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• A look at Urdu Blogging
• UET Lahore Student Designs Solar Powered Vehicle
• To Tweet or Not to Tweet: Use of Social Media in Workplace [Infographic]
• Twitter Photo Sharing is Now Available for All
• Anonymous Aims to Kill (Hack) Facebook on Nov 5th
• Facebook Wantes to Replace Texting With its own Messaging Service
• Explanation Sought From Government Over Rules of Autonomy Bodies
• Excessive Use of FaceBook Leads to Psychological Problems in Teens
• HTC Inspire 4G Users Getting OTA Update to Android 2.3!
• iPhone 5 Hypothetical Breakdown by Bloomberg!

A look at Urdu Blogging Posted: 11 Aug 2011 02:56 AM PDT Blogging is a favorite past time for many people here in Pakistan. WordPress and Blogger are amongst the most visited websites in the country. Amongst these bloggers, many people treat their blogs as a personal journal; others try to cater to a wider audience in an effort to generate some money on the side while [...]

UET Lahore Student Designs Solar Powered Vehicle Posted: 11 Aug 2011 02:56 AM PDT Student of Mechanical Engineering from University of Engineering & Technology, Pakistan has successfully built a solar powered vehicle – named Solaron. This eco-friendly vehicle incorporates a battery that is charged by solar panels thereby producing energy without any exhaust. Battery drives a DC motor that is used to power the vehicle. Vehicle is based on [...]

To Tweet or Not to Tweet: Use of Social Media in Workplace [Infographic] Posted: 11 Aug 2011 02:56 AM PDT Use of social media in the workplace is an important issue about which companies take a lot of measures. On a general note, use of social media is strictly prohibited in workspace, especially Facebook and twitter. But still there is another school of thought who believes not to prohibit employees from being social in their [...]

Twitter Photo Sharing is Now Available for All Posted: 11 Aug 2011 02:56 AM PDT Twitter today has rolled out its own photo uploading feature which allows users to directly upload a picture while tweeting. Twitter had announced this feature in June 2011, but now it is available to all members of Twitter. There is a 3MB size limit on images though. Pictures can be made available to twitter's search [...]

Anonymous Aims to Kill (Hack) Facebook on Nov 5th Posted: 11 Aug 2011 02:56 AM PDT Anonymous has announced its new target, operation facebook. In a YouTube video (showed at the end of the post), the hackivist group said that their new aim is to 'kill facebook' on 5th of November, 2011. The group said that keeping in view the privacy issues on Facebook; they have decided to completely destroy Facebook [...]

Facebook Wantes to Replace Texting With its own Messaging Service Posted: 10 Aug 2011 10:01 PM PDT Facebook has launched an instant messaging service for mobile phones, similar to BlackBerry Messenger.  The  dedicated app, for iPhones and Android devices, allows users to contact individual friends or groups of people. Its release comes a month before Apple is due to unveil a similar product.  Attention has been focused on mobile messaging recently because [...]

Explanation Sought From Government Over Rules of Autonomy Bodies Posted: 10 Aug 2011 07:39 PM PDT This Monday PAC (Public Accounts Committee) objected to the independence given to different autonomous organizations against the rules of Ministry of Finance. PAC directed the Cabinet to resolve this matter. During the last 10 years, a special committee was formed of PAC-III which was given orders to give more autonomy to regulatory or the independent [...]

Excessive Use of FaceBook Leads to Psychological Problems in Teens Posted: 10 Aug 2011 07:39 PM PDT 'Psychologists have been researching on the behavior of teens addicted to the social websites. These researches are now increased as now a day's social websites are getting very much popular than ever. It is creating many problems like anti-social behaviors, narcissism and many other character flaws. A professor of psychology at California State University, Larry [...]

HTC Inspire 4G Users Getting OTA Update to Android 2.3! Posted: 10 Aug 2011 07:39 PM PDT  Besides of receiving an OTA update to Android 2.3,  HTC Inspire 4G owners are also getting updates and thus bugs are fixed as well. The update began last Thursday but is accelerating now, reported HTC. Android 2.3.3 is installed on the phone which means no GTalk support for now. The improvements include power management function, [...]

iPhone 5 Hypothetical Breakdown by Bloomberg! Posted: 10 Aug 2011 07:39 PM PDT Bloomberg did its hypothetical tear down of the iPhone 5 today. According to its estimates, there is a gross margin of 56.4% and it would cost Apple $270.1 to get one iPhone manufactured. Although the break down looks fine, Bloomberg included a 512 MB RAM in the iPhone with which most analysts disagree. The sales [...]

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