Posts Tagged ‘Islamabad’
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 [...]
PSEB issued LOI for Establishment of First National IT Park in Islamabad
Tuesday, July 15, 2008 14:47 No CommentsPakistan Software Export Board (PSEB) has issued Letter of Intent (LOI) to International Consortium (TelcoNet, Axor Group Inc Canada and Technopolis Plc, Finland) for the establishment of first state-of-the-art National IT Park, at Chak Shahazad, Islamabad.
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Mistakes We Cannot Afford: Dr Aamir Matin, GM Cisco Pakistan Comments on the STP Eviction
Wednesday, June 4, 2008 18:53 No CommentsSome 35 IT companies with almost 2000 employees have been asked to vacate the IT Park Islamabad. The Evacuee Trust Property Board (ETPB) issued a notice on 23rd of May. The companies were asked to leave the building in seven days, which was supposed to be 31st of May. However, no action has been taken [...]
Manning Technology: Umair Naeem
Monday, May 12, 2008 7:15 No CommentsWhen we talk about technology augmenting day to day life and making things easier and more convenient for people from various walks of life, the ball often falls onto technology itself for being unreliable, particularly in a country like Pakistan where state of the art facilities are rare. This can often be a very unfair [...]
Pakistan poised to become lucrative market for mobile handset manufacturers
Friday, February 1, 2008 9:11 No CommentsPakistan is poised to become a lucrative market for manufacturers of mobile handsets and other telecom equipment as 20 per cent of mobile users in Pakistan change their handset thrice a year. The imports of cellular mobile sets with battery shot up have increased from 144.1 million dollar in 2004 to 670.2 million dollar in [...]
Fresh guidelines to cellular companies issued
Friday, February 1, 2008 9:10 No CommentsTelecom authorities on Friday issued fresh guidelines to cellular companies, directing them to maintain an identification data of their subscribers, a move officials said would help restrict communication liaison among terrorists and criminals.
Necessitated by the use of unidentified mobile numbers by “miscreants”, the renewed policy directives called upon the mobile operators to block all such [...]
Telenor launches environment friendly initiative
Thursday, January 31, 2008 9:40 No CommentsISLAMABAD (January 29 2008): Telenor Pakistan has launched another environment-friendly initiative by using solar energy to power one of its repeater sites in the NWFP. Telenor Pakistan is the country’s first mobile communications services provider to have started using solar energy to power a commercial site. The pilot site, which is in Buner, is a [...]
Mobilink allowed to install PCOs at railway stations
Thursday, January 31, 2008 9:40 No CommentsISLAMABAD (January 17 2008): Pakistan Railways (PR) has allowed Mobilink to operate and install PCO facility at the railway stations across the country, source in the Ministry of Railways told APP on Wednesday. Source said, “We are taking this initiative on a number of complaints received from the passengers, who travel by train.”
Taking serious note [...]
IDL, FSC launch new laptop with advance features
Thursday, January 31, 2008 9:39 No CommentsRECORDER REPORT ISLAMABAD (January 25 2008): Ideal Distribution Line (IDL) and Fujitsu Siemens Computers (FSC) on Thursday launched a new laptop with advance features. Fujitsu Siemens Computers is the leading European IT provider with a strategic focus on next-generation Mobility and Dynamic Data Centre products, services and solutions. With a platform and services portfolio of [...]
Sukkur to get USF, Mobilink services
Wednesday, January 23, 2008 6:17 No CommentsISLAMABAD: A contract signing ceremony was held here on Tuesday between Universal Service Fund (USF) and Mobilink for extending telecommunication facilities in un-served areas of Sukkur division.Speaking on the occasion, the chief guest caretaker federal minister for Information Technology Dr Abdullah Riar said telecom revolution would now be broadened to the far-flung rural areas of [...]