Corporations and SMEs in Pakistan seem to be looking forward to collaboration and enterprise information sharing, largely due to the value addition that these collaboration systems can provide to the said organizations. Information sharing, alerts, notifications, central storage and access to important data in its traditional form are some of the benefits, but, there is one area in Enterprise Collaboration that is missing: the multimedia experience!

Who owns the internet? A billion-dollar question that is seeking an answer yet! The question was of highest concern among netizens on February 22, 2008, when YouTube was literally switched off for more than two hours across the globe. What happened with YouTube was more that just a proof of concept (PoC) of something that had been earlier discussed in universities, but it also reiterated the question of internet governance.

With Single Sign-On concepts making the circuits in IT, Spider looks at how the concept and its implementations may affect the future of internet usage.

On November 3, 2007, after the declaration of emergency in Pakistan, the country saw widespread protests for the restoration of media, but many failed to realize the successfull entry of Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) in Pakistan. With a ban on news channels on local cable networks, most of the channels switched over to live internet streaming, some with only audio and others with high-quality video.

Automated homes where almost every function can be performed digitally may soon become a reality. With the entry of giants like Emaar and Jumeirah in the real estate sector of Pakistan, the concept of a better living is fast approaching a reality.

I could not help but smile when I read the statement by Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz that 75 percent of households in Pakistan are to be covered provided with a high speed internet connection by 2015. At the same time it made me wonder, "What did he mean by high speed internet connectivity?"