KARACHI- The Sindh government has constituted the Sindh Information Technology Board (SITB) with the governor Sindh as its Chairman. According to official sources, the minister for planning and development would be its the board’s vice-chairman, the additional chief secretary (development) and the additional chief secretary (finance) and the deputy director IT Centre, planning and development […]
KARACHI- The 2B Technology has inked ‘Strategic Development Alliance’ agreement with the United Kingdom-based Sytel Limited. Under the agreement, the alliance would allow 2B Technologies to deliver the patented predictive dialling functionality to the European, Middle East and Asian markets. 2B Technologies has formalised its dedication to “Best of Breed” technology delivery, bringing another module […]
KARACHI- Business Software Alliance, a watchdog agency which looks after the affairs related to the illegal software operations internationally, has urged all companies to get licensed software by December 10. After the deadline, the companies who fail to get licensed software would have to face legal action under copyright law. “BSA has halted its enforcement […]
KARACHI- Internet Service Providers (ISPs) on November 18, 2002 filed an appeal before the Government of Pakistan, challenging the Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) monopoly on Pakistan Internet Exchange (PIE), an official of Internet Service Providers Association of Pakistan (ISPAK) told sources. The rejected the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTAs) decision of retaining ban on Internet […]
KARACHI- The Pakistan Telecommunications Company Limited (PTCL), on November 16, 2002, launched the Internet telephony service, at a time when the country’s Internet Service Providers (ISPs) are about to move the courts against the ban on the same service offered by them. The Chairman PTCL inaugurated the service called Voice of Internet Protocol (VoIP). They […]
ISLAMABAD- Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has decided to unblock access to Net2Phone website from January next year. The decision was taken in a meeting held here on November 17, 2002 under the chairmanship of Major General Shahzada Alam Malik (Retd), Chairman PTA. The Authority took this decision after thoroughly reviewing the issue and taking into […]
KARACHI- The country’s Internet Service Providers (ISPs) have decided to move the court against banning Internet telephony by the Pakistan Telecommunications Authority (PTA), which they say is an illegal act totally, and does not fall within the jurisdiction of the authority. “We will move the court against such an act of the PTA which has […]
KARACHI- Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) is determined to protect the interests of PTCL rather than safeguarding the rights of its consumers. This was stated by the Secretary ISPAK, V. A. Abdi, during a briefing on BSN of Net2phone and other problems of internet service providers on November 15, 2002. He asserted that the proposed privatisation […]
ISLAMABAD- Pakistan Software Export Board (PSEB) will help 80 software companies to achieve ISO-9001 certification under its Industry Standardisation Project. Under this programme, PSEB has signed up 55 local software companies to promote importance of standardisation and quality consciousness in local software industry that will greatly enhance their export potential, PSEB sources said here on […]
KARACHI- The Pakistan Software Houses Association (Pasha) has signed an agreement with Microsoft, whereby the company will offer a 93 per cent discount on its software development tools. The Pasha president, Zain I Syed, said that Pakistan’s software industry was very small as compared to India’s IT industry, whose software exports had totalled $8.3 billion […]
KARACHI- The world’s leading software companies keeping offices in Pakistan have announced 30 to 90 percent discounts on their products till December 11 2002, to help the corporate sector legalise its computer programmes. The representatives of software giants including Adobe, Autodesk, Microsoft and Symantec announced their special offers at a seminar, organised by Business Software […]
KARACHI- The Provincial Minister for Finance and Vice Chairman Sindh IT Board, Dr Abdul Hafeez, has said bright opportunities exist for investment in information technology and other sectors and government will provide best possible facilities to prospective investors. He was talking to the Business Development Manager of Saudi Marsad Net Ltd, Jajmoom Group, Nayab Gohar, […]
KARACHI- The Pakistan Telecommunications Authority (PTA) has decided to continue ban on Internet telephony and voice chat channels despite giving indications for quite some time it would remove the ban within a week. “The Chairman PTA, General (Retd) Shahzada Alam Malik called this morning to inform the ISPAK about the decision regarding Net2Phone and similar […]
KARACHI- Business Software Alliance (BSA) has announced it would not initiate any enforcement activity against pirated software users during the next 30 days, ending on 30 day period, ending December 11, 2002 and urged all companies to use this period to become fully compliant with Pakistan’s copyright laws. ‘During the next 30 days, BSA will […]
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