ISLAMABAD (Mahreen report) Ms. Anusha Rehman, State Minister for IT and Telecom, chairing a meeting with USF team regarding the establishment of telecenters in rural areas USF yesterday announced that it will establish more than 35 telecenters in the rural areas across Pakistan. Ms. Anusha Rehman, Minister of state forRead More →

KARACHI(MEDIA) First, it was Youtube. Now, if the government of Sindh has its way, it could well be goodbye to Skype, Whatsapp, Viber and Tango for the people of this province in southeastern Pakistan. At least for the next three months. IPS reported on it blog. Part of everyday vocabularyRead More →

DUBAI (MEDIA) Pakistan Telecommunication Co (PTCL), a unit of UAE’s Etisalat, has submitted a takeover bid for rival mobile operator Warid Telecom, according to a filing with the Karachi stock exchange. PTCL made the offer to acquire 100 per cent of Warid on Sept. 30 and it is valid forRead More →

ISLAMABAD (MEDIA) Microsoft chairman Bill Gates acknowledged that the “CTRL-ALT-DEL” means of logging into your Windows PC was a mistake, although done with the best of intentions. Gates, interviewed at Harvard University last week, said that the awkward three-finger combination was actually implemented for security purposes. P.C World reported. “BasicallyRead More →

ISLAMABAD (MEDIA) The World Bank ICT Mission called on the Minister of State for IT on 23rd September 2013 regarding future developments in the Information and Communication and (ICT) policies. The mission was represented by Ms. Tenzin Dolma Norbhu, Team Leader and Regional ICT Coordinator, who met with the MinisterRead More →

ISLAMABAD (MEDIA) A meeting was held at the Ministry of Information Technology (MoIT) between senior officials and representatives of the IT Industry in Pakistan. The meeting was presided by the Honorable Minister of State for IT, Ms. Anusha Rehman to discuss matters pertaining to strengthening the governance of the ITRead More →

ISLAMABAD (MEDIA) Intel Pakistan today announced a range of ecosystem and enabling efforts that will further accelerate the company’s presence in mobile devices and help usher in new devices and richer experiences with Intel Inside®. The announcements include support from OEMs for new dual-core Atom™ SoC (“Clover Trail+”) platformAndroid* tablets.Read More →

ISLAMABAD (MEDIA) The central leader of PML (N) Amir Muqam called on State Minister of IT Ms. Anusha Rahman here on Monday to discuss the issues related to Information Technology and Telecom in Khyber Pakhtunkhawa. The Minister of state in her course of action directed Universal Service Fund to initiate projects to developRead More →

ISLAMABAD (MEDIA) A one day training workshop for librarians on advanced searching and citation management using Mendeley software was held  here at Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI). The workshop organized in collaboration with Pakistan Librarians Welfare Organization was attended by large number of librarians attached with various public sector organizations,Read More →