By SOHIAB SHEIKH Pakistan’s telecom industry can easily be regarded as one of the most competitive market in the region, where world’s top telecom operators with ultra deep pockets contend to get their share by leaving no stone un turned. Backgrounder Data has never been marketed and sold like data,Read More →
ISLAMABAD ( BMZ REPORT ) An IT delegation comprising of delegates from Pakistan Software Export Board (PSEB), CEOs of IT companies, and COMSATS Institute of Information Technology (CIIT), recently visited China to enhance bilateral cooperation and trade between the IT sectors of the two countries. Pakistani delegation was headed byRead More →
By Naveed Siraj, Country Manager, Intel Pakistan In the world of technology nothing stands still. Today, we frequently see new mobile and computing devices come to market offering a whole host of innovations, while IT gathers and manages unprecedented and incomprehensible volumes of data from a plethora of everyday objects.Read More →
ISLAMABAD ( MEDIA ) “If a nation wishes to develop and grow at fast pace, it has to opt for the latest technologies that are creating headways.” This was stated by Planning Commission of Pakistan Member Tahir Hijazi on Monday while inaugurating a two-day international workshop on “Applications of ICTsRead More →
LAHORE ( HAFEEZ REPORT ) Intel held the first of two Year End sessions today in Lahore, the second one of which is scheduled to be held in Karachi on 11 December. The Year End sessions recapped key moments from 2014 and a look ahead at predictions for the comingRead More →
KARACHI ( TAHIR REPORT ) National Data Consultant (NDC) and Temenos Group AG jointly hosted the 5th annual NDC & Temenos User Group at the Movenpick hotel in Karachi, for the banking community in Pakistan. The event was an open forum for customers, users, partners and industry peers to shareRead More →
ISLAMABAD ( ABRAR MUSTAFA ) All over World observed Computer security day on November 30 of each year. On November 7, 1988, the world experienced the worst computer virous outbreak known as Jerusalem. This virus is activated whenever the 13th day of the month is a Friday. On this yearRead More →
ISLAMABAD ( ABRAR MUSTAFA ) HP INC-USA, a leading global player in IT and Computer industry has hinted to bring more investment in Pakistani computer industry after the current political turmoil in the country is over. Yousaf Jamal Senior Vice President Pakistan Computer Association (PCA) said this on his returnRead More →
LAHORE ( BMZ REPORT ) Punjab Information Technology Board (PITB) officials said that Plan9, the board’s technology incubator, had held its 5th launchpad on Tuesday. They said the initiative had been taken to motivate young entrepreneurs with creative ideas to establish businesses. Launchpad is a two-day pitching event where theRead More →
By Naveed Siraj Tall gas cylinders stand like sentinels behind anxious devotees who tend to motherboards riven by wires. Fluorescent tubes protrude from the machines, seeming to feed their depths with elaborate drips of sickly neon. Liquid nitrogen spills into makeshift sinks crowded with whirring components, coolly billowing fog overRead More →
ISLAMABAD ( ABRAR MUSTAFA ) Pakistan’s IT industry has been growing steadily and its export figures crossing over 2 billion dollars a year in revenue, up from less than a billion dollars a few years ago and the current growth rates indicate that the industry will exceed the 11 BillionRead More →
ISLAMABAD ( MEDIA ) An official of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) surprised members of the parliamentary committee on electoral reform when he told them that electronic voting machines (EVMs) were just as prone to fraud — if not more so — as traditional polling methods. ECP’s DirectorRead More →