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. Hundreds of protesters marched through...
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 ......
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. As soon as the LHC directed ......
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. Rapid Action Battalion (RAB)...
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. Rehman Malik announced on his twitter page that cabinet has agreed to lift the ban on complete sites while keep blocked the infected pages and contents. This...
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 ......
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 ......
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. Twitter blog said that: Folks were tweeting ......
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 ......
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. DELL Pakistan has cupid showering the best ever surprise this Valentine’s...
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 ......
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 ......
8×8 Inc., a Voice over Internet Protocol service provider, has released a new point-and-click VoIP calling application dubbed 8×8 Connect. It allows Facebook users to add a “Call Me” button to their home page, thereby enabling other users to call them without revealing their actual phone number. “The application asks the person making the...
Facebook to build its first data center, a 147,000-square-foot server farm to be located in Prineville, Ore. The social networking company didn’t disclose what it will cost to build, but according to public records dug up by The Bend Bulletin, the project would be valued at $188 million and employ 200 people during its 12-month construction ......
Recently we seen Qmobile launched in the market by Digicom. Qmobile advertisement is everywhere on TVc's these days, greatly promoting them everywhere but what about the tech team. Just visit Qmobile's official website and you will land on a page suspended by host provider. I just happened to visit Qmobile's website and seen Account Suspended. Have...
