DHAKA: Mobile phone industry giants Apple and Google have agreed to dismiss lawsuits they had brought against each other over technology patents. In a joint statement, the companies said they would work together in "some areas of patent reform". But the deal did not include licensing

These smart women made for some significant and groundbreaking changes in technology.Augusta Ada King, (left) Countess of Lovelace who was commonly known as "Ada Lovelace," worked on a very early computer known as the Analytical Engine in the 1800s. The daughter of poet Lord Byron, King

DHAKA: Google has received fresh takedown requests after a European court ruled that an individual could force it to remove ‘irrelevant and outdated’ search results. The BBC publishes this report on Thursday. An ex-politician seeking re-election has asked to have links to an article

DHAKA: Pro Vice Chancellor of Chittagong University Dr Iftekhar Uddin Chowdhury, also Dean of Business Studies Department of Premier University underscored the need for incorporating ICT knowledge and training into academic learning to build better future of students.  He was addressing

DHAKA: Ministry of Posts & Telecommunications, Ministry of Information and Communication Technology and Bangladesh Association of Software and Information Services (BASIS) are going to jointly organize country’s largest information technology fair ‘Digital World Fair-2014’. In this

DHAKA: The EU’s top court, in a surprise ruling on Tuesday, said that individuals do have the right to ask US Internet giant Google to delete personal data produced by its ubiquitous search engine. Taking up a complaint concerning a Spanish citizen, the European Court of Justice said

DHAKA: Mozilla has said it will test a plan that puts ads and sponsored content on the boxes that appear when Firefox users launch a new tab on the browser. Firefox displays nine boxes or ‘tiles’ showing screenshots of the websites visited most often by the user. Many users were

DHAKA: Daffodil Institute of IT and Bangladesh ICT Journalist Forum jointly arranged award giving ceremony for Basis outsourcing on Saturday. Executive Director of Daffodil Institute of IT Nuruzzaman presided over the program at the auditorium of Daffodil University. Post,

DHAKA: An appeals court on Friday breathed new life into Oracle’s big-money lawsuit against Google by ruling that software commands can be copyrighted just like classic books. The case stems from a 2012 trial, in which Oracle claimed Google owed them billions in damages for using parts

DHAKA: Country’s largest information technology fair ‘Digital World Fair-2014’ is scheduled to be held at Bangabandhu International Conference Center (BICC) in the city on June 4-7. The disclosure came from a press conference at a city hotel on Saturday. Soft Expo, E-Governance

DHAKA: Apple is in advanced talks to acquire headphone maker and music streaming operator Beats Electronics for USD 3.2 billion, Apple's largest purchase to date. The deal could be announced as early as the week of May 12. Apple is expected to buy Beats’ streaming service and its

DHAKA: The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) have launched a live-streaming from the International Space Station (ISS), which providing NASA all the movement around the world. The NASA informed that they have activated four HD cameras attached to the ISS on April 30,

DHAKA: Huawei Technologies said the Chinese telecommunications-equipment maker plans to increase investment and hiring in Europe as part of an effort to change perceptions of a company he acknowledged has been seen as ‘mysterious’. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal,

DHAKA: Some 25,000 government websites (National Portal) are going to be launched soon.The information installations of those national portals have already been completed. The service will be opened after the inauguration by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.Prime Minister's Office of

DHAKA: Being the target of allegations that include excessive drug use, keeping company with prostitutes, and murder, tech multi-millionaire John McAfee is likely someone who appreciates a bit of privacy, report CNET.So, clearly, he would be involved in a company that's working on

DHAKA: A California jury found both Apple and Samsung guilty of patent infringement over each other’s smartphones.The jury awarded Apple less than USD 120 million in damages for three patents infringed by Samsung, far below the USD 2 billion Apple sought from a total of five patents at

DHAKA: Social networking site Facebook said the website may have over 100 million ‘duplicate’ accounts, and their percentage being higher in developing countries, besides 5 to 15 million ‘undesirable’ accounts registered with it worldwide, as per company’s estimations. ‘There

DHAKA: The official Periodic Table of the Elements is likely to add the element 117 to its rank as an international team of scientists successfully created several atoms of element 117, which is currently known as Ununseptium until it’s given an official name.The paper for this

DHAKA: In continuation of their agreement signed in April, 2014 in Copenhagen, the Danish Company Coders Trust and Grameen Solutions Limited (GSL) announced their collaboration at a local Hotel in Dhaka on Friday. Danish Minister of Trade and Development Cooperation Mogens Jensen in a

KHULNA: Scientists at the developed countries are making astonishing invention of latest robots everyday and the Bangladeshi scientists are not staying far behind from it.  Young along the elder scientists at Bangladesh are putting their efforts to create new robots and they have been