DHAKA: Facebook activated a safety notification check labeled ‘Paris terror attacks’ after dozens were killed in multiple attacks around the French capital late Friday.The Facebook tool allows users in the affected area to mark themselves as safe, and notify their friends on the

DHAKA: Ollo, the first 4G LTE introducer in Bangladesh, has brought a special retailer uSIM card for its selective Jessore customer.The price of this Retailer uSIM card is TK 997 and free unlimited data for 30 days.With this ultrafast internet speed & unlimited data customer can download

Days are about to go in using cash to pay for goods and services. Online banking, mobile banking, credit and debit cards, as well as stored-value cards, are accepted by merchants virtually everywhere.Trading and commerce became easier with this transformation of transaction. The

DHAKA: Apple has apologised to six schoolboys asked to leave one of their shops in Australia, in what the students described as a racist incident.Footage of the incident at Melbourne's Highpoint shopping centre emerged on Tuesday sparking a social media outcry, reports the BBC.A staff

DHAKA: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday categorically said that if necessity arises, services of social communication media like Viber and Whatsapp would be blocked temporarily to stop cyber crimes in the country.In response to a question of MP Hazi M Selim, the premier came up

DHAKA: Speakers at a two-day workshop on payment card risk management said that cyber threat on transaction has become the key concern worldwide.Protecting customers' personal data is not only good for business it has also become the law worldwide as there is risk, they added.The two-day

DHAKA: Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Corporation (BTRC) has signed an accord with Cannes-based Franco-Italian aerospace manufacturer Thales Alenia Space over Bangladesh’s ‘Bangabandhu Satellite’.Tk nearly 2,000-crore will cost to purchase satellite system to launch

DHAKA: He may be coming to the end of his presidency, but it’s apparently not too late in the game for President Barack Obama to get on Facebook.While many of the president’s initiatives make it to the White House Facebook page, Obama is using his new ‘public figure’ Facebook

DHAKA: A three-day ‘Edumaker Laptop Fair’ will begin at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre (BICC) in city on Thursday.Laptop manufacturing and marketing enterprises will show their latest products at the fair.The organizing group Expo Maker told this at a press conference in

DHAKA: Bangladesh Internet Exchange Ltd (BIEL) brand name Ollo, the first 4G LTE provider in the country, will provide the latest technology Gopalganj district.Ollo head of Commercial Niaz Mahmudul Islam, distributor and retailers, among others, were present on at the launching ceremony,

DHAKA: The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court (SC) Thursday upheld the High Court order that declared illegal the use of national anthem tune as ring tone or welcome tune in mobile phones.Three-member bench of appellate division, headed by Chief Justice SK Sinha passed the order

DHAKA: Facebook has reported a spike in profits in the third quarter on the back of increased advertising sales.The social media company reported net income was up 11% to $891m for the period between July and September compared with $806m last year.Facebook also reported strong user

DHAKA: Search giant Google has announced a date for the launch of its drone delivery service.Called Project Wing, the initiative aims to be delivering goods to consumers using the robot aircraft sometime in 2017.The announcement came from David Vos, the project leader for the delivery

DHAKA: Google plans to fold its Chrome operating system for personal computers into its Android mobile operating system, according to people familiar with the matter, a sign of the growing dominance of mobile computing.Google engineers have been working for roughly two years to combine

DHAKA: Google believes it is on course to have enough internet-beaming balloons in the stratosphere to form a ring over part of the world next year.It said the move would let it trial a continuous data service to people living below the balloons' path.The declaration coincides with the

DHAKA: Apple reported a jump in sales in the three months to September. The tech giant’s revenue was $51.5bn, up 22% compared with the same period last year.It sold over 48 million iPhones in the period, which it said were ‘record fourth quarter sales’, although the figure did miss

DHAKA: A new portable Windows 10 desktop mini PC has been launched this week called the Kangaroo and is now available to purchase price of $99 (Tk 7733.48). Offering a convenient way to carry your desktop PC in your pocket, reports the geeky-gadgets.comEquipped with an Atom x5 processor

DHAKA: Country’s largest mobile phone operator Grameenphone (GP) has introduced a new program to assist the ‘startup’ entrepreneurs in the country’s information and communications technology (ICT).SD Asia will cooperate in the ‘GP Accelerator’ program.The organizations made

DHAKA: Cyber threat has become a key concern all over the world living with the internet age, and Bangladesh is not from afar of this threat.Enterprises and social network community are also in the risk as it is clear that cyber-attacks are becoming ever more organized and subtle that

DHAKA: Business leaders have called for urgent action to tackle cyber-crime after an attack on TalkTalk, a British Telecom Group, calling it one of the biggest threats facing companies.The Institute of Directors (IoD) of UK said only “serious breaches” made the headlines, but attacks