For people who prefer to spend most of their spare time within the comforts of their rooms, all the while craving the company of friends who are out there having the time of their lives, chat groups are blessings.

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.

This week, we at SHIFT got all nostalgic and are bringing you the best of classic BTV cars from those series we all used to cherish.

Nissan has bought off 34% control stake of Mitsubishi Motors by investing 2.2 billion dollars, making it the largest shareholder of Mitsubishi.

With the world going after greener electric cars, China has joined in the rat race too. A lot of automotive startups have realized

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.

Microblogging site Twitter is to stop counting photographs and links in its 140-character limit for tweets, according to a report from Bloomberg.

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.

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

The 17th instalment of Summer Laptop Fair by Expo maker came to an end yesterday. The event, focusing on laptops, tablets and

Walton is now manufacturing no-frost refrigerators with energy efficient inverter technology According to Walton, inverter technologies of compressor in Walton

REVE Systems has recently showcased their 3 new innovative products at the International Telecoms Week (ITW). The iTel IM App, iTel Smart Call App and

Rx71 Health App is a very simple and easy to use app that helps to identify your decease or medical condition by asking you a series of

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