There have been various posts and long arguments about e-Commerce on TGP recently and the lead discussion has been about Raseen launching their e-Commerce Payment Gateway. Is Pakistan really ready for merchant based e-Commerce has been another technology question asked by a reader from www.askbajwa.com. At the moment, this whole news about Raseen’s e-Commerce Gateway seems to be more of a hype than looking at [...]

The Microblogging fad is quite catchy nowadays and it would be no less than being a moron if one still hasn’t learnt how to use www.twitter.com to Twitter, the most famous trendsetter in microblogging. Twitter.com is a free service that lets you keep in touch with people through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing? In order to [...]

Pakistan is amongst those few countries in the world that have laid down the most advanced telecom infrastructure compared to other developing regions. Amidst its hardships, Pakistan’s telecom sector has made great progress eliminating the hurdles of the previous analogue and low-speed telecommunication networks transformed into a high speed broadband infrastructure that facilitates the most amazing forms of communications today. The whole region has witnessed [...]

Continued from Part 1 There are many mis-perceptions of what the Knowledge Economy is despite the phrase tends to be used interchangeably through all walks of life that refer to economics or productivity. Two phrases, Knowledge Economy and Knowledge Based Economy are a key to the confusion that arises around the new forms of economic productivity. The difference is that in a knowledge economy, knowledge [...]

DMB or Digital Multimedia Broadcasting was originally developed by South Korea in 2005 as a digital radio transmission that is capable of sending multimedia services such as TV, Radio and datacastng (broadcasting of data over a wide area via radio waves) to mobile phones and devices. South Korea originally developed this technology to replace FM radios and the service was launched in May of 2005. [...]

Producing technology, developing new products, new services and breakthrough ideas is definitely part of the innovation process but it can’t be of any use without coordinated marketing thrust. Somehow, there has been significant rhetoric around promoting and marketing Pakistani IT products and ITeS offerings but there has never been any news or information about how the region transforms to the global market environment and demands. [...]

News is that the Pakistan Software Export Board PSEB is publishing a revised edition of IT Industry Year Book 07-08. PSEB uses this publication in its international marketing activities where the year book documents the profiles of PSEB member IT companies in order to provide an accurate and detailed picture of the Pakistan IT Industry and its multifold growth over the past few years. PSEB’s [...]

Sometime ago, after the pressure was considerably built up for the need of PayPal.com E-Payment services in Pakistan, despite the company ignoring this region purposely while giving service to India and China, I launched a cause page on Facebook titled the “PayPal Authorize Pakistan Now Campaign” at http://apps.facebook.com/causes/266093. Interestingly, many likeminded Pakistani Knowledge Workers, Freelancers and Webmaster’s have joined the campaign extensively from all across [...]

Todate, Pakistan Software Export Board PSEB has converted nine possibly suitable public and private sector buildings into IT parks across the country by investing in telecom and related infrastructure. PSEB has now announced the opening of a Software IT Park in Lahore where PSEB converted Shaheen Complex in to an IT enabled office space. According to a recent announcement, PSEB has recently converted ‘Shaheen Complex’ [...]

Internet connectivity depends on having an Internet (protocol, IP) address. The current IP version in use is 4 and the unallocated pool of available IPv4 address space is depleting and according to various reports, 85% of the total four billion IPv4 address were already allocated by 2008 where the possible estimated exhaustion of the IPv4 addresses will be around 2011 or 2012. According to the [...]

Pakistan continues to be the frontline state in the “war on terror” as well as a playground for international powers. The war is taking the toll on all aspects of development and the population both in the rural and urban regions will continue to be deprived of quality access and of ICT-based development opportunities. With such a crisis, surveillance and national security are the key [...]

The Internet in a very short space of time has become the fundamental foundation of today’s economy. Starting as a research project over three decades ago, it has transformed from an experimental research network into a public economic activity infrastructure that support our economies with over more than a billion people worldwide using it to manage their social and work lives. In some parts of [...]

The recent ranking of Pakistan by Businessweek whether it continues to be a popular Outsourcing Destination has portrayed an improvement from last year but is this something to celebrate or is it a wake-up call from the global markets to the Pakistani IT Industry? Businessweek reviews Pakistan as an Outsourcing hub. Pakistan’s standing in the list is definitely an appreciative improvement but when observes the [...]

The recent Federal Budget of Pakistan for the fiscal year 2009-2010 has imposed a set of new rules and fixes for the Pakistani Telecom Industry. Where it makes a flexible opportunity to increase usage of mobile services, it also imposes a threat to the consumption of telecom services. The regulators have applied a 20 Paisa Federal Excise Duty on outgoing Short Message Service (SMS) while [...]