IT/Telecom

  There has been a complete change in the people’s lives moving from regular mobile handsets to smartphone over the years. The development of telecom and mobile services had the substantial prospective to influence socio-economic development further through the provision of high value 3G and 4G data services from smartphone to businesses and consumers across the region. Pakistan with the population of about 200 million is the 6th most populated …

  Android, Inc. was founded in Palo Alto, California in October 2003 by Andy Rubin, Rich Miner, Nick Sears and Chris White. The company was formed with the idea of developing an advanced operating system for digital cameras. Later looking at the size of the market of cellular phones, the company decided to make an operating system in competition with Symbian and Windows Mobile. Google acquired Android Inc. on August …

  Interview with Ammar Maqsood — CEO Destin Solutions Ammar Maqsood CEO of Destin Solutions and a Google certified online marketing consultant strongly recommends that all the websites should be made responsive such that they can be viewed on all mobile screens irrespective of the screen size or resolution. This recommendation is based on the research done by him and other certified Google consultants all over the globe. The fact …

  Pakistan is rapidly evolving as one of the telecom sector’s key investment prospects. The telecom sector has witnessed a significant year-to-year growth in the country. About 90 percent of Pakistanis live within areas that have cell phone coverage and more than half of the total population has access to a cell phone. The country’s telecom infrastructure is improving dramatically with foreign and domestic investments into fixed-line and mobile networks; …

  The Punjab government is committed to bringing transparency, efficiency and accountability through the use of ICT interventions and e-Governance. The Punjab Information Technology Board (PITB), led by Dr. Umar Saif, is at the forefront of efforts by the Punjab government to help citizens gain access to technology as well as to interact with the government in a more transparent and accessible manner. The Punjab E-gateway Project, planned and executed …

  If one sits down to take an account of how technology has become part of his/her life it may be difficult to think from where to begin. Almost everything what is done is driven my some sort of micro processor by it the wake up alarm set in a mobile phone, tea maker/toaster, unlocking of car to step in, elevator, biometric attendance, working at desktop or laptop computer and …

  Although the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is taking roots in almost every segment of the society and even weeding out the chronic rot of file culture in our government organizations, yet the best advantage of the ICT is being enjoyed by the financial sector in Pakistan. In this respect, the Standard Chartered Bank, Pakistan’s largest international bank is taking a lead with one step ahead in its drive …

  IT (Information Technology) is the use of computer and software to operate information. Microelectronics-based combination of computing and telecommunications is the processing, acquisition, storage and dissemination of textual, numerical, vocal and pictorial information. Use of IT in higher education has been enhanced through a variety of stakeholders approximately in two decades. Critiques of the often overhyped and tendentious nature of this enhancement identify a range of attentions in operation …

  Over the years Pakistan has witnessed boom in information technology and telecommunication. The successive governments kept the lowest possible import duty on computers, which increased number of users of computer manifold. This was followed by induction of cellular telephony, the latest being introduction of 3G and 4G technology. With smart phones also being available at affordable cost now the users can receive/send e-mail, complete bank transactions, pay their utility …

  During the two decades of the current millennium, the world has been taken by some sweeping changes in the field of ICT. Not surprisingly, the year-on-year growth in ICT has been higher in the developing world in comparison to the developed world. With the change in the US economy from industrial to consumer, the flow of dollar has been from the West to the East. The outsourcing factor and …