IT minister inaugurates Pakistani pavilion at GITEX Global Exhibition
Federal Minister for Information Technology and Telecom Syed Amin Ul Haque on Thursday (01 June) inaugurated the Pakistani pavilion at the GITEX Global Exhibition summit in Morocco. A three-member Pakistani delegation led by Minister IT Syed Amin Ul Haque comprising Member IT Syed Junaid Imam and Chairman PASHA Zohaib Khan is attending GITEX Africa Digital…
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World now acknowledging Pakistani youth expertise in IT: Amin Ul Haque
Federal Minister for IT and Telecommunication Syed Amin Ul Haque on (June 01) Thursday said that World now acknowledging Pakistani youth expertise in Information Technology and Telecom sector. “Pakistan’s skilled IT experts, time zone, and fluent English speaking with excellent accents have unique importance in Digital World. The World is now openly acknowledging the expertise…
Pakistani students secure top positions in Huawei ICT competition
The students from Pakistan won the second and third prizes in the Network Track and third prizes in the Innovation Track at the Huawei ICT Competition 2022-2023 Global Final concluded at Huawei Headquarters in Shenzhen, China. The first to be held in person since 2019, the event’s culmination was a competition between finalists in 146…
Investment in the IT sector reaches up to $373 million: IT Minister Syed Amin Ul Haque
Federal Minister for Information Technology and Telecommunication Syed Amin Ul Haque has said that an agreement has been signed with Google for 45,000 scholarships, which will increase to 450,000 next year. The upcoming scholarships will include a 40/percent allocation for women. Previously, Google had provided only 15,000 scholarships last year, but the ministry interfered to…
Minister unveils plan to attract foreign, domestic investment in AI
Minister for Information Technology and Telecommunication Syed Amin Ul Haque said the incumbent government was working on a strategy to attract more and more foreign as well as domestic investment in Artificial Intelligence (AI), considered a key element in strengthening economies in the modern world. In a statement, he said, at least 60 countries, including…
Musk says video and audio calls coming to Twitter
TWITTER boss Elon Musk put out word that audio and video calls are coming to the platform. “Coming soon will be voice and video chat from your handle to anyone on this platform,” Musk said in a tweet. “So you can talk to people anywhere in the world without giving them your phone number.” In a…
Meta prepares more layoffs across Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram
META Platforms is set to commence company wide layoffs on Wednesday (Apr 19) as it restructures teams and works towards founder Mark Zuckerberg’s goal of greater efficiency. The Facebook parent company notified managers to prepare to announce job cuts on Wednesday, via a memo seen by Bloomberg News. It indicates Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram and Reality…
Google may lose search on Samsung devices to Microsoft Bing
MICROSOFT’s Bing may replace Alphabet’s Google as the default search service on Samsung Electronics devices, according to a New York Times report on Sunday. Suwon-based Samsung, the world’s leading smartphone maker, is considering making the switch, putting at risk roughly US$3 billion in annual revenue for Google. Bing’s threat to Google’s search dominance has grown more credible…
17 new projects launched by IT ministry in last three years: Amin Ul Haque
Federal Minister for Information Technology and Telecommunication Syed Amin Ul Haque said the ministry had launched 17 new projects with a cost of Rs 65 billion, in the last three years. Addressing the concluding ceremony of PROCOM’23 organized by FAST National University of Computer and Emerging (NUCES), Syed Amin-ul-Haque, who was the chief guest, said the…
Twitter suffers major outage disabling external links
TWITTER on Monday suffered a major outage with users worldwide reporting they could no longer read links to articles from outside websites. “Some parts of Twitter may not be working as expected right now,” the company’s tech support account said in a tweet, blaming the problem on “unintended consequences” from an update to the platform….