June 26, 2010 under Cyber News
Pakistan will monitor seven major websites, including Google and Yahoo, to block anti-Islamic links and content, an official said Friday. Seventeen lesser-known sites are being blocked outright for alleged blasphemous material.
June 25, 2010 under Cyber News
Pakistan’s Ministry of Information Technology has confirmed the ban orders from LHC for search engines, including Google, Yahoo, MSN and other big websites as Hotmail, Amazon.However officials say that as possible about any decision will be made Friday.
June 20, 2010 under Cyber News
Dell recently sponsored Pakistan’s first ever blog awards ceremony held at a local hotel in Karachi. It was a pioneering event in which Pakistani blogs were awarded for their brilliant content and quality. Altogether 207 blogs participated in the competition in the 41 defined categories.
June 6, 2010 under Cyber News
The Bangladesh Telecommunications Regulatory Commission ordered access to Facebook restored around midnight Saturday, and the site was available Sunday, said the commission’s chairman, Zia Ahmed. Facebook had removed the objectionable page, he said. The page could not be accessed in Bangladesh on Sunday.
June 2, 2010 under Cyber News
A 12-day Facebook blockade in Pakistan which formally ended yesterday benefited cellular phone firms, which witnessed an increase by more than 5 per cent in SMS traffic in the period. Telecom sector sources said the overall voice traffic witnessed more than 5-7 per cent surge by the users of social networking sites opted SMS as alternate for interaction.
June 1, 2010 under Cyber News
After the order of unbanning facebook in Pakistan, ISP got working, lifting the ban as per PTA orders. PTCL seemed to be least interested in lifting the ban at once, but now it is confirmed that facebook has also been unbanned on PTCL and majority of other ISP’s in country.
May 31, 2010 under Cyber News
The government of Bangladesh temporarily blocked access to Facebook on Saturday. The highly popular social network site was shut down at around 7:00 pm (local time) after the arrest of a youth in connection with uploading satiric images of some politicians including the prime minister and the leader of the opposition.
May 26, 2010 under Cyber News
Rehman Malik – the interior minister of Pakistan has confirmed via tweet that fedral cabinet has approved his propsal for unbanning YouTube and Facebook, with blockage to certain URLs.
March 12, 2010 under Cyber News
AboutUs.org is a wiki Internet domain directory. It lists websites along with information about their content. As a wiki, AboutUs allows Internet users to add entries or modify information. Website founded in 2005 has recently closed its Lahore office. In a blog post, Ray King, one of the founders of AboutUs, confirmed that AboutUs is going to close its lahore office.
March 7, 2010 under Cyber News
Website security has always been an issue, here in Pakistan, as we seen a lot of incidences, where the official website of Cyber Response Center got hacked, Warid Telecom’s website found linking to some malware website. This time Lahore High Court’s website is found to be linking with highly restricted sites, which are reported to be infected with malicious scripts, by Google.
February 23, 2010 under Cyber News
In a blog post, the micro blogging company, Twitter has reveled that it has just crossed 50 million tweets a day by its users. Stats show gradual rise in increasing tweets but after July 2009, uptil now there is an abrupt uplift which makes Twitter to have 50 million tweets a day.
February 16, 2010 under Cyber News
According to Web measurement firm Compete Inc., Facebook has passed search-engine giant Google to become the top source for traffic to major portals like Yahoo and MSN, and is among the leaders for other types of sites. This trend is shifting the way Web site operators approach online marketing, even as Google takes steps to move into the social-media world. Some experts say social media could become the Internet’s next search engine.
February 13, 2010 under Cyber News
The world’s leading DELL computers in Pakistan have announced a special Valentine’s Day promotion inviting consumers to dine out at designated restaurants in Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad and win a fabulous and sparkling DELL mini laptop for their loved ones.
February 11, 2010 under Cyber News
If you had any doubts as to the kind of influence wielded by Farmville, the animated Flash game that has become popular on Facebook, here’s a statistic that should erase them: In just two days since the launch of a new valentine gift feature on Monday, Farmville users have sent about half a billion virtual presents to other users — and it isn’t even Valentine’s Day yet. According to Zynga, the creator of Farmville, the game has more than 72 million registered users.
February 7, 2010 under Cyber News
Pakistan Government had locally blocked access to youtube, earlier. This time it happens again. I have just been browsing through when got the message, “This Site is Restricted” and this happens when the website you are trying to access is blocked by your ISP and in my case, its PTCL. Matter of interest is that the year before last, youtube was banned by Pakistan Government, same in february and this time it is happening again.
