Islamabad: Pakistani authorities on Wednesday shut mobile services in Islamabad and the nearby garrison city of Rawalpindi over security concerns on the arrival of Chinese Premier Li Keqiang in Islamabad.
Li will arrive in Islamabad on Wednesday on a two-day visit after his official visit to India. The state-owned Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) issued a formal notification to all cellular companies to shut the services until 1 PM local time.
Pakistani officials say that militants routinely use mobile phone for planning and implementing attacks. The authorities have taken security measures for the Chinese premier along the main road from the Nur Khan military airbase near Islamabad and the Presidency, where the guest will have a meeting with President Asif Ali Zardari shortly after his arrival.
People say they are facing difficulties after mobile service suspension. The authorities now regularly close down mobile services in view of threats and on occasion of some important days and events....
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12:17 PM, May 22, 2013
Jind: A teenage girl allegedly committed suicide after she was scolded by her foster parents, who had objected to her talking to a friend over cellphone. The 16-year-old had consumed some poisonous substance on May 19, police said. The girl was taken to a hospital in a serious condition where she died on Monday, police said. A post-mortem was conducted and the case is being investigated, they added. ...
09:59 PM, May 21, 2013
The devastating tornado that swept through Oklahoma turned houses into matchsticks and sent parents and teachers running to pull children from the wreckage of an elementary school in the eye of the storm. At least 51 people were killed by the 200-mph storm and dozens of homes destroyed. The toll was expected to rise. Here is a list of the 10 deadliest tornadoes in the United States since 1900: -...
10:58 AM, May 21, 2013
Washington: An 18-year-old Indian-origin girl in the US has developed a potentially revolutionary device that can charge a mobile phone in just 20 seconds, a media report said. The charging device has been dubbed a 'supercapacitor' by Esha Khare of Saratoga, California, the Daily Mail reported. Khare won $50,000 for her invention at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, held in Phoenix. Khare has only used her 'supercapacitor' to...
09:26 PM, May 20, 2013
CJ Tashi Namgyal draws attention to the problems with mobile telecommunications in the Ladakh region of Jammu and Kashmir. He complains about the lack of proper mobile tower facility in the area. ...
01:15 PM, May 20, 2013
Edmond: One of several tornadoes spawned by a powerful storm system rumbling through the Plains and Midwest has leveled several mobile homes in an area southeast of Oklahoma City. Reports of injuries in the mobile home park near Shawnee about 35 miles southeast of Oklahoma City couldn't immediately be confirmed. A storm spotter has told the National Weather Service that the tornado "scoured" the landscape in the park and an...
07:03 AM, May 20, 2013
New Delhi: Delhi Police on Friday claimed to have smashed an IPL betting racket and arrested one person in theis connection. The arrest came following a tip off that one Pawan Arora was allegedly organising betting in his rented house in Rani Bagh during the match between Kolkata Knight Riders and Pune Warriors . Arora was arrested. Police said a decoy customer was sent who offered a deal to the...
02:55 AM, May 18, 2013
Los Angeles: The popular mobile game 'Angry Birds' is jumping off smart phones and onto the big screen in a new animated 3D film due to be released in 2016, Sony Pictures Entertainment announced on Wednesday. The film will be a joint venture between Sony Pictures Entertainment and Finnish game-maker Rovio, and follows the game's foray into television with an animated weekly series that began in March 2013. "Sony impressed...
09:01 AM, May 16, 2013
New Delhi: Zen Mobile has announced the launch of the company's new flagship phone - the Ultrafone 701HD which is the first of a new series of Ultrafone phones from the company. The phone priced at Rs 11,999 runs on Android Jelly Bean 4.2 and is powered by a 1.2 GHz quad-core processor. Zen Ultrafone 701HD's IPS screen measures 5-inch. The phone comes with a 2000mAh battery. The dual-SIM smartphone...
04:27 PM, May 15, 2013
London: The number of mobile phone subscriptions are set to outnumber the world's population by the end of 2014, a United Nations agency report has said. According to the International Telecoms Union's (ITU) prediction, mobile phone subscriptions will pass a whopping seven billion early in 2014. Currently, there are 6.8 billion mobile phone subscriptions while the world's population is 7.1 billion. More than a third of the global population are...
08:03 PM, May 12, 2013
Tel Aviv: Facebook Inc is in advanced talks to acquire Israeli mobile satellite navigation start-up Waze for $800 million to $1 billion, business daily Calcalist reported on Thursday. Due diligence is underway after a term sheet was signed, Calcalist said, adding that talks began six months ago. Waze uses satellite signals from members' smartphones to generate maps and traffic data, which it then shares with other users, offering real-time traffic...
05:22 PM, May 09, 2013
New Delhi: When it comes to the number of disputes of phone billing, Aircel, Vodafone and Idea Cellular fared the worst in several service areas during the quarter ended December 2012, according to a report by regulator TRAI. According to Telecom Regulatory Authority of India's (TRAI) Performance indicator Report released today, Aircel customers in 10 out of 22 telecom service areas disputed bills, Vodafone consumers in four and Idea subscribers...
10:37 AM, May 07, 2013
California: Intel Corp on Monday unveiled the most extensive overhaul of its Atom mobile processors, with improved performance that the PC chipmaker expects will help it challenge Qualcomm in smartphones and tablets. The new microarchitecture, code-named Silvermont, will be a key building block in upcoming Intel chips for mobile gadgets, microservers and car entertainment systems, Chief Product Officer Dadi Perlmutter told reporters at an event on Monday. "We have not...
10:18 AM, May 07, 2013
New Delhi: Reliance Communications on Monday raised mobile call rates by 20-30 per cent across India, a company statement said. "We have now corrected all commitment plans across the country and have increased tariffs by between 20 per cent and 30 per cent," Gurdeep Singh, chief executive officer, Wireless, Reliance Communications, said. "Our headline tariff increase from 1.2 to 1.5 paise per second in October last year did not see...
07:22 PM, May 06, 2013
New York: Shares of Facebook Inc, which were given a boost last week when the social networking company reported first quarter results that largely met analysts' expectations, may be over valued, financial newspaper Barron's said on Sunday. Facebook closed at $28.31 on Friday, 60 per cent higher than last summer's low-point, but well below its initial public offering price of $38 last May. However, the company is probably worth no...
11:36 AM, May 06, 2013
San Francisco: Disturbed by the nationwide epidemic of cellphone robberies and thefts, law enforcement officials across the country are looking to the wireless industry to help find a cure. In San Francisco, where half the robberies were phone-related last year, District Attorney George Gascon is calling on major companies in nearby Silicon Valley to create new technology such as a "kill switch" to permanently and quickly disable stolen smart phones,...
10:38 AM, May 05, 2013
New York: Americans are saying CUL8TR to text messaging, a wireless industry group says, as Internet-based applications such as Apple's Messages are starting to take over from what was once a cash cow for phone companies. CTIA - The Wireless Association said Thursday that Americans sent 2.2 trillion text messages last year, down 5 per cent from 2011. That's still 19 text messages per person per day. Text messages vaulted...
12:45 PM, May 03, 2013
California: Facebook Inc's mobile advertising revenue growth gained momentum in the first three months of the year as the social network sold more ads to users on smartphones and tablets, partially offsetting higher spending which weighed on profits. New types of ads designed for smartphones, particularly ads aimed at enticing Facebook users to install mobile apps on their phones, helped lift revenue while traffic to the social network remained strong....
01:37 PM, May 02, 2013
Mumbai: Telecom operator Reliance Communications today announced a roaming agreement with Aircel, under which both the companies will use each others' mobile towers to improve network coverage for 2G GSM services. RCom is in talks with other operators as well to have similar arrangements and add total of around 10,000 base stations (mobile towers) in its network, it said in a statement. "We are already in advanced stages of talks...
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