DHAKA: Festival authorities have extended the closing time of the ongoing “Digital World-2015” at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre in the city for two more hours on Thursday due to growing number of visitors. According to the new schedule, curtain of the event will now

DIGITAL WORLD FAIRGROUND: If anyone asks you to suggest an app to chat simultaneously with text, audio and video - what will be your answer?Okay, we are helping you – Whatsapp, Viber, Team viewer or Skype.Yes, all are right. They are famous around the world, but, surely they will also

DHAKA: Google throws millions of dollars and hundreds of PhDs into making its search engine easier to use. And it’s important that they do, because most of us treat it like a sentient oracle rather than bothering to carefully craft our queries: “Where’s the best pizza in Camden? Who

DHAKA: Finance Minister AMA Muhith asked the authorities concerned to bring 80 percent people of the country under Information Technology (IT).The minister came up with the plea while addressing a ministerial conference at Bangabandhu International Convention Centre in city’s Agargaon

FROM DIGITAL WORLD, BICC: A ministerial conference has been arranged on the second day of the 4-day ‘Digital World’ Information Technology exposition at Bangabandhu International Convention Centre in city’s Agargaon area on Tuesday.Besides the host Bangladesh, some cabinet members

FROM DIGITAL WORLD, BICC: The inauguration of ‘Digital World-2015’ exposition has ushered the door to the congregation ground for both the Information Technology (IT) experts and young buffs from several countries. A total of 85 IT experts from 25 countries are attending the 4-day

DHAKA: Technology enthusiast can start counting days as Apple Watch is almost ready to be wearing on your wrist.If nothing goes wrong, Apple Watch will go on sale in April, said the company chief executive Tim Cook, reports the Telegraph.According to the report, though it is slightly

DHAKA: The 4-day international event on Information, Communication and Technology (ICT) titled ‘Digital World 2015’ is set to begin at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre (BICC) in the capital from Monday.Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will inaugurate the show at 3:00pm on the

MALAYSIA: Excel, Microsoft’s spreadsheet application (also compatible for Mac OS), features calculation, graphing tools, pivot tables, and a macro programming language called Visual Basic for Applications.Many of us know that MS Excel can be used for the above purpose but do not know

DHAKA: OPPO, a global technology brand with a long history of serving customers in North America, Europe and Asia, has unveiled world record holder thinnest smartphone Oppo R5 in Bangladesh.A color program was organized at Bashundhara City shopping complex at capital’s Panthpoth to

DHAKA: So much for old-fashioned air conditioning: What if you could harness the universe to cool your house?Some US Stanford University engineers may have figured out how to do just that, reports the CNN.According to a paper in the scientific journal Nature, a team led by Stanford

DHAKA: As we always see, Google or other search engines generally show their own products while searching for anything, perhaps soon a search engine gonna to suggest us Apple just after writing A, and, surprisingly, who knows, that could be the Apple Search Engine!The idea of ‘Apple

DHAKA: Mars is nifty. It's fascinating. It's red and rocky and we currently have a couple of high-tech rovers checking it out. But it's no Europa.Jupiter's intriguing moon may be iced over, but scientists suspect there's a massive ocean underneath. Researchers have even spotted what

DHAKA: If Facebook were a country, it would be the most populous nation on earth, bigger even than China as nearly 1.4 billion people travel (log in) to Facebook each month to catch up with friends.That constant use of social media has transformed the nature of friendship in the last

DHAKA: Chinese will no longer be able to use nicknames such as ‘Obama’ and ‘Putin’ for their internet accounts under new regulations that will take effect on March 1, in the latest move by the government to tighten its control over cyberspace. Besides the ‘inappropriate’ and

DHAKA: Twitter’s chief executive Dick Costolo has admitted that the company ‘sucks’ when it comes to dealing with abuse and trolling on the service. In a memo to staff, leaked to tech news website the Verge, he said that bullying behaviour on the network was driving users away. He

DHAKA: Google Street View, a free mapping service of Google with panoramic views of streets and sites, has officially been launched in Bangladesh. Google officially started its Google Street View service in Bangladesh as the 65th country in the world. The streets and sites of the

DHAKA: People of the country will hopefully enjoy the facilities of 4G telecommunication by the tenure of this government.Sajeeb Wazed Joy, IT advisor to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and also her son also said, “Auction for 4G will be held by 2016.”Joy came up with the disclosure in

DHAKA: The government on Thursday started distributing 25,000 tablet PCs (tabs) among the public servants as part of its ongoing digitization process.Prime Minister's ICT Affairs Adviser Sajeeb Wazed Joy inaugurated Tab distribution program at Bangladesh Computer Council (BCC) in

DHAKA: When Vine introduced loop counts, it instantly replaced likes and shares to become the default metric to gauge the popularity of a video.Facebook has dabbled with a similar technique for auto-play videos in users' mobile Newsfeeds, but only now has it appeared on its other