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HBL Signs a Business Alliance Agreement with Cinepax

By | January 23, 2013 One Comment

HBL has announced that it has signed a business alliance agreement with Cinepax Limited, Pakistan for working on different initiatives ranging from installation of HBL ATMs to branding and promotional activities across Cinepax cinemas country-wide network. The announcement was made at a signing ceremony held at HBL Plaza, Karachi, attended by HBL & Cinepax Limited representatives. Speaking at the occasion, Mr. Faiq Sadiq- Head, Payment [...]

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How to Learn Web Designing for Free?

By | January 22, 2013 8 Comments

What does it take to make a computer program? Can I make a website? What programming languages should I learn to start making websites. Very often, do questions like these come up in our minds and we usually don’t have any clue in this regard. So, in this post, I’ll try to make it easier for those who want to learn website coding and want [...]

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Facebook Introduces Graph Search!

By | January 18, 2013 8 Comments

At just the beginning of a new year, Social media mammoth, Facebook, has made a big announcement, taking the wraps off by a new social search tool that it is calling “Graph Search”. What is Facebook Graph Search? Its not usual web search, instead Graph Search will let people crawl the data available on their network of Facebook friends. Users will be able to find [...]

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An Open Letter to PayPal

By | January 17, 2013 49 Comments

With retail e-commerce and Internet Businesses, world-over, demoing double digit growth every year, PayPal is considered the global standard for reliably carrying financial transactions over Internet. With over 110 million users, PayPal handles 60% percent of Internet transactions. PayPal’s retail e-commerce transactions in US only crossed around $224.2 billion in 2012. This shows humongous magnitude of potential that businesses are reaping over Internet. However, all these gains are [...]

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Trends for Facebook Fans With Pakistani and Global Brands [Infographic]

By | January 17, 2013 2 Comments

Branding Bees, a social media and digital marketing agency, has released an infographic with Pakistani brands and Pakistani Fans afffiliated with Global Brands. This first of its kind aanalytics report about Pakistani Fans (and their affiliation with Local and Global brands) was previously available to Page Admins only, but after the recent changes made by Facebook and tools of Social Bakers, Brands can now determine [...]

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Best of CES 2013 [Infographic]

By | January 17, 2013 2 Comments

The The International Consumer Electronics Show (or CES), the home to the most amazing and geeky consumer products and gadgets, concluded recently in Las Vegas, USA. TVs, Tablets, Smartphones, notebooks remain the charm of the show. If you ask me which products were the best one then frankly its something hard to tell. Though, we can guess of best smartphone and some other things but [...]

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Telenor Pakistan Gets Hacked

By | January 10, 2013 14 Comments

Official website of Telenor Pakistan is reportedly hacked and defaced by a Xpired, a member of hackers’ group called “Cyberhax0rs”. “You are owned by Xpired”, a pop up message appears on a page that has been inserted into the webserver of Telenor Pakistan. There is no other message displayed on the page, except for a security warning, which says: “Where is Security?” You can access [...]

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Inexplicable Flaw in Google Translation [Updated]

By | January 10, 2013 47 Comments

Google Translation is considered to be a handy tool for those browsing websites with languages not known to them. However, this tool is also known for flaws that can be disastrous at times. Unlike many other Google tools, Google Translation isn’t a community driven solution. It in fact analyses translations done by human and makes patterns to present best results to users. During this process [...]

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Asif Peer Appointed as MD of Systems Limited

By | January 9, 2013 No Comments

The Chairman of Systems Limited, Mr. Aezaz Hussain today announced the appointment of Mr. Asif Peer as the CEO and Managing Director of Systems Limited – effective from 1 January 2013. Mr. Peer joined Systems Limited in 1995 and moved to its subsidiary in USA, Visionet Systems, in 1999. During his tenure at Systems Limited & Visionet Systems, Mr. Peer has provided valuable contributions in [...]

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How to Earn Money Through Twitter?

By | January 8, 2013 23 Comments

Micro blogging would have never been so amazing without Twitter. Be it sportsmen, celebrities, politicians or Rehman Malik, nearly everyone uses Twitter to exchange ideas, information and share experiences. How to Make Money through Twitter? Seemingly, no one can put up Google or Yahoo ads and monetize their Twitter profiles, it is not possible. However, there are ways through which you can make some extra [...]

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Dr. Zafar Iqbal Qadir Appointed as Secretary IT and Telecom

By | January 8, 2013 7 Comments

Dr. Zafar Iqbal Qadir has been appointed as secretary IT and Telecom at Ministry of Information Technology. His appointment was announced yesterday evening after which he took the charge to replace Mr. Amir Tariq Zaman Khan, who served as acting secretary IT and Telecom for around five months. Dr. Qadir, with this appointment, has been promoted from grade 21 to grade 22. He has been [...]

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The Blueprint for a Pakistani App Ecosystem

By | January 7, 2013 14 Comments

Back in 2008 when Apple first released the ‘App Store’ as a 3rd party platform for developers, Steve Jobs reasoned the move was meant to help Apple “sell more iPhones (sic)”. These words were to prove prophetic as Apple went on to sell as many units in the next 3 months as they had sold in the past 1 year. But Jobs had not made [...]

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96 Million Cellular Subscribers Remained Without Service Today

By | January 3, 2013 35 Comments

On the occasion of Chehlum of Hazrat Imam Hussain (R.A) today, amid security reasons, Pakistan Telecom Industry is undergoing its worst cellular service closure till to date. Initial estimates suggest that 80 percent mobile subscribers or around 96 million mobile subscribers are going to spend their day without cellular services. With only 3.5 million active landline connections in Pakistan – only option to remain connected [...]

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Pakistan Crosses 8 Million Facebook Users

By | January 1, 2013 13 Comments

With the end of 2012, Pakistan made an evident increase in social media stream. According to statistics revealed by Social Bakers, users of social networking website, Facebook, in Pakistan have crossed the eight million mark with the presence of 8,008,720 users at Facebook from Pakistan. Number of Facebook users in Pakistan grew by more than 1 million in last 6 months and this steady increase [...]

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Pakistani Telecom Professional Wins Kofi Annan Fellowship

By | January 1, 2013 5 Comments

When it comes to professional and academic excellence, Pakistani professionals are no lesser than any other nation in the world. Indeed it’s a matter of great pride and pleasure for Pakistani people in general and the telecom industry in particular that Mr. Tauseef Afzal, a Pakistani telecom professional has won the prestigious Kofi Annan Fellowship. The Kofi Annan Fellowship is granted annually to 2 persons [...]

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