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Droid Does, BlackBerry Doesn’t…And Vice-Versa
Yesterday I received a Motorola Milestone (the EU version of the Droid) for testing purposes kindly offered by a local store. Faithful readers should be aware I’ve been using a BlackBerry Bold lately and definitely loved it. At the same time, I’m a geek and early adopter so I’m very curious to test this... »
Massachusetts Miracle in the Making
Came across a patriotic video that will have your patriotic heart soaring – at least for the first 42 seconds. After that, how you view this video depends on how you view the current Obama administration. The premise of the video is how on April, 19, 1775 Americans first fought the British... »
Samsung Wins 23 ICES Innovation Awards
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., an established leader and innovator in consumer electronics, I.T. and Telecom, has won International CES 2010 Innovations Awards for 23 different products, including three best of innovation awards. Samsung has won more than 100 CES Innovation Awards in three years, for multiple product categories like; TVs, home theater, digital audio,... »
Kaira Calls For Help to Hunza Landslide Victims: Telenor Presents Rs. 2 mln For Affectees
Minister for Information and Broadcasting Qamar Zaman Kaira Thursday asked civil society, corporate sector and philanthropists to come forward and help government in its relief and rehabilitation effort for victims of recent land-slide in Attabad, Hunza. The Minister, who is also Governor of Gilgit-Baltistan was talking to Vice President Corporate Affairs of Telenor,... »
US, Pakistan Further Expand Bilateral Cooperation in IT Field
The U.S and Pakistani officials agreed to enhance bilateral cooperation in the fields of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and evolving a cooperation program for deploying socially relevant services using mobile phones and other IT platforms. This was agreed during the meeting of Ambassador Richard Holbrooke Special Representative of US for Afghanistan and Pakistan and... »
5 Cricketers in Pakistan Squad for the Under-19 World Cup discovered by Mobilink Hunt for Heroes
Mobilink, Pakistan’s market leader in cellular services and part of Orascom Telecom Holdings wishes all the best to the Pakistan Under-19 squad for the upcoming ICC Under-19 World Cup in New Zealand. Mobilink feels greatly honored to have discovered and groomed 5 young talents in the 15-member squad through the Mobilink Hunt for Heroes... »
Jazz SMS Khazana
A treasure awaits at your fingertips. Now with “Jazz SMS Khazana” you can win exciting cash prizes sitting at home. Just send a blank SMS to 5555 and you can win Rs. 50,000 daily, Rs. 5,00,000 weekly or even get a chance to win the grand prize of Rs. 50,00,000! So why wait? Start... »
In the First Week, Google May Have Sold 20,000 Nexus One Phones
When I spoke with Google’s mobile boss, Andy Rubin, he said that Google would be happy to sell about 150,000 Nexus One devices. That number, he said, would be enough for the Google Phone to get in front of a majority of American phone buyers who might want to take a look at it.... »
How Google Ranks Tweets: I Disagree
Today I came accross an interesting interview to Amit Singhal from Google, lead developer of Google’s real-time search. He explained how a “tweet” is ranked by Google and why a uses has a higher reputation than another user. Amit’s analysis is pretty clear: the approach used by Google is very similar to the one used... »
Ufone Background Music Service
Ufone Background music lets you play music and sound effects in the background of your call. You can play your favorite song in the background, or the sound of the beach, a market place and many more. So stop making those boring calls and personalize your conversations by playing music that matches the mood in... »
Telecom Sector Showing Positive Trend – PTA Annual Report 2008-09
Out of the top four cellular players Ufone has been the biggest impetus behind the Cellular industry’s 17% growth as declared by PTA in its annual report for the year 2008-2009. Ufone’s is at the top with an astounding revenue growth of 46% during past year. The report states that cellular telecom sector in Pakistan... »
Packet8 Service Down
Almost exactly one year ago 8X8’s Packet8 VoIP service suffered a major outage due to DNS issues. It now appears that both their domains 8×8.com and www.packet8.net are down. But more importantly their VoIP phone service is down. Stay tuned while I try and find out more… Update #1: from Joan Citelli Director,... »
How To Get A Google Nexus One Outside Of The US (part 2)
A few days ago I wrote a post on how to get a Google Nexus one in countries where it is not officially available yet, thanks to some simple tricks. Today, I want to share another way to get a Nexus One outside of the US. As of today, Florida-based Global Roaming is shipping worldwide... »
PocketMac Rescues Smartphones from the Toilet
Admit it, you’ve come close to doing the unthinkable – you text on your phone and surf the web while in the bathroom and when you get up to flush, your beloved phone slips out of your hand, your shirt pocket, or pants pocket and heads toward the toilet. You see your... »
Best BackPack For 17″ Laptops: Booq Mamba Shift L
After getting my new 17″ MacBook Pro, a big problem arised: my backpack was not 17″-ready, but up to 13″ only. Since that MacBook is a precious and delicate thing, I started my research for a new backpack. After some Googling, I came accross a few reviews of the Booq Mamba Shift L, a backpack... »
E-Bond Trading Platform to Create Wider Investor: Syed Salim Raza
Governor, State Bank of Pakistan, Syed Salim Raza on Monday said that Electronic Bond Trading Platform will enhance investors’ base of the sovereign debt market as it would attract investors from the non-banking sector as well resulting in higher liquidity in the government securities. Speaking at the launching ceremony of this bond here at State... »
British Council Focussing on Digital Technology in Pakistan
The head of British Government agency that promotes the use of information and communications technology has appreciated the computer usage in Pakistan and said the country has a good level of computer literacy. Stephen Crowne, Chief Executive, BECTA, was speaking to the members of the international media at the opening of the three-day “The... »
Will 2010 Finally Be the Year of Location?
For most of the first decade of the new century, we all talked about the emergence of location-based services. These services, leveraging GPS chips, were going to revolutionize the world. I remember hearing numerous pitches that envisioned Starbucks offering coupons when you walked by the store. But the future, it seemed, was taking its... »
PNG Restructures for All-Business Focus
PowerNet Global (PNG), a service provider based in Cincinnati, announced Monday it has begun to restructure its organization and workforce to focus on business, rather than residential opportunities going forward. The change will have no impact on the company’s current residential customers nor its indirect sales agents selling into the …(277 words) ... »
Will 2010 Finally be the Year of Location?
For most of the first decade of the new century, we all talked about the emergence of location-based services. These services, leveraging GPS chips, were going to revolutionize the world. I remember hearing numerous pitches that envisioned Starbucks offering coupons when you walked by the store. But the future, it seemed, was taking its... »
How To Get A Google Nexus One EVERYWHERE Now
Early adopter? Android fan? Google lover? Ok, You want a Nexus One, the new, powerful, Google phone, right? And you are frustrated since you live in a country where Google doesn’t ship, correct? Many of you, me included, get the following message when try to access http://www.google.com/phone Well, a guy found a pretty easy way to... »
Nokia tries to reinvent itself: Can the world’s largest handset-maker regain the initiative?
Ask Finns about their national character and chances are the word sisu will come up. It is an amalgam of steadfastness and diligence, but also courage, recklessness and fierce tenacity. “It takes sisu to stand at the door when the bear is on the other side,” a folk saying goes. There are plenty of bears... »
Iridium: Why I’m Buying This Forgotten Communications Company
Gerry Sullivan submits: I bought Iridium (IRDM) today. I had purchased the offering at $10 back in September 2009. At that time it was GHL Acquisition Co., but right after the offering it changed the corporate name to Iridium and the symbol changed to IRDM. This is a classic pop and flop. ... »
Fonality Serves up 1 Billion Cloud VoIP Calls?
Today, Fonality announced it has served up its 1 billionth cloud call on their hosted VoIP platform called UNBOUND. UNBOUND is Fonality’s fully hosted cloud phone system and VoIP service solution and starts at $24.99/mo. Of course, Fonality also offers fully premise-based IP-PBX solutions as well. I like Fonality and the Fonality team, including Chris... »
Cell Phones Do a Body (& Mind) Good
Well, well well – it appears that cell phone radiation isn’t all that bad; brain cancer be damned! You see, a recent study showed that electromagnetic radiation exposed to mice actually reversed Alzheimer’s disease and improved cognitive capabilities. So you see, you are smarter the more you use your smartphone. According to... »
Tweefind Chrome Extension Now Available
We just published a Google Chrome extension which puts our realtime twitter search engine Tweefind at your fingertip. You can quickly search Twitter through Tweefind and results, ordered by users’ rank, are displayed and updated in realtime. More features are coming soon, this is just the first attempt to make Tweefind searches through Chrome more... »
Asterisk’s Growth Shines at ITEXPO
Asterisk just may be the #1 transforming VoIP company for the now past ’00s “aughts” decade, which is quite appropriate when you consider Asterisk in many respects costs $0 dollars due to being open source. Of course, nothing is truly free in this world. If you download and install Asterisk yourself for your company... »
Truphone Comes to Android – But no VoIP over 3G
Truphone fans will be happy to hear that the popular VoIP application now works on Android mobile handsets, though support for the new Google Nexus One is coming soon. Truphone’s new Android application enables free calls to other Truphone, Skype and Google Talk users – though only over Wi-Fi and not 3G. I don’t... »
Google Nexus One Review
The Nexus One. In the modern climate of hyped (and over-hyped) smartphone launches, Google’s official entry into the phone-sales game has excelled in a department where many find difficulty: generating legitimate excitement. Of course, long before the name Nexus One or the recent bounty of pictures and details existed, the very concept of a... »
Telenor Persona Teamtalk Offer Persona Karobar
Telenor Persona Karobar has gained enormous in the SME sector of Pakistan. Now keeping in mind the growing needs of communication with business partners Persona Karobar package brings an other industry first offer for its customers and their business partners. Now with Teamtalk offer Persona Karobar customers can make free calls to their business partners... »