DHAKA: USB 3.1 was a hot topic at Consumer Electronics Show (CES) this year, with multiple vendors talking up the standard’s performance and new, reversible connector. Shipping hardware is still some months away, but early performance data is looking solid — particularly given

DHAKA: Intel is getting one step closer to its goal of eliminating cables from personal computers, saying Thursday that its newest chip for work computers -- which packs in several wire-free features -- is now available.The fifth-generation Core vPro processor provides improved

DHAKA: After last week’s Windows 10 briefing, a brand new build of the Windows 10 Technical Preview was released publicly. From then on, anyone can sign-up for the Windows Insider program and get a taste of Windows 10.Of course, pre-release builds should never be used as a primary OS,

DHAKA: Samsung Electronics reported a fall in fourth-quarter net profit to KRW 5.35 trillion from KRW 7.30 trillion a year earlier. Operating profit dropped to KRW 5.29 trillion from KRW 8.31 trillion, and revenues declined to KRW 52.73 trillion from KRW 59.28 trillion a year ago. The

DHAKA: Goldberg, another Bangladeshi mobile handset company, will launch its own branded smartphones in local market by March.The company, a sister concern of Khansons Group, made the disclosure on Wednesday at a press conference held in city’s Farmgate area.Moreover, Goldberg

DHAKA: Sony plans to eliminate another 1,000 jobs in its smartphone operations, a person familiar with the matter told Bloomberg.The new cuts will reduce staff in the division to about 5,000 after including 1,000 job losses previously announced by the company.The cuts will affect

DHAKA: Bangladesh ended December 2014 with 43.64 million active internet subscribers, compared with 42.99 million internet subscribers at the end of November.The mobile internet base reached 42.17 million, down from 41.51 million in November, according to figures from the Bangladesh

DHAKA: Huawei announced that it sold 138 million consumer devices in 2014, an increase of 7.8 percent on the previous year.Smartphone shipments rose 45 percent to 75 million, and the company said it targets 100 million units in 2015.Richard Yu, CEO of Huawei’s consumer business group,

DHAKA: After an hour-long effort, users in Bangladesh and elsewhere in the world can now connect to Facebook, both on the Web and via mobile apps.The websites of popular social media networks Facebook and Instagram were not been available for the period of time.It was not clear what

DHAKA: Users in Bangladesh and elsewhere in the world are experiencing problems in connecting to Facebook and Instagram, both on the Web and via mobile apps.The websites of popular social media networks haven’t been available for some time.It’s not clear what’s causing the outage,

DHAKA: Kodak, with the help of UK phone manufacturer Bullitt, is trying to make a smartphone for people who don’t use smartphones. The Kodak Instamatic 5 won’t be the first device with that ambition, but it will be one of the first to wear the name of a brand many smartphone

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: Google boss Eric Schmidt predicted on Thursday that the internet will soon be so pervasive in every facet of our lives that it will effectively "disappear" into the background.Speaking to the business and political elite at the World Economic Forum at Davos in Switzerland,

DHAKA: With more than 700 million monthly active users, there's no doubt that WhatsApp is one of the largest mobile-focused messaging services. A large number of these users have been demanding a PC interface for the service to stay connected with their favorite people even when they

DHAKA: Microsoft Corp surprised the tech world with a prototype hologram visor that can bring the Minecraft video game, Skype calls and even the landscape of Mars to three-dimensional life. The ageing tech pioneer, which long ago lost the mantle of the world's most inventive company, is

DHAKA: Popular microblogging site Twitter can accurately predict a community's rate of coronary heart disease, the leading cause of death worldwide, researchers, including those of Indian-origin, have found.Studies have identified many factors that contribute to the risk of heart

DHAKA: Xiaomi has announced that the Redmi Note 4G smartphone will go on sale starting Saturday via Flipkart without registration, lasting till Chinese Republic Day on Monday. The company has not announced exactly when the sale will begin and how many units will be available to buy.The

DHAKA: Bangladesh gets Google Street View. Initially Dhaka, Chittagong and Dhaka-Chittagong highway open for viewing. It has been a while since street view cars were here. Google Street View 360 degree imagery from Bangladesh has finally gone live on Google Maps! Google officially

DHAKA: The popular mobile messaging application WhatsApp, acquired by Facebook last year for nearly US$22 billion, unveiled a new service Wednesday for sending messages from a Web browser.WhatsApp, which claims some 500 million users, said its Web service will be a ‘mirror’ and would

DHAKA: Microsoft has revealed that Windows 10 will bring its voice-controlled assistant Cortana to PCs.It also unveiled a headset that it said would one day project the operating system over views of the real world.In addition, the firm announced that the OS upgrade would be offered free