Zoom’s hand gesture recognition now available on desktop apps
Zoom, the video-calling software, has recently introduced the gesture recognition feature to its desktop version.
ThiefGuard helps to protect Smartphone from theft
A local technology-based company Softalogy Limited has launched an Android app called ThiefGuard to protect smartphones from thieves. The app will assist in identifying and regain lost devices. The app officially launched last Thursday, according to a press release issued by the company.
India open to launching own app store as start-ups criticise Google
India is open to launching its own mobile app store or expanding an existing one if it receives enough demand from domestic firms for an alternative to Apple and Google platforms, a senior government official said on Thursday.
GPAY: Grameenphone's very own payment tool
To make the lives of its customers easier, Grameenphone Ltd. has re-launched its wallet service with a new brand name - 'GPAY' – a digitized and smart way to avail GP's existing range of payment services. GPAY Wallet lets customers pay their utility bills, FlexiLoad to their own (or other) GP numbers, and purchase train tickets straight from their handset. To avail these services, customers can now refill their GPAY Wallets from nearby MobiCash retail outlets or from selected GPAY partner bank accounts: DBBL Rocket Mobile Banking Account, AB Bank core banking account, Islami Bank mCash account or internet banking.
EATL & Prothom Alo begins countrywide campus activation for biggest app competition ever
The country’s largest mobile app development competition platform is coming back this year, and every year this app competition by EATL gets bigger and better. With the intent of bringing out the apps developed by the youth to a global platform, the first app store in Bangladesh, EATL begins it’s journey followed by this year’s Prothom Alo App Competition 2016. Ethics Advanced Technologies Limtied (EATL) and Prothom Alo have organised the competition for the fourth time beginning on the 24th of May this year. The second part of the campaign was launched on the 18th of July with campus activation and seminars in Universities around the country.
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Webmaker: Building apps just got easy!
Mozilla Foundation recently has launched the Webmaker app in Bangladesh. By downloading the app for free, Bangladeshi Android users can now easily
gDraw: An easy-to-use painting app for kids
Parents of toddlers and preschoolers! If your kid is always on tab then we have an app that might help to boost your kid's creative and
Govt launches 500 mobile apps for better service
To provide better services to the people, the government has launched 500 mobile apps with an aim to achieve the new millennium development goal by 2021.
Clone war: Bing Maps vs. Google Maps
Microsoft is looking to test a brand new web version of Bing Maps, which really resembles the service already provided by Google Maps.
Facebook launches private photo sharing for friends
Facebook has unveiled a new feature that allows smartphone users to privately share photos of friends, by sifting through images with facial recognition technology.
Facebook testing internal search engine
Social networking site Facebok is testing an internal search engine to help users find links to post.
Startup shows off self-destructing messages
A new application lets people send self-destructing messages from whatever email accounts they fancy.
Android M could surface later this month
At the Google I/O developers’ conference, set to take place in San Francisco on May 28 and 29, the Mountain View firm will likely introduce the latest iteration of its mobile OS - Android M.
Facebook rolls out video calls on Messenger
Video calling in Messenger is launching for people using Apple or Android devices in a number of countries and will hit more countries over the coming months.
Yahoo! may be readying a successor to Messenger
Whatever messaging app Yahoo! has in store, it will have to be incredibly innovative to stand up to the competition, which includes a host of revolutionary apps downloaded hundreds of millions of times.