RIM already going through the tough roads maintaining its market share and fighting the difficulties coming its way have recently unveiled their version of tablet, the BlackBerry Playbook. To see how BlackBerry looks and with its PlayBook, watch the sneak-peak video at their home page.

Cellular subscribers in Pakistan have surpassed 100 million mark, though we don’t have official stats from PTA yet, however, APP has reported that Mr. Yousaf Raza Gilani, Prime Minister of Pakistan has congratulated PTA on achieving this land mark.

Dr. Mohammed Yaseen who presented him SIMS of five operators to commemorate the 100 millionth subscription.

Ufone has increased the limit of text messages, its subscribers can send with Ufone fortnightly SMS package.
Earlier, fortnightly SMS package allowed 1,000 text messages in 14 days, which is now increased to 2,500 SMS in same time duration at same charges.

Ufone’s fortnightly package is liked by those who are not text messaging freaks, however, they send occasional messages for their communication needs.

Ericsson Pakistan organized a seminar on “Connected World”, aimed at creating awareness about improved life styles and overall economical health as well as business opportunities made possible by mobile broadband including the exciting consumer experiences that lay ahead with mobile broadband.

Interesting case studies around machine to machine (M2M) were shared with the audience while focusing on the fact that anything and everything can be part of a “Connected World.” The seminar was attended more than two hundred representatives, decision-makers and influential industry players from telecom operators, Ministry of IT & Telecom, the regulator, government bodies including the armed forces and media.

There are several ways of connecting PC to TV. Some users use usual TV tuner cards for displaying their PC’s output on TV, while others use S-Video mode or otherwise through dedicated graphics card installed in PCs.

Mr. Zeshan Qureshi and Mr.Roy Chang along with the HHP and PR team at the announcement of Galaxy Tab , which is the first mobile tablet with the most powerful smart phone features, a brilliant 7-inch enhanced TFT display screen and 1GHz Hummingbird Application processor supporting 3D graphics.
To know more about Samsung Galaxy Tab, click here

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Link to download Fring for ur Mobile:http://m.getjar.com/mobile/11160/fring-video-calls-calls-and-live-chat/

Son of a top person in government is allegedly hindering the way of multiple companies for deploying undersea cable, just to maintain the monopoly of existing operators, reported ‘The Nation’ today.
Nation, in its report alleged that existing three undersea fiber optic cable operators have joined hands with the said person to block the road for any upcoming operators.
Following is the excerpt of report produced by ‘The Nation’

Last week, on the floor of National Assembly, Minister for Privatization, Mr. Waqar Ahmed Khan was asked to present fact and figures on Etisalat’s pending payment, and the steps being taken by the Ministry to recover the said amount from the purchaser.

In response to which, Mr. Waqar Ahmed Khan told the house on September 23rd, 2010 that Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) was privatized through sale of 26 percent shares for US$ 2,598,960,000 along with transfer of management control.

Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) in collaboration with NUST School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (SEECS) and Internet Society (ISOC) Pakistan Chapter hosted an exclusive remote participation hub for fifth annual IGF Meeting at SEECS, Islamabad.

The event was organized keeping in view the dire need of Internet Governance issues understanding and
capacity building among the youth and Internet professionals.

The Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) has said that under its corporate social responsibility, it has provided 500 Free Vfone telephone service sets at flood relief camps in Sindh and Balochistan in support for the flood affected people.

A PTCL statement said the IDPs living in relief camps could now make free unlimited local and national calls and stay in touch with rest of the community and their relatives.

I read an article about Google Maps last year on ProPakistani. Recently I used the latest version 3.0 of Google maps for mobiles phones. It has come with the new improved additions which consist of many cool features like, Google Latitude, Street Views, and Map Views etc.

It’s been quite a while since I got any chance to play around with a Nokia Smartphone mainly because they were getting really repetitive in terms of software, but recently I got a chance to get my hands on the Nokia C5 and I have to say Nokia has done a good job in making a sleek looking Symbian Smartphone with all the necessary features for the road and at a very reasonable price tag.

A devastating disaster larger than recent three natural disasters (Indian Ocean Tsunami, Pakistan Earthquake & Haiti Earthquake) have left an impact over 20 million people in Pakistan.

A huge area almost equal to the size of UK, still in disturbance with settlements, livestock & crops washed away leaving a threatening situation for the country that highly relies on its agriculture industry.

Islamabad – September 18, 2009: Living up to its commitment of introducing the most innovative and tech savvy services, Ufone one of the leading telecom companies of Pakistan, is proud to bring you the most affordable and exciting BlackBerry yet.

What is Max99? Pakistan’s first MiM (Mobile Instant Messenger)Max99 is a global community software that lets you keep in touch with your friends and family and make New Ones right on your mobile.
This Max99 is launched from Islamabad Pakistan. This is a java based mobile application and can be installed on the following compatible products

Mobilink Pakistan has added BlackBerry Storm 9500 to their profile. With Feel BlackBerry Storm you can feel the power of the smartphone. The BlackBerry Storm smartphone’s funky touch screen is supple, responds instantly to your touch and lets you type, navigate and browse at speed. Its 3.25″ screen is also high-resolution and wide-screen, bringing your pictures and video to life.

There are many internet resources available around which make this possible to send a fax staright from your browser. Some of these resources offer free trial or completly free fax service. One service worth mentioning is a TPC which offer 100% free fax services. TPC fax services can be either used via a browser or via a simple email.

1. To send a fax via browser just visit TPC FAX page and enter all the required information as shown in the screenshot.You need to enter recipient name and number and your message.

The new beta version of iOS 4.2 have many issues in it and some of these are being exploited by the developers at iModZone who are able to install cracked apps on iOS 4.2 without Jailbreaking iPhone, iPad and iPod. They have an app call iPA God.  The app will enable users to install cracked apps without the need to jailbreak their iPhone, iPod touchor iPad. The website plans to charge under $20 for this app and distribute it via ad hoc.

if you are looking for an easy JailBreak for any of your devices like iPhone 4 , iPod touch or iPad it is now very easy than ever before. Now one do not need to download any software or connect your device to your PC or Mac.

The solution is very simple. Just visit JailBreakMe.com by comex et al in your mobile Safari application. There you’ll be prompt with a simple slide-to-jailbreak screen.  Just after slide it will automatically do the rest of the job and will jailbreak your device. Be aware that you jailbreak at your own risk and you are fully responsible what you aredoing. It’s often best to wait a few days for any first generation bug fixes to propagate out, if needed.

Is JailBreak legal in US?

Yes as per new DMCA exemption was approved by the Library of Congress.
JailbreakMe 2.0: Jailbreak iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, iPhone 3G, and iPad on iOS 4, iOS 4.0.1, and iPad iOS 3.2.1

There is a mouse and cat game going on between the Apple and the people working on jailbreaks for iOS 4. Recently a web-based jail breaking tool by JailBreakMe.com exploited the PDF vulnerability of the iOS and allowed the iPhone 4 and iPod touch users to Jailbreak their device. Apple had issued a fix to stop this jail breaking tool and also blocked this website in their stores. According to the JailBreakMe.com developers their code is open source and any one can further use/host it with GNU terms and conditions.

NetSol Technologies Ltd., today announced that it has agreed upon terms for a new global framework agreement with a blue chip captive auto finance company.
This global framework is another feather in NetSol’s cap.

National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST) School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (SEECS) is organizing a workshop on “Mobile Banking/Commerce Opportunities and Challenges” on October 12, 2010.

Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) and Comsats Institute of Information Technology have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in order to promote the telecom research that would be beneficial not only for both the organizations but also for the country.

Jazz brings an exciting offer with Jazz Na Qabil-e-Yaqeen Offer, which gives you the freedom to make unlimited calls for 24 Hours on 3 Friends & Family numbers. Daily rental for this offer is Rs. 6.99 plus tax per day.

Android smartphones have recently flooded the market and there are so many to choose from, but the problem is; they are too expensive. This is where the HTC Wildfire comes in, it’s an entry level Android smartphone from HTC, it’s cheap, it’s small and sexy, and having spend some time with it recently, here’s a full review of the phone including my take and views on it, check it out.

It looks Mobilink is planning something for September 28th.

On this day, All Jazz customers who have not used their sims between Aug 1st and Sep 27th can activate their SIMs and get 200 free on-net minutes and a chance become one out of 100 winners for a cash prize of Rs. 100,000.

It takes a brave manufacturer to launch a flagship phone at the same time Apple unleashes its latest iPhone, but that’s exactly what Samsung did. Not once, but twice. First with the Samsung Wave, featuring its own Bada OS, and then with its high-end Android phone, the Galaxy S.

That might put a bit of a dampener on sales, but what it can’t do is dent our opinion of its latest handset: where the Wave was disappointing, the Galaxy S is a cracker of a phone.

Lahore High Court has suspended Prime Minister’s advisor on Telecom and IT, Sardar Mohammad Latif Khan Khosa’s order, in which he had fired 6 ICT R&D Fund directors allegedly for not accepting advisor’s brother-in-law as Fund’s CEO, reported Daily Jang.

A long awaited arrival, Nokia 5800 XpressMusic was one smartphone that the masses wanted their hands on. On January 23^rd, it finally went on sale and it blew the markets off their feet in a record time. This attention seeking phone was the first S60 5^th edition touch control phone and therefore, the arrival created a gigantic hype in the market even before it’s released.

Mobilink Indigo is offering “International Call Offer”, that allows its subscribers to call USA, UK and Canada for only 89 paisas for an entire minute, while 11 other destinations at Rs 1.39 /min.

This offer comes in two sets, both containing discounts on calls made to 5 and 11 destinations respectively.
Both sets are charged at a fixed monthly rental separately. Below are more details on tariff:

Qubee has launched broadband USB device “Qubee Shuttle”, the most reliable, state-of-the-art device in the market so far, as claimed by the company in a statement issued today.
 Reportedly, device was well tested before official launch. Internal reports suggest the device performs pretty smooth even in less covered areas.

The Cellular companies in Pakistan are providing Jobs to thousands of people in different areas of their organizations, This includes but not limited to Engineering, Call Centers, Marketing, HR, Operations, Accounts and many others.

Vacancies for jobs are advertised in Newspapers, through online portals, or sometimes people are hired by internal references. Today we are going to give you a short review about the Online Career portals of these Telcos.

iPhone 2G and 3G were the market turning and booming devices in Pakistani handset market. When people came to know about the highly sensitive touch-based phones with multi-dimensional features like playing 3D games – we saw them rushing for iPhone devices, which are now easily available in all markets of Pakistan. Moreover, dropping prices of used plus unlocked iPhones have helped people buy this device with financial comfort.

Apple today has unveiled the next generation of their iPod lineup at “It’s only rock and roll” event. Steve Jobs got back to the stage and the lead the event.

Just like we promised in our previous post for GPRS settings for Android handsets, here’s a complete set of MMS settings for Telenor, Zong, Mobilink and Warid, we couldn’t get hold of Ufone’s MMS settings for now.
Sorry we took a little while to get this one up, we had to test out the settings and confirm they were working before we could share them with you.

Just like the GPRS settings, MMS settings were possible all because of Haris Nadeem from AndroidPakistan.com, he put in quite a lot of time to make these settings work.

Pakistan Telecommunication Authority has become taxable, as per Finance Act, 1997, and is bound to pay taxes to FBR every year, revealed us sources close to authority.

Earlier, PTA had been arguing that authority is a Government body and all revenues go directly into Government’s account; hence, it should not be taxed. In a result PTA didn’t pay taxes for over or around ten years.

HTC is very well known for quality handsets or rather in some cases I would call them premium quality handsets. Over here in Pakistan owning a smartphone for some might be a no brainer in many cases but for all those tech geeks out there, the HTC Desire is a smartphone worth giving a shot to.

Growing internet users in Pakistan, emergence and then dominance of social networks in our daily life coupled with development of local content has unleashed the opportunity for businesses to market their products over cyberspace.

Pakistan is widely viewed as a telecom market dominated by low ARPU users, with subscribers spending an average of just $2 to $3 a month on mobile services.

Public Accounts Committee has directed to put name of former Chairman Pakistan Telecom Authority (PTA) Shahzada Alam on Exit control List, freeze all his assets in Pakistan and to conduct detailed audit for his specific duration in PTA, said Geo TV.

Report said that members of the PAC met chairman committee Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan during the sitting of the Public Accounts Committee to review the audit objections of the Cabinet Division for the year 2007-08.
Number of audit paras in connection with the Pakistan Telecom Authority (PTA), were presented before the committee, following which the chairman committee expressed his deep concerns.

Djuice is offering its “din raat” customers, boltay jao offer that allows calls to all FnF at an Rs. 1.5+tax/hour and on-net numbers will be FREE after 2 minutes, 24 hours a day!!!
This offer comes at a subscription fee of Rs. 4 with three days validity.

Telenor’s Internet.more TVC got mixed response from masses; however, almost all bloggers expressed their disapproval over highly noised advert.

Arsalan Mir opined that ad was not only a cheap attempt by agency but also an irresponsible attitude from Telenor, while Mudassar Mufti questioned Telenor’s TVC by comparing it with ‘Karo Mumkin Campaign’ and how both the faces of Telenor contradict each other.

Ufone is now offering its postpaid customers to call at Rs. 3 plus tax per hour from 12 AM to 5 PM to 5 FNF numbers.


This is long awaited treat for postpaid customers, who are usually neglected for incentives and offerings.
This is also first of its kind offer that allows hourly calling for postpaid segment. Though postpaid market is usually considered as corporate and business class, who may not afford calling for hours (in terms of time), still we will have to see how will audience respond to this promotion.

Ufone’s Uth Non-Stop Offer, that allowed round the clock free calls to all Ufone numbers after first two minutes is further extended for a month, starting from September 14th, 2010.

This special offer for Uth subscribers was valid till Ramadan 27th, and hence it got expired tonight at 11:59 PM.
However, now Ufone has extended this offer from September 14th, 2010 to October 14th, 2010, without any charges for re-activation.

Now make calls for 45 paisa per 30 seconds to the UK (landline only), USA (landline and mobile) and Canada (landline and mobile) without any daily charges.

Mobilink has introduced “International JAZZ Load” in collaboration with ezetop for its valued customers, enabling its customers to recharge Jazz accounts from international destinations.
customers can top-up the JAZZ Connection of your loved ones in Pakistan, from UK, USA, Spain, UAE and Saudi Arabia. This service will soon be available in more international destinations.

Dawn, The Nation, Jang, Express and other major mainstream paper had their e-paper for long; however, ‘The News’ was left behind in this.

“Hum Sab Umeed Say Hain”, a hilarious program aired on Geo TV, presented the state of land-line customers after PTCL strike.
In this skit, a customer is shown in miserable condition with no option but to join the workers’ strike. Watch and Enjoy!

It looks Mobilink is pleased with how ‘Bemisaal Ramdan’ performed, as it has offered again almost a similar promotion called ‘Jazz Non Stop Call Mast’, which allows free on-net calls after two minutes – round the clock.

Eid festival, flood, earthquake, national emergency or in case of any other public event, we have seen our cellular operators performing below average in terms of call connectivity and voice quality.
In case of traffic spikes, cellular subscribers face network congestion of mobile networks and most common user observations are:

• Calls not connected (international and sometimes local calls as well like in peak hours)
• Cellular Network not available
• Local “Powered Off” tapes are running, while you call international numbers
• You might also face “Powered Off” tapes running suddenly during the call.

Telenor Pakistan has introduced data bucket or GPRS bundles for its prepaid and postpaid customers.
Prepaid customers can sign up for daily, weekly or monthly plans, while postpaid customers can avail GPRS bundles of 10 MB, 50 MB or unlimited bandwidth in a month.

 Earlier, Telenor was offering this 5 MB data bucket for one day subscription only, which is now revised and offered with 3 MB data limit.

Prepaid GPRS/EDGE Bundles:

Android handsets are starting to see the light of day in Pakistan but sadly the cellular networks over here or more precisely the customer care people aren’t aware of their GPRS/EDGE settings, while Androids don’t accept automated settings messages.

Ufone along with Nokia has come up with an attractive deal for Nokia C3 users. Now you can connect to the world internet for Rs. 10/hour + Tax with infinite downloads exclusively on the new Nokia C3 handset, and enjoy services like Email, Chat and Social Networking.

Nokia World 2010, handset maker’s annual party, is being held in London in middle of crisis, when company’s Chief Executive Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo is removed while no 2 guy at Nokia, Anssi Vanjoki, person responsible for company’s smartphone business, resigned just before the event.

Nokia World 2010, handset maker’s annual party, is being held in London in middle of crisis, when company’s Chief Executive Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo is removed while no 2 guy at Nokia, Anssi Vanjoki, person responsible for company’s smartphone business, resigned just before the event.

Nokia World 2010, handset maker’s annual party, is being held in London in middle of crisis, when company’s Chief Executive Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo is removed while no 2 guy at Nokia, Anssi Vanjoki, person responsible for company’s smartphone business, resigned just before the event.

Nokia World 2010, handset maker’s annual party, is being held in London in middle of crisis, when company’s Chief Executive Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo is removed while no 2 guy at Nokia, Anssi Vanjoki, person responsible for company’s smartphone business, resigned just before the event.

The issue of UPS (Uninterrupted Power Supply) has already been discussed here before, but we thought of adding more information to what we had already said.

Market dynamism and product innovation always fill the stores with improved and new versions of various products every now and then. Anyways, this dynamism does not change some of the basic principles that may be important to consider before purchasing inverter with Backup Battery. We will try to cover some of new salient points in this article post.

Motherboards specifications have gained sheer importance espeically in this age of high definition games and intense memory requiring operations with high data rate busses , high data transfer rates, high graphic cards busses , dual channel and DDR3 rams and the list goes on.

Everyone is going laptop these days. Hence, one must be familiar with few things before buying a laptop so that you get a quality product against your well earned money.
 

BlackBerry has recently launched BlackBerry Torch touch screen smartphone powered with BlackBerry OS 6.

Nokia has recently announced Nokia X3-02 Touch and Type Mobile phone with 2.4 inch QVGA touch screen. Dual input selection by touch screen and keypad has added extra ordinary value to handset with power of touchscreen and keypad in a sleek phone with multifunctional entertainment like games, applications, instant access to music and lots more.

LG Electronics recently announced the launch of an Android-powered smartphone, LG Optimus (LG GT540), a handset offering an optimal environment for first-time smartphone users with easy and convenient mobile access.

Sony Ericsson has recently announced Xperia X8 smartphone based on android operating system Donut (1.6) for the mid-range market. Sony Ericsson Xperia X8 is quite lower in size as compared to Sony Xperia X10 with Timescape User Interface designed for Sony Ericsson smartphones.

BlackBerry can be used as an internet device without activating any of usual blackberry packages. Blackberry is been known for its push email services like syncing Microsoft exchange and IBM lotus mail server on the phone device.

Nokia X6 Review:
In recent years Nokia has introduced bigger and better phones with the increasing age of technology. With such advancement in progress, it is little wonder that Nokia has succeeded immensely in the innovative world of sleek designing and impressive features that their products distinctively carry. The launch of the Nokia X series certainly created a wave among many and it was thought to be a classic touch to the new age era of technology. The X series is one of the most technically advanced series to be introduced by Nokia and carries a multitude of features that leave users all over the world proud to own such a device. The Nokia X6 similarly is equipped with the latest features and quips that technology can offer.