SAN FRANCISCO – Facebook apologised on Sunday for a bug that sent a Safety Check notification to users around the world following a deadly suicide bombing in Pakistan. Facebook users from Honolulu to Brussels and Cairo to Hong Kong were baffled by the notification, a feature that lets users signal to friends that they are […]
Islamabad – Mohafiz, a lifesaving mobile application designed by a local Pakistani software company in wake of Army Public School Peshawar attack, allows its users to broadcast life-threatening situation to nominated emergency contacts through SMS. In a world where emergency services are too few and overburdened to effectively deal with the ever growing nature and […]
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 […]
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 […]
DI KHAN: A literary society arranged a recitation to celebrate the launch of Google Pashto translator in the main bazaar of Jandola, Frontier Region Tank on Monday. The Bet Nika Pashto Adabi Tolana arranged the mushaira where a large number of Pashto poets gathered to recite poems and celebrate the global recognition of their language. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Mobilink and Uber have entered into a partnership to offer a host of services to facilitate the ride-hailing app’s Pakistani customers. “Our partnership with Uber showcases our leadership in the provision of state of the art communication services to customers throughout the country,” Azfar Manzoor, VP Business Services, Mobilink, said while speaking at the signing […]
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 […]
ISLAMABAD: One of the country’s leading real-estate developers and a mobile phone operator reached an understanding to collaborate with each other, here on Tuesday. Bahria Town and Mobilink signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to launch a digital mobile financial services platform for the residents and clients of the real-estate developer. Bahria Town Chairperson Malik […]
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 […]
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 […]
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