Syed Imtiaz Ahmed has reached into the finals of Cisco’s ‘I-Prize’, a global innovation contest, for his mobile commerce idea dubbed as Pay 2.0. Cisco I-Prize is a global competition in which entrepreneurs submit proposals and collaborate to create the fundamental idea for Cisco’s next billion-dollar business. The team with the winning idea...
This is a Guest Post By Mr. Murtaza Khambati Dr. Yasin Chairman PTA the other day regretted the fact that although the telecommunications in Pakistan has seen rapid boom, people especially young ones in general are reluctant in entrepreneurship and they only prefer to seek jobs. He was addressing the participants of the Forum on Telecom which was...
WinMark is a group of 12 engineering students, who have made a car locally in Pakistan that can cover 80 Kilometers per liter. WinMark is participating in Shell Eco-Marathon, the 25th global competition which will be held first time in Asia (Malaysia) in July 2010. Earlier we have discussed PakWheelers, students from NUST and about their participation...
Basit Riaz Sheikh, a Pakistani Ph.D student in AVLSI Lab at Cornell University, the United States has won the best paper award at Global Scientific Conference-2010 held in Grenoble, France. World’s fastest supercomputers are characterized by the number of floating-point operations they can perform in one second. Basit Riaz Sheikh (son of former...
Everyone is going laptop these days. Hence, one must be familiar with few things before buying a laptop so that you get a quality product against your well earned money. Check Points: You may need to consider following things while purchasing a new laptop. Price: Go to laptop manufacturer’s website, find out its price and convert foreign currency...
This is a guest post by Jabran Rafique, who is student of MSC Web Development at Staffordshire University, UK and one of the top mapping contributors and Pakistan’s ambassador at Google Map Maker. Title is enough to bring smile on faces of my people! and why not? Because we don’t care about law and authorities don’t know what responsibilities...
This is a guest post by Jabran Rafique, who is student of MSC Web Development at Staffordshire University, UK and one of the top mapping contributors and Pakistan’s ambassador at Google Map Maker. Information technology has played a vital role throughout the world and so in our country. Pakistan is proud to have the world’s largest biometric...
In ‘Matrix’ (the movie), you remember Morpheus telling Neo that nothing in this world is impossible, anything that hits your mind is possible, has a meaning for all of us -particularly during a time when we are feeling low and not up to the mark. As we covered before, Telenor recently launched this campaign called Karo Mumkin, and company is asking...
This question must be in minds of almost all employees in today’s world - especially those who were hired at low pay-scale with a promise of increment based on performance and time, but that never happened. Also there would be employees who are actually over working than what they are getting paid; such professionals usually start thinking of better...
Shah Kamal, a resident of Kharochhan, 150 kilometer south of Karachi has derived a way to produce electricity, initially for his own home and then for 100 homes of his small island. Earlier this island had no electricity supply, and fishermen felt that Government of Pakistan is not well placed to provide electricity – hence, they took the initiative...
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...
As mentioned earlier by Aamir Attaa about TAXI Fare via SMS, I thought of yet another service if possible for our operators to give it to us. This service can be named as Remote Health Checkup – Keep Reading to know what actually it will be. Now, this concept is nothing but getting your loved ones health updates on central system. There are times...
With more than 90 million cellular customers in Pakistan Telecom sector, 4.5 million landline users and 5 million internet users, 170,000 broadband users, we should now move beyond the basic telephony and internet services and start using these modern era communication means to further better our living standards. We have started seeing SMS subscription...
I have received mixed response about newly adopted design on ProPakistani.com through emails, comments, phone calls and verbal communication. Many readers welcomed this new designed, liked the layout and color mixing, but equal amount of readers said that previous Greenish Theme was good. Readers came up with following opinions There is not Green Color...
These days the hotspot word about our economy is “recession”. Every one is talking about it and in such times consumers think twice while spending and consuming, as a result, companies have to respond accordingly. Two areas where the highest impact is expected are sales and the cost of incurred in generating sales, in other words even more media...
