i-mate Shuts Down Business – Confirmed

After many days of sepculation about continuty or discontinuty of i-mate business, CEO Jim Morrison declared that the business is closed now.  In a telephonic interview to Arabian News, he told that “You could say the company is worth nothing now. At its height, three years ago, it was worth $750m.”
i-mate was a UAE based company [...]

Every Pakistani should check SIMs Registered against his/her CNIC

PTA has recently launched a simple service to check number of SIMs registered against your CNIC. It’s advisable for every Pakistani to use it at least once because thanks to the connection resellers and other small businesses, your CNIC may have been used for others and your own number may not be in your own [...]

How it Changed…..

Sharing from a friend’s mail:
Here I am sitting in my office @ night…
Thinking hard about life
How it changed from a maverick collage life to strict professional life……
How tiny pocket money changed to huge monthly paychecks
but then why it gives less happiness….
How a few local denim jeans changed to new branded wardrobe
but then why there are [...]

Internet: How much US Subscribers Lag in GSM

Thanks to CDMA and now the locked GSM, US is behin Euorope and Asia in GSM. Here is an interesting encounter, CNet is proudly educating US subscribers how they may change SIM cards while travelling abroad to save on call tariff (Swapping SIMs to save big on calls abroad). To make it more interesting, there [...]

25 million handsets at risk due to IMEI

25 million handsets at risk in India due to the Chinse handsets lacking unique IMEI. According to a recent regulation, Indian governemnt is going to block all such handsets. India is estimated to have atleast 25 million chinese handsets majority of which is owned by low end consumers. This may have huge potential effects on [...]

Telenor’s India Plan Faces Difficulties from Telenor Shareholders

Telenor’s aggressive plan to enter the rich Indian mobile market by taking 60% shares in Unitech (a start-up mobile operator) is facing strong opposition back at home. Telenor is said to finding alternates to complete its plan.
The day Telenor unvieled its plans to buy 60% shares in Unitech India, its share price fell by 26%. [...]

Fallacies of Distributed Computing

During development of a distributed messaging based application, I felt that developers still bring the fallacies about distributed programming when coming from a conventional programming background. There are somethings different in distributed programming, for example, Network unreliability, latency and bandwidth limitations. Since I have been working on distributed applications from the age of tightly coupled [...]

Novel Ships Mono Development Tool

Novel has released Mono Development Tool, part of its Mono Project which delivers an open and portable framework compatible to Microsoft .Net framework. It provides an option to develop and run .Net applications on a variety of platforms like Linux and Mac OS X. Instead of competing with leading .Net IDEs, they are concentrating [...]

I’d rather fish with Dad than make a million — Cricketer Clarke sacrifices lucrative IPL for his ailing father

That was a little bottom-side news on a local news paper but enough to shock me: Australian cricketer Michael Clarke left a potential deal with IPL that may earn a million dollar or more for him. The major reason behind was that he wanted to give more time to his father who is suffering from [...]

Is Microsoft Stepping back from Mobile Web Development?

Many people feel that Microsoft is stepping back from mobile web development tooling. This feeling has got fuel from the stunning fact that Microsoft has taken off the designer support from its new Visual Studio 2008. The MSDN documentation for .Net 3.5/Visual Studio 2008 (http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/b73×06dt.aspx ) asks to create mobile web project in Visual Studio [...]