DHAKA: Online retail giant Amazon is considering offering its much-anticipated smartphone for free, it has been reported.The retailer is understood to be aiming to `undercut rivals` and `grab a meaningful market share` by tempting consumers using iPhones and Galaxy phones - which normally

DHAKA: Samsung has unveiled a smartwatch with a colour screen that can show alerts, be used for voice calls and run apps.The Galaxy Gear had been highly anticipated since the firm is currently the world`s bestselling smartphone maker and has beaten Microsoft, Apple and Google to unveil

DHAKA: Panasonic will pull out of the smartphone market in Japan and pare its smartphone operations to outsourced production in emerging markets like India.The company’s president said on Wednesday, reports The Straits Times.The Japanese electronics company, which has suffered US$15

DHAKA: Apple Inc sent official invitations to a September 10 event at which it is expected to unveil the latest version of the iPhone, possibly in colours other than its trademark black and white.‘This should brighten everyone`s day,’ the typically cryptic invitation read, under

DHAKA: Yahoo’s news and community services have shut down in China, following the closure of its email service last month.The Yahoo China home page now redirects users to a site run by Alibaba, which manages Yahoo’s Chinese operation.In a farewell message which appears before the

DHAKA: Microsoft has agreed a deal to buy Nokia`s mobile phone business for 5.4bn euros ($7.2bn; £4.6bn).Nokia will also license its patents and mapping services to Microsoft.The companies said that the deal would be finalised in early 2014, when about 32,000 Nokia employees will

DHAKA: There’s been a little shakeup in the smartphone industry this week, with the announced departure of Hugo Barra, one of the team leaders for Google’s Android mobile operating system.Barra said Wednesday that he was leaving the tech titan after more than five years to join

DHAKA: The mobile-phone subscriber in the country reached nearly 107 million at the end of July with about 10 million new users in the first seven months of this year, official data showed Thursday.According to Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC), the total number of

DHAKA: Skype has confirmed it has developed 3D video calls.The news was revealed by a senior executive in an exclusive interview with the BBC to mark Skype`s tenth anniversary.There had been speculation about the possibility after the firm posted an advert in April saying it wanted to

DHAKA: Next time you host a soiree, you can collect photos of the event from your guests in one album on Facebook.The social network has added shared photo albums so people can throw photos from an event or of a common subject into a single spot. The new shared album feature, first

DHAKA: A joint force of RAB and Anti-Piracy team Thursady seized some 32 computers for allegedly producing pirated audio and video CDs from a city shop. “The law enforcers raided the electronics market of Karwan Bazar and confiscated the computers and CDs,” said an official of law

US sales of PC games via downloads have exceeded shop sales for the first time, suggest figures. In the first six months of 2010, 11.2 million full games for the PC were bought online compared to 8.2 million physical unit sales, said NPD Group. Topping the list of download sites was

The sharp growth in extremist websites is making recruitment much easier for al-Qaeda, according to Interpol head Ronald Noble. "The threat is global, it is virtual and it is on our doorsteps," he said. Mr Noble told a conference of police chiefs in Paris there were 12 sites in 1998 and

Though BlackBerry maker Research in Motion (RIM) is keeping mum, the Canadian company is expected to unveil its BlackPad tablet computer to rival Apple`s iPad Monday, according to media reports in North America.The announcement is likely to be made at its developer`s conference in San

Swedish telecom equipment giant Ericsson Tuesday said residents of the Commonwealth Games Village will get access to high-speed broadband connection, thanks to its fibre-optic cable network it has deployed there. "Ericsson will be managing the network 24x7, supporting the communication

The photo of the Woodward’s building in Vancouver has been uploaded by a user called yeoaaron, and it’s officially the five billionth photo on Flickr. According to Flickr, users upload more than 3,000 images to the site every minute. Although Flickr is the biggest social site that

Half of the world`s population should have access to high-speed internet within five years, the UN said Sunday. The world`s governments should put internet access at the top of their agendas, said Hamadoun Toure, secretary general of the UN`s International Telecommunications Union. "The

new study has found that three in four parents use social networking site Facebook to check up on their university going children. The research, commissioned by insurance company Ensleigh, also found that 72 percent of 18-25-year-olds who have left home use the Internet to speak to their

Hacktivity 2010, the largest computer hackers` conference in eastern Europe, kicked off Saturday, with some 1,000 participants expected to attend the two-day event, according to organisers. The conference was to bring together officials and computer experts from Hungary and abroad in an

The number of global subscriptions for wireless services is expected to reach five billion in September and be equal to 73.4 percent of the world’s population, a market research firm has said. According to iSuppli Corp, worldwide wireless subscriptions will increase by another 100