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Apple Entering Asia on shoulders of iPhone

By Sumaira Bajwa • Jul 21st, 2009 • Category: Technology

“We will enter Asia with the iPhone in 2008,” Apple COO Tim Cook declared in March 2008. “And we will one day enter China, we’re not saying when.”
How’s September of 2009 sound? Because China Business Network claims that China Unicom and Apple have finally inked a deal that will bring the iPhone to the [...]



Will Nokia Dump Symbian for Android? Um, No.

By Sumaira Bajwa • Jul 7th, 2009 • Category: Technology

Nokia will not debut a new Android-based handset at its annual Nokia World conference in early September because the company has no new Android-based handset to debut.
That’s the word from Nokia, which vehemently denied reports this morning that it is just months away from launching its first mobile phone based on Google’s mobile OS. “There [...]



Appsfire : iPhone Apps on Fire

By Sharafat • Jun 30th, 2009 • Category: Technology

With the iPhone Apps mania on rise and with a rapidly growing market for the iPhone Applications, a natural website Appsfire emerges which lets you share your iPhone Apps with anyone you want. With daily dose of the emerging iPhone Apps, it is becoming hard for anyone to organize and  share these apps, but with [...]



iPhone in Karachi

By Sharafat • Jun 25th, 2009 • Category: Technology

In the technology world, in these recession times, few product launches are greeted with as much enthusiasm as the iPhone has evoked in Pakistan. The mobile phone mania is already there and people from all walks of life are just going crazy about them and now this iPhone has broken all the records, especially the [...]



iPhone 3G S Sales Forecast: Half a Million Sold This Weekend

By Sharafat • Jun 19th, 2009 • Category: Technology

How many iPhone 3G Ss will Apple (AAPL) sell this weekend? 500,000, according to Piper Jaffray’s Gene Munster, who says early sales will be slower than those of the 3G thanks to a dramatic change in value proposition and a launch limited to 8 countries.
“In 2008, Apple introduced the iPhone 3G at $199, a 50 [...]



iPhone Apps by Apple

By Sumaira Bajwa • Apr 20th, 2009 • Category: Entertainment

Apple is about to remove the shackles from developers of applications for the iPhone.
While iPhone users have mostly praised the steady stream of games, guides and other programs released thus far, many developers have been frustrated by their inability to do more, such as allow users to purchase digital content within an application. Until recently, [...]



The Cell Tolls for Thee

By Ausaf Ahmad • Aug 4th, 2008 • Category: Misc

i WAS GOING THROUGH THIS ARTICLE ON MSN AND WHICH I FOUND INTERESTED TO SHARE WITH ALL OF YOU .
“The truth about the cell-phone–cancer link and what it means for you and your kids
By Julie A. Evans, Best Life”

When Vini Khurana, PhD, an Australian (and Mayo Clinic–trained) neurosurgeon, announced that the link between cell-phone use [...]



Expectations of Market

By The Pakistani Spectator • Jul 14th, 2007 • Category: Uncategorized

When a product or service is launched, people often show awe because it rose above their expectations, or they just show utter despair, as the it didn’t even do what it expected to do, or they just go along as they know that the product or service just do what it was expected to do.
The [...]