Supreme Court of Pakistan has nullified Lahore High Court’s interim decision through which ICH or International Clearing House was suspended, reported Geo TV. Supreme court’s Lahore registry has now remanded back the ICH case to CPP (Competition Commission of Pakistan) by saying that Lahore High Court is not mandated to suspend ICH. SC said that ICH case should be heard in accordance with law and [...]

And here’s a company which finds success in defeats too. Apple, the manufacturer which is currently getting a bit unpopular among hardcore smartphone users nowadays is seeing its two iPhone models, the iPhone 5 and 4S become the most sold smartphones in the last quarter of 2012. Both the phones captured 12.6 and 8 percent market-shares respectively. That’s more than Samsung’s Galaxy S III flagship [...]

ZONG has announced this new handset bundle offer – ZTE Skate Data Bundle — for its prospective post-paid customers. All existing and new postpaid customers (with any of the postpaid package) can avail ZTE Skate along with 2GB data bundle for 12 months for just Rs. 13,999. ZTE Skate is an Android device launched by ZTE Corporation. ZTE Skate runs on Android 2.3 with 4.3 [...]

After teasing it for months, yesterday HTC finally revealed its newest flagship, called the One, HTC One. The flagship boasts a 4.7 inch Full HD 1080p display and a first-in-its-class ‘Ultrapixel camera’. It runs on Android 4.1.2 coupled with HTC’s new Sense 5 skin. Just like last year, HTC has again beaten Samsung, its nemesis, by unveiling its flagship first. Here are the specs in [...]

Ufone has announced the availability of Blackberry’s latest smartphone, the Z10, in Pakistan, just after weeks of its official announcement. Backberry Z10 is powered by Blackberry 10, company’s latest OS for smartphone devices that has got good positive feedback from the reviewers. Ufone has said that Blackberry Z10 is available at its (selected) service centres in Lahore, Karachi and Islamabad for an unsubsidized price of [...]

By Michelle Sequeira, Senior Marketing Communications Officer at LG Electronics Convergence holds different meaning and varied importance for different sectors. The dictionary definition of convergence is the act of converging and especially moving toward union or uniformity. Therefore essentially in technology the tendency for different technological systems to evolve toward performing similar tasks is called as convergence. For instance today our cell phones are able [...]

Acer’s Iconia W700 is the first Windows 8 tablet to grace PC Pro’s labs. The real surprise is the price: for just Rs 76,999, the Iconia W700 packs in an 11.6in Full HD touch screen, a Core i3 processor and somehow finds room in the budget for a case, a docking station and a Bluetooth keyboard. The Acer Iconia W700 is something different. It’s a [...]

After the launch of new Pro postpaid plans for business customers, Mobilink has now partnered with Nokia to bring latest Lumia devices to Pakistan. The launch event, named “Switch to Lumia”, was held in Karachi yesterday, during which Lumia 920, Lumia 820 and Lumia 620 were officially unveiled in the country. With the latest range of Lumia Windows 8 devices, Nokia Pakistan is all set [...]

Nokia is currently launching a new Asha phone every month and seeing the immense popularity and sales of the series, its easy to see why. February has seen the launch of yet another touchscreen Asha device and its the dual-sim Asha 310 now. The phone is at its core the dual-sim variant of the Asha 309 smartphone (not a smartphone really but Nokia markets these [...]

Just few weeks before the Mobile World Congress 2013, LG unveiled new round of its Optimus L Series smartphones, the L Series II which comprises of the Optimus L3 II, L5 II, and L7 II. These are the latest addition in line of mid range handsets with android 4.1 Jelly Bean by LG. Previously at MWC 2012, LG unveiled the Optimus L3, L5 and L7 [...]

Considering the market potential, Acer is revamping its channel business in Pakistan to deliver more sustainable and profitable growth to its partners. In a channel partner meet held today, Acer executives highlighted the crucial role its partners play in making Acer’s empowering technology and products available to valued customers across the country. In Pakistan Acer is a major player for notebooks and desktops. Acer executives [...]

By Naeem Zamindar The past year has been an interesting one for Pakistan from a technology and telecommunications point of view. With 2013 well on its way, it’s now time to think about what the future holds. No doubt, there is much looming on the horizon – and all indicators point to 2013 as a year of better performance and service delivery in the telecoms [...]

Microsoft’s Surface Pro tablet is selling like crazy. This comes as a bit of a surprise, so big a surprise that they’ve sold all of their stock within hours of putting it on sale. This is especially surprizing after Microsoft’s first tablet, the Surface RT didn’t fared all that well. Moreover, the return rates of the tablet are crazily high and whether this condition will [...]

Following Punjab government, the provincial government of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) has selected Dell to provide 25,000 Inspiron 3420 laptops, which will be distributed to students in the province. Initially, the laptops would be distributed among the students of four-year Bachelor of Studies (BS) programme and students of professional colleges including medical and engineering. Furthermore, laptops would also be given to the top 10 position holders of [...]

Some of you may be familiar with the word jailbreaking on iPhone, iPad or an iPod. Jailbreaking enables you to download free third party apps, tweak & modify your device or download paid apps for free. On Android although it’s quite different, but Jailbreaking and ‘rooting’ still have the same phenomena. We know that android is an open source operating system, which means you can [...]