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Sindh Bank Inks Automation Contract with AutoSoft Dynamics
By Saad Chdhry | November 16, 2011 One CommentAutoSoft Dynamics has signed an agreement with Sindh Bank Ltd. to provide its robust AutoBANKER software to automate their core banking operations in over 150 branches, of which almost 50 are already in operation to date. The popular banking solution was chosen over products presented by 6 other local and international software vendors. The AutoBANKER software package has fast become the go-to banking solution for [...]
Read MoreOracle’s Enterprise Cloud Summit Concluded
By Saad Chdhry | March 25, 2011 One CommentOracle in collaboration with Intel recently organized an “Oracle Enterprise Cloud Summit” to underline how Oracle Cloud offerings can help organizations improve efficiency and profitability while reducing costs. The highly available cloud computing platform is a natural evolution of datacenter trends including virtualization, consolidation, and shared services. Seen in the picture (Front row – 2nd from right) Ahsen Javed, Managing Director, Oracle Pakistan and South [...]
Read MoreGoogle’s Person Finder For Earth Quake Affected Japan
By Saad Chdhry | March 11, 2011 4 CommentsAfter a huge disaster in Japan , Google has launched a very useful service for the people of Japan to search for their missing beloved ones. The tool is available in English and Japanese. Users can click on the “I’m looking for someone” link or the “I have information about someone” link and enter what they know. Search by name or parts of a name, [...]
Read MoreTelenor’s Subscribers Cross 25 Million Mark
By Saad Chdhry | February 15, 2011 27 CommentsTelenor Pakistan announced today that the company’s customer base has crossed 25 million subscribers. The country’s second largest mobile operator grew in 2009-10 by adding subscribers at a rate of 14%, the highest in the telecom industry for the year. Speaking about the landmark, Aamir Ibrahim, Chief Marketing Officer, Telenor Pakistan, said: “With our strong people-focused culture, which is our core strength, and a wide [...]
Read MoreWarid Pays Tribute to Sports Champion Aisam-ul-Haq
By Saad Chdhry | September 16, 2010 13 CommentsTennis Star Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi, pride of the Nation, who made to the US Open Finals (Men’s Double and Mixed Double) first time ever in the history of Pakistan’s Tennis. He had a very tough competition in both the finals but unfortunately couldn’t nail down the last hit on the board. On his arrival at Lahore International Airport on 15th Sept. 2010, thousands of Pakistani from [...]
Read MoreHow Cantenna Works? [Technically]
By Saad Chdhry | March 19, 2010 14 CommentsTired of weak Wi-Fi signal strength? Well there are several methods to boost it up! Easy or hard, cheap or expensive . . . the type of solution depends upon the reason behind the weak strength, but more of it depends upon you on how you tackle it. Tony Northrop famously suggests 10 tips (on Microsoft’s At Home centre) for improving the Wi-Fi reception. His [...]
Read MoreAll you Need to Know about Bluetooth!
By Saad Chdhry | March 15, 2010 6 CommentsDue to widespread use of computers and electronic gadgets, every tabletop is now a maze of wires connecting computers, peripherals and other devices. Experienced by all of us, the mess of wires is the most unwanted, nevertheless the most unavoidable impediment on our desks. Bluetooth technology provides a solution by interconnecting these devices over an inexpensive yet reliable radio link. In the coming years it [...]
Read MoreWhat is Peer-to-Peer (P2P) File Sharing and How Does it Work?
By Saad Chdhry | February 8, 2010 6 CommentsA P2P network, as understandable from its name, helps transfer files between two ordinary computers (peers); like mine and yours. P2P as a network contains thousands of computers (peers) connected to each other in an ad-hoc manner. (For an ad-hoc network the number of peers, peers adding on to the network and peers leaving the network don’t have a noteworthy impact on the network.) This [...]
Read MoreWhat is MNP and How is it Implemented?
By Saad Chdhry | January 27, 2010 22 CommentsMobile Number Portability, or MNP as we all know it, allows a mobile phone user to switch to a new operator (recipient) and avail its services while still retaining his old-operator (donor) number. Number portability is always a state/regulatory-body implementation which keeps accord among the network operators participating in it. In Pakistan, all the five GSM, AMPS and landline network operators participate in the MNP, [...]
Read MoreWhat is Power over Ethernet (PoE)?
By Saad Chdhry | January 25, 2010 One CommentPower over Ethernet or PoE as it is more commonly known; is progressively establishing its name as ‘The universal power socket’. The term didn’t quite actually moved me until a couple of weeks back, when I bought a wireless broadband connection, for which the operating company handed me over an outdoor CPE (CPEo) and dispatched a field engineering team to install it. Apparently, the roof [...]
Read MoreHow Mobile to Mobile SMS and Web to SMS Works?
By Saad Chdhry | July 30, 2009 19 CommentsToday, of all the vast range of alternatives, ‘SMS’ is increasingly becoming the first choice for reaching audiences (single to single or single to multiple communications – also known as broadcast communication). There are many Web-based mobile SMS services, commonly known as ‘Web-2-SMS’ offer this service for free. Globally, the most popular one of such service is Twitter. Its Pakistani counterpart Chopaal offers more or [...]
Read MoreGoing green – Ways to Reduce Power Consumption in Corporate Environments
By Saad Chdhry | July 27, 2009 No CommentsToday, not only computer density is swelling, but they are getting in use more hours per day than ever before; with paper losing the hold of everything. With energy cost soaring day by day, reducing power consumption is becoming more important than ever. Moreover, some of the today’s most pressing green-issues are pushing businesses to hunt down ways to contain the corporate power-appetite. Engineers all [...]
Read MoreWill EvDO let WiMAX claim the Pakistani market ?
By Saad Chdhry | July 22, 2009 8 CommentsEvDO (Evolution Data Optimized) is a 3G technology and an evolution of 2G CDMA; which can effectively be described as ‘Mobile Broadband’. The technology basically utilizes the cellular channels of the CDMA network to provide broadband internet. WiMAX on the other hand is falsely (in Pakistan) regarded as a 4G technology. The reason: Of the two standards of WiMAX – FIXED and MOBILE, the former [...]
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