Online book sale getting popularity in the country thanks to the people's wider access to Internet that helps them get desired titles at market prices, insiders said. They said although it is a new concept in book business, the platform is developing quickly in the country. At least five online portals, including rokomari.com and boi-mela.com, are now selling books online in Bangladesh. "Buyers can purchase books at the same discount what they usually get at traditional marketplace," said Mehdi Hasan Roni, mentor of rokomari...

You can trust your smartphone app to track your physical activity, says a new study. Although wearable devices have received significant attention for their ability to track an individual’s physical activity, most smartphone applications are just as accurate, according to the study. “In this study, we wanted to address one of the challenges with using wearable devices: they must be accurate. After all, if a device is going to be effective at monitoring—and potentially changing—behav...

Google has spent $US1.5 billion ($1.95 billion) around the world on clean energy projects cutting the pollution from millions of users clicking on search links, watching YouTube videos and sending emails, but now it’s found a powerful electricity source close to home. Not only do we think renewable energy is important from a climate change perspective, it also makes business sense The company will announce Wednesday that it is buying power from the Altamont Pass, one of the nation’s oldest, largest and most iconic wind farm...

People will find out what you’re tweeting quicker, thanks to a partnership between Google and Twitter. The deal, confirmed in Twitter’s fourth quarter earnings call, will allow Twitter to provide Google with tweets as soon as they’re posted to the social networking site. Through the arrangement, Twitter hopes to expand its reach to more users. Twitter also has similar deals with Microsoft and Yahoo, but Google, as we all know, has the lion’s share of the search engine marke...

The government policy for the upcoming spectrum auction is discriminatory as it will bar leading mobile phone operator Grameenphone from participating in the auction, GP chief executive officer Rajeev Sethi said on Monday. [caption id="attachment_12909" align="alignleft" width="300"] Grameenphone chief executive officer Rajeev Sethi speaks while announcing the mobile operator’s financial statement of 2014 at Pan Pacific Sonargaon Hotel in the capital on Monday. — New Age photo[/caption] He said the government was planning a spectrum auction ...