KARACHI- The Karachi Electric Supply Corporation (KESC) has refused to recognize information technology as an industry for the last four years. Well-placed sources said the KESC still billed information technology organizations, such as software houses, Internet service providers and information technology institutes, according to commercial tariff. “The information technology organizations have yet to receive the […]
KARACHI- The Pakistan Telecommunication Company has decided not to increase the monthly charges for digital cross connect (DXX) network for internet service providers using shared bandwidth, ranging between 192 kilobits per second and two megabits per second. The PTCL general manager of public relations, said Sultan Ahmed Hasan, and that the relief in tariff bandwidth […]
ISLAMABAD- Federal Bureau of Statistics (FBS) has prepared a plan to conduct a “Census of Software Industry and Related Services in Pakistan.” The main objectives of the Census are to ascertain the present status of Software Industry and Related Services in Pakistan and to determine the value of software exports from Pakistan, identify the problems/shortcomings […]
ISLAMABAD- Keeping in view the growing need of Internet in the country, Pakistan Telecommunication Company has decided in principle not to increase the Digital Cross Connect (Internet) tariff for shared Internet Protocol (IP) bandwidth. Therefore, the bandwidth tariff will remain the same as applicable for other types of IP connectivity w.e.f. April 1, 2000, Akhtar […]
KARACHI- The Khadim Ali Shah Bukhari Institute of Technology (KASBIT) is all set to setup the country’s first high impact Technology Park here at a Cost of $50 million. The IFC and Asian Development Bank have showed their interest to be equity partners in this project, work on which will be started next year and […]
KARACHI- A two-day exhibition on ‘IT the Future of Pakistan – Enabling IT Education’ will be held at the Expo Centre of the Export promotion Bureau beginning on Jan7. It is being designed and developed with objectives of providing strong medium for accessing and delivering state-of-the-art technologies and products in the IT sector. The exhibition […]
TOPI (Swabi) – A first ever two-day software exhibition opened at Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute. Universities and institutes throughout the country are participating in the event. This is the first ever event of its kind in a remote region like Topi. The event would be open for general public for both the days and was […]
KARACHI- The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has reportedly given the final shape to the policy of putting a ban on making telephone calls through the Internet. According to informed sources, PTA is losing revenues of millions of rupees in the head of telephone calls to foreign countries made through various Internet messenger services. The Internet […]
HYDERABAD- The Internet center at the Allama 1.1. Kazi central library, University of Sindh, Jamshoro, will start functioning in a few days for providing Internet facilities to the teachers and the students. The vice chancellor (VC) of the university Mazharul Haq Siddiqui visited the library and inquired about the progress of the ongoing work for […]
GILGIT- The Education Department, Northern Areas, has set up four information technology centers in four colleges. Northern Areas Education Secretary Prof Khwaja Meherdad stated this. The centers have been set up in Postgraduate College for Boys, Gilgit; Degree College for Girls, Gilgit; Degree College for Boys, Skardu and Degree College for Girls, Skardu. The Secretary […]
ISLAMABAD- Prof. Ata-ur-Rehman, Federal Minister for Science and Technology and Coordinator General COMSTECH, said in his presentation to President General Pervez Musharraf that COMSTECH is actively working for the promotion of science and technology in the Muslim world. Highlighting the achievements of COMSTECH he said that the main dimensions of the operations of COMSTECH have […]
KARACHI- IBM announced a five-year agreement with the Dow Chemical Company to provide Dow with end-to-end Web-hosting services for the company’s customer facing e-business sites. According to IBM Corporation, the agreement will enable Dow to expedite application introductions, reduce Web development costs and enhance the quality of service delivered to customers through online resources. Financial […]
KARACHI – The Sindh education department has amended the draft partnership agreement between public and private sector regarding development of computer facilities in educational institutions, curtailing the security deposit from Rs 25,000 to Rs 10,000 and softening other terms and conditions. It has also made computer education compulsory for students of class IX, X, XI […]
LAHORE- The computer Society of Pakistan has planned to send three students and a chaperon to take part in a software competition to be held in Auckland, New Zealand in the last week of November 2001. The students belonging to under 17 age group were selected on the basis of National Software Competition, the preliminaries […]
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