Karachi Remains the Highest Paying Market for IT Professionals: Survey
Aug01

Karachi Remains the Highest Paying Market for IT Professionals: Survey

Karachi has been paying the highest salaries to 49% of the roles in the IT and ITES sector, while Islamabad pays 41% of the roles higher than Karachi & Lahore and Lahore pays 10% of the roles the highest national salaries, revealed a recently conducted survey by PASHA. The Pakistan Software Houses Association for IT and ITES (P@SHA) released its 2013 IT Salary Survey report yesterday in Karachi. The survey reveals that the...

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3G license must not be delayed: Supreme Court
Aug01

3G license must not be delayed: Supreme Court

In a situation,  Supreme Court has released notices to secretaries of cabinet and finance to upgrade court on the alleged delay in awarding 3G license in Pakistan.Supreme Court shown disappointment over the progress of 3G auction in Pakistan and observed that 3G licensing will bring huge investment in the country and no delay will be allowed in this regard. Petitioner of the case also updated court that Pakistan Telecommunication...

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PTCL participates in worldwide digital media conference
Aug01

PTCL participates in worldwide digital media conference

Pakistan Telecommunications Company Limited’s IP Operations participated in the recently held 18th International Digital Multimedia and Entertainment Technology Exhibition and Conference in Singapore. Ather A. Baig, PTCL senior engineer (IP Operations Core) and an expert in IP technologies represented the company at the conference and participated in the panel discussion on “How Can connected TV Bring New Money to the TV Industry”....

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Pakistani Professionals Selected as Asia-Pacific ISLA Honoree 2013
Jul31

Pakistani Professionals Selected as Asia-Pacific ISLA Honoree 2013

(ISC)2® (“ISC-squared”), the world’s largest information security professional body and administrators of the CISSP®, announced the honorees for its seventh annualAsia-Pacific Information Security Leadership Achievements (ISLA) Program. (ISC)2 will recognize the honorees and announce three showcased workforce initiatives and a community service star special recognition at a Gala Dinner and Ceremony sponsored by Microsoft on 8 August,...

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Youm-e-Ali (r.a): Cellular Services to Remain Suspended in Various Cities
Jul31

Youm-e-Ali (r.a): Cellular Services to Remain Suspended in Various Cities

Pakistan govt, through Pakistan Telecommunication Authority, has instructed the mobile operators in the country to keep their wireless and cellular services off-line in various places today due to security risks on Youm-e-Ali (RA). It is said that services are likely to stay off-line in Karachi, Rawalpindi, Lahore, Gujranwala, Sargodha and other places.Cellular services will be revoked from 4pm to 8pm in Lahore. While Karachi will...

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Sony and Panasonic Join Hands to Launch a 300 GB Optical Disc
Jul30

Sony and Panasonic Join Hands to Launch a 300 GB Optical Disc

How much storage do we really need? That’s a question Sony and Panasonic are asking right now. If you are one of those rare people who find Blu-rays insufficient and DVDs completely unacceptable then you’ll probably be thrilled by this news: both the companies have partnered together to create CDs with incredibly-high storage capacities – 300 GB to be honest. The Optical Disc should be released in 2015. The new format will of course...

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