Yesterday, when I was waiting in line for my turn to buy naan at the Tandoor wala I realized something, something that we generally miss out in our daily visits to the market, that how obliviously the Tandoor wala (a.k.a Naan wala) behaves like a manager not by choice but by nature. He manages to [...]
A few months back, just before the Eid holidays began, I remember chatting with my friend living in UK. I asked him if he had completed the shopping for Eid? he said no! then I asked if he was planning on shopping at all this Eid? he said yes, I’ll just buy it online, I [...]
NADRA achieved ISO 9001: 2008 certifications for its “Quality Standard” of two National Registration Centers located in Islamabad and Rawalpindi, on February 18th 2010. This certification was awarded after a recent audit conducted by the internationally accredited body “Bureau Veritas Certification”.
The Bureau Veritas is a Group with expertise in helping clients comply with standards and [...]
The aim of the survey is to actively reach out to online activists and help them better their experience with ICT, by identifying areas that activists need/want to strengthen. Furthermore, through the survey, we’d like to identify ways in which the activists would like the ICT platform to help them voice out in a [...]
Emerson Network Power, a business of Emerson (NYSE:EMR) and the global leader in enabling Business-Critical Continuity™, has appointed Jeffry Toon as director of enterprise sales in Asia. Jeffry also serves as the director of data center architecture for strategic accounts in the region.
Under his new role, Toon is in-charge of Emerson Network Power sales activities [...]
A forum for discussion on the topic of Modern Day Marketing Communication was organized today at Avari Towers. It was put together by a group of SZABIST students to gather relevant data that would facilitate their thesis topic.
The list of people invited to this interactive discussion included, Ali Raza Merchant (Executive Dir. Synergy), Amir Rammal [...]
Using ICT to prevent violence against women is a continued initiative by P@SHA and Bytesaforall.net continued its journey on the second day of workshop, bringing together various bloggers, and activists on a common platform to share experiences and concerns regarding privacy and security online.
he second day of the 2-day session started off with a brief [...]
PASHA and Bytes For All organized a 2-day National Strategy Workshop on National Strategy Workshop – Strengthening Women’s Strategic Use of ICT to Combat Violence against Women.
Bytes for All (B4A) is a South Asia wide regional network of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) professionals and practitioners. B4A is [...]
Nespak provides tech support to Atlas Power Plant
NESPAK as premier National Engineering Organization working under the administrative purview of Ministry of Water and Power had provided technical support system consisting of environmental impact assessment, geo-technical, geological, seismic, hydrological studies as well as electrical resistivity, topographic surveys and construction supervision
Bioscientists engineer first lot of cherry tomatoes
The [...]
PTA successfully achieved 95 percent of its 2009 targets
Pakistan Telecommunications Authority (PTA) has successfully achieved 95 percent of its targets for the year 2009 and set new targets for the year 2010. Some of the important achievements of the PTA in the year 2009 were discussed during annual meeting of the authority, held here [...]
PTCL opens Pakistan’s largest data centre
Pakistan Telecommunication Company Ltd (PTCL) has opened the largest data centre of the country in Karachi.
This data center is engineered using the rigid specifications consistent with international standards and data center certification bodies and is enabled with technologies that proactively manage an enterprise mission-critical applications for predictable and continuous [...]
Google Buzz challenges Facebook, Twitter
The world’s No. 1 search engine on Tuesday launched Google Buzz, which allows users to quickly share messages, web links and photos with friends and colleagues directly within Gmail, the company’s popular email product.
Also, a new arsenal of products make the new social networking features compatible with mobile devices such as [...]
PTA Report: complete depletion of IPv4 likely in 2014
A recently concluded report of IPv6 Monitory Group, formulated by Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) in view of the future forecast and usage of IP (Internet Protocol), has estimated that complete depletion of IPv4 addresses would take place somewhere in mid 2014.
The PTA has formulated this group to [...]
PTCL’s anti-worker policies: Senate body expresses reservations
The Senate Standing Committee on Information Technology (IT) has expressed its reservation over the strategy of Pakistan Telecommunication Authority Limited (PTCL) converting regular employees’ jobs into contract. The committee also asked the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority to improve its standard of service.
The Committee which met at the Parliament House [...]
Dawn writes, “Pakistan’s Naseem Akhtar created history on Monday by becoming the fastest woman of the region when she won the 100-meter sprint gold medal at the South Asian Games.” And beyond the pride and excitement I feel for this young woman, I feel a greater sense of excitement for the rest of us because [...]
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