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Pak mobile banking set to expand amid cautions
By Technology Times at July 2, 2012 | 10:33 pm | 0 Comment
STAFF REPOR ISB: The Branchless Banking is rapidly gaining ground in Pakistan with the overall turnover during the Jan-March period of the financial year 2011-12 remained high registering over 25 million transactions worth Rs. 85 billion capital through branchless banking thus posting about 23 per cent increase, reports State Bank of Pakistan in its quarterly more...
Mobilink, Unesco start ‘mobile based literacy’ programme
By Technology Times at June 23, 2012 | 5:33 pm | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT LHR: Mobilink has partnered with UNESCO to launch the third phase of the ‘Mobile Based Literacy’ programme - a broad based initiative in progress since the year 2009. The programme is a unique initiative that utilizes mobile technology to improve literacy for female students, aged 15 to 25 years, in rural and deprived areas. The ‘Mobile Based more...
ABL selects Sybase 365 mobile tech
By Technology Times at June 23, 2012 | 5:08 pm | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT IBD: Sybase 365, a subsidiary of Sybase, the global leader in mobile messaging and mobile commerce services, together with Abacus Consulting, one of Pakistan's largest professional services firms, has announced that Allied Bank Limited has chosen the Sybase 365 Mobile Commerce solution to offer mobile financial services to its customers. "We have been more...
Internet, mobile banking share slow
By Technology Times at June 2, 2012 | 1:47 pm | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT IBD: Despite the fact, the financial transactions through internet-banking and mobile-banking witnessed a significant growth in terms of volume and value in the past few years, the share of these two modes of payment are still standing at 2 and 1 per cent in overall electronic-banking system. “The share of internet-banking and mobile-banking constitute more...
Mobile World Congress 2012 celebrated
By Technology Times at June 2, 2012 | 1:11 pm | 0 Comment
Techaccess Pakistan Amin Ul Hafeez, Chief Operating Officer; Farrukh Alvi, VP Infrastructure & Amir Rauf Khan, VP Sales & Marketing are seen during the Mobile World Congress 2012. The annual event, hosted by Aircom, BlackBerry, IBM, IMGA, Nokia, Oracle, Samsung, SAP 360, WIP, was held last week at Barcelona where over 12,500 app developers more...
Mobile phone & its effects on younger generation
By Technology Times at June 2, 2012 | 1:01 pm | 0 Comment
By Sehar Sajjad via The Pakistani Spectator MOBILE PHONE is a device that is used to make and receive calls. The whole world is accepting and adopting the ways towards the advancement of technology. The youth is playing a vital role in this rapidly evolving dynamics of the connected world. Mobile has a common purpose of connectivity. There is a great consequence of more...
Mobile World Congress projects mobile tech
By Technology Times at May 29, 2012 | 12:07 pm | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT IBD: The Mobile World Congress 2012 has celebrated the current state of mobile and offered a glimpse into where mobile technology has the potential to go next. The Mobile World Congress 2012 - the must attend annual gathering of the mobile industry, hosted in the Mobile World Capital Barcelona, featured attendees from 205 countries, says a message received more...
Agriculture growth through mobile phone
By Technology Times at May 29, 2012 | 11:53 am | 0 Comment
THE EXPLOSIVE developments taking place especially in the field of information and communication technologies (ICT) have practically converted the concept of global village into a reality. The whole world is now reaping benefits of this phenomenon. According to a recently published report, mobile phones have emerged as a potential mean to effectively address productivity more...
Mobilink reaches out to mobile game developers
By Technology Times at May 22, 2012 | 11:51 am | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT LHR: Mobilink has announced a series of workshops across Pakistan providing students and independent software developers with an opportunity to develop mobile game development skills. The first workshop was organized in Islamabad on May 18, with a purpose to as a means to evaluate the conceptual strengths, technique and creative acumen of mobile game more...
Telenor starts mobile services for farmers
By Technology Times at April 23, 2012 | 1:12 pm | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT IBD: Telenor Pakistan has partnered with the Government of Khyber-Pakhtunkhawa to provide agriculture and livestock information on mobile to farmers in the province. In addition, farmers are also open to use the Easypaisa platform to trade in agricultural commodities. Information will be provided via push SMS, voice recordings and small community more...
UBL Omni wins GSMA Global Mobile Award
By Technology Times at March 3, 2012 | 4:10 pm | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT IBD: UBL’s branchless banking solution, Omni, has won the GSMA Global Mobile Award - 2012 for the category of ”Best Use of Mobile in Emergency or Humanitarian Situations” beating three other services – contesting in the same category. The award has been given for a transparent and efficient cash disbursement service after the 2009 IDPs crisis and the more...
Nokia, MCB join hands for mobile money services
By Technology Times at February 21, 2012 | 1:16 pm | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT IBD: In order to launch mobile banking services in Pakistan, the Nokia and Muslim Commercial Bank have joined hands. According to details, the Mobile Money Service, Nokia’s flagship product for mobile banking in developing countries, will be available to all MCB customers with Nokia phones. Under this initiative, Nokia will allow mobile phone users to more...
What’s the smart choice for freelancers: Elance or Mobile Apps?
By Technology Times at January 23, 2012 | 5:17 pm | 0 Comment
Via TechLahore YOU'RE A freelancer or small software business and you want to make speedy success. Should you go down the Elance path, or stick with Appstores? In times when the economy is stressed, as it has been over the past couple of years in most parts of the world, it is harder to keep or find a job. Luckily, people with IT skills have weathered the downturn more...
MoU signed for Mobile Banking
By Technology Times at January 16, 2012 | 5:01 pm | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT KHI: Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) & State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) have signed an MoU to formalize their mutual cooperation in order to promote mobile banking in the country. The MoU was signed by SBP Governor Yaseen Anwer and PTA Chairman Dr. Muhammad Yaseen at a recently held ceremony. Under this agreement, PTA will issue Class Value more...
