Samsung today announced that it has successfully developed the world’s first breakthrough to offer 5G mobile broadband, that will supprt tens of Gbps of data transmission on mobile devices. The new technology sits at the core of 5G mobile communications system and will provide data transmission up to several hundred times faster than current 4G networks. 5G mobile communications technology is the next generation of [...]

Blockbuster Iron Man 3 – last from one of the most successful sci-fiction sequels – that is topping Box office while bagging $72.5 million in ticket sales in US and Canada only and another $89.3 million internationally, is coming to Cinemas in Pakistan this weekend. Ufone is backing the premier in Lahore, Karachi and Islamabad on May 17th, 2013. Ufone said that it is offering [...]

Pakistan’s first science and educational web TV channel — with a special focus on education – has be launched in Pakistan. TechTV.PK is launched by collaboration between Pakistan Science Club (PSC) and Technology Times (a Weekly tech Magazine) and is said to be available with full drive soon. TechTV will cover all kinds of educational, scientific and technological events from the country. Moreover, there will [...]

Polling time in Pakistan for Election 2013 has ended. Election results and updates have already started to pop-up, however, social media is already filled with many unpleasant rigging videos and images from today’s elections. Election-Day rigging isn’t new in Pakistan but filming such incidents and exposing these rigging videos to entire world is a new phenomenon. Despite the fact that mobile phones were not allowed [...]

Polling time for Election 2013, arguably termed as one of the biggest elections in the country so far, is about to conclude. We are now left with just one hour before the conclusion of polling time, after which all attentions are going to get focused on Election results. With extremely high turnout, the interest for Election is no doubt all time high. So is the [...]

Countless individuals might still be clueless about the polling stations, where they are supposed to go and caste their votes today. If you are one of those, who don’t know about your designated polling station then here is a simple process of knowing details about your polling station via SMS. Write an SMS Type your CNIC (without dashes) Send this SMS to 8300 Soon, you [...]

General Elections 2013 are happening at a time when Social Media usage is on the rise and around 25-28 million population of Pakistan is connected to internet for various purposes. Similarly, there are over 120 million mobile phone users in the country. This population, which is either connected to internet or via mobile phones, is gigantic. Collecting data from this population is relatively easy and [...]

Election Commission of Pakistan has barred the voters to bring their mobile phones to polling station on May 11th, 2013, i.e. Election Day. ECP said that decision was taken to ensure the transparency, avoid any possibility of poll-rigging, violence on Election Day, manipulation of votes or selling of votes. ECP said that it had enough evidences of voters taking pictures of their ballot papers as [...]

Punjab Information Technology Board has launched this Android app, with which anyone can report Election violations, that too anonymously. With this, extremely easy to use mobile app, anyone can take a picture of violations and send these complaints to a centralized monitoring team that is likely to take appropriate action. This Punjab Government backed app offer various categories, and users can report violations by clicking [...]

KWICK High Tech & Solutions is the Pakistan’s first SIM and Smart Card manufacturer. The state of the art manufacturing facility was inaugurated by the German Ambassador in Pakistan Dr. Cyrill Nunn along with Dr. Zafar Iqbal, Secretary of Ministry of Information Technology Pakistan on May 07, 2013 in Islamabad, The inauguration session was also attended by high officials from all major Telecom & Banking [...]

Warid Telecom has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Monet and Meezan Bank for rollout of the Warid Telecom Payment Gateway for Meezan Bank’s branchless banking services, with Monet as the technology partner for the venture. Through this memorandum, Warid Telecom and Bank Alfalah have been joined by Meezan Bank as founding members to create the Mobile Money Network which would be subject to SBP [...]

Unlike many of us had feared, mobile phone services are not going to get suspended on Election Day, told Ishtiaq Ahmed, Secretary Election Commission, while speaking with media yesterday. There were partial guesses about the suspension of mobile phone services – at least in sensitive areas of the country – on election day, i.e. May 11th, 2013. However, this statement by Secretary Election Commission turns [...]

Customers’ buying behaviours have changed significantly in the last decade. A lot of focus is now towards good deals and convenience in shopping. This trend has resulted in many online shopping websites worldwide and Pakistan too is catching up fast. Azmalo.pk is the latest one to join the bandwagon. This online marketplace has been developed by the German online venture builder, Rocket Internet, which has [...]

Warid Telecom has offered its latest services for prepaid and post-paid customers in view of the upcoming elections. Customers will be able to receive news and updates regarding election oriented television shows, polling station locations, campaign and candidate news and updates straight from the polling booths. Users can also find out the details of any particular constituency by sending the constituency number to the short [...]

Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) and Bahria Town have today signed MoU agreement, through which PTCL will deploy Information Communication Technology (ICT) services and infrastructure in Bahria Enclave, Islamabad. The agreement shall enable residents of Bahria Enclave to experience superior telecom services of PTCL including voice telephony, broadband internet and SmartTV as well as Pakistan’s fastest and most reliable EVO wireless broadband internet services. The [...]