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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...
Silk Cocoon – new vaccine and anti-biotic stabilisation tech
By Technology Times at September 2, 2012 | 5:37 pm | 0 Comment
INTERNATIONAL HEALTH experts estimate that nearly half of all global vaccines are lost due to breakdowns in the ‘cold chain’. Even in industrialised nations, loss of drug efficacy at body temperature is a serious problem for advanced pharmaceutical delivery systems such as implantable drug-coated devices. The World Health Organisation estimates that unregulated more...
Pakistan lagging behind Afghanistan in 3G tech
By Technology Times at August 24, 2012 | 5:49 pm | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT ISB: The National Assembly’s Standing Committee on Cabinet has been informed that it is deplorable that Afghanistan has 3G technologies while there are several complications in the auction of 3G spectrum licence in Pakistan. However, PTA Chairman Farooq Awan assured the committee that the authority will finalise the 3G licence auction by the end of more...
MUET professor invited by tech developed state to conduct PhD exam
By Technology Times at August 13, 2012 | 3:32 am | 1 Comments
By Imdad Soomro PROF DR BS CHOWDHRY, who was appointed as a Member of the Committee by Aalborg University of Denmark to assess Jose Manuel Gutierrex Lopez PhD thesis on “Interconnection Evaluation And Design Of Future High Performing Transport Networks”, has recently visited Aalborg University Denmark for the conduct of PhD exam. The PhD work of the candidate more...
Burj Bank selects Dialogic Tech, ZRG for contact centre apps
By Technology Times at July 2, 2012 | 10:31 pm | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT KHI: Burj Bank Limited in Pakistan has selected Dialogic Technology and ZRG contact centre apps for their upcoming contact center project. According to a statement, the project is aimed at providing the best quality of services to the customers in a cost-effective way. Burj Bank required an experienced solution provider offering the best technology and more...
Promoting innovations key to science & tech progress
By Technology Times at June 23, 2012 | 5:35 pm | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT LHR: Pakistan is standing at a critical stage of its history where it desperately needs not only the culture of innovations especially in science and technology but also talented brains in this sector as it would guarantee a strong and stable country. Research and development institutes must take lessons from the contemporary world and accordingly plan their 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...
Dr. Aslam gets Presidential Medal for Tech
By Technology Times at June 9, 2012 | 4:18 pm | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT IBD: Pakistan Council of Research in Water Resources (PCRWR) Chairman Dr Muhammad Aslam Tahir has been conferred the ‘Presidential Medal for Technology’ for achieving excellence in the field of science & technology for the year 2009 in recognition of his achievements in the field of chemistry. On behalf of the President, the award was given by Mir 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...
ABL inks tech support deal with Sybase
By Technology Times at May 15, 2012 | 3:38 pm | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT IBD: Allied Bank Limited, one of the largest banks in Pakistan, inked a Technology Support Agreement for the deployment of mobile banking services with Sybase, an SAP Company, the global leader in mobile commerce services and AbacusConsulting, the leading consulting, technology and outsourcing firm in the region, says a press release issued here last more...
IRENA Scholarship Programme at Masdar Institute of Sci. and Tech, Abu Dhabi
By Technology Times at May 9, 2012 | 10:49 am | 1 Comments
Study Subject(s):Subjects taught at University Course Level: Masters Scholarship Provider: The International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) Scholarship can be taken at: United Arab Emirates Eligibility: Relevant undergraduate degree from a college, university or technical college of acceptable standing in the field of science, engineering or information technology. more...
Tech-Combat 2012 arranged at MUET Jamshoro
By Technology Times at April 30, 2012 | 2:04 pm | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT KHI: The Department of Telecommunication Engineering, Mehran University of Engineering and Technology (MUET), Jamshoro, in collaboration with IEEE COMSOC Chapter, has recently organized a national level event titled “TechCombat-Technology Battle 2012”. Around fifty teams of students from various universities of Pakistan participated in the competitions more...
wi-tribe out to revolutionise tech industry
By Technology Times at April 30, 2012 | 1:51 pm | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT IBD: Taking its commitment further towards local software development, wi-tribe has gone a step ahead with the announcement of Pakistan Developers’ Challenge 2012 (PDC 2012); bringing together the greatest young minds of Pakistan onto a single pioneering platform. “At this platform, Pakistani developers can sell and monetize their software, bringing more...
IRENA Scholarship Programme at Masdar Institute of Sci. and Tech, Abu Dhabi
By Technology Times at April 30, 2012 | 11:38 am | 0 Comment
Study Subject(s):Subjects taught at University Course Level: Masters Scholarship Provider: The International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) Scholarship can be taken at: United Arab Emirates Eligibility: Relevant undergraduate degree from a college, university or technical college of acceptable standing in the field of science, engineering or information technology. more...
Tech Foresight for sustainable S&T, innovations
By Technology Times at April 21, 2012 | 4:20 pm | 0 Comment
[caption id="attachment_15210" align="alignright" width="142" caption="Badar Minhas"][/caption] IN A recently held SAARC Workshop on Science, Technology and Innovation Policy and Planning Cooperation, NUST Rector, Lt. G. Engineer M. Asghar emphasized about the importance of S & T saying that agrarian economy is of less importance. The workshop also educated the more...
IRENA Scholarship Programme at Masdar Institute of Sci. and Tech, Abu Dhabi
By Technology Times at April 21, 2012 | 4:05 pm | 0 Comment
Study Subject(s):Subjects taught at University Course Level: Masters Scholarship Provider: The International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) Scholarship can be taken at: United Arab Emirates Eligibility: Relevant undergraduate degree from a college, university or technical college of acceptable standing in the field of science, engineering or information technology. more...
GCU tech fair pulls students
By Technology Times at March 17, 2012 | 12:59 pm | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT IBD: The Government College University (GCU) has recently organised a week-long All Pakistan Technology and Art Festival 2012 that was endeavoured to provide a platform to students from across Pakistan to exhibit their innovative ideas, share knowledge and reveal their creativities. According to details, as many as 533 students from 42 educational more...
IDB selects UAF for science & tech award
By Technology Times at February 25, 2012 | 2:47 pm | 0 Comment
MONITORING REPORT: Jeddah-based Islamic Development Bank (IDB) has announced the Science and Technology Award among more than three billion Muslim population of 57 OIC countries to the University of Agriculture, Faisalabad by recognizing its meritorious and acclaimed services in the field of science & technology in the Islamic world, says a press release. In a letter more...
Clean coal tech gauged at Nust Techtalk
By Technology Times at February 25, 2012 | 2:24 pm | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT IBD: Clean coal technologies are rapidly becoming a viable source of alternative energy and these particular technologies can stem environmental concerns of using coal on long term bases as the same would benefit Pakistan immensely, speakers expressed these views during a colloquium recently arranged at the NUST. NUST Science Society’s key initiative of more...
