Shabakeh magazine is an independent monthly magazine that is not affiliated with any organization, company or government branch. It focuses on social, cultural, artistic and management issues related to Information Technology (IT) and the Informatics industry. However the main thrust of our news and articles concern the technical issues related to Computers, Networks and the Internet. The first issue of the Shabakeh magazine was published on July 1998 and up until now it has dedicated many special editions to focal points within the IT industry.

The magazine comprises of seven main sections including:

• News and Reports
• Information Highway (Shahrah-e-etelaat)
• Security
• The Network Age (Asr-e-Shabakeh)
• Electronic Commerce
• Entertainment
• Network Workshop (Kargah-e-Shabakeh)

Shabakeh Group
License Holder: Hormoz Pour-rostami

Editorial Board: Behrooz Noeipour, Babak Ehterami, Parham Izadpanah, Keyvan Tirdad, Amin Safaei

Senior Editor: Zahed Veysi
Executive and Advertising: Saeed Pahlavanbakhsh, Behnaz Panahi, Hediye Golbadi
Web Site: Behrooz Noeipour, Yalda Shahravi
Art & Production: Zahra Bagheramiri, Jamileh Mohammadi
Cover Design: Davood Imani

Hormoz Pourrostami
He born in 1965. He is a sociology graduate. He has been working as a member of press since 1986 and published many reviews and articles about sociology as well as some poems in newspapers and magazines. He worked as an executive director and a graphics designer in Rayaneh magazine from 1980 up to 1997. He founded Shabakeh, the monthly magazine on IT in 1998 and has served as the managing director of the magazine.
Mr. Pour-rostami wrote the book “The Time To Visit IRAN” in 2002, which focuses on Iranian culture, geography, history, ancient, and handicrafts. The book was translated and printed by Sahra-Darya Publishing company. His interests are around literature, poetry, philosophy, and social sciences. He likes swimming, table tennis, and football.

Babak Ehterami
He is a Software Engineering graduate. He is involved in translation as well as software development. “Windows 98”, “Oracle 8”, “Visual Basic 6”, “Access 2000”, “Word 2000”, “VB.NET”, and “ASP.NET” are among the 10 books he has ever translated and published.
Babak is a member of editorial board in Shabakeh since 2002. Most of the articles in the section “Shahrah-e-Ettela’at” is translated or written by him. He is now the network administrator of Razi Vaccine and Serum Research Institute. Among his personal interests and activities are football, table tennis, music and movies.

Parham Izad Panah
He born in 1981. Although he is graduated in civil Engineering, but some popular issue in IT fields such as Mac platform, Open source, Virtualization , … are always the major points of consideration in his articles. He stated writing for Shabakeh Magazine from 2003 and now he is a member of editorial board in this monthly magazine.

Behrooz Noeipour
He joined Shabakeh when third issue of Magazine published. Since then, he is a member of editorial board of monthly. He graduated in Electronic Engineering but jumped into Network, Computer and Software fields since Internet access became available in Iran. During past years he wrote more than 70 articles covering many fields of computer and information technology such as management, e-business, software programming, social aspects of IT revolution, cyber-crime and even magic world of creating film and animation using high-end computers and other digital tools. Among all of this vast spectrum, his special interests are analyzing business structure of major companies of IT world, and web development which is his actual job. Mr. Noeipour founded internet web site of magazine in 2004 and has been managed this media till now. Among his personal interest are digital music art, cinema, sociology, economics, and environmental activism.

Amin Safaei
He was born in 1977. He holds Master of Science in Software Engineering from Sunderland University (England). He is currently a Phd (software engineering) student at the same university. He started programming since he was 16 and he has 12 years professional experience in system analysis, Design and implementing software. Regarding his career history, in Iran, He has worked at ministry of road and Tehran traffic company, he has also worked at Newcastle College (England) as a system designer and Head of College consultant. He joined Shabakeh from 2004 and now he is a member of editorial board in this magazine. Some of his Research area that he writes article for are: Programming, Computer Security, Software Testing, Object oriented programming, Distributed software engineering, Database(Oracle, Sql server) and any new topics related to software engineering area. He likes Swimming, Basketball and tennis.

Kayvan Tirdad
He Born in 1979. he is software Engineering Graduate and has master degree in artificial intelligence and robotics. he is member of editorial staff of shabakeh magazine since 2006. most of his article is in artificial intelligence and database and knowledgebase and software development methodology and software design and security.