It was a wonderful Sunday yesterday with beautiful weather in Islamabad. I was enjoying my relax hours during weekend – longtime readers know that we usually don’t work on weekends – when a friend called me to tell that Twitter is blocked in Pakistan due to Draw Mohammad Day. Honestly, I didn’t know of Draw Mohammad Day until that moment and...
Yousaf Raza Gilani, Prime Minister of Pakistan, has announced that government of Pakistan has plans to allocate PKR 17 billion (USD 190 million) in next year’s budget for stretching the broadband services in un-served and under-served areas of the country. It is anticipated that this money will be taken from USF’s pocket, which was specifically...
After a ban for a day, amid any possible access of blasphemous material to Pakistani audience on Draw Mohammad Day, access to micro blogging website has been restored in Pakistan. Concerned officials have confirmed ProPakistani that access to Twitter has restored after they received orders from Pakistan Telecommunication Authority. As per reports we...
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Twitter, a famous microblogging website, has been blocked in Pakistan since morning. Action has been taken on direct orders from Raja Parvez Ashraf, Minister for Information and Technology, our sources tell us. Though it is unclear if the ban is temporary or permanent in nature. ProPakistani users are already reporting that Twitter isn’t accessible...
Read this post in Urdu First thing first. Let’s have a look at the print ad that I am going to talk about. (Clicking on ad will open the image in new window in full size) A little background of the advert: this Print ad is by Universal Service Fund, published last month in various national newspapers and magazines. Though there is a scandal already...
Read this post in Urdu After Mobilink, Ufone recently partnered with Google to offer Gmail users an ability to send free text messages to any Ufone number from their Gmail accounts or through Google Chat. Put in other words, Through this service, Ufone subscribers can get Gmail chat messages on their handsets and shall be able to communicate & reply...
The LaunchPad Ceremony for Mobilink Super Engineer Contest 2012 is being held today for the top teams in North area in Islamabad. The competition is Mobilink’s effort to bridge the gap between industry and academia by enabling students from different fields like Electronics, Electrical, Computer sciences and Telecommunication engineering to take...
As the World Wide Web takes over more and more of our time the concept of money and wealth and how we spend it is also changing. The internet is drastically changing the way we interact with products and services. Virtual Money is an emerging online “currency” which in the near future will become a vital component of any economy and will be a necessity...
Read this post in Urdu Google is rolling out its new system for connecting the search able terms – they are calling them real life objects – to present better search results for the web users. Google will store search terms (or objects) in its database to connect them with related terms (or objects) to co-relate them with each other. This co-relation...
By ZunNurain Khalid A few days back I was surfing internet for my daily routine work. I landed on a news post on ProPakistani telling a story of a hacked site of one of the prestigious universities here in Islamabad. Well, that was not a surprise for me at all frankly, because over the past few months I have seen many websites, blogs and servers being...
Pakistan Software Houses Association (P@SHA) today unveiled its research report on working women in Pakistan IT industry, in a press conference held in Karachi. The research is based on responses from 50 companies and 125 individuals – it targeted IT companies as well as large IT departments within non-IT companies. Research report revealed that...
Brand manager and social media consultants always remain hungry for information about their customers’ engagement, interactions and requirements on Facebook, Twitter and other social networks. They are specifically under lot of stress if they are managing a product, brand or service targeted for Pakistani audience – just because foreign companies...
Telenor Pakistan has launched a nationwide project that will help empower a new digital generation in Pakistan. Telenor said that its Talkshawk I-Champ is a knowledge-based initiative that aims to provide learning and training to young people to enable them with internet access through mobile phones. Telenor believes that mobile phones devices are placed...
Mobilink Jazba has announced three workshops for mobile app developers in Lahore, Karachi and Islamabad. Jazba website says that mobile app developer and those who are into game development are invited to attend this workshop, which is apparently free of charge. Jazba is going to give away cash prizes and gifts for those who will outclass others in...
Read this post in Urdu Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) is delaying the auction for 3G licenses – which is likely to generate up to one billion dollar for the federal government – by not issuing finalized date for auction, Secretary Information Technology Farooq Awan told Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of the National Assembly yesterday. The...
