Browsing Tag IT
Young IT entrepreneurs get 1st Tech Incubator
By Technology Times at September 10, 2012 | 6:45 pm | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT IBD: The Punjab Information Technology Board (PITB) has launched Pakistan’s first enterprise - Plan9 Tech Incubator, along with the assistance from the Pakistan Software Houses Association for IT and ITES (P@SHA). The launching ceremony was held at Arfa Karim Software Technology Park, but it covers projects for Islamabad, Lahore and Karachi, says a press more...
Provincial govt start receiving farm IT tax collection
By Technology Times at September 2, 2012 | 6:09 pm | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT IBD: The provincial governments have started implementing the ‘harmonisation of agriculture income tax policy in the provinces’ under which the government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has collected information on agriculture income from the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) and served tax demand notices on those who have declared agriculture income in their tax more...
Pakistani IT professional helps in smashing botnet
By Technology Times at August 24, 2012 | 5:42 pm | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT ISB: A Pakistani professional, originating from Lahore and now a senior staff scientist at FireEye, a security firm headquartered in San Francisco, has successfully taken down a network of Grum said to be responsible for sending 20 per cent (and 33 percent at one time in 2011) of all spam emails in the world. Grum had developed a network called – more...
Hard times a blessing for Pak IT sector: Farooq Sikander
By Technology Times at August 13, 2012 | 2:50 am | 0 Comment
Farooq Hasan Sikander carries with him 31 years of successful experience providing fiscal, strategic and operations leadership in uniquely challenging situations. Presently, he has been appointed as Chief Executive, Hascombe Business Solutions (Pvt) Ltd. He is dynamic results-oriented leader and possesses superior interpersonal skills and capable of resolving complex more...
IT share in local economic set to swell
By Technology Times at August 7, 2012 | 12:28 am | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT LHR: NetSol Technologies CEO and Chairman Salim Ghauri has said that the local IT industry will be highly visible in the country’s economy within the next five years. “Over 1,000 IT companies are operating in the country with over 100,000 employees; generating over a billion dollars in IT exports,” he said while talking to media here. He added that more...
Multiple concerns on stagnant IT & telecom sector
By Technology Times at August 6, 2012 | 11:01 pm | 0 Comment
PAKISTAN WITNESSED a high boom in its IT and Telecom sector from 2001 to 2005 with remarkable investments to the tune of Rs 9 billion mainly due to the successful implementation of reforms in the country. No doubt that Pakistan had secured the top notch among the South Asian states in terms of growth rate in addition to production of highly skilled manpower and more...
Pak IT policy drafter awarded degree
By Technology Times at July 30, 2012 | 8:53 pm | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT IBD: Dr S. M. Junaid Zaidi, who drafted Pakistan’s first IT policy, has been awarded an honorary Doctor of Science degree by Lancaster University in the United Kingdom, says a press release received here. Dr Zaidi, awarded the prestigious Sitara-i-Imtiaz in 2007, is the founding rector of the Comsats Institute of Information Technology (CIIT), which was more...
EMC Consulting, CIO to act as cloud in altering IT
By Technology Times at July 30, 2012 | 7:24 pm | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT KHI: CIO Pakistan has organized a consultation wherein veterans from the local IT Industry gathered on a common platform to discuss how cloud should be utilized to drive efficiency. The main objective of holding this event was to discuss with the audience and engage them in a healthy conversation regarding the incorporation of a cloud strategy in the more...
IT revolutionising banking sector services
By Technology Times at July 30, 2012 | 7:22 pm | 0 Comment
Muhammad Munir Ahmad is EVP Askari Bank Ltd, and holds the office of Country Head, Electronic Technology Division. Munir Ahmad is a thorough professional having varied and rich experience of 36 years in the field of Information Technology. He started his career with UBL as Computer Operations Officer in 1976 and afterwards worked with different international and domestic more...
Pakistani entrepreneur dreams to win IT world
By Technology Times at June 18, 2012 | 5:32 pm | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT IBD: Pakistan would be having a gigantic and biggest e-commerce portal in the world in near future as efforts are being made to achieve this goal. “I will definitely achieve the goal of make my company the biggest web portal in the world, come what may,” said Junaid Mansoor, who presently is running a fastest growing and a world’s second biggest more...
Pakistan to have first IT university in Lahore
By Technology Times at June 9, 2012 | 4:12 pm | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT LHR: Pakistan’s first information technology university is being set up in Lahore, Punjab, for which the provincial government is mulling to allocate for this purpose in the next financial year. According to Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif, the provincial government would provide free-of-cost land for the university, which would be managed by an more...
Hard time for IT ministry as technocrats quit against despotic secretary
By Technology Times at June 2, 2012 | 1:12 pm | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT IBD: Strong babus continuing governing the Ministry of IT and Telecom leaving no room for technocrats who have been working on research and development projects in autonomous ICT organizations. The bureaucratic strength supported by politicians has forced technocrats Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Chief Financial Officer (CFO) to resign from their more...
Women excellent IT human resource: Naseer
By Technology Times at May 29, 2012 | 1:10 pm | 0 Comment
[caption id="attachment_16499" align="alignright" width="113" caption="Naseer Akhtar"][/caption] T IS evident that the empowerment of women plays an important role in the success of nations. I believe amongst the biggest contributions of Mao Tse-Tung in China was the empowerment of women along with universal health and education. That vision has enabled China to where more...
Taping women potential in IT vital
By Technology Times at May 29, 2012 | 1:09 pm | 0 Comment
[caption id="attachment_16501" align="alignright" width="113" caption="Abbas Ali Mirza"][/caption] I PERSONALLY feel that the theme this year i.e. "Women and Girls in ICT" is a barnburner in its true letter and spirit. In the world today, where the quest to lead and innovate has become the order of the day, the core essence behind any business is the ‘will to survive more...
CIS IT torch bearer in Pakistan: Asim Husain
By Technology Times at May 29, 2012 | 1:06 pm | 0 Comment
[caption id="attachment_16477" align="alignright" width="113" caption="Asim Sheheryar"][/caption] COMSATS INTERNET Services (CIS) is the pioneer ISP of Pakistan when it launched Internet services for the first time in the country in 1996. In 2011, CIS celebrated its 15 years of Internet operations in Pakistan through a customer event which was attended by Chairman PTA more...
UAE IT firm gives 25 scholarships to Pak students
By Technology Times at May 29, 2012 | 12:31 pm | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT IBD: TEXPO Group of Companies, a UAE leading global technology infrastructure provider and an IT consulting company, has 25 scholarships for talented students of six public sector IT departments in Pakistan under a talent hunt programme. These students are selected among 371 contestants from six universities including NED University, Karachi University, more...
InfoTech looking beyond the IT horizons
By Technology Times at May 29, 2012 | 11:40 am | 0 Comment
Asim Haque, Vice President – Country Leader Sales, InfoTech, trails the early days of InfoTech when it came into existence, to the present day. A mark of pride particularly is the list of achievements InfoTech has managed to secure within one-and-a-half decades. Picking up on what is often underestimated in the early years of career-building, Asim Haque shares with more...
Women constitute 14pc workforce in Pak IT industry
By Technology Times at May 22, 2012 | 12:13 pm | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT IBD: Pakistan’s women are actively pursuing their career having 14 per cent share of workforce in IT industry out of which 37 per cent are presently working at the mid-executive positions whereas 13 per cent are holding senior management positions in renowned local and multinational companies. These findings have been disclosed in the recently launched more...
Women account for 14pc of Pak IT workforce
By Technology Times at May 22, 2012 | 11:50 am | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT KHI: Pakistan Software Houses Association (P@SHA) has recently unveiled its research report on working women in Pakistan IT industry, in a press conference held in Karachi. According to details, the research is based on responses from 50 companies and 125 individuals – it targeted IT companies as well as large IT departments within non-IT companies. The more...
SG ITU calls on IT minister
By Technology Times at May 15, 2012 | 4:20 pm | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT IBD: Dr Hamadoun Toure, Secretary General International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and Dr. Eun-Ju Kim, ITU Regional Head for Asia and the Pacific called on Federal Minister for Information Technology Raja Pervez Ashraf last week. Secretary IT and Telecom, Farooq Ahmed Awan was also present on the occasion. Main agenda of the meeting was “Promoting more...
On call centres, IT industry and govt policies
By Technology Times at May 8, 2012 | 3:17 pm | 0 Comment
By Faryal Najeeb Tell me a little about TRG. TRG is an information technology (IT) services company which was established in 2002. The company was founded by Pakistani entrepreneurs based in the United States. The idea was to jump start the call centre services in Pakistan. I would say, there are two ways to establish a business; either you start from scratch or you more...
IT ministry, PTA served notices on URL blocking system
By Technology Times at April 30, 2012 | 1:23 pm | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT IBD: The Sindh High Court has issued notices to the Ministry of Information Technology and the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority on a petition challenging the censorship and blockade of websites and online forums containing political views. The petition has been filed by Ayesha Tammy Haq and others, with a plea that the respondents were illegally blocking more...
ICT R&D Fund urged to conduct IT survey in SMEs
By Technology Times at April 14, 2012 | 2:21 pm | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT IBD: The Union of Small and Medium Enterprises (UNISAME) President Zulfikar Thaver has urged the National ICTR&D Fund to carry out a complete survey of the SMEs indicating their complete details location, industry, capacity, experience, performance and investment of each SME together with the tax registration numbers and ratings. He said this in a more...
Need to revisit IT affairs
By Technology Times at April 14, 2012 | 2:07 pm | 0 Comment
The Ministry of Information Technology has again landed in troubles and looks to have gone astray when most recently, in a surprise move, CEO of ICT R&D Fund, just few months after his appointment, has tendered his resignation citing excessive interference and meddling by the Secretary, Ministry of IT. During his service, the Secretary had also reportedly served the more...
IT education in Pakistan needs melioration
By Technology Times at April 9, 2012 | 12:10 pm | 0 Comment
By Fahim K. THE INFORMATION Technology (IT) got its first reference in 1958 in Harvard Business Review as “a new technology having no single established name”. Later the term got its proper definition as usage of micro-electronic based processes for transferring, processing and storing all sorts of information. In today’s knowledge-based economy, proper more...
