TOKYO, Sept 29 (Reuters): A year after shuttering its ESPN cellphone company, Walt Disney Co. said it is closing its Disney cellphone service.Walt Disney launched Mobile ESPN and Disney Mobile last year as mobile virtual network operators, or MVNOs. Under...
FE ReportIslami Bank Bangladesh Limited (IBBL) organised a discussion on 'Role of Ulama in Building Corruption-free Society and Civilisation' and Iftar Mahfil at a city hotel Friday. IBBL Shari'ah Council Chairman Moulana Ubaidul Hoque was present as the chief guest...
LONDON, Sept 29 (Bloomberg): European stocks fell, led by Tate & Lyle Plc, Merck KGaA and Northern Rock Plc. The Dow Jones Stoxx 600 Index lost 0.2 per cent to 377.14 as of 3:19 p.m. in London after gaining as...
NEW York, Sept 29 (Bloomberg): US stocks dropped, paring the biggest September advance since 1998, on concern that credit- market losses may worsen after a private group said more Americans are missing mortgage payments. Wells Fargo & Co., the second-largest...
NEW YORK, Sept 29 (UNB): A delegation of the USA branch of Bangladesh Hindu Bouddha Christian Unity Council, led by its President Ratan Barua, met Chief Adviser Dr Fakhruddin Ahmed at his hotel suite here Friday. The delegation apprised the...
Awami League (AL) and Workers Party have decided that their previous 31-point demand will be the agenda of discussion with the Election Commission (EC).The 31-point demand concerning reforms of the caretaker government and the EC was first announced by AL...
NEW YORK, Sept 29 (UNB): Foreign Affairs Adviser Dr Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury had a meeting with Commonwealth Secretary General Don McKinnon on the sidelines of the current United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) here Friday.During the meeting, the adviser apprised the...
ZA Khan, a backer of the Abdul Mannan Bhuiyan-led faction of BNP, said Saturday that the party would not go for any united movement or compromise with any party discarding BNP ideals. "No unity will be forged with anybody outside...
Eminent citizens Saturday shrugged off the fears of damage to Bangladesh archeological antiques if sent to Paris for display, reports bdnews24.com. The concern of mishandling came to a head after the High Court put a freeze on the shipment of...
FE ReportThe high commission of Sri Lanka in Bangladesh and Sri Lanka Women's Association organised a three- day art exhibition on the high commission premises Friday. The art work and paintings of the Sri Lankans living in Bangladesh, including children...
The activities of `aggyan' (dope) party or `malom' (balm) party, who killed several people over the last week, increased alarmingly in the city ahead of holy Eid-ul-Fitr, reports UNB.Popularly known as `aggyan' party, the organised gang of criminals usually make...
Six persons were killed and many others injured in separate incidents in different places of the country during the last two days, report agencies.In Tangail, two army men were killed and 14 other troops were injured in a road accident...
Martin LaMonica An emboldened IBM challenged Microsoft's desktop application dominance with the introduction on Tuesday of IBM Lotus Symphony, a suite of free desktop applications. Lotus Symphony is made up of three applications--word processing, spreadsheet, and presentation programs--which IBM already...
The major search engines are notorious for their claims of out-doing each other. For years, Google and Yahoo battled it out over which had the largest index. Google eventually claimed the title two years ago, but Yahoo countered that relevancy...
Apparently the Newton doesn't fall very far from the Apple tree.AppleInsider is reporting that Apple has a project underway to develop a minitablet computer based on the OS X operating system it has developed for the iPhone and the iPod...
David KirkpatrickMost dotcoms don't arise from anything so touchy-feely as a desire to lower America's divorce rate. But eHarmony is a singular Internet company - one that shows how many great business opportunities remain for those who can creatively apply...
Elliot Spagat Tracing its roots to a founder's anger at a no-show home remodeling crew, the makers of Shoot & Proof software aim to erase any doubts that digital photos are faked or manipulated.The software maker, CodaSystem France SA in...
This month, Google quietly introduced a facility on their US news service that allows anyone quoted in an article to respond with their personal comments - even though Google doesn't own the copyright to the original stories.This move will undoubtedly...
Junk mail piles in our mailbox every day even if we do not want. Most of the time, people do not ask for it. But when it arrives, it is needed to do something like shred it, trash it or...
Gregg EllmanAsk a co-worker or your kid for a floppy disk or a writable CD, you might hear: "Who uses those anymore? Where's your flash drive?" Flash drives also known as USB drives, thumb drives or jump drives are an...
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M A IslamWHILE visiting Japan some 12 years back, I had the opportunity to visit the parliamentary building in Tokyo. I was very delighted to see the aesthetic beauty of the internal and external structure of the building. While leaving...
Bazlur RahmanAT this age of globalisation and scientific invention, it is very much cumbersome to portray the real significance of taking and imparting higher education. Without higher education a large number of people cannot participate in the mainstream development process....
FE Special MAKING the study habit effective and enjoyable is very important for every student. Study habit itself is very a labourious task. If it does not bring result and if it is boring, then all labour goes in vain....
THE Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary, University of London and the Institute of International Commercial Law, Pace University School of Law announces the Clive M. Schmitthoff Essay CompetitionNations in all regions of the world today share a common...
John Murray Brown MOST police officers would probably say the best training they receive is on the job, in live crime situations, in what might be called the management school of hard knocks. In Ireland, the Garda Síochána police service...
KABUL, Sept 29 (AFP): A suicide bomber wearing an army uniform blew up a bus carrying Afghan soldiers in Kabul Saturday, killing at least 31 military personnel and wounding many others, the defence ministry said. Witnesses said several passers-by were...
TOKYO, Sept 29 (Reuters): Japan strongly protested to Myanmar over the killing of a Japanese video journalist during an anti-government rally, and Myanmar Foreign Minister Nyan Win offered apologies, Kyodo news agency said Saturday.Fifty-year-old Kenji Nagai was fatally wounded in...
TEHRAN, Sept 29 (AFP):Iran on Saturday called on world powers to support Tehran's agreement with the UN nuclear watchdog to resolve questions over its nuclear progamme. "Supporting the agreement between the International Atomic Energy Agency and Iran must continue by...
YANGON, Sept 29 (AP): UN envoy Ibrahim Gambari is heading to Myanmar Saturday, hoping to convince the military junta to end its brutal crackdown on demonstrators that has virtually strangled a people's movement to end 45 years of military rule....
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