ISLAMABAD- Pakistan Software Export Board (PSEB) has chalked out a new strategy to increase revenue and software exports of the country. The new plan envisages setting up marketing offices in USA, UK, Europe, China, Japan and Far East and Middle East. Professionals of high caliber will manage these offices. The plan prepared by the PSEB […]
ISLAMABAD- Shahnawaz Siddiqui a photojournalist who had retired recently after serving daily Dawn for over 20 years, passed away. He is survived by a son, a widow and numerous friends to mourn his death. The sudden death of Siddiqui shocked the journalist community gathered at his residence to attend the walima reception of his son. […]
ISLAMABAD- The ministry of science and technology (IT) parks in the private sector at a cost of Rs 39 million, an official statement said. It said the Pakistan Software Export Board and the Pakistan Telecommunications Company Limited (PTCL) would jointly execute the project. The IT programme is aimed at generating activity and employment in this […]
KARACHI- Due to row over the power tariff between the Karachi Electric Supply Corporation (KESC) and the software houses, the latter have started planning to install generators at their offices. Nadeem Aslam Malik, CEO, Iways, a software house, said that despite the declaration of information technology as an industry by the government in 1997, the […]
DUBAI- There has been an overwhelming response to a campaign to attract Pakistani IT professionals based in the US because the expatriates living there for decades do not feel comfortable after the September 11 events and want to return to Pakistan. The Ministry of Science and Technology has received 50 applications from Pakistanis living in […]
ISLAMABAD- Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited has decided to invest an aggregate sum of Rs 150 million in 15 million ordinary shares of Rs 10 each in Paknet Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company. The decision was taken at the 6th annual general meeting of the Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited held chaired by Akhtar […]
The current boom in the regional economy is largely on the “information revolution”. The stable and equitable development can be achieved by focusing on the evolution of the “lnfocom” industry (the combination of telecommunications and computers through the medium of the Internet) and its relation to the rise of the “new economy”. The greatest challenge […]
QUETTA- Balochistan’s first University of Information Technology would start working in Quetta from March next year. The provincial government has already provided a suitable building for the establishment IT University, where initially degree courses will be introduced. Federal Minister of Science and Technology is extending all necessary cooperation for the establishing of the varsity. Comsats, […]
With the ambition to evolve continuously and break all the barriers, Paknet has always been in the forefront of Internet infrastructure in Pakistan. Driven by the same passion Paknet has now introduced a Free Internet Service for the first time in Pakistan. This is a whole new concept in the field of information Technology & […]
LAHORE- The Government of Pakistan while placing highest priority to Information Technology (lT) has set aside Rs 500 million fund to be dispersed on quota system for IT related projects originating from provinces. Federal Minister stated this for Science and Technology, Prof. Ata-ur-Rehman while chairing the first inter-provincial IT meeting presided over by provincial governor […]
LAHORE- Federal Minister for Science and Technology Atta-ur-Rehman has said that the first Virtual University of the country will be functional from February 2002. While addressing the inaugural ceremony of Habib Rafique Technologies (Pvt.) Ltd, he said this university would help a lot in expanding distance-learning facility on reasonable cost. He also said the government […]
LAHORE- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) and Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) are jointly holding a three-day international conference on IT Industry and IT Education in Pakistan from December 28 to December 30 in the city. The conference is aimed at creating awareness among the international experts […]
KARACHI- The industry of Information Technology Education, which witnessed a boom during the past few years, is heading for a major slump, say experts and professionals. Most of the operators of computer and IT institutes also realize this fact and are currently engaged in a race to cash-in profits as much as possible within the […]
LAHORE- National and international experts, professionals, and business strategists in the field of telecommunication and information technology (IT) will present their research papers in ‘Telecom Asia 2002’, a two-day event comprising a conference and state-of-the-art telecommunication equipment exhibition scheduled to be held in Lahore from January 29, 2002. ‘Experts would deliberate on the current status […]
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