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TEDx Margalla coming again in 2012

A good news for Islamabad & Rawalpindi citizens – TEDx Margalla (independently organized TED event) that happened in Islamabad last year is coming back again in 2012. The event was curated by Saad Hamid, leading blogger and social media enthusiast from Islamabad. The event was a big hit and according to an email sent today by TEDx Margalla team, the event will be organized again in coming year. Exact day and month is not announced yet.

PML(N) starts building ‘Social Media Team’

Monitoring Desk
Pakistan Muslim Laegue (Nawaz) – PML(N) – is gearing up to compete on social media with other political parties in general and Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) in particular. The party has set up a social media cell recently and now inviting volunteers to join its team. The ad reads “Young & Energetic Volunteers

Time Cook Email To Apple Staff Sent Today

Team,
I have some very sad news to share with all of you. Steve passed away earlier today.
Apple has lost a visionary and creative genius, and the world has lost an amazing human being. Those of us who have been fortunate enough to know and work with Steve have lost a dear friend and an inspiring [...]

Steve Jobs : Dynamic Innovator Dies At 56

Born Feb. 24 in San Francisco to Joanne Simpson and Syrian father Abdulfattah Jandali and later Adopted from infancy by Paul and Clara Jobs in San Francisco. The man who took over the technology race started his career at HP in 1969 and later joined Atari as a Technician. He raised 1750$ with Wozniak who [...]

5 Things You Should Not Miss This GITEX 2011

 
GITEX TECHNOLOGY WEEK is the leading ICT annual exhibition for the Middle East region. The 31st edition will take place on the 9 – 13 October 2011 at the Dubai International Convention and Exhibition Centre. Organised by the Dubai World Trade Centre, GITEX TECHNOLOGY WEEK is heralded as one of the largest and most important [...]

Marketified – the 360 Degree Internet Marketing company is coming to Pakistan

Leading global 360° Internet Marketing brand ‘Marketified’ comes to Pakistan eying the country as an emerging market for internet businesses. The formal official launching of Marketified Pakistan’s office is yet to be announced but the company has started its operations in the South Asian country.

[ALERT] PlayStation Hacker stole personal data including credit card information.

In recent and worst ever internet hacking incident, hackers have gone beyong predictions by Sony’s security managers.
Nick Caplin, the company’s head of communications for Europe, said on official PlayStation Blog: “We have discovered that between April 17 and April 19 2011, certain PlayStation Network and Qriocity service user account information was compromised in connection with [...]

Why Samsung & Apple fired lawsuits against each other ?

Why leading players in portable devices industry are runing to courts and fighting each other?
Last week, Apple sued Samsung for copying iphone and ipad design in recently launched Galaxy Series. There is no doubt that Galaxy series looks amazingly same to Apple’s iphone.
“Samsung is responding actively to the legal action taken against us in order to [...]

PICO PROJECTORS IN LAPTOPS – Fujitsu to introduce

Well, it seems that this was remaining to see. People did faced problems while setting up the projector with Laptops. But how about if you had your own build in pico projector in your laptop. Well this is what Fujitsu has been working on, and has come up with its new version of laptop the “Lifebook S761/C and P711/C”. The 13.1″ and the 12″ notebooks are now available in the markets of Japan. The pico projector is quite intelligently placed in the optical drive slot.

“Could save a Million Lives every year” – Google’s new driver free cars

By: Khizer Iftikhar

Google has now step forth with the utmost idea of saving almost a million lives every year, but the question is HOW? well the answer is simple, Human driver free cars. Well this seems very simple when said, but when performed might take several years of R&D. Same is the case here with [...]