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

DHAKA: All district towns, including metropolitans, have already brought under third generation (3G) network services.Now, the government has undertaken a plan to expand 3G facilities in upazilas and 2.5G in villages to bring rural people under the digital network.Post and

DHAKA: Xiaomi on Wednesday at its MIUI 7 launch event in New Delhi revealed the global MIUI 7 ROM alongside announcing availability of new coloured versions of Mi 4i as a limited edition.At the event, the Chinese smartphone maker announced that the MIUI 7 Beta starting Monday will be

DHAKA: Cloud storage is certainly the future, but local storage will never disappear completely.For redundancy purposes, it is smart to store your important files both online and on a hard drive or flash drive. This way, your data is protected from a disaster at home, or if the cloud

DHAKA: International Telecommunication Union (ITU) will confer ICT’s Sustainable Development Award 2015 to Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.The award will be handed over to the premier at 70th United Nation General Assembly (UNGA) in New York City on September 26.Federation of

DHAKA: Smartphone prices in India may fall by 11 percent year-on-year in 2015 with demand for 4G devices capturing 6 percent of the smartphone unit demand, research firm GfK said on Monday. Besides, India would be the largest contributor to smartphone sales growth globally, it added.In

DHAKA: Google has released the official Android 6.0 SDK for developers and opened Google Play to testing the first apps based on the latest version of the operating system.Known as ‘Android Marshmallow’, the latest OS was first previewed in May at Goolge I/O.Its new features include

DHAKA: Google has delayed its plans to trial its modular smartphone concept, codenamed Project Ara.The first Project Ara hardware was due to be trialled in Puerto Rico this year, but has been pushed back to at least 2016.The trial will take place in a new location in the US, the Project

DHAKA: Apple is building a driverless car and scouting for secure locations around San Francisco to test it.Quoting The Guardian, telecompaper on Monday reported the long-rumored Project Titan appears to be further advanced than expected.Members of Apple’s secretive special project