Viber, primarily a multi-platform app that allows voice and text chat between phone users, has now released its desktop version of app for Windows and Mac. This landmark announcement was made yesterday after which Viber is now officially in line to take on Skype that has around or over 600 million users. Viber said that it has over 200 million users from various platforms, and [...]

Election Commission of Pakistan has barred the voters to bring their mobile phones to polling station on May 11th, 2013, i.e. Election Day. ECP said that decision was taken to ensure the transparency, avoid any possibility of poll-rigging, violence on Election Day, manipulation of votes or selling of votes. ECP said that it had enough evidences of voters taking pictures of their ballot papers as [...]

Pakistan Muslim League (N), through Senator Ishaq Dar, has registered a complaint with Election Commission of Pakistan against Telenor Pakistan for supporting a specific political party without naming it. PML (N), in a letter to ECP, said that Telenor Pakistan has allocated funds for promoting and funding the election campaign of a political party. In response, SECP has sought Telenor Pakistan’s response on the complaint [...]

Punjab Information Technology Board has launched this Android app, with which anyone can report Election violations, that too anonymously. With this, extremely easy to use mobile app, anyone can take a picture of violations and send these complaints to a centralized monitoring team that is likely to take appropriate action. This Punjab Government backed app offer various categories, and users can report violations by clicking [...]

By Nouman Lodhi We – Pakistanis – develop software, but we don’t sell it; because we develop these software for Americans and Europeans who ultimately sell them at considerably higher prices. How wonderful it could get if we develop software and sell them ourselves to earn all the margins and profits to ultimately bring back the entire revenue to our homeland. Generally Asian countries are [...]

Customers’ buying behaviours have changed significantly in the last decade. A lot of focus is now towards good deals and convenience in shopping. This trend has resulted in many online shopping websites worldwide and Pakistan too is catching up fast. Azmalo.pk is the latest one to join the bandwagon. This online marketplace has been developed by the German online venture builder, Rocket Internet, which has [...]

Glow by Warid has said to continued its mission of engaging and enabling the youth of Pakistan by sponsoring the second Media Fest of Kinnaird College for women. The Media Fest was organized to allow students, aiming to major in media studies, to unleash their talent. The two day fest was organised by the Kinnaird Media Society. Teams from Punjab University, Government College University, University [...]

It appears that the wait for having an online payment processing platform is over now. NIB Bank has announced that it is is brining Internet Payment Gateway in Pakistan that will allow online businesses to charge their customers through debit or credit card for the stuff they will buy on internet. Establishment of Internet Payment Gateway in Pakistan is long pending, which was first announced [...]

Tenaga Nasional Bhd (TNB) Remaco, the operator of Pakistan’s first private sector hydroelectric power scheme, has tapped IBM to help meet the business challenges of running the $235 million plant. TNB Remaco chose IBM software to help streamline business operations. Currently, the total power generation capacity of Pakistan is 23,538 Mega Watt with energy consumption having grown by almost 80 percent in the last 15 [...]

There’s hardly a game that we’ve played in recent times which is quite nearly as simple yet interesting as this one. “Go rich boy, go!” puts you in the shoes of an unnamed boy from a posh area of the city of Karachi who is going out to vote for the first time in his life. It is written by Jahanzaib Haque, the web editor [...]

Ecommerce Business in Pakistan is on the rise. Despite tough economic conditions and technological constraints, there’re few enthusiasts who’re tirelessly making efforts to get the ecommerce business in Pakistan to next level. Arslan Nazir, the founder of Shophive.com, is one such person who has been in the ecommerce business for last eight years. He has grown this business from scratch to what it is today. [...]

Senate’s Defence Committee has taken the initiative for the formulation of Cyber Security Policy to preserve, promote and protect Pakistan’s national security digitally. Senator Mushahid Hussain Sayed, Chairman of Senate Defence Committee  — who was attending the Cyber Secure Pakistan Conference as Chief Guest – announced this today. Senator Mushahid Hussain, while defining the role of the Task Force on Cyber Security Policy, said the [...]

Microsoft has announced the availability of its Azure Infrastructure Service – a cloud service – for the general customers at competitive prices almost equalling Amazon Web Services prices. For those who aren’t familiar, Windows Azure is a cloud computing platform and infrastructure for building, deploying and managing applications and services through a global network of Microsoft-managed datacentres. Windows Azure supports many different programming languages, operating [...]

In a decent effort to get their message to the decision makers, traders from across Pakistan have requested the authorities to withdraw newly imposed taxes on mobile phone handsets to save the industry. In an advert published today in various newspapers, Karachi Chambers of Commerce and Industry, Lahore Chambers of Commerce and Industry, Karachi Electronics Dealers Association, Anjuman-e-Tajiran Hall Road Lahore, All Hyderabad Mobile Phone [...]

As Pakistan grows more connected, focus is gradually shifting towards securing people who manage to establish an electronic link between themselves and the rest of the world. This signalled a growing need for initiating a conversation on how to best protect the rights as well as data of users and prevent them from being exploited. In order to kickstart and facilitate this conversation on a [...]