Last week, a blogger and journalist meet-up titled “ICT Journalists Workshop” was held at the Kuch Khaas in Islamabad. Sponsored by Microsoft and arranged by ProPakistani, it was the first of its kind event that offered bloggers and journalists a chance to get to know each other as well as see how they could work hand in hand to work for the betterment of Pakistan. [...]

Online shopping is all the rage these days and TCS has decided to give it a go by launching TCS Connect, to take your online shopping experience to next level. TCS Connect is an online shopping portal that has a wide variety of products with different payment options and delivery all over Pakistan. TCS has been a trusted name in logistics and supply chain industry [...]

The LaunchPad Ceremony for Mobilink Super Engineer Contest 2012 is being held today for the top teams in North area in Islamabad. The competition is Mobilink’s effort to bridge the gap between industry and academia by enabling students from different fields like Electronics, Electrical, Computer sciences and Telecommunication engineering to take their projects towards actual practical implementation. Mobilink team approached universities like NUST, FAST-NUCES, GIKI, [...]

The much rumored Google drive has been made official at last. It will offer 5GB of storage space for any file including documents, videos or photos and the service will integrate with Google Docs. In simple words, Google Drive is an off-site storage where you can create, share, collaborate, and keep all of your stuff. Whether you’re working with a friend on a joint research [...]

Read this post in Urdu There’s no denying that Samsung and HTC are the dominant forces in the Android market. Both have been competing for the top spot ever since Android came out and until last year, HTC had the edge over Samsung. They treated customers with the most high end phones ever seen but the tide turned when HTC Sensation lost out to Samsung [...]

The World Economic Forum released its Global Information Technology Report for 2012 earlier this week which saw Pakistan lose 14 places compared to last year to rank at 102nd place out of the possible 142. Meanwhile, Sweden, Singapore and Finland grabbed the top three spots. The report is organized in ten pillars which are distributed in four sub-indexes namely, Environment, Readiness, Usage and Impact which [...]

Read this post in Urdu The Punjab Information Technology Board (PITB), the technological division of the government of Punjab, has replaced its outdated decentralized communications technology with a secure and reliable solution. The solution was deployed by working locally with Microsoft Gold Partner Inbox Business Technologies and has contributed to a rise in employee productivity and reduced operating costs. PITB is responsible for providing IT [...]

Read this post in Urdu Saavn (South Asian Audio Video Network) is a free music service with a focus on Indian and South Asian music. Specifically it provides free streaming for movie, pop Hindi and Pakistani songs as well as providing some Tamil songs. Users can make, share and listen to playlists for free on the web or on its Android and iOS apps. Highlights: [...]

Microsoft released the consumer preview of the much talked about Windows 8 at the Mobile World Congress 2012 yesterday. Microsoft had released the developer preview last year but this consumer preview is more stable with additional features. Its is the first operating system by Microsoft which will be compatible with low power ARM microprocessors and will run on laptops, tablets and desktops – pointing at [...]

FourQuants and FinanceTrainingCourse, based out of Karachi, are ventures led by Jawwad Farid, which aim to teach finance to people through internet (videos) and mobile apps. FinanceTrainingCourse is a partially free portal while FourQuants caters to enterprise customers through subscriptions. One may call this FinanceTrainingCourse inspired by Khan Academy, however, both FinanceTrainingCourse and FourQuants takes next level route to teach and train professionals of a [...]

World famous Massachusetts Institute of Technology or MIT has now announced the launch of an online course, which won’t only be free but will be accessible for anyone with internet availability. Evaluation for this course will be arranged online while MIT will offer certificates for the candidates who will successfully complete the course. Starting this March, an Electronics course offered online will be part of [...]

Budget Android phones have become very popular lately and Samsung Galaxy Y is the cheapest one in the market if you ignore the IDEOS handsets being offered by a couple of telecom providers. ProPakistani got its hands on a test unit and here’s what we make of it. Appearance: Samsung Galaxy Y is a small phone and fits into the hand snugly. It has a [...]

Read this post in Urdu Babar Iqbal, a 14 year old whiz kid from Dera Ismail Khan, has set a world record by publishing his first research paper on digital forensic science. The field of Digital Forensic Science covers the recovery and investigation of data in digital devices and is often used to aid computer crime investigations. Babar’s research pertains to Apple iDevices (iPad, iPhone, [...]

The New Year greeted Microsoft with the good news that Internet Explorer is gaining ground as the browser of choice on Windows 7. With hardware accelerated video amongst other features, websites perform like installed programs on your computer. IE9 deals with HD video with ease and presents websites the way they were designed to be viewed and makes them responsive like never before. Uptil now [...]

If you aren’t familiar with the terms SOPA and PIPA, it’s about time you get familiar with them. Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect IP Act (PIPA) are two bills that being considered by the US Congress. The House of Representatives is considering SOPA while the Senate is drafting PIPA. Both are effectively two versions of the same anti-piracy bill. What these bills intend [...]