKA: When our vision is sky-high, strategies should be most fitting as well to achieve the target. Dominance of local IT players is crucial for local market development, whereas multinational and transnational companies are dominating the Bangladeshi IT industry. Foreigners are given

DHAKA: Axiata Group Berhad (Axiata or Group), one of Asia's leading telecommunications groups, marked its milestone entry into the Nepal telecommunications market through purchasing Ncell Private Limited (Ncell), the number one mobile operator in Nepal. With its expertise, proven

DHAKA: Blackberry will launch two mid-range Android handsets this year, chief executive John Chen has said. One will have a physical keyboard, the other a full touch-screen, reports the BBC. Blackberry has no plans to develop handsets for its own operating system, BB10, but will

DHAKA: Digital pioneer Martha Lane Fox has tweeted that she will be joining the board of US-based social network Twitter.   Baroness Lane-Fox tweeted that it would be the ‘best job ever’. Twitter has suffered some poor financial results lately, with a quarterly net loss of

DHAKA: The US Department of Justice has said it will pursue its request for Apple to help unlock an iPhone that is part of a drugs case in New York.   A letter filed to a local court said the government ‘continues to require Apple’s assistance’, reports the BBC.   In

DHAKA: South Korea’s Samsung Electronics is forecasting a 10% jump in operating profit for the first quarter. The world’s largest smartphone producer has said its operating profit in the January to March period is expected to reach 6.6 trillion Korean won ($5.6bn), reports the BBC.

DHAKA: Instant messaging service Whatsapp has announced it will encrypt all its users’ communications from Tuesday. With end-to-end encryption, messages are scrambled as they leave the sender’s device and can only be decrypted by the recipient’s device, reports the BBC. It

DHAKA: As the internet becomes dominated by images, Facebook is launching a system which can ‘read’ photos and tell visually impaired people what appears in them.   The internet is changing. From a medium based almost entirely on text, it is now becoming increasingly picture-led.

DHAKA: State minister for post and telecommunications Tarana Halim categorically said that the biometric re-registration for mobile SIM cards must be done by April 30. She made this assertion to the media at her secretariat office in city on Monday (April 4). The state minister said

DHAKA: Google has removed an April Fool’s Gmail button, which sent a comical animation to recipients, after reports of people getting into trouble at work. The button appeared beside Gmail’s normal send button and allowed users to shut down an email thread by sending a gif of a