Bangla Lion Communications launched experimental WiMAX operations on Thursday. The Dhaka-based Bangla Lion is only the second operator in the country to introduce WiMAX this after Augere Wireless Broadband Bangladesh, majority owned by UK-based Augere Holdings, earlier this month.
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the body that oversees much of how the world wide web interacts, will say goodbye to .yu, the country code for the former nation of Yugoslavia.
Potential Muslim internet users who might previously have avoided the internet for some of its less wholesome content, now have a safe option in the new search engine Imhalal.com
Google's popular, free e-mail service Gmail suffered an outage on Tuesday, prompting more questions about "cloud computing" at a time when the Internet search giant is trying to wean users off of their desktop workspace.
Tuesday marks the 40th anniversary of the birth of the Internet in a lab at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Two undersea fiber optic cable systems have been damaged for still unknown causes disrupting Internet and voice call services in the Philippines and Malaysia.
Web censorship is increasing across the Middle East and North Africa, according to a new study from the OpenNet Initiative.
The parents of a rape victim in Faridpur yesterday demanded justice after two men repeatedly raped their 14-year old daughter, recorded the incidents on a mobile phone and later uploaded the video footage on the internet. They also printed the footage on CDs and sold it in the local markets.
Brussels, Belgium (AHN) - A third of citizens of the European Union have never used the Internet, and only 7 percent have shopped online in another member state, according a report released Tuesday by the EU.
The country's two WiMax operators are finally set to soft-launch services early next month, propelling Bangladesh to the era of high-speed wireless broadband after a long and bumpy wait.
