The Internet has been in Pakistan since the early 1990s, and in 2000 there were 133,900 users, or 0.1 percent of the population. The latest figures, for 2011, indicate that there are 31 million users or 17.6 percent of the population – and rising fast. As of February 2012, there were 25 large registered Internet […]
By: Saad Hasan KARACHI: While the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation’s website came online amid much fanfare in the first week of October, software analysts as well as citizens are wondering when, if ever, will it deliver the kind of information and services that it was originally supposed to. A brainchild of KMC administrator Mohammad Hussain Syed, […]
By: Aijaz gul Noted film columnist Aijaz Gul has a word on old habits that die hard: “Films began as a small scale industry and a work of magic in France, the United States of American, the UK, Germany and Russia, where it was difficult to convert theatre addicts into movie junkies. France even tried […]
By: Arshad mehmood Arshad Mehmood is critical of the apathy of state organisations as well as the general public towards archiving our local and regional music. Personally, he is happy to have kept his penchant for classical music alive by transferring it over time from LPs and cassettes to CDs and DVDs. Mahmood believes there […]
A gang of swindlers involved in defrauding citizens across Pakistan of Rs270 million by offering attractive benefits through the Internet was busted on Tuesday by Quaidabad police. The police also seized laptops, Internet devices and mobile phones used in the massive fraud. Bilal Khalid Shafi, a resident of Gulistan-e-Jauhar, had lodged a complaint at the […]
By: Tariq Ahmed Saeedi Social commerce is a business thriving mainly on word-of-mouth of internet users on social networking websites. Those who operate business-to-consumer (B2C) companies as well as business-to-business (B2B) ventures pitch new offers to visitors of these sites to spark a debate. This, in turn, helps them generate new customers, increase sales and […]
By: Asna Ali As the story of the attack on Malala Yousafzai unfolds and journalists chew on its many angles while Malala herself fights to live, the question that has been nagging me is: why aren’t there more boys like her? No teenage male bloggers are recounting their experiences of living in Swat or elsewhere. […]
Syed Masood Hashmi of Orient McCann emphasised on the development of social media and eradication of boundaries in today’s world, while speaking at a seminar on ‘Swiss Knife of Social Media’, organised by Navitus. He said “Technology has advanced at such a fast pace that you can virtually tour the world at the comfort of […]
By Ayeda Husain The writer has been a journalist for 19 years and has previously worked for The Friday Times Two young girls. Two different cultures. One subjected to life under Taliban rule, the other to cyber-bullying on Facebook. Not much in common on the surface. But scratch the plastic veneer and one uncovers, in […]
KARACHI: For some brands, the ‘like’ button on Facebook is not enough. A few months ago, a cat food company beckoned pet owners to ‘put a paw on the love button’ on their Facebook page. But at the social media seminar on Tuesday, Imtiaz Noor Muhammad, the head of a brand consultancy company called Effective […]
KARACHI: You may casually fling your BlackBerry on your bed or absentmindedly leave it on the dressing table, but according to Masood Hashmi, the CEO of Orientm McCann Erickson, the device was worth half a city hundreds of years ago. Hashmi was one of the many guest speakers invited to a seminar on Tuesday titled […]
KARACHI: So grateful was a man that Facebook enabled the Egyptian youth to mobilise at Tahrir Square on January 25 that he named his daughter after the popular social networking site. Telenor’s marketing director, Usman Javed, said that odd baby names are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the power of […]
By: ALI HUSSAIN & FAZAL SHER The elements upset over the unprecedented world-wide reaction against the brutal attack on a 14-year-old schoolgirl Malala Yousufzai have launched a smear campaign on social media to try to countermand the continuing public outrage against the tragic incident. Bloggers on the social media sites like twitter and facebook are […]
By the time businesses learnt to make use of websites and e-mails for the purpose of marketing and promoting their product, the proliferation of Web 2.0 subjugated every other way of promoting a product, making it must for a business to have social media presence. The ubiquitous and multi-faceted nature of social media compels the […]
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