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The new system would provide interactive and online lecturing services to all public sector universities.The first video conference among vice chancellors of various universities and the higher education commission was held here on Monday under a new project, ‘online lecturing and net-meeting’ initiated by the HEC. A large number of professors, scholars and researchers from [...]

With direct cable landings in Karachi , Fujairah (UAE) and Al Seeb (Oman), the TWA-1 undersea optic fibre network would offer end-to-end, direct broadband, high-speed connectivity to Pakistan’s growing number of telecom operators, internet service providers, and corporate customers. The TWA-1 cable system will achieve an ultimate capacity of more than a terabit per second [...]

GIS will help to provide the required information about the condition of roads, location and height of villages and population when linked with Nadra and satellite images. The system will also assist in relief operations and rehabilitation programme. It will also help aid agencies operating in the area by providing them the exact data about [...]

According to the president of the GSM Association, Ricardo Tavares, mobile operators in Pakistan are expected to invest USD3 billion in GSM technology over the next three years. The country’s six cellcos – Paktel, Pakcom, U-Fone, Mobilink, Telenor and Warid Telecom – plan to have invested USD1.2 billion in 2005 alone, with the country’s total [...]

That’s Masood Khan, Pakistan ambassador. Such is the level of respect and trust he has built up with all parties that at the first restart of the sub-committee this Sunday, every speaker without exception (and that includes countries as diverse as China, Iran, Brazil, Ghana, Argentina, the US and UK) went out of their way [...]

The exchange student moderated a videoconference yesterday at Paul Laurence Dunbar High School connecting 11 students here to students in Karachi, Pakistan; Washington, D.C.; and Maize, Kan. The four-way conference lasted two hours and included questions on premarital sex (is it prevalent in Pakistan?), what students do for fun, how to cure homesickness if you [...]

Inspired by Singaporean model of e-policing, the Sindh Information Technology Department has embarked upon an ambitious project to connect 10 police stations “We will connect 10 police stations in Karachi to the main servers accessible to central police and home offices,” According to Saigal, the government has planned to introduce computerisation of land, city survey [...]

South African relief agency, Gift of the Givers, is using open source software solutions to power its humanitarian relief efforts in earthquake-stricken Pakistan. IT manager, Yusuf Rajah, says open source technology has had a “tremendous effect” on its ability to contact specialists and respond in time to disasters. “The reason why we support OSS is [...]

Rashad Ali and Pulin Patel, two friends originally from Pakistan and India, are running the race for the Next Big Thing on cell phones from a humble office off the back streets of Richardson, Texas’ Telecom Corridor. Ali, 42, and Pulin Patel, who is 35, met in Richardson when both were working at Nortel Networks. [...]

Pakistan has signed a contract with two Swedish companies for a land surveillance system that could have been useful in emergency operations, the aircraft maker Saab announced on October 18. The system operates aboard a Saab 2000 turbo-propelled aircraft, relying on the Erieye onboard radar system developed by Ericsson Microwave Systems. Saab said the surveillance [...]