Nokia - Highly Demanded Mobile Phones in Pakistan

NOKIA - Connecting People

Nokia is one of the most famous and well known Mobile Phone manufacturers in the world especially in Pakistan. Almost Each and every Pakistani is familiar with Nokia cellphones. Nokia cellphones are also considered as the most reliable and usable cellphones in Pakistan. Nokia cellphones are manufactured by Nokia Corporation which is a Finnish multinational Communication and Information technology corporation. Nokia has employees in 120 countries and their cellphone are being sold in about 150 countries. By the year 2012, Nokia was the 2^nd highest mobile phone maker after Samsung. 

Nokia is highly known for its slogan "NOKIA Connecting People" and it was the largest vendor of Mobile Phones from the year 1998 to 2012. Nokia 1100 was Nokia’s best-selling cellphone ever. Nokia 3310 is also very known mobile phone Nokia has manufactured. Most famous and popular series of Nokia mobile phones are N Series and E series. Nokia was the first to claim that there is some space for the mobile phone in the market which could a serve as a gaming console. Nokia also introduced N-Gage which was a mobile phone as well as a gaming console.

Nokia N95 - Popular Nokia N Series SmartPhone

Symbian was the main OS for Nokia mobile phones till 2011. Nokia N series which is very popular among Nokia cellphone came with the Symbian OS version 8.1. Later N series mobile phones are released with the upgraded version. Nokia released its mobile phones not only with Symbian OS but also with MeeGo, Maemo, etc. Later in 2011, Nokia joined hands with Microsoft, and announced that its Symbian and MeeGo OS will be replaced with Microsoft Windows Phone OS. Recently, Nokia Corporation has been working on its Lumia Series smartphones which are operating on Windows Phone OS.

During the last 5 years, Nokia has suffered a declined market due to the growing use of the touchscreen cellphone from the other vendor like iPhones and also devices running on Google Android OS. Nokia phones are now struggling in America and Europe. In Asian markets, Nokia has to face a hard competition. Nokia has introduced its Asha series to combat the challenges caused by the Android phones and iPhones.

Nokia Lumia Windows Phone

Nokia has been organizing workshops in different places in Pakistan for the development of Windows Phone 8 and Symbian OS applications. They are providing training to the software developer to make them familiar with Windows Phone OS development. Keeping in mind that the Windows Phone 8 demand is increased in the country, which is a positive sign for Nokia Corporation.

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Meet Pervaiz Khattak; the new Chief Minister of KP

Pervaiz Khattak belonging to the Manki Sharif village was born on 1^st January 1950 in Nowshera district. Pervaiz’s father Hashim Khattak was a notable figure, being a government contractor and also known among the leading builders in the pre-partition sub-continent. Khattak has received his early education from Aitchison College, Lahore completing from here the GCE Ordinary Level and the GCE Advanced Level. According to some sources it is also said that this was the same time when PTI (Pakistan Tehreek-e -Insaf) chairman Imran Khan was also a student in Aitchison College. Moving on from Aitchison College, Khattak completed his graduation from Gordan College Rawalpindi.

Pervaiz Khattak

                    Pervaiz Khattak is the father of three sons and two daughters. His eldest son Ishaq Khattak is carrying on with the work of their company that their grandfather had established before Pakistan’s creation. And the other two sons, Ismail Khattak and Ibrahim Khattak are receiving education in United Kingdom.

Political Career of Khattak

Looking at the Political career of Khattak who is now designated as the Chief Minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhawa; as a member of the district council he started his career in 1983. Later he has been elected five times as the member of the KP assembly. He also remained a minister for industries twice and an irrigation minister when the government in KP was led by ANP (Awami National Party). Pervaiz also submitted his resignation in protest of corruption at the time of Provincial Coalition Governement.

As the now Chief Minister of KP

Pervaiz Khattak in initial stages had to join the independent group of KP when there was difference of opinions in the party leadership at the time when he was elected as a candidate backed by Qaumi Watan Party. He was also included in Provincial cabinet. But on December 2011 he gave his resignation provincial assembly, membership of provincial assembly, provincial assembly of Qaumi Watan Party and also from the parliamentary leadership of several members to join Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf led by Imran Khan.

In 2013 election, in Nowshera, Pervaiz Khattak won the National Assembly seat NA-5 and Provincial Assembly seat PK-13 from the PTI platform.

Pervaiz Khattak with Imran Khan

Looking forward for Mr.Khattak:

Some unique instances associated with Khattak, are making the people of KP as well as in all over Pakistan to expect a bright future in his chieftainship. Such as he was once offered Rs 5 crore from a certain party but he refused to accept them and continued the consistency in his aims to never change his interests for personal gains. Pervaiz Khattak says that he is ready to reintegrate the people of KP and give requisite respect so to understand the issues of prevailing terrorism. He is of the mission to work with Nawaz Sharif and strive to eliminate terrorism from the country. In his this interview to BBC he also said that they would follow their agenda of resolving the issues by dialogues.

Looking forward to the Role Model government in the province that Khattak says will be seen in his reign, we hope that he lives up to his expectations.

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Lahore Fort - A Magnificent History

The Lahore Fort is the most popular historical landmark of Pakistan. It is located in the heart of Lahore, the capital city of the province of Punjab, Pakistan. It is locally known as ‘Shahi Qila’ which means the royal fort. It is the citadel of walled city of Lahore. Situated on north western side of the walled city, Nobody exactly knows when it was built originally, however, the existing base structure was built during the reign of Mughal Emperor Jalaluddin Muhammad Akbar (1556-1606 AD), and regularly upgraded by subsequent rulers. Later the excavation and research proved that it was built way before 9th century AD. Because of importance and strategic location of Lahore Emperor Akbar ordered to replace the old mud structure with new fortified brick structure to withstand foreign aggression.


       Lahore fort is an extraordinarily beautiful example of Mughal architecture and engineering. Fort is divided into two sections. The larger section was for the public which includes large garden and diwan-e-aam (hall for common people). The second much smaller section was in use of royal family, it contains sheesh mahal (the mirror palace) small gardens and other residential buildings. Sheesh Mahal is one of the main attractions of Lahore Fort. It was built by Emperor Shah Jahan in 1631. It is the most beautiful and decorated building in the entire Fort with complex and beautiful mirror work on walls and ceiling.


      Later in 1633 he built khwabgah (sleeping area), moti masjid (Pearl Mosque) and royal hamam (Bath). In 1645 dewan-e-khas (hall of special audience) was added to the fort under the order of Shah Jahan. Emperor Aurangzeb Alamgir the son of shah jahan buit a massive Alamgiri Gate in 1674 AD, which is being used as a main entrance these days. He built it directly in front of the entrance of Badshahi Mosque, which was also built by him in 1673 AD. The Alamgiri Gate opens in a beautiful garden named ‘Huzuri Bagh’ which separates Lahore Fort from Badshahi Mosque. Hathi Gate(Elephant Gate) was in use as a main entrance before the construction of Alamgiri Gate. In that gate there is a huge staircase made for elephants which leads to the residential section of the fort.


During the Sikh era among other Mughal buildings Lahore Fort suffered great damage. During the British occupation of Indian subcontinent, the eastern wall of the fort was demolished and replaced by stepped structures which stand to this date. The extensive conservation and reconstruction work is in progress by the archaeology department, and most of the fort has already been restored to its original condition. The Lahore Fort was enlisted in UNESCO’s world heritage site list in 1981.

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Apple iPhones: More than Just a Cellphone

Today there is not a single person who is not familiar with the name of iPhone. iPhone is best known as the line of Smartphones designed and manufactured by Apple Inc. Well known products of Apple are iPod, iPhones, iPad and Mac PC’s. Operating system being used in iPhone is iPhone OS. Apple CEO of that time Steve Jobs steered the focus of their company more towards the smartphone and the development for of iPhones was started in 2004.

Apple iPhone

iPhone was released in June 2007. It was just only a GSM phone. However the later generations of iPhone introduces several new and significant features. iPhone is more popularized for the user interface built around a multi touchscreen with a virtual keyboard. It also includes WiFi, Bluetooth, Cellular Connectivity, Camera, Sensors, Networking, GPS navigation, web browsing, games and other features. Invention of iPhone has fundamentally changed the industry of Cellphones. In 2007, Apple CEO Steve Jobs said:

"the iPhone was not just a communication tool but a way of life"

Each generation of iPhone has been released with a different chip. Such as iPhone 4 contains Apple A4 chip, however Iphone 4S contains a dual core Apple A5 chip and iPhone 5 comes with Apple A6 chip. Several Internal Storage size such as 4GB, 8GB, 16GB and 32GB are introduced with each generation. Apple Applications Store contains more than 75,000 third party applications which can be used in iPhone. Applications may be of any type such as game, social apps, software, etc. Third party developers are allowed to develop apps for iPhone but all applications should be registered with Apple.

Different Generations of iPhones from iPhone 3G on Left to iPhone 4 on Right 

The latest generation of iPhone released is iPhone 5. It was officially released by the end of September 2012. Every features of iPhone 5 is superior to its predecessors. It contains a 1.3 GHz Apple A6 chip with 1GB Dram. It is available with 8GB, 16GB and 32GB Internal Storage. It contains a 8 MP camera with capability of 1080p video shooting. It has 4 inch multi touchscreen display. IOS 6 is being used in iPhone 5. iPhone 5S will be launched in June 2013 which will contain more refined features than iPhone 5.

iPhone 5

This invention of Apple has made a great impact in the evolution in the development and demand of smartphones. The demand of iPhone is very high over the globe. However the price of iPhone is also very high and due to availability of smartphones of different companies such as Nokia, HTC and Samsung, competition between smartphones is increased much. However Apple is still working on more iPhone products to compete more positively in the markets.

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MOHAMMAD YOUSUF<<< A Man Of Cricket >>>

A baby who borned to play cricket MOHAMMAD YOUSUF , doesn't need any introduction among Cricket fans all around the world .Yousuf was borned on 27 August 1974 in Lahore,Punjab,Pakistan. In an interview ,Mohammad Yousuf said that he belonged to a very poor family.His father was a helper in Pakistan Railway & the house in which he lived his childhood was also alloted to his father by Pakistan Railway which was actually the servant quarter .

He further said that his house was usually full because they had parents with 5 boys & a girl.His mother was a housewife.

Enjoyed best test form ever

After playing from several teams & alot of struggle , Yousuf got the chance to play from Pakistan Cricket Team & he made his debut his 1998 & the wheel of his life took a turn . In test matches, his debut was against South Africa & against Zimbabwe in One Day International.

Yousuf has been considered as the best Middle order Batsman throughout his career & whenever the team needs a sensible and responsible innings player, Yousuf was always there to play his role. Yousuf is known for his ability to score runs at exceptional rate through his great technique and composed strokeplay. 

Bob Woolmer, Pakistan's late coach, said "Yousuf was like a Ferrari when he was batting and a truck when he wasn't – he is not too hot in the field ..."

 Mohammad Yousuf formerly known as Yousuf Youhana converted to ISLAM in 2005 &

 then later on her wife also embraced ISLAM .In his interview , reporter asked him "Why have you accepted ISLAM?"

He replied that when he saw those peoples who actually follow the true salient features of ISLAM are really good human beings.After accepting ISLAM, a miracle just happened with him. He just made unbelievable record of making the highest runs(1788 runs in just 11 Test matches with the help of nine centuries in just one academic year)  breaking WestIndian batsman Vivan Richard's record .Yousuf last played for Pakistan in an ODI against South Africa in Abu Dhabi in November, 2010.In past times, it has also been heard that her wife also accepted Islam &  now her new name is Fatima Yousuf.After embracing ISLAM, the superstar use to do Dawati(inviting) work through different Ijtimaa's(gatherings) in order to spread ISLAM.

Wedding picture

  

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Pay per Click (PPC) Advertising

PPC, abbreviated as Pay per Click is a type of the advertising model that helps in directing traffic to websites. It is based on the phenomenon that the amount, spent to get an advertisement clicked or an advertiser paying depending on the number of times the published advertisement is clicked. PPC also called as Cost per Click is an Internet Advertising used on search engines, advertising networks and website/blogs.

Now coming to how the PPC advertising works? As we know that to have an advertisement listed on search engines we will have to pay for it. This is done by the act of bidding the keywords. Advertisers bid on the keyword phrases relevant to their market or their business. Then whosoever bids the highest gets the highest listed position. Besides the factors including keyword popularity and competition from other advertisers bid prices also vary depending on the company’s budget and the time the company is desirous of using the paid amount.

Pay per Click

Some of the most prominent companies that take PPC bids include Google AdWords, Yahoo, Search Marketing and Microsoft adCenter. The two models that assist in determining Cost per Click are :

Ø  Flat rate PPC: in it the advertiser and publisher agree on a fixed amount that will be paid for each click

Ø  Bid Based PPC: in it a private auction is hosted by a publisher or an advertising network in which the advertiser signs the contract to participate in the auction and compete against other advertisers.

Legitimacy of PPC:

This Pay per Click advertising is not that clean, it also includes security breaches such as click frauds that can lead to destruction in advertising budget as well as restrict positional customers from reaching a site. In this regard the search engines help by detecting some unusual patterns such as clicks coming from same IP address, repetitive and duplicate clicking and the time of the clicks. But it also cannot be ignored that click fraud harms an advertiser directly by running him out of his budget and also some analysts have estimated that click fraud runs as high as 20 percent for certain keywords.

PPC

Future of PPC:                                               

According to the inventor of Pay per Click; Bill Gross the future of PPC is in Pay per Action. And this advancement of PPC in pay per action has eliminated the click fraud problem. In it the business would not have to pay for the number of clicks instead it all depends on the completion of a desired action such as, a purchase, a fill out form, a download etc. And thus in this way the advertisers only pay for the concrete results.

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MQM - A Revival

Okay, so we hear Altaf Hussain, founder of Muttahida Qaumi Movement  (aka MQM), announce Operation Cleanup against the black sheep present in his political party.

Altaf Hussain, residing presently in London, leads MQM, a Pakistani political party, its roots being the strongest in Karachi.

After the 11th May National Elections in Pakistan, MQM was blamed for rigging and cheating by Imran Khan's  Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf's leader, Arif Alvi, in NA-250. Protests were held in this regard too by the PTI supporters in Karachi. Both MQM and PTI leaders held press conferences claiming the other side to be guilty. After that, Altaf Hussain used harsh words against PTI in a live telephonic conference from London.

After much havoc created by both sides, MQM founder Altaf Hussain warned all members of the party against serious actions to be taken against anyone found involved in illegal activities. He then dissolved the Raabta Committee, saying that it's now time to clean MQM of all corrupt entities.

Yesterday, he has announced a new Raabta Committee, in which Haider Abbas Rizvi, Aamir Khan, Nasreen Jaleel, Dr. Sagheer Ahmad, Kanwar Naveed, Waasay Jaleel, Mustafa Azizabadi, Yousuf Shahwani and some others are included. Saleem Shehzad, Raza Haroon and Asif Siddiqui, who were the members of the old Raabta Committee, are not included this time. Further, Anees Ahmad Advocate is restricted to get involved in any political activities due to serious indiscipline from his side. Memberships of some MQM'ers have also been cancelled.

Furthermore, Altaf Hussain has dissuaded all his followers to take care of their personal reputation as well as of their political party, alarming them that serious steps will be taken whenever needed against such members.

Hope that this recent revival does improve the image of MQM, who's a major stakeholder in the political grounds of Karachi.

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Shehzad Roy and “Chal Parha”

Shehzad Roy a renowned, talented, compassionate singer and also the owner of Zindagi Trust recently did a program called Chal Parha.His this program has introduced some happenings in the country as well as in some minds.

Shehzad Roy

Starting from the schools, he says that he has reformed the once dilapidated government school into a model that can be looked upon by the government in order to revamp other schools and institutions as well. His belief in promoting quality education and inculcating the need of reviving educational awareness has lead to an increment in his fan following and has appealed a mass audience.

Coming to Roy’s show Chal Parha, it is an effort to spread the message all over Pakistan or in other words an initiative to portray that picture of Pakistan which needs more Paint Brushes and colours to develop a better Pakistan. But here come many opinions in which we observe support as well as some hiccups in accepting the ideas outlined by Roy.

Some say that Shehzad has discouraged too much inclusion of our Islamic Victors in our textbooks thinking that this leads to the outcome as a terrorist. They are of the opinion that our Islamic History is needed to be taught openly and comprehensively and this will not lead to becoming a terrorist. Some people also disagree with the points he has presented to improve the curriculum. Such as his one point says;

Remove discriminatory contents (based on Gender and Religion) and tradition of presenting the twisted history in our books should be end.

This one is conceived by some as an intention to secularize our education system. Moreover, he has also demanded to eliminate the inclusion of Islamic war heroes and historical Muslim personalities in chapters.

Shehzad Roy started this program with the purpose of highlighting the following issues in public schools;

·         Corporal punishment

·         Medium of instruction

·         Population

·         Textbooks

·         Curriculum

·         Teachers etc

Undoubtedly he not only succeeded in throwing light upon some important issues that needed to be looked after but also lead to the passage of bills in implementing the requisites. Furthermore, his effort in voicing out the wrongs and the act of bringing in limelight the issues that are ‘deserve to be considered’ is commended by many people in Pakistan.

Chal Parha

The disagreements and agreements with Shehzad Roy’s work will carry on, and they carry on every time a voice is ousted for some purpose. But the most important message that the state of Pakistan exhibits is that, we all should stand and work uprightly with intention of seeing a better Pakistan or utilize our career in a way that would contribute in the emergence of a developed Pakistan. 

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Microsoft Windows 8: A Refined Innovation

Microsoft Windows 8 is the latest version of Microsoft OS which is being used on PCs, laptops and tablet PCs. It was released on 26^th October 2012 and the operating has been in stores for half a year. Windows 8 is available in Pakistan since the start of November 2012. Windows 8 is available in two versions at retail in Pakistan, Windows 8 and Windows 8 pro.

Microsoft Windows 8

Microsoft Windows 8 has significant changes as compare to its predecessors. It was the biggest change in Microsoft OS since Windows 95. Windows 8 has introduced a new Modern UI interface, Windows 8 Windows Store, security enhancements and performance improvement.

Microsoft has hosted a new Modern UI interface in Windows 8. It was a radical change in the interface of Microsoft OS because from Windows 95 to Windows 7, it doesn’t take much time to switch between the versions. Windows 8 features a new touch user interface and shell based on Microsoft Metro design Language featuring a new Start Screen with a grid of dynamically updating tiles representing applications. This Start Screen replaces the Start Menu of previous versions of Microsoft Windows.  It also features a new lock screen with clock and notifications. The desktop is relegated to the side lines to make use of so called Modern UI Interface. This interface is designed to be used with the Touch Screens as well as the mouse and keyboard.

Windows 8 Modern UI Interface

Windows 8 takes advantage of new and emerging technologies. I also feature built-in antivirus software to prevent malware from causing boot process and files. Internet Explorer 10 is included as both desktop program and touch optimized app. Windows 8 introduces a new style Windows 8 Apps which are specifically designed for  touchscreen environments. A large variety of Windows 8 app is available in Windows Store. It contains games, social networking, office, sports, news, weather and other apps.

Windows 8 used with Touch Screen

Windows 8 has damaged the market of PC’s badly in the last three months because it causes the evolution of PCs beyond laptops and desktops into Tablet PC’s and other new devices. Several changes were also made by Microsoft in Windows 8 to make it more friendly and usable to the users which are familiar with the older versions of Microsoft Windows. Still, Windows 7 is leading the market of Operating System but it seems that Windows 8 will become a mostly used OS in future. 

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HTC Butterfly Launched in Pakistan

HTC, joining hands with Mobilink Pakistan, has launched its latest android smartphone "Butterfly" in Pakistan. Users will be able to enjoy several Mobilink add-ons, including a 30-day exclusive bundle , 1 GB internet, a pouch and a protector.

HTC claims it to be the first-ever full HD-environment smartphone. With a 5-inch super LCD display having a screen resolution of 1920 by 1080 pixels, its front and rear cameras allow you to capture the most amazing pictures in just a flash.

Here are the key features of HTC Butterfly:

HTC Butterfly
Picture courtesy: HTC website

• Chipset: Qualcomm Snapdragon™ S4 Pro processor with 1.5GHz Quad-Core Krait CPUs
• Operating System: Android 4.1
• Display: contrast ratio: 1104:1 (nominal)/ 1.873:1 (sunlight)
• Memory: 16 GB; RAM: 2GB
• Camera: 8.0MP rear / 2.1 MP front
• Size: 1080 x 1920 x 5 inches (441 ppi pixels density)
• Weight: 140g with battery
• Sensors: Gyrosensor, accelerometer, proximity sensor, ambient light sensor
• Other: Wireless charging capability, NFC, Wireless display, gesture typing

Price in Pakistan: Rs. 70,000 only

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