Tag: Mobile

Operators seek clarification over ‘morality control’

Mobile operators in Pakistan on Monday deferred implementing a ban on nearly 1,700 ‘obscene’ words from text messages, saying they were seeking further clarification...

The puritan’s job

It gets - pardon the language - harder and harder If, perchance, the reader wanted to send the line above as an SMS text on...

BleakBerry

One in five BlackBerry phone users is considering switching to another supplier because of the service problems which hit millions of people last week,...

Mobile banking in Pakistan a laboratory of innovation

The rising competition among the banks and cellular operators in Pakistan for mobile banking has turned the country into a virtual laboratory for innovation...

Yes, iPhone 5 does exist

Apple-watchers had begun to wonder whether the ‘Let’s Talk iPhone’ event would consist only of new, cheaper models of iPhone 4 - or whether...

Bluetooth security crisis

Bluetooth radio technology is widely used to link cellphones to their accessories, and its security has not been considered a major problem. Codenomicon, however,...

Stolen mobile phones, weapons seized, eight arrested

Shehzad Town police on Wednesday busted an inter-provincial gang involved in dacoities and street crimes and recovered weapons, a bike and snatched mobiles from...

Mobile sales grow by 16.5 per cent in 2Q-2011

Global mobile devices sales to end users witnessed a robust growth of 16.5 per cent during the second quarter of 2011 (2Q-2011) despite the...

The future of mobile gadgets

Between 1997 and 2002, cell phones kept getting smaller, cheaper, and better; by the turn of the century they offered good enough coverage and...

Seize illegal mobile phones, orders LHC

Justice Azmat Saeed of the Lahore High Court on Wednesday allowed collector of Customs Department Lahore to seize 200 mobile phone sets along with...

Easypaisa Mobile Accounts to help empower people

Telenor Pakistan and Tameer Microfinance Bank Limited launched a branding campaign for one of their products under the branchless banking solution, Easypaisa. Through Easypaisa...

Nokia all set to take over dual SIM-mobile phone market

The world’s leading mobile phone supplier, Nokia, unveiled the first two of its dual-SIM phones – Nokia X1-01 and Nokia C2-00 – in Pakistan...

Mobile phone use increased 14 folds since 2000: study

An MPhil seminar titled ‘A Study of Consumer Behaviour in Mobile Phone Markets in Pakistan: A Case Study of Sukkur and Khairpur Districts’ was...

Mobile financial services can raise $2b in revenue

Wider access to mobile financial services in Pakistan could lead to the creation of one million new jobs by 2020, while an estimated $2...

Warid excites rural mobile users

With the passion to best serve communication needs of mobile phone users in Pakistan, especially in the rural areas, Warid has expanded the industry...

Google vows to fight suit over mobile ‘Wallet’

Google on Friday rejected a charge that it swiped PayPal trade secrets to build its new mobile application that turns a smartphone into an...

Apple, Google to attend hearing on mobile privacy

US lawmakers have invited Apple, Facebook and Google to attend a hearing on mobile phones and privacy on Thursday — the second Capitol Hill...