28 May 2009  |  Volume 30  

"Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out."
Robert Collier

IT BUSINESS NEWS    
at a glance
April - May  09 Issue
   

 
 

HIGHLIGHTS OF THE MONTH

Mr. Zohaib Khan, CEO A2Z Creatorz receiving
Best Website Development and Internet Marketing Award at
CEO CLUBS Excellency Awards 2009, held on 29th April 2009 in Dubai, UAE.
 

Picture shows: IBM and UBL team at the agreement signing
 
Mr. Iftikhar Ahmed, COO, Pak Kuwait Takaful Co Ltd. signs agreement with Mr. Khalid Jamil Shmasi. CEO, Elate IT(Pvt) Ltd. for IT Contingency and Disaster Recovery Solutions
 
ZRG Team handling visitor query at E-Banking 09 exhibition in Bangladesh
 
Avanza Solutions receiving shield for sponsoring the event
 
 
 
 
   
NetSol Technologies and Atheeb Group Form Atheeb NetSol Limited
Home Spice Décor, USA selects ESOLPK for its software development
A2Z Creatorz wins Best Website Development and Internet Marketing at CEO Clubs Awards 2009

ZTESoft and Inbox sign a contract for PTCL’s B&CC expansion project  

ZRG represents Pakistan at E-Banking ’09, Bangladesh
Pak Kuwait Takaful chooses Elate IT’s contingency and disaster recovery services

UBL engages IBM GBS to implement its anti-money laundering solution

Avanza Solutions participates in Bangladesh’s eBanking Conference & Exhibition 2009  
 
   
   
   
 
 

 
   
Marketing
  PSEB participated in CONNECT IT from 5th to 7th May 2009 at the Karachi Expo Centre and subsidized the participation of eleven member IT companies. CONNECT IT was inaugurated by Mr. Muhammad Raza Haroon, Minister for Information Technology, Government of Sindh. 
  Industry HC 
 

To date a total of twelve companies have been successfully approved by National ICT R&D fund under the project PSEB IT Apprenticeship program, with Server-4-Sale and Sapphire Consulting as the two newly approved companies.  

  Company Capability Development
  Currently, trilateral contracts have been signed between 4 software companies for the Final Phase to achieve CMMi L2 ratings and 2 companies for ISO 27001 certifications.
  Facilitation
 

Twenty two new IT companies were registered with PSEB in this reporting period with twenty four new call centres. Thirty one IT companies and nine call centres have renewed their registrations.

 

OSRC’s latest article, entitled "Your Money-saving Guide to Open Source Resources", has been published in Dawn newspaper's Sci-tech World magazine's print edition, Sunday, 5th April 2009. It highlights the open source as a money-saving solution during the current global and national financial recession.  

 
   

 

 
 
 
 

 
   
   
India Offshoring Market to Decline, Says Gartner
The Five Best, New Things In Ubuntu Linux 9.04
Report: Sprint May Outsource Network Management to Ericsson

 
 
 
 
 
IT News
Microsoft: Sun Will Slowly Set on Vista
China Plan Hints At Technology Power Ambitions
Microsoft Targets Public Safety
Trends
Interactive Maps Debut on Tokyo Subway 
Robots will aid in health care as population ages
Studies
Web Content Management Staying Strong in Recession
Human Ear Could Be Next Biometric System
   
   
     
   
 

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