Science & Technology

GP, Huawei win 'Green Mobile Award’ at GSMA Mobile Congress

Grameenphone Ltd., jointly with Huawei Technologies Ltd., has won the "Green Mobile Award" at the GSMA Mobile Awards 2009, for "Building a Greener Mobile Network." The award was announced at the sidelines of the GSMA Mobile Congress 2009, held in Hong Kong 18 and 19 November.

Microsoft: Azure to go live in January, for pay in February

The Azure platform will have its first paying customers in February 2010, marking Microsoft's entry into the commercial cloud computing market.

MPs 'soon' to use laptops in parliament

The MPs will use laptops in parliament and take questions emailed by people 'soon', the speaker has said. "Legislators will be allowed to carry and use laptops inside parliament soon but no one will be allowed to enter the house with grenade, bomb and arms," speaker Abdul Hamid said with his trademark humour.

ICT education must for all to build ‘Digital Bangladesh’: Speaker

Speaker of the Jatiya Sangsad Abdul Hamid Advocate today said ICT education is a must for people of all strata living in urban and rural areas to build ‘Digital Bangladesh’. Digitization of the Jatiya Sangsad will be done in phases so that the public representatives as well as all people get its benefit, he added.

Pilot project to curb terrorism, smuggling

The government is going to install 'i2 software system' and 'vispec 4 plus in documentation analysis centres' in all international airports of the country, sea ports and the land ports to stop cross border terrorism and smuggling.

GP shares debut with 'rational price'

Grameenphone shares debuted on the country's twin bourses on Monday after a long wait but the prices were not as high as some shareholders had expected them. Prices of the biggest-ever IPO in Bangladesh's history opened at Tk 160 on the Dhaka Stock Exchange, surged to Tk 195 at one point before ending on Tk 177.30.

JS panel wants MRP project to go ahead

A parliamentary committee on Sunday dismissed another panel's recommendations for dropping the Machine Readable Passport project suggesting that the government should go ahead with the project.

Bangla Lion launches WiMAX too

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.

5 day digital IT fair kicks off Nov 17

The country for the first time is organizing a five-day digital IT exposition dubbed ‘BCS ICT World-2009’ beginning November 17 with the theme of ‘Way to Digital Bangladesh’.

Rural mobile money order service from next month

The government is likely introduce the Grameen Mobile Money Order service from next month to reduce illegal money transfer and to contain the financing of terrorists, said official sources. ‘The post and telecommunications ministry has already submitted a proposal to the finance ministry for introducing the service styled Grameen Mobile Money Order,’ said a senior official.