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Pirate Bay Team Found Guilty But still Confident

20-Apr-09

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 [...]

PTCL Broadband has doubled its Customers Speed 4 Free

26-Mar-09

Good News for all PTCL customers
Be Happy !

PTCL is now the leader in consumer broadband in Pakistan, leading the country into 21st century.
PTCL Broadband has doubled your speed at no extra cost to all new and existing customers in celebration of 23rd March along with PTCL Smart TV to be Free till June 2009 [...]

Fiber optic cable damaged again in Egypt, affects Internet

21-Dec-08

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 [...]

Microsoft Windows 7 pre-beta build is 6801

26-Oct-08

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 [...]

Software Piracy falls slightly in Pakistan

20-May-08

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 [...]

Rioting Causes Major Telecom Disruption Across Pakistan

29-Dec-07

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 [...]

Pakistan Gets ‘World’s Largest’ WiMAX Network

19-Dec-07

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 [...]

USB 3.0 brings optical connection in 2008 : Intel

19-Sep-07

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 [...]

Flickr Traffic up 38%, Now #2 Photo Site

12-Jul-07

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 [...]

Millionaire Domainers

09-Jul-07

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 [...]