A 104-year-old British woman supposed to have been the world’s oldest user of Twitter has died. Ivy Bean, who had about 57,000 followers on the micro-blogging site under the name “IvyBean104”, died in the early hours of Wednesday. During her final days, nursing home staff posted regular tweets on her condition before finally confirming the sad news with one which said: “Ivy passed away peacefully at 12:08 this morning.” Pat...

About 20 new Information Technology (IT) firms have enrolled themselves by the Pakistan Software House Association (PASHA). PASHA, formed some 10 years ago, estimates the size of the local IT industry at more than $2 billion per annum with yearly exports of around $1 billion.There is a large increase over last year, when PASHA enrolled the same number of companies in 12 months, Yusuf Jan, Chairman, PASHA, told The News on Wednesday. Yusuf...

Mobilink indigo has exclusively introduced the very stylish Smartphone for the first time in Pakistan, “the Motorola Milestone” which is a powerhouse having the sleek looks to beat any stylish handset. Software and functionality of the handset matches to any high-end Smartphone. Mobilink is offering FREE GPRS for 3 months, exclusively for indigo customers, with the purchase of every handset. This handset from Mobilink is powered by...

Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) and National University of Science and Technology (NUST) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to boost joint assistance for research in the related field and to promote mutually advantageous relations between the two organizations. Chairman PTA, Dr Mohammad Yaseen, and Rector NUST, Lt Gen Muhammad Asghar, signed the MoU in a ceremony held at NUST Headquarters Islamabad here on Tuesday....

Mobilink, Pakistan’s market leader in cellular services and part of Orascom Telecom Holding, held a prize distribution ceremony at Mobilink Office Islamabad, to conclude the “Mobilink Super Engineer Competition”. The title was won by students from Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology. Securing 1st position with their project, “Traffic Analysis and measurement system in IPMPLS Environment”...

Yesterday, a news was covered regarding the creation of a page at Facebook named Everybody Burn Quran Day. In response to this page, a new page titled “Against Everybody Burn Quran Day” has been created at the Facebook. This page is created by a Muslim and it says: A facebook page/event has been set up, and this event has been called “BURN QURAN DAY”. So as a response, a page has been created, for Muslims to come...

July 27, 2010 – Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., a global leader in digital media, display products and convergence technologies, have recently introduced its latest, most innovative Monitors branded as “Samsung Electronics’ SyncMaster 2233RZ”. These monitors are selected as the official display products for the upcoming World Cyber Games (WCG), 2010 Grand Finale in Los Angeles, USA. The WCG finals will be held from September 30 to...