Zong today announced the launch of a youth brand – Circle – with the tagline “Hamesha Together”. Zong claims to be offering the best rates for the youth. Zong said that the tagline “Hamesha Together” reflects the concept of how important it is for youth to be able to connect and stay in touch with their circle of friends, in order to amplify their life [...]

Warid Telecom now offers lowest ever international call rates for USA (landline and mobile), Canada (landline and mobile) and UK (landline) through its 111-LCR international calling service. This latest offer allows Warid Prepaid and Glow customers to call their friends and family in USA, UK and Canada throughout the day for just 90 paisas+tax/minute. There are no hidden charges for this service and no subscription [...]

The list of phones in the Galaxy S4 range is mind-boggling in itself. Following from the original international Galaxy S4 and the quad-core SnapDragon versions, we got the S4 mini and then the water-proof S Active and now, for the cameraphone fans, the S4 Zoom with a 16-megapixel sensor, a 10x optical zoom, and a Xenon flash. Galaxy S4 Zoom is targeted specifically towards people [...]

Alienware, the gaming-laptop manufacturing giant owned by Dell has announced 3 new and striking gaming laptops. The Alienware 14, 17 and 18 are welcome additions to company’s line-up for this year and feature new designs. The striking 10 LED lights found on each laptop can be lit in 20 colors and change their color accordingly with the game state. Apart from that, the design is [...]

Apple’s iOS 7 can’t help but leave you with mixed doubts. On the one hand, it’s such a great update. The newly brought design changes implemented on this iteration are much welcome. They make even iOS 6 look dull, mainly due to the new, bright range of color palettes. Also, the Control center brings quick toggles and changes to the OS which weren’t present before. [...]

Earlier this year when Nokia announced its quarterly earnings report, it made this clear that the lifespan of its Symbian devices is coming to an end in favor of Microsoft’s Windows Phones. Now Nokia has said that it all will finally come to an end this summer. The support of the devices will continue till 2016 at least though, so software updates will most-likely be [...]

The 6th Annual Pakistan Telecommunications Conference 2013 (TeleCON 2013) closed at the Marriott Hotel, Karachi today, with a resolution passed to speed-up deployment of new technologies and celebrate Pakistan’s IT potential and success, both on the local and international fronts. Participants from a cross-section of government, corporate, business, social and academic organizations attended the conference. Distinguished speakers and panellists outlined specific areas of development and [...]

Telenor Pakistan has successfully concluded the Sindh chapter of its nationwide knowledge-based initiative ‘Telenor Talkshawk Internet Champion’. Internet workshops were conducted across Karachi, Hyderabad, Sukkur, Shikarpur and Khairpur. Initial rounds of I-Champ activities engaged over 126,797 students from as many as 364 schools with 75 students competing in the grand finale. Speaking about the closing ceremony, Irfan Wahab Khan, Chief Marketing Officer, Telenor Pakistan in [...]

Anusha Rehman, the newly appointed and rather excited IT and Telecom Minister, has said that new government has already started working on the auction of long-pending 3G spectrum auction in the country. Ms. Rehman tweeted that PML(N) is committed to swiftly execute the 3G spectrum auction in just few months only. It merits mentioning here that Anusha Rehman didn’t mention 3G licenses only, instead she [...]

Telenor has rebranded its “Poora Pakistan Offer” to call it super star offer, which will allow its customers to make unlimited on-net calling for whole day except 7PM to 10PM. Super Star Offer is a daily subscription based promotion, which will incur a daily charge of Rs. 11.99 plus tax for unlimited on-net calling. Offer Details: Unlimited calls will only be available for On-net Calls [...]

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 [...]

Just hours after Microsoft’s announcement of the Xbox One’s pricing and availability details Sony has followed suit too and as expected, has announced the same details at E3. They also finally showed off the hardware of the PS4 console which was hidden under the curtains up till now. The PS4 console is itself in a parallelogram shape. The upper portion is colored in piano black, [...]

Microsoft has just announced the price of its next-generation game console. The console announced less than three weeks ago will cost $499. The package will include the Xbox One console with a 500 GB Hard Drive, one wireless controller, a Kinect accessory and free two weeks Xbox Live Gold trial. The eighth-generation console announced late last month is itself a power house. It packs an [...]

Samsung’s Galaxy Star – a budget Android phone – has made its way to Pakistan. Competing at price, Samsung Star is aimed for young aspiring users who want to switch to Android at an affordable price. Powered by a decent 1 Ghz processor, Samsung Star boosts 3 inch QVGA display. There is 512 MB of RAM, probably not enough for various users – but considering [...]