Channelizing software workforce needed
Iqtidar Zaidi is currently President and CEO of Techaccess Pakistan. His array of experiences is vast and badges years of successful decision making internationally as well in…
Android software co-creator quits Google
MONITORING REPORT ISB: Google has confirmed that an executive behind the world’s leading mobile device software Android is leaving the company to create an incubator for hardware startups. According…
Pakistan sets track to ensure developed software industry
STAFF REPORT ISB: Higher Education Commission (HEC) has announced the funding of 60 technology companies from universities in order to address the immediate needs of IT industry…
OSFP to mark Software Freedom Day on 20th
STAFF REPORT ISB: Open Source Foundation of Pakistan (OSFP) is organizing the first ever Software Freedom Day 2014 (SFD’14) in Islamabad in partnership with HEC, scheduled to be held…
Smartphones software project being executed
STAFF REPORT ISB: Ministry of Information Technology and Telecommunications (MoIT) is implementing a project to develop an Optical Character Recognition (OCR) Engine for Android to stimulate smartphones…
Project starts for smartphones software development
STAFF REPORT ISB: The government of Pakistan is executing a project to develop an Optical Character Recognition (OCR) Engine for Android to stimulate smartphones software development. …
Sensitising world IT vendors on local software potentials
Software industry is certainly the offshoot of rich and talented brains, as has been established through the level of modern times development of the west. Majority of the developed…
Licensed software doubles economic benefits: Study
MONITORING REPORT IBD: Promoting the use of properly licensed software would have a greater impact on the economy in Pakistan than allowing similar growth in the use of pirated software…
Pak student designs software to control traffic
STAFF REPORT IBD: A Pakistani student of 9th class Muhammad Abdullah Abid has developed a software that is capable of controlling the traffic during rush hours just with the help…
ECP develops software for speedy announcement of poll results
STAFF REPORT IBD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has developed a software that will be provided to 500 returning officers for sharing the exact vote count of candidates from…
UVAS developing feed formulation software
STAFF REPORT LHR: University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences Lahore Vice-Chancellor Prof Dr Talat Naseer Pasha has said that the university is developing a feed formulation software to facilitate farmers…
Software piracy in 2011 stood at 86pc
STAFF REPORT IBD: The software piracy has reached an alarming stage in Pakistan where PC (Personal Computer) penetration is regularly increasing on the rise among individual and companies who pay…