Cellular firms told to discontinue Blackberry enterprise services
ISLAMABAD: The government has again asked mobile phone operators to discontinue Blackberry enterprise services (BES) in the country by Nov 30...
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ArchiveKim Jong-un’s recipe for success: private enterprise and public executions
Admittedly, the owner has to register the enterprise as state property, but this fiction misleads nobody...
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BusinessIBM launches enterprise-ready blockchain service
International Business Machines Corp has launched a service that will allow businesses to build applications on its cloud using blockchain code from the Hyperledger Project, the cross-industry group led by the Linux Foundation...
technology company said on Monday its new product called IBM Blockchain was the first service for developers to build enterprise-grade technology using Hyperledger Fabric, the first code set to be released...
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BusinessTrading on Growth Enterprise Market board to begin tomorrow
KARACHI: With the maiden listing of Pak Agro Packaging Ltd, trading on the Growth Enterprise Market (GEM) board of the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) will start tomorrow (Friday)...
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PakistanMove on export control of sensitive technologies, goods praised by US
ISLAMABAD: The United States has praised Pakistan’s move to update its export control list for sensitive technologies and goods to make it compatible with international regimes...
“The US delegation appreciated the progress on harmonisation of Pakistan’s National Control Lists (NCL) with those of control lists of international export control regimes and the steps taken by Pakistan to keep its export control at par with international...
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TechFacebook, Unity Technologies set to launch gaming platform
CALIFORNIA: Social media giant, Facebook has announced plans to team up with gaming engine developer, Unity Technologies, in order to expand their services for gamers and developers, the company announced on its official blog for developers Thursday...
The partnership with Unity Technologies is a strategic move for Facebook to re-engage the over 650 million active gamers on the network...
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TechGoogle, Tencent eye collaboration on new technologies
Internet titans Google and Tencent on Friday signalled possible future collaboration on developing new technologies as the US and Chinese firms announced a long-term patent-sharing agreement...
The companies gave no details on the scope or nature of the potential cooperation but said in a joint statement that they “are open to deeper collaboration in the future on innovative new technologies”...
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TechOnline reselling startup Markaz Technologies raises $2.4m in seed funding
Islamabad-based startup Markaz Technologies on Tuesday announced it had secured $2...
Markaz Technologies is a Y-Combinator-backed — the prestigious US-based accelerator — startup that provides an online reselling platform to anyone in Pakistan to source wholesale products from across the country and sell them with a profit through their own social media stores, without any investment of their own...
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PakistanPIA officer gets into physical tussle with security officials at Jinnah International Airport
A Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) officer assaulted three Airport Security Forces (ASF) officials at Karachi Airport on Thursday...
The ASF guard involved in the incident has filed a first information report at the Airport Police Station against the PIA officer, stating the woman was "creating a hindrance for an official, stopping him from performing his duty...
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WorldDubai airport retains top international spot in 2017
Dubai airport was the world's busiest for international passengers in 2017 for the fourth year running, with 88...
International traffic at the UAE airport increased by 4...
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PakistanPresident Alvi attends inauguration ceremony of Istanbul Grand International Airport
President Arif Alvi attended the inauguration ceremony of Istanbul Grand International Airport on Monday while on a three-day visit to Turkey at the invitation of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan...
President Erdogan, while opening the airport ? which his government says will eventually become the largest in the world ? with great fanfare, said it would be "the pride of our country and an example to the world...
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ArchiveUS team visits Islamabad International Airport to give clearance to PIA direct flights
RAWALPINDI: A United States (US) Transport Security Administration (TSA) team on Monday visited Islamabad International Airport (IIA) to conduct final inspection and give clearance to Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) to start direct flights to the US...
According to sources, the team will also visit Jinnah International Airport Karachi and Allama Iqbal International Airport Lahore...
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ArchiveIslamabad International Airport does not have bomb disposal, detection squads
RAWALPINDI: Despite being one of the sensitive airports, the Islamabad International Airport (IIA) does not have bomb detection and bomb disposal squads...
The intelligence intimated that since the IIAP is a sensitive airport covered by greenwoods and located at a quite long distance from Rawalpindi, Islamabad and Attock, it should have rescue teams available 24 hours...
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Archive34 Covid-19 cases reported among international travellers in two weeks at Karachi airport
KARACHI: Five more Covid-19 positive cases were detected among international travellers arriving at the Jinnah International Airport, Karachi, on Wednesday, bringing the total number of such cases in two weeks to 34, health department sources told Dawn...
Most of these passengers arriving from the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Iraq had been quarantined at the isolation centre in Bhitaiabad, the rest at the Airport Hotel while one of them had...
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PakistanPM Imran inaugurates Skardu International Airport, Jaglot-Skardu road in day-long visit
Prime Minister Imran Khan on Thursday inaugurated the Skardu International Airport and Jaglot-Skardu road during a day-long visit to the region...
The airport in Skardu was previously only operational for domestic flights...
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