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.

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

Logitech M280 Wireless Mouse

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.

With more than 17 years of experience in human resources, brand communication and corporate communication under her belt, Mononita Syed-Haq became the first female director on the management committee when she joined as Human Resource Director at Unilever Bangladesh Ltd (UBL).

It started out as something quite harmless. That one page application that he needed to submit to his university – why not take a print from the office – it is just one page after all. Next week when the eight page copy-pasted assignment needed to be printed out, the office printer was again the obvious choice.

The British Council in partnership with Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) organised a policy dialogue titled “Social Enterprise: Policy and Practice” in Dhaka at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre on the 25 and 26 February, 2015.

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.

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.

Symphony makes affordable phones. And affordable usually means cutting a few options out of the list. And now they have gone and built a range topping device tagged with a sub 15k price tag that is bound to make this a favorite. WE find out whether this is just good enough or something even better.

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.

Music invokes the deepest emotions in me. That must be the reason I have the most intense feeling of rage and fantasise of scenarios

Research says coffee shop sounds improve concentration - those hipsters got something right! Coffitivity is a website which produces coffee shop ambiance to help you focus. Classical music has been known to do the same and we recommend Pachelbel’s Canon in D Major. For something more contemporary go for Radiohead’s Nude or Max Richter’s Infra 5.

www.rabbitholebd.com brings all 36 matches of the World Cup. Be it your mobile, personal laptop, home desktop or favorite Tab, you can watch live matches with a nominal fee.

With 85 high profile tech personas from 25 countries, 120 govt. institutes and 100 governmental organizations, Digital World 2015- the largest digital expo of Bangladesh kicked off last Monday, February 9th at Bangabandhu International Conference Center. Here we bring you some of the highlights of the event:

MyCell has launched its latest smartphone- the Spider A4, which is the smallest smartphone in the world in its category. However, for a small size, the phone does offer various interesting features and powerful specs. Let's go take a look at the punches that the A4 packs.

The annual Hult Prize challenge is the world's largest student competition and start-up platform for social good. In partnership with President Bill Clinton

There are certain rumours about me floating around the cubicles of the office. These rumours tend to involve my liking for a certain type of hair – pshaw to all those people boiling down affairs of the heart to something as silly. But more often than not, rumours originate from some degree of truth, don't they?

Walking into a meeting, going to conferences, attending work events, or starting a new job can be daunting, especially if you don't know anybody who will be

National F-commerce Summit 2015, with the objective of celebrating the digital future of Bangladesh, was recently been organized by GEEKY Social on