A seminar on the prospect of Bangladesh’s IT sector in Japan was held at Fujitsu Research Institute in Tokyo on Friday (Jan 25).
Embassy of Bangladesh and Fujitsu Research Institute jointly organised the seminar where over 100 representatives from different Japanese companies took part, said a press release.
Rabab Fatima, the ambassador of Bangladesh to Japan, pre...
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Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has directed the authorities concerned to transform all the rail tracks of the country into broad-gauge from existing meter-gauge in phases.
She came up with the directive at the meeting of the Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) at the NEC Conference R...
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Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) set three days as minimum duration for all packages/offers/bundles of mobile phone operators.
The telecom regulator sent letters to all mobile phone operators asking them to make the directive elective from February 1.
The directive will be r...
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Facebook plans to integrate its messaging services on Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger.
While all three will remain stand-alone apps, at a much deeper level they will be linked so messages can travel between the different services.
Facebook told the BBC it was at the start of a "long process".
The plan was first reported in the New Y...
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Ahead of Facebook's 15th anniversary, CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg is trying to clear up some misconceptions people have about his company.
In an editorial for the Wall Street Journal, Zuckerberg defended Facebook's business model and the 'clear benefits' of how it operates.
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Indian researchers have unveiled a first-of-its-kind bus -- an autonomous vehicle powered by solar energy. Globally, most autonomous vehicles developed till date are powered by petrol, diesel, CNG or charged using grid-based electricity. Therefore, this Ind...
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Local handset brand Walton announced special offer of free air tickets and sure cashback on two models of its smartphones Primo H7 and Primo H7s. Customers will get Dhaka-Cox’s Bazar-Dhaka air ticket or sure cashback of minimum 500 taka after purchasing and registering the devices via SMS. The offer is valid till 31st January 2019....
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Mobile phone users across the country now can easily check whether their handsets are legal and verified as Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) has developed a database.
Besides, Bangladesh Mobile Phone Importers Association (BMPIA) in cooperation with BTRC has launched a service named “NOC Automation and IMEI Database (NAID)” on Tuesday (Jan 22).
Posts, Telecommunicatio...
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Online knowledge sharing firm Quora is now available in Bengali, a move that will allow about 300 million speakers of the language to engage on the platform.
The formal launch came after a trial run since December 2018.
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WhatsApp is limiting all its members to forwarding any single message up to five times in an effort to tackle the spread of false information on the platform.
The Facebook-owned business had already introduced the policy in India six months ago.
The move followed a number of mob lynchings that were blamed on fake reports spread via the service.
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