The Secretary-General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon has appointed Sonia Bashir Kabir, Managing Director of Microsoft Bangladesh, to serve in the Governing Council of the Technology Bank for the Least Developed Countries (LDC). The Secretary-General has appointed 12 expert members from different countries (including non-LDC countries) to the Technology Bank. Sonia has been hand-picked to represent Bangladesh at the council.

Microsoft and Facebook announces they will work together to lay a high-speed Internet cable across the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.

Facebook Inc says its customers' ads will now be visible on third-party apps and websites to everyone who has ever visited its website, and not just to users logged into its social networking service.

Epic releases a fully meshed Deathmatch level called Underland with the new Unreal Tournament build. This level is designed for 6 to 8 players who fight across a hidden outpost, once lost for a thousand years, that guards the entrance to the massive Underland caverns.

Microsoft has faced criticism for changing the pop-up box encouraging Windows users to upgrade to Windows 10.

French finance officials have raided the Paris offices of US internet giant Google as part of a tax fraud investigation.

Nextech Limited recently introduced a renowned NMS platform for the Bangladeshi market in a strategic business partnership with technology vendor Skyline Communications, a European company based in Belgium.

EATL Prothom-Alo Apps Contest 2016 – Season 4 is back for its fourth installment. On 24 May, Tuesday, from 4PM to 6PM, the contest season 4 will be officially launched by the honourable education minister Mr. Nurul Islam Nahid MP. As special guests, Mr. Zunaid Ahmed Palak, MP, State Minister, ICT Division, Mr. Qimiao Fan, the Country Director of World Bank for Bangladesh, Bhutan-Nepal-South Asia and Benoît-Pierre Laramée, the High Commissioner of the High Commission of Canada will be present at the event. World Bank joined the platform as the Lead Sponsor.

The country’s first business to business (B2B) platform ‘Pricekoto’ (what’s the price) begins its operation on Tuesday. The parent company Ezzy Group will guide the new business service in its operation.

Nokia, once the world's top mobile phone maker, announces its return to the fiercely competitive handsets and tablets market years after being crushed there by Samsung and Apple.

Wondering how long your hard drive will last? According to research by data storage company Backblaze, the shelf life for an average drive is about four years.

Make-A-Thon 2016, an 68 hour long contest for innovation, has taken its show to the roads and is making its next stop at Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology on the 17th of May, 2016, Tuesday. Organized by The World Bank and BetterStories Ltd., MakerFest at BUET is following MakerFests at BGMEA University of Fashion & Technology, Bangladesh Agriculture University, Khulna University of Engineering & Technology and Chittagong University of Engineering & Technology. HiFi Public is the Communication and PR partner of the event.

In addition to routing all inter-carrier voice calls, Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) has recently directed the Interconnection Exchanges (ICXs) to bring in interoperator and global (routed through the IGWs) SMS transactions under their purview. So far, there was no such direction of inter-operator SMS routing and hence no visibility for the govt. of the inter-operator SMS movements. This poses threats of spamming, possibility of revenue loss of government and other security threats. The objective of the latest regulation of BTRC is to ensure transparency, enhance security and avoid spamming in the SMS transactions. As a result of this directive, all the ICX operators of Bangladesh will now also act as independent SMS Gateways on top of being Voice Gateways.

Self-driving cars are expected to usher in a new era of mobility, safety and convenience. The problem, say transportation researchers, is that people will use them too much.

The 2nd CES Asia showcases the biggest tech developments. Bytes heads out to China for an exclusive first-hand view of all the tech magic yet to come. Drones, robots, 3D printing and electric cars take centre stage

Recently Symphony Mobile launched a new smartphone "H300”targeting the budget conscious crowd of Bangladesh. The handset comes

Samsung Mobile Bangladesh has announced the launch of two new additions to its Galaxy J series handsets-Galaxy J7 and Galaxy J5 2016

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Bangladeshi Rakhshanda Rukkhan was elected as 'top speaker' for developer summit of upcoming Google I/O, Google's largest

Recently, the launching ceremony of Yahoo's services in Bangladesh was held in The Westin Dhaka. Representatives from some of the