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ISO 9001:2008 Certification is Landmark Achievement of upbeat efforts by NADRA: Tariq Malik

19 February 2010

National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) has achieved ISO 9001:2008 certification for its two National Registration Centers (NRCs). The audit was conducted by an internationally accredited body Bureau Veritas Certification (Pvt.) Ltd recently. “This is a landmark achievement attained as an outcome of upbeat efforts by NADRA teams to promote advanced technologies and the highest quality [...]

WordPress Worst Outage in 4 Years – WP Down For Approximately 110 Minutes

19 February 2010

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Today WordPress.com was down for approximately 110 minutes, our worst downtime in four years. The outage affected 10.2 million blogs, including our VIPs, and appears to have deprived those blogs of about 5.5 million pageviews. Official Statement by WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg What Happened: We are still gathering details, but it appears an unscheduled change to a core [...]

Google Goggles – Use Pictures to Search The Web

17 February 2010

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Google Goggles lets you use pictures taken with your mobile phone to search the web. It is ideal for things that are not easy to describe in words. There is no need to type or speak your query all you have to do is open the app, snap a picture, and wait for your search [...]

Oracle & HEC To Promote Oracle Academy Program in Universities in Pakistan

16 February 2010

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Mr. Bashir Ahmed, Director, HEC addressing a seminar to promote Oracle Academy Program in Universities in Pakistan. Dr. Khaver Zia, Beaconhouse National University, and Aamirah Nyazee, Manager Corporate Citizenship Oracle SAGE-West are also seen in the picture. 3700 students from 18 participating universities in Pakistan have already gained hands-on experience with Oracle’s industry-leading database, middleware [...]

Internet Protocol Version 6 Monitory Group Report By PTA

4 February 2010

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Internet Protocol (IP) addresses are unique numeric identifiers that are required by every device looking to communicate over the Internet. Today, most of the Internet is addressed with IP version 4 (IPv4) but IPv4 address space is running out due to increase popularity of IP‐based applications. The new version of Internet Protocol (IPv6) arrives not only [...]

Oracle Completes Acquisition $7.4B of Sun Microsystems

27 January 2010

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Oracle said today that it has finalized its $7.4 billion acquisition of Sun Microsystems, as top executives were scheduled to lay out their strategy for combining the two companies during a meeting with reporters and industry analysts in Redwood City. Combination of the local entities worldwide will proceed in accordance with local laws. Oracle will [...]

Google Figures Out Another Use For YouTube: Earnings Webcasts

22 January 2010

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If you’ve ever tried to listen in on a Google earnings call on the web, it’s kind of a pain. That’s especially true if you use a Mac because Google insists that you use either Real Player (which is awful on the Mac) or Windows Media Player (which doesn’t work on a Mac). Of course, [...]

France Joins Race to Digitize World’s Books

21 January 2010

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LA CHATRE, France Amid the flat, wide fields of central France, a team of re-trained secretaries and IT experts is packaging Europe’s literary heritage for the digital era. Put less grandly, they turn pages for a living. The company they work for, Safig, is one of the few European firms to digitize books, using automatic and [...]

Interview: Farhan Chaudhry, Country Director, Pakistan and Afghanistan, Oracle

21 January 2010

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Farhan Ibrahim Chaudhry is Country Director Sales , Technology Business for Pakistan & SAGE-West at Oracle Corporation. Chaudhry is responsible for Field Sales of Technology Licenses. Chaudhry joined Oracle in 2005, as Regional Business Manager, FSI. As Regional Business Manager, Chaudhry was responsible for Technology Sales Business in Financial Services Industry in SAGE West. Chaudhry has [...]

Zardari Launches Rs 1.95b Internet Project

21 January 2010

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President Asif Ali Zardari launched a project to provide Broadband Internet in Southern Punjab funded by Universal Service Fund (Ministry of IT), worth Rs. 1.95 billion. A plaque unveiling ceremony of the project was held at the Governor House Lahore. Secretary IT, Naguibullah Malik and Parvez Iftikhar, CEO-Universal Service Fund were also present at the occasion [...]

US, Pakistan Further Expand Bilateral Cooperation in IT Field

15 January 2010

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The U.S and Pakistani officials agreed to enhance bilateral cooperation in the fields of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and evolving a cooperation program for deploying socially relevant services using mobile phones and other IT platforms. This was agreed during the meeting of Ambassador Richard Holbrooke Special Representative of US for Afghanistan and Pakistan and the [...]

E-Bond Trading Platform to Create Wider Investor: Syed Salim Raza

11 January 2010

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Governor, State Bank of Pakistan, Syed Salim Raza on Monday said that Electronic Bond Trading Platform will enhance investors’ base of the sovereign debt market as it would attract investors from the non-banking sector as well resulting in higher liquidity in the government securities. Speaking at the launching ceremony of this bond here at State Bank [...]

British Council Focussing on Digital Technology in Pakistan

11 January 2010

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The head of British Government agency that promotes the use of information and communications technology has appreciated the computer usage in Pakistan and said the country has a good level of computer literacy. Stephen Crowne, Chief Executive, BECTA, was speaking to the members of the international media at the opening of the three-day “The Learning [...]

VIPER Technology appointed as Pakistan’s First IASP

24 December 2009

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Pakistan’s leading IT solution providers, Viper Technology, has been nominated as Pakistan’s first Intel’s Authorized Service Provider (IASP), enabling the firm to provide its clients with support and efficient warranty services on Intel based Machines. This is the first time that any IT company in Pakistan has been awarded the status of IASP by Intel. [...]

NAVTEC To Launch Technical Courses From 11th January, 2010

23 December 2009

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National Vocational and Technical Education Commission (NAVTEC) has planned to launch new technical courses in 23 useful disciplines from next month. The courses would be organized in collaboration with three leading institutes Construction Technology Training Institute,National Institute of Electronics Ministry of Science & Technology and Al-Shifa Trust Eye Hospital to train youth. The courses to be [...]