DHAKA: The government has decided to keep the social communication media, facebook, closed for a few more days to identify terrorists and detain them easily.Sources said home ministry will direct the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) to open facebook after holding

DHAKA: Scientists have reportedly invented a new wireless technology, Li-Fi that transmits high-speed data using visible light communication (VLC).With scientists achieving speeds of 224 gigabits per second in the lab using Li-Fi earlier this year, the potential for this technology to

Dhaka: Country’s leading online newsportal Banglanews24.com and the leading Telecom operator Grameenphone have initiated a new journey for providing News Service. Grameenphone subscribers now can get all the breaking news of the day in Taka one only. To avail this exciting service,

DHAKA: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina thanked to Grameenphone, one of the leading mobile phone operators in country,  for introducing 3-G internet service in Angarpota-Dahgram of Lalmonirhat.The premier inaugurated the third-generation (3-G) services through video conference at Ganabhaban,

DHAKA: Xiaomi on Tuesday, as promised, unveiled its new Redmi Note 3 smartphone with fingerprint scanner at an event at China National Convention Center in Beijing.Xiaomi has announced that the Redmi Note 3 will be available in two variants: one with 2GB RAM and 16GB inbuilt storage

DHAKA: Samsung has introduced a new flip phone, the W2016, in China. The latest Android-based dual-screen flip phone is now listed on Samsung's China site. Unfortunately, there is no word on the pricing and availability details of the Samsung W2016, reports the NDTV.The new flip phone

DHAKA: Mark Zuckerberg is taking two full months of paternity leave when his baby daughter is born, the Facebook CEO announced Friday.Zuckerberg and his wife Dr. Priscilla Chan have not shared an exact due date for the Zuckerbaby, but he did say "every day things are getting a little more

DHAKA: Internet connection was restored after over one hour of disruption on Wednesday.Earlier in the day, Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) announced the shutting down of Facebook, viber and whatsapp.The internet connection later went down.However, the aforesaid

DHAKA: Mobile phone operator Grameenphone (GP) will provide free Wi-Fi service for its subscribers across the country.The Wi-Fi network will primarily be installed at 30 important points by the end of this year.Primarily it will be a trial project and the GP subscribers will get free

DHAKA: The trial run for biometric registration of mobile phone SIM cards has started on Sunday (November 15).State minister for posts and telecommunications Tarana Halim started the biometric SIM registration this noon.Earlier on October 21, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s ICT affairs

DHAKA: Facebook activated a safety notification check labeled ‘Paris terror attacks’ after dozens were killed in multiple attacks around the French capital late Friday.The Facebook tool allows users in the affected area to mark themselves as safe, and notify their friends on the

DHAKA: Ollo, the first 4G LTE introducer in Bangladesh, has brought a special retailer uSIM card for its selective Jessore customer.The price of this Retailer uSIM card is TK 997 and free unlimited data for 30 days.With this ultrafast internet speed & unlimited data customer can download

Days are about to go in using cash to pay for goods and services. Online banking, mobile banking, credit and debit cards, as well as stored-value cards, are accepted by merchants virtually everywhere.Trading and commerce became easier with this transformation of transaction. The

DHAKA: Apple has apologised to six schoolboys asked to leave one of their shops in Australia, in what the students described as a racist incident.Footage of the incident at Melbourne's Highpoint shopping centre emerged on Tuesday sparking a social media outcry, reports the BBC.A staff

DHAKA: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday categorically said that if necessity arises, services of social communication media like Viber and Whatsapp would be blocked temporarily to stop cyber crimes in the country.In response to a question of MP Hazi M Selim, the premier came up

DHAKA: Speakers at a two-day workshop on payment card risk management said that cyber threat on transaction has become the key concern worldwide.Protecting customers' personal data is not only good for business it has also become the law worldwide as there is risk, they added.The two-day

DHAKA: Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Corporation (BTRC) has signed an accord with Cannes-based Franco-Italian aerospace manufacturer Thales Alenia Space over Bangladesh’s ‘Bangabandhu Satellite’.Tk nearly 2,000-crore will cost to purchase satellite system to launch

DHAKA: He may be coming to the end of his presidency, but it’s apparently not too late in the game for President Barack Obama to get on Facebook.While many of the president’s initiatives make it to the White House Facebook page, Obama is using his new ‘public figure’ Facebook

DHAKA: A three-day ‘Edumaker Laptop Fair’ will begin at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre (BICC) in city on Thursday.Laptop manufacturing and marketing enterprises will show their latest products at the fair.The organizing group Expo Maker told this at a press conference in

DHAKA: Bangladesh Internet Exchange Ltd (BIEL) brand name Ollo, the first 4G LTE provider in the country, will provide the latest technology Gopalganj district.Ollo head of Commercial Niaz Mahmudul Islam, distributor and retailers, among others, were present on at the launching ceremony,