DHAKA: Apple and Samsung have agreed to withdraw all legal cases against each other outside the United States.The two rivals have sued each other over a range of patent disputes in nine countries outside the US, including the UK, South Korea, Japan and Germany.Samsung said the

DHAKA: Professional networking firm LinkedIn Corp. agreed to pay $6 million in wages and damages after regulators found it failed to account for all the hours worked by its employees.  This includes $3.3m in unpaid wages and $2.5m in damages to be paid to 359 former and current

DHAKA: When pharmacist Thuan Vuu plays basketball, he laces his feet into a pair of Nike Hyperdunk+ shoes fitted with a sensor that sends data to his iPhone. He can see how far he’s run and how high he’s jumped, and by setting himself goals – he aims for at least two kilometres per

DHAKA: Microsoft fired a legal salvo at longtime partner Samsung, accusing the South Korean giant of breaching a contract over licensing of technology used in the competitive smartphone market. ‘After becoming the leading player in the worldwide smartphone market, Samsung decided late

DHAKA: Personal data including text messages, contact lists and photos can be extracted from iPhones through previously unpublicized techniques by Apple Inc employees. The company acknowledged this week, reports gulfnews.com. The same techniques to circumvent backup encryption could be

DHAKA: Apple and Samsung have lost ground in the tablet computer market as growth cools in the once-hot segment.The research firm IDC said on Thursday, reports The Straits Times.An IDC survey said sales of tablets in the March-June period were 49.3 million, up a modest 11 percent from a

DHAKA: Once again demonstrating its mastery of the mobile computing wave, Facebook dazzled Wall Street on Wednesday by posting significant growth in revenue and profits for the second quarter, driven largely by ads shown in the news feeds of a billion Facebook users checking the

DHAKA: Apple reported a small increase in revenues for its fiscal third quarter to June, to USD 37.4 billion from USD 35.3 billion a year earlier, in line with its earlier guidance.The growth was driven by expanded distribution n China, where revenues rose 28 percent year-on-year to

DHAKA: Apple, widely known as Apple Inc., an American multinational company which manufactures iPhone, broke all its past record by selling 32.5 millions iPhone within three months. Following this, Apple's growth prospects are looking brighter as anticipation builds for the upcoming

DHAKA: Today’s Google doodle celebrates a Singaporean musical icon - composer Zubir Said. The musician best known for composing Singapore’s national anthem was born on July 22, 1907, 107 years ago, in the town of Bukit Tinggi in Minangkabau, Central Sumatra. Clicking on the doodle

DHAKA: To build up the ICT skilled and efficient human resources Bangladesh Hi-Tech Park authority and local training institutes have arranged a number of   training programs on ICT.  According to a press release, under the training programs, total 3000 people will get the opportunity

DHAKA: Internet giant Google has reported a 22% jump in revenue during the second quarter period from March through June compared to a year earlier. Revenue rose to $16bn (£9.4bn) and profits were up 6% to $3.4bn, said the firm in its earnings report. Strong demand for Google's

DHAKA: In a Thursday morning letter to his employees, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announced that the company would be cutting 18,000 jobs in the next year."We are moving now to start reducing the first 13,000 positions, and the vast majority of employees whose jobs will be eliminated

DHAKA: A new smart helmet that allows fighter pilots to see in the dark via an integrated night vision camera has been unveiled at the Farnborough Airshow. The Striker II, built by BAE Systems, features a visor that also acts as a high-definition display, which can project useful

DHAKA: A 3-day summit of the Commonwealth Telecommunications Organization (CTO) will be held in Dhaka from September 8. Bangladesh government and Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) will jointly host the event. Preparations for this global leading technology forum

DHAKA: A future in which it is difficult to tell man and machine apart could soon become reality, scientists say, after recent robotic breakthroughs in Japan.But as the once-fantastical idea of wise-cracking android sidekicks takes form in laboratories and the gap between humans and

DHAKA: Microsoft Corp is expected to surpass Yahoo Inc for the first time in the US$140.2 billion worldwide digital advertising market, according to estimates by research firm eMarketer released on Tuesday. Microsoft’s global ad revenue share for 2014 is forecast at 2.54 percent,

DHAKA: Microsoft Corp is planning its biggest round of job cuts in five years as the software maker looks to integrate Nokia Oyj’s handset unit. Bloomberg reported, citing people with knowledge of the company’s plans, says The Times of India. The reductions, expected to be announced

DHAKA: Samsung has temporarily suspended business with one of its suppliers, Dongguan Shinyang Electronics, after conducting an investigation prompted by China Labor Watch report on 10 July accusing the Chinese supplier of employing children. Samsung’s investigation found evidence of

DHAKA: Sajeeb Wazed Joy, son of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, has asked Internet Service Providers (ISP) to ensure superfast internet of 1 MBPS speed across the country.Joy, also ICT affairs adviser to the premier, came up with the plea while talking to the ISPs in a view-exchange