The Bitcoin Foundation has issued a new statement suggesting that it is currently investigating whether bitcoin and digital currency transactions are now illegal in Bangladesh. However, citing general uncertainty surrounding this week’s statements from the Bangladesh Bank, the Bitcoin Foundation Bangladesh, the organisation’s first Asia-based affiliate, will suspend operations. In a post entitled “The Case for Bitcoin in Bangladesh“, executive director Jon Matonis suggested that the comments from the bank don’t read like other bitcoi...

Smart Communications is introducing an ultra-low-cost data plan this month that will give Philippine prepaid customers internet access for ten minutes for just 1 peso ($0.022). Mobile subscribers can use apps and websites, but access to video streaming and file-sharing sites is restricted. The service, PisoNet, will be initially be offered to Smart’s Talk ’N Text subscribers and is lower than the standard rate of PHP5 ($0.11) for 15 minutes. Mobile data usage has grown by 73 per cent from last year, said Charles...

Facebook's app and website are back online after an outage that reportedly affected users around the world. The source of the outage, which began Wednesday afternoon, is not yet clear.

The outage began at 3:41 p.m. ET, according to downdetector.com, a website that monitors service disruptions. By 3:59 p.m. ET, Facebook appeared to be working again for most users.

As with many service outages...

After she became pregnant for the first time last year, Nilufer Yasmin says “thousands of queries” popped into her mind. The young woman, who lives in the northern town of Bogra, sought help in a unique way: from an “Infolady”, one of more than 50 young women in rural Bangladesh who reach the country’s remotest villages, on bicycle, to provide health, agricultural and information technology services. Yasmin says the Infolady helped connect her to a government service that provides advice over the telephone for expecting mothers - ri...

Bangla speaking people now can write in Bangla on Twitter as the microblogging social media site has recently introduced features allowing users to write in the language. The twitter has also added the features for the languages of the following countries: Vietnam, Czech Republic, Romania, and Ukraine, reports Bangla daily the Prothom Alo. The popular social communication site has updated the apps for android and iOs operation systems so that users can write in the five languages.