Interview
Muhammad Usama: A young tech innovator of Pakistan
By Technology Times 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 Technology Times 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 Technology Times 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 Technology Times 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 Technology Times 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 Technology Times 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 Technology Times 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 Technology Times 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 Technology Times 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 Technology Times 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 Technology Times 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...
A thoughtful commitment
By Technology Times at June 18, 2011 | 1:50 pm | 0 Comment
[caption id="attachment_4074" align="alignright" width="113" caption="Munib Khawaja"][/caption] Munib Khawaja is working with APC as VP-IT Business Pakistan & Afghanistan. He has eighteen years of experience in the field of management, marketing, and sales. APC is enjoying the market leadership position both in power protection solutions and datacentre more...
Team “The Y-Nots!”
By Technology Times at June 11, 2011 | 11:07 am | 0 Comment
A truly iconic educational project, the Shell Eco-marathon Asia has been challenging for competing student teams for a very long time to design and build the most energy-efficient vehicle possible. The winning vehicle is the one that travels the farthest distance using the least amount of fuel. The year 2011 marks the 2nd edition of the Shell Eco-marathon Asia, in which more...
A real talent – a true genius
By Technology Times at June 4, 2011 | 6:54 pm | 0 Comment
Zeeshan Mojib is the President – South Asia Region & Corporate CFO at Teralight Limited. He is a young successful banker who is now shining on the skies of telecom sector. Combination of a banker and a telecom expert gave him an edge to foresee the future trends of technology based on concrete grounds of finance. In an exclusive interview with Technology Times, more...
کپاس کی متوازن اقسام کی کاشت کے ذریعے زیادہ پیداوار ممکن
By Technology Times at June 4, 2011 | 3:42 pm | 0 Comment
(ڈائریکٹر ادارہ تحقیقات کپاس فیصل آباد ڈاکٹر عابد محمود سے ڈاکٹر اعجاز تبسم کی چند باتیں) کاٹن انسٹیٹیوٹ فیصل آباد میں تعیناتی سے پہلے کیا کرتے تھے؟ کاٹن ریسرچ انسٹیٹیوٹ فیصل آباد میں تعیناتی سے قبل زرعی more...
Man with passion to work
By Technology Times at May 30, 2011 | 12:55 pm | 0 Comment
Imran Zaki is among few people who have seen revolution in telecom industry of Pakistan from dark ages to the light age. Imran Zaki as Corporate Head of Brand Marketing at LG Electronics; is the custodian of LG whole range of business solutions i.e. home appliances, mobile phones, IT products, and solar power solutions, etc. Technology Times got an opportunity to talk to more...
‘SCI’ is not the limit
By Technology Times at May 30, 2011 | 12:49 pm | 0 Comment
Umar Saif is Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department at Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) and heads the Saif Center of Innovation (SCI, pronounced as ‘sky’), an incubator and training centre for technology entrepreneurs and enthusiasts. Dr. Saif received his Ph.D. from University of Cambridge (2001) and Post-Doctorate from MIT (2002) in more...
The making of Cricket Revolution
By Technology Times at May 14, 2011 | 1:35 pm | 0 Comment
Babar Ahmad is the CEO of Mindstorm Studios, a gaming start-up in Lahore, Pakistan. Babar is focused on creating world-class gaming titles on the PC and console platforms from within Pakistan. He also has a passion for teaching and giving lectures at the Engineering Department at LUMS. Prior to that, he was working as a Wireless Applications Engineer at Silicon more...
Rising high
By Technology Times at May 8, 2011 | 4:50 pm | 0 Comment
Naseer A Akhter, CEO and Founder of InfoTech is a veteran entrepreneur. He has over 22 years of proven leadership in business management and technology, is well positioned to lead InfoTech to become a global IT company. Naseer shares his experience and vision with Technology Times about how to be a successful entrepreneur Tell our readers about the InfoTech? Naseer more...
Dell – committing innovation to life
By Technology Times at April 30, 2011 | 12:04 pm | 0 Comment
Shahzad A. Khan, the Country Manager of Dell AfPak, is always abreast with the latest technological trends in the country. He talked with Technology Times about Dell’s investment to deliver leading solutions, services and cloud-based delivery options to help customers capture the benefits from new computer and information delivery advancements Where does Dell stand more...
Pakistan a lucrative market for cloud services: Oracle
By Technology Times at April 23, 2011 | 1:58 pm | 1 Comments
Kaleem Chaudhry is Regional Director, Enterprise Technology for Oracle Asia Pacific, where he leads a team of enterprise architects focused on providing architecture advisory to IT and business executives. He supports strategic customer and partner/alliance engagements and is a frequent speaker at industry events on IT trends, grid computing and infrastructure more...
Sudden devolution of HEC not good for education in Pakistan
By Technology Times at April 17, 2011 | 6:11 pm | 1 Comments
While Pakistan’s Higher Education Commission has been critiqued as a failure in many cases, will it be good for the country’s education to suddenly devolve the commission? An Islamabad-based professor shares his opinion on the issue. The issue of devolving HEC to provincial administrations according to the 18th Amendment, that is now part of the Constitution of more...
Communication force behind rise of Nokia Pakistan
By Technology Times at April 9, 2011 | 10:07 am | 1 Comments
Adeel Hashmi - Communication Manager, Nokia Pakistan, is leading the development of comprehensive communications strategies for Nokia Pakistan. He is the force behind marketing programmes to drive key business segments, as well as implementation of integrated marketing communications plans that leverage his strategies and platforms. Adeel shares the Nokia’s strategies more...
Behind every successful business is more than just a secure firewall
By Technology Times at March 26, 2011 | 5:57 am | 2 Comments
Talha Habib - an Information Security professional with notable success directed a broad range of corporate IT initiatives while participating in planning and implementation of information-security solutions in direct support of business objectives. He demonstrated capacity to implement innovative security programmes that drive awareness. He has hands-on experience on more...
Rising above tech’s temptations
By Technology Times at March 21, 2011 | 9:14 am | 0 Comment
Arshad Khan is a shining example for CEOs of public/private sector organisations. Though he reached top management positions, he could manage to remain immune from conceit and haughtiness. He deserves one special credit that he remained down to earth, shunning pomp and show. His outstanding contributions in growth of cellular communication sector of Pakistan and more...
