Ban on Facebook recently has paved the way for a lot of enthusiasts in Pakistan to come up with Social Network of their own. Buddy Flick is one of them. Recently, out of the box and quite number of people are testing the flick. If this would have been for Lollywood flick, I would have rated it as 10 out of 10 for KopyKat!! The [...]

The Lahore High Court has directed the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority to immediately block nine websites for publishing and promoting sacrilegious material, and ordered the PTA chairman to appear in the court on June 28, 2010 along with all relevant material, reported The News, Daily Jang, Daily Express and other newspapers today. Justice Mazher Iqbal Sidhu of the LHC Bahawalpur Bench, while hearing a write petition [...]

Mobilink Jazz brings for all fast-paced, action loving foosball players the ultimate online foosball experience like no other. Mobilink Jazz challenges you and your team to beat the Jazz foosball team and win exclusive Mobilink goody bags by playing your team to the top of Jazz Foosball League (JFL). If you think you are a foosball-pro and online gaming is your battleground then hurry up [...]

Earlier today Ufone launched Self Care Portal to help out its customers in maintaining their account. People can now select from a wide range of products offered. You can find out or change any information required. From viewing CDRs to changing VAS subscriptions, from switching tariffs to maintaining FnF, everything is now just a click away – no need to walk into a customer Support [...]

A new venture of citizen journalism is coming to life soon. Its called Citizens Eye by the team. The salient features of the website are still not known since the site is in the process of launching. The phenomenon is already established in North America, Europe and parts of Asia but it will be quite an experience for Pakistanis. The admin of the site has [...]

wi-tribe Pakistan brought out new sleek design to their website. Indeed a positive development, as the previous website was boring and un-easy to surf across. This brand new website has got some great new looks, graphics and more information across the board. I will go on with some positive and negative appearances that caught my eyes. On the positive note, Coverage Map is extremely good [...]

The International Journal of Epidemiology today published a combined data analysis from a multi national population-based case-control study of glioma and meningioma, the most common types of brain tumour. This is the first in a series of combined data analyses of head and neck tumours published as part of the internationally coordinated INTERPHONE project. The authors reported the following conclusion: Overall, no increase in risk [...]

The Auditor General of Pakistan (AGP) has unearthed Rs 9.496 billion mismanagement in its audit report on the telecom sector comprising six different organisations for the year 2008-09, the report revealed. The report available with Daily Times revealed that the receivables management of Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) remained a weak area, which resulted in non-recovery of a huge amount of Rs 7.711 billion from various [...]

Just this morning when I laid my eyes on ‘The News’ website, I felt something different. And that difference was inclusion of Facebook plugins. In future, if you like some news or op-ed column, you can just click on Like Button at the top of subject. Similarly, Website is also showing Recommendation Plugin which displays news shared by the people. I have reservation over Recommendation [...]

Viper Technology, Pakistan’s IT infrastructure solution provider and local computer manufacturer, launched a locally manufactured first Core i3 desktop machine. Viper Technology has been created with an idea to consolidate its product-line with a brand-based approach and to provide the best IT products across enterprise, SME and consumer segments, said Faisal Sheikh, Chief Operating Officer, Viper Technology at the launch of its product. “Viper Technology [...]

There are times when you call on customer support people and they tell you various tweaks to get around the problem. Using Wateen, you usually come across problems of front page not opening or prepaid page not opening. So, here are the various little things that customer support guys normally share. Delete temporary files Clear Browsing History Enable Java Scripts New Login Page can be [...]

A picture speaks a thousand words, so no further description from our side on following, but just one Question: How in this world this flex went live? Let alone the Printing, designing, proofreading errors…! This happened in Karachi and was captured by Zaymas Update: Mobilink has responded to this post, and said that this is a fake photograph. Mobilink also sent us a recent photograph [...]

The police are now in the final phase of acquisition of the technology, known as a GSM Caller Location Identification System. As the name implies, it will allow the authorities to trace which location a cellphone call is being made from. This will be key in investigating several different types of crimes, but will be particularly useful in kidnapping for ransom cases. The question of [...]

The Pakistan Telecommunication Company (PTCL) increased its local call charges by 50 per cent from February 2010 without obtaining the mandatory permission from the telecoms regulator, claimed Dawn Newspaper. Dawn alleges PTCL for not properly informing its subscribers about the unilateral decision to revise its tariff as they came to know of the increase when they received the bills for the month of February. This [...]

A remote village of Capital City Mira Bagwal has been converted into e-village, as it has been provided 2 MB Broad Band internet connection and its people have been given the facility of video conferencing to take advice from specialist doctors in case of any problem, a spokesman for the chief commissioner’s office said. The formal inauguration of this e-village was attended by Inspector General [...]