Mr. D. Y. Kim was appointed as the President of LG Electronics, Gulf FZE in January 2012. With deep insight into the electronics industry due to its professional and educational path, Mr. Kim has been with LG Electronics since 1989. Mr. D.Y.Kim was recently in Pakistan and we had a chance to interact with him [...]

Owing to the technology having improved and sharpen our lives to a much larger degree, in addition to stressing its involvement in different facets, inclusion of Information Technology (IT) applications in health sector also need proper attention. Health Information Technology (HIT) refers to the use of IT and its applications by health personnel, patients and [...]

National Bank of Pakistan recently entered into an agreement with Microsoft Pakistan. The signing ceremony took place at the National Bank of Pakistan Head Office in Karachi. The Microsoft Enterprise Agreement will enable National Bank to use Microsoft Virtualization, Unified Communication, Business Process Automation, Private Cloud technologies as well as Premier Support to provide enterprise [...]

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf has denounced its supporters who use explicit language on social media networks against critiques (of all levels) for defending their party. An official statement issued by PTI said that PTI cannot take responsibility for acts of any individual or any content posted by them to which it has no administrative control. “But as [...]

National ICT R&D Fund has launched this new initiative of assisting undergraduate students with their final year projects. ICT R&D Fund said that it aims to promote, enable, and encourage R&D culture at the grassroots level by funding relatively high caliber R&D projects initiated by students under the mentorship of faculty members in chartered universities [...]

Microsoft envisions the professionals from industry working in close contact with the students and faculty from the education sector, where professional experience along with the knowledge of current technologies being used in the IT industry and the creative new ideas from the minds of tomorrow can help produce the next breakthrough in the IT Industry. [...]

We appreciated Punjab Government when they first announced the free giveaway of 100,000 laptops to brightest of the students in the province. We are also proud of Mr. Shahbaz Sharif for many other ventures he has endured lately, particularly for those catering the IT industry. Having said this, we are yet to ascertain the need [...]

TeraData National IT Excellence Awards were held last Sunday (March 18th, 2012), in which 13 Awards were given to the best of the best in the information technology industry; that’s how organizers define them. We know of few winners, those who told us directly or we got to know about them through sources. Here’s the [...]

DG Khan Cement Company Limited (DGKCC), one of the largest cement-manufacturers in Pakistan, has announced the deployment of Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 to help improve its operational efficiency, enabling it to automate its management and financial accounting system, reducing the time it needed to compile monthly operating results from 15 days to just three [...]

Lakson Group subsidiary Sybrid (Pvt.) Ltd., a Business Process Outsourcing company, has completed a state-of-the-art contact center which it will manage for Telenor Pakistan. The new center – which will create jobs for 500 talented Pakistani individuals – will allow for process handling to meet growing customer needs. The collaboration has led to an investment [...]

The WiMAX Forum has announced the addition of five new members to its Board of Directors Tom Mueller, General Manager, Digital Energy – Communications, General Electric Shoichi Hanatani, General Manager, Hitachi Scott Morrison, Executive Vice President and President, Telecom Infrastructure Business Unit, NewNet Communication Technologies Naeem Zamindar, CEO, Wateen Telecom Ali Tabassi, COO, YTL Communications [...]

The ACM Society of FAST-NU, Lahore is organizing the 1st International Geek Week from 30th March to 1st April, 2012 with prize money of more than Rs. 450,000. Geek Week is likely to be one of the biggest Computer Science and Information Technology extravaganzas in South Asia. It is the 1st Indo-Pak event being organized [...]