DHAKA: The government has a plan of creating 10 lakh job opportunities in the Information Technology (IT) sector within next four years by increasing one crore internet users per year. The State Minister for ICT affairs Zunaid Ahmed Palak made the disclosure Friday morning while

DHAKA: Bangladeshi IT specialist Misbah Uddin has achieved the prestigious Applied Networking Research Prize (ANRP) of Internet Research Task Force (IRTF).He has been awarded with the prize recently at the 91st session of Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) held at Hilton Hawaiian

DHAKA: The global smartphone market will see cooler growth in the next few years, amid “cut-throat” competition that will bring down prices for many consumers, a market tracker said.A forecast by the research firm IDC indicates smartphone sales of 1.5 billion units in 2015, a

DHAKA: Gmail has been undergoing plenty of changes lately. First, it introduced the integration with Google Drive, which allowed users to email files up to 10GB.  Then, it introduced customizable tabs and themes. Google has also upped its security by completely encrypting Gmail.Now,

DHAKA: Facebook is launching free anti-virus software that monitors for malicious activity and offers to scan infected computers directly from the social network.The scanning software is being provided by security firm Eset and is intended to protect Facebook accounts from being

DHAKA: The future of mobile is being redefined. The smartphone and tablet markets are nearing saturation.Businessinsider.com publishes this report recently.According to a report, published by it, said that the days of heady hardware growth are long gone.Mobile growth is moving into

DHAKA: Micro-blogging site Twitter has now given its users more control of their photos. The Twitter app for iOS and Android devises has replaced its photo filter grid with an easier to use Instagram-style row of adjustable filters.Double tapping the filters shows an intensity slider

DHAKA: British theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking has warned that development of artificial intelligence could mean the end of humanity.In an interview with the BBC, the scientist said such technology could rapidly evolve and overtake mankind, a scenario like that envisaged in the

DHAKA: The next time your iPhone is about to fall onto the ground, it might just rotate in mid-air and save itself from damage.An Apple Insider report said that Apple has been granted a patent for a futuristic iPhone protection system that recognises when a phone is dropped.The device

DHAKA: Just one week after announcing a new search partnership with Yahoo, Mozilla is rolling out a new Firefox interface that will enable one-click searches for an array of specific search engines.A report, published on toptechnews, said that in addition to a set of pre-installed

DHAKA: It cuts through plastic! It burns holes in walls!It ... tells time?Like something out of a James Bond film, it's a watch -- equipped with a laser. Its inventor, Patrick Priebe, built it during downtime from his full-time gig creating props and modestly describes it as a "tiny

DHAKA: It looks like a throwback to the Apollo era, but NASA's new spaceship is roomier and designed to go far beyond the moon -- to an asteroid and eventually Mars.According to a report, published on CNN, Orion is scheduled to lift off on its first test flight at 7:05am ET Thursday

DHAKA: If you've ever fancied a favorite color’s case for your smartphone but that’s not available in the market, this could be just what you're looking for.  The balloon, which costs the rock bottom price, and it will take just 10 seconds to put on.    The first step

DHAKA: Disappointing sales of the Apple iPhone 5C will inevitably lead to an early exit from the market for the brightly colored smartphone, as the company is said to be preparing to take it off the shelves next year. 2011’s iPhone 4S was discontinued only in September this year which

DHAKA: Computer Source Ltd (CSL), country’s one of the largest technology distributors, has started selling the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus in Bangladesh from this week. The latest Apple handsets are available both in cash and installments at ‘Authorized Apple Shop’ in CSL Dhanmondi branch

DHAKA: A two-day international conference on Information Technology (IT) is scheduled to be held here from December 22. Daffodil International University (DIU) will arrange the 17th Computer and IT conference on its campus in Ashulia with the cooperation of Information and Communication

DHAKA: The Independent and Telegraph as well as the CNBC website have been hacked by the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA). Twitter users have suggested other sites including PC World,  Forbes, OK Magazine, the NHL, Elsevier and Dell’s UK site have also been affected.Pop ups reading

DHAKA: European privacy regulators want Internet search engines such as Google and Microsoft's Bing to scrub results globally, not just in Europe, when people invoke their "right to be forgotten" as ruled by an EU court. The European Union's privacy watchdogs agreed on a set of

DHAKA: Apple set a record by becoming the first company to be valued at $700bn.The iPhone maker was already the world’s most valuable business, but in early trading its shares rose nearly 1% to $119.75, giving it a market capitalization of $701.7bn, reports The Guardian.This is

DHAKA: Drones, self-driving cars, robots, balloons providing internet access – Google is stretching a long way from search. Now the company has added a “smart” spoon to its portfolio of hi-tech products.Google has started promoting its Liftware spoon, a utensil that uses hundreds