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