By Sri Sri Ravi Shankar We live in a time where ‘google’ happens to be amongst the first 100 words a child learns – a time where we do not have to extend our hand to make a friend, just the tap of our finger is enough. Today, a  whole universe of information is available at our fingertips and an entire network of people, known [...]

We captured above given screenshot from Facebook fan page of Telenor’s EasyPaisa. Screen shows an image uploaded by the Social Media team of Telenor, asking thousands of fans a question – which of course can be read easily in the screenshot produced here. We captured this screen after more than 13 hours when image was initially uploaded. We are just presenting the screenshot for our [...]

With the changing dynamics of Social Media in Pakistan, it is observed that Twitter is also getting very popular in the country. There are number of businesses in Pakistan using Twitter as medium of social contact/information. And the news is that Warid Telecom has been able to achieve the highest twitter following, which has reached to 11,135 followers. Twitter is an online social networking service [...]

Digitization and centralization of data — of any kind at any level — has not only helped the communities to harness the prosperity but has streamlined various functions of the society. Pakistan is country with notable deficiency of data digitization, leaving the businesses, non-profits and individuals to rely on conventional co-ordination and reporting methods that ultimately pose serious compromises over the throughput. There are countless [...]

Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry has taken suo motu notice of blasphemous content available on the internet and has sought a report from chairman Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) within a week. It merits mentioning here that Pakistan Telecommunication Authority is currently operating without any Chairman and the Members. According to Express Tribune the notice by Chief Justice was taken on an application of a United [...]

Anusha Rehman Khan, the newly appointed State Minister for IT and Telecommunication, managed to grab media attention on her first day in office by saying that Google could face a blanket ban in the country if it doesn’t listen to Pakistani government’s request of removing blasphemous videos from YouTube. Ms. Rehman, who remained a vocal and active member of National Assembly Standing Committee on Information [...]

There are chances that you might have thought of being watched by US government through Gmail, Facebook and other internet giants who are holding your sensitive and most private data. The news is that all your fears were real, as a new secret document has proven the existence of a US government program that grants NSA (National Security Agency) and FBI the direct access to [...]

8XM, Popular Pakistani music TV channel, lost the control of its website last night when a group of Pakistani hackers hacked and defaced the website. It is still unclear that why Hackers targeted the website, however, they did leave a message telling the admins to patch their servers. Hackers, who identify themselves as PHC, have previously hacked Pakistani websites including Geo TV, PISA and others. [...]

Tune.Pk, a rising video sharing website originating from Pakistan, serves over 40 million playbacks per month. Launched a couple of years ago by a passionate team of developers from Sialkot, Pakistan, headed by Arsalan Hasan, Tune.PK now serves over 14 million users per month with the whooping number of over 40+ million playbacks a month with an average daily playback of 20 years. Currently there [...]

DailyMotion, video sharing website of global repute, is partially inaccessible to internet users in Pakistan. Various reports coming to us from readers, mainly from Karachi, confirm that they were greeted with “safe surf” message when they opened DailyMotion today morning. However, there were other users who said that website is opening fine on their side. A message appearing on the website reads: This website is [...]

Standard Chartered has announced the availability of its iOS app for bank’s internet banking customers. Bank said that apps for other platforms will be available soon, however during the while, non-iOS smartphone users can visit Standard Chartered’s internet banking website (http://m.sc.com/PK), specifically optimized for mobile phones. With the move, smartphone users will be able to fully control their bank accounts, transactions and other details through [...]

Peshawar High Court has ordered the authorities to block blasphemous and objectionable content available on social media websites, especially the Facebook and other websites with-in three days. Court directed interior ministry, Pakistan Telecommunication Authority and other departments to take stern action against these websites and submit a compliance report with-in 20 days. A Peshawar High Court bench, presided by Chief Justice Dost Muhammad issued the [...]

Scammers have come up with new technique to hunt online bank accounts in Pakistan to snatch their usersname and password and then to ultimately use these details to empty these accounts. Previously these Phishing Attacks used to involve an email from bank itself, redirecting the users to fake bank website and to collect username/password information of the target. Now, these attackers are sending emails from [...]

Intel Pakistan, today held an interactive session with toddlers and parent bloggers to focus on how the touch-generation can benefit from technology and how it positively impacts the quality of life. The event titled ‘Toddlers and Technology’ was held at Kidz Klub in an informative and relaxed environment with a panel of expert speakers. Attended by media, the event focused on key topical issues around [...]

Twitter has finally introduced two-step authentication for its users to enhance security. For those who aren’t familiar, two-step authentication means that Twitter users – after inputing username and password – will be sent a unique passcode on their phones via SMS for every login. This passcode will be used as second password before users are actually logged-in the to the website. A confirmed email address [...]