Internet users in Pakistan are still hovering around 10 to 15 percent of total population in the country, with less than just 2 percent connected with high-speed broadband internet. Despite the fact, the growth in 2012 for social media usage stood at 50 percent and digital marketing spend by corporations grew by at least 45 percent during the year. These indicators hint the surge in [...]

National University of Sciences & Technology (NUST) School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (SEECS) and Mobilink have collaborated to encourage students to identify everyday problems and propose solutions using technology as a medium. NUST’s School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (SEECS) took the lead in developing a competition titled ‘Finding Innovative & Creative Solutions (FICS)’. The competition was a means of providing a [...]

In a shocking development, a large scale cyber attack at Pakistan – aimed at gathering military scale, government and corporate data – emanating from India has been uncovered by Norman, a global security leader in malware analysis for enterprises. Norman Securities, based out of Oslo, Norway, in its report titled “Unveiling an Indian Cyber-attack Infrastructure”, said that Indian cyber attack aimed at Pakistan and other [...]

The Information Technology University of the Punjab (ITU-Punjab) held a successful Information session on Saturday, May 18, 2013 at the Arfa Software Technology Park. Aspiring students gathered in large numbers to inquire about the undergraduate programs being launched by the ITU in the fields of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering as well as its existing graduate program in Computer Science. ITU-Punjab’s Vice Chancellor, Dr. Umar [...]

The Habib Bank Ltd (HBL) has installed an ATM machine on the campus of Government College University Lahore, to facilitate its students, staff and teachers. GCU Vice Chancellor Professor Dr Muhammed Khaleeq-ur Rahman and HBL President Nauman K. Dar inaugurated the ATM machine, while HBL Head Payment Services Faiq Hussain, GCU Director Research Professor Dr Muhammad Zakria Butt and Old Ravians Union Secretary Dr Khalid [...]

Many of your might already know Faizan Buzdar from Elixir and then from Ultimas (based out of Rawalpindi) – where he started his tech career back in the days. Faizan is praised by many for the way he started Scrybe and the way it created buzz around the globe. He didn’t stop there and went on to start Convo, a business collaboration service, which is [...]

A lawyer from Peshawar has challenged the ban on YouTube in Peshawar High Court, by maintaining that the ban on the video sharing website should be un-blocked. Petitioner,Mian Mohibullah Kakakhel, said that its in the larger interest of general public to access the YouTube. He mentioned that authorities concerned, i.e. PTA and MoIT have failed to block the specific URLs that contain blasphemous content – [...]

The Information Technology University Punjab (ITU-Punjab) is set to hold an Information session on Saturday, May 18, 2013, 4:00pm onwards at the Arfa Software Technology Park located on Ferozepur Road, Lahore. This event will be a great opportunity for prospective students to learn about ITU’s existing MS program in Computer Science and also its undergraduate program being launched this year. ITU will be offering four-year [...]

To better represent its ever-expanding capabilities and global footprint, 10Pearls (formerly TenPearls) today announces a rebranding that includes a new name and a more socially-connected and informative website. 10Pearls is a Karachi based application development company with global footprints, focused on mobile, software and game development. Visitors to http://www.10Pearls.com can take advantage of blog posts on many different subjects including mobile, gamification, software development and [...]

Recently held election in Pakistan saw massive criticism due to various rigging incidents in different constituencies of the country. Observers said that at least 10 percent – or 7,000 – polling stations were reportedly rigged to influence the voters. Bogus votes, pressurizing voters, in-availability of ballot boxes, papers and various other similar problems were reported in different parts of the country. Experts – the optimistic [...]

In middle of post-election drama, official website of MQM has been hacked by a group of hackers who call themselves “Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan”. Hackers’ group with this name of TTP has emerged for the first time, and this is probably the first hacking instance of the group. We are already in process of gathering more information about the hackers. Hackers, in their message left on MQM [...]

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 [...]

It is a proven fact that trend in close-online-friends and the status updates from brands and community pages — that individuals follow — help boost turnout in elections. USA and other regions have already seen the difference and influence that online social networking websites can make on political behaviour in the real world. Experts in west believe that reminder call for voting on Election day [...]