UBL and Tejari Pakistan Join Hands to Offer Procure 2 Payment Solution

Third from left Shehzad Shabbir Dahar, Chief Operation Officer (COO), Zahdan Group, Fourth from Left Murtaza Hashwani, Chairman & CEO of Zahdan Group, Fifth from left Syed Javed, Head of Strategic Business Planning, UBL, Sixth from left Aameer Karachiwalla, Chief Operating Officer, UBL at the signing ceremony between UBL & Tejari Pakistan to offer Procure2Pay Solution.

United Bank Limited (UBL) and Tejari Pakistan have entered into an agreement to offer ‘Procure to Payment Solutions’, that meet sophisticated supply chain management needs of corporate organizations.

Stakeholder Collaborations for Cyber Secure Pakistan 2014

Today’s cyber threats are becoming increasingly more targeted and sophisticated with criminal networks operating across the world, coordinating complex attacks against targets in a matter of minutes.

Due to the complexity of the cyber-threat landscape, cyber crime investigations are profoundly different in nature than the traditional crimes, requiring high-level technical expertise and large-scale cross-jurisdictional investigations.

Biometric Verification of Cellular Consumer Database in Pakistan

Hence the government, in year 2013, has planned to totally revamp the whole cellular connection database with them to update the records and everything. Secondly, the whole concept is to verify all the consumer database of telecommunication networks, making sure with biometric methodology, that each and every number running in the country is registered on the name of a real person, not a fake identity.

Cutting it short, every telecommunication subscriber will have to get the number verified and this compulsion not only lies by the ones who are new to it, but those as well who are existing customers once in order to avoid any interruptions in the services.

PTCL EVO Tab Launched in Pakistan

PTCL (Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited) launched its product throughout the country back in 2011, named ‘Evo Tab’. This is a handheld tablet computer provided by the company, with an adequate hardware to support a competitive performance when compared to other tablets available.

Pakistanis Exchanged 316 Billion SMS During 2012-13

Pakistani mobile phone users exchanged staggering 315.7 billion text messages during July 2012 to June 2013 or 865 million SMS messages a day, said a report prepared by Pakistan Telecommunication Authority.

Telecom sector has witnessed substantial growth for SMS traffic over the years. Thanks to unlimited SMS packages by cellular operators and increased adoption of SMS services, the country is now among the top SMS trafficked countries in the world.

In year 2012-13, the total SMS traffic grew 13.68% from previous year, though the growth rate is lower than corresponding period of previous year but the total figure of SMS exchanged is impressive.

Burq Broadband to Offer WiFi Broadband Services Across Pakistan

ICONDOR Telecom Group from Argentina launched its flagship broadband brand ‘BURQ Broadband’ in Islamabad.

Aimed at offering high-speed broadband services over WiFi, Burq Broadband is planning to start its operations very shortly.

Having footprints in Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay since the early eighties as a pioneer in wireless telecommunications, ICONDOR Telecom is all set to spread the expanse of its network across the sub-continent and Middle East with Pakistan being the hub of its core business activities starting with Broadband Internet Services.

Burq Broadband is reportedly going to offer high-speed broadband over WiFi. Down the line, the company has plans to partner with cellular companies to offer their subscribers the broadband services through WiFi but they will be charged based on their mobile-internet subscriptions.

Data channels over WiFi are always proffered when compared with GSM or 3G networks. Similar kind of partnerships are successfully running across various markets

Zindagi Gulzar Hai is the Top Trending Drama – Google Zeitgeist Launched in Pakistan

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Google officially globally released its brand new product Google Zeitgeist on December 17, 2013. An event was held in PC Hotel Lahore which was synchronized with the global launch. The tool was released in 50 countries and Pakistanis could be proud of the fact that we were included in these top 50 countries of the world.

Google Zeitgeist is a tool which gives a detailed analysis of the top searches and trends done by the netizens of a country. Zeitgeist Pakistan will get trends for now and top searches feature will be rolled out in future.

Zeitgeist Pakistan is showing only two ‘boxes’ at the moment, i.e. top ten People and Searches. But these two boxes contain mammoth amount of data and can be used by marketers, researchers  as well as SEO professionals to have a crucial insight into behavior of internet users across Pakistan. Features like graphs, exporting data to CSV files (which can be opened in Excel), embed codes and city-wise search scores are great.

You can view personalities and searches from the Zeitgeist page. The top-3 trending personalities are Paul Walker, Jiah Khan and Nelson Mandela and the top-3 trending searches are ‘PTV sports live’, ‘Ashiqui 2′ and ‘Chennai Express’.

Here is a treat for you. Some top-trending searches which you cannot view on Google Zeitgeist yet!

Pakistan to Block Import of Mobile Phones Without IMEI

The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority has reiterated its earlier viewpoint of not allowing the import of cellphones/Smartphones that ship without any IMEI or with fake IMEI number.

According to a report published in Dawn.com, PTA has written a letter to Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) and has asked the board to not to clear consignments of cellular phones if the importer has not obtained clearance from PTA.

Importers and manufacturers will now have to submit these specification details to the PTA to get approval under section 29 of the Pakistan Telecommunications (Re-organization) Act, 1996.

The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority has long worked to block the sale of phones that come without IMEI.

Google Agrees to Launch Localized Version of YouTube in Pakistan

Google/YouTube has conditionally agreed to launch localized version of YouTube in Pakistan that will work in-line with local authorities to block blasphemous content with-in Pakistani borders, reported Dawn.com.

Citing the Minister for IT and Telecom, Ms. Anusha Rehman, the paper said that this new arrangement will give birth to YouTube.com.pk or YouTube.PK, a local version of YouTube in Pakistan.

Ms. Rehman was cited as saying that government of Pakistan has succeeded in convincing the Google management about religious sensitivities of Pakistanis.

She was explaining the situation to a Standing Committee of Senate yesterday.

Anusha Rehman further unveiled that Google wants not to be held responsible for any blasphemous content uploaded on its sites as that will be a personal action of the individual. Google, however, will work closely with government of Pakistan to get any such blasphemous content blocked in Pakistan.

Pakistan’s First Science and Technology Web TV Channel Launched

Pakistan’s first science and educational web TV Pakistan’s first science and educational web TV channel — with a special focus on education – has be launched in Pakistan.

TechTV.PK is launched by collaboration between Pakistan Science Club (PSC) and Technology Times (a Weekly tech Magazine) and is said to be available with full drive soon.

Mobilink Introduces Blackberry Q10 in Pakistan

Mobilink has announced the availability of Blackberry Q10, one of two devices that were announced earlier this year at the launch of Blackberry 10.

Running on Blackberry 10, Q10 comes with physical keyboard for those avid blackberry users who aren’t com comfortable with the sense of touch.

Pakistan’s Internet Start-Up Industry, You didn’t Even Knew About

Did you know? Pakistan’s GDP is merely the size of loss that Apple Computer Inc. has faced since the launch of iPhone 5. Now where do you suppose this countries economy comes from? Pakistan collects a total of around $10 billion from its taxes while around $13-14 billion come from external sources.