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Grameenphone's chief executive read the story about modems tied to trees, put a temporary tower in Gaira, and on 12 March the villages of…

13 Mar 2022

Apple's March 2022 event put the A15 chip in a $429 iPhone, the M1 in the iPad Air, and glued two M1 Max chips together to make the M1…

9 Mar 2022

The 45th International Collegiate Programming Contest finals will be held at ICCB, Bashundhara, from 6 to 11 November 2022, with more than…

9 Mar 2022

Around 350 young Garo people trained at Nokrek IT Institute earn dollars from villages ten kilometres inside Tangail's Madhupur forest…

27 Feb 2022

Three days into the Russian invasion, Ukraine's digital minister asked hackers worldwide to join a Telegram channel listing Russian…

27 Feb 2022

161 projects, a jury led by Muhammed Zafar Iqbal and a Tk 1 lakh first prize: the Bangladesh Computer Council's first AI for Bangla contest…

22 Feb 2022

Launched on the eve of Ekushey, the BTRC programme has Banglalink at 95 per cent, Grameenphone 92, Teletalk 89 and Robi 85. OTPs, brand…

21 Feb 2022

Mark Zuckerberg announced screenshot alerts, GIFs, stickers and reactions for Messenger's end-to-end encrypted chats. Here is exactly when…

5 Feb 2022

A free web game with no app, no ads and one puzzle a day went from 90 players in November to two million in January. How it works, why it…

30 Jan 2022

Fourteen local factories shipped 2.61 crore phones in 2021, 63 per cent of everything sold, and employ about 25,000 people, the telecom…

19 Jan 2022

The biggest deal in Microsoft's history brings Call of Duty, Candy Crush, Warcraft and Overwatch under Xbox. Here is what changes for the…

18 Jan 2022

The creator of ShahidLipi, the first commercial Bangla software (1985), and the founder of amateur radio in Bangladesh died in Albuquerque…

10 Jan 2022