Browsing Tag Microsoft
Shafay, 8, gets Microsoft Certificate
By Technology Times at July 23, 2012 | 3:12 pm | 0 Comment
MONITORING REPORT IBD: Qualifying to be a "Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist" is an impressive achievement for 8-year-old Pakistani boy named Shafay Thobani. According to Shafay, he started working with computers when he was just 4 years old. At the age of 7, Shafay started training to pass the exams necessary to become a Microsoft expert. Becasue Shafay's more...
CubeXS, Microsoft to start enterprise cloud services
By Technology Times at July 2, 2012 | 10:21 pm | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT KHI: CubeXS Weatherly (Private) Limited, the first ever Tier-IV compliant data centre in Pakistan, has launched the Enterprise Cloud Services in collaboration with Microsoft Pakistan at a recently held ceremony in Karachi. The Pay-As-You-Go model would deliver a customized service with a flexible structure and no startup cost and no minimum term of more...
Microsoft Forum selects 3 students for IEF contest
By Technology Times at June 23, 2012 | 5:31 pm | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT IBD: Microsoft Pakistan hosted the Innovative Education Forum (IEF) bringing together several teachers from private, public and NGOs-adopted schools to bring forward their projects and become part of this productive day of project exhibitions, inspiring keynote presentations, professional learning and collaboration. On the occasion, amongst many innovative more...
ICT journalists workshop organised by Microsoft
By Technology Times at June 23, 2012 | 5:27 pm | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT IBD: Microsoft has arranged a first ever of kind event titled “ICT Journalists Workshop” held at the Kuch Khaas here last week which offered bloggers and journalists a chance to get to know each other as well as see how they could work hand in hand to work for the betterment of Pakistan. Ammar Jaffri, President and CEO of PISA, and Sohaib Khalil, more...
NUSTians attend Microsoft Imagine Cup
By Technology Times at May 29, 2012 | 12:12 pm | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT IBD: In recognition of winning the Microsoft Imagine Cup, National University of Science and Technology (NUST) conferred awards on four of its students at a recently held ceremony. Each member of the winning team “Celoks” bagged a cash prize worth Rs 5,000. The team comprised Qasim Ikram, Salman Mazhar, Usman Bin Wahid and Muhammad Azeem from NUST School more...
Microsoft, HEC partner to host Imagine Cup local finals
By Technology Times at May 9, 2012 | 11:26 am | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT IBD: Bringing together the sharpest minds in the field of technology, Microsoft Pakistan, in partnership with the Higher Education Commission (HEC), has recently hosted the local finals of the Imagine Cup. This is the world’s premier student technology competition, where all eligible students use their imagination and passion to create a technological more...
Microsoft rolls out 3rd BizSpark Camp Programme
By Technology Times at April 23, 2012 | 12:51 pm | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT IBD: Microsoft Pakistan has launched the 3rd BizSpark Camp Programme that targets early stage software startups, with resources including access to Microsoft software and development tools at no cost. The programme will also provide access to technical, business trainings, support and market visibility from Microsoft, through a select group of network more...
Apathon, Microsoft organise App contest
By Technology Times at April 14, 2012 | 2:15 pm | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT IBD: Microsoft Pakistan has recently organized first of its kind Industry Academia Collaboration event with the focus set on Windows Phone7 Application Development. Microsoft Pakistan in alliance with P@SHA, HEC, wi-tribe, propakistani and Comsats held an Application Development Appathon & Exhibition at Comsats Institute of Information Technology, more...
NBP, Microsoft sign system support deal
By Technology Times at April 9, 2012 | 11:44 am | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT KHI: The National Bank of Pakistan has recently entered into an agreement with Microsoft Pakistan, under which the latter will enable the former to use Microsoft Virtualization, Unified Communication, Business Process Automation, Private Cloud technologies as well as Premier Support to provide enterprise class technology support services. In his remarks, more...
Pak student gets job in Microsoft Corp
By Technology Times at March 24, 2012 | 12:46 pm | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT IBD: A Pakistani under-graduate computer science student has got prominence for securing a job at the world’s famous Microsoft Corporation. Muhammad Abdur Rauf, a senior Computer Science student at the School of Science and Engineering (SSE) of LUMS, is set to join Microsoft as a Software Development Engineer. Rauf was admitted to LUMS under the more...
Microsoft gains ground in Pakistan
By Technology Times at March 13, 2012 | 1:03 pm | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT KHI: The Microsoft Pakistan has relaunched the hardware devices with premium quality, durability and warranty, all that is needed by the home computer users to be hassle free. The company has also appointed the Advance Business Systems (ABS) as its authorized hardware distributor in Pakistan. “We have chosen ABS as an authorized hardware distributor for more...
Kamal Ahmed Country GM, Microsoft Pakistan
By Technology Times at February 15, 2012 | 12:11 pm | 0 Comment
[caption id="attachment_12808" align="alignright" width="142" caption="Kamal Ahmed"][/caption] How do you find the performance of Microsoft Pakistan during year 2011? The year 2011 proved to be a very promising for us as during this period, the Company launched a number of new products and platforms in the IT sector of Pakistan. We aimed the automation through the use more...
