Tag archive: Bangladesh

A week after India unveiled what it claimed to be the world’s cheapest tablet computer, the country's eastern neighbor, Bangladesh, has launched one of the world’s cheapest laptops. The country’s prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, unveiled the 10,000 taka ($130) Android-powered machine at a special ceremony in Dhaka on Tuesday. Named after the country’s national bird, the Doel (magpie) has been produced by the state-owned telecom company TSS… Read More

It’s a major discovery, a cyber spy network that’s infected 1,295 computers in 103 countries, according to the Information Warfare Monitor (IWM), which is made up of researchers from Ottawa-based think tank SecDev Group and the University of Toronto's Munk Centre for International Studies. That might not seem like a lot of computers, but those machines are in foreign ministries and embassies. The discovery occurred after… Read More

The World Economic Forum has published its Global Information Technology Report 2006–2007 “Network Readiness Index” (PDF), an assessment of 122 countries' ability to take advantage of information and communication technologies, both in terms of their adoption and deployment but also taking into consideration the nations' overal business climates, government policies and regulation, and the preparedness and… Read More

Mature markets in the US, Europe, and Asia-Pacific will add 150 million new PCs to the world market by 2010. More significant growth will come from emerging markets, for which Forrester forecasts that 566 million new PCs will be in use by 2010, up from 75 million in 2003, a 31% CAGR. Competition for market share will pit industry leaders like Dell and HP against local emerging market manufacturers and fundamentally change the rules of the… Read More