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The city took the lead after satellite-based global positioning system (GPS) started functioning regularly from Sunday airing signal to police functionaries that they are being watched by their superiors. With Rescue 15 Centre at Qasim Bagh as its headquarters, the system gets information from the satellite about the whereabouts of a vehicle fitted with a [...]

The new ultra-fast cable will multiply the existing data transfer rate and was expected to ultimately reach 1.25 terabytes per second, equivalent to conducting more than 15 million calls simultaneously. When running at full capacity, the data transfer rate would be equivalent to more than a million internet users simultaneously having real-time access to a [...]

Designed, developed and illustrated with a meticulous care, the software enables every one to read and understand Shah’s poetry accurately. Two young sisters – Nusrat Khowaja and Naveed Khowaja – have designed and developed first ever illustrated software on Shah Latif’s poetry. The software provides a single platform for reading and translation of Shah’s magnum [...]

Center for the Improvement of Working Conditions & Environment received the Knight Ridder Equality Award for its efforts to improve working conditions for adults in the carpet weaving industry, thereby encouraging child workers to return to school. Lahore, Pakistan. nnually, The Tech Museum Awards honor individuals, for-profit, public and not-for-profit organizations from around the world [...]

US software giant Microsoft Corporation has launched the Urdu version of MS Office 2003 for users in Pakistan. Microsoft Pakistan Country Manager Jawwad Rehman said that the key objectives behind launching the Urdu version was to make people more comfortable with using computer software as well equip them with new technology. Rehman said the new [...]

These machines are basically made in Germany but are being imported from Dubai and this would be a gift to Karachiites with an effort to make this metropolis clean and providing a healthy atmosphere to the citizens. Mechanical sweeping is being introduced all over the city from January next year and for this purpose mechanical [...]

Using iBasis’ DirectVoIP broadband service, Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited has established a direct IP interconnection with the iBasis global VoIP network. The connection will allow PTCL to route international voice traffic over the iBasis Network, as well as complete calls for iBasis over its network in Pakistan. The addition of PTCL adds to an iBasis [...]

There remains a huge potential for Broadband expansion for Pakistan’s 160 million population. Recent growth in the mobile market has created an optimistic outlook for Pakistan’s communications industry. Mobile subscriber numbers have surged from less than 2 million at end-2002, to over 11 million by mid-2005. Trimax Corporation, through its wholly owned subsidiary, announced today [...]

Shamshad Akhtar, an Asian Development Bank official, was named the first woman to run Pakistan’s central bank. Akhtar has an M.S. in economics from Quaid-e-Azam University in Islamabad, an M.A. in development economics from England’s University of Sussex and a Ph.D. in economics from Scotland’s Paisley College of Technology. She studied at Harvard University in [...]

Born in Karachi, 42-year old Asim Abdullah made his fortune from hi-tech investments, notably the sale of his company Veo Systems, to Commerce One, the business-to-business internet marketplace. Last summer, the entrepreneur was spotted in Paris at Ungaro’s fashion show, the first clue that the Silicon valley millionaire was to become a fashion sugar daddy. [...]