The total number of mobile phone users in impoverished Bangladesh has hit 50 million (5 crore), making it one of the fastest growing telecom markets in the region, officials said Thursday. The country’s telecoms regulator said mobile phone subscribers crossed 50.4 million at the end of September, meaning more than one in three people in one of the poorest countries in the world has a cell phone.
More than half of US companies do not allow employees to visit social networks such as Facebook, MySpace or Twitter while at work, according to a new survey.
Nasa scientists are assessing preliminary data after crashing two unmanned spacecraft into the Moon in a bid to detect water-ice. The first to collide was a 2,200kg rocket stage, which slammed into Cabeus Crater at the Moon's south pole.
The subscription of Grameenphone’s initial public offering, the largest in Bangladesh’s capital market history, ended Thursday for local investors.
The Postal Department has taken final preparatory measures to launch its ‘mobile money order service’ from November 1, official sources said. It will provide an alternative to courier money order service now being operated using mobile phones by private courier agencies at exorbitant charges.
Information technology will be an employment machine, generating 5.8 million new jobs in the coming four years, according to International Data Corporation research released Sunday. IDC predicts that the IT industry will be an engine powering economies out of economic doldrums, creating more that 75,000 new businesses in the next four years and adding jobs at a rate of 3 per cent annually.
Three scientists who created the technology behind digital photography and helped link the world through fiber-optic networks shared the 2009 Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday. Charles K. Kao was cited for his breakthrough involving the transmission of light in fiber optics while Willard S. Boyle and George E. Smith were honored for inventing an imaging semiconductor circuit known as the CCD sensor.
The Election Commission is planning to hold Dhaka City Corporation elections at the end of January, introducing electronic voting system at least in one of the wards on an experimental basis. "We are considering introducing e-voting system at least in a ward," chief election commissioner ATM Shamsul Huda told reporters on Tuesday after a meeting at the EC Secretariat.
A poll asking people whether President Barack Obama "should be killed" has been taken down on the popular social networking site Facebook, and is being investigated by the Secret Service.
Cisco will acquire Norwegian video communications firm Tandberg for about $3 billion in a cash deal. The deal is a 25 percent premium on Tandberg's three-month average price. If unopposed, it will likely close during the first half of 2010.
