DUBAI ( ABRAR MUSTAFA ) The Pakistan enterprise hardware market, which comprises servers and external storage, expanded a healthy 18.8% year on year in 2013, according to research released today by International Data Corporation (IDC). The global advisory services firm’s EMEA Quarterly Server and Disk Storage Systems Tracker shows thatRead More →
ISLAMABAD ( MEDIA ) After a week long campaign against government websites, having hacked and defaced over two dozen state sites and sub-domains, hackers shifted their cyber-front against the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI). On Sunday, PTI’s website fundyourtsunami.com was hacked and defaced. PTI chairperson Imran Khan’s face was defaced resembling that of a vampire withRead More →
ISLAMABAD ( BMZ REPORT ) The Minister of State for Information Technology, Ms. Anusha Rahman, held a consultative session with the consultants of International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and National IT Industry Promotion Agency (NIPA), Korea who are providing technical assistance to Ministry of IT to devise an e-Government Master ActionRead More →
ISLAMABAD ( MEDIA ) On January 13, 2015, Microsoft will stop mainstream support for Windows 7–which is still an extremely popular operating system. But you’ll still be able to use it safely for another five years. This isn’t anything like the run-up to the end of XP support back inRead More →
KARACHI ( TAHIR REPORT ) PASHA has announced its ICT awards for 2014. According to PASHA, these awards aim to provide recognition to software and service applications that have been developed in Pakistan, by providing companies an opportunity to gain local, regional and international exposure through on-going promotional activities. NotRead More →
ISLAMABAD ( ABRAR MUSTAFA ) World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday said governments should place stricter regulation on e-cigarettes. The UN health body said they posed a ‘serious threat’ to fetuses and young people and should not be sold to minors. It also suggested governments ban the use of themRead More →
ISLAMABAD ( BMZ REPORT ) With a goal to dramatically accelerate the pace and scale of entrepreneurship in the country, Intel Pakistan is piloting a new initiative, under the Intel Easy Steps program. This was undersigned in a MoU with Memon Industrial & Technical Institute (MITI) to increase the relevanceRead More →
ISLAMABAD ( MEDIA ) SEVERAL metres ahead of where containers are blocking the main Islamabad expressway, over a bridge on the Kashmir Highway at the Zero-Point interchange, a group of young Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaaf (PTI) supporters have surrounded a young man. The man is holding a white metal object above hisRead More →
KARACHI ( MEDIA ) The Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) is in the process of developing an online information system connecting all its health facilities with a single source to help people who have to run from one hospital to another at the time of emergency and save lives without wasteRead More →
LAHORE ( MEDIA ) The government should speed up digitalisation of governance to bridge gap between the e-governed developed and technologically advanced economies and Pakistan, industry officials said on Friday. Raza Arshad, an information technology consultant, said it is an uphill task to govern Pakistan through the prevalent bureaucratic redRead More →
ISLAMABAD ( MEDIA ) As of August 2014, there are 15.4 million Pakistanis on Facebook, representing approximately 8.5 per cent of the country’s total population; a virtual city set to rival Karachi in terms of sheer numbers. Without a doubt, Facebook is Pakistan’s largest social network, and — unlike whenRead More →
ISLAMABAD ( MEDIA ) Ministry of Information Technology and Telecommunications (MoIT) has completed a project, which was launched to introduce a self-managing energy system (SES) to conserve energy usage in buildings. The energy conservation cited as the ‘most important fuel’ in energy generation is possible in buildings only if usageRead More →