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ITU Telecom World is an annual event that takes places in a different location every year. The goal of the event is to bring together everyone from the public and private sectors to experts, investors, businesses and entrepreneurs to facilitate ICT innovations for economic growth and social good and make the world better, sooner. What is the ITU Telecom World Young Innovators Competition? The goal of the competition is to highlight innovative ideas on how ICTs can help keep people safe in conflicts. Ideas can take multiple forms. They could emphasize prevention of conflict, improvement of safety and security, rebuilding…

The more I have thought about it, the more convinced I have become that to be successful in business, or shall I say to increase your chances of success, you must go about setting up and operating your business in a sensible and logical manner. One step at a time – this is how my very own QCOol Steps to Success (QSS) came about. The Qcool steps represent a practical approach, a frame of mind, a positive attitude and a will to succeed in your own business. If life were a little more predictable one could devise checklists for all…

Have you ever wanted to be able to develop applications for mobile platforms? In the past few years, mobile devices have become extremely high-tech and even more popular. Truthfully, these devices are likely tiny computers and are capable of running a wide variety of fun, educational and productive applications. With that in mind, you will need to learn how to program, if you want to create your own helpful apps. Of course, this is one alternative way to get the job done. Have you ever thought about hiring a mobile application developer?   How it Works Before attempting to make…

We have told you before about these fake online jobs that ask for registration (few thousand rupees in advance) and then promise you a healthy income on monthly basis. We have seen countless people losing thousands of rupees, but this guy called Muhammad Nasir from Battagram has reportedly lost over Rs. 24 million in online jobs. Muhammad Nasir, as we checked, got himself an ID — that’s what they call it — for few thousand rupees. This ID is issued from random people that offer online jobs. Cost of these IDs vary, depending on the monthly return they offer. For example, an ID that would cost…

Netsol has ranked among the ‘500 best software companies to work for in 2015′. The report was released by Forbes and correlated Glassdoor data with ‘Software Magazine’s 2014 Software 500′ list to determine what percentage of employees would recommend a particular company as well as how many see their CEO in favorable light. To ensure impartiality, the data discarded companies with less than 15 reviews. Netsol ranked at 330 in the rankings. 84% of their employees would recommend the company to a friend and 79% approve of the current CEO. The inclusion in a high profile list compiled by none…

COMSATS Internet Services Becomes Pacific Telecommunications Council Member The Pacific Telecommunications Council (PTC) occupies a unique place in the dynamic, rapidly growing world of global communications. An international, non-profit, non-governmental membership organization, PTC is the leading membership organization for telecommunications and information and communication technology (ICT) professionals. PTC provides its members with some of the world’s largest and most collaborative networking opportunities developed specifically for senior telecommunications and information and communication technology (ICT) professionals. PTC’s members are found worldwide including the Americas, Asia, Oceania and the Pacific Islands. Ms. Sharon Nakama, CEO of PTC welcomed COMSATS Internet Services (CIS) by…

Samsung’s Game Recorder+ Allows You to Record Your Smartphone Gameplay Videos Samsung has announced a new tool for recording gaming videos on high-end Galaxy smartphones. The app called Game Recorder+ is available for the Galaxy S6, S6 Edge, S5, S4, Note 3 and Note 2 on the Play Store now. The app is quite straightforward. You record gameplay videos by pressing the recording button at the bottom of the display. Press it again when you’re done. But you also get a few additional options. For starters, you can record your own videos, from the front-facing camera, or your audio while…

Microsoft has unveiled the Surface Hub, a gargantuan pen display which is available in 55″ and 84″ varieties. The pricing of the 84″ display is set at an impressive $19,999. The smaller 55″ model we mentioned above costs $6,999. Normally we’d argue why that price is higher than it should be but not so in this case. That’s because the features found in the Surface Hub are unheard of in other similar products. Think of the Surface Hub as a Windows 10 running PC, which is exactly what it is. That means you’ll be able to run any application on…

Electronic Frontier Foundation’s (EFF) latest security report on data privacy is out and it ranks some of the most used services the lowest in rankings. Dubbed as “Who has your back?”, the annual report rates companies on factors that allow personal data to be revealed to other parties. EFF report grants ‘stars’ based on the following five factors: Telling users about government data requests Following industry-accepted best practices Disclosure of policies on data retention Disclosure of government content removal requests Pro-user public policies of opposing backdoors WhatApp was included for the first time in the report and received only 1-star…