Interview
Exploring all resources for S&T research the only priority
By admin at February 14, 2012 | 1:27 pm | 1 Comments
Akhlaq Ahmad Tarar is serving as Federal Secretary, Ministry of Science and Technology. Carrying excellent academic background, he proved his mettle while holding key executive positions in various government departments. He has done his Master’s degree in Administrative Sciences from George Washington University, USA. In his current capacity, he displayed height of his more...
Heading to professional glory
By admin at February 6, 2012 | 12:04 pm | 3 Comments
Abbas Ali Mirza has emerged as a telecom industry’s giant carrying with him long and rich experience in making marketing strategies. After remaining associated with Nortel Networks, he joined Relacom and since 2004 is delivering responsibilities as General Manager. Having the Telecom Engineering degree from NUST Military College of Signals, Abbas has remarkably proved more...
Fujitsu fast gaining ground in Pakistan
By admin at January 28, 2012 | 1:23 pm | 0 Comment
Fujitsu is Japan’s leading ICT company offering a full range of technology products, solutions and services. Over 170,000 Fujitsu people support customers in more than 100 countries. The Company reported consolidated revenues of US$55 billion for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2011. With its dynamic infrastructures approach, the Company offers a full portfolio of IT more...
Tariq Malik: A smart technocrat – a skilled biometric professional
By admin at December 31, 2011 | 4:41 pm | 1 Comments
Tariq Malik is a known personality in the field of biometrics technology and strategic management. At present, he is Deputy Chairman at NADRA. He is responsible for strategic management and introducing innovative biometric technology solutions. Malik brought 19 years of strategic management experience in implementing high profile citizen centric technology solutions for more...
Ricardo Tavares – an authority on m-communications
By admin at December 24, 2011 | 12:43 pm | 0 Comment
RICARDO TAVARES holds a masters’ degree in political science from the Rio de Janeiro University Research Institute (Iuperj) and completed course work at the Ph.D. level at theUniversity ofCalifornia,San Diego'sSchool ofInternational Relations and Pacific Studies. He is heading a consulting company named TechPolis which works on the interception of business strategy and more...
Dr B S Chowdhry – a contagious spark
By admin at December 11, 2011 | 12:44 pm | 0 Comment
From Thar to knowledge desert – Dr Chowdhry travelled all along with passion and enthusiasm. His list of achievements and awards is so long; simply he achieved Pride of Performance Award, Best Teacher Award, National IT Excellence Award, UNESCO/IAEA Guest Science Award, South Asia Star Award, and Presidential Izaz-e-Fazeelat highest academic distinction award. He has more...
Dr Abdus Salam remembered?
By admin at November 26, 2011 | 2:35 pm | 1 Comments
By Farzana Nazli SOMETHING IS ailing Pakistan. When a figure in the entertainment world passes on, the cultural rock star is usually remembered and mourned for years. Tributes are paid and colourful programmes are organised in their memory. By contrast, when a scientific scholar passes away, his death simply passes unnoticed! Dr Salam left us on November 21, more...
The misguided priorities of Pakistani academics
By admin at November 15, 2011 | 12:21 pm | 0 Comment
A RECENT public opinion poll revealed that the top-most research priority areas identified by Pakistanis included Chemistry, Urdu literature, Islamic studies, Arabic, Botany and Zoology. Those who responded to the survey asked of Pakistani academics to devote their energies on the above-mentioned research areas and requested the governments to fund additional research in more...
‘Rapid growth’ in a niche life sciences market from King of Prussia: NextDocs CEO Zikria Syed
By admin at November 14, 2011 | 12:57 pm | 0 Comment
NextDocs, which customizes Microsoft SharePoint software for the pharmaceutical industry, has been global since the beginning. Half of its first 10 clients were international. Now, the company has employees in the U.K., France, Switzerland, Munich, Canada, Sweden, and soon Japan. “It’s important to find customers regardless of where they live,” Zikria Syed says. more...
WiMax can bridge the urban-rural divide: Jibran
By admin at October 29, 2011 | 2:22 pm | 0 Comment
How do you find Wateen as a company? Syed Jibran Ali: Although most people knew it for its WiMAX services, it connects more people in a lot of different ways. Wateen has one of the largest fiber optic networks in the country enabling it deliver the most diverse product ranges to be offered by any organization in this sector. Its offerings for data, voice, media and more...
The Pakistani innovator
By admin at October 29, 2011 | 2:20 pm | 0 Comment
By Bushra Shehzad via Hosh Media THIRTY-TWO YEAR old Umar Saif, currently an associate professor at the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), now shares this honour with an elite club including, Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook, Jonathan Ive of Apple, and the co-founders of Google, Larry Page and Sergey Brin. Saif was propped into the limelight for creating more...
A dreamer and master of his own destiny
By admin at October 22, 2011 | 1:36 pm | 0 Comment
Brief about your academic background and professional activities? I’m an MBA in accounting and management from USA and Certified Professional Risk Manager (CPRM) from Singapore. I’m the first and only Pakistani CPRM. I have had a diverse career ranging from the hotel industry to airlines and telecommunications. Presently I’m an entrepreneur with my own more...
One phone does not fit all
By admin at October 15, 2011 | 2:23 pm | 0 Comment
[caption id="attachment_8488" align="alignright" width="199" caption="Naeem Tabish"][/caption] What is HTC’s vision? HTC takes an unconventional people-centric approach to designing phones. HTC is committed to delivering a portfolio of phones that fulfill the differing needs of people. As such, we design handsets on different operating systems, as well as more...
From small-town of Balochistan to Harvard University
By admin at October 3, 2011 | 12:52 pm | 0 Comment
Over the last two decades, Pakistan has continued to offer much greater upward economic and social mobility to its citizens than neighbouring India. Since 1990, Pakistan's middle class had expanded by 36.5% and India's by only 12.8%, according to an ADB report on Asia's rising middle class released recently. Here's an inspirational story of a young Hazara man from rural more...
Muhammad Usama: A young tech innovator of Pakistan
By admin at September 24, 2011 | 4:30 pm | 1 Comments
THE ADVENT of 21st century is revolutionizing the way people live and think. It is transforming communities and making research in science and technology more important to society to find solutions to a growing number of global concerns. Keeping these global needs and challenges in view, the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (Intel ISEF) is creating a more...
Internship program prepares new generation for industry: Zulfiqar Zaidi
By admin at September 12, 2011 | 1:36 pm | 0 Comment
THE CELLULAR sector is a dream place for hundred thousands of students from different universities who wish to start their career in the different mobile operator. Hence, a large number of students of different disciplines get enrolled in the internship program of various cellular operators In an interview, Syed Zulfiqar Ali Zaidi, Head of Staffing & Compensation, more...
A connoisseur on science
By admin at September 10, 2011 | 1:53 pm | 0 Comment
Brief us about your academic and professional achievements? Dr. S. Azhar Hasan: I’m working as Director General, Pakistan Museum of Natural History (Pakistan Science Foundation, Ministry of Science & Technology) Islamabad. I obtained Ph.D. degree in Zoology (Entomology) from the University of Oxford, U.K in 1988 and possesses more than 30 years experience in more...
From Textile to Texitech
By admin at August 27, 2011 | 2:27 pm | 0 Comment
Tell us about your academic and professional background. Sohail ur Rahman: I did my MBA – double major – Finance and Marketing, worked as Director of Rahman Industries Ltd (a family business). I established Texitech in 1995, since then I’m heading it as Director. My other business activity is Eureka Xpress (an offset printing company), which started in 2003 and more...
The dream comes true: an interview with Dr. Kamran Azim
By admin at August 14, 2011 | 1:34 pm | 0 Comment
Technology Times: Brief about your educational and professional activities. Dr. Muhammad Kamran Azim: I received my Ph.D. in Biochemistry in 1999 from Karachi University, Pakistan. I worked as Humboldt Research Fellow (2001-02) in Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry, Munich, Germany. I’ve also worked as visiting scientist in several research organizations in UK more...
Sleep tight – Panda Security is here!
By admin at July 30, 2011 | 1:39 pm | 0 Comment
Technology Times: Brief us about your background in the field of IT security? M. Naeem Akhtar: I am basically civil engineer. IT was my hobby since 1981 and I used to be programming for structural analysis, during study at UET, I used to write solve problems of business people for automating their office. I started my job as Civil Engineering structural engineer at NAM more...
Ali Akhter – an authority on VSATs
By admin at July 10, 2011 | 7:59 pm | 7 Comments
Ali Akhter Bajwa is the Managing Director of Pak Datacom Ltd. He is a veteran telecom engineer, an expert on data communications, and authority on VSATs and Digital Cross Connects installations and operations. Ali Akhter has also worked on world’s biggest satellite “Intelsat”. He talked with Technology Times about the future of satellite communications in more...
Mastermind of e-Sahulat
By admin at July 2, 2011 | 6:43 pm | 0 Comment
Saleem Rafiq is CSO at NADRA Technologies Limited. His career started in US, having 29 years of experience in the Finance & Technology and Service industry. Saleem architected technology solutions for efficient banking at IBM. His consulting experience with Price Waterhouse took him to Middle East to establish an export development bank, funded by the World Bank. At more...
گندم کا اکیس سالہ رفیق و ہمدرد
By admin at July 2, 2011 | 5:58 pm | 0 Comment
ڈاکٹر محمد اعجاز تبسم کا شمار پاکستان کے معدودے ان چند زرعی سائنسدانوں میں آتا ہے، جو فصل کے ساتھ ساتھ قلم کے میدان میں بھی اعلی و ارفع مقام رکھتے ہیں۔ ڈاکٹر محمد اعجاز تبسم کا ٹیکنولوجی ٹائمز کے ساتھ تفصیلی more...
Shining star of ICT industry
By admin at June 25, 2011 | 1:02 pm | 1 Comments
Tahir Chaudhry is the prominent personality of ICT landscape of Pakistan. His mission is to inspire and nurture a generation of entrepreneurs; an information activists whose deepest desire is to create an environment where society members can explore and discover their world, relate and connect to their community, develop and foster their identity, grow and expand their more...
m-banking in Pakistan
By admin at June 25, 2011 | 12:54 pm | 0 Comment
[caption id="attachment_4410" align="alignright" width="227" caption="Amer Pasha"][/caption] VISA INC is the best electronic payment system which can boost the mobile-banking in Pakistan with its secure, rapid and broad system. This is stated by Amer Pasha, Country Manager Visa Inc in an interview.Visa is presently working on different framework to attract big more...
