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Pakistan needs effective mechanism to ensure IPRs protection
By Technology Times at May 5, 2013 | 3:40 am | 0 Comment
Paras Ali ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is not being able to improve the environment to protect the Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) though the country is signatory to a number of protocols and conventions with a commitments to implement effective policies for the protection of IPRs. “Presently, Pakistan which is showing substantial deterioration on the indicators to more...
Young Pakistani IT student wins world challenge
By Technology Times at May 5, 2013 | 3:35 am | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT IBD: A Pakistani student from Balochistan has achieved a Grand Winner Award and a gold medal in an international computer project competition recently held to find world’s best young IT wizard. Waleed Bashir from Khusdar, who is a class 9th student in PakTurk School, Quetta, won the first prize in the first International Infomatrix Asia and Pacific more...
HBL set for commercial launch of branchless banking
By Technology Times at May 5, 2013 | 3:32 am | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT KHI: Habib Bank Limited has also joined the cluster of banks offering branchless banking services to their services as the bank has got the branchless banking license for the commercial launch of its operations across Pakistan. According to an official, the State Bank of Pakistan has finally issued the HBL the license for the launch of the services in a more...
PCST launches website to facilitate women scientists
By Technology Times at May 5, 2013 | 3:31 am | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT IBD: Pakistan Council for Science and Technology (PCST) has taken a lead to facilitate women in scientific communities and to improve visibility of women scientists by maintaining a website and starting a project on collecting data on statistics of women representation in science and technology. The data and materials from this web resource will serve as a more...
PSQCA finds 31 bottled water brands unsafe for use
By Technology Times at May 5, 2013 | 3:30 am | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT KHI: The Pakistan Standard Quality Control Authority (PSQCA) has revealed that 31 brands of bottled drinking water are found to be unsafe for human use due to chemical or microbiological contamination. According to the monitoring report for the quarter (January-March, 2013), 87 samples of mineral/bottled water brands were collected from Islamabad, more...
CCP scrapes ICH, fines LDI operators with billions
By Technology Times at May 5, 2013 | 3:29 am | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT IBD: The Competition Commission of Pakistan (CCP) has nullified the International Clearing House (ICH) and has imposed a penalty of 7.5 per cent of annual turnover on each of 14 LDI operator that was part of the agreement for violating section 4 of the Competition Act 2010. The CCP maintained that volume of incoming calls as on September 2012 before the more...
Plastic bag makers playing role to save environment
By Technology Times at May 5, 2013 | 3:27 am | 1 Comments
STAFF REPORT IBD: Hundreds of companies from all over Pakistan have joined hands with the d2w for greener Pakistan. The d2w is a leading brand of Symphony Environmental UK in oxo-biodegradable technology which is providing best solutions to plastic pollution. The d2w is a granular chemical which not only makes the plastic environment friendly but also decreases its more...
IBM empowers Pakistan first hydroelectric project
By Technology Times at May 5, 2013 | 3:25 am | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT IBD: Tenaga Nasional Bhd (TNB) Remaco, the operator of Pakistan’s first private sector hydroelectric power scheme, has tapped IBM to help meet the business challenges of running the $235 million plant. TNB Remaco chose IBM software to help streamline business operations. According to WAPDA, the country’s electricity demand will increase to around more...
France helps Pak student research work
By Technology Times at May 5, 2013 | 3:24 am | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT QTA: French Ambassador at Pakistan Philippe Thiebaub has said that only sustainable development in the energy sector could guarantee prosperity and socio-economic uplift of the countries. France is extending all-out support to the Pakistani students in carrying out research work. He said this while addressing a closing ceremony of “Travelling Expo” more...
5th Pakistan oil & gas forum to be held on May 30
By Technology Times at May 5, 2013 | 3:23 am | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT IBD: The annual 5th Pakistan Oil & Gas Forum is going to be held in Islamabad with a theme “Exploring and Sustaining Energy Needs – Charting Pakistan’s Road to Economic Development”. The forum attracts a cross-section of professionals and practitioners from the oil and gas sector of Pakistan. This year’s forum will primarily focus on the more...
Visa to kick start mobile financial platform
By Technology Times at May 5, 2013 | 3:19 am | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT IBD: Visa, through its fully owned arm Fundamo, is planning to launch a new mobile financial platform in Pakistan, with which customers will be able to make their transactions through mobile phones with the same visa card that will be lent to them by the banks. Fundamo – which earlier this year had partnered with Dhabi Group owned Monet to enter more...
Phone game may make illiterates seek jobs
By Technology Times at May 5, 2013 | 3:19 am | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT IBD: A silly telephone game that became a viral phenomenon in Pakistan has demonstrated some serious potential for teaching poorly educated people about automated voice services and provided a new tool for them to learn about jobs, researchers at LUMS said. The game, called Polly, is simplicity itself: a caller records a message and Polly adds funny sound more...
Another call centre set up for Orange Telecom
By Technology Times at May 5, 2013 | 3:17 am | 0 Comment
Staff Report ISLAMABAD: After their numerous recent successes, Orange Telecom, in collaboration with C Square Consulting Pakistan is all set to launch another call centre in Congo. The project will not only boast of using the world’s number 1 technology equipment, but will also have 120 blended seats, operate in six languages, involve the usage of analytics using more...
UC Davis to patronise agri education for modern farming
By Technology Times at May 5, 2013 | 3:17 am | 0 Comment
Staff Report ISLAMABAD: UC Davis is taking the lead on the graduate education component of an innovative project in order to modernize agriculture in Pakistan with the initiation of a four-year $30 million Agricultural Innovation Project. This project envisages improvement in management practices and productivity of the livestock, horticulture and grains grown in more...
Mobilink Foundation starts T2T to educate the needy
By Technology Times at May 5, 2013 | 3:17 am | 0 Comment
Staff Report ISLAMABAD: Mobilink Foundation has launched the ‘Teach 2 Transform’ (T2T) initiative in order to educate the underprivileged across Pakistan. The programme aims to involve Mobilink Torchbearers to offer teaching assistance at marginalized schools in the country. The pilot phase for T2T was launched at the DSRA School in Karachi where 46 students more...
Climate change research centre to be reformed
By Technology Times at May 5, 2013 | 3:17 am | 0 Comment
Staff Report ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s government has increased the funding of a state institution that researches the impacts of climate change, and granted it autonomy, in an effort to enhance the quality of its recommendations on climate resilience for government policy and programmes. “The Global Change Impact Studies Centre (GCISC) will focus on research aimed at more...
Concerted efforts needed to put research into practice
By Technology Times at May 5, 2013 | 3:17 am | 0 Comment
Staff Report ISLAMABAD: Emphasised on the collaborative and synchronised efforts to practise the research on the impact of climatic changes in the highlands, speakers at a discussion said that only the integrated and collaborative approach would help conserve the large glaciers for smooth and steady provision of water not only for the human life and livelihood in the more...
PTCL registers 0.5m EVO customers
By Technology Times at May 5, 2013 | 3:16 am | 0 Comment
Staff Report ISLAMABAD: The PTCL, country’s largest and only telecom operator offering nationwide fixed and wireless voice telephony and broadband internet services, has achieved 500,000 wireless internet customers mark. According to statistics, PTCL’s EVO wireless internet service, after being introduced in 2009, has grown steadily, and now serves customers in more...
Biotech adoption can meet farm challenges
By Technology Times at May 5, 2013 | 3:16 am | 0 Comment
Staff Report ISLAMABAD: Pakistan can address challenges in agriculture by using biotechnology as globally the adoption of genetically modified crops has been a success with proven socio-economic benefits. In addition to meeting food security challenge, genetically modified/biotech crops offer multiple economic, crop management, productivity, and environmental more...
NIB set to bring internet payment gateway
By Technology Times at May 5, 2013 | 3:16 am | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT KHI: The NIB Bank has announced that it is bringing Internet Payment Gateway in Pakistan that will allow online businesses to charge their customers through debit or credit card. This initiative is long pending, which was first announced by PTA in 2009. After that Bank Al-falah, along with its sister concern, claimed similar deployments but nothing turned more...
Creative economy most feasible development option
By Technology Times at May 5, 2013 | 3:16 am | 0 Comment
Staff Report ISLAMABAD: The United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) and Iqra University have launched a Creative Industry Centre and Image Bank at the university’s Islamabad campus in order to support women entrepreneurship by establishing strong links between academia and industry. “Both institutions have joined hands to strengthen the design more...
Govt using latest tech for food security
By Technology Times at May 5, 2013 | 3:16 am | 0 Comment
Staff Report ISLAMABAD: The government is introducing innovative technologies in order to ensure food security for its rapidly growing population at affordable prices. Various speakers a recently held workshop titled “Incorporating Agricultural Service Providers into Demonstration and Dissemination Activities in Rural Pakistan” at the National Agriculture Research more...
Cell phone sale drops after new tax
By Technology Times at May 5, 2013 | 3:16 am | 0 Comment
Staff Report ISLAMABAD: Sale of new mobile phones dropped by almost 30 percent after imposition of Rs. 500 tax on feature phones and Rs 1,000 on smartphones, while on the other hand the mobile phone traders have protested against the decision and urged the President and te Prime Minister to take back the decision, which has increased the prices of cell phones by Rs 2,000 more...
Zong pays thanks to Pakistan on its 5th anniversary
By Technology Times at May 5, 2013 | 3:16 am | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT IBD: Zong has appreciated the level of cooperation offered by its customers, franchises, vendors, media, government and all stakeholders during the first five years of its operations in Pakistan. ZONG, which has become the digital partner of this nation in a short span of time, has celebrates ‘Sub Keh Do Day’ every year. However, this year the telecom more...
Task Force for Cyber Security Policy announced
By Technology Times at May 5, 2013 | 3:16 am | 0 Comment
Staff Report ISLAMABAD: Senate Defence Committee has taken an initiative for the formulation of Cyber Security Policy to preserve, promote and protect Pakistan’s national security digitally. This was disclosed by Senator Mushahid Hussain Sayed, Chairman of Senate Defence Committee, while addressing a recently held Cyber Secure Pakistan Conference here. Senate’s more...
