Technology - 18

A sophisticated Manufacturing Technologies Development Centre (MTDC) will be established at the department of mechanical engineering, University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore. This was stated by the Higher Education Commission (HEC) chairman, Dr Attaur Rehman, on Monday. In this regard, an amount of Rs120 million has been approved by the recently held Central Development Working [...]

Smelling a cut-throat competition after the advent of two more cellular phone companies, the existing operators have geared their efforts up for an improved market share. After free roaming incentive and a host of other offers – the state-owned Ufone, on the eve of Pakistan’s Independence Day, made ripples in the telecommunication market by providing [...]

A district and sessions court heard a bail application through a video linkup with Lahore Camp Jail for the first time in Pakistan on Saturday. The defence and prosecution lawyers argued from the jail while District and Sessions Judge Abdus Salam Khawar watched them in his courtroom. Video cameras, television sets and modems were installed [...]

The Northern Areas Police will establish its own server and official website to acquaint general public all over the world about the performance of the local police, official said Thursday. Sakhiullah Tareen, the Inspector General of Police said that the Northern Areas police are equally brave and skilful but lack resources as compared to other [...]

The state-run Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) has hired a Chinese firm to computerise its billing and customer care operations at the cost of Rs 1.8 billion. Officials at the company said the Chinese firm — ZTE Technologies – will be responsible to automate the whole system within 18 months and complete the task in [...]

A new building constructed with the financial support of a US-based NGO for an information technology institute was inaugurated at the University of Karachi on Thursday. The Computer Science department of Karachi University, established in 1985, presently housed in the Aiwan-i-Iqbal hostel building, will now be shifted to the new building and upgraded as the [...]

Tens of thousands of Pakistanis endured hours of stifling heat this week to accept an offer of free mobile phone connections, a sign of the pent-up demand in a country where cell phone usage has remained low. But that may soon change. While only about 4.5 million of Pakistan’s 150 million people currently have mobile [...]

AKD Trade.Com, Pakistan’s first stock trading website, has introduced AKD Research, said a press release issued by Aqeel Karim Dhedhi Securities (Pvt) Ltd, on Wednesday…

The order for Siemens mobile comprises turnkey delivery and installation of switching technology, mobile transmission and receiving stations (base stations), Intelligent Networks (IN) and GPRS hardware and software components for the Telenor network in southern Pakistan. “The order from Telenor as a new customer is a further success for us as a mobile equipment provider [...]

Satcomm (Pvt) Ltd said on Tuesday it would invest more than Rs1 billion in broadband Internet cable network and digital TV cable services in Karachi. Satcomm is a sister firm of Habib Oil Mills (Pvt) Ltd. Tanveer Hassan, Chairman Satcomm and Moid-ul-Hassan, Chief Executive Officer made a joint announcement during a press briefing. They claimed [...]