Today I tried out Google Now in English, It is a search software similar to SIRI on iPhone, that allows most of the work to be done via voice. http://www.google.com/landing/now/ has an introduction video on how this works. I think that in near future this will become a platform for all commands on the phone and [...]
The site is designed to gather together flight, hotel and car rental deals into one portal where pilgrims from any country can look to start booking their pilgrimages. “With nearly 25 million Muslims worldwide traveling to Mecca for pilgrimage each year, revenue estimates from Hajj and Umrah easily reach tens of billions of dollars. Despite [...]
PTA said it acted on “innumerable, repeated complaints” from consumers in preventing circulation of the roughly 1,500 words. The Pakistani Telecommunications Authority (PTA) has reportedly ordered all mobile phone operators to block text messages containing “obscene” words. Officials from all five major operators confirmed they were working on software that would block messages containing the [...]
About 25.6 percent of the world’s population surf the Internet. Approximately 10.6 % of Pakistanis use it. Seven percent of India population use it. And about 74.2 % of those in the USA use it. In Russia, a place that Skype is courting recently, (for example, Qik, a recent acquisition of Skype, has an office in Russia), [...]
And why? What has Rehan Allahwala, who is most known for his DIDXchange phone number exchange and as an open source telephony evangelist, accomplished to deserve winning Mashable Awards Enterpreneur of the Year 2010? How about three of many reasons? 1. The gentleman has trained hundreds of young and old in Pakistan, UAE, Malaysia, Russia, [...]
Telco geeks have fallen off the edge of this world that we perceived as flat. Everyone in the Telco industry keeps Prozac, Lithium, Aspirin, and a mix of other medicinal beverages stocked to soothe the pain we feel in our rear-ends as we face the truth. The illusion is that PTA was given an immense [...]
The way Pakistanis are expected to work has changed dramatically over the last ten years. Factors such as how time is managed, who does most of the work, how people are managed, increasing entrepreneurial activity, and what kind of work is typically done are part of the movement. Remember, there are Pakistanis alive today who: [...]
