Google has become an essential part of our online lives. Gmail, Google Docs, Search Engine, Feed Reader, Maps, Google Earth, YouTube and What Not? I am not doubting the ease this single company has brought to our lives, but at the same ever you thought that Google stores all the activities you do on internet, for instance, what searches you did, emails...
Importance of Customers’ privacy policy has been realized widely now. Practices are in play in order to protect any individuals’ loss due to failures/breach or misuse of customers’ data by any means. If you just visit any famous garments store, frozen food store or any 3 to 5 star hotel etc, you are may be offered “Membership”...
I don’t have Metro card, however, I go there with one of my friends, or I get temporary card for a visit. If you ever visited Metro, you may know that they ask your name, company you work for, cell number, company number, date of birth and what not, for issuing temporary or permanent card. Thanks God, they don’t ask me about my B-Form, my night...
Do you have plenty of friends watching you phone all the times? Or even you don’t but you want some added privacy for your text messages and don’t want anyone to touch your text messages, either incoming or outgoing? Okay here is the solution for you (if you are a Symbian Mobile phone user), download this simple application called “Active SMS...
Internet has become a play ground for hackers & crackers. These days they keep on flying around as they have gathered themselves into organized groups who work like a team. These hackers remain busy in inventing new methods to damage/hack corporate entities and internet users. They are getting smarter with each passing day and I am afraid to narrate...
Mobilink in collaboration with Singapore based TenCube has brought this service called “Mobilink Call Secure”, which was initially developed for Singapore Police and Military use. Mobilink CellSecure is Mobile phone security software that allows you track down the thief, get alerted when your mobile phone is stolen!. Remotely lock your phone or...
I have done plenty of posts regarding privacy issues related to cellular phones, and how they can be crucial if your personal information is handed over to undesired hands. Today, I am going to discuss another very sensitive issue that can add un-ending miseries to your life. Problem Problem is very simple, that is, if I am a postpaid customers, anyone...
We have discussed before about how important is to protect your data stored on phone; especially those files which are confidential and of very personal in nature. In case your phone is stolen, or it is temporarily in someone’s hand, you are at great risk of loosing this private data. The situation may lead you to a very depressing state leaving you...
Senate’s standing committee on Interior has passed directives to Pakistan Telecommunication Authority and Ministry of IT and Telecom to finalize policy for taking away pre-active SIMs from the market, with-in two weeks. A source familiar with the directives issued by Senate’s standing committee told that Government is very serious to tackle illegal...
Pakistan Telecommunication Authority has blocked access to several blasphemous web content/movies from Pakistan. In this regards, PTA has directed all Internet Service Providers of Pakistan to block the content of these websites. ISPs say that these websites would remain blocked till the further orders from PTA. One of the blocked sites is hosted on...
There was a news in print media yesterday, that Police has been allowed to directly access cellular user’s information; this includes our incoming and outgoing call details and information regarding SMS that we send and receive. I am not sure if Police can also access the content of calls (voice tapes), as it was not explicitly mentioned in any of...
Ever you wanted to know calling details for your mobile number? You may require this for several reasons, such as: You feel like that your mobile phone has been misused by someone around you, and you want to figure out who it was who kept calling from your phone without informing you! You have given a mobile number to your kid, and you want to keep...
“The Way of The World” by Ron Suskind has given new dimensions to the political talks in Pakistan. Ron Suskind, well-known and award winning author, has provided the “details” of intensively discussed “Deal” between Musharraf and Late Ms. Benazir Bhutto. Content of the book has added more fuel to debates that are being conducted...
As many of us are tired of these SPAM calls, i had discussed before some tricks and other ways to block unwanted calls, but here is a good news for Ufone users, who can now block any number (on-net, off-net, Landline Number and even international numbers)to call them. Ufone has done this great job only for prepaid users. Ufone postpaid users can’t...
