DHAKA: State Minister for Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Zunaid Ahmed Palak on Thursday said that it is possible to promote the amount of annual income to $50 billion from the IT sector by 2041 from the current 300m.He was addressing a daylong workshop in a city hotel on

DHAKA: The search giant on Tuesday unveiled a new logo a few weeks after surprising the world with a massive restructuring that would put Google under a holding company called Alphabet.Among the changes: Its hues are flatter, and it closely resembles Alphabet's logo, particularly with

DHAKA: The total number of country's internet users reached 5.7 crore at the end of July this year with over 4 crore 95 lakh 41 thousnads mobile internet users.The country's telecom regulator Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) showed the statistics on Tuesday

DHAKA: Indian authorities have accused internet giant Google of abusing its dominance in search advertising.The three year inquiry centers on complaints filed by several websites which claimed Google had been unfairly highlighting its own services.The accusations are similar to other

DHAKA: The government has taken decision on Monday to reduce the cost of internet from September 1 to access the global network easily.The users will get 1 MBPS (Megabyte per second) in a reduced price of Tk 625 from the previous rate Tk 1,068.However, the price will be applicable for

DHAKA: Techsolutions, a concern of the monthly Techworld Bangladesh, and E=Qualz, a team of programmers and web designers joined hands to provide better web and software services to their customers.TechSolutions managing director Naznin Nahar and E=Qualz managing director Rakib signed the

DHAKA: The Turing Phone, which was unveiled as the 'unhackable, unbreakable, and waterproof' in July this year, now finally has a shipping date - December 18.The secure Android smartphone would start shipping on the same day when the Star Wars: The Force Awakens releases and the company

DHAKA: Apple has sent out invitations for what is all but certain to be the launch of its next-generation smartphone, likely to be called either the iPhone 6S or iPhone 7, on September 9.The date had been widely anticipated – as has the feature list for the new iPhone, which has left

DHAKA: For the first time over a billion people used Facebook on a single day, according to company founder Mark Zuckerberg.The "milestone" was reached on Monday, when "1 in 7 people on Earth used Facebook to connect with their friends and family", he said in a post.Facebook has nearly

DHAKA: CTO Forum Bangladesh and BIBM in association with Visa organized a seminar on IT security in city on Thursday.The seminar titled ‘IT Security and Fraud Detection – Securing the Digital Payments in Bangladesh’ was held on BIBM premises.The seminar was inaugurated by Nazneen

DHAKA: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina asked the information commission (IC) to inspire people to get information of government and private organizations and put their complains through online.The premier came up with this assertion while receiving annual report of information commission of

DHAKA: A four-member judges delegation from International Crime Tribunal led by ICT- 2 Chairman Justice Obaidul Hassan visited The Hague in Netherlands on August 23-26.The other members of the delegation included Justice M Enayetur Rahim, Chairman of ICT-1, Justice Jahangir Hossain and

DHAKA: Facebook, the world’s largest social network, has begun a limited trial rollout of its virtual assistant M.The virtual assistant will be part of Facebook’s Messenger app for iOS and Android, and compete directly with Apple’s Siri, Google Now and Microsoft’s Cortana.The

DHAKA: A writ petition was filed with the High Court challenging the legality of Section 57 of the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Act.One behalf of one Zakir Hossain, lawyer Shishir Munir submitted the plea on Wednesday.According to Section 57 (1) and (2), if any person

DHAKA: Sony has launched the newly announced Xperia C5 Ultra Dual in India, priced at Rs. 29,990. Targeted at selfie lovers, the smartphone will be available from Wednesday in Black, White, and Glossy Soft Mint colour variants. Sony has not launched the single-SIM variant in the country,

DHAKA: Google’s Android Pay service will launch in the US 26 August, according to a report from Android Police.It discovered that McDonald’s has sent its restaurants a mailing informing staff of the new payment service.This said that Samsung Pay would start 21 August and Android Pay

DHAKA: A seminar on the security of information technology (IT) and its proper usages will be held on Thursday (August 27).CTO Forum Bangladesh and Bangladesh Institute of Bank Management (BIBM) will organized the seminar at BIBM building in city.The organizers said at a press conference

DHAKA: Mozilla, a free-software community, launched a new Android app version of Webmaker that focused on participants from three main markets – Bangladesh, India, and Kenya. It is for Android devices and available currently in four languages: Bengali, Brazilian Portuguese, English and

DHAKA: Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Agricultural University is one of the leading higher educations and research based agricultural university in Bangladesh. Department of Biotechnology of this university is play a vital rule in advance research at molecular level.Recently 2-day

PANCHAGARH: The now-defunct enclaves in Panchagarh district were brought under internet coverage to ensure easy access to information and communication technology for new Bangladeshis.A digital sub-center was also established at Garati area of the district on Saturday with the view to