Secuirty Tips Archive
06 Apr 2015
First Ever Civic Hackathon in Islamabad Concludes
First Ever Civic Hackathon in Islamabad Concludes The National University of Science and Technology (NUST) hosted the first ever civic hackathon in Islamabad on February 20th. The event was co-managed by Open Islamabad and “Code for Pakistan” which aims to bring citizens together to “create innovative open-source web and mobile applications to spark civic
06 Apr 2015
GIST Tech-I Competition: Win Upto $15,000 and Trip to Global Entrepreneurship Summit
GIST Tech-I Competition: Win Upto $15,000 and Trip to Global Entrepreneurship Summit A major part of being a human being is having the ability and the sense to give back to the world. Afterall, we all benefit from the resources present in this world and it is a moral duty to reciprocate that favour
06 Apr 2015
Pakistan Cyberspace Conference 2015 Officially Kicks Off Today
Pakistan Cyberspace Conference 2015 Officially Kicks Off Today One of the biggest problems Cyber denizens in Pakistan face is the lack of a Cyber Crime Bill. The Musharraf government had promulgated a law called The Prevention of Electronic Crimes Ordinance (PECO) 2007 which lapsed in 2010. It has been five years but so far our
06 Apr 2015
Google Is Launching a Secure Payment Platform Called Android Pay
Google Is Launching a Secure Payment Platform Called Android Pay The fascination of being able to make payments with one’s device rather than a plastic card is on the rise. First Apple, then Samsung and now Google is ready to foray into that world of mobile payments. Google’s Senior Vice President of Product, Sundar Pichai,
03 Apr 2015
Kingston Launches High Performance Predator PCIe SSD
Kingston Launches High Performance Predator PCIe SSD While Samsung and others have already announced the high speed next-generation PCIe SSDs, it is Kingston with its HyperX Predator M.2 SSD which will be the first wide-scale commercially available SSD to use this tech. It is still in its nascent stages and as you would expect,
03 Apr 2015
Apple Drifts Away From Jobs
Apple Drifts Away From Jobs Steve Jobs’ Apple displayed a rather fascinating balance between design and utility. Granted, it often shifted more toward the design side, which resulted in problems like Antennagate, but that tended to happen when Jobs wasn’t around. He made sure the products worked well and looked good — he understood
03 Apr 2015
Twitter’s Periscope Allows Live Stream Replays
Twitter’s Periscope Allows Live Stream Replays Twitter on Thursday unveiled Periscope, the live-streaming app developed by a company it acquired earlier this year, reportedly for just under US$100 million. It’s a big bet for an app that’s in a genre that already has matured, but Twitter is counting on the mobile world’s appetite for
03 Apr 2015
Facebook Invites App Devs to Join in Messenger Family Planning
Facebook Invites App Devs to Join in Messenger Family Planning Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg this week told an audience at the F8 conference for Facebook developers that the company’s future lies in its family of apps and in giving the network’s members the ability to share what they want, where they want. “We’re building
03 Apr 2015
BlackBerry, IBM, Samsung Come Together on High-Price, High-Security Tablet
BlackBerry, IBM, Samsung Come Together on High-Price, High-Security Tablet BlackBerry subsidiary Secusmart on Monday introduced the SecuTablet, a high-security tablet based on the Samsung Galaxy Tab S 10.5, at the CeBIT 2015 trade show in Dusseldorf, Germany. Developed in collaboration with IBM, the tablet targets national and international public sector markets and enterprises. IBM
03 Apr 2015
New Facebook Marketing Tool Chews Up Data, Spits It Out
New Facebook Marketing Tool Chews Up Data, Spits It Out Fa cebook last week launched Topic Data, a new service that reveals to advertisers the subjects users discuss, the brands and products they use, and the activities they follow. Marketers will be able to sift through data compilations of what users say about events,