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...
Guest post by Hassan Baig who runs Islamabad based Facebook development start-up called White Rabbits. After the introduction of Facebook’s Open Platform in late 2007, the social gaming industry has become hot with hundreds of millions of dollars poured in by venture capitalists. Moreover since 2007, several large Facebook gaming companies have...
Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani has appointed Sardar Muhammad Latif Khan Khosa as his Advisor on Information Technology. APP says that Mr. Latif Khosa has been given the status of a federal minister, citing Cabinet Division’s notification. Sardar Muhammad Latif Khosa is a Pakistani senator and advocate, and the previous Attorney General...
The subject says it all. You just have to witness it for yourself. Following is the snapshot of Pakistan’s official website (http://www.pakistan.gov.pk/) Original Website address is www.president.gov.pk which leads us to Following Page…! But what will you say, if his official website links to wrong website as well? Don’t you believe?...
Farhan Ibrahim Chaudhry is Country Director Technology Business, Pakistan, Afghanistan & SAGE-West. Chaudhry is responsible for Field Sales of Technology Licenses. Chaudhry joined Oracle in 2005, as Regional Business Manager, FSI. As Regional Business Manager, Chaudhry was responsible for Technology Sales Business in Financial Services Industry...
A scandal surfaced in the Ministry of Information Technology and Telecommunication concerning the tender of billions of rupees issued to the Chinese company, sources told SAMAA on Tuesday. The I.T and Telecom Ministry has given the tender of billions of rupees to the Chinese company without considering proper rules and regulations. The ministry has...
By Waqas Ejaz Globalization of IT is a complex phenomenon but at the same time it is an undying reality. It neither needs any introduction nor pertains a universal definition. However, the fact of matter is that it actually exists and it has eventually brought us in the historic age of transformation. Nations and regions of the world have been transformed...
Few days back, I was searching for a website which happens to be about IT and Telecom – somehow I found it, and was greeted with music, which I first thought would be intro music, but not really, it was LIVE streaming of FM radio channel. Although, I first heard the term called “Internet radio” back in 2000 when I was working with Radio Pakistan...
Rozee.pk is known as Pakistan’s number one Job website. There is no doubt that rozee.pk has grasped the biggest market share over the internet for spreading mouth of word for good jobs in the diversified industries like Information Technology, Telecom, FMCG’s, Pharmaceuticals and Insurance. Today let’s analyze the No.1 job portal to know some...
Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has completed the advanced IT training to enhance the IT skills of its officials including lower cadre staff. As many as 175 officials including 103 staff members at Headquarters 40 Qasids/Naib Qasids and 32 officials at its Zonal Offices, Lahore, Karachi, Peshawar and Rawalpindi have been trained under this...
SensibleTicker is a free application or let’s call it desktop gadget for getting latest news updates categorized by topics, latest products, bumper discounts and more right over your desktop. Looks like an interesting idea, especially when news items are latest and are of public interest. SensibleTicker.com is a project by Syed Rehan, from Karachi...
Warid Telecom (Pvt.) Ltd. has always been on forefront in deploying the latest technology, partnering with the Worlds top class vendors like Oracle, Cisco, Sun Microsystems and Microsoft. Warid has recently commenced an outstanding project of implementing Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) solution based on Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V....
Maiwand Bank being one of the upcoming banks in Afghanistan has signed up with Avanza Solutions through their local partner Pacific Consulting & Trading (PCT) for their new operation setup selecting Nimbus as their ATM and POS Controller solution. They have gone with Avanza’s winning combination of Nimbus (ATM & POS Controller), Rendezvous...
Al-Shaymaa (Private) limited a subsidiary of Al-Shaymaa FZE; a UAE based investment group has launched its operations in Pakistan. Al-Shaymaa has entered into the Pakistani market with a diversified portfolio of technology related businesses. With a prime focus on hi-tech solutions for security and surveillance, the group portfolio of businesses include:...
Tadhamon International Islamic Bank (TIIB), one of the most promising banks in Yemen with currently 23 branches spread across the country, has signed an agreement with TPS to implement IRIS, the next generation switch and alternate delivery channel manager. IRIS will enable the bank to follow its aggressive expansion plans while maximizing its ROI,...
