IT and Telecom Industry

USF approves project to provide 3G services to over 1200 unserved areas of KPK

By Maheen Kanwal ⏐ 9 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

Universal Service Fund (USF) and Ministry of Information Technology (MoIT) have approved that modern broadband services will be provided to the unserved areas of Khyber…

Pakistani startup wins Global Cleantech Innovation Award

By Maheen Kanwal ⏐ 9 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

A Pakistani cleantech startup has won an award in the global competition of Clean Technology Innovation. The “Green Team” from Pakistan, which was a runner-up…

Telenor partners with Google to launch RCS, an advanced SMS service

By Maheen Kanwal ⏐ 9 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

Google has announced a partnership with Telenor to launch RCS (Rich Communication Services) messaging to their millions of subscribers across Europe and Asia, including Pakistan.…

Facebook takes on LinkedIn by adding job-posting feature

By Maheen Kanwal ⏐ 9 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

Facebook will start rolling out a new tool that will allow companies to post jobs directly on their Facebook Business Pages and job seekers will…

Huawei confirms the launch of flagship P10 at MWC this month

By Maheen Kanwal ⏐ 9 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

Huawei has confirmed that P10 will debut at Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, Spain on February 26, 2017. The video teaser doesn’t even show…

Facebook debuts Video app for TV, adds more ways to watch videos

By Maheen Kanwal ⏐ 9 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 3 min read

Facebook is launching Video app for TV, sound to videos in News Feed and an option to watch videos while you keep scrolling. With the…

Peshawar students develop a car which covers 180km per liter fuel

By Maheen Kanwal ⏐ 9 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

Three Pakistani students from Sarhad University, Peshawar have designed a special tiny car which can cover 180km in 1 liter fuel. The car is highly…

TPL Maps & NUST to introduce maiden voice-based navigation in Urdu

By Maheen Kanwal ⏐ 9 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

TPL Maps and School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (SEECS) at National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST) have inked an agreement to launch…

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Competitors leave Twitter in dust, report by Statista

By Maheen Kanwal ⏐ 9 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 3 min read

According to Statista, WhatsApp and Messenger had the largest number of monthly active users in the last two years (2015-16) while Twitter is slowly losing…

PTCL partners with ‘icflix’ to provide high quality Smart TV content

By Maheen Kanwal ⏐ 9 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

The streaming service, Icflix, has partnered with PTCL to provide high-quality entertainment on PTCL Smart TV in Pakistan. Launched in 2012, Icflix is a Middle…

Nokia to launch 3 smartphones and the iconic 3310 this month

By Maheen Kanwal ⏐ 9 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

HMD Global, the new manufacturer of Nokia phones, is reportedly planning to unveil 3 Nokia smartphones and the iconic Nokia 3310 at Mobile World Congress…

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Indian hacker defaces Lahore District Govt website

By Maheen Kanwal ⏐ 9 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

An Indian hacker has hacked Government of Punjab’s Lahore web portal in retaliation to the alleged hacking of Indian Home Ministry website by Pakistani Hackers…

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Samsung to manufacture 160 million OLED screens for Apple’s iPhone

By Maheen Kanwal ⏐ 9 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

Samsung Display has reportedly signed a $4.3 billion (5 trillion won) deal with Apple to manufacture 60 million units of OLED screens for iPhone 8.…

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