Chairman Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA), Muhammad Yaseen, has said that the mobile banking regulatory framework would be introduced soon to facilitate the un-traditional banking in the country. Speaking as chief guest at the inaugural session of the third international mobile conference, “MCB Mobile Commerce 2010″, which...
Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has awarded gold medals with cash prizes to 12 students of various educational institutes of the country for the best research projects on IT & telecom for the year 2009. Secretary Cabinet Division, Abdul Rauf Chaudhry presented gold medals to the winners of the competition during a ceremony held at PTA...
Blogging has taken the world by storm. It is increasingly becoming the most popular method to express one’s thoughts and feelings on the internet, as well as an effective medium to earn a respectable living. These days, all the business around the world, and specifically the technology industry maintains at least one official web log to announce its...
Today, Microsoft Pakistan held the launching ceremony of Windows 7 at the Sheraton Hotel, Karachi. The event was kick started at 08:45 AM. The event was titled as The New Efficiency – Windows 7 Launch. Huge audience attended the event ranging from IT professionals, executives, enterprise businessmen and also bloggers. Mr. Kamal Ahmed, Country...
The two-day South Asia Mobile Summit 2009 has been concluded in Bangladesh. Mehboob Chowdhury, Chairman of South Asia Mobile Forum had inaugurated the summit. Brig. Gen. (Rtd.) Zia Ahmed, PSC, Chairman of BTRC, Hasanul Haq Enu, Chairman of the standing Committee of Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications and top officials of the telecom industry of...
The Ministry of IT held a broad based consultative meeting to review the IT and Telecom policies of the Government of Pakistan. Various stakeholders, including representatives of the industry, academia, NGOs and government attended the review. The day long review was held in two parts. The morning session focused on issues related to IT and the policy...
National Seminar on “Social impact of USF Initiatives” is scheduled for 20th of August at Islamabad Hotel, Islamabad, told us a source familiar with the situation – reportedly all necessary arrangements are considered done in this regard. As we all know that the objectives given to Universal Service Fund, referred to as “USF”,...
ITCN Asia, a three day Telecom and IT Exhibition, concluded in Karachi today. As per our correspondents event went smoothly, however, they observed that event attracted lesser visitors and exhibitors than last year. We missed Telenor, Warid and Mobilink at the exhibition. Ufone came along with PTCL – Zong had its stall as well. Internet Broadband...
Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) is holding a Telecom Consumer Forum on a theme “Together for Consumer Rights” at Karachi on Friday 7th August 2009. Chief Minister Sindh will be the chief guest on this occasion while chairman PTA will preside over the function. Senior representatives of PTA licensees, stakeholders, special telecom consumer...
Warid made the launch of its new brand GLOW more festive with an electrifying concert featuring Strings (Warid Brand Ambassador) and Call at Royal Palm on July 18, 2009. The concert came like a wave of fresh air to the entertainment hungry Lahori youth, who were not witnessing many entertainment activities in the city. The glowing ambience, cool atmosphere...
After 17 years Pakistan has made the history in the world cricket. Pakistan has won the ICC T-20 world cup final and gifted a great gift to the nation. Shahid Afridi has once again rocked as he did in the semifinal. After the slow start of this world cup and lots of disappointments, finally Pakistani team was able to accumulate their full strength...
Telenor brings you the cricket fever this month as the battle of nations takes place in World Twenty 20 Cricket Championship, England-09. Telenor gives you an opportunity to experience the thrill of T20 Cricket live on big screens at Cinepax Rawalpindi, whereas in Jhelum, Sialkot, Faisalabad, Okara, Hyderabad and Multan the matches will be screened...
Djuice and Cinepax have been doing a great job and putting tremendous effort to bring the best possible entertainment for the public. Recently, they held Djuice Machine Mela and screened final match of UEFA Champions League live for the public which brought in huge audience. ProPakistani has been covering all these events exclusively for it’s...
Some wonderful news has just come from NUCES-FAST. Young researchers of nexGIN RC (www.nexginrc.org) — located at FAST National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences, Islamabad Campus — have reached the finals of the World Summit Youth Award (WSA) 2009. Their project “Remote Patient Monitoring with focus on antenatal care”(http://rpms.nexginc.org)...
Telenor sponsored the (Sama – Talkshawk live concert) that was a part of Sama TV 1st anniversary festival. Sama- Talkshawk concert received big applause and the concert turned into single main event of festival. It is to note after a long time such type of concert were organized and it was considered a gift for Karachi and People enjoyed the show...
