Building Bangladesh’s brains
January 16, 2010
EIGHT hundred and thirty-seven young enthusiasts from over a hundred primary, secondary and higher secondary institutions in Sylhet division joined the annual Math Olympiad on the misty morning of Tuesday, 12 January 2010. Sixty of them, in four groups, bagged the coveted prizes that clearly mark winners with the potential to compete in the great global event, again reassuring the despairing among us, that there is indeed light at the end of the tunnel.
Internet users rising 3pct a year
December 24, 2009
At least five million people are Internet users in Bangladesh, with the number rising by three percent a year, the ICT secretary said on Thursday.
About 4.6 million mobile phone subscribers use Internet services, while 0.4 million people access the service through public and private companies, Abdul Awal Majumder told a briefing on ‘Digital Bangladesh’ at the Information Directorate.
Bangla Lion launches WiMAX too
November 15, 2009
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.
Windows 7 out to salvage Vista ‘train wreck’
October 28, 2009
Microsoft Corp put a new edition of Windows on sale Thursday, hoping for a fresh start after a bad reception for the previous version of the software that runs most of the world’s personal computers.
Windows 7 is now available on new computers, and as a software upgrade for some older PCs.
Fulfilling the vision of Digital Bangladesh 2021
October 14, 2009
On the sidelines of Gyan Utsob 2009: Bagerhat Hobe Digital, its co-organiser Munir Hasan, who is also the general secretary of Bangladesh Open Source Network spoke to StarTech about the fair.
Harnessing the IT potentials
September 15, 2009
Firoz Ahmed — Bangladesh’s achievement in the realm of information technology (IT) has been negligible compared to the potentials. The country’s young and dynamic workforce can be quickly trained to make it an IT powerhouse, and pretty quickly. But successive governments only paid lip service to the potential sector without facilitating the development. For example, the allocation for the development of the IT sector was a meager Taka 1.25 billion in the last fiscal. The allocation in the current budget is also no better. Land for the IT park at Kaliakaur in Dhaka is yet to be acquired. The lone submarine cable connection linking Bangladesh with the rest of the world gets frequently snapped causing losses for IT businesses.
CCC Computer College Dampara Police Line Campus inaugurated
June 27, 2009
Our Correspondent — CHITTAGONG, June 26: Time-befitting technology based education is helpful for meeting the ever-increasing challenges in the modern global arena and traditional institutional education alone cannot help flourish professionalism.
RAB nabs JMB IT chief, 3 top members
June 23, 2009
FE Report — RAB personnel arrested four suspected ’surah’ and ‘ehsar’ members of Jama’atul Mujahideen of Bangladesh (JMB), including its IT chief, from across the country Sunday.
162 new clients pick Oracle’s banking software in 2008
June 15, 2009
US-based independent technology and market research company, Forrester Research, in its report has recognized Oracle as a Global Power Seller for 2008 banking platform deals, said a press release.
‘Software solutions to increase power plant capacity’
June 14, 2009
FE Report — An expert group will present a proposal to the Ministry of Power, Energy and Mineral Resources today (Sunday) to increase the power plant capacity and efficiency through using German-based software solutions.