ISLAMABAD (MEDIA) Ministry of Information Technology initiated National Information and Communication Technology ICT&D Fund in order to accelerate the development of ICT infrastructure for research, development and educational purposes. National ICT R&D Fund is offering fully funded scholarships for talented students from rural/non-metropolitan areas of Pakistan with the objective toRead More →
ISLAMABAD (MEDIA) After the ‘Sasti Roti’ scheme, the Punjab government once again faces a new scandal where it is alleged the 110,000 laptops scheme may incur a loss of at least Rs1.7 billion as they have been purchased at high prices. Transparency International has requested the Punjab Government to lookRead More →
ISLAMABAD (MEDIA) The World Economic Forum released its Global Information Technology Report for 2012 earlier this week which saw Pakistan lose 14 places compared to last year to rank at 102nd place out of the possible 142. Meanwhile, Sweden, Singapore and Finland grabbed the top three spots. The report isRead More →
ISLAMABAD (SPECIAL REPORT) In a surprise move, CEO of ICT R&D Fund, just few months after his appointment was approved by the Prime Minister, has submitted his resignation to the Board of Directors (BOD) citing excessive interference and meddling by the Secretary, Ministry of IT (MOIT), Farooq Ahmad Awan. SourcesRead More →
Islamabad (special report) Ministry of IT & Telecom has finally stopped proceeding on website filtration plan on which local and international internet companies have shown massive reaction. Under such plan, Ministry of IT & Telecom’s ICT R&D issued an advert internationally asking the interested companies to send proposals regardingRead More →
ISLAMABAD ( SPECIAL REPORT ) The deteriorating socio-economic system of the country is futile to provide employment to the increasing labor force while Yassar Sakhi Butt, President Islamabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry addressing a meeting at ICCI, said that country is facing a number of challenges for its economicRead More →
Windows 8‘s Metro interface may be controversial, but it looks like few PC users will complain about the new operating system’s performance. The PCWorld Labs put the Consumer Preview of Windows 8 through a battery of tests and found it generally faster–sometimes a lot faster–than Windows 7. Our test systemRead More →
ISLAMABAD (SPECIAL REPORT) Ministry of Information & Technology has derived a comprehensive plan for internet censorship to meet the reservations of some of the local and foreign companies emerged after the advertisement released by ICTR&D the other day. Earlier ICTR&D through its advertisement asked the interested companies to send proposalsRead More →
KARACHI (MEDIA) Teradata Corporation, the data analytic solutions company, has announced the winners for 10th Teradata National Information Technology (IT) Excellence Awards at an awards ceremony recently held in Karachi. Thirteen awards were given to the “best of the best” in the information technology industry. US Consul General in Karachi WilliamRead More →
KARACHI(MEDIA) Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) Senior Executive Vice President Commercial, Naveed Saeed has said that his company’s sustained pursuance of innovation has brought it closer to its consumers and given it a remarkable competitive edge over other market players. “Our journey over the last five years has had aRead More →
The government on Wednesday said that a total of 112 government websites, including that of Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL), were hacked in just three months, parliament was informed Wednesday. These hacked websites belonged to the agencies in the government of Andhra Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Gujarat,Read More →
ISLAMABAD (PAKISTAN) National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST) inaugurated its fastest supercomputing facility in a ceremony held on Tuesday at its Research Centre for Modeling and Simulation (RCMS). The supercomputer installed in NUST is the fastest GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) based parallel computing system operating in any organization/academic institutionRead More →