Intel Pakistan launches its Intel powered notebook “Tablet” across Pakistan to bring a technological revolution in the country, said Naveed Siraj, a country manager while briefing the media here on Thursday. He said Intel imparted training in information technology to 0.3 million teachers while 50 research workshops were conducted in Pakistan. Adult IT literary programme […]
Terrorists, news anchors, and media experts share the view that those whose names make the headlines have power Media sometimes do not merely report the horror of terror. They become part of it, adding to the drama. Some scholars speak of the ‘theatre of terror’. At the heart of the theatre metaphor is the audience. […]
To remain morally neutral and objective towards terrorism and to sympathise with terrorist acts is to betray ethics and morality While terrorism spread inside and outside Pakistan well before 9/11, it became an even more popular weapon since 9/11. Examining reasons, it can be argued that media might be a vector of transmission that can […]
LAHORE: The Young Doctors Association Pakistan (YDA) has offered to provide free of cost software to the Punjab government to help computerize the data of thousands of patients visiting daily the emergency wards of 23 teaching hospitals in the province. “The software was prepared by a graduate of King Edward Medical University and old Kemcolian […]
LAHORE: “Aslam-o-Alaikum, I am your Khadim-e-Aala wanting to confirm whether you have received the completion certificate of your building from the Lahore Development Authority. Were you asked for speed money? Please reply in ‘yes’ or ‘no’ to a short message service (text message) that follows.” Surprised was Asifa when she received this call from Chief […]
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has so far blocked over 21,000 websites containing blasphemous material and while the process is still continuing a report will be sent to the Inter-Ministerial Committee on Monday to decide if the YouTube should be reopened. After verifying the strength of the response mechanism placed by the PTA to […]
LAHORE: The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has instructed all the cellular operators of the country to immediately stop all kinds of chat packages, including voice and SMS, at any time of the day. According to directive No CPD-1(227) 13-PTA, dated August 29 2013 with subject ‘Directive relating to packages offered by CMTOs contrary to moral […]
ISLAMABAD: Moralists in Pakistan had long been crying that the night packages offered by the mobile phone companies are “a bad influence” on the society. This week the matter came to a head in the Senate. Angry senators demanded that the government take action to stop the services. But how? Technically, there exists no law […]
Social media website You Tube was banned in Pakistan in September 2012 after a blasphemous video titled “Innocence of Muslims” was uploaded on it which caused mass scale protests/riots leading to loss of life/property across the Muslim world and the operator of the popular webpage Google, refused to remove it. This was not the first […]
The Department of Computer Sciences University of Peshawar in a joint collaboration with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Information Technology Board and Higher Education Commission organised a symposium on “Emerging Technologies in Information Technology” at its Bara Gali Summer Camp on Wednesday. More than 150 researchers, professionals from various universities and companies of Pakistan and China participated in […]
IT is a testament to the rapid progress of information technology that lectures and courses by well-known educational institutes, analyses of political and social discourse, and historical accounts of relatively unknown events can be accessed through video-sharing websites such as YouTube. However, in Pakistan, because of certain sacrilegious videos purportedly threatening public order, a whole […]
PROCEDURAL issues and a complicated tendering process continue to delay the government’s plan to sell 3G telecom licences. It is depriving our access to a better technology which is available even to consumers in war-torn Afghanistan. New taxes on mobile phone users in the current budget are projected to further hold up the arrival of […]
LOS ANGELES: This is with reference to your story of August 7 titled “Pakistan to establish its first laptop assembly plant”. I used to be a professor of business at a university. I left teaching and started three different companies and also did sub-contracting. My company went public and was acquired by IBM. I have […]
The new range of solutions from Panda Security, the Cloud Security Company, is now available. Panda Global Protection 2014, Panda Internet Security 2014 and Panda Antivirus Pro 2014 are the names of the three products that make up the 2014 range which, as this year’s major innovation, include multi-platform protection for Mac and Android, in […]
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