IDG's CIO Pakistan - The Webstudio Page: IT News Update: November 12, 2009

VIPER technology celebrates 15 years of successful operations:
Viper Technology, one of country’s leading IT solution providers, celebrated its 15 years of successful operations with the local media and the IT industry leaders. This event marked the accomplishments achieved by Viper Technology through the years.
Viper Branded Solutions are one of the first original clone series of PCs being marketed in Pakistan since 1995 and is ranked one of the top locally assembled PC brands. Viper Technology maintains a remarkable reputation for delivering reliable, quality products with strong emphasis on performance whilst keeping abreast of competitive nature of Pakistani PC market.
EMI Signs Digital Deal In India, Pakistan:
EMI Music has signed a strategic alliance that covers digital distribution in India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh with Hungama Digital Media, a leading digital entertainment company in South Asia. The agreement covers the distribution across multiple digital platforms and formats, via Internet and mobile.
Hungama will be making this content - full length music tracks, videos, mobile wallpapers, live concert footage, ringtones, caller ring back tones and other digital entertainment formats - available through its entire distribution network, which includes all telecom operators in the region, partner sites such as BSNL.Hungama.com, and home-grown portals such as Hungama.com, an Indian premium digital entertainment store.
ISPs complain of ‘unfair’ market practices by PTA:
Internet service providers (ISPs) in Islamabad have registered complaints with the ministry of information technology against what they called ‘unfair’ market practices and ‘unreasonable’ policies.
‘Blocking voice packages on internet indiscriminately’ topped their list of worries. ‘The authority has been blocking internet IP addresses indiscriminately without issuing notices,’ said an ISP, adding ‘We don’t object that PTA blocks illegal traffic but most genuine customers like call centres, corporate and home customers have been facing problems every time they want to use this facility – cut off and significant decrease in flow of traffic.’

