By Ahsan Javed · Wednesday, Dec 15, 2010 0 Comments
Stats have always been well manipulated with graphs but what about 3-D visualization of them. Yes here an internee at facebook data infrastructure engineering team - Paul Butler did this. He just visualized how facebook connects 500 million users of it throughout the word. The graph shows how people are connected via facebook from one part of ......
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By Ahsan Javed · Thursday, Sep 23, 2010 2 Comments
Mobilink Jazz, initiated an online story contest, Jazz Apni Kahani to acknowledge the importance of loved ones in making one’s dreams come true. Participants were required to submit their stories of achievement glorifying the role of their loved ones who helped them achieve their goals.
Hira Wahid, a student of NUST engineering college was declared...
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By Hina · Thursday, Aug 5, 2010 0 Comments
THE Lahore High Court has ordered Pakistan Telecommunication Authority and Director Telecom Wireless to inform the court about the steps they have taken so far to remove blasphemous material from different websites and make it inaccessible in the country.
Justice Ijaz Ahmed Chaudhry of the LHC passed the order while hearing a writ petition seeking...
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By Zarwa · Tuesday, Jun 15, 2010 0 Comments
Mobilink Jazz is brings something exciting for cricket fans all across the nation. This time around as Asia Cup 2010 commences today, so does Mobilink Jazz Cric-IQ2 ; a trivia contest that challenges cricket knowledge and gives all cricket lovers a chance to win cricket bats signed by Pakistan cricket stars.
In order to participate in ......
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By Ahsan Javed · Sunday, Jun 6, 2010 0 Comments
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...
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By Ahsan Javed · Wednesday, Jun 2, 2010 0 Comments
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 ......
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By Ahsan Javed · Tuesday, Jun 1, 2010 10 Comments
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 ......
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By Ahsan Javed · Monday, May 31, 2010 1 Comment
Geo News confirms that LHC has ordered PTA to lift ban on facebook. The ban on facebook prolonged for nearly two weeks after the popular social networking website was blocked nationwide in a row over blasphemy. Furthermore GEO states, facebook has assured not to conduct these kind of contests in future.
Justice Ejaz Chaudhry of the ......
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By Zarwa · Monday, May 31, 2010 0 Comments
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)...
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By Ahsan Javed · Wednesday, May 26, 2010 2 Comments
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...
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By Zarwa · Saturday, May 22, 2010 2 Comments
On the directives of the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) for blocking Facebook in the country, all cellular companies froze Blackberry services until further notice. Although the PTA had blocked Facebook, the website was still accessible on Blackberry handsets as these services are routed through RIM servers.
According to sources, the...
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By Ahsan Javed · Wednesday, May 19, 2010 4 Comments
Blocking something is ridiculous and pathetic. It is like if a robber breaks into your house, you go and jail the manufacturer of his gun. As for the draw day, all what we are doing right now is playing into their hands. They must be laughing right now, talking about how conservative and volatile we all are, ......
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By Ahsan Javed · Tuesday, Mar 23, 2010 0 Comments
Dell Pakistan is up again with another promotion offer. Dell Pakistan has earlier launched the latest series of core i3, i5 and i7 processors for notebooks in Pakistan. Here Dell gives another opportunity, get a chance to win Dell LCD via the lucky draw. All you have to do is to share the news on Dell's ......
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By Ahsan Javed · Tuesday, Feb 23, 2010 0 Comments
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 ......
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By Ahsan Javed · Tuesday, Feb 16, 2010 0 Comments
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 ......
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