Pakistan plans to establish an indigenous facility for development of satellites in accordance with international space standards under its Annual Development Plan for 2018-19. The facility, to be called Pakistan Space Center, will have the capability to carry out manufacturing, testing, system-level …Continue reading
Examining the Cybercrime Law
Nearly a year has passed since the Parliament of Pakistan promulgated a law to regulate electronic crimes. The Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act of 2016 covered an array of offences related to cyberspace. In all, it listed 23 offences: unauthorized access to …Continue reading
Latest Cyber Attack Disrupts Businesses Across the World
A fresh cyber attack on Tuesday disrupted activity in more than 60 countries across the globe. The virus, known as GoldenEye or Petya, originated from Ukraine and quickly spread to other countries. It was distributed by computers downloading infected updates of a …Continue reading
Blockstack Unveils Its Blockchain-Powered Browser
The internet was born on October 29, 1969. Twenty years later in 1989 Tim Berners-Lee, a British computer scientist, invented the World Wide Web leading to the version of Internet we know and use today. Now a startup called Blockstack is claiming …Continue reading
Domestic Internet Exchange is Good in Theory, but How Does it Fare in Practice?
Short term benefits of internet exchange point may not be significant but observers believe it will aid a burgeoning IT-based e-commerce sector The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority and the Ministry of Information Technology have recently inaugurated the first internet exchange point (IXP) in …Continue reading
Pakistani Researchers Develop a Calligraphy-Based Urdu Font for the Internet
Native speakers of the Urdu language instinctively know that the language is read from right to left but the numerical values mentioned within an Urdu sentence are read from left to right. To the untrained eye, however, the Urdu language has a …Continue reading
All You Need to Know About the Punjab IT Policy
The Punjab Information Technology (IT) policy draft is not just about IT. Rather, it aspires to be about governance in the age of IT. The Punjab Information Technology Board (PITB) has held a public consultation on the draft and is now revising …Continue reading
Pakistani Internet Bandwidth to Increase by 24Tbps
Transworld Associates’ second fibre optic cable becomes operational. Internet and voice data service providers in Pakistan using undersea fibre optic infrastructure operated by the Transworld Associates (TWA) can now enhance their bandwidth capacity by up to four times. This will be enabled …Continue reading
Coming Soon: Free Public Wi-Fi
We’ve all been there. You’re either watching a YouTube video, or chatting to somebody on WhatsApp and suddenly your data package ends. Maybe there’s a network problem. Or you forgot to pay your bill. Whatever the reason, not being connected to the …Continue reading