Wednesday, 08 May, 2024

Tech

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

Optoma S315 DLP Projector available

DHAKA: Unique Business system Limited, a renowned ICT product distributor of the country, has introduced a new model of Optoma S315 DLP Projector in the local market, considering the day to day business need and being.Business presentations are only as good as the content. Besides,

Dropbox: We weren't hacked!

DHAKA: A group of anonymous hackers claims to have stolen nearly 7 million Dropbox username and password combinations. But Dropbox denied that it was hacked.The hackers have posted several hundred email addresses and passwords so far on Pastebin.com, releasing more logins as they

Google launches Apple TV rival Nexus Player

DHAKA: Google just staked its — third, fourth? — claim for the living room with the Nexus Player. The search giant announced seemingly out of the blue on October 15 that its Android TV-based set-top box will be available for pre-order starting October 17.Despite previous leaks of

Apple Announces The iMac With Retina Display

DHAKA: In addition to showing off updates to the iPad lineup, Apple announced this year’s new iMac, the first Apple desktop to receive a Retina display.Packaged in a thin body like the last few iMacs, this new all-in-one packs a 27-inch Retina 5K display with 14.7 million pixels

Rain? Air-Brella Soon!

DHAKA: Umbrellas are kind of terrible. They’re a pain to carry around with you all day, they turn inside-out in the wind, and it’s a wonder that more eyes aren’t poked out by those protruding metal edges when a crowd of people funnel out of a train station and unfurl them all at

Facebook challenging YouTube in video supremacy

DHAKA: In Facebook’s house, Facebook gets what Facebook wants. And what Facebook wants right now is to challenge YouTube for dominance in video consumption.Big surprise: Facebook is now challenging YouTube for dominance in video consumption — within its walls, anyway. According to

Apple's iPad Air 2 and iPad Mini 3 tablets are unveiled

DHAKA: Apple announced a new version of its tablet, the iPad Air 2, which it said was the thinnest device of its kind on the market. It is 6.1mm (0.24in) thick, and also gains a Touch ID fingerprint sensor.It has an anti-reflective coating on the screen for the first time, and the

Apple leaks new iPad details

DHAKA: Apple tries very hard to keep its big announcements secret. The latest culprit responsible for ruining one of the tech company's surprises is -- Apple. The day before a media event at its Cupertino, California, headquarters, the company accidentally leaked key details about new

Google unveils Nexus 6 with Android 5.0 Lolipop

DHAKA: The next-generation Nexus smartphone with Android 5.0 Lollipop was unveiled on Wednesday, and while there's no word yet on the Google Nexus 6 price in India, we do know the price and availability details in the US. In a departure from tradition, the Google Nexus 6 is not being

Potato power to light the world

DHAKA: Mashed, boiled, baked or fried? You probably have a preference for your potatoes. Haim Rabinowitch, however, likes his spuds “hacked”. For the past few years, researcher from Hebrew University of Jerusalem Rabinowitch and colleagues have been pushing the idea of “potato

Robots will be next smartphones

DHAKA: When you think about robots and Japan, you're likely to imagine large, incredibly life-like androids that emulate humans in every way, or shiny metallic mechanical butlers that fulfils your every whim. But what if robots were instead made from plastic, fitted into your pocket or

Robi offers affordable smartphone

DHAKA: Robi Axiata Limited, the country’s fastest growing mobile operator, has partnered with a number of leading smartphone makers in the world to take quality internet service to the masses. Robi has identified the lack of affordable smartphone as the key barrier to spreading

Snapchat hacked!

DHAKA: Snapsaved.com, a website which allows users to save images sent via Snapchat, claimed that hackers had breached its servers and made off with some 500 megabytes of photographs. The claim by the little-known website sheds some light on reports in past days that hackers were

Social media to track Hudhud affected areas

DHAKA: India Andhra Pradesh government's move to leverage the power of technology and involve citizens in disaster management works post 'Hudhud' devastation seems to be yielding dividends as scores of people have uploaded pictures of affected areas from their smartphones.The Indian

iPad mini 3 to be unveiled alongside iPad Air 2

DHAKA: We're fully expecting to see the iPad Air 2 at Apple's event on Thursday but there was some doubt as to whether we'd also see the iPad mini 3.There have been comparatively few rumours about the slate and some of them have pointed to a release in 2015. But a new report from Mac

‘It came and it went’

DHAKA: Today, we have Windows 8.1. The next version of Windows is on its way: Windows 10. So, what happened to Windows 9?"It came and it went," said new Microsoft Windows boss Tony Prophet on stage at the Dreamforce conference in San Francisco. He was quoting Microsoft CEO Satya

Grameenphone targets 50m internet users in 5-yr

DHAKA: Grameenphone, one of the leading mobile-phone operator in the country, has made a target to create 50 million internet users in Bangladesh within the next five years.The company, however, also became the first-ever mobile telecom operator to cross the 50 million subscribers

‘Amazon is biggest search rival’

DHAKA: Google chairman Eric Schmidt has said the firm’s biggest rival in online search is e-commerce giant Amazon. Schmidt fought back at claims that Google enjoyed unrivalled dominance of the online search market. ‘Many people think our main competition is Bing or Yahoo. But,

Samsung develops 5x faster wi-fi technology

DHAKA: Samsung Electronics said it has developed a wi-fi technology that can increase data transmission speeds by five times the maximum rate possible with existing consumer electronics devices. The 60GHz wi-fi technology will enable a 1GB movie to be transferred between devices in less