KHULNA: Nowadays, almost everyone has a smart-phone and people have to take their phone out of their pockets to receive a call or to check messages but this can cause disturbances while attending a meeting or in a bus full of passengers. How it would have been if even one could receive

DHAKA: Hazrat Shah Jalal International Airport, widely known as Dhaka International Airport or formerly known as Zia International Airport and Dacca International Airport, is the largest gateway to come in or go out from Bangladesh.The airport handles more than 5.6 million passengers and

DHAKA: Microsoft Corp`s board faces a lawsuit over the way it handled an error with its Internet Explorer browser that ended up costing the company a record-breaking $731 million fine by European antitrust regulators.The lawsuit, brought by shareholder Kim Barovic in federal court in

Here’s the rumor; Apple will release its iWatch in Q3 (sometime this fall). Apple is supposedly so confident that its iWatch will be a hit that it has ordered 65 million units from factories in Southeast Asia, including from regular supplier Samsung. Here’s how likely it is that this

DHAKA: Google will make it controversial internet-linked Glass eyewear available for purchase for a limited time in the United States beginning on April 15.Anyone in the United States with $US1,500 to spend on Glass will be able to join the ranks of ‘explorers’ who have gotten to test

DHAKA: Bangladesh’s advancement in the information and technological sector drew attention of the people around the globe and institutions from around the world want to participate in the sector.This is why the country needs to exploit its information and technological potentiality to

DHAKA: The government is going to provide multimedia projector and laptop including internet connections to a total of 23,331 institutions that have power connections, said an official of Directorate of Secondary and Higher Education.The initiative has been taken under the “ICT for

DHAKA: Twitter, second giant social media is going to get ‘Facebook flavor’ following the leading social connector.It has already begun revamping profile pages to let users display more of their online personalities, giving the popular service a Facebook-like feel from Wednesday.Zee

DHAKA: Country’s one of the largest mobile phone operators Banglalink has introduced 3G service in Sylhet.The company launched the service through a press conference at Rose View Hotel in Sylhet on Tuesday.Banglalink regional commercial head Sheikh Nur-ul-Alam said: “Banglalink always

DHAKA: Information minister Hasanul Haque Inu said computer education will be made compulsory in secondary levels of the schools from next year.He came up with disclosure on Wednesday noon at a seven-day computer and mobile fair in Eastern Plus Shopping Centre in city’s Shantinagar

DHAKA: Six of the biggest movie studios have sued Megaupload and its key operators, including founder Kim Dotcom.They have alleged the site and its operators ‘facilitated, encouraged, and profited’ from copyright infringement.Megaupload was one of the largest file-sharing sites before

DHAKA: Samsung expects to report flat sales and lower operating profit for the first quarter.The company said it expects revenue at KRW 53 trillion, little changed from the year-earlier period, and operating profit of KRW 8.4 trillion, down from KRW 8.8 trillion in Q1 2013.This would be

DHAKA: Nokia announced that the planned sale of its mobile phone business to Microsoft has received regulatory clearance in China.This was the final major country to approve the deal and the last condition to completing the acquisition.Nokia and Microsoft expect the transaction to close

DHAKA: Though Samsung is yet to officially announce the price of Galaxy S5, the company’s flagship Android phone, retailers are jumping the gun ahead of April 11, the day when the device will go on sale.Manish Khatri, a retailer in Mumbai, on Monday revealed that Galaxy S5 carries a

DHAKA: Bangladesh Internet Exchange Ltd (BIEL) has shown first LTE FDD network trial to Bangladeshi telecom community and journalists.Upon receiving BWA license and fulfilling their financial obligations, BIEL is starting LTE 4G network rollout. BIEL started LTE trial network in Dhaka

DHAKA: The personal data gathering abilities of Google, Facebook and other tech companies has sparked growing unease among Americans, with a majority worried that internet companies are encroaching too much upon their lives.A new poll showed.Google and Facebook generally topped lists of

DHAKA: Customers will enjoy some five percent discount on market price, if they book Nokia Lumia 630 model handset at the Robi Smartphone and Tab Expo-2014 in the city.The handset is yet to avail at the local markets and the discount will be given first come first served basis.Nokia

DHAKA: A new atomic clock unveiled Thursday (April 3) is three times more accurate than the one previously used to keep official time in the United States, making it the most precise timekeeper yet developed.The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), an agency of the U.S.

DHAKA: A new mobile messaging application called FireChat is empowering nearby smartphone users to stay in touch even when there`s no cellular service or Internet connection.In just two weeks since its release on the iPhone, FireChat already has provided a flicker of hope for people

DHAKA: The European Parliament (EP) on Thursday voted to end mobile phone roaming charges by late December of 2015, reports the Euronews.It will also stop telecoms operators from prioritising some internet traffic over others, doing things like blocking the free VOIP calling service