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Expect Slow Browsing as Submarine cable system is on repair
Apr 30th
Guys, Expect Slow Browsing as Submarine cable system is on repair and it may few days to week or may more…so be patient 
KARACHI: The international submarine cable consortium SEA-ME-WE-4, connecting Pakistan with the Western countries, will start repair work of the submarine cable system on April 24, following a fault on April 14, said a statement issued by Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) on Friday. On April 14, the submarine cable system developed a fault near Italy. The consortium has planned to carry out the repair operation of the faulty segment on priority basis and the cable repair ship has been mobilised for this purpose.
-Ahmad
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Pirate Bay Team Found Guilty But still Confident
Apr 20th
Court jails Pirate Bay founders
A court in Sweden has jailed four men behind The Pirate Bay (TPB), the world’s most high-profile file-sharing website, in a landmark case.
Frederik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Carl Lundstrom and Peter Sunde were found guilty of breaking copyright law and were sentenced to a year in jail.
They were also ordered to pay 30m kronor (£2.4m) in damages.
In a Twitter posting, Mr Sunde said: “Nothing will happen to TPB, this is just theatre for the media.”
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ThePirateBay Team reaction/answer:
TPB FTW
So the first verdict finally came, almost 3 years after the raid. You might have heard about it in the news…
You, our beloved users, know that this little speedbump on the information super highway is nothing more than just, a little bump. Todays verdict has already been appealed by us and will be taken to the next level of court (and that will take another 2 or 3 years!)
The site will live on! We are more determined than ever that what we do is right. Millions of users are a good proof of that.
We have seen that some people that we dont know have started collecting donations for us, so we can pay those silly fines. We firmly ask you NOT to do this. Do not gather or send any money. We do not want them since we will not pay any fines!
If you really want to help out, here is a list:
* Seed those torrents a little bit more than you usually do!
* Buy a t-shirt and show the world where your sympathy is.
* If you live in Europe, vote in the election for the EU parliament in June.
* Continue to build the internets! Start more bittorrent sites, blog more, start your own lobby group, create, remix, mash up and continue to grow more heads on this amazing hydra that we know as the internets!
* Do not be afraid of using the network. Invite your friends to this and other file sharing systems. Calm people down if they’re upset. We need to stay united.
And say it loud say it proud! We are all The Pirate Bay!
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Fiber optic cable damaged again in Egypt, affects Internet
Dec 21st
Internet services have been badly affected as the under-sea fiber optic was damaged due to fault. According to the PTCL sources, fault has occurred in See Me We optic fiber cable three and four. Sources said that the fiber optic cable in Alexandria, Egypt has been damaged.
My internet service are also distrubed hardly posting this post, I think we should be use to these damages as its 3rd time and no special action taken from government (PTA).
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Microsoft Windows 7 pre-beta build is 6801
Oct 26th
Microsoft announced the availability of a critical security patch yesterday affecting a variety of Windows operating systems.
Microsoft Interestingly, the Windows 7 pre-beta build, which will be available to developers next Tuesday, also contains the bug. Microsoft stated “Customers running Windows 7 Pre-Beta are encouraged to download and apply the update to their systems. On Windows 7 Pre-Beta systems, the vulnerable code path is only accessible to authenticated users. This vulnerability is not liable to be triggered if the attacker is not authenticated, and therefore would be rated Important.”
In a support article Microsoft details some Windows 7 Pre-Beta file information notes. The build string on the notes is 6.1.6801.4106, the same build string that has been screenshotted recently.
It is believed(Screen Shot) that the 6801 build is a milestone 3 (M3) build released to select customers and partners over the last few months.
Microsoft will be releasing the build to attendees at their professional developers conference next Tuesday.
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Software Piracy falls slightly in Pakistan
May 20th
The software piracy rate has slightly dropped in Pakistan from 86 per cent to 84 per cent, after remaining unchanged over the past two years, which would benefit the country in many ways, a latest international study states.
The software piracy rate in Pakistan has come down at a time when globally it recorded a three per cent increase to 38 per cent in 2007, which has increased piracy-related losses to nearly $48 billion against $40 billion in 2006.
The Fifth Annual Global Software Piracy Study, released by the Business Software Alliance (BSA) here on Friday, noted that piracy-related losses had gone down to $125 million in Pakistan against $143 million in 2006.
With 84 per cent piracy, Pakistan now ranks 13th among top 25 countries with the highest piracy rates against No 7 last year.
It followed
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Armenia (93pc)
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Bangladesh (92pc)
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Rioting Causes Major Telecom Disruption Across Pakistan
Dec 29th
There have been a serious damage to PTCL’s backhaul fiber optic system which has caused a major outage for internet /telco systems in PK specially Lahore. ISP’s using TW1 backbone are working fine at the moment but all other ISPs behind PIE/PTCL backbone are suffering from this. I have managed to write these lines due to a satellite link around.
Initial reports are coming in that one of the Telco exchange in Karachi (perhaps Marson or Cantt.) is the center point for this outage.
For more details see Rioting Causes Major Telecom Disruption Across Pakistan
So, It means our internet is also not secure to use ? My all surprise work for new year 2008 my sites is F*cked Up Now!
Paying thousands of rupee for DSL Broadband and enjoying speed like riding bull cart.
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Pakistan Gets ‘World’s Largest’ WiMAX Network
Dec 19th
Motorola Deploys WiMAX for Wateen Telecom-Pakistan in Major Cities in Nine Months
3GSM World Congress 2007 – 13 February 2007– Motorola, Inc. (NYSE:MOT) today announced that it has deployed Wateen Telecom’s WiMAX network in 17 major cities across Pakistan, including Islamabad, Karachi and Lahore. The two companies have also carried out end-to-end voice and data calls over the network.
Wateen Telecom, part of Warid Telecom International, is using Motorola’s WiMAX technology to provide wireless fixed broadband data services for residential and corporate use. The WiMAX network is a crucial part of Wateen Telecom’s vision to create a world class communications network in Pakistan as it provides a cost effective and fast-to-deploy broadband solution.
Just nine months after the contract was awarded, Motorola has designed, supplied and deployed its WiMAX infrastructure, utilising IMS core technology in preparation for Wateen to offer voice, data, Internet and multimedia services to its subscribers.
“We set ourselves very ambitious targets and timelines,” says Tariq Malik, chief executive officer, Wateen Telecom. “Having Motorola design, supply and deploy our WiMAX network has given us a world class network in minimal time. At the same time, we have been able to focus on building other parts of our business. Similarly Motorola is taking control of the network on our behalf under a managed services contract.”
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USB 3.0 brings optical connection in 2008 : Intel
Sep 19th
SAN FRANCISCO–Intel and others plan to release a new version of the ubiquitous Universal Serial Bus technology in the first half of 2008, a revamp the chipmaker said will make data transfer rates more than 10 times as fast by adding fiber-optic links alongside the traditional copper wires.
Intel showed off prototype USB 3.0 connectors and an add-in card at Intel Developer Forum Tuesday.
Intel is working fellow USB 3.0 Promoters Group members Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, Texas Instruments, NEC and NXP Semiconductors to release the USB 3.0 specification in the first half of 2008, said Pat Gelsinger, general manager of Intel’s Digital Enterprise Group, in a speech here at the Intel Developer Forum.
In an interview after the speech, Gelsinger said there’s typically a one- to two-year lag between the release of the specification and the availability of the technology, so USB 3.0 products should likely arrive in 2009 or 2010. A prototype shown at the speech is working now, and USB 3.0 will have optical and copper connections “from day one,” he added.
The current USB 2.0 version has a top data-transfer rate of 480 megabits per second, so a tenfold increase would be 4.8 gigabits per second. Many devices don’t need that much capacity, but some can use more, including hard drives, flash card readers and optical drives such as DVD, Blu-ray and HD DVD. The fastest flash card readers today use IEEE 1394 “FireWire” connections that top out at 800 megabits per second.
In addition, USB 3.0 will offer greater energy efficiency, Gelsinger said. It will be backward compatible, so current USB 2.0 devices will be able to plug into USB 3.0 ports.
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Flickr Traffic up 38%, Now #2 Photo Site
Jul 12th
In June, Yahoo! Photos began to close, and users are being encouraged to join Flickr. Later in the month, Yahoo! began including Flickr images in Yahoo! Image Search. These efforts have resulted in an increase in Flickr’s US market share of 38% in the past four weeks (week ending 7/7/07 vs. week ending 6/9/07). Flickr is now the #2 photography website in the US, with 6.42% of category visits for the week ending 7/7/07. Photobucket still leads with a whopping 43.5% share . Here is a list of the top 5 photography sites as of last week. Back in March 2007, Flickr was at #3 with a market share of 4.57%.
You can see on the chart below how Flickr overtook Yahoo! Photos at the beginning of June (in the purple and navy lines on the left axis). You can also see just how much Yahoo! Image Search results helped increase Flickr’s traffic (in the thin lines on the right axis). As of last week, Yahoo! Image Search was the leading source of traffic to Flickr, accounting for nearly 18% of its upstream visits. Previously Google had been its largest souce of traffic.
It is worth noting that Flickr has a truly global footprint, and has greater share of the photography category in other markets. Spend a few minutes on Flickrvision and you will get a sense for Flickr’s global reach. Hitwise global data shows that Flickr is the #2 photography site (with Photobucket at #1) in both the UK and Australia, with about 10% market share in both countries. Expect it to keep growing both here and abroad.
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Millionaire Domainers
Jul 9th
Calling all Millionaires. We are putting together a list of everyone in this industry that has made a million dollars from domain names. The list is long but we need your help to complete the list.
Please submit names of fellow domainers that have made it big in the comments below. We will alter the post and put the millionaires that people suggest directly into the post.
As new people join the list we will try and do a blog post about them. Also as we get to it we will do a post about everyone already on the list.
Adam Dicker (DNForum) More >
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