IPhone city is back at 90% capacity after Covid turmoil subsides
FOXCONN Technology Group has brought the world’s largest iPhone plant to about 90 per cent of anticipated peak capacity, suggesting Apple’s biggest main production partner has secured enough workers despite a Covid resurgence and recent staff upheaval. Foxconn’s plant in the central Chinese city of Zhengzhou is now operating with roughly 200,000 staff, the official Henan…
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Huawei Says It Is Out of ‘Crisis Mode’ as Annual Revenue Stabilized
Chairman says U.S. restrictions are ‘new normal’ and company is ‘back to business as usual’ as telecom business sees growth Huawei Technologies Co. said it has exited “crisis mode” following punishing U.S. restrictions, as it reported growth in its telecom-infrastructure business and flat overall revenue for 2022. “U.S. restrictions are now our new normal, and…
Government releases Rs 4.21Billion for IT project
The government has released funds amounting to Rs 4.21 billion to execute Information Technology related projects during the first four months of the current fiscal year under the Public Sector Development Programme (PSDP 2022-23). The government has authorized the utilization of development funds amounting to Rs 4,211.21 million out of a total allocation of 5,731.70…
Limited Twitter outage rattles users
THOUSANDS of Twitter users reported an outage on Wednesday, according to tracking sites Downdetector.com and Netblocks, but the issue appeared to be resolving, with error messages and missing tweets reappearing. At the peak of the outage, at about 0035 GMT, DownDetector said more than 10,000 people reported problems with the platform, which is now owned…
‘Approaching 100 Starlinks active in Iran’: Elon Musk
The satellite-based broadband service could help Iranians circumvent the government’s restrictions on accessing the internet and certain social media platforms amid protests around the country SpaceX Chief Executive Elon Musk said on Monday that the company is now close to having 100 active Starlinks, the firm’s satellite internet service, in Iran, three months after he…
Connected Women Conference to be held tomorrow
The Connected Women Conference (CWC22), an exciting and informative event to empower women by increasing their participation in the digital economy would be held at Aiwan-e-Quaid of Fatima Jinnah Park tomorrow (Saturday). Organizer of the event Muhammad Umar said that the day-long conference was being organised by ‘Connected Pakistan’ featuring a range of activities designed…
Pakistan clinches 2nd position in ‘Huawei ICT Competition 2022’
Pakistan has clinched second position in the Huawei Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Competition 2022 held in Muscat, Oman. According to the statistics, 12,000 students from 135 universities attempted the nationwide test in which two teams comprising six students qualified for the Middle East Regional Finals from Pakistan. Pakistan Team One including Team Lead Faeez…
TikTok steps up efforts to clinch US security deal
POPULAR short-video app TikTok is offering to operate more of its business at arm’s length and subject it to outside scrutiny as it tries to convince the US government to allow it to remain under the ownership of Chinese technology company ByteDance, according to people familiar with the matter. TikTok has been seeking to assure US…
France fines Microsoft 60 million euros over advertising cookies
FRANCE’S privacy watchdog said (Dec 22) it has fined US tech giant Microsoft 60 million euros (S$86 million) for foisting advertising cookies on users. In the largest fine imposed in 2022, the National Commission for Technology and Freedoms (CNIL) said Microsoft’s search engine Bing had not set up a system allowing users to refuse cookies…
Ishaq Dar meets Pakistan software houses association for IT & ITES
Federal Minister for Finance and Revenue Senator Mohammad Ishaq Dar chaired a meeting with a delegation of the Pakistan Software Houses Association for IT & ITES. SAPM on Finance Tariq Bajwa, SAPM on Revenue Tariq Pasha, Khurram Rahat Vice Chairman ‘P@SHA’, Syed Ahmed exchairman P@sha, Mohsin Ali, CEO Inbox and senior officers from the finance division attended…