Read this post in Urdu Western Media has gone crazy with heroic news stories portraying superlative character of security companies, such as Cisco, Mcafee, Websense, Verizon and Sandvine – who have decided not to submit proposals for upcoming centralized URL filtering system of Pakistan. A blog at New York times writes: In less than a month, five of eight companies have said they will not [...]

By Mohammad Ali Sadiq Recently there has been a lot of talk about the apparent GREAT FIREWALL OF PAKISTAN. A specific group of people have been making noise over this issue and spreading a propaganda which is based on half truths and public misinformation. The propaganda that has been spread all over social media is that Pakistan is going to be installing a blanket Internet [...]

Read this post in Urdu Saavn (South Asian Audio Video Network) is a free music service with a focus on Indian and South Asian music. Specifically it provides free streaming for movie, pop Hindi and Pakistani songs as well as providing some Tamil songs. Users can make, share and listen to playlists for free on the web or on its Android and iOS apps. Highlights: [...]

As the advertisement by the National ICT R&D got published in the leading newspapers recently, seeking solution providers for URL level blocking and filtering of “objectionable” material on the internet, the debate on internet censorship has been widespread amid civil society activists expressing doubts over authorities’ intentions to limit internet freedom for public on political grounds. Majority of the people support the authorities to block [...]

In our ongoing commentary on 3G, today we will discuss Telenor Pakistan and its chances for upcoming 3G license auction on March 29th, 2012. Many of you will agree that Telenor Pakistan is hot favorite to get a 3G license, rightly so, for the kind of attitude they have developed over the years, it looks apparent for them to have a 3G license in the [...]

I didn’t want to mock our great leaders and all-powerful Mr. Hamid Mir, but this video in which they are calling it G3 licenses that PTA is aiming to auction, it sure will make you laugh out loud. Watch yourself and decide the level of understanding they bear for telecom and technology. Its pity that we have given them the responsibility to decide our future. [...]

3G is a term you will read a lot about on this website in coming weeks and months. As we know that Information Memorandum is already floated by PTA and cellular companies are working out on it to determine their best options to deal with 3G license auction on March 29th. Meanwhile we are going to keep an eye on happenings to discuss the developments [...]

Read this post in Urdu Its always a great moment when you’re buying your first phone and even bigger when you are buying your first smartphone. Some people make this decision easily (and happily) but others aren’t so lucky and after the purchase they realize that they chose the wrong path. If you are one of those then you MUST keep following points in mind [...]

The New Year greeted Microsoft with the good news that Internet Explorer is gaining ground as the browser of choice on Windows 7. With hardware accelerated video amongst other features, websites perform like installed programs on your computer. IE9 deals with HD video with ease and presents websites the way they were designed to be viewed and makes them responsive like never before. Uptil now [...]

Read this post in Urdu Pakistani telecom sector is probably one of the top niche in the world for producing new TV commercials in certain duration of time. During this ‘quantity race’ we have seen ad agencies often compromising with the quality and creativity. They are often caught for getting inspired/copying the idea from foreign TV commercials and producing a local copy. A TV commercial [...]

Read this post in Urdu How many times is it that you buy a product and it turns out that product was fake one (or a Chinese version of the original) or maybe it was a used unit? Well it happened with my friend thrice and another time to me. Unfortunately it is becoming a common practice these days, especially in a country like Pakistan [...]

Arfa Karim; it’s a name that needs no introduction. She made the nation proud when she became the youngest ever Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) in 2004 at the age of 9. Born on February 22nd, 1995 in Faisalabad, she held the title of the youngest ever MCP from 2004-2008. Arfa was always an extraordinary child. Her father said that she displayed signs of a remarkable [...]

Activity in cellular industry during 2011 remained high but we hardly saw any new innovation happening during this period. In fact mobile phone operators remained busy with their continued strategies from yester years; price war worsened the margins while energy crisis did the rest to push operators to their limits to actually impose extra charges on cellular services (twice in case of Mobilink) to save [...]

Read this post in Urdu While reading a post on ProPakistani the other day about Pakistan’s number one ranking for searching the word Sex in Google, I really felt disgraced and disturbed. The reason was obvious and needs no explanation. I felt that are we Pakistanis only excelling in this thing? Are we only searching for Sex on Google? The post and stats kept on [...]