During its Computex 2016 keynote address Intel showed that its future lies in offering consumers and companies more bang for their bucks, with its most efficient, affordable Apollo Lake processors or its first ever 10-core processors built for ‘mega-tasking gamers and filmmakers.

In this day and age, almost everything in life is an add-on. It is the only way to improve the 'base' level of everyday life.

An Android Police teardown of the Android application package (APK) for Google Photos' next update looks like there are some new tweaks and features coming to the backup and storage service, including a pot sweetener for Nexus users.

The EATL Prothom Alo Apps Contest 2016 – Season 4 just began for the fourth time on the 24th May 2016, Tuesday at The Westin Dhaka and the program was officially launched by the Chief Guest, the Hon’ble Education Minister Mr. Nurul Islam Nahid, MP. As Special Guests, Mr. Zunaid Ahmed Palak, MP, the Hon’ble State Minister, ICT Division, Mr. Qimiao Fan, the Country Director of World Bank for Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, South Asia and H.E. Benoît-Pierre Laramée, the High Commissioner of the High Commission of Canada in Bangladesh were present in the event.

Make-A-Thon 2016, organised by The World Bank and BetterStories Limited in partnership with the ICT Division of the Ministry of Post, Telecommunications and Information Technology and 18 esteemed partners, has brought 100 top talents from the fields of engineering, agriculture, business, fashion technology and design together to solve problems for Bangladesh. HiFi Public was the communications partner of the event.

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Name of App: Medicify - Medicine Reminder

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.

Google wins a major US court battle with software firm Oracle after a jury ruled it did not unfairly appropriate parts of the Java programming language.

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 row between the music industry and YouTube shows no signs of abating but what is it all about?

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.