DHAKA: A factory which allegedly made up to 41,000 fake Apple iPhones has been raided in China, with nine arrests.The operation reportedly involved ‘hundreds’ of workers repackaging second hand smartphone parts as new iPhones for export, with counterfeit phones produced worth 120m

DHAKA: The Samsung Z3 smartphone, which is the successor to the Tizen-powered Z1, will be launched in India, Bangladesh, and Nepal.According to a Sammobile report, the handset will have better specifications than its predecessor. It will be powered by a 1.3GHz quad-core Spreadtrum SC7730S

DHAKA: Chinese tech giant Huawei on Wednesday said its global smartphone sales jumped by 39% in the first half of the year.It comes after the world's fourth-biggest smartphone maker posted a 30% growth in overall revenue on Monday.Huawei said it shipped 48.2 million devices globally in

DHAKA: Apple has posted a record third quarter as soaring demand for iPhones sent profits higher.The technology giant sold 47.5 million iPhones in the quarter to 27 June, up 35% on a year ago, with Mac computer sales up 9% to 4.8 million.The performance resulted in what chief executive

DHAKA: Google+ Photos, the photo sharing solution built into Google’s social network Google+, is shutting down.However, Google Photos (note the lack of +) — as in the excellent, unlimited free photo host that Google launched back in May — will live on, reports techcrunch.com.The

DHAKA: Engineers have developed a unique smartphone that is unhackable and built from a special metal that is even stronger than titanium and steel, supposedly making it unbreakable.Called the Turing Phone, the smartphone's end-to-end encryption is built into most of the core apps on the

DHAKA: Microsoft, as expected, has started rolling out Windows 10 Build 10240, which is said to be the RTM (release to manufacturing) build, to Windows 10 Insiders.The company was expected to finalise the Windows 10 build, bringing it to the RTM stage last week ahead of its official July

DHAKA: Samsung has unveiled its thinnest smartphone to date.The Galaxy A8 is 5.9mm (0.23in) thick, making it less than 85% the thickness of Samsung's flagship Galaxy S6 Edge.Despite this design constraint, engineers have still managed to fit in a relatively high capacity 3,050mAh battery

DHAKA: Apple introduced mobile payments in Britain on Tuesday, hoping to make a splash with consumers familiar with using cards for tap-and-go purchases, as resistance from hold-out banks and stores appeared to evaporate.Starting Tuesday, Apple Pay is set to be available in 250,000 sites,

DHAKA: July 14 is Bastille Day in France, but the whole world will be watching and waiting to find out if the New Horizons spacecraft successfully makes its long-awaited flyby of Pluto.In honor of that interplanetary feat, Google has switched over to an adorable doodle that shows a

DHAKA: Astronomers who trained their telescopes on a strange stellar blip were rewarded with a front-row seat to the spectacle of a black hole waking up to devour breakfast."The odds are pretty slim!" says Megan Argo of the University of Manchester's Jodrell Bank Centre for

DHAKA: Bangladesh Telecommunications Regulatory Commission (BTRC) will now take action against facebook, twitter stalkers immediately after receiving such allegations.The regularity body declared to take action with 24 hours against those who harass people in social media by running

DHAKA: Banglalink, the 2nd largest mobile telecom operator in Bangladesh, has introduced unique internet packs, designed for lower wallet size, especially geared towards students.These data packs are available against each denomination within the range of BDT 1 to BDT 20, says a press

DHAKA: Samsung Electronics estimates that it would make a $6.1 billion operating profit in Q2 2015, which is 4 percent less than it made this time last year. Overall revenue, meanwhile, is down by 8.4 percent year-on-year, reports androidpit.comThese are just estimates for now, with the

DHAKA: A weeklong internet festival titled ‘Bangladesh Internet Week’ will be held across the country in August.Bangladesh Association of Software and Information Services (BASIS) and cell phone operator Grameenphone (GP) will jointly organize the festival.A Memorandum of

DHAKA: Second quarter earnings for the world’s biggest smartphone maker, Samsung Electronics, will likely miss expectations.The tech giant said, reports the BBC.The South Korean company forecast that its operating profit from April to June is likely to fall 4% from a year ago to 6.9tn

DHAKA: Google will soon be launching a new Android One smartphone in India on July 14, and will be priced almost double the original Android One’s price. It will be manufactured by India’s Lava International and will be priced at Rs 12,000, reports Deccan Chronicle.The Android One

DHAKA: Facebook is to start paying some video creators for uploading their clips to the platform.The company is launching a Suggested Videos feed that curates a sequence of clips, interspersed with adverts.Videos that keep people watching for longer will earn a greater share of the

DHAKA: The High Court (HC) on Wednesday summoned Dhaka Cyber Tribunal judge KM Shamsul Alam and UK-Bangladesh Chamber of Commerce president Mokhlesur Rahman Chowdhury (Mahtab) on July 27 over a writ petition filed for public interest.The HC bench comprising Justice Qazi Rezaul Haque and

DHAKA: Matti Makkonen, widely considered the "father of SMS," has died from illness at the age of 63. The Finnish creator pitched the concept of text messaging over cellular networks in 1984 and helped get the ball rolling on the technology in its earliest days. He was quick to downplay