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ECS City IT Fair gets momentum

Mahbubur Rahman Kahn

ECS City IT Fair-08 gets momentum. The 9 day long fair that began on last Thursday with a view to spreading the motto 'Computer would be instrument of development of merit' will be ended on this Friday. Multiplan Centre Shop Owners organized the fair where 276 organisations are participated with advanced technology ranging from desktop computer to advanced gadgets.

Special discount, quiz, gift, drawing and debate competition for school going students, gaming zone for the game-bugs and above all free internet access facilities are provided to the customers and visitors. New technologies are exhibited in two separate computer zones.

Computer source brings two printers- Lexmark Z1320 and X2650. Photo can be printed out from the first one.

Global Brand Pvt Ltd brings some laptops, e-PC, e-Box, Mini desktop computers, PDA phones and LCD monitors of ASUS. These products are sold in discount. Great Wall A-81 laptop is found at Tk. 29,900 where Celeron-D desktop computer is found at Tk 13,999. There are facilities of voting for Cox's Bazar and Sundarban. The entry fee is fixed at tk 10 though school going students can access to the fair free.Prof Jamilur Reza Chowdhury, Vice Chancellor of Brac University inaugurated the fair on Thursday. He said the world turned has turned into a global village due to the advancement of technology.

We have to move forward by reducing imbalance in this sector compared to other countries. He called upon to hold more such computer fairs in the country and reach computer to common people.

Bangladesh Computer association will organise BCS ICT World 2008 on Nov 17 to 21 at Bangladesh China Friendship Centre where BASIS SoftExpo 09 will be held on January 27 to 31 in the same venue in next year.

Computer training at DIIT

IT Report

'There is no good way to develop professional skills other than involvement with the technology'-said by the speakers at the special computer training program for Dhaka Sub Editors Council by Daffodil Institute of IT.

They added, "The definition of rich man has changed in these days. The peoples who are rich in information are rich in all way."

The Inauguration ceremony (03 November'08) of the training program was chaired by Mr. Shah Muhammad Muhtasim Billah, President of DSEC and Md. Sabur Khan, the Chairman of Daffodil Group was present at the occasion as Chief Guest.

Mohammad Nuruzzaman, the Executive Director of DIIT, Tanvir Ahmed, Participant of the training program and Rathindra Nath Das, Assistant Director of DIIT also gave speech on the occasion. More than 20 journalists from different dailies, news agencies and electronic media are participating in the two months long training session. Khan in his speech said that, "The journalists work with the information. So it's very important for the journalists to introduce with the information technology". He also gave importance on information collection and accumulation, which can be effective at any step of life and can open up a door of new opportunity.

Price index of Computer parts

IT Report

There are so many people in the country who still make error assuming computer's monitor as a computer. Many are got stumble assuming computer system as finished product like TV and Refrigerator. New Nation has taken initiative to let its readers know the update price of different parts of a computer system. The price of different parts is given here. Service and assembling charge will be added if any one wants to buy the whole computer system.

Processor: Celeron 1.8d ghz-tk.2900; Intel Pentium core2quad q6600 2.4ghz-tk15,200; Intel core2duo 3ghz 45nm e6850 (1333 bus and 6 MB cash)-tk13,800; intel core2extreme 3ghz qx6850 (8 MB cash and 1333 bus)-tk.7500; intel core2duo 2.66ghz 45nm tk.12800; core2du0 e4600 2.4ghz- tk.9500; Pentium dual core 2ghz-tk.5400; Pentium dual core 2.2 ghz-tk.6000. Motherboard: intel 33tlm-tk.9,500; intel dg33 fbc-tk.7,500; intel dq965gf-tk.9000; Asus g31-tk4600; gigabyte 945g-tk. 3,700. Ram: 1 GB DDR (667 bus)-tk.1300; 1 GB (800 bus)-tk.1500; 2 GB (800 bus)-tk.3000. Hard Disk Drive: 80 Gb (7200 RPM)-tk.2850; 200 gb sata- tk. 3300; sata 250 gb-tk3600; 160 gb-tk3200; 1000 gb-tk16,300. Pen Drive: 4gb-tk.1100; 1 gb- tk.550; 2 gb-tk.600. Floppy Disk Drive: 3.5 inch 1.44 mb-tk.400. Monitor: Samsung 15inch-tk.5600 and 17 inch (793df)-tk.7600; Philips 17 inch-tk.7,500; LG 17 inch flat- tk.7,500; Philips 17 inch LCD- tk.15,000; 17 inch LCD- tk.13,500; 15 inch LCD- tk. 12,500; Samsung 17 inch (732 n plus) LCD- tk.13,700; LG 17 inch LCD-tk.13,100. Graphics Card: pci express 256 mb- tk.5, 500. Fax/Modem: Prolink 56kbps internal-tk.550. DVD Writer: Lite-on 52X24X52x-tk.2,400; Asus 52X32X52x-tk. 2,500. DVD Rom: Asus 16x-tk.1,500; lite-on 16x- tk.1,550; Benq 16x-tk1,500. Combo Drive: Asus-tk.1,900; Benq-tk2,000. Casing: tk.1,500 to 2,200: Samsung-tk1650. Mouse: tk. 100 to 900. Key Board: Mitsumi normal-tk.350; eagle touch multimedia- tk.600; A4tec normal-tk.250; multimedia- tk. 600. Speaker: Creative Inspire (5:1)-tk.4,800; (7:1)-9,500; (4:1)-tk.3,600;(2:1)-tk.2,600. Microlab (2:1)-tk.1,200-1,800; (5:1)-tk.4,700; Creative sbs (370)-tk.1,800. TV Card: Evermedia external- tk.4200 and internal- tk.3100; Realview external- tk.1, 500 and game D-tk.1, 500. Printer: Canon BJC IP1300-tk.2,700; Canon BJC IP1880-tk.3,500; HP1360 Deskjet-tk.3,100; Lexmark jet645-tk.3,600; Epson C59-tk.3,400; Canon 1210 laser-tk11,500; HP 1005 LaserJet-tk.9,700; HP 2015 LaserJet-tk. 23,500; Lexmark e120n LaserJet-tk.8,500.

Bangla should get priority in govt. sites

IT Report

The main way of communication of common people with government is Bangla. Therefore government websites should use Bangla language. To reach information to the common people quickly, these website should be produced according to them.

Rasheda K Chowdhury, adviser, Primary and Mass Education Ministry, said this at a national seminar styled "E-government Development Strategy".

Among others, Manik Lal Samaddar, Special Assistant to the Chief Adviser on Science and Information Technology, Prof AM Shafiullah, Vice Chancellor of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), Sheikh Md Wahiduzzaman, Secretary of Science and Information Minstry, Dr Atiur Rahman, Professor of Development studies of Dhaka University, Md Jobed Ali Sarkar, Executive Director of Bangladesh Computer Council (BCC), Dr Shamser Ali, Vice Chancellor of South East University, Habibullah N Karim, Bangladesh Association of Software, Information and Service were present in the seminar. Nil Ratan, leader of councilor organization, Price WaterHouse Coopers, to implement the project, presented draft strategy of the seminar.

Rasheda Ka chowdhury said, government has already got benefit using information technology. The existing government used SMS tactic to raise awareness among common people about bird flu.

Samaddar said the e-government draft is produced through discussing with all concerned bodies. In spite of that any one could put advice through website. The web address is-www. emtapict.gov.bd

Bangladesh government took the project to ensure accountability and qualitative services for common people. BCC attempted to implement the project under Science and Technology Ministry by the end of this month, hosts informed.

Apple puts further 2008 Mac updates on ice

Aidan Malley

An Apple spokesperson has cooled down expectations of a last-minute refresh to the Mac line, or any other products, before the start of the new year.The news dampens expectations for late 2008, which according to roadmaps would have Apple launch minor iMac updates before the year closed out. The computer maker has let just over six months slip past since revising the all-in-one desktop in late April but was thought to be readying a fall update that would bring the processors into line with Intel's latest technology. Although the iMac has been technically.

Learn Joomla, Earn money

DIIT, Banani Campus is going to arrange 5 days course on joomla from 6th November, 2008 (Thursday). It will be 20 hours intensive practical work including a real life project also.

The course will cover the following topics: Introduction and project of CMS, FTP, Joomla Installation & Configuration, Mail Caching Statistics, Advanced Media manager, working with multiple templates, setting access levels, blocking users, Configuring and installing components, SEF (Search Engine Friendly) component administration, JCE Text Editor configuration, Rsform and philaform (form components), Mass mail ,Web links, Banner manager, Guestbook, Installing Modules, Module Order, Custom Modules, Component modules, Access Level, Parameters, Installing Mambots, Configuring menu items, Adding menu links, Frontpage manager, Newslflash items, Inserting a Google maps and more.

The authority will Provide: Course Materials, Certificate and Refreshment.

Course fees TK. 2500 only. Last date of Registration 4th November 2008.