International

The Mystery of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 Driving People Crazy Over the World

There would be hardly anyone who would not have heard about the mysterious disappearance of Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 on 8th of march 2014. The flight took off from Kuala Lumpur city of Malaysia on 8th this month and it was scheduled to land in Beijing China on same date. But just couple of hours into the flight, the plane just vanished. It lost all the communication links, it was last spotted by a radar on location marked by red dot in map depiction on left. The white dot shows the point from where the plane took off. Plane still had more than 10 hours of journey ahead of it. Mysteriously, search teams in extensive search operations in open sea […]

IT & Telecom

Bandwidth Hungry Pakistani Cell Phone Subscribers Hope to get 3G & 4G Soon as Per Announced Schedule

Long ago I remember there was a time when most people in United States were on AMPS mobile phone networks (1st Generation Technology) and most of Pakistani people were already using 2nd Generation GSM technologies. This came as part of IT and Telecom revolution which was made possible by none other than Dr. Atta-ur-Rehman, Pakistan’s IT/Telecom Minister in Musharraf’s era. But as soon as that Atta-ur-Rehman irra gone away, things changed. A very well known regulatory authority “Pakistan Telecommunication Authority” was dragged into the politics in President Zardari’s era and in games of chairman swapping powered by political games Pakistan didn’t got the chance to get to next generation of telecom technologies. The countries which were once on 1st generation […]

Cyber Watch

Facebook agreed to acquire WhatsApp mobile Instant Messaging App

The most popular social network Facebook have recently agreed to acquire WhatsApp. WhatsApp is very popular mobile app instant messaging through smart phones over the internet connection, which include Wifi, GPRS, 3G, 4G or any other kind. WhatsApp is available for iOS, Android, Windows and many other mobile platforms it have gained tremendous popularity and over 450 million people use it for day to day communication with each other. In availability of Wifi or any other data connection this App enables its users to communicate with its contacts using the same App communicate freely without using conventional SMS, MMS or any other form of multimedia messages. Millions use WhatsApp daily to send text messages, videos, photos and even videos to […]

Finance

Methods to Pay on Facebook from Pakistan

Its now many years that Pakistan banks are offering Debits and Specially credit cards which are mostly backed with global names like Visa or Master Card. Most of them can be used here in Pakistan on POS terminals, they do work online as well but there are huge limitations when people try to use these cards online. Specially with debit cards, no doubt they features Visa or Master Card logos but most of Pakistani bank except few exceptions don’t allow their usage online. The case of Credit Cards is bit different most Pakistani banks allow usage of their credit cards online but again there are limitation or bans from specific websites which would not accept a specific card from specific […]

Happenings

Comatose Shahzaib Bajwa’s family raises USD $46000 plus online in two days to save his life but they will need more

Shahzaib Bajwa is a bright Pakistani University student who happened to go to United States’s University of Wisconsin-Superior through to spend one semester there through a student exchange program between a local university and University of Wisconsin-Superior. In November he was traveling in car which was taking him to back to University from the city Minneapolis, car struck a deer and accident was so bad that Bajwa have got severe fractures on his face. He is also in comma ever since. He had travel insurance but amount is too small, also his visa is expiring on Feb 28th, 2014 and insurance company wants to spend this money on bringing back Shahzaib to Pakistan, also its heard that they are threatening […]