Important Security tips for linux

1) Use strong Passwords: We can't stress this one enough: Use strong
passwords! One of the first actions many people do when after they install
their PBX, is often to create a phone extension with an easy password. Avoid
using short or weak extension passwords. Please remember to use passwords of
at least 8 characters, including a mix of upper and lower case along with
digits. Remember to change them periodically every 2-3 months at most.

2) Public Internet: Avoid leaving your PBX systems, ATA Adapters and IP
Phones open to the internet. Do not use DMZ mode on your router and do not
forward ports to your equipment, unless you absolutely know what you are
doing. This is only needed on specific cases, and only leave it open to the
internet if you have experience on how to properly manage security on
equipment that is open to the internet.

3) Asterisk Tweak: If you are using an Asterisk based PBX, add the
following line to the sip.conf file under the [general] section and issue a
reload
alwaysauthreject = yes

What this parameter does, is that it will always return an authentication
error instead of a .404 not found:., even when the extension doesn't exist.
This steps-up the difficulty for brute force scanners when they are
attacking your PBX.

4) Trixbox, PBX In a Flash and other web interface based PBX: Change
the default password. Different flavors of PBX installs come with default
administration passwords. Make sure to change the default passwords
immediately after your installation and also make sure the web interface is
not reachable from the internet.

5) PBX Dial Plan: Do you make international calls? If no, do not allow
international calls to be placed from your PBX. In Asterisk, remove ._011..
Or .00_. . Never use ._... If you are only calling a few countries on a
regular basis, enable these countries only. For example: The only country
you're calling is UK? Only configure _01144. In your dialplan.

6) Use additional caution while travelling: Do you plan on using a soft
phone at a random internet cafe? Make sure you remove your login details
after using it, and uninstall the software if possible.

7) Asterisk and Fail2ban: As an additional step you can install an
additional security tool such as fail2ban, which is a free brute force
detection system, it scans the log files of your PBX and then takes action
based on the entries of those logs.
(http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Fail2Ban+%28with+iptables%29+And+Asteris
k)

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The Best Of Google Demo Slam

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Takebacktech is trying to reach 10,000 views & comments before end of the campaign period on 10 Dec, International Human Rights Day. Help them hit that mark!

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Pakistani Entrepreneur nominated as Entrepreneur of the year

So, Rehan Ahmed Allah Wala sarted his first venture (Pakistan Computers) in 1987, Used to do it for 3 hrs a day after school when he was 14, the business used to re-sell Commodore 64 Games and most of the people came to know him as Rehan Allahwala, More stories on his blog, He enjoyed creating services, that can benfit the masses, and that has made him make HealthManagementSystem.net and SchoolManagementSystem.net Both are GREAT Projects, and are bound to change things around us.

Check out his complete profile on:




SO Help him winning the 2010 Mashable Entrepreneur Award. 

Mashable | The Social Media Guide

Some thing about :

It was founded in 2005 and is one portal for all the latest social, technological, digital things happening around you. Website have more then 30 Million pageviews a month and have more then or around 30 people working in their team.

More on their website

Business as usual, in prison Image galleries, audio-video slideshows, videos, documentaries

Business as usual, in prison Image galleries, audio-video slideshows, videos, documentaries

I just read this article and loved the concept of isn't this motivating for those and giving them the reason not to be involved in bad things?

MoMo Desert Safari Invitation

Mobile Monday a meetup of like Minded People from the same industry is coming to Dubai

This time network and enjoy safari simultaneously

Check out this video

Process to be followed before Hiring a Virtual Assistant

Ask your virtual Assistant to watch following videos:

1)What is a Virtual Assistant (VA)?

:

2) What is wikipedia?



3)What is gmail? and how to sign up on it?



4) How to use and Install google talk?



5) What is Google Maps and How to use it?



6) What is Facebook?



7) What is twitter?



8) How to use Excel ?



9) How to use Ms Words?



10) How to use Skype?



11) How to use NTR Connect??



12) What is screener and how to use it?



Assigment:

Send a Text/SMS and get a FREE USA NUMBER

You can now get a new USA number on your mobile phone, Simply send a SMS from your mobile phone to  +447937900030 with message "vpl signup usa superman" without the " " & our system will issue you a new USA Phone number right away and that US number will be forwarded to your number


Here you go check the video on how to do this:




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Shoe attack on Zardari - Serves him right!

Finally after so much curses and talk talk talk.. One man was able to protest practically in Birmingham on our great Zardari. Zardari is the president of Pakistan, a president who cannot cancel his trip in the times of crisis in the country. Pakistan is currently facing worst floods and need every thing they can to get out of this crisis. Not to mention history of Pakistan doesn't show flood in Pakistan with such density in the past.

I still remember there was an earthquake or flood in china and their president was on the spot with in 2 hours helping people and making sure an action is being taken to fix the situation and what did our AKA did? went on an official trip of Europe in times of EMERGENCY in the country.

Well history repeats it self, yesterday Mr Bush was loved by his people and loved by whole world so much that a guy in Iraq throwed shoe on him, similarly now a days no one can deny with Zardari's popularity who recently demanded 10% from Bill Gates for opening a software house near Gawadar, so much for being a president :)

Well coming back to our topic, finally a Pakistani elder had guts to throw shoes on President Zardari during his speech in Birmingham. This guy showed the true voice of every one in Pakistan!

Here you go with the interview of that guy taken by Geo:



You know what, Life isn't all the beautiful but we all have to take a stand. Current president is no good for the country and I guess now we all know that because of the halaat in our country. Taxes on every thing :)
May Allah shower his blessings on Pakistan and help us get rid of corruption. Pakistan Zindabad!

Dominican Republic DID numbers

The Dominican Republic has the second largest economy in the Caribbean. Though long known for sugar production, the economy is now dominated by services. The country's economic progress is exemplified by its advanced telecommunication system.

Its a nation having population of 10 million people and out of which 15% to 25% natives have immigrated to different parts of the world.

DIDx now offers extended coverage in Dominic Republic, adding Santo Domingo, Puerto Plata, Santiago and San Francisco for as low as $6 per month.

Check out our standard coverage on http://www.didx.net/did

Hope to see you soon on DIDx

Do you hate Some One?

I got this via forwarded email and wanted to share it on my blog:


A Nice story with a good moral. Please go through.

A kindergarten teacher has decided to let her class play a game.

The teacher told each child in the class to bring along a plastic bag containing a few potatoes.

Each potato will be given a name of a person that the child hates,

So the number of potatoes that a child will put in his/her plastic bag will depend on the number of people he/she hates.

So when the day came, every child brought some potatoes with the name of the people he/she hated. Some had 2 potatoes; some 3 while some up to 5 potatoes. The teacher then told the children to carry with them the potatoes in the plastic bag wherever they go (even to the toilet) for 1 week.

Days after days passed by, and the children started to complain due to the unpleasant smell let out by the rotten potatoes. Besides, those having 5 potatoes also had to carry heavier bags. After 1 week, the children were relieved because the game had finally ended....

The teacher asked: "How did you feel while carrying the potatoes with you for 1 week?". The children let out their frustrations and started complaining of the trouble that they had to go through having to carry the heavy and smelly potatoes wherever they go.

Then the teacher told them the hidden meaning behind the game. The teacher said: "This is exactly the situation when you carry your hatred for somebody inside your heart. The stench of hatred will contaminate your heart and you will carry it with you wherever you go. If you cannot tolerate the smell of rotten potatoes for just 1 week, can you imagine what is it like to have the stench of hatred in your heart for your lifetime???"

Moral of the story: Throw away any hatred for anyone from your heart so that you will not carry sins for a lifetime. Forgiving others is the best attitude to take!

True love is not loving a perfect person but loving an imperfect person perfectly!!

DIDXchange Members Empower Users with Phone Numbers from a Most Livable Country New Zealand

Auckland, New Zealand, March 14, 2010 --(PR.com)-- Super Technologies, Inc. via its wholesale DIDXchange service has announced the addition of the New Zealand phone numbers to 16,200 telephony service providers' DIDX marketplace.

New Zealand is a developed country that ranks highly in international comparisons on human development, quality of life, life expectancy, literacy, public education, peace, prosperity, economic freedom, ease of doing business, lack of corruption, press freedom, and the protection of civil liberties and political rights. Auckland, one of the wholesale phone number areas available on DIDXchange, is fourth on the Mercer's Quality of Living Survey 2009.

CLECs, VoIP companies, mobile operators, MVNOs, and other wholesale level IP communications providers are able to sign up, complete a six step interop, terms and SLA. This instantly interconnects the active member with thousands of other providers in 170 nations with access to DID phone numbers from New Zealand, but also 63 countries and over 6000 cities, with choice of pricing, plans, features, quality level and vendor.

“In 2010, our aim is to help our wholesale clients to not waste time and effort in securing the IP communications needs of their users. The provider of the New Zealand DIDs is offering the right price, high quality and great features of .99 USD cents/month with 5000 minutes included. The vendor has a good rating of 4. We love the idea that our clients' users will have the opportunity to have a presence in such a beautiful and prosperous area of the world, New Zealand, via a phone number,” stated Suzanne Bowen, vice president of Super Technologies, Inc. and its DIDX service.

The DIDXchange makes available the sale and purchase of wholesale DID and DDI via a unique portal for each member and also via the free API. The portal has a BUY DID function with standard and advanced search, announcement of specials on DIDs like New Zealand and conferences and tradeshows. It has a knowledge base, local number porting tools, DID tester, reports available for XLS download, call log lists and more.

"Some may not understand what a user can do with a phone number of a country that the user is physically in. It provides the most inexpensive way to have a local presence in the area important to the user. It makes it where those who live in that area who are important to the user, will not hesitate to pick up the phone, call the local New Zealand number, and it rings the user who bought the number," commented Nauman Ibrahim, Manager Carrier Relations for Super Technologies, Inc. “These New Zealand phone numbers can be directed to a SIP/IAX point anywhere in the world. Didx strives to provide the best quality, reasonably priced DiD numbers on wholesale in a variety of formats and choices. Users will realize that there is no need for a landline. They should ask their telephony service provider if they are an active member of DIDX, so they can get New Zealand phone numbers. The cities that are offered are South Island (including Chatham Islands), Wellington, Central North Island, and Auckland.”

About Super Technologies, Inc. and DIDXchange Super Technologies, Inc. headquartered in Pensacola, Florida, USA since 1999 created and provides services such as the wholesale DIDXchange marketplace where mobile operators, MVNOs, carriers, IP communications entrepreneurs, and large multi-national businesses buy and sell SIP and IAX2 DID phone numbers. In addition, it has a hosted Call Forward Solution available for rebranding. For more information, view website http://www.didx.net.

source - Auckland, New Zealand, March 14, 2010 --(PR.com)-- Super Technologies, Inc. via its wholesale DIDXchange service has announced the addition of the New Zealand phone numbers to 16,200 telephony service providers' DIDX marketplace.

New Zealand is a developed country that ranks highly in international comparisons on human development, quality of life, life expectancy, literacy, public education, peace, prosperity, economic freedom, ease of doing business, lack of corruption, press freedom, and the protection of civil liberties and political rights. Auckland, one of the wholesale phone number areas available on DIDXchange, is fourth on the Mercer's Quality of Living Survey 2009.

CLECs, VoIP companies, mobile operators, MVNOs, and other wholesale level IP communications providers are able to sign up, complete a six step interop, terms and SLA. This instantly interconnects the active member with thousands of other providers in 170 nations with access to DID phone numbers from New Zealand, but also 63 countries and over 6000 cities, with choice of pricing, plans, features, quality level and vendor.

“In 2010, our aim is to help our wholesale clients to not waste time and effort in securing the IP communications needs of their users. The provider of the New Zealand DIDs is offering the right price, high quality and great features of .99 USD cents/month with 5000 minutes included. The vendor has a good rating of 4. We love the idea that our clients' users will have the opportunity to have a presence in such a beautiful and prosperous area of the world, New Zealand, via a phone number,” stated Suzanne Bowen, vice president of Super Technologies, Inc. and its DIDX service.

The DIDXchange makes available the sale and purchase of wholesale DID and DDI via a unique portal for each member and also via the free API. The portal has a BUY DID function with standard and advanced search, announcement of specials on DIDs like New Zealand and conferences and tradeshows. It has a knowledge base, local number porting tools, DID tester, reports available for XLS download, call log lists and more.

"Some may not understand what a user can do with a phone number of a country that the user is physically in. It provides the most inexpensive way to have a local presence in the area important to the user. It makes it where those who live in that area who are important to the user, will not hesitate to pick up the phone, call the local New Zealand number, and it rings the user who bought the number," commented Nauman Ibrahim, Manager Carrier Relations for Super Technologies, Inc. “These New Zealand phone numbers can be directed to a SIP/IAX point anywhere in the world. Didx strives to provide the best quality, reasonably priced DiD numbers on wholesale in a variety of formats and choices. Users will realize that there is no need for a landline. They should ask their telephony service provider if they are an active member of DIDX, so they can get New Zealand phone numbers. The cities that are offered are South Island (including Chatham Islands), Wellington, Central North Island, and Auckland.”

About Super Technologies, Inc. and DIDXchange Super Technologies, Inc. headquartered in Pensacola, Florida, USA since 1999 created and provides services such as the wholesale DIDXchange marketplace where mobile operators, MVNOs, carriers, IP communications entrepreneurs, and large multi-national businesses buy and sell SIP and IAX2 DID phone numbers. In addition, it has a hosted Call Forward Solution available for re branding. For more information, view website http://www.didx.net.

Source: http://www.didx.net/press

Zong new offer 2 Numbers one Sim [Comparative Analysis :)]

I was going through different forums today and found out Zong has launched a new service with the

name of Chine-Ease .. my anxietiness forced me to go on their web site and read more about the

service .. to my surprise the title of the page http://zong.com.pk/zong_chine_ease.html says

UNTITLED now such a big company not taking care of this mere stuff.

Not complaining just want you all to send them complain / suggestion to fix this, like I did.

Coming back to the offer they are making Chinese number on your Pakistani number where you can

easily recieve calls on your Pakistani number when some one will dial a China number or vice versa.

The pricing goes like:

Incoming calls to any other the two number will cost you 10 rs per minute
Outgoing calls within China 10
Call to Pakistan 25

Now, why would I go for such offer where I can buy a Chinese number for $5 a month and 7 cents a

minute for calls on my cell phone number in Pakistan from http://www.virtualphoneline.com

Rs 420 per month and around PKR 7 per minute to recieve call on your Pakistani number, not to mention  the sms rates and all other rates will be normal or you can get a Pakistani number for $1 per month on your Chinese number where Rs 84 / month and $0.029 (Rs 3) per minute.

So why would I bother going for China Ease package :)

Thank you Virtualphonelineline.com you made my day!

Gliffy - Make diagrams online!!!

Just came across this website referred by a gr8 friend and indeed a superb website allowing you to make FLOW Charts, Organization Charts, SWOT analysis, you an architecht or just a simple guy want to design your home do it via gliffy the beauty is that you no longer need to download heavy softwares like Visio, in addition to this you don't need to sign up, just make the diagram and save on your PC :)

Don't trust me check the Network diagram here made via gliffy:

http://www.gliffy.com/examples/network-diagrams/

So have fun, web site address = http://www.gliffy.com/


Regards,

Muneeb Iqbal

Buxfer.com - Track your day to day expenses

I always had issues related to keeping my expenses and income streamed line, its due to buxfer.com I am able to manage it easily. Monthly income, day to day expenses e.t.c. The beauty of Buxfer is that it will allow you to keep budget for your monthly expenses. Example you don't want to spend more then $100 a month on your Food, define that in there and it wil automatically send you warning notification. In addition to this, weekly reports related to what you are spending.. most spending on e.t.c. Graphical demonstration, most people will say that this can be done on excel or google docs but my friends Google docs and excel wont send you Reminders that your bill is due and you need to pay it by 5th of month or your budget is this much and you are exceeding.


I have recently started using it so unaware of other features it may have but do try it out!
Regards,


Muneeb Iqbal

Start Your own VOIP Phone company with CFMS

Start your own Voip Call Forwarding company a Hosted Solution using us.

You don't have to worry about Servers any technicalities just concentrate on the marketing of your product and we will take care of every thing for you on the back side.

Your customers will know you and we will be there to support you with any of the technicalities which you may face.

So what are you waiting for?

Regards,

Muneeb Iqbal

Blog

Help for those looking forward to have an insight on tech moving around and many different things :)

in reference to: Google Sidewiki (view on Google Sidewiki)

Welcome to Super Technologies Inc.

Hello and welcome aboard,

My name is Muneeb Iqbal and I welcome you in our family.

I joined this organization back in January, 2005 as Sales Executive and today I am Manager Sales.

I am a Bachelors in Commerce and will soon become Masters in Marketing & Sales by the Mid of 2010

Here are some of the things which you should know before Joining US:

1) What is DIDx.net?



2) What is Virtualphoneline.com?



4) What is Wikipedia?



5) What is Facebook?



6) What is Gmail.com and how to sign up on it?



7) How to use Google Talk?



8) How to download and use Skype?



9) How to use NTR Connect?



10) How to use Google Maps?



11) How to check Current Time in New York and Pensacola, Fl

Go On http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/city.html?n=179

and type Current New York Time and Current Pensacola, Fl time

Regards,

Muneeb

How many numbers are there on your CNIC?

I recently got an sms  from one of ma mates:

"Send your nic number to 42201xxxxxxxx without dashes to '668' and find out how many sims you have from Ufone, Warid, Mobilink, Telenor, SCO and Zong"

SCO is Special Communication Organization; GM network in Azad Jammu Kashmir and Northern Areas.

Ok; now I came accross a new wbsite which will help you to fulfil the same task by going there. Here is what you have to do:

http://210.2.169.131:8000/app/sis.asp?cnic=42201xxxxxxxx

Simply write the full National Identity Card number after the = sign and you will know; how many sims are registered via your CNIC.

Only for Pakistani Users!

I think this is pretty amazing service, usually when you deal with franchise they use your NIC to issue x amount of sims. This service will help you to get the real picture and will save you from any unforeseen accident. After all it is a risk where police can arrest you; if sim that was issued on your CNIC is being used for FRAUD / Bad purpose.

Thank you PTA.. Indeed a Great Service!

Rule Prohibiting Unwanted "Robocalls"by FTC

Finally long awaited Unwanted Robocalls rule will take effect from September 1st

This means that now you will not be receiving a call by an automated machine telling you to renew you insurance or get good deal on mortgage and press '1' for more information ;)

Bye bye to predictive dialers.. automated telemarketing calls...

According to FTC website:

“American consumers have made it crystal clear that few things annoy them more than the billions of commercial telemarketing robocalls they receive every year,” said Jon Leibowitz, Chairman of the FTC. “Starting September 1, this bombardment of prerecorded pitches, senseless solicitations, and malicious marketing will be illegal. If consumers think they’re being harassed by robocallers, they need to let us know, and we will go after them.”

The new requirement is part of amendments to the agency’s Telemarketing Sales Rule (TSR) that were announced a year ago. After September 1, sellers and telemarketers who transmit prerecorded messages to consumers who have not agreed in writing to accept such messages will face penalties of up to $16,000 per call

The new rule does not cover certain health care messages and messages which are used for informative purpose where a airline is informing about flight getting canceled

More Information on http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2009/08/robocalls.shtm

Independence day / Yom-e-Istiqlal of Pakistan!

Yup, 14th August 1947 Pakistan; the day history was marked and a new map took place on the face of World Map. Nation which was the dream of Iqbal, nation for which million's of people sacrificed their live, a nation having name as Pakistan meaning 'Land of Pure'

14th August 2009, 62nd Independence day and yet still there as Faisal Kapadia said on Dawn "We keep getting bumped from left and right from down, above" and yet our people, our nation is there to make the mark in the world to be the best in all fields.

Almost all of us know and experience streets covered green, car, bikes, houses every where Green flag, people happy and celebrating their independence day but I don't believe this ever happened where Pakistani 'blaagers' including my self made #Pakistan a trending topic on twitter. In addition to this the go Green VIRTUAL rally innitiated by Farhan Masood where more then 10,000 people changed their Display Pictures in to Geen one having crescent, star with an outline in the white.

Now; one thing we should all understand is that we have potential, we have power, we have confidence, we know we can do it and we know that until we stand United; no one can snatch this from us. Also; we should not forget what happened in Gojra; remember Pakistani flag does not only represent Green background, crescent and star but it also represent the white space which shows minorities. Pakistan is not only for Muslims, Islam never teaches us to burn the houses of people from other relegion infact it teaches us to win their hearts by showing kindness towards them. Love people and try to help every one. Prophet (P.B.U.H) never taught us to torch people who don't follow relegion or who are not muslims.

People live, life long and make sure you are not hurting any one by the attitude you have adapted. No matter how corrupt our nation is, how corrupt leaders can be... don't leave the effort you can do in your domain for Pakistan for Pakistani people. Remember 'Your leaders will reflect your image'. Once we all start caring for people, start taking care of small law's, rules and regulations automatically there will be good leaders out there on the top reflecting our country. Avoid negativity; spread, talk and think postively.

Pakistan Zindabad; Paindabad!

South Korean DID Numbers

South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK) (Korean: 대한민국 and often referred to as Korea, is a country in East Asia, located on the southern half of the Korean Peninsula. Also known as the "Land of the Morning Calm", it is neighbored by China to the west and Japan to the east, bordering North Korea to the north. Its capital is Seoul, the second largest metropolitan city in the world[3] and a major global city.[4] South Korea lies in a temperate climate region with a predominantly mountainous terrain. Its territory covers a total area of 100,032 square kilometers and has a population of almost 50 million, making it one of the most densely populated regions in the world.

DIDx now offers Local Seoul South Korean DID numbers for around $4.33 per month.

Seoul (Korean pronunciation: [sʌ.ul] ( listen)) is the capital and largest city of South Korea. With a population of over 10 million, it is one of the world's largest cities and the second largest mega city in the world.[1] The Seoul National Capital Area, which includes the major port city of Incheon and most of Gyeonggi-do, has 24.5 million inhabitants,[2] larger than the population of Australia, and is the world's second largest metropolitan area.[3] Almost half of South Korea's population live in the Seoul National Capital Area, and nearly a quarter in Seoul itself, making it the country's foremost economic, political, and cultural center.

So what are you waiting for? Log on to DIDx.net and grab your DID numbers

Standard Coverage of DIDx http://www.didx.net/did

Regards,

Muneeb Iqbal

Every thing via SMS - Mobile Banking

I was trying to purchase ticket since 3 weeks for ciniplex and was not able to get their on time.

Like as soon as I reach their the one sentence which they say is ... HOUSE FULL and then it stuck in my mind wouldn't it be better if they just integrate sms service ... where people can call them on phone and book the ticket and to make sure they are not lying they will sms the money with the help of sms to the merchant (in our case Ciniplex)

Similarly; this can help people to pay the utility bills and soon the day will be there when people can will be using this on every store and they don't have to carry the Paper Money or even Credit Cards....

Wow.. well let's hope this happens soon :)

PTCL would be shifting to 8 Digits from 7 Digits

Since some time now, it was being heard that PTCL woudl be shifting land line from 7 Digits to 8 digits to increase the pool of numbers available. Earlier in April and March they did the testing on some of the exhcnages in Karachi by adding '3' before the actual number and after the area code like '02134111111'. This is official now where Media and News Paper confirmed it. is now confirmed as reported by different media channels and news papers. Link for one of the news paper Business Recorder follows.

Pakistan Telecommunication Company Ltd (PTCL) would shift its fixed line numbering plan from 7 to 8 digit series as per the instructions of Pakistan Telecommunication Authority. Initially migration from 7 series to 8 digit series would take place in Lahore and Karachi.

As per details, Digit “3″ will be added in all existing 7 digits numbers of Karachi and Lahore except the numbers starting from “9″. Digit “9″ will be added in all existing numbers starting from “9″. An important point to remember is the numbers are being added to existing numbers not area codes, with the exemption of army exchanges, which would remain same.

For the customer’s awareness and facilitation, the new series plan will run parallel to old one for a period of three months w.e.f. July 1, 2009 till September 30, 2009. The period from October 1, 2009 till December 30, 2009 will be covered by announcements which would be made in order to facilitate subscribers/ customers.

Quaid Pic No More Eligible In President & PM House (as per Zardari)

News came out this evening by Geo that Quaid-e-Azam Mohammed Ali Jinnah's picture is removed from PM and President House. Though Government is denying it but seems this picture is enough to tell the truth behind it:

In the picture above in President House,

It's Bilawals, Zardari (_____), Benazir and Z.A. Bhutto pic; Where is the founder of the Nation... A founder who was so in love with the cause that he sacrificed his whole life for the Indo Muslims and today Zardari the guy who even don't know the complete population of Pakistan.. who I am sure doesn't know from where Punjab starts and where it ends did this stuff.

I wonder where is My Quaid... wished there was an undo button in real life to make sure this guy does not come in presidency but this is real life and we all should work together to make sure that he does not do any thing which is bad for PAKISTAN.

Other then that who is Bilawal? even if he is Bhutto or not Bhutto who the hell (sorry) but seriously who is he to be there in president house even.. I saw another Pic where in world leader conference there was Bilawal sitting beside Zardari and Obama... I wonder is it a democracy or KingdomShip.

How ever; I just confirmed from Geo News they said Geo did announce this that they remove Quaid pic but government is "tardeeding it" denying it..

Well in the end.. the entire nation should vouch against this !!!

Pakistan T20 World Cup Champions and over loaded twitter too :)

Long awaited after 1992 World Cup.. Pakistan Army in Green did it again .. Long after Imran Khan today.. a young side of Pakistan led by Younis Khan did it again they got the T20 World Cup for Pakistan.

Bowling opened by Mohammed Aamer and Razzak and soon Pakistan was able to send 6 of the Sri Lankan batsmen back to pavillion but then there was a time when Sangakara and Matthews were stable on the wicket and was doing as much damage as possible .. but then a little delight ful bowling by Gul, Ajmal and Aamer and then Sri Lankans manage to score a total of 138/6 was a great fightback by Sangakara and Matthews; It was not easy to score this total in so much pressure...

Kamran Akmal and Shahzaib started the batting and at one time it seems that we gave the match to Sri Lankans :( It was not a bad start but was slow.. but then after the dismissal of Akmal boom came inn and u know what Boom Boom do .. he got good support by Shahzaib and Shoaib and finally on the 4th delivery of 19th over Afridi took leg bye on Malinga's delivery and Chanting's in the air.. firing accross the Pakistan.. Pakistan the cricket crazy nation won the T20 World Cup :)

The aka Blaggers the blogging community of Pakistan. Trend #PakCricket managed to bring the green rally on the 2nd top on hashtags.org after Iran Elections. Live commentary on Twitter was awesome as well :)

Regards,

Muneeb Iqbal

New Budget Seems to be Anti Telecom Budget in Pakistan

Recently Budget has been announced in Pakistan where 20 Paisa tax is imposed on each of the sms being sent by any mobile operator.

Which means the bundle offer by Zong CM pk, Telenor, Ufone and Mobilink will be of no use any more. 20 paisa is tax and then there will be the charges by the operator which can be around 7 to 9 Paisa which means cost for Mobile operator will be 29 Paisa.

Now i believe no more bundle offers will be offered in Pakistan :).

Though, good part is Sales Tax will be lowered to 19% and Sim Activation is slashed to half.

This all seems to be weired where Telecom Compalies spent millions in advertising their Bulk SMS campaigns but now it seems all will be sent to trash.

There should be a body to take action on all this or one day no fdi will see Pakistan as opportunity when it comes to Telecom business

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Muneeb

Sabse Technologies has acquired Jaxtr

HotMail Co-Founder and Telecom Serial Entrepreneur to Accelerate Market Penetration and Growth of Telephony Applications.

Mountain View, CA (PRWEB) June 8, 2009 -- SabSe Technologies, Inc. (www.SabSeBolo.com), a leading developer of value-added applications for telecom providers -- co-founded by HotMail co-founder Sabeer Bhatia, and proven serial entrepreneur Yogesh Patel -- today announced it has acquired jaxtr, the world's largest social communications company. Over the past several years, jaxtr has built a robust consumer service currently providing free and low-rate international calling to over ten million members around the globe.

Under the terms of the deal, SabSe will maintain and expand upon the jaxtr service, which will continue to operate under the jaxtr brand, alongside the company's existing SabSeBolo brand. SabSe's acquisition of jaxtr brings together two valuable consumer and business telecom applications now on a common platform. Jaxtr's large active user base will enable SabSe to accelerate deployment of its additional applications, and to leverage an instant audience for its innovative technology.

More details on http://news.yahoo.com/s/prweb/20090608/bs_prweb/prweb2504374

Sillicon Valley lost a valuable asset in the shape of Rajeev Motwani

Tragic news spread all over Sillicon Valley. Rajeev Motwani, a prominent Silicon Valley angel investor and the Stanford professor perhaps best known for serving as the adviser for Larry Page and Sergey Brin during the formative years of Google, has passed away.

Rajeev was an ardent supporter of Silicon Valley startups, investing and mentoring many of them while continuing his research at Stanford University. With investments in companies that included PayPal and Google, he saw an overwhelming amount of success. And through it all he continued to give back to the community though his mentorship, investments, and his time at Stanford, where he continued to teach as recently as last semester.

He was:

Professor and Director of Graduate Studies
Database Group/InfoLab, and Foundations Group
Computer Science Department
Stanford University

Ph.D. 1988 (Computer Science, U.C. Berkeley)
B.Tech. 1983 (Computer Science, IIT Kanpur)

Ron Conway, a long time friend of Motwani, was visibly shaken.


I never knew Rajeev Sahab, never met him but it seems he was the GURU / pioneer in Technology world, sympathies go out to Rajeev’s family.

Marketing and Recession

A recession is a general slowdown in economic activity over a sustained period of time, or a business cycle contraction.

During these tough times businesses are trying to cut their marketing budget and trying to focus more on saving and spending this some where else, here they have to understand that this might adversly affect. Infact they should spend more on Marketing rather then cutting or saving.

Research have shown that businesses that do not decrease the budget get's response some times better then the Normal times.

Basically this is time to redesign your marketing plan, like if you were launching a new product better to delay it a little again depending upon your Market Segment. Just try to go for same way of marketing with less cost.. Do not Do not Do not lessen your budget until it's extremely necessary.

We cannot ignore the financial difficulties that our country and even whole world is facing today, but today you should understand the gravity of marketing during the recession, try to explore how to set a marketing budget during these times.

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Nokia’s Ovi Store Opens For Business

Nokia’s very own centralized application marketplace, dubbed Ovi Store, today officially made its way to the public arena

It will have to stand up and fight against other notable mobile content stores such as Apple’s App Store, Windows Mobile Marketplace and BlackBerry’s Application Center. Nokia is rolling out the app and content store globally (with credit card support), but currently reserves operator billing for customers in Australia, Singapore, Spain, Italy, Germany, Russia, Ireland and the UK. Additional countries and languages will be added throughout the year, with AT&T planning to make Ovi Store available to its customers in the U.S. later this year.

Nokia claims more than 50 of its mobile devices are compatible with the service as of today, with more slated to roll out over time, and estimates that around 50 million people with Nokia devices will be able to license content and download applications from the Ovi Store right now. The news is now completely out there and people are testing the service like crazy, which means it can be a little slow or downright unresponsive at times.

Source - techcrunch

Solar power could surge by 2050 in deserts

PARIS: Solar power plants in deserts using mirrors to concentrate the sun’s rays have the potential to generate up to a quarter of the world’s electricity by 2050, a report by pro-solar groups said on Monday.

The study, by environmental group Greenpeace, the European Solar Thermal Electricity Association (ESTELA) and the International Energy Agency’s (IEA) SolarPACES group, said huge investments would also create jobs and fight climate change, Reuters reports.

‘Solar power plants are the next big thing in renewable energy,’ said Sven Teske of Greenpeace International and co-author of the report. The technology is suited to hot, cloudless regions such as the Sahara or Middle East.

The 28-page report said investments in concentrating solar power (CSP) plants were set to exceed two billion euros ($2.80 billion) worldwide this year, with the biggest installations under construction in southern Spain and California.

‘Concentrating solar power could meet up to seven per cent of the world’s projected power needs in 2030 and a full quarter by 2050,’ it said of the most optimistic scenario.

That assumes a giant surge in investments to 21 billion euros a year by 2015 and 174 billion a year by 2050, creating hundreds of thousands of jobs. Under that scenario, solar plants would have installed capacity of 1,500 gigawatts by 2050.

That is far more optimistic than business-as-usual projections by the Paris-based IEA, which advises rich nations. It indicates that ‘by 2050 the penetration of solar power would be no higher than 0.2 per cent globally,’ the report noted.

CSP uses arrays of hundreds of mirrors or lenses to concentrate the sun’s rays to temperatures between 400 and 1,000 Celsius (750-1,800 Fahrenheit) to provide energy to drive a power plant.

Sunny

It differs from solar photovoltaics, which turn the sun’s rays directly into electricity in panels and generate some power even on overcast days. CSP works only under sunny skies.

‘We now have a third billion-dollar technology alongside wind and solar photovoltaics,’ Teske told Reuters.

The report said generation costs range from 0.15 to 0.23 euros per kilowatt hour — above fossil fuels or many renewables — and would fall to 0.10-0.14 euros by 2020. Guaranteed sales prices were needed to spur investments, it said.

CSP installations made up just 430 Megawatts of the world’s electricity generation capacity at the end of 2008.

‘CSP plants can deliver reliable industry-scale power supply around the clock due to storage technologies and hybrid operations within the power plant,’ said Jose Nebrera, president of ESTELA.

Source - Dawn

Google increasingly battles Facebook in search!

TOKYO: Google has long been the king of search, dominating rivals including Yahoo Inc. and Microsoft Corp. But it increasingly sees social networks such as Facebook as challengers to its search engine, a Google official said.

As people search out advice online for everyday, personal decisions, the standard list of links served up by Google is not seen as intimate or trustworthy, Google Group Product Manager Ken Tokusei said Monday. For decisions such as choosing a restaurant or a day care provider, social networking sites or known review sites have an advantage, he said.

Such sites offer information from friends or acquaintances, and Tokusei said users tend to trust that information more. This puts Google’s results at a disadvantage.

‘We haven’t gotten to the point where results are seen as if they come from someone you know,’ he said.

The search giant has begun to offer tools for users to rate results and delete unrelated links, but it still has work to do, he said.

As Internet users gain savvy and experience, they also expect better-honed answers to queries. Sites such as WolframAlpha, launched earlier this month, comb the Internet for data, and analyze it to provide specific answers to queries, rather than a list of sites.

Google Inc. does something similar for some searches, providing price quotes for ‘Sony stock’ or an answer for ‘Tunisia capital.’ But it also provides the familiar list of sites to dig further, a strategy it is unlikely to change.

‘It’s a matter of determining what kind of information the user is looking for. But we will always serve some links to pages with our results,’ said Tokusei.

He spoke to reporters at Google’s Japanese headquarters in Tokyo, where he gave an overview of the company’s basic search tools.

Google has developed a host of expanding tools and services, from a mobile operating system to an online word processor, but it devotes 70 percent of its employees and resources to search.

The company still faces fresh competition from its traditional rivals, which are regrouping in an attempt to take back market share.

Microsoft has failed to make much headway in repeated Internet ventures. But the deep-pocketed company, which has poured hundreds of millions of dollars into improving its search engine, continues to develop a new search technology, part of which is called ‘Kumo’ internally.

Yahoo, which has seen its share of total online searches conducted plummet to Google, is tweaking its search results, cutting out some links and emphasizing images and video.

Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer has said he is still interested in buying part of Yahoo after a proposed deal was turned down last year. — AP

Upgrading Islamabad

The capital is always short of houses. Property may be down elsewhere but never here. 
The last two governments have tried revising the Master Plan of Islamabad to upgrade housing 
facilities albeit without much success. There is clearly a renewed interest in the enterprise once
again

The justification for revision is development of new residential sectors deemed necessary to cope
with shortage of housing units in the federal capital. According to news reports, another proposal 
had been made in the revised Master Plan to increase the total number of residential sectors from 
56 to 68 for ensuring thousands of additional housing units in the city. The development of new 
residential sectors could help meet the demand for new housing units however all hinges on approval 
of the revised Master Plan without further delay

The Mott McDonald Pakistan (MMP) UK's revision of their original Master Plan of Islamabad new 
housing sectors, extension in municipal limits, industrial activities, environmental protection, 
road repair, new parks and recreational areas and safety of existing water reservoirs was finished
in 2005. The draft revised Master Plan of the Capital Development Authority (CDA) has been doing 
the rounds for years now without any decision. Upgrading Islamabad is essential to keep the country 
competitive.


It is time that the government found the will to decide on the issue. After all, the Master Plan of 
Islamabad is being revised on full-scale only for the first time since the establishment of the city in 
1960s

source - dailytimes

Singapore Telecommunication (SingTel) eyes Pakistan telecom market

ISLAMABAD: Singapore Telecommunication (SingTel) is set to jump into Pakistan's telecom market and its talks with Abu Dhabi Group for sale out of more stakes of Waridtel are gearing up as SingTel already owns 30 per cent stake in Warid Telecom.
Well-placed sources told APP on condition of anonymity that the agreement between Singapore Telecommunication Company and Abu Dhabi Group is likely to be signed before June 2009. The decision comes as the company is facing a saturated domestic market while the country comprises only 4.8 million people. Feeling the heat, SingTel has spent 18 billion Singapore dollars to invest in countries such as India, Indonesia, and in the bigger Australian market. Revenue growth in Singapore is expected to slow down to single digit in the year to March 2010. Reportedly, SingTel has expressed its keenness for acquisition after warning that revenue growth in its home market would squeeze due to strong Singapore dollar.

When contacted, a senior official of Warid Telecom said that the deal with SingTel was yet to be confirmed. However, if it goes through, this deal would prove positive for the company as well as Pakistani telecom industry. SingTel earlier posted a 17 per cent drop in quarterly net profit, which is much smaller than expected. However, the company is yet to elaborate its possible targets or markets where it is eyeing acquisitions. -APP

Accord on literacy thru cell phones

KARACHI: Mobilink, Pakistan's major cellular service and part of Orascom Telecom Holding, signed a partnership agreement with United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) for provision of literacy to adolescent girls using cell phones.

Commenting on the partnership, Bilal Munir Sheikh, Vice President Marketing, Mobilink said, "as market leader, Mobilink actively supports initiatives that combine the benefits of technology to reach out to the community. This is the first of its kind initiative in the world and with Unesco's expertise in the field of education, we hope to create a model that the world can follow and learn from."

Elaborating on the project, Maurice Robson, Director Unesco stated, "this literacy programme will use mobile phones as a common and popular means of communication among the youth, to develop a mobile-based, distance post-literacy programme where the new literates receive post-literacy materials as messages on mobile.
Pakistan has one of the lowest literacy rates in Asia. There is a large gender gap. The literacy rate for males over 15 years is 63 per cent while that for females it is 36 per cent.

The reasons for the prevailing situation in Pakistan are complex. In order to maintain the literacy skills after basic literacy courses, the new literates should have constant access to reading materials, at least for three months afterwards. But for most of the new literates, reading material is scarce and the occasions to use the acquired literacy skills are rare. The programme has two phases. In the first phase, adolescent girls will receive interesting and informative text messages daily in Urdu and are expected to respond.

The method is believed to be far more effective than conventional print based post-literacy programmes in maintaining interest and in keeping literacy skills alive. The second phase of the programme includes monthly evaluation to assess the gain of knowledge, interactive exercises, a glossary of educational terms and additional resources.
The first phase of this programme will cover 250 learners in Punjab in the next 4 months and will be expanded in other areas on effective outcomes. Mobilink also supports The Citizen's Foundation education programme, Zindagi Trust, Roshni Homes Trust and Lums. -APP

PTA chief hints tax cut for telecoms

PTA has suggested the FBR to slash the taxes imposed on telecom sector from 21 per cent to 16 per cent.
ISLAMABAD: Telecom industry would hear a 'good news' in the upcoming budget as the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has recommended the federal government to curb tax ratio on the telecom sector to bring the sector at par with other sectors.
These views were expressed by Dr Muhammad Yaseen, Chairman PTA, while sharing views with media here at a local hotel after a telecom seminar held in connection with the World Telecom Day. He said heavy taxation had adversely affected the telecom growth, seeing which PTA has suggested the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) to slash the taxes imposed on telecom sector from 21 per cent to 16 per cent.
When asked whether the management of Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) had informed about their step to reduce the timeline for broadband dialup, the PTA chairman said there was no decrease and if the media had any evidence, it should submit it to him and he would look into the matter.
The chairman said PTA had introduced so many steps to help grow the telecom sector and these were being hailed by the nations across the globe. "However, due to joint efforts, the fourth quarter saw a positive growth, making the annual growth positive," he added. "We have introduced mobile banking and now working on mobile agriculture and other new initiatives," he said, adding that the companies should also opt for 'out-of-box' solutions to enhance telecom growth. "There are countries with more than 100 per cent teledensity and we would have to search for new opportunities to take the telecom sector ahead," he added. Urging the telecom sector to focus on broadband services, Dr Yaseen said PTA had developed broadband group and three companies including Wateen and Mobilink were set to launch Wimax solutions for the consumers. While speaking at Nokia Siemens Networks Industry seminar as the chief guest, the Chairman PTA said to achieve cost efficiency in the operations, there is a pressing need of enhanced collaboration and partnership among all telecom companies. "By sharing infrastructure, companies can save cost and yet maintain quality. PTA is pursuing mobile operators for sharing infrastructure to reduce BTS towers and other sites so that costs of business can be tamed down," said the PTA Chief.
He emphasised on the importance of broadband proliferation to achieve goal of setting up `Information Society'. He said that massive awareness campaign is needed to be launched to improve broadband growth besides developing contents in local languages and applications.
Dr Yaseen said PTA has made coordinated efforts to facilitate broadband growth by forming a "Broadband Stakeholders Group" and other measures. He also told about PTA negotiations with State Bank to introduce Mobile Banking Services.
He said that three operators are in the process of launching mobile broadband services. Two operators have launched E-video services. All these innovative services will help provisioning of better information services to consumers and will bring increased revenues for the industry.
On this occasion, CEO USF Parvaiz Iftikhar, Salman Ansari, Saad Warraich, Country Director Nokia Siemens Networks and others also shared their views.

Source - daily times

Pakistanis Posted More Google Map Data than Any Other Country Counterparts

Silicon Valley (California), May 23 (ANI): Pakistan netizens are posting more localized information and data to the Google’s ‘map maker’ than the web users of any of the 160 countries which are using the leading internet search engine’s experiment.

Lalit Katragadda, the founder of Map Maker software informed that a particular Pakistani based in London has posted most frequent edits to the Google’s Map Maker, a user-operated software.
Katragadda, who is based in Bangalore, told The Nation via teleconference that the software updates information instantly after a user sitting anywhere in the world within 160 countries posts an edit to the live Map Maker.

When questions were put forth regarding the authenticity of the data provided by any of the net users, Katragadda said, it can always be verified by the software.

“We can always verify from authentic as well as independent sources within an hour’s time,” he added.
Any such experiment, related to a country’s geographical territory can always be a sensitive issue, and could have some implications, but the Google’s Map Maker had not come across any political issues till now.

“We have not faced any political issues so far,” Katragadda said. (ANI)

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KU postpones exams scheduled for May 25

KARACHI: The University of Karachi has postponed the examinations scheduled for May 25.

This was announced by the spokesman of the institution here on Sunday evening. He said that the papers included both the morning and the evening shifts. The fresh date for the postponed papers of May 25 will be announced later, the University spokesman added.

India faces a greater threat from China than Pak: Air Chief

NEW DELHI: India faces a greater threat from China than Pakistan because New Delhi knows little about Beijing's combat capabilities; India's air force chief told a newspaper in an interview published on Sunday.

The world's two most populous nations fought a brief but brutal war over their 3,500 km (2,200 mile) Himalayan border in 1962, and both sides claim the other is occupying big but largely uninhabited chunks of their territory.

India has also been pursuing closer relations with the United States, something that worries China.

China has a standing army almost three times the size of Pakistan's, according to official figures and defence industry estimates, but it is the lack of knowledge about China's military that concerned Air Chief Marshal Fali Homi Major.

"We know very little about the actual capabilities of China, their combat edge or how professional their military is," Major said.

"They are certainly a greater threat."

India and Pakistan have fought three wars since independence in 1947 and tensions between the nuclear-armed neighbours rose sharply after last November's Mumbai attack, which killed 166 people. A slow-moving peace process was paused after the attack.

Major said the Indian air force was upgrading about five airbases, of which two would operate Russian Su-30 MKI fighters

Samsung Recalls Jitterbug Cell Phones

Samsung is recalling about 160,000 Jitterbug cell phones. When the recalled cell phones are in a no-service area and display an "out of range, try again later" message, they could fail to connect to emergency 911.

This recall involves "Jitterbug" cell phones model numbers SPH-a110 and SPH-a120 with standard key pads and version BB14 software. No other Samsung wireless phones or software versions are included in this recall.

The phones, made in Korea, were sold directly to consumers through targeted national advertisements and publications, electronics and drug stores nationwide, and on the Web at www.jitterbug.com from March 2008 through May 2009 for about $150.

Samsung and Jitterbug are directly contacting consumers to schedule a free software upgrade. Consumers should call Samsung if they have not already been contacted.

For additional information, contact Samsung toll-free at (866) 304-4980 between 7 a.m. and 9 p.m. CT Monday through Friday, and on Saturday between 9 a.m. and 6 p.m. CT, or visit the firm"s Web site at www.samsung.com.

The recall is being conducted in cooperation with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC).

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