DHAKA: Blackberry will launch two mid-range Android handsets this year, chief executive John Chen has said. One will have a physical keyboard, the other a full touch-screen, reports the BBC. Blackberry has no plans to develop handsets for its own operating system, BB10, but will

DHAKA: Digital pioneer Martha Lane Fox has tweeted that she will be joining the board of US-based social network Twitter.   Baroness Lane-Fox tweeted that it would be the ‘best job ever’. Twitter has suffered some poor financial results lately, with a quarterly net loss of

DHAKA: The US Department of Justice has said it will pursue its request for Apple to help unlock an iPhone that is part of a drugs case in New York.   A letter filed to a local court said the government ‘continues to require Apple’s assistance’, reports the BBC.   In

DHAKA: South Korea’s Samsung Electronics is forecasting a 10% jump in operating profit for the first quarter. The world’s largest smartphone producer has said its operating profit in the January to March period is expected to reach 6.6 trillion Korean won ($5.6bn), reports the BBC.

DHAKA: Instant messaging service Whatsapp has announced it will encrypt all its users’ communications from Tuesday. With end-to-end encryption, messages are scrambled as they leave the sender’s device and can only be decrypted by the recipient’s device, reports the BBC. It

DHAKA: As the internet becomes dominated by images, Facebook is launching a system which can ‘read’ photos and tell visually impaired people what appears in them.   The internet is changing. From a medium based almost entirely on text, it is now becoming increasingly picture-led.

DHAKA: State minister for post and telecommunications Tarana Halim categorically said that the biometric re-registration for mobile SIM cards must be done by April 30. She made this assertion to the media at her secretariat office in city on Monday (April 4). The state minister said

DHAKA: Google has removed an April Fool’s Gmail button, which sent a comical animation to recipients, after reports of people getting into trouble at work. The button appeared beside Gmail’s normal send button and allowed users to shut down an email thread by sending a gif of a

DHAKA: Grameenphone (GP) has partnered with Facebook to launch Facebook Free Basics for its users in Bangladesh. The partnership will enable more people to come online and use basic internet services for free, says a press release on Wednesday (March 30). Free Basics by Facebook

DHAKA: Microsoft has apologized for creating an artificially intelligent chatbot that quickly turned into a holocaust-denying racist. But in doing so made it clear Tay’s views were a result of nurture, not nature. Tay confirmed what we already knew: people on the internet can be

DHAKA: IT companies from Netherlands have expressed their keenness to partner with Bangladeshi IT companies in Bangladesh. This was revealed in a seminar organized by the Dutch public agency CBI (Centre for the promotion of imports from developing countries), ITC, in association with

DHAKA: Apple has announced smaller versions of the iPhone and iPad Pro at an event hosted in San Francisco and streamed online. The iPhone SE has the same processing and graphics performance of the larger Apple 6S, the firm said, and can capture 4K video. The new iPad Pro will have

DHAKA: Robi high-value customers under Dhonnobad program can now enjoy international standard hospitality at Le Meridien Dhaka. In this regard, Robi’s Vice President, Customer Retention, Rafiqul Hoque and Le Meridien’s Director, Finance, Aftab Ansari signed the agreement on behalf

DHAKA: SD ASIA, one of the largest content and event making platform for Bangladeshi tech startups, is proud to bring back its flagship event ‘Innovation Xtreme’ for the second time this year, with country’s largest telecom operator Grameenphone as the lead sponsor. The event

DHAKA: Ali Ashfak of RM Systems Limited and Engineer Subrata Sarkar of C&C Trade International have respectively been made president and general secretary of Bangladesh Computer Samity (BCS) executive committee for 2016-17 on Wednesday (March 16).Moreover, Yousuf Ali Shamim of Computer

DHAKA: Country’s leading private mobile phone operator Grameenphone (GP) has successfully completed biometric verification re-registration of their over 23.27 million customers.The biometric verification process has been done as per the guidelines provided by BTRC and figure constitutes

DHAKA: Mayor Mohammad Sayeed Khokon said city dwellers would get free internet services at all primary roads (intersections of city’s major streets) and public places in Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) area.He made the announcement in a discussion on ‘Dhaka City Cleanliness

DHAKA: Banglalink Priyojon Customers will enjoy 20 percent discount on CNG Conversion at Intraco CNG Ltd from a period of March 8 to April 30.To provide the discounted service to its customers, Banglalink, the second largest telecom operator of Bangladesh, has launched a partnership

DHAKA: The two-day SAARC Tech Summit, jointly organized by CTO Forum Bangladesh and INFOCOM India, is underway for second day at BIAM Foundation auditorium in city’s New Eskaton area.Seven technical sessions are going on at the summit on Saturday (March 12) where local ICT experts along

DHAKA: Saint Joseph Higher Secondary School of Dhaka became the champion of i-Gen (Internet Generation) 2015, the internet-based competition.The program was held at Basundhara International Conference Centre (BICC) on March 10 (Thursday), says a press release issued by the Grameenphone