Global Outlook Local Solutions
A group of like-minded men came together to start a software company with an aim to educate youth in the IT sector. Saima Bhat...
LeLafe: Connecting Kashmir
With an aim to take local business units to the global stage, LeLafe IT Solution, started an online marketplace exclusively for Kashmiris. Saima Bhat...
iQuasar: Touching New Heights
Undeterred by poor internet connectivity and official apathy, three friends started an IT company from a small room in Srinagar, a decade back. Saima...
Jam them while you pray
Disparate cell phone ringing tones during prayers often irk many inside the mosques. Some mosque management bodies have discovered and installed jammers inside mosques...
Cell’s Mobile Story
Despite barriers put up by the security establishment and special circumstances prevailing in Kashmir, the valley enjoys high penetration of cell phone connections.
In October...
Tagging Citizens
Barely two per cent of India’s 1.2 billion people have got the 12-digit Unique Identity number but the UID Authority of India is pushing...
Pushed Out
Computers are pushing out the good old typewriter, however, nobody knows the fate of thousands of typewriters which were part of the government offices...
Conmen on the web
Cheats have always thrived in the sub-continent however, with the expansion of telephony and other communication technologies, many more seem to have joined the trade....
Disrupted communication
SMS services have been banned without a whimper, while home ministry’s snub to telecom operators threatens cellular services again. Ikhlaq Qadri reports on the...
Virtual stones, real handcuffs
The crackdown on street protesting and stone pelting has reached to cyber world with police booking people for instigating unrest in south Kashmir’s Islamabad...
Programming Taleem
Khan studied computer programming at home and soon went out to design software to digitize land records in Urdu. Khan’s software was installed on...
Switched Off
Busting the myth of normalcy, the union government has banned prepaid cellular service in J&K in a move that shakes four million users, seven...
Bumpy bandwidth
For the fledgling IT sector in Kashmir, the road to development is no different from the roads in its city. Zubair A Dar reports.In...
Facebooked
Social network sites are here, long before we realised. It could not have been announced more loudly than a murder over a virtual friendship. Shazia Yousuf anlayses the phenomenon.
