The International Solar Tech Expo Ends

A three-day eco-friendly industrial equipment and sustainable development exhibition on Energy and Building ended last Saturday at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre (BICC) in the capital.
18 March 2015

Facebook revamps its takedown guidelines

Facebook is providing the public with more information about what material is banned on the social network. Its revamped community standards now include a separate section on "dangerous organisations" and give more details about what types of nudity it allows to be posted
16 March 2015

Samsung Galaxy A5

The Galaxy Alpha came out as a high end smartphone last year promising much but delivering little. The part-metal build was a
15 March 2015

3D Projection Mapping: A charismatic illusion

The trick is awfully simple: throw some laser at a façade, use the landscape as a canvas. Yet not everyone could come up with this
15 March 2015

Let's Eat: Foodie's Guide

Let's Eat, a product by MCC ltd., of years of hard work and research and its sole purpose is to ease the restaurant selection process for
15 March 2015

GDG Bangla volunteers add 3 Lac plus words online

Google Developers Group Bangla (GDG Bangla) created a world record by contributing more than 3 lac words to Google Translate Service.
15 March 2015

Four promising IT security trends of MWC 2015

The Mobile World Congress often gladdens our heart with lots of visitors and participants who care about security. This year was no
15 March 2015

Tech Bits

BlackBerry's first tablet in years is a secure Galaxy Tab S
15 March 2015

Apple's thinnest ever MacBook with 12-inch Retina Display ships April 10

Apple has made its thinnest ever Mac: at its thickest point it is just about half an inch
14 March 2015

Apple's Tim Cook offered liver to dying boss Steve Jobs

Apple chief executive Tim Cook offered a part of his liver to a dying Steve Jobs, according to a new book due to be released this month
13 March 2015

Cloud, Security & Government: What's coming?

Mohammad Zaman is an experienced IT strategist with decades of experience on Governance framework, business revenue and IT cost alignment with optimal resource utilization.
8 March 2015

How to protect kids from cyberbullying

What should adults do to protect their kids from psychological traumas due to cyberbullying? We have some advice:
8 March 2015

a2i to assist Maldives Govt. to build Digital Rural Centres

Last month, a memorandum was signed between Access to Information (a2i) of the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) and National Centre for Information Technology (NCIT) of Maldives government, aiming to build digital Maldives in style of the concept of 'Digital Bangladesh'. Deputy Minister for Home Affairs of Maldives government Ahmed Adim and Project Director of the a2i Kabir Bin Anwar signed the MoU on behalf their respective organizations. Later, Deputy Minister Ahmed Adim talked with The Daily Star to talk about of his trip and the MoU.
1 March 2015

Cricket Gizmos

Real Time Snickometer. First Used: Though Snickometer was first used in 1999, but the enhanced 'Real Time Snickometer' was first used at 2013 Ashes
1 March 2015

Just In

Logitech M280 Wireless Mouse
1 March 2015

Superfish Adware Preinstalled on Lenovo Laptops

On February 19th of 2015, it became known that Lenovo's laptops had been shipped with an adware called Superfish preinstalled. There are two major problems with this issue.
1 March 2015

Bangladesh Targeted Too!

Last week Kaspersky Lab unveiled the predecessor of Stuxnet and Flame – a potent threat actor called Equation Group. The malware used in their operations, dubbed EquationDrug and GrayFish, is found to be capable of reprogramming hard disk drive firmware. This ‘outstandingly professional’ group has been in play for more than a decade- experts say. Though Kaspersky Lab wasn’t able to pinpoint the origin but security experts have pointed their fingers toward an American Intelligence Agency with prior history. Nearly 30+ countries were attacked or infected by this group including Bangladesh. We got in touch with Igor Soumenkov Principal Security Researcher; Global Research & Analysis Team, Kaspersky Lab Moscow. Igor, a virus analyst and malware expert, shares his concern with The Daily Star.
22 February 2015

Enrich Bangla Online

Bangla is the 7th most widely spoken language in the world, and still Bangla was the 65th language to be added to Google translation service. Hence Google Developer Group Bangla (GDG Bangla) has undertaken an initiative to improve the Bangla translation of Google Translate. Google Translation-a-Thon- the name of the initiative to add Bangla words to Google Translate, will be going on throughout the month of February. This entire project is a result of initiatives from individuals and voluntary work. People from all across the world are enriching Google translate through their own efforts and with their own language. Anyone can help make Google Bangla translate an even better experience.
22 February 2015

The greatest heist of the century Hackers stole USD 1 Billion

In order to infiltrate the bank's intranet, the attackers used spear phishing emails, luring users to open them, infecting machines with malware. A backdoor was installed onto the victim's PC based on the Carberp malicious code, which, in turn gave the name to the campaign — Carbanak.
22 February 2015