Mobilink has announced the availability of Blackberry Q10, one of two devices that were announced earlier this year at the launch of Blackberry 10. Running on Blackberry 10, Q10 comes with physical keyboard for those avid blackberry users who aren’t com comfortable with the sense of touch. Inside of Q10 there is a dual-core 1.6Ghz Cortex-A9 processor for seamless support to Blackberry 10. Blackberry Q10 [...]

Pakistan’s first science and educational web TV channel — with a special focus on education – has be launched in Pakistan. TechTV.PK is launched by collaboration between Pakistan Science Club (PSC) and Technology Times (a Weekly tech Magazine) and is said to be available with full drive soon. TechTV will cover all kinds of educational, scientific and technological events from the country. Moreover, there will [...]

Polling time in Pakistan for Election 2013 has ended. Election results and updates have already started to pop-up, however, social media is already filled with many unpleasant rigging videos and images from today’s elections. Election-Day rigging isn’t new in Pakistan but filming such incidents and exposing these rigging videos to entire world is a new phenomenon. Despite the fact that mobile phones were not allowed [...]

Polling time for Election 2013, arguably termed as one of the biggest elections in the country so far, is about to conclude. We are now left with just one hour before the conclusion of polling time, after which all attentions are going to get focused on Election results. With extremely high turnout, the interest for Election is no doubt all time high. So is the [...]

Countless individuals might still be clueless about the polling stations, where they are supposed to go and caste their votes today. If you are one of those, who don’t know about your designated polling station then here is a simple process of knowing details about your polling station via SMS. Write an SMS Type your CNIC (without dashes) Send this SMS to 8300 Soon, you [...]

It is a proven fact that trend in close-online-friends and the status updates from brands and community pages — that individuals follow — help boost turnout in elections. USA and other regions have already seen the difference and influence that online social networking websites can make on political behaviour in the real world. Experts in west believe that reminder call for voting on Election day [...]

Pakistan Telecommunication Authority today evening issued the service suspension directive to all five cellular companies and PTCL for its wireless services. Orders said that cellular and wireless services are to remain suspended in Sindh, effective immediately, i.e. 7PM today till 5PM tomorrow. However, PTA soon issued another email directive to telcos asking them to not to suspend the service till further orders. Cellular companies confirmed [...]

General Elections 2013 are happening at a time when Social Media usage is on the rise and around 25-28 million population of Pakistan is connected to internet for various purposes. Similarly, there are over 120 million mobile phone users in the country. This population, which is either connected to internet or via mobile phones, is gigantic. Collecting data from this population is relatively easy and [...]

Despite the confirmations from Election Commission of Pakistan for not suspending the mobile phone services on Election Day, it is feared that cellular and other wireless services are likely to go offline on May 11th, 2013, the Election Day. Cellular companies aren’t issued any such warnings so far, but they anticipate that on-going law and order situation in the country and prevailing security threats might [...]

Mobilink has stepped up to offer 80 percent discount on its Facebook bundle and Twitter bundle for free during general elections 2013. Mobilink said that its prepaid Jazz and Jazba customers will be able to avail Facebook bundle for Rs. 1 per day from May 10th to May 13th, 2013. Company said that it aims to provide its customers with easy and affordable way of [...]

Viber, primarily a multi-platform app that allows voice and text chat between phone users, has now released its desktop version of app for Windows and Mac. This landmark announcement was made yesterday after which Viber is now officially in line to take on Skype that has around or over 600 million users. Viber said that it has over 200 million users from various platforms, and [...]

Election Commission of Pakistan has barred the voters to bring their mobile phones to polling station on May 11th, 2013, i.e. Election Day. ECP said that decision was taken to ensure the transparency, avoid any possibility of poll-rigging, violence on Election Day, manipulation of votes or selling of votes. ECP said that it had enough evidences of voters taking pictures of their ballot papers as [...]

Pakistan Muslim League (N), through Senator Ishaq Dar, has registered a complaint with Election Commission of Pakistan against Telenor Pakistan for supporting a specific political party without naming it. PML (N), in a letter to ECP, said that Telenor Pakistan has allocated funds for promoting and funding the election campaign of a political party. In response, SECP has sought Telenor Pakistan’s response on the complaint [...]

Ufone has offered this new plan for its customers with which they can make unlimited calls from Ufone to Ufone and Ufone to PTCL for entire month at a fixed monthly rate of Rs. 300 plus tax. You will have to subscribe to Ufone Monthly Bolo Pakistan Offer once to enjoy almost unlimited calls for entire month. Ufone’s Monthly Bolo Pakistan offer can be availed [...]

Punjab Information Technology Board has launched this Android app, with which anyone can report Election violations, that too anonymously. With this, extremely easy to use mobile app, anyone can take a picture of violations and send these complaints to a centralized monitoring team that is likely to take appropriate action. This Punjab Government backed app offer various categories, and users can report violations by clicking [...]