DHAKA: Facebook's CEO Mark Zuckerberg has met with a group of conservative pundits and media personalities to defend the site against allegations of bias. The perspective practices at the world’s largest social network came under inquiry after a former Facebook contractor

DHAKA: Robi and Symphony have recently launched the cheapest smartphone Symphony E12 and E58 at Tk 2,390 and Tk 2,590 respectively with Robi bundle offer. With purchase of either of these handsets, the Robi subscriber will enjoy 500 minutes free talk-time (any mobile operators’

DHAKA: A hacker is advertising what he says is more than one hundred million LinkedIn logins for sale. The IDs were reportedly sourced from a breach four years ago, which had previously been thought to have included a fraction of that number. At the time, the business-focused social

DHAKA: Samsung Mobile Bangladesh has recently announced an exclusive bundle offer for its J series handsets in collaboration with telecom operator Robi. With this exclusive offer, Robi subscribers can enjoy bundle with Samsung Galaxy J1 Nxt, J1 Ace, and J2 handsets worth Tk 4,000,

DHAKA: Abdullah H Kafi, CEO of JAN Associate, will attend the Canon Expo 2016 to start on May 19 in Shanghai. He will join the ribbon cutting ceremony which is a prestigious association for any participant joining the expo, a press release said on Tuesday (May 17). Last year

DHAKA: Mobile phone giant Vodafone has said its underlying business is now growing for the first time since 2008, helped by a revival in Europe. Full-year earnings for the group grew 2.7% to £11.6bn, and it increased its dividend payout to shareholders by 2%, reports the BBC. Its

DHAKA: World Telecommunication and Information Society Day is being marked in Bangladesh along with other countries. With the slogan of ‘ICT-based commercial initiatives are needed for social development’, the telecommunication ministry has chalked out different programs to mark

DHAKA: Microblogging site Twitter is to stop counting photographs and links in its 140-character limit for tweets. A report from Bloomberg said, according to the BBC. The change could be made within the next two weeks, Bloomberg quoted a source as saying. The company has not yet

DHAKA: State minister for ICT Zunaid Ahmed Palak with his delegation completed his 3-day visit in South Korea to explore the potential of cooperation measures between the countries in the ICT sector. Both countries have been making efforts to upgrade the overall cooperation into ICT

DHAKA: US embassy Dhaka’s Facebook page gained its three-millionth fan on May 13, making it the first US embassy Facebook page worldwide to reach this milestone. ‘Every day, we engage with thousands of Bangladeshis on our Facebook page and talk with them about women’s

DHAKA: Non-biometric SIMs will be blocked permanently after May 31 midnight. State minister for posts and telecommunications Tarana Halim made the announcement after a meeting with mobile operator high-ups at her office in city on Sunday (May 15). Meanwhile, she also said,

DHAKA: Banglalink, one of the largest telecom operators in Bangladesh, has launched 3G smartphone at Tk 3,499 with the joint venture of Micromax. Any existing or new Banglalink prepaid, call & control and postpaid customers are eligible for the exclusive offer to enjoy a lucrative

FROM BICC PREMISES: A three-day ‘Summer Laptop Fair’ has begun at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre (BICC) in city on Friday (May 13). Science and technology minister Yeafesh Osman inaugurated the fair as chief guest at 4:00pm on the day. The fair, organized by EXPO

DHAKA: Apple has invested $1bn in Didi Chuxing, the car-hailing app that has a greater market share than US rival Uber in China. Tim Cook, chief executive, said that the move would help Apple to better understand the Chinese market, reports the BBC. Didi Chuxing, previously known as

DHAKA: Google has announced plans to ban ads from so-called payday lenders, in a move the company hopes will limit what it calls a ‘harmful’ industry. The search giant plans to stop allowing ads for loans due within 60 days or with an interest rate of 36% or higher. Google's

DHAKA: Online retail giant Amazon has launched an online video service to rival Google’s YouTube. Amazon Video Direct will allow users to post videos and earn royalties. Viewers can rent and buy content or watch it for free with adverts. An ad-free version is offered to Amazon

DHAKA: Symphony Mobile the leading brand of Bangladesh has launched a new Smartphone name “Symphony H300”. This handset contains Android 5.1 Lollipop version with 1.4 GHz Octacore Processor, includes a 5-inch IPS HD display, Two GB of RAM and 16 GB of ROM, containing designs from a

DHAKA: A three-day Summer Laptop Fair-2016 will kick off at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre (BICC) at Agargaon in city on Friday (May 13). This is the 17th edition of laptop expo, says a press release issued on Monday (May 9). Local and International technology product

DHAKA: Beijing court has ruled in favour of Facebook and against a Chinese company which had registered ‘face book’ as a separate trademark. The court said the firm had ‘violated moral principles’ with ‘obvious intention to duplicate and copy from another high-profile

DHAKA: South Korea on Sunday (May 8) donated 130 computers for some rural areas of Bangladesh as contribution to latter’s overall ICT development. The donation came from a program, organized by the ICT Division, at Bangabandhu International Conference Center (BICC) in city. The