Thursday, 28 Nov, 2024

Tech

Robi brings digital education platform 10 Minute School

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

‘Local companies can and should makeup majority of our IT sector’

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

Axiata buy’s Ncell in Nepal

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

Blackberry to launch 2 Android phones

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

Martha Fox to join Twitter board

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

US pushes Apple for access to iPhones

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

Samsung sees 10% jump in first quarter operating profit

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.

Whatsapp adds end-to-end encryption

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

Facebook lets blind people ‘see’ its photos

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.

Biometrics for mobile SIM by Apr 30

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

Google April Fool Gmail button sparks backlash

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

GP launches Facebook free basics

DHAKA: Grameenphone (GP) has partnered with Facebook to launch Facebook Free Basics for its users in Bangladesh. The partnership will enable more people to come online and use basic internet services for free, says a press release on Wednesday (March 30). Free Basics by Facebook

Microsoft apologizes over racist chatbot fiasco

DHAKA: Microsoft has apologized for creating an artificially intelligent chatbot that quickly turned into a holocaust-denying racist. But in doing so made it clear Tay’s views were a result of nurture, not nature. Tay confirmed what we already knew: people on the internet can be

Dutch IT companies keen to invest in Bangladesh

DHAKA: IT companies from Netherlands have expressed their keenness to partner with Bangladeshi IT companies in Bangladesh. This was revealed in a seminar organized by the Dutch public agency CBI (Centre for the promotion of imports from developing countries), ITC, in association with

Apple unveils smaller iPhone and iPad Pro

DHAKA: Apple has announced smaller versions of the iPhone and iPad Pro at an event hosted in San Francisco and streamed online. The iPhone SE has the same processing and graphics performance of the larger Apple 6S, the firm said, and can capture 4K video. The new iPad Pro will have

Robi Dhonnobad program brings special offer with Le Meridien

DHAKA: Robi high-value customers under Dhonnobad program can now enjoy international standard hospitality at Le Meridien Dhaka. In this regard, Robi’s Vice President, Customer Retention, Rafiqul Hoque and Le Meridien’s Director, Finance, Aftab Ansari signed the agreement on behalf

SD ASIA brings ‘Innovation Xtreme’

DHAKA: SD ASIA, one of the largest content and event making platform for Bangladeshi tech startups, is proud to bring back its flagship event ‘Innovation Xtreme’ for the second time this year, with country’s largest telecom operator Grameenphone as the lead sponsor. The event

Ashfak, Subrata made BCS EC president, GS

DHAKA: Ali Ashfak of RM Systems Limited and Engineer Subrata Sarkar of C&C Trade International have respectively been made president and general secretary of Bangladesh Computer Samity (BCS) executive committee for 2016-17 on Wednesday (March 16).Moreover, Yousuf Ali Shamim of Computer

23m GP customers now re-registered

DHAKA: Country’s leading private mobile phone operator Grameenphone (GP) has successfully completed biometric verification re-registration of their over 23.27 million customers.The biometric verification process has been done as per the guidelines provided by BTRC and figure constitutes

Free-internet in public places

DHAKA: Mayor Mohammad Sayeed Khokon said city dwellers would get free internet services at all primary roads (intersections of city’s major streets) and public places in Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) area.He made the announcement in a discussion on ‘Dhaka City Cleanliness