PorterPakistani: October 2013

Friday, October 18, 2013

TV Timings App by Warid [Review]

You might have come across many crucial situations when you are waiting for your favorite TV shows and due to your busy schedule you are unaware of its passage. This moment could possibly be the sole reason of your depression and lack of focus on your tiring work too.

Many solutions have been presented to us in the form of different kinds of Dish Antennas, many GPRS packages and also in the most portable form of your cell –phone apps.

Android and iOS are now days top notch Operating Systems which have made their ways in to the tech market, you can also have a look at the app stores of both of the Smartphone champions.

Mobilink has partnered with Nokia to launch its first customized mobile handset providing customers with exclusive access to customized content, value added services and multimedia.

As part of this offer, Mobilink customers purchasing the Nokia Lumia 925 from select retail outlets will be able to utilize their handsets to access wallpapers, ringtones, splash screen as well as various online resources.

QMobile has outed a new device in its Noir series of Android smartphones and the new model is called the Noir A700. You probably would’ve already seen it on TV until now.

Noir A700 comes with a 5.3″ display, a 1.26Ghz quad-core processor. On the back there is an 8 megapixel camera, followed by a 1.3 megapixel camera at the front.

The 5.3″ display is of qHD resolution, which is a bit of a shame because we’ve seen cheaper and smaller phones with HD resolution by now. Pixel Density should be quite modest too.

Noir A700 is 8.3mm thick.

Warid has decided to reward its old and loyal postpaid customers by categorizing them into two pools of Premium and Premium Plus clubs. Customers of both these statuses will get special incentives, discount on handsets, discount on special numbers, free mobile internet for life and much more.

Farooq Niaz, Head of PR and CSR, Zong (left) with Mr. Najam Sethi (right), Acting Chairman of PCB at Pakistan Vs South Africa Cricket Series 2013 Press Conference in Lahore

Zong patronizes Pakistan’s favorite sport – Cricket, by sponsoring the upcoming Pakistan vs South Africa cricket series. Zong is one sponsors of this highly anticipated cricket series.

This exciting cricket series will be held from 14^th October, 2013 to 15^th November, 2013 in UAE.

In the Pakistan vs South Africa series, South Africa will re-enter the test cricket arena after 8 months absence where Pakistan and South Africa will battle it out against each other in 2 test matches, 5 ODIs and 2 T20 matches.

Huawei has unveiled its mid-range Ascend G610 Smartphone that supports dual SIMs simultaneously.

Ascend G610 features a 5-inch IPS QHD (540 x 960 pixels) display. Notably, it is a dual-SIM handset with GSM+GSM and also supports 3G.

Ascend G610 Smartphone is powered by 1.2GHz quad-core processor, and 1GB of RAM and 4GB of ROM, along with expandable storage of up to 32GB via Micro-SD card.

It runs Android 4.2 with company’s Emotion UI on top. Moreover, the mid Micro-SD -range G610 sports a 5-megapxiel camera alongside an LED flash and includes a 0.3-megapixel front-facing camera.

Way back in July, Samsung was caught rigging benchmark scores for its Galaxy S4 flagship smartphone.

Three days ago, that happened again, this time in the case of the Note 3. That, coupled with it getting caught posting fake reviews on HTC’s user reviews page must’ve tarnished its image to a lot of extent but now, its looking like the other companies aren’t any good either.

Dell has unveiled a successor to its flagship XPS 15 laptop and has made it even sleeker yet powerful than before.

The new XPS 15 comes with a 15 inch touch-enabled display with resolution of 3200 x 1800 pixels and the new 4th-generation Intel Haswell processors under the hood. Still, the entire package weighs in at just 4.4 pounds and is 18mm thin.

Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL), has inked an agreement with the CBA (Collective Bargaining Agent), extending numerous financial benefits to the employees, coupled with additional EOBI pension benefits safeguarding their post retirement life.

The agreement was signed at a ceremony held at PTCL Headquarters, which was attended by senior members of PTCL management and representative of the employees union.

Sindh government has plans to block instant messaging apps including Skype, Viber, WhatsApp, Tango and other similar applications for at least three months.

Sindh Information Minister Sharjeel Memon confirmed this during a press briefing today.

According to Sindh Minister, terrorists are using these instant messaging apps for communication. He said that terrorists are switching from conventional communication channel to internet based instant messaging and this is why his government has decided to ban these applications.

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Per facts that any of us now have, some sort of high-level committee has become made to help hasten this retail practice.

PTA Seeks Help from Citizens to Curb Grey Traffic

Pakistan Telecommunication Authority is now seeking help from community in identifying grey telephony.

Authority has said that it has taken numerous measures to curb the illegal international traffic that lands into Pakistan bypassing the legal routes. This illegal international incoming traffic is incurring huge financial loses to the government (and operators) because these illegal calls are not taxed.

Schneider Electric Energy Efficiency Roadshow Held in Islamabad

In association with applicable country wide electricity situation involving Pakistan, your national cash organised their 1st Schneider Electric’s ‘World of one's Productivity – for the greater Pakistan’ roadshow at the community lodge recently.

Your roadshow has placed within the patio umbrella advertising campaign Expertise Productivity for you to highlight the total electricity option stock portfolio involving Schneider Power underneath one particular ceiling.

Pakistan’s 1st, govt reinforced, multi-functional world-wide direction-finding technique are going to be exhibited by simply calendar year stop, explained your Chairman Pakistan Place along with Second Surroundings Analysis, Ahmed Bilal through an appointment using SOFTWARE.

Your Chairman SUPARCO explained make fish an understanding within this reverence has already been closed using BeiDou – a new China World-wide Navigational Satellite tv for pc Technique – even though terrain primarily based development technique are going to be 1st mounted throughout Karachi place all of which will get adjustable well-designed positive aspects.

Mobilink features presented speech made it possible for social websites assistance due to the buyers with the brand involving ‘Mobilink Bolay Facebook’.

Mobilink Bolay Zynga makes it possible for Mobilink buyers to write a communication as well as bring up to date a new reputation on the Zynga wall membrane just as one music report, without resorting to the connection to the internet.

To work with your assistance, Mobilink members should signup while using ‘Mobilink Bolay Facebook’ software through apps.facebook.com/bolaymobilink/

Upaisa to Introduce Debit Card, Mobile App, E-ticketing Service for Customers

Upaisa, the newly launched branchless banking service from Ufone, is coming with array of industry first service including Debit Card for its customers mainly the wallet account holders, Mobile App for retail agent and customers and E-ticketing services of different buses and airlines, this was stated by Taimur Cheema, GM Mobile Financial Services-Ufone, during a press briefing in Karachi.

All these facilities and services will be made available to customers in next few weeks which will help them getting benefits of advance features of branchless banking through Upaisa.

The wallet opening process has been made convenient. Furthermore, there has been innovation in pricing via reduction in charging slabs making it simpler for customers and Agents to remember.

Samsung is quite known for covering the basics and they’ve proved that once again by releasing the Galaxy Star Pro. The successor to the original Galaxy Star comes with a hugely improved 4 inch display with 800×480 resolution.

On the inside, it comes with a single-core 1Ghz Cortex A5 processor and 512 MB RAM, while the back comes with an equally measly 2 megapixel rear camera.

The phone runs on Android 4.1 Jelly Bean customized with Touchwiz. Battery capacity is set at 1500 mAh.

Play Store has Now Over 1 Million Malware Apps

f you are a desirous Play Store pioneer, who fondles to experiment with random Apps from Android Play Store regularly, then there is a firm chance that your phone has been compromised by one of the One Million high-risk malware apps existing on Play Store.

Security researcher, Gelo Abendan of Trend Micro has evidently unveiled that, the number of malicious content, malwares and high-risk application in Play Store has already hit 1 Million mark with still three month to spare before the year ends.

Trend Micro researchers had earlier foretold that, due to the high demand of Android devices, the malware count will reach 1Million mark by the end of 2013.

According to the researchers, FAKEINST and OPFAKE had topped the Mobile malware family, affecting the total of 64% of the mobile phones affected, in general, here is the statistics revealing the influence of each malware in making Android based phones, a High-risk choice for an individual.

International Roaming rates costs a fortune when travelling abroad with your local SIM card; Of course you could facilely avail a SIM card from your destined Country, but who bothers if you can use your local-country SIM outside your Home Country with no Roaming charges whatsoever. This is exactly what KnowRoaming‘s smart SIM card sticker lets you do.

The folks at KnowRoaming had developed a smart sticker that can be applied on the SIM card; it automatically connects you to your local mobile network when roaming internationally.

It is not as simple as it appears, as you know by now that KnowRoaming wants you to attach a sticker over your SIM card; it also requires an application for its operation.

The grey trafficking monitoring equipment installed earlier this month, after formal testing, was formally launched by the State Minister IT, Ms. Anusha Rahman yesterday at PTA Head Quarter, accompanied by Secretary IT, Mr. Akhlaq Ahmed Tarar, Chairman PTA, Dr. Ismail Shah and other officials of the Authority & Ministry of IT.

Talking on the occasion Minister of State for IT, Ms. Anusha Rahman apprised the Acting Chairman about the focus of the current government to curb the menace of grey traffic and as a result where of, the state of the art equipment now in place, should be efficiently and effectively used to block all illegitimate IPs, being used for grey trafficking, causing a huge loss of revenue to the government exchequer.

Having difficulties finding an ideal life partner? It’s time you look for your soul mate in the most unique and convenient way, says Warid.

With Warid Shaadi Portal the search for the perfect spouse will now be so much easier and absolutely hassle free. You can, not only record your proposal but also search, listen and contact potential partners from the comfort of your own home.

So what are you waiting for, hurry up and dial IVR 6464 now to find your better half today!

Pakistan Telecommunications Company Limited (PTCL) yesterday announced that it has submitted a non-binding offer to acquire 100 percent shares in Warid Telecom, reported Daily Times.

Announcement was made through a notice – also produced below — sent to Karachi Stock Exchange detailing that the non-binding offer for Warid’s acquisition will remain valid for one month.

Notice said that further proceeding with the transaction is subject to a number of conditions including completion of satisfactory due diligence, acquiring relevant regulatory approvals, acceptance of the offer and fulfilment of certain requirements and conditions necessary to close the transactions.

Intel Pakistan along with UNESCO Islamabad get closed a new Page involving Intent(LOI) permit cultural adjust along with create man cash throughout under-served areas throughout Pakistan.

Within the setting on this LOI, UNESCO Islamabad will certainly use Intel education and learning written content pertaining to start e-learning product employed in educational facilities; execute start specialized growth training determined by Intel Show Software, url Intel® Easy ways along with Intel® Entrepreneurship Principles study course written content for you to community UNESCO site.

Intel & UNESCO will certainly check out advocacy of such pursuits pertaining to the advantages of general public industry education and learning along with pertinent govt sectors.

Land Boss, Intel Pakistan, Naveed Siraj loved your collaborative tactic agreed upon relating to the a pair of companies.

No. 1 Nation in Sexy Web Searches? Call it Pornistan

They may call it the "Land of the Pure," but Pakistan turns out to be anything but.

The Muslim country, which has banned content on at least 17 websites to block offensive and blasphemous material, is the world's leader in online searches for pornographic material.

“You won’t find strip clubs in Islamic countries. Most Islamic countries have certain dress codes,” said Gabriel Said Reynolds, professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Notre Dame. “It would be an irony if they haven’t shown the same vigilance to pornography.”

Pakistan maintains top slot in Google search for 'sex'

Narrowing the analytics for the search term to just 2011, Pakistan maintains the number one position, followed by India and Vietnam.

With over 20 million internet users and growing fast, Pakistan has managed to secure the number one slot for searching the term ‘sex’ globally for all years.

According to a 2010 Fox News report, Pakistan had outranked all countries in Google searches for pornographic terms last year. Narrowing the analytic for the search term to just 2011, Pakistan maintained the number one position, followed by India and Vietnam.

Islamabad featured in the top 10 cities worldwide to search the word ‘sex’ in September and December 2011.

What Pakistan Searches? (Google Trends Pakistan):

The post is related to Pakistan and its people and especially bloggers who are interested in that what Pakistani search on Net. So here is the list of words which Pakistanis mostly look for on Net. The data is up to date (July-2013).

Allah:

Pakistan ranks first in googling the word Allah on the net. People search it for Hamds, Naats and for 99 Names of Allah.

Muhammad (Not Muhammed):

The word Muhammad is searched by the Pakistanis the most. We Rank Number one in searching it. Muhammad Ali, Hazrat Muhammad, naat are famous related searches.

Hadith (Hadees):

It feels that Pakistanis are too religious. We top in searching the word Hadith or Hadees. Related Searches are Bukhari Hadith, Sahih Hadith, and Urdu Hadith.

As we reported last week, Dr. Syed Ismail Shah and Mr.Tariq Sultan have assumed the charge of Chairman, Pakistan Telecommunication Authority and Member (Finance) of PTA respectively, said a statement issued by the regulator.

The Government in compliance with the Honorable Supreme Court’s orders has appointed three Members in PTA through a competitive process. Dr. Syed Ismail Shah was appointed Member (Technical) and given acting charge of the Chairman PTA, the statement said.

Dr. Syed Ismail Shah has an Engineering Bachelors from Pakistan and Ph.D in Electrical Engineering from University of Pittsburgh, PA, USA. He brings with him rich experience of both private and government sector.

Nokia has announced the availability of relatively affordable the Nokia Lumia 625.

Nokia has said that Telenor customers can avail the exclusive djuice offer of 2 months free internet by purchasing Nokia Lumia 625 from anywhere in Pakistan. The Nokia Lumia 625 delivers high-speed entertainment to a wide audience through a large 4.7-inch super-sensitive LCD screen which adds to the entertainment experience.

The Nokia Lumia 625 sports the the typical Nokia Lumia design and comes with the option of five coloured changeable shells, which adds vibrancy to the Live Tile personalization brought by Windows Phone 8.

Nowadays, many mobile users choose to view videos online. The new video content apps on Nokia Lumia 625 add a contemporary appeal to online video viewing. It also has Internet Explorer 10 which makes it ideal for viewing videos and playing games.

Mobilink Foundation has initiated relief operations in Baluchistan as a means of alleviating the distress of those affected by the recent earthquake. A severe shortage of food has resulted in starvation in the worse affected areas.

As part of its initial effort, Mobilink Foundation will be collaborating with the Government of Baluchistan to distribute food assistance to over 7,000 victims in various relief camps in the vicinity of Awaraan and surrounding areas.

As part of the collaboration, the Government of Baluchistan will ensure safe passage for Mobilink Foundation’s relief caravans en route to relief camps in Awaraan.

The Sindh Police and Rangers will be engaged to provide security from Karachi to Lasbela, following which the Pakistan Army will provide escort up to the designated relief distribution points.

Meet XGear, a First of its Kind Car-Human Communication Link, Developed by Pakistanis

The way we interact with technology has changed drastically over the last few years. Just think of it, what were our perceptions of phones and other gadgets just 10 years ago and what are they now? No doubt that our devices are getting more and more integrated into our lives, and becoming a part of it.

Yet, one tech item which we interact with (daily) remains an outsider. That is our car.

It is agreeable that nowadays you can monitor the position of your car from anywhere through a GPS – through tracker companies or by deploying your own GPS device into the car — but that’s pretty much about it.

You never know what’s going on the inside, how does your car ‘feel’ or how is it performing.

XGear, the brainchild of a start up called One Step Solutions, is pretty much hoping to solve your the problem.

The product is made all-more interesting by the fact that it’s made by some Pakistani guys and is largely developed in Pakistan too. I had the chance to sit with Mr. Ahmed Khalid, the co-founder and CEO of the company, recently who was kind enough to grant me an email interview.

China Mobile Pakistan, popularly known as Zong, has been honored with the ‘Fastest Growing Cellular Network’ Award for the year 2013 by Rawalpindi Chamber of Commerce and Industry (RCCI) at the prestigious 26th Achievement Awards Ceremony held recently.

The chief guest on the occasion was the honorable President of Pakistan, Mr. Mamnoon Hussain.

Zong, part of the China Mobile – largest Telecom operator in the world, started its operations only a few years back in 2008, has taken a giant leap in the competitive market of telecom services by introducing customer-centric services for different segments of mobile phone users.

Glow by Warid is offering its subscribers 10,000 free minutes, SMS, and MBs mobile internet.

Those Glow customers who have not used their SIM for at least 30 days can avail the benefits of this offer by reactivating their SIMs.

This offer will allow Glow Subscribers to not only meet their needs and help them reconnect with friends, but to still have enough in their wallets to grab a treat or two.

Mobilink Foundation Torchbearers (employee volunteers) extended their support to residents of Dar-ul-Sukun, Karachi as a means of assisting communities with special needs.

Torchbearers engaged in various interactive activities including painting competitions, games and distribution of goodies bags. The initiative reached out to over 230 disabled and socially displaced adults and children.

Pakistan, among the top 5 targets of US National Security Agency, has taken steps to secure its cyber front, said a recently published report by “The News”.

Considering the revelations made by Edward Snowden, it was established that NSA may penetrate into Pakistani cyber space again to steal sensitive data relating to Pakistan, its domestic politics, strategic and economic interests and its nuclear programs, by tapping into computer networks of Internet service providers such as email, video-sharing, voice-over-IPs, chats and social networking websites.

Although keeping updated with all the industry wants, Ufone has now begun a web site creating amenity referred to as the particular Ufone Enterprise Internet site program.

Using this – certainly one of the sort program from your telco — personal along with tiny and also method organizations should be able to start their particular specialist sites simply by pursuing merely some simple actions.

With all the benefits with this program, absolutely free themes will not have to pay out large charges to make a internet site and further pay out too much fees regarding keeping that.

14 IT companies are planning to participate at Middle East Africa and South Asia’s (MEASA) top ICT event GITEX Technology Week 2013, which is taking place from October 20-24, 2013 at Dubai World Trade Centre.

Pakistan’s premier conference production company Terrabiz is the Country Sales Agent for GITEX 2013.

Pakistani companies participating this year include: A2Z Creatorz; AGCN Pakistan; Central Depository Company; Dockland Technologies Pakistan; EfroTech Services; Generix Solutions; InfoTech.; Intelligenes; ITMinds; Royal Cyber Inc.; Softech Microsystems,121 Viral, Systems Limited and Beaconimpex.

Dell has become another Microsoft OEM to drop the Windows RT platform as it pulls its XPS 10 tablet from the shelves.

This leaves Microsoft as the only company which is still making tablets running on Windows RT now.

Dell’s official website now lists XPS 10 Tablet, which is a 10 inch tablet running on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon S4 processor, as “unavailable”. It instead recommends users to buy the Latitude 10, another 10-inch tablet but running on Windows 8, thanks to an Intel Atom processor.

Dr. Syed Ismail Shah has been appointed as the Chairman of Pakistan Telecommunication Authority, a high-level source has just confirmed us.

Mr. Tariq Sultan will be the member Finance at the PTA, the source added.

As a regulatory requirement, Dr. Syed Ismail Shah was initially appointed as Member Technical, but was soon promoted to the Chairmanship of the authority.

Summary for the above mentioned appointments has been approved by the Cabinet Division, and notification is being prepared as of now and will be issued by day end today.

Third member compliance and Co-ordination was not announced. It is likely that slot for member compliance may never get filled before required legal amendments in the Telecom Act.

Ericsson Unveils a Small Portable Device That Can Amplify Cellular Signals

This is a common phenomena If you are many of those people – most certainly you are – Who has been thwarted with the lack of mobile network coverage at your home, office or any other place you relish to visit often, then apparently, there is good news for you.

Ericsson, today, has unveiled its new device that is adequate enough to fit in your pocket, whilst providing enough indoor network coverage for the mobile phones same time.

As per the capability of this device it can carry cellular signals to even the most hard-to-penetrate parts of any building. The device has launched after the two years of research and development and incorporates 14 patents.

A petition filed by cellular companies for lifting the ban on night packages has been accepted for hearing in Honorable Supreme Court of Pakistan.

While expressing its surprises over Pakistan Telecommunication Authority’s decision, the court said that why PTA always believed that people would use the facility only for romantic chat and immoral purposes.

It maybe recalled that Pakistan Telecommunication Authority had banned night packages that cellular companies offered to their subscribers. PTA had said that the ban was imposed after receiving complaints from Supreme Court of Pakistan, Standing Committee of the Parliament, senators, MNAs and subscribers regarding the promotion of vulgarity and immorality through night packages.

In an unveiling event for the latest Galaxy devices in South Korea, Samsung chiefs let it be known to the press that their first ever smartphone with a curved display will arrive in October. Unluckily, no more details were given on the spot but since its less than a week left for September to end, we can wait.

To secure its design, the company has already filed a patent for a device with gentle curves towards the edges.

NO doubt, who can forget that Samsung has already shown off a prototype phone with an OLED display type and curved edges, back in January. The curved part in that particular instant showed notifications.

Now, you are may be thinking that haven’t this technology already implemented in smartphones such as the Galaxy Nexus, Galaxy S Advance and the Nexus S already? Well, then your memory skills are commendable but the thing which was unconventional in that instant was the glass, not the screen actually.

But whatever the case, if the ergonomics really are helpful, the technology is incorporated cleverly and (as is the custom with Samsung) not gimmicky, this can truly become the next big thing for the cell phone market and it can capture the market.

Android Turns Five

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That’s considerably in view that one half about ten years ago, not one person obtained noticed nearly anything labeled Mobile.

Perfectly it going for 23rd Sept '08, if Bing, HTC plus T-Mobile teamed about proclaimed a T-Mobile G1 (foreign term HTC Goal), world’s initially cell phone going for Mobile.

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