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 [...]

JS Bank Limited has selectedOracle Exadata Database Machine X3 to provide an integrated platform to run its card and core banking applications, with the objective of supporting rapid growth and enhancing system performance. Oracle Exadata Database Machine X3 provides the Bank with a robust, scalable and integrated platform to support its mission critical applications, and at the same time, reduce overall operational costs by consolidating [...]

Interim set-up has said that they will continue with YouTube ban till controversial anti-Islam videos aren’t blocked in Pakistan by YouTube, video sharing website of Google. “Google Inc, the owner of YouTube, has been engaged in progressive talks recently and we hope a breakthrough soon,”, reported Express Tribune while quoting an official from Ministry of IT and Telecom. Official was further quoted as saying that [...]

Cloud computing has ushered a revolutionary advancement in the field of Information Technology. To create awareness about this innovative platform among the business community of the country, Microsoft Pakistan yesterday conducted a Private Cloud Immersion session for local media personnel. The event was organized in partnership with Fujitsu, which is the hardware partner of Microsoft Pakistan for the deployment of this cutting-edge technology across various [...]

Rozee Research recently did a survey to find out from the educated community of Pakistan as to how, if applicable, YouTube ban has affected them. Rozee.PK’s survey tried to dig out into which sub-sector, students vs. employed has been affected by the YouTube ban and in what ways. Are people happy with ban? do they perceive it as justified? Who do they blame, (Google, Government [...]

Gmail turned nine this month, which was initially thought to be a perfect April fool from Google. It looked so unreal to users that they were offered 1GB of email inbox – when competition services were offering just a few MBs of inbox space. Supernatural Gmail – by all standards in 2004 – got only better in previous nine years. Google has prepared following infographic [...]

Despite efforts in the past decade to improve information and communications technologies (ICT) infrastructure in developing economies, there remains a new digital divide in how countries harness ICT to deliver competitiveness and well-being, according to the 12th edition of The Global Information Technology Report, released today by the World Economic Forum. Published under the theme, Growth and Jobs in a Hyperconnected World, the Report suggests [...]

Official Website of Pakistan Muslim League (N) is bluntly copying news articles and op-eds from other news websites. Even worse, PML(N) is lifting these articles without linking back or crediting the legitimate originator of such news stories. The need for lifting news articles for an official website of political party is still unclear, however, it appears that webmaster is trying to populate content to fetch [...]

Since last few years we do get regular news about hacking attempts and defacements. Here are few example stories ProPakistani covered lately: Google’s Pakistan site, 284 others hacked by Turkish hacker group Eboz 2000 Pakistani websites Hacked By Indian United Hackers 20 Pakistan websites Hacked and defaced by jaguar for 26/1 Top Pakistani Government & other 250 Websites Hacked by Indishell Pakistan’s Punjab Assembly Website [...]

Since bookings for travel has become very convenient online, there are many traveling websites which allow you to explore possible destinations where you could visit with your family and friends to relax and have a good time. Chutti.pk is one such stop for you to find all your information regarding planning on travelling for your holidays. It doesn’t just cover travelling spots in Pakistan, but [...]

IMEWE  Segment 1  repair  has  been  completed after almost one month and cable has been powered  up  for  the  traffic,  said a statement issued today. Statement said that post repair system performance has been verified and undersea cable is now functioning in full throttle. Repeaters performance and splice loss all are as per the acceptable values. Reportedly, the shunt fault was located at  116.7 KM [...]