Archive for the ‘Articles’ Category
It’s a Paper Ad Online!
Saturday, December 27, 2008 1:40 No CommentsEvery website wants to look at creating its own value proposition online. While some want to earn money, others want fame and a few, just want to have their opinions voiced out (where a blog may be more appropriate). There are countless websites and blogs being launched each day, so you can’t help but stop [...]
Food You Seek? Click on KarachiMetro.com
Saturday, December 13, 2008 17:23 4 CommentsTired of going to the same restaurant every weekend? Or tired of eating the same pizza every time for your order? I remember calling PTCL’s directory assistance helpline to get telephone numbers of different eating places or restaurants delivering at home and office. With all the disappointment due to limited information, it was seriously a [...]
P@SHA ICT Awards 2008 on 31/10!
Thursday, October 30, 2008 16:43 No CommentsFrom its nascent beginnings in the late 1980s, the Pakistan IT and ITES industry has now reached a point where its value proposition has been validated. The largest member companies are grossing between 15 – 30 million dollars in annual revenue and receiving 100 million dollar valuations.
Most technology companies are growing in excess of 30% [...]
Microsoft drives initiative to counter software piracy in Pakistan
Wednesday, October 22, 2008 13:12 No CommentsKARACHI, October 22, 2008 – Microsoft Pakistan today announced the participation of Pakistan in the Microsoft Global Anti-Piracy Day, a simultaneous launch of education initiatives and enforcement actions in 49 countries on six continents to combat the sophisticated, illegal trade of pirated and counterfeit software. The programs announced today include intellectual property awareness campaigns, engagements [...]
Can the Largest Web-Based Classified Network Work in Pakistan?
Monday, October 20, 2008 19:47 5 CommentsRiazu, the largest classifieds network in the Middle East, began its Pakistan operations a few days ago! Claiming to be an efficient user-friendly website, Riazu is said to serve as a platform for exchange, whereby buyers and sellers, prospective employees and companies, real estate developers and investors are brought together under a single banner.
Speaking at [...]
IP Sniffing is Bad for Business
Sunday, October 19, 2008 11:01 No CommentsCompanies working out of Pakistan have to compete with global operations in order to help foster the “robust technology infrastructure” image we project of Pakistan, their reliance on VOIP-generated services is immense. We live in 2008. Granted that VOIP has been used and abused since as early as the days of Net2Phone and the YapJack, [...]
Getting Back: How the PSEB and Others Are Facilitating Companies
Thursday, September 25, 2008 0:57 1 CommentI can’t think of an agency, organization or an individual who won’t condone and severely condemn the September 20th act of senseless violence. What a loss. What a tremendous waste. A large part of Pakistan has been hurt in the incident, but as things go, strong citizens who know what is at stake, get up [...]
Huawei bags CRBT deployment contract from Telenor Pakistan
Sunday, September 21, 2008 0:26 No CommentsHuawei Technologies announced bagging a contract from Telenor Pakistan to deploy Caller Ring Back Tone (CRBT) system platform. Huawei will provide Telenor Pakistan a scalable CRBT solution with a capacity of 7 million subscribers.
“CRBT has become one of the key strategies by which carriers are attracting new customers and as a world leading vendor in [...]
Inbox wins the largest ever MS Enterprise agreement
Thursday, September 18, 2008 9:36 No CommentsInbox has signed the largest Microsoft Enterprise Agreement in the history of Pakistan. The $8.4m agreement by Inbox Business Technologies spans over three years and includes MS Enterprise Licenses as well as other value-added services. Inbox will be providing the licenses and services to Etisalat International Pakistan’s two concerns - PTCL and Ufone. Pakistan Telecommunication [...]
PTCL, CISCO, NUST to establish internet technology centre
Thursday, September 18, 2008 8:34 1 CommentISLAMABAD: PTCL, NUST and CISCO signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on Tuesday for establishing a centre of excellence for internet technologies at NUST, Islamabad. On this occasion, Higher Education Commission Chairman Dr Atta Ur Rehman said that there was not a single research and development (R&D) center in the country and there was a [...]