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FIF’s disappearing app

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ISLAMABAD: The Falah-i-Insaniyat Foundation (FIF) vaulted ahead of other political and religious groups when it launched a mobile app to highlight its philanthropic work among smartphone users. But the app, which was available for download for at least ten days, has now mysteriously disappeared from the Google Play store. FIF is the charitable arm of […]


Cybercrimes probe backlog dwarfs FIA’s achievements

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ISLAMABAD: The Federal Investigation Agency is struggling in all its assigned tasks as the number of pending cases in its National Response Centre for Cyber Crimes (NR3C) is much higher than its overall achievements. Its performance and achievement chart from January 1 to December 31, 2015 reflects huge backlogs and several pending cases which continue […]


High-speed internet: Broadband subscriptions near 30 million mark

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KARACHI: The broadband fever doesn’t seem to be dying down as the number of subscriptions in the country hit almost 30 million after cellular service providers sold nearly one and a half million high-speed mobile internet connections in February 2016, the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) revealed on Monday. The number of broadband connections in the […]


Lessons for Pakistan on how to gear up for cyber security

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KARACHI: While Middle East countries have faced humanitarian disasters spawned by Syria and Yemen since time immemorial, a greater problem now faces these countries; cyber-crime. Cyber war is a pretty new phenomenon with countries like Iran conducting their first cyber-attack against its rivals during diplomatic crises in the year 2012. A group of Iranians calling […]


Mobicash to introduce Mobile Account Application

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Islamabad: In line with the continuous digitization of its services to meet demands of Smartphone users, Mobilink is proud to announce an Android based Mobicash application for the facilitation of its Mobile Account users. Mobicash Mobile Account application offers a user friendly interface and a secure transactions platform. The application allows users to perform all […]


Google artificial intelligence programme beats S Korean Go pro

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SEOUL: Google’s artificial intelligence (AI) programme on Tuesday beat South Korean professional Lee Sedol in the ancient board game Go, recovering from Sunday’s loss to win its fourth match in a five-game series. AlphaGo, developed by Google subsidiary DeepMind, had already clinched a series victory with its third win on Saturday, in a result that […]


Google introduces advanced navigation system for Pakistan

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After adding Sindhi and Pashto in its ‘Translate’, the world’s search engine, Google has rolled out yet another facility for the users in Pakistan the advanced navigation system for Pakistani’s. According to local media reports, Google Navigation turn-by-turn navigation feature is presently available for beta users and can be accessed through any android phone. The […]


The march of the smartphone

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There is a quiet but significant revolution in the way the people of Pakistan communicate with one another, and it is having far-reaching socio-economic effects that can only broaden, deepen and accelerate in the near-to-medium-term. Smartphones have arrived with a bang and the growth in 3G and 4G technologies is generating one million new users […]


Pakistan’s 1st online legal service launched

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ISLAMABAD – Promising hassle-free services at one click, Pakistan’s first online legal services have been launched here yesterday. The portal wukla. com offers advice, connects to lawyers and gets legal documents delivered straight to client’s doorstep. Altaf Qureshi, the co-owner of the project, said that the new website will be a combination of law and […]


Studying Pakistan’s growing obsession with smartphones

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KARACHI: Samreen Babar, a resident of Gulshan-e-Hadeed, has been feeling ‘connected’ ever since she bought a smartphone last month. The 32-year-old housewife now uses her new gadget to connect with her sister-in-law in London, talk to her brother in Germany and keep abreast of social media updates of her family and friends through Skype, WhatsApp […]


Moving forward: Healthcare apps come to the fore in Pakistan

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KARACHI: It had been a year since Faraz Shamsi lost a loved one to a heart attack, but the memory was still raw. Perhaps, the cardiac arrest wasn’t as fatal as failure to receive timely treatment was. Shamsi isn’t the only one who has lost someone due to the absence of information. In a mega […]


25-year-old sentenced to 13 years in prison over ‘religiously offensive’ Facebook post

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LAHORE: A Pakistani man was sentenced to 13 years in prison on Thursday for allegedly posting religiously offensive material on his Facebook page, lawyers in the case said. Rizwan Haider, 25, was convicted in an anti-terrorism court of three charges, including promoting sectarian hatred, after he supposedly published a post referring to Prophet Mohammed (pbuh). […]


Uber parks in Lahore, announces start of operations

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LAHORE: In a development that would definitely spice up the transport business in Lahore, Uber Technologies – a global taxi-dispatch service app – has formally begun operations in Punjab’s provincial capital. The launch comes at a time when Punjab is taking the lead in not only upgrading its road network, but also refining the landscape […]


Facebook rolls out expanded ‘reactions’

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SAN FRANCISCO: Now you can do more than just “like” something on Facebook. The social media giant on Wednesday rolled out its new expanded “reactions” feature which allows its users to express a range of emotions – “like, love, haha, wow, sad or angry.” Facebook had been testing ways to expand the “like” button amid […]