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Seed Investment Fund and loT were announced by OPEN Islamabad at their Annual Forum

Open Islamabad Annual Forum 2015 was closed by 19-Dec-2015. Event hosted people from all over Pakistan, which was held in the serene location of Shankar Pariyaan. CEOs, entrepreneurs, innovators, policy makers, officials from the Government, development and academia were attended in the event.

This OPEN (Organization of Pakistan Enterpreneurs) which is a non-profit organization diligently dedicated to promote entrepreneurship and leadership in Business among the international Pakistan Community. They have a good active history in certain locations like Boston, Silicon Valley, New York, Washington DC, Houston, Chicago, Atlanta, London, Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad. To the launch time Open Islamabad was their only chapter which is fastest application. Their first Annual Forum held last year was focused on celebrating the entrepreneurs of Islamabad, well this year they escalated to give a platform to graduates at the level of excellence and demonstrable success.

The event was entertained and included with motivational talks, innovation showcases, networking opportunities and announcements too. Successful people from different fields like Medicine, Philosophy, Business & Entrepreneurship, Academia and Media were given their speeches and added more interest as speakers. The best known psychiatrist who owned with an award of Sitara e Imtiaz by the Pakistan Government was first speaker in the event. He shared his journey along with his experiences and key figures who influenced him to adopt the profession of Psychiatry.

Accelerator Program Startup was by Telenor

An inspirational talk from Telenor’s Chief Marketing Officer, Irfan Wahab Khan, was delivered about his passionate learning and his eventual rise to the top. He also announced two official announcements:

Soon Telenor will be launching a startup accelerator and IoT (Internet of Things) solutions.

Mr. Wahab mentioned:

There are numerous startup incubators and accelerators in Pakistan, but all they do is provide you with space and mentorship. We are hoping to change that with Telenor’s Accelerator Program which will be launched some time in the near future. With our program we are aiming to provide our startups with our API’s for payment facilitation, location and distribution. Our enrolled startups will also have access to our customer base for marketing purposes as well. Furthermore, we are also hoping to launch our IoT solutions soon: some of which include a Child Wrist Watch and a Car Monitoring OBD.

Telenor given a chance to the attendees to get a hands-on experience with the devices in the event. One of the interesting among them is Child Wrist Watch which is like other watches but also allowing parents to monitor their child’s movements and give a alarm siren if they moved out of the assigned radius. And a device called OBD which can be installed in cars to keep a track of your car speed, mileage and fuel as well.

OPEN Islamabad Seed Fund & loT Lab:

President of OPEN Islamabad, Mr. Owais Anjum made 3 important announcements in his speech.

OPEN’s very own seed fund to be launched soon.
OPEN’s Super Advisor Group will work in close on the startups,
An loT Lab will be introduced soon.

Mr.Owais did not disclose any further news on these ventures and preferred to keep details in veil presently.

Lastly event also enclosed with the talks of Dr.Anwaar-ul-Hassan Gilani of Pakistan Council for Science and Technology, Dr. Farrukh Hassan, Iqbal Khan of Alachsoft, Asad Umar, President of OPEN Global Dilawar Syed, Anchor Shamoon Hashmi, Narjis Ali of Sure Secure Solutions and Khurram Jamali from Google.

Mobilink Jazz X Feature Phone and Smartphones has been Launched By Mobilink in Pakistan

During a launch event yesterday in Islamabad, Pakistan Mobilink launched four new phones with an official announcement. As mentioned by Pakistan Tech News a few days ago, all these new phones are coming with the price tags of less than Rs. 8,000/- which made as the target entry-level.

All the phones launched are 3G enables, Android based smart phones are three and a feature phone is in the line.

These phones are called Jazz X; Xcite for Feature Phone and Xplore for Smart phones by Mobilink.

And what the Mobilink want to tell about these phones in their words:

Asif Aziz, VP Marketing Mobilink says

We are constantly looking for avenues to provide our customers with the best in-class services and products. The launch of our Jazz X range with our exceptional 3G services will enable consumers, especially from marginalized communities, to be included in the ongoing digitization process

He continued saying

“There are a very large number of inexpensive and largely undifferentiated devices in the market today catering to the developing communities. We believe, with our Jazz X range, we are able to offer superior value handsets at each price point; something for every consumer.”

Aamer Manzoor, Head of Data – Mobilink added his word to the Asif’s statement as,

This is another step in Mobilink’s evolution as Pakistan’s best mobile network. Today we are no longer just telecommunications service providers, but have expanded our footprint in becoming a complete mobile communications solution provider.

All phones comes with various freebies, including free 3G data and free airtime for voice calling, which is ofcourse expected from the feature phones and smart phones.

Mobilink showed up the its company strategy of introducing this Lazz X cell phone which is affordable 3G devices in the market especially the rural inhabitants to enable 3G usage in a bid to reduce the prevalent digital divide.

Compliments of Jazz X Phones

All phones come with PKR 800 balance
2GB of 3G data
JS500 and JS700 come with unlimited Facebook, Twitter and Whatsapp usage for up to 4 months

Before giving phone specifications, please note few things:

Haier manufactured all phones
Warranty is 18 months for all phones
Haier will take responsibility of after sale support
Avaialble at all service centres, franchises across the country
Jazz X phones are not network locked

Mobilink X JF 100

JF 100 is a feature phone which is first up having relatively big screen and ample storage. It supports dual 3G and micro SD cards which is upto 16 GB. 2.4 inch QVGA display and with 1200mAh battery.

About Phone:

Chipset: Unknown 611MHz
OS: Java based Feature phone OS
Supported Networks: 2G, 3G, Dual-SIM
Design: Bar
Display: 2.4” with QVGA resolution
Memory:
- Phonebook: 1000 Contacts
- Micro SD: 16GB expandable
Camera:
- Rear Camera: 2 MP with Video
- Front Camera: VGA (0.3) MP front-facing camera
Connectivity: Bluetooth, Flashlight, FM Radio, Wi-Fi, Video Call
Battery: 1,200 mAh
Price: Rs. 2,999

Mobilink X JS 300.

This JS 300 is the lowest end model in Jazz X smart phones. Its runs Android 4.4 KitKat.

This supports dual SIM 3G and micro SD cards upto 32 GB, it also offers some flexibility. Powered by a MediaTek Dual-core processor and 512 MB of RAM coupled with 4 GB internal storage.

It has 3.5 inch screen with a 1,300 mAh battery. Camera features are as same found on JF100.

About Phone:

Chipset: MediaTek Dual-Core 1.0 GHz
OS: Android 4.4 KitKat
Supported Networks: 2G, 3G, Dual-SIM
Design: Bar Touchscreen
Display: 3.5 inches
Memory:
- RAM: 512 MB
- Internal Storage: 4GB
- Expandable: up to 32 GB
Camera:
- Rear Camera: 2 MP with Video Recording
- Front Camera: VGA (0.3 MP) front-facing camera
Connectivity: Bluetooth 4.0, Wi-Fi b/g/n, USB 2,0, Gyro
Battery: 1,300 mAh
Price: Rs. 4,299

Mobilink X JS500

Smaller sibling is builded up as Mobilink Jazz X JS 500. It is featured with the improved processor, bigger screen size and more. Remaining specs are the same.

About Phone:

Chipset: MediaTek Dual-Core 1.3 GHz
OS: Android 4.4 KitKat
Supported Networks: 2G, 3G, Dual-SIM
Design: Bar Touchscreen
Display: 4.0 inches
Memory:
- RAM: 512 MB
- Internal Storage: 4GB
- Expandable: TBA
Camera:
- Rear Camera: 2 MP with Video Recording and Flash
- Front Camera: VGA (0.3 MP) front-facing camera
Connectivity: Bluetooth 4.0, Wi-Fi b/g/n, USB 2,0, Gyro
Battery: 1,300 mAh
Price: Rs. 5,499

Mobilink XJS700

Highest end model in the entire line-up is Jazz XJS700, specifications are setting it in as a benchmark.

RAM is more, increased internal storage, improved camera and with Bigger Screen.

5MP rear camera while the Front camera is 2MP. It also supports dual-SIM 3G and bigger battery too.

About Phone:

Chipset: MediaTek Dual-Core 1.2 GHz
OS: Android 4.4 KitKat
Supported Networks: 2G, 3G, Dual-SIM
Design: Bar Touchscreen
Display: 5.0 inches
Memory:
- RAM: 1 GB
- Internal Storage: 8GB
- Expandable: upto 32GB
Camera:
- Rear Camera: 5 MP with Video Recording and Flash
- Front Camera: 2MP) front-facing camera
Connectivity: Bluetooth 4.0, Wi-Fi b/g/n, USB 2,0, Gyro
Battery: 2,000 mAh

Price: Rs. 7,999

Another Wave Rouse from Samsung: Latest Samsung Galaxy Note 5 with 128GB Storage

If you are still in queue to spend your money on Samsung’s latest flagship, then just take a stop here as see what’s’ new company has launched. Just now Samsung has launched its Winter Edition of Galaxy Note 5, readily available in Korea and very soon will rotate all over the world.

The only difference in latest version is it has additional internal memory of 128GB. There is assumption if Samsung launches Galaxy Note 5 Winter Edition worldwide then you have to keep balance of $845 (Approximately Rs.80,000) to get it in your pocket.

Latest Galaxy Note 5 Available in Two Colors

South Korean Samsung lovers can buy the winter edition from today via Major carriers SK telecom and KT. Samsung Galaxy Note 5 is available in both gold platinum and silver titanium, so hurry up buy it now as the price will increase as the time move on.

New Galaxy Note 5 will not come with external microSD card but its 128GB memory is enough. This version is for those Galaxy lovers who can’t stick with 32 and 64GB version of Galaxy Note 5, so get the advantage now.

Revolt Taking Admissions for the First Ever Batch of Startups

Peshawar 2.0 started to take applications for the first batch incubation and acceleration programme. In the province a programme named Revolt which is the first non University programme.

Revolt, programme is short-term programme of 3-months to train, support and promote students, scientists, innovators, designers and engineers from each level to convert their ideas to real-life businesses. Focused partners or people who are connecting universities and the local market and industries as well, to make a route of channel for the creative and innovation potential of youth especially students who are in the region towards economic development.

Dr Faisal Khan, the Lead Partner at Revolt, said:

Revolt is the only real startup factory in the KP region. We are sector agnostic and welcome ideas from any sector provided it has the potential, and ideally solves any of the local problems we face. After almost 3 years of spade work, we now begin to seed the City with great startups one batch at a time.

Salman Ahmad, who is also a partner at Revolt shared his words like:

What sets us apart from any other incubation programme in the country is that its run by full time partners. You live, work and play right next to them and the other teams in a shared office space.

Bilal Ahmad, Education Lead at Peshawar 2.0 and a partner at Revolt given input as:

It’s a programme run by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs. Its going to be hands-on and hands-dirty for all. Basecamp, which is a staple location for the techie and creative folks, is now become a strategic partner with Revolt.

Muhammad Uzair, Co-founder Basecamp Peshawar glad to say this:

We provide the most creative, vibrant and conducive physical environment to all basecampers that will now include incubatees at Revolt.

Online Registration & Issuance of Passports Begins From Next Year in April

The National Assembly of Pakistan has been educated that an online registration and issuance administration for machine readable passports will start begin from April 2016. This information was uncovered by Interior Minister Chaudhary Nisar on Monday while tending to an inquiry from another member from the parliament.

The Minister said that the new online framework will at first be propelled inside the country while it will be extended to foreign Pakistan passport headquarters at a later stage. He expressed that, right now, there are 83 Pakistani missions abroad which are permitted to issue machine readable passports (MRPs). The previously stated missions will have the capacity to offer the new online administration by the center of one year from now.

Chaudhary Nisar additionally uncovered that, before, standards for authority Blue Passports had been casual by the optional force of the Interior Minister’s office. He said that the present government crossed out around 2,000 passports under the faulty reason of public interest.

Online application and issuance of National Identity Cards (NIC) has as of now begun while the procedure still requires a couple of more months for the service to be merged, said the Interior Minister. He said that a huge number of fake Identity cards had been disavowed and firm move has been made against a few NADRA officials.

Minster Chaudhary Nisar expressed that a board of members speaking to diverse parliamentary parties will be framed to work with NADRA and illuminate the issue on the best way to piece identity cards under distinctive situations.

The Interior Ministry had been attempting to advance the procedure of getting authority reports for about a year. The Ministry reported in June that an Online CNIC issuance service will be propelled. The service was introduced by NADRA on the fourth of August. The Home Ministry was additionally expected to launch an international ID home delivery service in June however it got postponed and got to be accessible a month ago. The service was made official as TCS Passport Express Service and can be benefited by residents dwelling in real urban communities around the country.

Mobilink to Launch At Least Four 3G Phones Under Rs. 8,000

Mobilink is good to go to launch its own particular phones in Pakistan with ultra-low costs and high value range specs, we have gotten notification from individuals who know about the development.

While we don’t have an affirmation, it is normal that phones will be launched with-in next couple of days.

Billed as Jazz X — as indicated by some of the official tweets — these low-end yet well assembled Android phones will be valued under Rs. 8,000.

With this launch of Mobilink Phones, we might likewise see the re-conception of Jazz brand that we told you about couple of days ago.

While we don’t have complete points of interest on the specs for the phones in this way, we can affirm that there is no less than one cell phone with 1GB of RAM and 8GB ROM. It will run on Android 4.4 with 1.2GHz dual core processor. It will have 2,000mAh battery to deal with broad utilization.

There is additionally going to be a 3G empowered featured phone in the package too and we accept that it will be valued around Rs. 3,000.

Mobilink is prone to offer alluring 3G packages— ideally for free — with these phones, and that will be the primary selling pitch for these low-end mobiles. You can expect more details on Mobilink X phones with-in couple of days.

Father of APS victim develops Mohafiz app

Discussing 16th December will continually bring tears in our eyes on the grounds that it tells the harshest episode, Pakistan could have ever seen. While the whole Pakistan cried their hearts out, we can’t even start to envision what the parents’ of deceased experienced. Fahd Mahmood Khan, luckily, had his child’s life saved yet couldn’t get the deplorable perspectives insane. His way of dealing with stress was to manufacture an application called Mohafiz.

Mohafiz app is a life-sparing application designed for crises. Fahd Khan, being a Pakistani understands the everyday risk we had to confront hence Mohafiz was designed remembering medical emergencies, armed robberies, house fires and worst case scenario, terrorist attacks.

The utilization of Mohafiz is basic as well. Upon check via code, you will select In-Case of Emergency (ICE) contact numbers. Besides you will include your name, gender, blood group, email address and additionally existing medicinal condition, on the off chance that you have any.

Mohafiz sends distress messages, in case of emergency to save your life.

God prohibit, if you struck in any problem, all you are required to do is launch the application which will make two catches show up. The red one will be for a prompt emergency and by pressing it will SMS your location and message of distress to your ICE numbers. On the off chance that your GPRS is available, the same data will be transmitted to your Facebook and Twitter.

The orange button is for progressing tragedies. While remaining technique will stay same, you will have the capacity to arrange the way of emergency.

Mohafiz is additionally designed to furnish you with security related news in your current location. This permits you to stay side by side of any happening circumstances so you can arrange your courses successfully.

These sorts of applications won’t not forestall significant disasters, for example, that of 16th December, 2014 in light of the fact that national level security is required for that. On the other hand we genuinely trust that Mohafiz assumes

its part to keep the circumstances it was designed to control. Pakistan Tech News salutes Fahd Khan and other parents victimized by APS assault.

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SwiftKey Symbols become a Custom-tailored App for Special Communication Requirements

SwiftKey has declared an extraordinary version of their application called SwiftKey Symbols. The application is adapted towards helping “non-verbal people with unique needs”. The SwiftKey group went to the choice to make this new application after a percentage of the colleagues experienced difficulty managing extreme autism in their families.

A Swiftkey for Autism?

SwiftKey Symbols is by all accounts the ideal thought to help with this issue. People who can’t make out words and letters can’t utilize a keyboard. The application settles this by utilizing a card based framework with each of the cards showing an image.

A comparative technique, image cards, are utilized to offer a mental imbalance some assistance with affecting people correspond with others. At the point when contrasted and a heap of cards, the SwiftKey application has a conspicuous favorable position. SwiftKey can make utilization of their logical language expectation motor to strong sentences from the picked images. Not constrained to language forecast, the application will likewise have the capacity to track a client’s day by day routine and adjust the image card format in like manner, making the most utilized images simpler to get to.

Special Communication Tool for Special People

The application is in reality the conspicuous answer for autism patients yet it can likewise people with other communicative ailments or issues. People like Stephen Hawking frequently utilize SwiftKey technology to speak with others. Images could be the ideal application for more youthful individuals with comparable issues like the Locked In Syndrome, by-birth deafness, voiceless and so forth. The application could be utilized for a totally distinctive range too. Uneducated individuals who can’t compose will likewise have the capacity to impart by utilizing the images cards.

Speech and Language Therapist from the Riverside School for Special Needs Students, Charlotte Parkhouse, helped with the improvement of this application, making it professionally confirmed for use in the aforementioned situations.

Features and Availability of Swifkey Symbols

The application has features like Symbol to sentence developer, next symbol prediction, audio playback, custom photo addition, new classification creation and day and time particular expectations. The application runs just on Android cell phones and tablets for the time being.

The application can be downloaded for nothing from the Play Store here.

In the relatively recent past, Samsung uncovered an application for Alzheimer’s patients. Swiftkey is additionally accomplishing something comparable here.

$2.5 Million Valued Contract Signed between NetSol Technologies and UK Bank to Implement Finance and Leasing Platform

NetSol Technologies, Inc. a worldwide business administrations and enterprise application arrangements supplier, today declared that a set up UK-based bank has chosen NetSol’s LeaseSoftTM as its new stage to support the development of its advantage back and renting business, while uniting IT frameworks. The venture and continuing relationship quality is required to surpass $2.5 million.

The framework is relied upon to upgrade the bank’s IT functionality, giving consistent ability to deal with all back office prerequisites, while enhancing business forms through mix with the bank’s other IT frameworks once the usage is finished.

This is an important new win for NetSol, further building upon our efforts in the UK and throughout Europe.

said Naeem Ghauri, President and Global Head of Sales of NetSol.

Our solutions — whether NFSTM, LeasePakTM, LeaseSoft or NFS AscentTM — help companies transform their finance and leasing operations, providing a fully automated asset-based finance solution covering the full leasing and finance lifecycle.

LeaseSoft is a full lifecycle lease and financial framework, pointed overwhelmingly at the UK funder business sector, including modules to support web entrances and an electronic information exchange services to encourage mix in the middle of funders and introducers.

About NetSol Technologies

NetSol Technologies, Inc. is an overall supplier of IT and enterprise programming arrangements essentially serving the worldwide renting and financing industry. The Company’s suite of uses are upheld by 40 years of domain ability and bolstered by a conferred group of more than 1500 experts set in eight deliberately found backing and delivery centers all through the world.

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PSEB – Internship for 3000 IT graduates yearly in National ICT Internship Programme

PSEB’s Board ready to upgrade the volume of the Prime Minister’s internship programme and endorsed to give internship to three thousand IT graduates including 30% female graduates yearly.

These interns will be set at IT organizations, IT Departments of Telecom Sectors organizations, Banks and other such Organizations. With the goal that IT graduates add to the expertise set to build their employ-ability possibilities. Length of time of the Internship will be 6 months.

It was chosen in 31st directorate meeting which was led by Minister of State for IT Mrs. Anusha Rahman.

Government Secretary IT, Mr. Azmat Ali Ranjha, MD PSEB, Asim Shahryar Husain, Chairman PTA Dr. Ismail Shah, Member Telecom Mudassar Hussain, Member HR/IT Tahir Mushtaq, Chairman @PASHA, Syed Ahmad, and agents from TDAP were likewise present in the meeting.

The Board communicated its worries on sales taxes being required by the commonplace governments on IT Companies considering that IT sends out income is excluded from taxes at present. A four part board of trustees including Member IT, Member Legal, MD PSEB and Chairman @Pasha has been constituted and ordered to look into the “taxation issue” instantly. The Committee will present its report with proposals to the Ministry for thought. A formal lawful feeling in such manner will likewise be looked for through the Ministry of Law and Justice also.

The Minister also coordinated MD PSEB to add to another intelligent site which ought to highlight the advantages of incorporating so as to put resources into Pakistan’s IT industry fundamental points of interest of all IT organizations which are enrolled with PSEB and that it ought to be overhauled all the time.

MD PSEB said that PSEB is working intimately with STEPI Korea to finish feasibility study for another best in class IT park in Islamabad by February 2016. The Minister coordinated PSEB to finish up consenting to the loan arrangement with Korean government by summer of 2016.