07/23/13 ~ Mera Pak Watan

Mobilink Partners with Local Firm to Introduce Location Based Mobile Advertising in Pakistan: ProPakistani

Mobilink Partners with Local Firm to Introduce Location Based Mobile Advertising in Pakistan
GSM SIM Card is Finally Hacked, Puts 750 Million Users at Risk
Telenor Posts Flat Revenues for Q2 2013
Cybernet Starts Internship Program for Local Talent
Facebook For Every Phone Gets Over 100 Million Users
Huawei Accused of Spying for China by Former CIA Chief

Mobilink Partners with Local Firm to Introduce Location Based Mobile Advertising in Pakistan

Posted: 23 Jul 2013 04:10 AM PDT

Mobilink and Train of Thought have strategically partnered to launch 'SmartPush' – a technology embedded in mobile apps – that will enable customized location based advertising on mobile phones. 'SmartPush' works as an intelligent advertising engine. It learns about its users over time and builds on usage history to provide targeted advertising that is customized to the individual user. On the back-end, advertisers and developers [...]

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GSM SIM Card is Finally Hacked, Puts 750 Million Users at Risk

Posted: 23 Jul 2013 12:30 AM PDT

The SIM was one of the few common things in tech which were considered impossible to hack. Until now. Karsten Nohl of Security Research Labs (based out of Germany) has finally got a way past the 56-digit unique code and found a simple process which leaves an estimated 750 million SIM cards at risk. The research was done on a 1000 SIM cards and only [...]

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Telenor Posts Flat Revenues for Q2 2013

Posted: 22 Jul 2013 11:55 PM PDT

Telenor Pakistan has posted Rs. 24.76 billion revenues for second quarter 2013, slightly up by 5 percent when compared with same duration last year. Revenues from cellular traffic stood at Rs. 18.70 billion, slightly up from 17.25 billion during same duration in 2012. Telenor group, in its earning report, said that EBITDA margin for group's Pakistani arm improved by 1 percentage point driven by higher [...]

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Cybernet Starts Internship Program for Local Talent

Posted: 22 Jul 2013 11:00 PM PDT

Cybernet recently initiated its LINK Program that will offer project based internships to IT students this summer. Cybernet claims that unlike other internship programs, LINK program is specifically designed to engage IT student's/fresh graduates and offer them opportunities to work with new and emerging technologies. According to Cybernet's head of Human Capital Management (HCM), Mr. Yasir Ghaffar, "Students in Pakistan have vast potential and a [...]

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Facebook For Every Phone Gets Over 100 Million Users

Posted: 22 Jul 2013 10:41 PM PDT

Facebook has announced that over 100 million people are using it’s “Facebook for every phone” app now. The app remains most popular in developing regions, where people still cling on to feature phones. The service was launched in July 2011 and can run on almost 3000 different cheap handsets from virtually all manufacturers. "In just two years, Facebook For Every Phone has successfully put Facebook [...]

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Huawei Accused of Spying for China by Former CIA Chief

Posted: 22 Jul 2013 10:26 PM PDT

Former head of NSA and CIA, Michael Hayden has accused Huawei for spying for China, the country where it belongs. He detailed his views in an interview to the Australian Financial Review. He said that the views were developed when Huawei was trying to make a mark on the American telecommunication market and presented a briefing paper. While it didn’t say anything wrong, it wasn’t [...]

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