How to get away with white lies

There are times when post-scripts and clarifications need to be given at the start. So in case my boss or any potential future employer
19 March 2015

Face time with Waiz Rahim, founder of the local crowd-funding platform Projekt.co

Projekt.co is a recently launched, locally based crowd-funding platform. We catch up with the startup site's founder, Waiz.
19 March 2015

Yahoo to shutter China office and cut "around 350" jobs

Internet giant Yahoo is closing its China office as part of a worldwide consolidation aimed at cutting costs
19 March 2015

Yahoo shutting down its office in China

The closure of the research centre in Beijing office will eliminate 200 to 300 jobs, Bloomberg reported Wednesday, quoting a person familiar with the matter.
19 March 2015

Windows 10 will be free for software pirates

Microsoft will upgrade Windows 7 and Windows 8 to Windows 10 for free this summer, extending its offer even to software pirates
18 March 2015

The International Solar Tech Expo Ends

A three-day eco-friendly industrial equipment and sustainable development exhibition on Energy and Building ended last Saturday at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre (BICC) in the capital.
18 March 2015

Blackberry unveils new tablet

Blackberry-owned company Secusmart unveils a new tablet in collaboration with Samsung and IBM
17 March 2015

Facebook revamps its takedown guidelines

Facebook is providing the public with more information about what material is banned on the social network. Its revamped community standards now include a separate section on "dangerous organisations" and give more details about what types of nudity it allows to be posted
16 March 2015

GDG Bangla volunteers add 3 Lac plus words online

Google Developers Group Bangla (GDG Bangla) created a world record by contributing more than 3 lac words to Google Translate Service.
15 March 2015

Four promising IT security trends of MWC 2015

The Mobile World Congress often gladdens our heart with lots of visitors and participants who care about security. This year was no
15 March 2015

Tech Bits

BlackBerry's first tablet in years is a secure Galaxy Tab S
15 March 2015

Samsung Galaxy A5

The Galaxy Alpha came out as a high end smartphone last year promising much but delivering little. The part-metal build was a
15 March 2015

3D Projection Mapping: A charismatic illusion

The trick is awfully simple: throw some laser at a façade, use the landscape as a canvas. Yet not everyone could come up with this
15 March 2015

Let's Eat: Foodie's Guide

Let's Eat, a product by MCC ltd., of years of hard work and research and its sole purpose is to ease the restaurant selection process for
15 March 2015

Apple's thinnest ever MacBook with 12-inch Retina Display ships April 10

Apple has made its thinnest ever Mac: at its thickest point it is just about half an inch
14 March 2015

Supersonic car gets its superwheels

Aluminium discs will be fitted to the Bloodhound Supersonic Car, which will endeavour to break the world land speed record (763mph)
14 March 2015

Apple's Tim Cook offered liver to dying boss Steve Jobs

Apple chief executive Tim Cook offered a part of his liver to a dying Steve Jobs, according to a new book due to be released this month
13 March 2015

The curious case of the missing sanity

These stories tend to start with – “It was just another normal day at the office.” Not true. You know you saw it coming from a mile
12 March 2015

Leadership in education

Gerardo Blanco is an assistant professor of the Department of Leadership in Education, at the University of
12 March 2015

Bridging academics and real life

In the developing world, government funding for academic research and development has always been miniscule. In fact, the top
12 March 2015