ISLAMABAD- Microsoft has offered to Pakistan a long-term co-operation to help it establish a viable software industry and subsequently qualify as a leading IT global player. Microsoft Vice-President, Emre Berkin, gave the details of cooperation offered by his company at a press conference on June 10th, 2003. Emre Berkin is recently on a visit to […]
KARACHI- Pakistan Telecommunication, Internet backbone provider, is all set to sign Service Level Agreement (SLA) with the country’s all 72 Internet service providers to compensate for the service failure, officials said. A recently held meeting of PTCL board of directors thoroughly discussed the SLA and finally decided to approve it in the next one. “We […]
KARACHI- Renovation work at the building of the proposed Information Technology University in Korangi is in full swing and will be completed within three months at a cost of Rs20 million. The officials concerned said this to City Nazim (Administrator) Naimatullah during his visit to the site on June 7th, 2003. They said that 36 […]
KARACHI- Production of compact and digital video disks rises by 400 per cent in the two years, opening new avenue for country’s export and the industry becoming goldmine for stakeholders. Currently total three CDs and DVDs plants in the city are producing 300,000 units a day – 100.8 million a year, which a couple of […]
LAHORE- In a major breakthrough, Lahore Stock Exchange (LSE) has generated 40 per cent of its total volume through Internet terminals. It is to be noted that 25 percent of the total number of trading terminals of LSE are being operated through the internet. The press statement from LSE mentioned that the achievement could make […]
ISLAMABAD- Federal Investigation Agency’s National Response Centre for Cyber Crime is playing a vital role in creating awareness about cyber crime as it is the need of the hour. The centre was established at the FIA Headquarters some eight months ago. This was stated by DG FIA Syed Mohib Asad at an awareness seminar on […]
ISLAMABAD- The Supreme Court on May 13, 2003 issued notice to the deputy attorney general for May 14 in the first-ever cyber crime case reported by the US Consulate in Karachi. Former federal minister Syed Iqbal Haider, who was assisted by Barrister Gohar Ali Khan, appeared in the Supreme Court on behalf of Iftikhar and […]
KARACHI- Cyber.Net has planned to invest $ 1.5 million to provide broadband and satellite communication and other services to the customers in a month’s time. This was stated by Cyber.Net Chief Executive Officer Ansarul Haq, while talking to newsmen at a ceremony here on May 9, 2003 organised by the Customer Care Centre of ISP […]
KARACHI- The government-run colleges in the city are likely to get the internet facility within a month time, it was learnt officially. Sources in the office of the Executive District Officer (Higher Education) said that principals of all the colleges had been asked to ensure provision of Internet facility at computer laboratories of their respective […]
KARACHI- The Ministry of IT would soon distribute free computer softwares among parents in an effort to guard children from pornography and lewd contents on the Internet – a much-needed offer hailed by both parents and the saner elements of society alike. The IT ministry took this imperative decision at a meeting held the other […]
ISLAMABAD- A high-powered committee has been formed to counter repeated denial of service (DoS) attacks on government websites by foreign hackers, the minister for information technology, Awais Ahmad Khan Leghari, said on May 2, 2003. “The seven-member committee, headed by Nooruddin Baqai, member telecom of the information technology ministry, will come up with a concrete […]
KARACHI- The incessant denial of service attacks on telecom system and PTCL’s failure to counter them, which sparked outcries from internet service providers, moved the ministry of IT to gather all stakeholders to discuss the problem. Sources close to the ministry told on May 01, 2003 the federal minister for IT had invited PTCL high […]
KARACHI- Pakistan Telecommunication’s claim that it had fixed ‘denial of service’ attacks, fails to survive reality-check, as Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and browsers say the misery continues. Recently, the PTCL announced that it had inducted another STM of 155 megabytes bandwidth in its Internet exchange but several parts of the country continue to face a […]
KARACHI- Internet users across the country fretted in frustration over intermittent disconnection of service for several hours when internet service providers came under another denial of service attack on Monday exposing authorities’ claim of having fixed the problem. Internet service providers (ISPs) complained about the same problem they faced on April 4 when countrywide cyber […]
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