IBM wants traffic lights to stop your car

The system would be able to receive position information from vehicles waiting at red lights to determine a queue of participating vehicles stopped at the signal. It would then determine the time still to elapse before the lights turn green, and if this time is over a set threshold (such as two minutes) the traffic light would then send signals to the vehicle engines to stop them.

When the lights turn green, a “start-engine notification” would be sent to the front vehicle to start its engine first, and a signal would be sent to the second vehicle in the queue an “optimal time” later, and so on.

The IBM patent says the system could be applied to traffic signals at intersections, railway crossings, or other transportation signals for “indicating correct moments to stop and to proceed.” Its stated aims are to reduce wastage of fuel and optimize the movement of vehicles through the intersection or crossing.

The patent states that with “increasing vehicle usage there may be more traffic and longer wait times at traffic signals,” resulting in wasted fuel if the vehicle engines are kept running. It acknowledges that most drivers do not turn off their vehicles’ engines in such situations, and that more fuel may be used in restarting the engine than in keeping it running if it is stopped for too short a time. The system would therefore take into account the time remaining before the signal changes to determine if the vehicle’s engine should be stopped.

The proposed traffic light system would gather data from traffic signal clocks, GPS data on vehicle positions, traffic load information (perhaps from weight sensors in the road), cameras, and/or “other data obtainable from sensors embedded at the intersections.” The communications system may use Wi-Fi technologies, a cellular network, or satellite communications.

In one proposed model the method would be made available as a “service” that vehicle drivers would need to sign up for. The stop/start-engine notifications could switch the engine off and on automatically, or they could trigger alerts to the driver to turn it off/on manually.

The idea is at the patent application stage, and the patent only covers the method but not the communications technology. Many patent applications never proceed any further, and only time will tell if this will be one of them.

If you want to know about the owner ship of any vehicle just read it

Guys i found a great thing just like ptcl directory.In ptcl directory you have to put ptcl landline number in the directory's search box and in result you found information about owner of that number.so in same way you just have to open the bellow website and enter the vehicle number in search bar for example GTE 4884

Click the link: http://mtmis.punjab.gov.pk
Note This is only for pakistan.
ager ap ki matlooba vehicle new model hai aur recently us ko number lagwa hai tu ho sakta hai k yeh site us vehicle ki info ap ko na day. 


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PTCL Introduces Song Dedication Service

It looks like PTCL is getting serious with value added services, the way it offered cricket commentary during T20 World Cup and now land-line giant has partnered with Ufone to offer Song Dedication service.

For long time now, customers thought of these VAS were attributes of cellular companies, little late though, but now PTCL is catching up the trend. Needless to say that PTCL will have to figure out the need, affordable cost and comfort of subscribers if they want to compete with cellular industry in VAS.

Song Dedication Service:

Through Song dedication service, selected song from six categories (English, Pakistani, Bollywood, Love Classics, and Punjabi) can be sent to any number, any network in the country. The songs can be selected by simply selecting from IVR. PTCL customers will dial an access code 1011-888.

Music Station Service:

Music Station is a complete new musical experience for PTCL landline subscribers. Subscribers can now listen to live stream of various Radio Channels, create, edit and share your Playlist from a library of over 10,000 songs in various languages or just can listen to their favorite song moods under Jukebox category. PTCL customers will dial an access code 1011-555 from PTCL landline phones.

Package Tariff:

Song Dedication: Rs 5 + tax /Minute
Music Station: Rs 3 + tax /Minute
No service subscription required.

Introduction To Web Analytics

Web Analytics or more specifically speaking Website Analytics is a process of understanding the behavior of Website Visitors. It answers questions like what visitors are doing on your website: what they’re reading, how they navigate, what they’re ignoring, what type of visitors turn into customers and How they leave your website?

Why Web Analytics is Important?

Web Analytics has grown into a million dollar industry; there are web analytics software and applications that cost from zero to thousands of dollars a month. However, an average webmaster or website owner may ask that why Web Analytics is Important and why should anyone bother to understand the audience of his website? And the answer is simple – Because you built a website for a purpose and without analysis how you are going to tell whether you are successful or not?

What type of Websites Need Web Analytics?

Gone are the days when websites were built by programming gurus and managing a website was a nightmare. Nowadays it is as simple as registering a free account on Blogger or any other free host and within 15-30 mins, you are ready to write your first message to the whole world.

With website development and management getting easier everyday, it is getting more important for every website owner to analyze or improve his website, if he is gonna stay on the web.

If no one is reaching your website, or a very small number of people are able to see it then what’s the point in building a site? Similarly, what if a number of people arrive at your site but none is satisfied and people just leave your site disappointingly, then once again you have failed to serve the purpose of the website. And Web Analytics is just the answer for all this.

I think that website analytics is a must from hobbyist blogger to an ecommerce site. Even non-profit organizations need web analytics to understand whether they are spreading their message effectively or not.

Hence, each and every website should have web analytics software installed. And the best starting point is Google Web Analytics. Not only it is free but it is powerful enough to fit the needs of virtually all kinds of websites.

This was my introduction to website analytics, in my coming articles I will share with you the various types of web analytics softwares and the type of information you can get from web analytics.

Cellular Difference – Pakistan Vs USA

The Nation,newspaper, chief reporter Afzal Bajwa has been to US recently for fellowship program in Stanford University. On his arrival in US, he came across some cellular operators . Following is what he wrote in his article… Keep reading to know how better Pakistan is from USA and other countries when it come to cellular networks.

Back home, pre-paid SIM cards are common, and I assumed that the AT&T store would try to sell me one for use during my three-month visit to the U.S. But the front-desk folks immediately asked me to sign up for a year-long contract if I expected to get an affordable deal. Subsequent encounters with other cellular operators here made me to realize that although Silicon Valley is considered the world center for innovation and technology, the U.S. wireless market is inflexible and uncompetitive.

For the first time in my life, I felt that Pakistanis were better served than Americans, with at least five world-class operators in Pakistan engaged in fierce competition.

In Pakistan, all carriers use GSM technology, making it easy for customers to switch service providers; in the U.S., moving from Verizon to AT&T or vice-versa means having to pay for a new handset, since Verizon uses CDMA and AT&T uses GSM.

In Pakistan, you can recharge your pre-paid SIM card at any retail store, unlike here in the U.S. where you need to look for the particular operator’s outlet.

In Pakistan, multiple operators already offer next-generation WiMax wireless service; in the U.S., Sprint’s WiMax network is getting off to a sputtering start. And Pakistan’s regulators are reviewing license applications for 3G video services, while Americans are still trying to get their pricey iPhones to work reliably on AT&T’s 3G network at all.

I already had a Nokia E90 Communicator smartphone, with 3G connectivity, a real QWERTY keyboard, a full office suite, strong e-mail features, and multimedia capabilities. For me, it’s a more useful device than the iPhone, and I didn’t want to give it up. And the local technology-obsessed people in California I showed it to were impressed by it, even though this powerful phone seems to be largely unknown in this country. But it’s a GSM handset, so I had to discard every operator that doesn’t offer GSM: MetroPCS, Sprint, and Verizon.

My only remaining options were AT&T and T-Mobile. The plans they offered weren’t competitive with the ones I was used to back home: Rather than paying at least $75-100 per month for unlimited voice and data, I would have been better off using international roaming on my own Pakistan cell number.

Free incoming calls and free incoming text messages are common in Pakistan, but when I asked AT&T and T-Mobile’s staffers about them, they didn’t seem to know what I was talking about.

One rep at an AT&T store in San Francisco seemed to be more aware of the cell-phone world outside the U.S.–he smiled and said, “there is no such thing like free incoming here, but they probably offer it in Europe.” But he probably didn’t realize that Pakistan carriers offer cheap plans with no charge for incoming calls and text messages.

The service is so affordable that even low-paid laborers and daily market vendors benefit from it.
Pakistan’s mobile-phone growth has been among the fastest in the world: Usage has increased from perhaps just a few percent of the population in 2003 to more than fifty percent of the country’s 160 million citizens.

Mobile carriers are collaborating with the government to extend state-of-the-art wireless connectivity from coastal areas to glacier-covered mountains like K2. They’re also bringing mobile-phone banking to the remotest farming communities, to strengthen agriculture, the backbone of Pakistan’s economy.
It’s the simplicity and low cost of wireless service that have driven the growth that gives mobile carriers the millions in profits they need to invest in these advances. And as I’ve dealt with the challenges of wireless here in the U.S., I appreciate what the wireless companies back home are accomplishing even more

Ufone Super Call Offer Further Extended

Ufone has extended its Super Call Offer for another month till June 30th, 2010, with Rs. 30 plus tax as subscription fee for those who are already subscribed to Super Call Offer.

Ufone has extended Super Call offer multiple times, and looks Super Call offer will remain valid for long duration but at fixed monthly rental (or subscription fee), though Ufone has not revealed its plans for after June 30th, regarding the fate of Super Call Offer.

It merits mentioning here that Ufone Super Call packages allows Ufone subscribers to make free on-net calls after first three minutes, round the clock.

How to re-subscribe:

If you are already subscribed to Super Call Offer, then simply send “y” to 130 till 3 PM, May 31st, 2010.

Re-Subscription Charges:

Rs. 30 plus tax

Clobby Brings Chat Rooms for Facebook Pages

Lahore based startup, ‘SixTakes’ brings us group chat for Facebook pages or individual profiles for real-time interaction with fans and friends.

SixTakes is lead by Adeel Raza, a 24 year old geek from Lahore. Company is said to be in business for around 6 months, while it has already managed to bring 4 products live including donut chat, a chat solution for any kind of website.

Their newest product is called “Clobby”, a free Facebook application that offers a nice chat room for your fan page/group in a simple and smooth manner.



Installing Chat Room is very simple; all you need is to point your browsers to this link: http://clobby.com/setup

Select your page/profile and that’s it – once done, ‘Chat’ tab will be added to your page/profile, where your fans/friends can come and join your unique chat room. Users can chat in main chat room for group chat or they can click on members in room to chat with other members in private.

Page admin or Profile admin are moderators of their chat rooms by default, however admins can add more moderators by simply selecting the profile in chat room.

Clobby is likely to have more features in future, for instance, selection of font type and color, attachments etc.

Admins of corporate pages on Facebook may like adding this application to their pages instantly, however, our advise is to analyze your fans before you deploy Clobby. If your customers are not happy with your services, you may need to plan good before you allow them to interact with you. In simple words: Moderation of chat room can go messy!!!

Samsung I9000 Galaxy S manages 7:25 hours of video playback, puts critics to shame

The results from the Samsung I9000 Galaxy S dedicated video playback battery test are out and they might be quite surprising to some. A lot has been said and written about the Android handsets poor battery life recently but obviously things aren’t as bad as they are made out to be.


Our testing procedure was pretty standard: we charged the Galaxy S until it said full and looped a standard definition XviD video with the screen brightness set to 50% until the battery level fell to 10% (beyond that point the handset automatically turns off the video player and doesn’t allow restarting it). And in the case of the Samsung Android flagship that took some good 7 hours and 25 minutes.

To put things in perspective, the HTC HD2 achieved 4 hours and 30 minutes on the exact same test, while the Omnia HD (which uses a more energy-efficient AMOLED display) reached 5 hours and a half. Those both sounded really impressive at the time but fall a whole movie behind the Galaxy S.

The Samsung I9000 Galaxy S is probably the best mobile phone for watching movies on the go that we have seen. It has the best screen in business, DivX and XviD support out of the box and a long-lasting battery. Is there really anything else that you need?

Now Skype with Your Nokia Phone

Skype has published a free mobile application for Symbian in the Ovi Store, which is going to enable over 200 million Nokia handset users to easily download the program and start making free Skype-to-Skype calls from their phones.

Skype for Symbian, which you can download straight from the Skype website, will run on any Nokia smartphone using Symbian^1, the latest version of the Symbian platform.

Skype for Symbian enables Nokia smartphone users to:
Make free Skype-to-Skype calls to other Skype users anywhere in the world*
Save money on calls and texts (SMS) to phones abroad
Send and receive instant messages to and from individuals or groups
Share pictures, videos and other files
Receive calls to their existing online number
See when Skype contacts are online and available to call or IM
Easily import names and numbers from the phone’s address book

Mobilink Infinity Launches WiMAX Dongle in Karachi

Mobilink Infinity has introduced WiMAX dongle for its WiMAX broadband subscribers in Karachi. With WiMAX dongle, Mobilink Infinity subscribers will be able to enjoy the broadband internet while on the go.

Mobilink Infinity WiMAX dongle gives its customer the freedom of getting connected to internet anywhere anytime. Infinity WiMAX dongle offers Plug & Play feature with maximum portability and mobility. Infinity WiMAX dongle is particularly useful during the power cuts, as it is power independent and does not requires external power.

Mobilink Infinity WiMAX dongle is offered in four different packages depending upon your monthly Internet usage and Internet speed requirements and it is currently available in Karachi only.

Tariff for Mobilink Infinity Dongle


Additional Data rate will be Rs. 30 per 100 MB.
WiMAX Dongle rental Rs.100 applies on all packages.
Activation charges will be Rs.3,999 for all packages.

Terms and Conditions:
WiMAX Dongle will remain the property of Mobilink.
Refundable security deposit will be Rs.2,000 for Basic and Rs.2,500 for Optimum packages.
Infinity voice services are not available with WiMAX dongle.
The service is currently available in Karachi only.
Mobilink Jazz customers will be charged Rs. 1 + tax for calls on 369.

ZONG Gives UET Students 4-Year Scholarship

ZONG continues its support of technical education in Pakistan with the ZONG Scholarship Program. The Program was started last year as part of ZONG’s corporate social responsibility initiatives.

ZONG selected ten students for the ZONG Scholarship Program at the University of Engineering and Technology in Lahore through which the students would receive their tuition fees and living expenses for the entire four years of engineering school.

The interviews with UET students were held on the campus and students in the disciplines of Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Civil Engineering and Computer Sciences and Engineering were eligible.

This is the second year of the ZONG Scholarship Program which aims to enable talented, deserving young people to acquire quality technical education from one of the most prestigious engineering universities in the country. The scholarship amount covers all academic and related expenses for each student.

ZONG is promoting higher education in Pakistan as a caring corporate citizen and looks forward to working with institutions like UET to help students pursuing professional education. The company also intends to facilitate and provide counselling to engineering students who intend to study telecommunications in Pakistan as well as in other countries.

The emphasis of the ZONG Scholarship will be to financially support students who are motivated in enhancing scientific and technological research. Thus, the students are selected on a need and merit-based criteria. The process was conducted in phases so that the forty or more students who applied for the scholarship were evaluated and then interviewed by a joint steering committee formed by ZONG and UET.

Mr. Salman Wassay, Head of Marketing, ZONG said that the scholarship program created by ZONG was a fundamental part of their corporate social responsibility as helping young people access quality technological education would form the backbone of talent necessary for the advancement of industry and development in Pakistan.

He added that ZONG was confident that the students selected this year would continue to excel in academics and their professional lives.

ZONG has also launched a Location Based Charging solution at UET to facilitate student access to faculty members and fellow students

Fee Group Video Chat soon offered by Skype

Skype Ltd., the famous internet calling service, unveiled a new group video chat service and plans a public "beta" test of this function that lets up to five people participate in a video call simultaneously. This function plans to be free.

It is said that when the feature launches next week it will be free, but Skype Ltd. plans to start charging for it along with some other upcoming features in three or four months, said Neil Stevens, general manager of Skype's consumer business segment.

Skype also unveiled new paid subscription plans that allow people to make calls to cellphones and landlines in 170 countries. That feature particularly targets those who make calls into developing nations, where the cost of making calls through traditional carriers can still be quite high, said Neil Stevens, general manager of Skype's consumer business segment.

"A very large percentage of our revenue and growth can come from having products to call cost-effectively to the long tail" of cellphones in the developing world, he said.

Skype, which has helped pioneer Internet calls, has offered the service free for years and says it now has more than 560 million users world-wide.

EBay Inc. last year sold controlling interest in Skype to a group of investors that includes its founders.

The company also plans to focus on getting Skype on more devices beyond computers, such as cellphones. Skype has been installed on 12 million of Apple Inc.'s iPhone and iPod Touch devices, and the company will in the months ahead come out with a new version of its software that enables people to make free Skype calls over the 3G cellular data plans used by iPhones. Currently, it works only on iPhones through Wi-Fi data connections, said Mr. Stevens.

Mr. Stevens also indicated that Skype is also working on an app for Apple's iPad for release over the summer. When Apple releases a new version of its mobile operating system in the coming weeks, Skype will also be able to run as a background app, allowing people to receive calls even as they do other things.

Skype would like to be able to also provide video calling on smart phones, but has a number of technological hurdles to clear first, such as the high bandwidth required by video calls. Apple's mobile software currently doesn't allow developers to access a device's built-in camera, he noted

Skype is also experimenting with advertising for revenue. In Europe, it has tried a click-to-call service with a directories company, where an advertiser pays for a call that a potential customer can make for free.

Build Your Own Radio Station With Winamp

Are you a rabid radio fan? Do you want to create a radio station to broadcast music for others? Now, you can do that with Winamp, just follow the following step to broadcast music for others and add your own comments.

Download and install SHOUTcast Server(http://usfiles.brothersoft.com/internet/server_tools/shoutcast-dnas-1-9-8-windows.exe).Then, go to install folder and find out sc_serv.ini file. Open it with notepad, press Ctrl + F to find out "password=ChangeMe", then modify it to "password=123456", of course, you can change it to any password you want. Save and close this .ini file.

Second, double click sc_server.exe to open the SHOUTcast server monitor window. Wait for a little while until it open the service.



Third, Download and install SHOUTcast DSP Plug-In for Winamp(http://www.brothersoft.com/shoutcast-dsp-plug-in-for-winamp-123793.html). Note that you must install the plug-in in the same folder with Winamp.

Fourth, run Winamp after the installation of SHOUTcast DSP plug-in. Right click the main window of Winamp and select Options -> Preferences to open the preferrence window. Click DSP/Effect under Plug-in in the left pane and double click "Nullsoft SHOUTcast Source DSP v1.9.0" in the right pane. Then it will pop up a config window for SHOUTcast Source.

Last, in the config window, go to Encoder tab and select Encoder 1. Set "MP3 Encoder" as the Encoder Type and click Encoder Setting list to select your own setting. Then turn to Output tab and select Output 1. Enter your IP address in the Address box and enter the password we set just now in the Password box. And then click the Connect button, wait for a little while. Check "Connect and startup" after connection.



Now you can broadcast your music with Winamp. If you want to comment at the music like a real DJ, you must do some advanced settings.

Go to Input tab, Select "SoundCard Input" as your Input Device, and now you can click Push to Talk button and speak out your comment through your microphone, and click Lock button to lock your microphone.

Congratulations! Now, who want to to listen to your radio, just need to enter "http://*.*.*.*:8000" in the browser address bar and click Listen button to connect to your radio station. Here “*.*.*.*” is your IP address.

Do you want to share your favorate music with your friends? Just build a radio station of your own with Winamp.

TeamViewer for remote control, desktop sharing, and file transfer between computers

TeamViewer is a computer software package for remote control, desktop sharing, and file transfer between computers. The software operates with Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X[1][2], and Linux[3] and is able to function while the computers are protected by firewalls and NAT proxy. It is also possible to access a machine running Teamviewer with a web browser.[4] While the main focus of the application is to facilitate desktop support and remote control of computers, collaboration and presentation features are included within the package.[5]

TeamViewer GmbH was founded in 2005 in Uhingen, Germany. According to the company's press releases, TeamViewer has over 60 million users operating in 50 countries worldwide.




You can downlaod this software from www.brothersoft.com

Nokia Announces 12 MegaPixeled N8

The Nokia announced today its latest smartphone N8 in an event. The first device to be powered by the brand new Symbian^3 platform, the Nokia N8 will launch with an ability to capture photos and video to rival dedicated point and shoot cameras.

The biggest feature on the Nokia N8 is its 12-megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics and Xenon flash. It features a substantially larger sensor than any ever used in any other Nokia device – even bigger than many found in dedicated cameras.

The Nokia N8 introduces the ability to record high definition (HD) videos and edit them with a smart built-in editing suite on the device.

There’s also a HDMI connector allowing you to hook the smartphone to your HD TV and share your media with friends and family in superb quality.

The Nokia N8 doubles as a portable entertainment centre. Watch HD quality video with Dolby Digital Plus surround sound and hook into a dedicated Web TV application for access to news and entertainment on the move.

It’s not just its 12-megapixel camera and HD video skills with HDMI support that set the Nokia N8 apart from the crowd. Packing more memory than most, the Nokia N8 has 16GB of built-in storage and is expandable up to 48GB with a micro SD card.

Joining the social messaging fold with the likes of the latest Eseries and Cseries devices, the N8 enters the fray with live Twitter and Facebook updates direct to your homescreen. Comment, read and send messages, update your status and share your location and photos with one touch.

Embracing location based services, the N8 is location-savvy and comes with free global Ovi Maps walk and drive navigation with support in more than 70 countries worldwide.

Powering the Nokia N8 is the all-new Symbian^3 platform. This latest incarnation introduces major new advances including multi-touch and support for gestures such as pinch-to-zoom.

Nokia says it will ship N8 in third quarter with estimated price tag of Rs.45,000 or above.

Easypaisa will Offer Saving/Insurance Services in Future

Easypaisa, a flagship product from Telenor Pakistan for mobile banking services, is set poised to offer saving and insurance services to consumers in Pakistan in coming months.

These products from Easypaisa will emerge with help of Mobile Money for the Unbanked (MMU) Fund, which is administered by the GSMA Foundation, Inc. with funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

GSMA, in a press release, has said that MMU Fund grant will help Telenor Pakistan to develop a sophisticated savings/insurance product which can be offered on top of the Easypaisa platform.

Easypaisa is seen as a key idea for offering financial solutions for masses without involving physical existence of bank branch.

Easypaisa recently celebrated its initial milestone for completing 1 million financial transactions valuing PKR 2 billion.

Mobile Money for the Unbanked (MMU) works with mobile operators, banks, microfinance institutions, government and development organizations to encourage the expansion of affordable mobile financial services to the unbanked.

Seagate confirms 3TB hard disk drive will be available before the end of the year

There have been rumors about Seagate releasing a 3TB drive this year but it just got officially confirmed. Barbara Craig, senior product manager at the company has gone on record saying that “we are announcing a 3TB drive later this year”.



3TB are the next step in storage capacity and pushing those out on the market requires a little bit more than just increasing the aerial density. The current crop of PCs is incapable of handling hard drives with a capacity larger than 2.1 TB as they can’t assign addresses beyond that point.

The logical block addressing (LBA) standard was created back in 1980, when 3TB drives didn’t seem as something to be concerned about. The only operating systems that support the newer Long LBA standard are the 64-bit versions of Vista and Windows 7 as well as some modified Linux versions.

The other thing needed to make 3TB drives usable is the implementation of a new GUID partition table (GPT) for the master boot record as current master boot record partitions are limited to 2.1TB, too.

Hoping that both issues will be fixed by then, Seagate will launch their first 3TB drives by the end of the year. Looking forward to that!

Google TV brings the web to your TV

Seemingly bored with its quest for total domination of the personal computer and smartphone, Google just announced its new and upcoming service called Google TV. Television is a huge ad market with 4 billion users around the globe using it actively and Google plans to revolutionize it.



The concept behind Google TV is to merge the web with your TV so you can enjoy all those videos available online on the largest and best screen in your home – the one of your TV set. Google have partnered with Sony and Logitech on this one. Sony have prepared the world’s first Google TV lineup. That should hit the US market this fall. The lineup includes both a standalone TV model and set top box-type unit incorporating a Blu-ray Disc drive.

Google’s other partners Logitech have been working on a companion box that brings Google TV to existing HDTV home entertainment systems. It should be compatible with any brand of HDTV currently available.

The final notable member at the Google party is Intel, who will be providing the CPUs to power all that hardware. Wait, does that mean there’s an Atom inside that Sony Bravia? Cool!



And as tradition goes with Google-inspired devices, Google TV interface is search-based. Those devices will come with the Chrome web browser and will support Flash 10.1 so almost all kinds of web video will be available for direct consumption. Since Google TV is Android-based you will also be able to use apps from the Android market plus you Android smartphone can be used to remotely control the receiver (and even do voice searches).

Somehow I’m not overly excited about the whole thing and even if I give it a try some day, I probably won’t be canceling my cable subscription any time soon. Internet is already full of nice TV shows, TV series and what-not, but I doubt that all the local TV content I currently follow will be available through the Google TV searchbox. Like ever! But time will tell.

Panasonic Toughbook 19 is a powerful 10-inch convertible tablet you can drop from six feet

Today Panasonic announced the latest addition to their Toughbook family of rugged portable computers. The 10.4-inch convertible tablet Panasonic Toughbook 19 packs some serious processing power with 1.2 GHz Intel I5 -540UM CPU (with Turbo boost up to 2GHz) and 2GB of DDR3 RAM and comes with either a 160GB HDD or a 128GB SSD.



What’s key here however is the MIL-STD-810G certification, confirming the Toughbook 19 ability to withstand a six-foot drop and the IP65 rating, indicating complete dust and water jets resistance. Connectivity is also splendid with 2 USB ports, Wi-Fi b/g/n and Bluetooth being a standard, while Gobi and WiMAX are available as options.

There are only a few things that don’t seem quite cool about the new Panasonic convertible tablet. For one, I’m not sure if the swivel hinge will be as hard to break as the rest of the device, considering the record of similar parts in other mobile devices. Next the Toughbook 19 weighs 2.31 kg (5.1 lbs) which is a lot for a 10-inch device. But improved durability took its toll on this one I guess. Oh and the price starts from 3 399 US dollars. Ouch!

Ufone Volunteer Group Marks ‘Plant a Tree’ campaign

Employees of Ufone recently took part in an eco-friendly activity in Damial in which they conducted ‘Plant a Tree’ campaign jointly with the 150 students of The Citizens Foundation (TCF) Primary School.

This campaign was conducted at the Gen. Fazal-e-Muqueem Khan Campus of TCF Primary School. Ufone, a socially responsible organization has always played a major role in helping the children of Pakistan. Under the umbrella of child health care the revamp of the PAEDS ward at the Policlinic is one such example where Ufone has provided state-of-the-art facilities for the children which is at par with any private hospital facility.

The Ufone Volunteer Group which has been created to help give back to the society, went to visit and spend some time to share the importance of a green and healthy environment. TCF Students were enthusiastic to plant as many trees as possible as each one of them wished to make a positive difference for their nation.

Mr. Akbar Khan Chief Marketing Officer Ufone said, “We, at Ufone are focused to bring a smile to all and with this activity our employees have helped do just that with our stakeholders”. “The children at the school visited are the future of our country and it is our social obligation to help educate and create a sense of patriotism within each one of the children of our country”, he added

PTCL Smart TV Vs Local Cable Operators

PTCL launched its multiple times delayed, long awaited IPTV project with the brand name ‘PTCL SMART TV’, around 2 years ago. PTCL’s IPTV is largely considered as milestone in achieving the next generation technology for broadcasting TV channels over IP i.e. Internet Protocol on high streams.

In the start, PTCL offered IPTV services on fibre, off course due to bandwidth fluctuations on the copper and later on it is also been offered on copper as well.

As per (un-firmed) internal reports, PTCL Smart TV has around 11,000 customers – as of now.

PTCL SMART TV is equipped with 125 channels covering religious, news, infotainment, entertainment, sports, music, movies, some regional and non-regional channels with digital video broadcasting. Out of 125, most of the channels are covering local Pakistani channels – almost in every category.

While watching TV, you will definitely feel the difference among usual cable broadcast and PTCL SMART TV broadcast.

IPTV Charges:

In a complete SMART TV Package, PTCL gives IPTV STB (SET TOP BOX), XDSL MODEM, remote control and manuals. It costs Rs.500 / month for STB as an installment, however full payment facility of Rs.10000/- is also available for one-time payment of IPTV STB.

Additionally, per month charges of Rs.300 are also deducted in usual PTCL phone bill – this is rental for IPTV services.

If we sum up the charges of DSL and SMART TV, then every single user who is facilitated with PTCL DSL and PTCL SMART TV has to pay Rs.2000/ month (fixed amount) for DSL and SMART TV only. (Rs. 1,200 for DSL, Rs. 300 for monthly rental of IPTV services and Rs. 500 for installation of STB)

In case you have paid Rs. 10,000 for STB in one go, then single user has to pay only Rs.1500/- per month for both services.

Challenges from Local Cable Operators

PTCL IPTV is still growing and a lot is needed to improve in a steadiness. For instance, you just look at the cable TV market of Pakistan, recently, digital cable services have been launched and now cable TV service providers are offering 200+ channels on digital Set Top Box (STB).

The competitive price that is available to customers for using digital cable TV services is about 4500/- as an initial payment for STB and later on Rs.300 as cable TV line rent.

Indeed, it is a threat for IPTV, when talked about the number of channels and prices that are available in local cable TV market.

PTCL IPTV also needs to improve its channels’ type and base, to compete with local digital cable TV competitors, as end user will definitely analyze the benefits that a competitive market has to offer.

Additionally, PTCL IPTV had only 3 PTCL operated Movies Channels, which broadcast movies in genre of Classic, Comedy and Action/Drama. PTCL never plays newly released movies, for all the genres, however, they are ad-free unlike cable TV operators.

Action Items:

Increase in Number of Channels.

Decrease in rates to respond competitive cable TV market.

PTCL Operated movies channels need to improve its playlist

Video on Demand channels need improvements in its playlist to offer latest movie releases.

Wherever PTCL goes, service issues remain there; Company must overhaul the complaint resolution structure and methodologies.

Conclusion:

PTCL has indeed added value to the market by offering such services to end users., But with that content selection will multiply the value and the profits.

PTCL IPTV also enjoys the competitive edge as cable TV market is already saturated (particularly in urban area

Valuable Uses of LCD’s

LCD’s active matrix display was produced in USA in 1960’s, after hefty investment injections and lot of time spent by researchers.

As per estimates, till 2008 LCD TV’s had captured 50% market share out of total 200 million TVs in this world in 2008 (Wikipedia).

LCD’s are highly equipped devices with high resolutions and color displays on a single screen from inches to feet’s (dimensions and specification list is huge).

In Pakistan, for last two years LCD’s monitors have replaced the usual CRT monitors, though one can still easily find local markets offering CRT monitors on comparatively low prices as compared to LCD’s monitor. But difference in price has slashed down in a way that many may opt for LCD’s instead of usual CRT monitors, considering the benefits and advantages of better look and feel of LCDs.

LCD’s are more liked amongst masses due to crystal clear picture quality, its compactness and relatively better look and feel. So, in that sense LCD monitors are also capturing market share from CRT displays and can play major role in replacing old technology.

With that, if a LCD user plug in CPU with monitor, it might serve as PVR (with TV tuner) and at the same time can give multiple other benefits. What are those? Keep reading to find out…!

LCD TV can provide benefits in its capacity and features. Most of the LCD TV’s have different input features like Monitor cable port, RCA cable, Component Cable, HDMI, USB FLASH / HARD Drive Ports, built-in WIFI card links and etc.

Benefits of Monitor/VGA Cable Port:

This port can provide features like offering displays for laptops and CPU’s and by connecting it with any VGA output compatible devices with your LCD.

This can be helpful in having immense value with single piece of device i.e. LCD TV. Like if you are used to of downloading movies from internet (torrents ), then you can easily watch them on LCD TV by just simply connecting CPU or Laptop to monitor port of the LCD TV. This will help you avoid burning DVD’s or CD’s and then watching on standalone DVD Players.

RCA Cables / Audio Video Cable:

This option is also available in the TV’s and most of the TV users are already known to it. You can watch HD videos directly from your HD handy cams, compatible flash drives and so on by just giving input to LCD TVs’ Audio Video input.

Component Cable:

Component cable ports have also been provided in some latest TV’s, but still it is an attribute of LCD input. Most of experts opine that Component cable is almost near to HDMI cable as it transmits the same video signal by using three pieces of cable, but in contrast to HDMI, component cable can send this by using single cable even for value added Audio. It really helps in watching crystal clear picture with your STB’s of satellites of digital cable receivers.

HDMI CABLE:

High Definition Multimedia Interface cable has been designed especially for high definition outputs and inputs on displays. HDMI Ports is almost common in newly manufactured laptops and can add immense value while using with LCD TV.

USB Flash/ Hard Drives port:

Most of latest LCD TV’s have this feature of connecting your existing USB Flash disk or drive to the LCD TV directly and may serve as personal video recorder and viewer as well.

Please consult your LCD TV manuals for hard drive partition formats and connecting procedures, this will reduce the error of not responding while connecting with your LCD TV.

BUILT-in WIFI Cards:

Yes, you can use Metacafe, blip TV, and other online websites that offer videos, moreover you can get weather Updates, other widgets and online applications (if supported & installed).

These WIFI cards equipped LCD TV’s also help you in browsing Internet TV’s and you can watch those TV channels available online. This segment is still evolving and in future we may see some radical changes. But till now, it is possible to get updates on the same LCD TV while watching movies or TV, like what you friends are doing, what videos they are sharing or weather forecast and list goes on.

Watch Full Length Movies on Wateen

Wateen has got a portal that is filled with multiple segments ranging from news section to blogs and from games to movies.

It is indeed a good effort to bring forward the local content and that too backed by such a large ISP. This can probably serve as an example for the rest of companies to deploy their portals where users can share content from our local industry.

However, there is a problem that we wanted to point out. Just like PTCL’s entertainment portal (which is exclusively available for only PTCL broadband users), Wateen has started uploading full length movies – on third parties’ servers – and which are available for everyone to watch them.

Now we are not sure if they have got redistribution license for these movies or not. Wateen is not only uploading these full length (apparently pirated) videos from admin’s account but they are also advertising it through their official twitter account.

Here is the link for Video Portal on Wateen’s website: http://videos.wateen.com/index.php

PTCL Offers EVO PCMCIA for Rs. 999

PTCL EVO, that started from Rs. 6,000 for its EVO USB devices is now offering PCMCIA cards for Rs. 999 only.

This reduction in price is only for the device; however, monthly packages are going to remain the same – which I believe should be lowered by 20 percent at least.

N0te: PCMCIA cards are compatible with laptops only having PCMCIA slots. External PCMCIA cards are also available in market – however, that will take your initial cost high as of having a USB.

Postpaid Tariff/Package Details:

Package 1 (For subscribers having PTCL Landline)

Option 1: USB Device Rs. 3,999 (upfront)

Option 2: PCMCIA Card Rs. 999 (upfront)

Package 2 (For subscribers NOT having PTCL Landline)

Option 1 : USB Device Rs. 3,999 (upfront)

Option 2: PCMCIA Card Rs. 999 (upfront)

Service Charges

Monthly Service Charges: Rs. 2,000 (Payable through PTCL Landline Bill)

EVO LITE: Rs.1200 – 50 hours* or 3000 minutes – 30 days validity * Rs.21/additional hour

DAY PASS: Rs.100/day – Valid for 24 consecutive hours

For FAQ and more details: http://ptcl.com.pk/contentb.php?NID=264

Nayatel Offers New Packages, Upto 5 Mbps

Nayatel is offering new packages for home users with very catchy price tags.

Real attraction is unlimited downloads at 5 MB speed from 8:00 PM to 8:00 AM with 1 MB link during the day at Rs. 1,699. All this comes on Nayatel’s fiber, meaning that no dependency on copper wire resulting smooth speed without fulmination.

Please note that this service is available for Islamabad and Rawalpindi only.

Traiffs:

Upfront Charges:

Installation Charges: For Corporate Customers Installation: Rs. 6, 000 – For Home Customers Installation charges Rs.3, 000

Alcatel Optical Network Terminal (ONT): Rs. 24,000 to Rs. 25,0000 (Can be paid in monthly installments if agreed)

PTCL Offers Quad-Play: Unlimited Voice, Data, IPTV and Surveillance

PTCL is offering bundle package for its home users against a fixed monthly rental. Bundle offer includes following four services:

Unlimited on-net calls

Unlimited broadband

SmartTV (IPTV) with all available features

IP based home surveillance camera to secure your home from any sort of intrusions or threats

PTCL Quad Play’s Smart TV service comes with all its features, for instance

Rewind and pause live channels, which means that you can watch multiple programs being broadcast on different channels at the same time according to your desires by rewinding and watching the missed portion of the program while you were watching the other program

Video on demand (VOD) that includes over 500 movies of your choice and

TCL Quad Play’s home surveillance camera comes with multiple features such as;

SMS, e-mail and Voice alerts incase of any intrusion in your home

Remote live viewing of your home on your computer or mobile phone

Recording and storage of your camera surveillance which you can retrieve at any time

To know more about home surveillance system click this link

PTCL Quad Play service will be installed at the customer premises within 7 to 10 days from the date of order placement.

Tariff:

Equipment Charges:

You can pay one time for Equipment (Smart TV STB & Camera) Rs. 22,000 or otherwise monthly installment of Rs. 1050 for 24 Months

Availability:

Lahore

Karachi

Islamabad

Government Decides to Revise Telecom ASRs

The government has decided to revise the ‘Approved Settlement Rates’ (ASR) for transparent sharing of premium, being earned on incoming international telephonic traffic, after the cellular companies registered protest over the current mechanism and recent determinations of Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA).

Official documents, exclusively obtained by Business Recorder, show that the government would also incorporate changes in the prevalent regulations to effectively curb the menace of grey traffic, resulting in huge loss to the national exchequer.

According to the provisions of Telecom De-regulation Policy, approved by the Cabinet in 2003, ‘Long-Distance International’ (LDI) licensees would be permitted to retain a fixed share of termination charge, paid by international carriers, while the remaining portion of premium is to be used for infrastructure development to increase the tele-density. The latter is termed as the ‘Access Promotion Contribution’ (APC).

In the existing policy regime, this premium for the calls terminating on local loop operators (LLOs), is passed on to LLOs, while the APC on cellular termination is collected and provided to ‘Universal Services Fund’ (USF), the agency responsible for expanding the infrastructure of tele-density in the country.

Moreover, the policy entrusted Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) to devise a formula for revenue sharing, which would be reviewed and notified at least once every six months. Framework for APC was outlined in ‘Access Promotion (AP) Rules and AP Regulation published by the PTA in 2005.

Pursuant to deregulation policy and AP Rules and Regulation, Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) monitors and approves the international telephone service agreements recommended by consortium of LDI operators. From time to time, PTA has been reviewing the APC by issuance of determined rates. However, telecom industry has been agitating, for quite some time, on Approved Settlement Regime (ASR) introduced by PTA and they have expressed reservations on recent determinations issued by the PTA. The current regularity regime does not provide the mechanism to effectively curb the menace of grey traffic, resulting in huge financial loss to the national exchequer. The matter was referred to the Ministry of IT for resolution. A committee comprising representatives of industry, PTA, and MoIT was constituted to deliberate upon the issue. The committee held a series of consultative meetings with all stakeholders to finalise the revised policy for ASR.

Based on the consensus, worked out through the consultative process, MoIT has proposed the following changes in the clause 4.3 of Telecommunication Deregulation Policy and to make them the integral part of the next Telecom Policy for the sector as follows:

At present, net incoming international traffic generates a financial premium over the cost of conveying and terminating the traffic into Pakistan. For next five years, a reasonable portion of the premium is proposed to be used to promote infrastructure expansion. The portion of the premium applied to promoting infrastructure expansion is referred to as the ‘Access Promotion Contribution’ (‘APC’).

The design and implementation of the APC program will be guided by the following principles: (a) the APC shall be used to foster new infrastructure development to increase tele-density through local loop operators, mobile cellular operators, and USF; (b) the distribution of funds between all stakeholders shall be done in a transparent and non-discriminatory manner; (c) the APC program shall be under the regulatory supervision of PTA, which shall also regulate international traffic agreements; and (d) in order to stabilise ASR and to eliminate the speculation in the market, ASR distribution mechanism for various stakeholders will be for the next five years.

A fair share in APC, called APC-M, may be allocated to mobile cellular operators whereby mobile cellular operators shall procure the system to curb grey traffic on access level which will also facilitate quality of service monitoring and implementation of International Mobile Equipment Identify (IMEI) regime.

LLOs shall provide 200,000 broadband connections each year, exclusively with APC amounts for the next five years. Based on the percentage share in APC, the Authority shall determine the obligatory connections of each operator: (a) in order to secure the effective collection of APC, negotiations of bilateral accounting rates will be supervised by PTA.

The principle of ‘one country, one rate’ will be implemented; (b) PTA would establish an international traffic clearing house for all incoming international traffic. Through this clearing house, PTA would have statistics of all incoming and outgoing traffic, including the satellite traffic.

All licensees will be obliged to file reports on the volumes, sources and destinations of international incoming minutes, and PTA shall audit their itemised call records and billing systems with the objective of detecting and eliminating fraud; and (c) channelisation of forex inflow of incoming traffic as well as monetary transactions with foreign operators be made through the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP). Six-monthly account audit and stabilisation of call rates be ensured by the PTA.

A fund for revitalisation of local ICT/Telecom equipment manufacturing through public-private partnership and curbing the grey traffic under MoIT, may be created with the differential amount from APC-M & APC-USF over the international mobile terminating traffic.

Accounting separation will be strictly enforced for access promotion contribution received by the operators for tele-density enhancement and the same shall be audited by the PTA, bi-annually. PTA would devise all possible mechanisms to protect the share of LDI operators, including maintaining the “White list” and “Black List” of international carriers, whereby LDI operators would be allowed to terminate traffic only for those international carriers on the “White List”.

International carriers observing the sanctity of the ASR of the country will be included in the white list. Whereas LDI would register written complaint with the Regulator (PTA) for non-compliance of the sanctity of the ASR, PTA shall blacklist those carriers and direct LDIs to stop bringing traffic from blacklisted carriers.

LDI operators would be required to submit bank guarantees to all the recipient organisations so that the same can be encashed, in case of default from LDI. PTA would issue comprehensive regulations to ensure sanctity of ASR and timely payment of outstanding amounts by all concerned.

Pakistan is most suitable for solar power

As you can see, the cons of implementing solar power in your home are primarily cost and location related, but if those two items do not pose issues for you, the good news is…

If solar power is looked at through a long-term lens, you will eventually make back what you originally spent, and possibly start saving money on your investment

Let’s not forget that solar energy increases the value of your home too. Solar power is not subject supply and demand fluctuations in the way that gas is. Silicon, the primary component of solar panels, is also being more widely produced, therefore, less and less expensive with each passing year.

Solar power is independent, or semi-independent. This is great because you can supply your home with electricity during a power outage. Solar power can also be used in remote locations, places where conventional power can’t be reached. On a larger scale, solar power also reduces our need to rely on foreign sources for power.

And last, but certainly not least, it’s good for our planet! Solar energy is clean, renewable and sustainable. It does not fill our atmosphere with carbon dioxide, nitrogen oxide, mercury or any other pollutants. It is a free and unlimited source of power, unlike expensive and damaging fossil fuels.

Free Unlimted On-net Calls: Zong Chitral Offer

Zong has offered first ever city wide, location based charging in Pakistan. With Zong Chitral Offer, Zong customers based in Chitral can call their on-net friends and family for free.

All existing, new and MNP Zong subscribers within Chitral city can avail this offer for unlimited free on net calls for 2 months – with no hidden charges!

How to subscribe:

Simply send ‘chr’ to 522 now and start calling!

Validity:

The promotion will be starting in Chitral on 22nd May for 2 months until 22nd July.

Tariff

Online calls are free, of-net calls will be charged as regular tariff.


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PTCL Re-launches International plus Package

Pakistan Telecommunication Company Ltd (PTCL) has re launched its international Plus Package with new rates.
Under this package, customers will be offered 500 free minutes to landline and mobile in USA, Canada and China and to landline only in UK and Australia in a monthly package subscription fee of Rs. 499 per month exclusive of taxes.
International plus Package was previously launched in August 2008, through which customers could make calls to these international destinations in a monthly subscription fee of Rs. 999, which offered customers 1200 free minutes.
SEVP Commercial Naveed Saeed said this package has been launched upon the positive feed back we got from our customers who make international calls on regular basis. And this customer centric initiative has been taken to address the demands raised by our dynamic customer base.
Aasif Inam EVP Consumer Services marked this step as reinforcement of company’s determination to improve and build good relationship with its customers while catering to their demand most effectively. He said all existing International plus Package customers will be moved to new tariff plan from the 1st of June, 2010.
Regarding this further information can be obtained from helpline: 1236.

Facebook Takes Down Controversial Page

In a recent development, it looks that Facebook has taken down the controversial page, which had caused protest from Muslim world, across the globe.
Yesterday evening page went down for a short span of time due to some glitch, which was latter fixed.
As anticipated, there are other pages already created with same aim, which they are calling back up pages.
Its quite long since the page hasn’t appeared back – so we may consider that Faecbook ultimately decided to remove the page. However, Facebook blog hasn’t published anything relating to the issue to officially confirm the removal of blasphemous page.
Update: CNN’s ireport confirms (though un-vetted story) that Facebook has withdrawn the page from its website.