August 23, 2007  |  Volume 13  

“A person starts to live when he can live outside himself. ”
Albert Einstein

IT BUSINESS NEWS    
at a glance    

 
 

HIGHLIGHTS OF THE MONTH

PSEB CEO Forum foreign delegate with Prime Minister and Governor Sindh at Governor House, Karachi

 Federal Minister for IT&T Mr. Awais  Leghari, giving shield to Mr. Geoffrey S. Conner, former Texas Secretary of State Principal, Texas Global, during PSEB's CEO Forum

 
Federal Minister for IT&T Mr. Awais  Leghari, giving shield to Mr. Gregory Hinckley, President Mentor Graphics Corporation, during PSEB's CEO Forum occasion.
 
Federal Minister for IT &T Mr. Awais  Leghari, giving shield to Mr. Atif Raees,CEO & President LMKR, during PSEB's CEO Forum
 
VIP guests during PSEB's CEO Forum
 
 
   
An inaugural CEO Forum held by PSEB to promote the soft image of Pakistan

Pakistan IT Exports Crossed USD 116 Million (BPM-5), USD 1.4 Billion (MSITS) for FY2006-07

Adobe and LMKR invested in innovative new web-based Productivity and Project Management Tool, Scrybe

Systems Limited’s mortgage technology voted amongst Top-50 in USA

Soneri Bank upgraded latest contact center technology deployed by ZRG
Habib Bank signed a global agreement with TPS for its internet banking solution, PRISM

Autumn – a multilingual mobile application launched by Tricastmedia

Sui Southern Gas Company (SSGC) automated its processes for better customer support
(ISC)2 announced Honorees for the first Asia-Pacific Information Security Leadership Achievements Programme citing two nominees from Pakistan
 
   
   
   
   
 

 
   
Marketing
  PSEB held the inaugural CEO Forum on 10 August 2007
  Four international promotional campaigns were launched
  Strategy
  Gartner's Pakistan IT Industry Report in progress
  Office Space Provision
  Deadline for submission of proposals for the IT Parks construction in Islamabad extended
  Industry HR 
  Funding for one hundred apprentices for BearingPoint approved
  Public Policy
  Over fifty IT companies were consulted for their feedback on Data Confidentiality Act
  Industry Finance
  PSEB facilitated meetings of leading international Venture Capitalists with key stakeholders in Pakistan
  Company Capability Development
  Si3 achieved CMMi L2
  Facilitation
  Twenty two new IT companies registered
  Autoplus, a PSEB commissioned ERP developed in Open Source, successfully implemented at Kortech
   
 
   

 

 
 
 
 

 
   
   
Pakistan aims for a larger share in outsourcing business- IDG
Pakistan ranked among top 50 IT services outsource markets
Offshoring 2.0: What will be the next big off shoring frontier - Experts agree that it will no longer be in India
   

 

 
 
 
 
 
IT News
Firefox update fixes problem with Internet Explorer
Symantec offers Chinese market compensation after faulty software update
New computer efficiency specs by Energy go into effect
Trends
Social networking, online video are top digital trends
Google still tops, but Apple cracks top 10
Online gaming is booming, not boring
Studies
Developers turning away from Windows, study reveals
Link between data breaches and ID theft unclear, GAO study reports
Researcher raises revenue forecast for LCD panels
   
   
   
     
   
 

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