Warid telecom announced the launch of a bus schedule app aimed at providing its customers with all the information they need about routes and timings for Daweoo bus service. Now Warid Telecom users can download the Bus Schedule application which will allow users to check intra city bus routes along with their travel charges and timings. The app displays all the bus routes across Pakistan. [...]

Gartner has released stats for smartphone and mobile phones sales for first quarter 2013, according to which Android smartphones grabbed 75 percent share from total smartphone sales, while Samsung sold 30 percent of these smartphones in first three months of current year. Out of total 210 million smartphones sold in first quarter, 156 million devices were running on Android platform. Smartphones sales grew by 50 [...]

Blackberry has announced BB10 running Blackberry Q5 smartphone – similar to that of Blackberry Q10 – for selected markets. Blackberry Q5 comes with physical and conventional QWERTY keyboard below a 3.1 inch touchscreen. Here are the complete specs for Blackberry Q5: CPU: Dual-core 1.2 GHz OS: BlackBerry 10 OS Display: TFT capacitive touchscreen 720 x 720 pixels, 3.1 inches (~328 ppi pixel density) Memory: Expandable [...]

BBM, Blackberry’s signature instant messaging service, will be available for Android and IOS users later this year. With this all Android, iOS and Blackberry devices will be able to cross-communicate using BB10’s feature rich BBM services. There are over 60 million active BBM users using blackberry devices, who will now be able to connect with their cross-platform friends from Android and iOS. With this announcement, [...]

Merely days after announcing its highly anticipated Windows Phone the Lumia 928, Nokia has come back and given the smartphone world another blow (in both good and bad ways) in the new Lumia 925. The phone isn’t substantially different from the previous 920, 928 flagships but finally brings a sleeker, slimmer body. Design This is the first phone in the Lumia line-up to be made [...]

Zong has recently given away a house to a lucky subscriber in Islamabad through its Ghar Offer. Announcement of lucky winner was made after a lucky draw. Picture shows winner of House in Islamabad, Mr. Ishtiaq Ahmed Standing in front of his new house, along with Zong’s top management. All Zong customers could participate in the offer by reloading Rs. 300 into their accounts and [...]

To better represent its ever-expanding capabilities and global footprint, 10Pearls (formerly TenPearls) today announces a rebranding that includes a new name and a more socially-connected and informative website. 10Pearls is a Karachi based application development company with global footprints, focused on mobile, software and game development. Visitors to http://www.10Pearls.com can take advantage of blog posts on many different subjects including mobile, gamification, software development and [...]

Sony yesterday announced the the scaled down version (in terms of size) of its Xperia Z smartphone, the Xperia ZR. Sony Xperia ZR sports a quad-core 1.5 GHz processor to seamlessly support all your mobile computing needs. The main highlight is its water resistant capability – inherited from Xperia Z – and in fact Sony is advertising that phone is capable of shooting underwater videos [...]

Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited has launched a revamped entertainment portal for customers. Anyone can watch the entire range of Pakistani drams, blockbusters from Bollywood and Lollywood, TV Shows, Stage Dramas and much more. Offering includes a specific section for kids. Other items in its entertainment package include updates of important events in Pakistan, fashion news, horoscope, sports, books, culinary and general news. Users of any [...]

Recently held election in Pakistan saw massive criticism due to various rigging incidents in different constituencies of the country. Observers said that at least 10 percent – or 7,000 – polling stations were reportedly rigged to influence the voters. Bogus votes, pressurizing voters, in-availability of ballot boxes, papers and various other similar problems were reported in different parts of the country. Experts – the optimistic [...]

In middle of post-election drama, official website of MQM has been hacked by a group of hackers who call themselves “Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan”. Hackers’ group with this name of TTP has emerged for the first time, and this is probably the first hacking instance of the group. We are already in process of gathering more information about the hackers. Hackers, in their message left on MQM [...]

Samsung today announced that it has successfully developed the world’s first breakthrough to offer 5G mobile broadband, that will supprt tens of Gbps of data transmission on mobile devices. The new technology sits at the core of 5G mobile communications system and will provide data transmission up to several hundred times faster than current 4G networks. 5G mobile communications technology is the next generation of [...]

Daily Unlimited FnN Voice Bundles Warid has introduced unlimited voice bundles for friends and family number, i.e. Glow customers will now be offered to make unlimited voice calls to 10 on-net FnF numbers at a fixed daily rate of Rs. 9.99 plus tax. This free unlimited calls are valid round the clock and package validity is one day. How to Activate: Send FNF in an [...]

Blockbuster Iron Man 3 – last from one of the most successful sci-fiction sequels – that is topping Box office while bagging $72.5 million in ticket sales in US and Canada only and another $89.3 million internationally, is coming to Cinemas in Pakistan this weekend. Ufone is backing the premier in Lahore, Karachi and Islamabad on May 17th, 2013. Ufone said that it is offering [...]

Nokia has announced its Asha 501 smartphone to debut the Asha Platform, claimed by Nokia to offer innovative user interface, a faster and seamless mobile operating system for low-to-mid level smartphones. Asha 501 comes with solid build and colours at an affordable price. It supports single SIM or easy-swap Dual SIM features. Design Nokia says that its Asha 501 offers high-end design and build-quality accessible [...]