ISLAMABAD ( BMZ REPORT ) The Minister of State for IT Mrs. Anusha Rahman chaired a meeting of national level cyber security response committee here at MoIT Islamabad today. Federal Secretary IT Mr. Azmat Ali Ranjha, Member Telecom, Member IT, Member Legal, DG-PCB, representatives from the Ministry of Defense, MinistryRead More →
FAISALABAD ( MEDIA ) Tracking devices have been installed in all police vehicles to monitor their movement in Faisalabad district. A central Monitoring Cell has also been established in the office of the City Police Officer (CPO) to monitor movement of police patrolling vehicles round-the-clock and to ascertain whether relevantRead More →
ISLAMABAD ( ABRAR MUSTAFA ) PTCL CEO Mr. Waleed Ershiad and his team face an unexpected shock as Supreme Court has dismissed PTCL appeal on accounts separation of retail and wholesale broadband. This is welcoming news for the internet service providers and the internet industry as a whole as theyRead More →
KARACHI ( MEDIA ) The workforce associated with the information and technology industry enjoyed an average 12.37 percent rise in their salaries at the turn of the new fiscal year as compared to 2013, IT Salary Survey 2014 report by the Pakistan Software Houses Association (P@SHA) revealed on Tuesday. TheRead More →
KARACHI ( MDIEA ) Information Technology (IT) industry of Pakistan could touch exports of $5 billion mark by 2020 if proper business strategy, required infrastructure and talented human resources are made available to local companies in the coming years. Haris Naseer Director at Infotech Group said Pakistan’s IT exports wereRead More →
LAHORE ( HAFEEZ REPORT ) Groopic, a Pakistani technology startup founded by four students and researchers of Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), has just closed a US$ six figures investment from Kima Ventures, the seed stage fund that also financed Shopistan recently. Based on details of the funding disclosedRead More →
ISLAMABAD ( BMZ REPORT ) Ministry of Information Technology has given its clarification regarding a news item published in print media on 19th June, 2014 under the caption “Twitter restores access to blasphemous content”. The spokesperson of Ministry of IT said that the news item does not portray the actualRead More →
ISLAMABAD ( BMZ REPORT ) While chairing a meeting of ICT R&D Fund the Minister of State for IT Ms. Anusha Rahman expressed government’s firm resolve to ensure that industry contributed national ICT and R&D fund plays its assigned role in an appropriate way by fueling research and target orientedRead More →
LAHORE ( MEDIA ) The Punjab government allocated an amount of Rs 7,393 million for the promotion of IT culture in the proposed Punjab budget of 2014-2015. As per budget document, major thrust of the investment in the public sector would be on Development of Management Information System for theRead More →
ISLAMABAD ( MEDIA ) Broadband subscribers base has reached 3.4 million at end of February this year as around 717,835 new users joined the platform during last eight months. An average annual growth rate of broadband is still above 100 percent in the sector. An official at Pakistan Telecommunication AuthorityRead More →
ISLAMABAD ( bmz report ) Students of Mechanical Engineering Department of the National University of Science and Technology (NUST), along Pakistan’s leading IT and technology enabling company, Interactive Group yesterday unveiled a locally manufactured single seater race car at a ceremony. The Interactive EZY Racing Formula NUST Car will participateRead More →
ISLAMABAD ( BMZ REPORT ) Pakistan has been invited to participate in RoboCup 2014 — to be played in Brazil on the sidelines of the FIFA World Cup – and the country might send a six-robot team to the event. Students at Pakistan’s Center for Advanced Studies in Engineering [CASE]Read More →