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Microsoft Announces Winners of Imagine Cup 2013 in Pakistan: ProPakistani

Microsoft Announces Winners of Imagine Cup 2013 in Pakistan
Cellular Services Suspended in Islamabad / Rawalpindi Till 5 PM
Twitter Introduces Two-Step Authentication
Warid Offers 500 Free Minutes and SMS to Subscribers
Mobilink and UNESCO to Take Forward Award Winning SMS Based Literacy Program

Microsoft Announces Winners of Imagine Cup 2013 in Pakistan

Posted: 23 May 2013 04:38 AM PDT

Microsoft Pakistan in partnership with Nokia Pakistan announced the national winners of Imagine Cup 2013 Pakistan, the world's most prestigious student technology competition. Microsoft said that this winning team was shortlisted from approximately 180+ entries received this year. Team Epic, the winning team, developed a project Epic to detect falls and Accidents using Windows Phone Device, it's also capable to alert the authorities of such [...]

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Cellular Services Suspended in Islamabad / Rawalpindi Till 5 PM

Posted: 23 May 2013 01:51 AM PDT

Pakistan Telecommunication Authority has directed cellular companies to suspended all cellular and wireless services in Islamabad and Rawalpindi, effective immediately till 5 PM today. It is said that suspension has to do with security threats during Li Keqiang, Chinese Prime Minister's stay in Islamabad. Suspension of cellular service has now become a routine, with no protest – at least publicly — from cellular companies again [...]

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Twitter Introduces Two-Step Authentication

Posted: 23 May 2013 01:23 AM PDT

Twitter has finally introduced two-step authentication for its users to enhance security. For those who aren't familiar, two-step authentication means that Twitter users – after inputing username and password – will be sent a unique passcode on their phones via SMS for every login. This passcode will be used as second password before users are actually logged-in the to the website. A confirmed email address [...]

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Warid Offers 500 Free Minutes and SMS to Subscribers

Posted: 22 May 2013 10:26 PM PDT

Warid Telecom now offers its Glow and prepaid subscribers 500 free on-net minutes and 500 SMS to any network through its 'Muft Hafta' offer. To enjoy this exciting offer, customers simply have to activate their new Warid SIM before 15th June or re-activate their Warid SIM not in use since 20th April. Through the 'Muft Hafta' offer, for every 4 weeks of usage, customer will [...]

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Mobilink and UNESCO to Take Forward Award Winning SMS Based Literacy Program

Posted: 22 May 2013 10:11 PM PDT

Mobilink Foundation and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) have signed an agreement to enhance the award winning 'SMS Based Literacy' program. The 'SMS Based Literacy' program uses Short Messaging Service (SMS) to impart education to learners across Pakistan. The program was conceived by UNESCO Islamabad, who started piloting this project with Mobilink in May 2009. The fourth (4th) phase, in 2013, [...]

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