Social media monitoring begins ahead of polls
December 03 2018 | TW News Correspondent
E-Govt.
Secretary of Election Commission (EC) Helal Uddin Ahmed on Sunday (December 2) said the authorities concerned began monitoring the social media round the clock to check the spread of propag...
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Shibir men held for making fake news websites
November 29 2018 | TW News Correspondent
Happening
Law enforcement officials have found involvement of Bangladesh Islami Chattra Shibir, the student front of fundamentalist party Jamaat-e-Islami, in the creating and spreading of fake news websites in country.
Earlier in Wednes...
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Google CEO to face Congress on Dec 5
November 29 2018 | TW News Correspondent
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Google CEO Sundar Pichai is going to face Congress for the first time next week, according to The Washington Post.
Pichai will be grilled by th...
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31 satellites placed in orbit to study earth's surface
November 29 2018 | TW News Correspondent
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ISRO successfully launched its Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle-C43 (PSLV-C43) rocket carrying India's best-ever high-resolution earth imaging satellite HysIS (Hyperspectral Imaging Satellite). Besides this, the workhorse rocket also carried 30...
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Amazon’s new server chips cheaper than Intel’s
November 29 2018 | TW News Correspondent
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Amazon.com Inc. has taken a big step toward reducing reliance on Intel Corp. for a critical component of its cloud-computing service.
The largest cloud company...
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Banglalink introducing new number series ‘014’
November 29 2018 | TW News Correspondent
Telco
Private cell phone operator Banglalink is going to launch a new number series '014' alongside the existing ‘019’ series.
The new number series will be inaugurated...
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Robi-10 Minute School gets three awards
November 28 2018 | TW News Correspondent
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The largest online school of the country, Robi- 10 Minute School, (www.robi10minuteschool.com) has received three awards in the 5th Digital Marketing Summit recently.
The summit a theme - “Delving Deep into Digital” was organised by Bangladesh Brand Foru...
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Govt incurs loss of Tk 1000cr for illegal handsets
November 28 2018 | TW News Correspondent
Telco
The government is incurring a direct loss of around Tk 1000 crore every year due to unchecked volumes of handset shipments into the country through unauthorized channels, said Ba...
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Google challenged over location tracking
November 28 2018 | TW News Correspondent
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Google has been accused of flouting European data protection laws when it tracks users' locations.
A coalition of seven c...
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China's interest in investment in Hi-Tech Park of Bangladesh.
November 27 2018 | TW News Correspondent
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Chinese companies have shown interest to invest in the high-tech industry of Bangladesh. Today, about 35 representatives from 20 companies of Dhenjo City of Shandong Province (Shandong Province) formall...
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NASA’s InSight spacecraft makes historic landing on Mars
November 27 2018 | TW News Correspondent
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A spacecraft carrying millions of pounds worth of British equipment has successfully landed on Mars, launching a two-year mission to mine more information about the Red Planet.
Nasa's InSightprobe came to a gentle landing on the Red Planet broad, dusty plain of Elysium Planitia at 7.55pm on Monday night, the first spacecraft to do so for six years.
The seven-minute, rapid decel...
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‘Digital Bangladesh Day’ on Dec 12 from now on
November 26 2018 | TW News Correspondent
E-Govt.
The 12th of December will be observed as ‘Digital Bangladesh Day’ instead of ‘National ICT Day’ from now on.
The cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina,...
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BASIS accords reception to Kafi for getting ASOCIO Award
November 26 2018 | TW News Correspondent
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Bangladesh Association of Software Information Service (BASIS) has accorded a reception to the former President of the Bangladesh Computer Samity (BCS) Abdullah H Kafi for achieving ‘The ASOCIO Honorary Award’.
Kafi, also former chairman...
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Electronic Voting Machine to be used in 6 constituencies
November 25 2018 | TW News Correspondent
E-Govt.
The Election Commission (EC) on Saturday decided to use the Electronic Voting Machine (EVMs) at all centers of six constituencies in the 11th parliamentary elections.
EC Secretary Helal Uddin Ahmed made the disclosure to the media after a meeting of the commission at its office at Agargaon of Dhaka th...
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China sends 5 satellites into orbit via single rocket
November 24 2018 | TW News Correspondent
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China launched a new space environment research satellite and four nanosatellites on a Long March-2D rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China at 7:40...
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