Siemens Pakistan’s net profit cut down to 20.1 percent to Rs. 697 million during the nine-month period that ended June 30 from Rs. 873 million in the same period of last year. The company announced earnings per share (EPS) of Rs. 54.15 for the period, a statement said on Friday. The decline in profit can be ascribed to the fall in sales to Rs. 20.821 billion during the period from Rs. 28.220 billion in the corresponding period of last...

Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) is organizing a seminar with the alliance of HUAWEI on 2nd August, 2010 in Karachi to instruct the stakeholders on importance of 3G technology. The seminar would emphasize various aspects of 3G Mobile Broadband services and 3G spectrum auctions in Pakistan. The subject of seminar is “Demand for 3G and beyond”. Secretary IT, Naguibullah Malik, would be the chief guest on this occasion. IT...

Atlas Battery Limited, the initiatives of battery manufacturing in Pakistan, has selected the Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 to streamline business processes across the organization and enhance competence and operational success. This will assist the company cut the overall cost of its business processes. Atlas Battery Limited was formerly running its information through an enterprise resource planning system developed by a local...

Twitter is now for more than just tweeting. The researchers at Northeastern University in Boston are using millions of tweets from the popular social networking site and have created a Twitter Mood Map to measure the moods of the nation. The researchers found that twitter users are happiest in the morning and in the evening, while their happiness peaks on Sunday morning and dips on Thursday night. However at mid-afternoon twitter users...

Dawn.com has brought the Pakistan’s first Mobile News Application. This application is currently available only for Nokia mobile phones. The Dawn Mobile News application will give instant access to the Dawn real time coverage via single click, only on Nokia mobile phones, saving time and providing with all the information required. Dawn Mobile News application is available to download from Dawn...

Telenor Persona has announced an IDD Bundle Offer on Karobar Package. With this offer Karobar subscribers can get 100 free minutes in Rs.100 every month. Minutes used over free minutes will be charged as per normal rates. If the subscriber’s current credit limit is less than Rs. 2000, then they have to enhance this to Rs. 2000 to subscribe a bundle and if their current credit limit is equal to or more than Rs. 2000, then additional...

PTCL Vfone has announced a launch of its new Vfone Azadi Offer for all the Vfone Subscribers, in the honor of Independence Day. Now from all the Vfone users can win the free balance of Rs.100 on loading the Vfone scratch card of higher than Rs.100, from29th July, 2010 till 30th August, 2010 Subscribers can get the free balance on loading the Vfone scratch cards of more than Rs. 100 i.e. on Rs. 300, 500 and 1,000 denomination cards. Free...