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 […]
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). […]
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 […]
ISLAMABAD .: In the Hindu Kush mountains craftswomen painstakingly stitch flowing scarves, skilled artisans who were unable to sell their products beyond the remote region until mobile internet came to Pakistan and dropped the market into the palms of millions of previously marginalised people. The women of northern Chitral are among the unlikely profiteers of […]
KARACHI: An initiative for the professional training of journalists in Pakistan, the Center for Excellence in Journalism, was inaugurated at the IBA (city campus) on Saturday. The CEJ is a collaboration of the Institute of Business Administration (IBA), International Centre for Journalists (ICFJ), Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism and the United States Department of […]
ISLAMABAD: Express Media Group and the Centre for Communication Programmes (CCP) have signed an agreement for the promotion of citizen journalism. Director Planning and Strategy Kamran Wajih represented the Express Media Group while Anjum Rehman of the Centre for Communication Programmes served as the institute’s representative at the ceremony held here yesterday. The purpose of […]
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 […]
ISLAMABAD: The misuse of Facebook has so far been reported in relation to blackmail, fraud and impersonation. However, in a recent case, the social networking website has allegedly been used by a man to exact revenge for his sister’s divorce. Mohammad Usman is accused of trying to malign his former brother-in-law, Bilal Asif, his first […]
KARACHI: In a sign that Pakistan is fast catching up with the global trend, the explosive growth of mobile broadband, such as third-generation (3G) and 4G or long-term evolution (LTE) technologies, has changed dynamics of the country’s broadband market. Almost non-existent two years ago, the high-speed mobile internet now accounts for 88% of the broadband […]
ISLAMABAD: Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg was ecstatic a year ago. His dream of bringing two-thirds of the unconnected world (including a billion Indians) on to his Facebook was appearing to come to life! The ‘Free Basics’ initiative (originally internet.org) was officially launched in India on February 10, 2015. Ironically, it was exactly a year later when […]
PESHAWAR: The top internet search engine Google.Com enlists Pashto one of the many world languages. Now any text of the languages available in Google.Com search engine translation mode could be found being translated in Pashto script. Pashto literary and cultural circles have widely appreciated the step and have termed it a big milestone in the […]
NEARLY three months after the terrorist assault that left 14 dead in San Bernardino, California, the FBI is still attempting to answer some questions concerning shooters Syed Rizwan Farook and his wife Tashfeen Malik. About two weeks ago, FBI called Apple’s base camp in Cupertino, California: the office needed Apple to help them get through […]
ISLAMABAD: At first glance, with their longish, untrimmed beards and shalwars hitched up to their ankles, members of the Jamaatud Dawa (JuD) cyber-team look a little out of place as they adeptly juggle their cameras, laptops, and smart phones. The young men, who now occupy a prominent place at JuD rallies and events as they […]
Karachi: The Federal Investigation Agency’s cybercrime unit arrested a banker on Tuesday over charges of placing a fake advisement on a classifieds website to malign a woman’s reputation. The cybercrime unit said it had received a complaint from a resident of DHA, Karachi on January 15 wherein he stated that his daughter was receiving calls […]
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