Technology - 14

NetSol Technologies, Inc. a developer of proprietary software applications and provider of information technology (IT) services, today announced it has been recognized by the Pakistan Software Export Board (PSEB) as the leading information technology exporter in the country, having contributed more than 11 percent of the total IT and ITeS exports during the 2003 – [...]

The Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC) has suggested the use of nuclear seawater desalination technology to overcome the growing shortage of water for industrial, agricultural and domestic use in the country. Seawater desalination is considered to be a viable option especially for Karachi and the coastal belt as it was being successfully used in Japan [...]

Discount telecoms services provider REDtone International Bhd said income from its new Pakistan venture may equal sales in the domestic market within three years. Net income would ‘more than double’ to about RM25mil this year from RM10.3mil in 2003, with a profit margin of 18%, which was sustainable, said managing director Wei Chuan Beng. ‘Pakistan [...]

[American firm] BOC has installed a state-of-the-art liquid carbon dioxide (CO2) plant in Multan, northern Pakistan. The 60 ton-per-day plant, which began operations earlier this year, is capable of producing International Society of Beverage Technology (ISBT)-compliant CO2. The plant is the first of its kind in Pakistan to serve the country’s expanding core of local [...]

Over the past five years, investor confidence levels, aided by the quick pace of reforms in Pakistan, have risen steadily and local IT market spend figures soared to $500m annually. It was in 2003 that a group of senior professionals in corporate Pakistan decided to invest in technology, a market that had grown over 300% [...]

A 32-year-old Pakistani woman diagnosed as suffering from the brain tumour has benefited from Apollo Hospital’s newly launched New Delhi-Lahore telemedicine link by getting expert advice from radiation oncologists. The crucial link, a boon for patients and caregivers, looking for the best medical opinions, was inaugurated in Lahore today by Ms Anne Marie Moncure, Managing [...]

Pakistan Telecommunication (PTCL) has launched a new value added service named Audio Conference, to mainly facilitate its corporate customers, which will allow them to have enhanced connectivity in a more affordable and convenient fashion. [Vice President] giving the details of the new service said that the users of this service could hold an audio conference [...]

NetSol Technologies, a developer of proprietary software applications and provider of information technology (IT) services, today announced its wholly-owned subsidiary, NetSol (Pvt) Ltd., has been awarded a new contract by the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP). Under the terms of the contract, which would bring immediate and significant revenues, NetSol will undertake several major software [...]

An exhibition titled ‘Ode to Lahore in Colour’ featuring pastel works and drawings by Aboo opened here at Croweaters Gallery on Monday. Over 20 works are on display at the show. Among these, ‘Summer heat,’ in pencil, ‘Spring time,’ in pastel and ‘Long and winding path of N Sharif Park’, were exceptionally dazzling. The artworks [...]

Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) has given over 42,000 free of cost phone connections in Karachi during its two-week long ‘Bilkul Muft’ Scheme. On September 2, the state-owned telecom giant launched its ‘Bilkul Muft’ Scheme under which the phone utility waived a Rs750 fee for demand note for two weeks to install free of cost [...]