App developers join forces to criticise Apple

By Hamnah Khalid ⏐ 5 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

Apple’s App Store vendors have seemingly had enough and have now sought to joining forces and retaliating against the strong rules and regulations the company…

HEC’s PERIDOT Research Funding now also open for faculty members

By Hamnah Khalid ⏐ 5 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

The Higher Education Commission (HEC) of Pakistan has now opened their PERIDOT Research funding program for full-time faculty members of both the public and private…

Government determined to help people and businesses despite fiscal constraints: Advisor to PM

By Hamnah Khalid ⏐ 5 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

Dr Abdul Hafeez Sheikh, on Wednesday, said that despite these COVID-ridden times, the government has come up with numerous strategies to help people and businesses…

Trillions of dollars could have been saved if US had followed Pakistan’s lockdown strategy

By Hamnah Khalid ⏐ 5 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

Lawrence Henry Summers, a Former Undersecretary for International Affairs in the United States of America, on Sunday, remarked on Twitter that if the United States…

Unsolicited calls still being made after biometric verification – Interior Minister

By Hamnah Khalid ⏐ 5 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

The Interior Ministry confirmed that even after the biometric verification of SIMs, people were receiving fraudulent and spam calls. During a National Assembly meeting, the…

Rules for the blocking and removal of unlawful online content set by the Federal Government

By Hamnah Khalid ⏐ 5 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

The Federal Government has notified the rules for the blocking and removal of unlawful content online for 2020. The notification reads, “In the exercise of…

Aftermath of the Hafeez Center Fire – Will the mobile market owners be able to recover?

By Hamnah Khalid ⏐ 5 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 4 min read

Reports say that no lives were lost because of the massive fire at Lahore’s Hafeez Center on Sunday; but how many livelihoods were lost? How…

TikTok blocks 4 million videos and 25,000 accounts within Pakistan

By Hamnah Khalid ⏐ 5 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 3 min read

As the ban was lifted after only ten days, TikTok fans all over the country have rejoiced and celebrated the unban move made by the…

PTCL Groups sees an increase in profits of more than 350 percent YoY for Q3 2020

By Hamnah Khalid ⏐ 5 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 3 min read

With the financial report for the third quarter of the year being released by most companies, Pakistan’s leading telecommunications’ company, PTCL has also reported its…

Here’s what Twitter had to say about its recent app outage

By Hamnah Khalid ⏐ 5 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

If you are a regular Twitter user, you might have noticed that the application was (or still is) inaccessible for a little while recently. Well,…

Google Play Store has triple the number of downloads as the Apple App Store for Q3 2020

By Hamnah Khalid ⏐ 5 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

The ongoing global pandemic of the Novel Coronavirus has forced many changes in the lives of almost everyone in the world. People have had to…

ezBike – Pakistan’s first electric bike sharing service launched in Islamabad

By Hamnah Khalid ⏐ 5 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 3 min read

Roamer Technologies, a Tech Startup at the National Incubation Centre (NIC) in Islamabad has launched ezBike, a city-wide electric bike sharing service. ezBike, powered by…

Punjab IT Board visits Islamabad police and shows off new ‘Smart Policing’ software

By Hamnah Khalid ⏐ 5 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

The Punjab Information Technology Board (PITB) visited the Islamabad Capital Territory Police on the 12th of October. The team met the Director IT of the…

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