If you are someone who loves travelling particularly by air, then being homebound for the last few days must have been really the dullest period of your life. To make your mundane life a bit tolerable, we bring you a compiled list of stuff related to aviation travel that you might find interesting:

HMD Global Oy today announced the availability of Nokia 6300 4G in Bangladesh with basic social media apps to provide ‘smart experience’ in feature phone and also announced that Nokia 225 4G will be available in the market soon.

Starting today, Google Maps will show routes, stops, and estimated travel times to assist commuters in planning their journeys using public transportation. This feature is primarily made available for public buses inside Dhaka and Bangladesh Railway operated trains.

Salesforce on Tuesday announced a $27.7 billion deal to buy online collaboration firm Slack, giving the business software giant a broader array of tools as the pandemic fuels a remote work trend. San Francisco-based Salesforce will mesh Slack messaging technology with its platform for managing marketing and sales teams. “Together, Salesforce and Slack will shape the future of enterprise software and transform the way everyone works in the all-digital, work-from-anywhere world,” Salesforce chief executive Marc Benioff said in a release.

Facebook Inc’s independent Oversight Board announced on Tuesday the first six cases where it could overrule the social media company’s decisions to remove certain pieces of content from its platforms.

The massive telescope at Puerto Rico’s Arecibo Observatory that had been deteriorating since August collapsed today, officials said, after 57 years of astronomical discoveries.

Zoom's video conferencing service remains a fixture in pandemic life, but its breakneck growth is showing signs of tapering off as investors debate whether the company will be able to build upon its recent success after a vaccine enables people to intermingle again.

Italy's competition authority said Monday it had fined Apple 10 million euros ($12 million) for misleading claims about the water-resistant properties of various iPhone models. It said the US tech giant “did not make it clear that this feature exists under certain specific conditions”, notably in laboratory tests with static and pure water, “and not under normal conditions of use”.

Freelancers in Bangladesh are finally getting a state-endorsed electronic/virtual identity card.

Bangladesh Computer Council’s e-Government Computer Incident Response Team (BGD e-GOV CIRT) said that they did not have any specific credible intelligence regarding any imminent attack in the financial infrastructure of Bangladesh. Sources in the ICT Division informed that no such imminent threat was raised to CIRT in the last few days that might be deemed out of the ordinary.

Amazon.com Inc's widely used cloud service, Amazon Web Services (AWS), is experiencing a large-scale outage, the company said on Wednesday, affecting users ranging from websites to software providers.

The Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Division has launched an event titled “Bangabandhu Innovation Grant 2020 (BIG)”, marking the birth centenary of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

India banned 43 more Chinese apps on Tuesday including some from e-commerce giant Alibaba, saying they threatened its “sovereignty and integrity” as tensions remain high between the nuclear-armed neighbours following a deadly border clash.

Samsung Bangladesh has started taking pre-orders of Galaxy M51, a smartphone with humongous battery, recently.

Apple’s global security chief Thomas Moyer has been indicted by a grand jury in the US for his alleged involvement in a bribery case, along with two members of the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s office.

Smart Technologies (BD), a leading hardware and solutions distributor, has launched seven new high-end gaming laptops of GIGABYTE brand in Bangladesh. The laptops were unveiled in the capital on November 23.

Twitter confirmed Saturday it will hand control of the presidential @POTUS account to Joe Biden when he is sworn in on inauguration day, even if President Donald Trump has not conceded his election loss. “Twitter is actively preparing to support the transition of White House institutional Twitter accounts on January 20th, 2021,” the social network said in a statement to AFP. “As we did for the presidential transition in 2017, this process is being done in close consultation with the National Archives and Records Administration,” the statement said.

Apple has agreed to pay $113 million to settle litigation with more than 30 US states over its slowdown in the performance of older iPhones to manage battery power. The latest “batterygate” settlement will divide the settlement among California and 33 other states, according to a statement by state Attorney General Xavier Becerra. The settlement resolves complaints that the tech giant made misrepresentations about iPhone batteries and software updates that throttled processing performance manage insufficient battery power, according to the state official.

Six Bangladeshi initiatives were awarded by the World Information Technology and Services Alliance (WITSA) at World Congress of IT at their first-ever Virtual Global ICT Excellence Awards on November 19, 2020. This event, popularly dubbed as the technology Olympics in the region, was hosted in conjunction with the “Road to WCIT Malaysia”.

The Bangladesh government made 241 requests for data to Facebook in the first half of 2020, a new record high.