12th IEEE International Multitopic Conference (IEEE INMIC 2008) will be held at Bahria University Karachi, Pakistan on 23-24 December 2008. This conference will be jointly organized by Bahria University, Karachi Campus and IEEE Karachi Section. INMIC is being held regularly on yearly basis and has become one of the leading conferences in Pakistan for professionals [...]

Mobilink is currently deploying a very large, 8,500 km fiber optic network in Pakistan which will act as the backbone for its traffic by the end of 2008. An article that just appeared in The Daily Times details the project. Mobilink has already invested about $2.5BN in telecom infrastructure development in Pakistan and is poised [...]

It’s interesting to note that Wateen chose a US-company, Motorola, for their implementation, while Mobilink has chosen a Chinese partner. We can’t wait to see how the quality of both will compare. We’ll admit, having heard several complaints about the Motorola implementation, the dice is a little loaded for the bake-off! We think Huawei will [...]

Intel Pakistan Corporation and Ministry of Education (MoE) recently announced an ‘ICT for Education’ initiative intended to support the country’s goal to help its citizens tobecome more competitive in today’s knowledge-based global economy.
Put in effect by a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) under Intel’s World Ahead programme, ‘ICT for Education’ begins with Intel intending to donate [...]

Pakistanis are part and parcel of the growing economy. 50 Television channels, some with 24 hour news channels compete with each other to inform and erergize not only the musicians, artists, political scientists but also the businessmen and the entrepreneurs. Pakistan has a healthy and growing Information Technology business and most of the software houses have a presence [...]

Irtiza Haider has recently become the known world’s youngest Cisco Certified Network Associate.
Certifications at any level are tough — they are challenging to prepare for and certainly stressful to sit through. So when you hear that 12-year Irtiza Haider of Class 8 has recently become the known world’s youngest Cisco Certified Network Associate, you can’t [...]

IBM arranged virtualizing event with IBM system X and BladeCentre in Karachi to enhance their knowledge on how they can benefit from System X and BladeCentre powered by Intel processors and how virtualisation can help them drive forward and grow their business.
Humayun Bashir, Country General Manager IBM Pakistan inaugurated the event. He said IBM’s steadfast [...]

Competent Pakistani experts in the field of information technology have caught the attention of Polish companies leading them to explore the Pakistani market, says Ireneusz Makles, the Consul General of the Republic of Poland in Karachi. “Our companies are looking to establish joint ventures with Pakistan and I hope, in the near future, we will [...]

Over 120 innovative models were put on display during a two-day ‘General Public Science and Technology Competition’ at Pakistan Forest Institute, Peshawar.
The competition started on Friday. It was organised by the Directorate of Science and Technology, NWFP. It attracted the attention of people from all walks of life.
The contestants were divided into four categories: academia, [...]

NetSol Technologies Ltd, a multinational provider of IT services and enterprise software to the financial services industry, has signed a distributor agreement with Kaspersky Labs.
Under the agreement, NetSol will market Kaspersky information security products in Pakistan.
NetSol has been providing information security consulting services and solutions to local organizations in Pakistan and will be expanding its [...]

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Pakistan’s leading GSM service provider, Ufone, has signed an agreement with Teradata to expand its current Data Warehouse with state-of-the-art 5550H nodes from Teradata. Ufone is the one of the leading telecommunications service provider in Pakistan with the most sophisticated data solutions on offer with the widest coverage area.
The expansion of the data warehouse [...]

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The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has installed an indigenously manufactured Flight Information Display System (FIDS) at the Peshawar Airport.
It has been developed by the CAA in collaboration with the National Engineering and Scientific Commission (NESCOM), said a CAA handout issued.
The system would provide information about incoming and outgoing flights on nine plasma screens and [...]

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The first graduating batch of Electrical Engineering of Centre for Advanced Studies in Engineering (CASE) showcased their final year design projects at Sir Syed Memorial Hall here on Thursday.
CASE had invited more than 20 different companies to attend the Open House, comprising work of students specialising in Telecom and Computer Engineering, in which the [...]

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THE University of Punjab and British Institute of Technology and E-Commerce (BITE) have decided to sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to collaborate in the fields of nano-technology, bio-technology, information technology and business administration.
According to a Press statement, the decision was taken during BITE team’s visit to the Punjab University on Thursday. The BITE [...]

Iranian and Pakistani ministers have exchanged views on boosting cooperation in various scientific and technological fields, PressTV reported..
Iran’s Minister of Science, Research and Technology, Mohammad-Mahdi Zahedi, and his Pakistani counterpart, Tahmineh Doulataneh, met on the sidelines of the 13th meeting of the OIC Standing Committee for Scientific and Technological Cooperation (COMSTECH) in Islamabad on Wednesday.
During [...]