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Peshawar: IT competition for students planned

PESHAWAR: A private institute is holding a two-day exhibition, which will also serve as a contest among the students in different spheres of information technology. Speaking at a news conference here at the Peshawar Press Club on March 10, Zafarullah Khan, director of the Brains Postgraduate College of Information Technology, said that the exhibition to […]


Virtual University Television Network

LAHORE: Virtual University Television Network has become the first Pakistani educational television channel to be linked up to the country’s first communications satellite PAKSAT-1. Managing Director VUTV Tajdar Alam said in a statement here on Friday that the results are of high transmission qualit6y and we are now ready for our test transmission and will […]


PTCL may be next on SingTel investment list

SINGAPORE:Feb.6:Pakistan could be the next destination for Singapore Telecommunications Limited after officials on Thursday named State-owned Pakistan Telecommunications Company Limited as a “possible” investment target.” “The Pakistan Telecom is among those possible,” investments for SingTel, said Chief Executive Lee Hsien Yang.While it evaluates whether to buy a stake in the Pakistan Telecom, Singapore operator has […]


Kamal for promoting IT literacy in Sindh

KARACHI, Jan 31: A comprehensive plan is being developed to promote Information Technology among the people of Sindh. This was stated by provincial IT minister Syed Mustafa Kamal on Saturday, while speaking at a function held at the Sindh Madressahtul Islam. Mr Kamal said the plan was being prepared in collaboration with local people as […]


Depression in IT sector: causes and effects

Sheikh Saadi Shirazi said that Luqman being a wise man of great reputation in ancient Arabia was once asked about the source of his learning wisdom. He replied, ‘I learned wisdom from the blind who does not put his foot forward without feeling the ground. There can never be a spoken or written word from […]


Sailors urged to learn modern trends in IT

KARACHI: “Every sailor of the Pakistan Navy (PN) has to keep himself abreast of the latest trends in information technology and software developments to meet the modern day challenges.” This was stated by Rear Admiral Muhammad Afzal Tahir, Commander Pakistan Fleet, while addressing the passing out parade of New Entry sailors held at PNS Himalaya […]


IT use increases efficiency, quality of services: Awais

ISLAMABAD (APP): Minister for Information Technology and Tele-communications, Awais Ahmad Khan Leghari Tuesday called for use of IT as a tool to increase efficiency and quality of services. Addressing a seminar on “Business Process Management”(BPM) organized by Ultimus Pakistan said, “if Pakistan is going to compete in the global markets, speed, efficiency and quality are […]


US Pakistanis’ firm plans to acquire Indian IT company

KARACHI: The Calabasas, California based, NetSol Technologies, a developer of proprietary software applications, owned by overseas Pakistanis, has announced that it is seeking to acquire an Indian IT company. The company is the, first Pakistan-based US company to be listed on the Nasdaq, and is managed by the Ghauri brothers Naeem, Najeeb and Salim. Another […]


Online testing ability website launched

KARACHI :December 20 2003: A local software company has launched a new website to help country’s entrepreneurs and other job seekers to freely judge their abilities by solving online test paper at the site. Speaking at the launch of website ‘www.trysol.net’ at a press conference here on Friday, the Director of ‘Soft Horizon’, Kashif Shamsuddin, […]


ICT strategy to help achieve tax reform objectives

ISLAMABAD (December 20 2003): The Central Board of Revenue (CBR) has devised an information communication technology (ICT) strategy to help the tax authorities in achieving reform objectives, eliminating interaction between the tax officials and the taxpayers, sources told Business Recorder here on Friday. Under the plan, the CBR will form a Central Information Depository System […]


PTCL to spend Rs 500mon training of workers

KARACHI: The state-owned Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) has sanctioned a sum of Rs500 million for an ambitious training programme tailored to boost the expertise of its employees. The scheduled schooling plan is likely to be launched from next year, which it says is an effort to gear up for competition in the now deregulated […]


11 IT projects to be launched soon

HARIPUR, Dec 11: The NWFP Minister for Science and Technology, Hussain Khan Kanju, has said that 11 IT related projects would soon be launched in the province in the third and last phase to computerize official record. He told a gathering here on Thursday that efforts were afoot to keep pace with the upcoming development […]


Pakistan makes remarkable progress in IT during 5 years

LAHORE: Pakistan is placed 76th out of 102 countries in Information Technology(IT) rankings released by World Economic Forum behind Botswana, Namibia, Tanzania, and Ghana however its technology gap with India ranked 45 is less than five per cent. Pakistan has made remarkable progress in IT during past five years. The country scored 3.06 points out […]


Hafeez to open ITCN S Arabia today

LAHORE – The Federal Minister for Privatisation & Investment Dr Abdul Hafeez Shaikh, who arrived Jeddah on Friday, will inaugurate the ITCN Saudi Arabia 2003 on Sunday (today). The exhibition is being held under the auspices of the E-Commerce Gateway (Pvt) Singapore at Dhahran. The moot will remain open till December 12, 2003. This second […]