Thursday, 02 May, 2024

Tech

Unique Business introduces Optoma S315

DHAKA: Unique Business Systems Ltd has introduced Optoma S315 model multimesia projector in Bangladesh market.Ideal for use in a meeting room or classroom, the bright 3200L S315 with 20,000:1 contrast allows you to project bright, crystal clear images with superb colours using DLP®,

Apple CEO fires back as retailers block Pay

DHAKA: Apple Inc CEO Tim Cook fired back at CVS and Rite Aid on Monday after the drugstore chains blocked the iPhone maker’s mobile payments service, saying there were plenty of other retailers around the world to sign up.Apple Pay launched about a week ago and saw more than a

Industries ministry introduces e-filing

DHAKA: Industries ministry has taken initiatives to introduce e-filing system in every sphere of the ministry aiming to provide prompt service to the entrepreneurs.The minister has experimentally initiated the system in its two branches and it is expected to be begun fully from

Don’t open strangers’ PP Presentations random

DHAKA: Heads up! In what feels like a throwback to the late 90s/early 2000’s, Microsoft has discovered one helluva bug in Microsoft Office.Executed properly, the bug could be exploited to take over your entire system running just about any version of Windows, reports

First look at 3D camera app 3DAround

DHAKA: What if you could shoot those cool 360-degrees, swivel-around photos you see on ecommerce sites or in The Matrix with just your smartphone?Then you’d be using the 3DAround camera app that launches next month from Dacuda, reports the Tech Crunch.Simply hit record, revolve your

Soft robotic exoskeleton to reduce fatigue and injuries

DHAKA: The term “robotic exoskeleton” conjures up images of a heavy contraption with a metal frame and powerful motors that endow the wearer with super-human strength.While that’s certainly one way to think of robotic exoskeletons — like some members of Daewoo’s workforce

Stephen Hawking joins Facebook

DHAKA: The famous theoretical physicist professor Stephen Hawking is now on Facebook, asking fans to be ‘curious’.In his first Facebook post, Hawking said, ‘I have always wondered what makes the universe exist. Time and space may forever be a mystery, but that has not stopped my

The Queen sends 1st tweet for Science Museum

DHAKA: "It is a pleasure to open the Information Age exhibition today at the @ScienceMuseum and I hope people will enjoy visiting. Elizabeth R."That was the Queen's first tweet - sent through the @BritishMonarchy account - heralding the launch of a major new exhibition at London's

Ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn released

DHAKA: The latest version of Ubuntu, 14.10, has been officially released.Version 14.10 — dubbed Utopic Unicorn — doesn’t bring much to the table in terms of new features, but it does mark an important anniversary.Ten years ago this week, the very first version of Ubuntu was

No more ‘Nokia’ phone: Microsoft

DHAKA: Microsoft has announced that the Nokia Lumia brand is dead; there will be no more Nokia-branded Windows Phones.Instead, we’ll now get Microsoft Lumia devices — and in the next few days, all of the existing branding, websites, and social channels will be rebranded as

ITEE examination Sunday

DHAKA: Some 450 local IT professionals and students will sit Sunday for International Standardized Information Technology Engineers Examination (ITEE) in Dhaka to get a global recognition of their IT skills. The examination will be held at Dhaka University, Bangladesh University of

Google launches new email service

DHAKA: Google Inc launched an email service called ‘Inbox’ on Wednesday that will better organize emails and display information such as appointments, flight bookings and package deliveries in a more user-friendly way.Google said it was sending out invitations to selected Gmail

Bangladesh’s mobile phone users now 12cr

DHAKA: Bangladesh is the 10th in world ranking with around 11.75 crore mobile phone subscribers out of its some 16 crore people.Out of 700 crores people of the world, 680 crores use mobile phones.The information was disclosed in a workshop titled ‘Development of Strategy and

Your Instagram picture is worth a thousand ads

DHAKA: Alina Tsvor, 24, is a freelance photographer who sometimes struggles to make ends meet. But when she wanted to charter a helicopter to take her and her friends for a ride over Chicago, she had the currency.Nikoletta Csanyi, 28, a banking consultant, leveraged her capital for a

Sony Xperia Z4 specifications, features leaked

DHAKA: Sony Xperia Z3 is less than two months old, but it seems that the Japanese manufacturer won't take long to launch its next top-end smartphone.According to a report by technology website AndroidOrigin, Sony Xperia Z4 is said to sport a 5.5-inch screen with a QHD 2560 x 1440

Banglanews English Version in New Look

DHAKA: banglanews24.com, country’s top and the new-generation multimedia news portal to disseminate news for round-the-clock news, made changes in its English Version.To live up to with new ideas, cutting-edge outlook and futuristic vision for info-savvy new generations, banglanews

Here's what hackers do with your data

DHAKA: The past few weeks have seen a flurry of hacker activity. From the leak of celebrity nudes to the 200,000 Snapchat photos stolen and posted on 4chan, to the most recent infiltration of Dropbox, it's clear hackers have moved on from the days of stealing our credit card

Apple SIM: The death of the SIM card

DHAKA: The little gold-plated circuits — which identify you as a subscriber on a particular carrier — plug into phones, tablets, and basically anything else with a cellular radio.Customers of GSM carriers have been using them since time immemorial; CDMA carriers have started using

Comet to hit Mars spacecraft

DHAKA: A comet is speeding toward a close-encounter with Mars. Comet Siding Spring is expected to come within 87,000 miles of Mars at about 2:27pm ET (0727 GMT) on Sunday – very close for a comet flyby.The space rock is moving at about 126,000 mph.NASA thinks the comet will miss the

Tinfoil for FB to protect privacy on Android

DHAKA: The Facebook app and its Messenger counterpart have been met with a lot of criticism from users. Among the reviews, you'll find complaints about permission settings and the lack of features in each app when compared to the mobile Web UI, reports cnet.com.  As an alternative to