Archive for the ‘Cyber News’ Category

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Call Me via VoIP on Facebook – A New App

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.

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FaceBook to Build it’s Own Data Center

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 [...]

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Qmobile Website Down – Purely Non-Tech Guys

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.

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Dell Pakistan Selects its Tagline – Not a Professional One

Few days back we seen Dell urging Pakistani Bloggers to suggest a tag line for Dell Pakistan. A lot of people shown keen interest as we seen around 8000 fans of Dell Pakistan page on facebook. Now Dell has finally announced the chosen one, Ameera Kiran Khan – a Karachi based blogger, but the tag [...]

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Suggest a Tag Line for Dell Pakistan and Win Dell Mini

Dell Pakistan is here with an amazing opportunity for Pakistani Bloggers. Suggest a Tag Line for Dell Pakistan and get a chance to win Dell Mini Notebook plus free advertising for your blog in Dell’s Campaign. Seems like individuals are not illegible to participate as Dell is asking about Blog URL as well, at submission [...]

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NR3C – FIA’s National Response Centre For Cyber Crimes Hacked

This the time when, i must say, we got the biggest security hole in pakistan’s official sites. FIA’s  National Response Centre For Cyber Crimes got defaced by as  usual PakBugs. We see alot of other sites – infact important sites defaced by them but this time the Cyber Wing got caught.

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YouTube Davos – One Week to Go

Is there one issue facing the world today that you feel passionate about? Have you always wanted to take your cause directly to people who have the power to do something about it, but lacked access to have your voice heard? Now is your chance to make your pitch – and win a spot at [...]

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Twitter Acquires Mixer Lab for Location Tracking

Micro-blogging site Twitter acquires mixer lab to enable you to pinpont the location of your latest update from your smartphone or portable device, this will go live in 2010 after the company bought up a service called GeoAPI. Twitter has acquired location tracking firm Mixer Labs for an undisclosed amount. The acquisition would help the [...]

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Twitter Contributors – Service for Business Promotion

Twitter is a communication platform that helps businesses stay connected to their customers. Twitter is testing a “Contributors” feature that enables companies to have accounts that workers can share when it comes to firing off text messages to customers or others. Accounts bear the names of businesses, but workers fielding questions or announcing developments would [...]

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Imanae Malik’s Death Issue Goes Online – Campaign Against Doctors Hospital

Imanae Malik – an innocent 3 years old child was crushed in the negligence of Doctors Hospital Staff few days back. This issue was everywhere, as all was just because of negligence and inefficiency of hospital staff, criticizing and cursing them. Surely the responsible ones should be brought to scene. Imane Malik’s father has launched [...]

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Alexa Global Rankings – Yahoo Down – FaceBook Up

Alexa is known to be authentic source of website’s rank as per traffic basis. People look forward to alexa to reckon the performance of a site. Yahoo was ruling as World’s No. 1 site on visitor’s basis and Google was 2nd, but earlier Google Conquered the battle and came to No. 1 by pushing Yahoo [...]

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“Twitter” Most Searched Term of 2009

Microsoft reveled that “Twitter” was most-searched term in year 2009 on bing – Microsoft’s new search engine. Microsoft, in a blog post late Sunday, said ‘Michael Jackson,’ ‘Twitter and ‘Swine Flu’ were the top three search topics of the year on Bing.

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Google Lets Publisher Limit Their Artcile – To Be Read For Free

Google will allow publishers to set a daily limit on the number of articles readers can view for free through the internet giant’s search engine. Publishers can limit users to no more than five pages per day without registering or subscribing. Google said publishers can join a First Click Free program

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ISPs Complaint against PTA’s unfair Policies

Internet service providers (ISPs) in Islamabad have registered complaints with the ministry of information technology against what they called ‘unfair’ market practices and ‘unreasonable’ policies. ‘Blocking voice packages on internet indiscriminately’ topped their list of worries.

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YouTube HD Bumps from 720p to 1080p

Fighting the war of  High Definition (HD), YouTube just announced that it will be bumping the maximum quality of its high definition videos to 1080p, up from the previous 720p. With the bump to 1080p, YouTube says it will upgrade videos previously originally sent in 1080p that were automatically downconverted to 720p.  For those who [...]