DHAKA: Bharti Airtel, India's No. 1 telecom carrier, announced a major expansion of its 4G services, preparing for competition with the entry of Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Jio Infocomm later this year, apart from rivals Vodafone and Idea Cellular.With tariffs already at rock bottom,

DHAKA: The total number of country's mobile phone subscribers reached 126.87 million at the end of June with over six and a half million new users in the first six months of the year.The country's telecom regulator showed the statistics on Thursday reports  article.wn.com.According to

DHAKA: Gionee has launched the Marathon M4 in India, priced at Rs. 15,499. The new Gionee smartphone will be available in India via offline and online stores.The Gionee Marathon M4- like other members of the Marathon series of smartphones - sports a large battery - 5000mAh battery in this

DHAKA: Xiaomi has confirmed an event scheduled for August 13 in China, where the company is expected to finally reveal its next flagship smartphone alongside the MIUI 7, the latest version of its ROM.Teasing the launch event, an administrator on the firm's MIUI forum said, "Xiaomi new

DHAKA UNIVERSITY: New media and other online social networking sites have been taking the place of traditional media as people are mostly depended on the new trends for publishing their articles and also for reading news feeds.Professor D Wayne Wanta of Florida University put importance

DHAKA: The Supreme Court has asked authorities concerned to connect all courts of the country under internet network within 15 days.The information revealed in the circular of the Supreme Court titled "internet connections at office with government expense”.According to the circular

DHAKA: Samsung has launched its slimmest smartphone, the Galaxy A8, in India pricing at Rs 32,500. Samsung Galaxy A8 is just 5.9mm thick but is not the slimmest in the market. Handsets like Gionee Elife S7, Oppo R5 and Vivo X5Max are 5.5mm, 4.85mm and 4.75mm thick respectively. Samsung

DHAKA: Ruling Awami League (AL) has made a warning on the fake Facebook IDs of the party and Prime Minister, also AL president Sheikh Hasina, her sister Sheikh Rehana and other members of their family including PM’s daughter Saima Wazed Putul.Earlier on Sunday, AL official Facebook page

DHAKA: Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, are expecting a baby girl.The couple made the announcement with a post on Zuckerberg’s Facebook page.‘Priscilla and I have some exciting news: we’re expecting a baby girl!’ he wrote to his 33 million

DHAKA: Facebook has built its own drone that will bring internet connectivity to remote parts of the world.The drone, which has a wingspan of a Boeing 737, will operate as high as 90,000 feet in the air, and can stay airborne for 90 days at a time.Facebook said the drones would be able to

DHAKA: Half of the world’s estimated online population now check in to the social networking giant Facebook at least once a month.Facebook said the number of people who use it at least monthly grew 13% to 1.49 billion in the three months to the end of June, reports the BBC.The number is

DHAKA: The government has informed the deputy commissioners (DC) that it would take measures to bring the remote areas under 3G network coverage by sharing towers.Cabinet division joint secretary Ashraf Shamim disclosed the matter at a press briefing by posts and telecommunications

DHAKA: Windows 10 marks a ‘new era’ for personal computing, Microsoft’s chief executive has said.The software, launched globally on Wednesday, is the company’s attempt to reverse its fortunes in the mobile industry.Windows 10 will be offered as a free upgrade to most existing

DHAKA: Additional secretary Golam Fakhruddin Ahmed Chowdhury has been appointed as managing director (MD) of Bangladesh Telecommunications Company Limited (BTCL).Public administration department issued an order in this regard on Tuesday.Fakhruddin was working as controller of electronic

DHAKA: A factory which allegedly made up to 41,000 fake Apple iPhones has been raided in China, with nine arrests.The operation reportedly involved ‘hundreds’ of workers repackaging second hand smartphone parts as new iPhones for export, with counterfeit phones produced worth 120m

DHAKA: The Samsung Z3 smartphone, which is the successor to the Tizen-powered Z1, will be launched in India, Bangladesh, and Nepal.According to a Sammobile report, the handset will have better specifications than its predecessor. It will be powered by a 1.3GHz quad-core Spreadtrum SC7730S

DHAKA: Chinese tech giant Huawei on Wednesday said its global smartphone sales jumped by 39% in the first half of the year.It comes after the world's fourth-biggest smartphone maker posted a 30% growth in overall revenue on Monday.Huawei said it shipped 48.2 million devices globally in

DHAKA: Apple has posted a record third quarter as soaring demand for iPhones sent profits higher.The technology giant sold 47.5 million iPhones in the quarter to 27 June, up 35% on a year ago, with Mac computer sales up 9% to 4.8 million.The performance resulted in what chief executive

DHAKA: Google+ Photos, the photo sharing solution built into Google’s social network Google+, is shutting down.However, Google Photos (note the lack of +) — as in the excellent, unlimited free photo host that Google launched back in May — will live on, reports techcrunch.com.The

DHAKA: Engineers have developed a unique smartphone that is unhackable and built from a special metal that is even stronger than titanium and steel, supposedly making it unbreakable.Called the Turing Phone, the smartphone's end-to-end encryption is built into most of the core apps on the