Facebook Ban by Bangladesh GOVT

Bangladesh on Saturday temporarily blocked the social networking site Facebook amid demands by a radical organization to ban the website for hurting the sentiments of Muslims.
No official comment was immediately available for the closure of the popular network. However, an official source on condition of anonymity told PTI that the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission blocked it on directives from the government.
The private news agency said the measure was taken after a request from the elite anti-crime Rapid Action Battalion. Users were suddenly barred from logging into the network since 6.30 pm.
A RAB spokesman rejected the report, saying no request was made on their behalf to block the network. The development came two days after the leader of the radical Islamic Shashantantrik Andolon, Fazlul Haque Amini, demanded a ban on the network for alleged postings hurting religious sentiments.
Pakistan recently decided to cut off access to Facebook till May 31 over a page featuring blasphemous cartoons of Prophet Mohammed.
The Bangladesh government-run BSS news agency earlier on Saturday reported that the RAB troops arrested a 'cyber criminal' of the city on charges of 'cyber crimes'.
It said the detained man recently posted 'objectionable, disfigured and satirical photographs' of several government leaders using different accounts.


Also to be mention that westing time on porn site been reduced by people after Facebook been popular hope Government will take the necessary action against the cyber criminals and not to the social network but yet to justified the issue.

You can find the Facebook Statistics for Bangladesh, these numbers are updated on a daily basis that the Facebook Statistics (Advertising) platform gives us for Bangladesh on the given day.

Number of users on Facebook in Bangladesh: 876 020
Number of male users on Facebook in Bangladesh: 642 920
Number of female users on Facebook in Bangladesh: 222 440
Penetration in Bangladesh: 0.55 %
Online penetration in Bangladesh: 157.56 %
Avarage CPC in Bangladesh: $ 0.09
Avarage CPM in Bangladesh: $ 0.04

So it is a very promising for business too

Source

Bharti Airtel is going to hold 70% of Share of Warid Telecom Bangladesh

Poorest mobile service provider Warid Telecom Bangladesh which is now belong to a middle east based Dhabi Group which is going to be acquired by  Bharti Airtel, India’s mobile and Internet services giant having 118 million subscribers, will acquire 70 percent stake in Warid Telecom, a mobile operator in Bangladesh.

The acquisition is estimated to be around $300 million. As a result of the deal, Bharti Airtel control of the management and the board of Warid.
Read more from the original source my friend Taran has publish in detail Click To Read more http://bit.ly/89nEof

Luminr - make them all glow, can you? an iPhone / iPod game by Mukto Software of Bangladesh

Mukto Software Ltd. is a new start-up in Dhaka, Bangladesh. It's funded by a group of youngsters. It focuses on developing application for smart phones (android, blackberry and iPhone) and web as well. While the major cash flow comes from outsourcing projects mostly from USA and UK, Mukto Software has started releasing application on its own banner.

An interesting fact worth motioning about Mukto is, it has four ACM ICPC World Finalists in the development team! WOW!!

I think face book use might play the mindjolt game on face Book that is a creation of Mukto Software Ltd. Might like to recall that the game so here you can find

Recently (January 7, 2010) they had released a game for iPhone & iPod name luminr, which can be run on OS version 2.0 onwards. It's the first game released by Mukto in the app store and they are quite ambitious and planning to release nine more games this year.

No surprise, cause I know what is ACM ICPC is. They all good programmer.. I was attached with the DHAKA ACM ICPC 2007.. No doubt four ACM ICPC World Finalists brain & some IT guru total 14 member team will rock it..

Here it goes the challenge

Make them all glow, can you ?

How to?

Tap on orbs arranged in a grid to make them all glow. Tapping on an orb changes its state from unlit to lit or lit to unlit along with the neighboring orbs.
Turn on all the orbs to pass a level with as few moves & as fast as you can.

Features:

* There are 9 levels, each with more orbs than the previous one.
* Two difficulty modes.
-- In the easy mode, all orbs are unlit in the beginning.
-- In the hard mode, some orbs are already lit to make your life harder.
* Place your name in the global leaderboard and brag to your friends about your achievement through Facebook & Twitter.

Screen Shot

Download link Link:  AppStore Alternative link

Support: If you have any technical problems please email them  or drop a line.

Don’t have a iPhone/IPod? No worry gamer Play on web

If you like can take a look for detail about the maker of the Game

Web Development Blog twitter

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Global.AQ Pro for Sending free SMS

Global.AQ Pro 2.0 is a text messaging (SMS) application which allows you to securely exchange messages from your iPodTouch or iPhone with mobile phones around the globle or another Global.AQ user. MESSAGES BETWEEN GLOBAL.AQ USERS ARE ALWAYS FREE. Works on almost every networks around the world.

You can receive any SMS from selected mobile operators to your global.AQ (+882347xx xx xx) number as well (if the sending operator supports Global Networks Antarctica as SMS destination. ASK THEM). Messages sent to a global.AQ number will appear in the application as push message.

Coverage:

Sucessfull deliveries so far:

Algeria, Angola, Argentine Republic, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijani Republic, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belgium, Benin, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Cameroon, Chile, China, Colombia, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Côte dIvoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Denmark, Ecuador, Egypt, Ethiopia, Finland, France, French Departments and Territories in the Indian Ocean, French Polynesia, Georgia, Germany, Global Networks Antarctica, Greece, Guam, Guinea-Bissau, Hong Kong, China, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Jordan, Kuwait, Kuwait, Latvia, Lebanon, Libya, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macao, China, Macedonia, Madagascar, Malaysia, Mali, Malta, Mauritius, Mayotte, Mexico, Moldova, Monaco, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Namibia, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Niger, Nigeria, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Panama, Paraguay, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, Russia and Kazakhstan, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Serbia, Singapore, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Sweden, Syria, Switzerland, Taiwan, China, Thailand, Thailand, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, USA and Canada, Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Viet Nam, Yemen

Incoming Coverage (14-OCT-2009):

Belize (BTL)
Cambodja (Shinawatra)
Croatia (T-Mobile, Tele2, VIP)
Estonia (Elisa)
Finland (DNA, Elisa, Sonera)
French Guiana
Guadeloupe (Digicell)
Haiti
Iceland (IceCell)
India (various)
Indonesia (Indosat)
Kazakhstan (Beeline)
Martinique
Netherlands
Norway
Peru Claro
Poland (Era & POL)
Russia (Belline, Megafone, Tele2, MTS)
Samoa
Somalia (Golis, MontySom)
Sweden (Comviq/Tele2, Teliasonera)
Switzerland (Orange, Tele2, BebbiCell)
Thailand (TH GSM, TRUE)
USA (MetroPCS, Petrocom and others)
USA AT&T is not yet supported but should shortly.


As you can see, almost the whole world is reachable, not only USA. This makes us very different from most of the competitors who just (ab)use e-mail to sms gateways of the operators

The application comes with 500 free SMS credits included.

Pricelist in credits per destination
http://sms.global.aq/pricelist.php
New in this version
corrects the push certificate. Languages
English, Chinese, French, German, Greek, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish Requirements
Compatible with iPhone and iPod touch.
Requires iPhone OS 3.0 or later.