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19 Jan 2016
Telenor Proposes Action Items for Realizing Digital Pakistan
Telenor Proposes Action Items for Realizing Digital Pakistan Reduce restrictive legislation or heavy taxation on sector Reduce or eliminate device and data taxes Develop data centers to support cloud computing More mentoring and funding for budding entrepreneurs and technology developers for achieving the dream of digitizing Pakistan effectively. Pakistan can achieve digital connectivity indicators similar
19 Jan 2016
Ministry of Planning and Development Gets Online with Social Media Accounts
Ministry of Planning and Development Gets Online with Social Media Accounts The use of social media is not just the exclusive domain of normal, everyday citizens but also for government organizations and functionaries to keep connected with all stakeholders at all times. Pakistan still has ways to go when it comes to official government organizations maintaining
19 Jan 2016
Future Processors Will Only Support Windows 10
Future Processors Will Only Support Windows 10 As it turns out, the AMD, Intel and Qualcomm processors of the future will only support Windows 10 to get enterprise support. This news will allow Microsoft to further add reluctant business users who have stuck faithfully to older OS iterations. What about Windows 7, 8 and 8.1?
19 Jan 2016
Twitter Experiences A Brief Outage for Most Users Worldwide
Twitter Experiences A Brief Outage for Most Users Worldwide Twitter is down for most users worldwide. A recent fix has enabled the social network for some users but most are still incapable of accessing the service. Web visitors are facing error pages while mobile users can’t seem to access to read or tweet anything as
18 Jan 2016
YouTube Blocks Blasphemous Content in Pakistan
YouTube Blocks Blasphemous Content in Pakistan YouTube, after resisting for years, has finally blocked the access of blasphemous videos in Pakistan, we have checked. The move is aimed at aligning YouTube’s content policy with Pakistan’s demand for blocking the access of blasphemous videos in the country. An agreement, regarding this, between YouTube and Government of
18 Jan 2016
IT Companies in Pakistan Moving Abroad Due to High Taxation: Report
IT Companies in Pakistan Moving Abroad Due to High Taxation: Report The Pakistani government’s move to tax IT companies is proving to be counter-productive. What was aimed at increasing revenue is now having some negative repercussions. One of the alarming outcomes is the relocation of IT companies to foreign countries. The decision of imposing tax on IT
18 Jan 2016
MoIT Officially Presents the Telecom Policy 2015
MoIT Officially Presents the Telecom Policy 2015 Telecom operators termed the policy as a milestone and catalyst for the industry growth; however, they linked it with the condition of implementation. Jeffrey Hedberg, CEO Mobilink, said on the occasion that partnership between the industry and IT ministry/Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) is progressive, which is being recognized
18 Jan 2016
PTA Officially Notifies ISPs for Opening-up of YouTube in Pakistan
PTA Officially Notifies ISPs for Opening-up of YouTube in Pakistan After YouTube announced a localized version and blocked access of blasphemous content in Pakistan, PTA today directed Pakistani ISPs to allow users access to YouTube. With this move, a three and half year ban on YouTube has been finally lifted. Internet Service Providers are
16 Jan 2016
Facebook’s Reactions emojis are working so they’re quietly rolling out across the world
Facebook’s Reactions emojis are working so they’re quietly rolling out across the world Facebook has quietly been rolling out its Reactions emojis since it started testing them in Ireland and Spain in October last year. Having evidently experienced enough success to keep going, Reactions came to Chile later that month, followed by Portugal and the Philippines in November.
16 Jan 2016
World Bank & Empower Pakistan Open Applications for Workshops to Digitally Empower Youth
World Bank & Empower Pakistan Open Applications for Workshops to Digitally Empower Youth Pakistan ranks number 5th in world’s top outsourcing destination countries. According to Matt Cooper (Vice President of International & Enterprise for Upwork – Formerly Elance-oDesk). With time, Pakistan has proved itself to be a premium service provider for the global IT industry