State-run mobile operator TeleTalk has set a target to earn Tk 32 crore in net profit in the current fiscal year, adding 18 lakh new customers to its network. The TeleTalk board set the target at a time when the overall mobile market witnessed a downward trend in earnings.

Industry insiders expressed doubt over TeleTalk's net profit target and termed it ambitious. But Iqbal Mahmud, chairman of TeleTalk, said yesterday: "This is not whimsical. The profit target has been set based on good calculations."

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Sarah Brown is unusually cautious when it comes to social networking. The college sophomore doesn't have a MySpace page and, while she's on Facebook, she does everything she can to keep her page as private as she can.

A network of tiny pipes of water could be used to cool next-generation PC chips, researchers at IBM have said.

Scientists at the firm have shown off a prototype device layered with thousands of "hair-width" cooling arteries.

Online social networks are the talk of the town. In fact the popularity of facebook and myspace have sky rocketed due to their potential implications in media and the web. According to www.facebook.com they have more than 67 million active users and over 55 regional, work-related, collegiate, and high school networks.

Digital phone exchanges also in consideration

Chief Advisor of the caretaker government Dr Fakhruddin Ahmed on Thursday announced government decision to introduce mobile phone network in the backwoods of Chittagong Hill Tracts, primarily in the three municipalities of Rangamati, Khagrachhari and Bandarban.(Bangladesh Today)

The Government has taken up a Tk 45 crore project to set up a computer network to connect 45 ministries in the Bangladesh Secretariat with the Chief Adviser's Office and the Planning Commission.