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Letters to the Editor
TELEPEDIA
62.5% users connect with internet via Wi-Fi in Pakistan
Branchless banking -A door of economic freedom for all
China's OPPO enters in Pakistan
Warid 4G LTE services coming soon
How telcos managed mobile data traffic during FIFA 2014
How 3G will change your life
Samsung predicts 25% fall in profit
Sony boosts selfie trend with launch of Xperia C3
Microsoft ditches Nokia X Android phones
How stupid AP app
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COVER STORY
26 | PTA Sim Biometric system to counter
INSIGHT
Concern as ATMs stop spewing out cash
Race begins in Pakistan to capture free online classified
Naeem Zamindar steps down after restructuring and
reorganization of Wateen
WorldCall selects Verimatrix for digital cable network
How Facebook killed Orkut social network
FBI labels driverless cars as lethal weapons
Google profit up by 6% as CBO Indian-born Nikesh Arora
Obsessive use of Twitter, Facebook may damage your
Facebook admits terrible communication gaffe on study
Google, Microsoft to produce low-cost smartphone
China's mobile internet user surpass
Russian hackers stole 1.2 billion Internet credentials
Xbox One sales doubled
Wealthiest and most powerful businessmen
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Mobile Paisa reaches 500 cities to facilitate unbanked
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AUGUST 2014
INTERVIEWS
28 | Khuram Rahat, MD, Teradata Pakistan, Afghanistan & Bangladesh
Concerns as ATMs stop
spewing out cash
Ufone's Biometric Verification
System deployment reached
to over 200 cities now
ChenOne appearances
at Centaurs Mall
BLOODIEST tech
industry layoffs
EXCLUSIVE
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EVENT
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Ufone's Biometric Verification System deployment reached
Mobile Paisa reaches 500 cities to facilitate unbanked
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National News
International News
TECH TOOLS
Mobile Rates
Mobile Review
Current Mobiles
Upcoming Mobiles
High Range Mobiles
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Computers
Laptops
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National Mosaic
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MOSAIC
TECHNOLOGY
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Nikon unveils DSLR series in Pakistan
Honda's new robot serves you
COMMERCE
Pakistan's interminable energy crisis
Pak Economy on Track
PTCL Customized e-learning
ChenOne appearances at Centarus Mall
Oundoline captures the Pakistani market
India to allow Pakistani SIM cards to boost bilateral
Multi-billion Modaraba scam in the ploy of Islamic
Senator terms SROs issuance of FBR illogical and illegal
AirAsia India seeks reduction in taxes on airlines
US firm signs MoU for power generation from solid
Gold imports decline in Pakistan
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AItI-T :011
AILer successIuI InLroducLIon oI G servIces In PukIsLun, MInIsLry
oI T Ius Luken unoLIer mujor poIIcy InILIuLIve Lo encouruge und
promoLe compeLILIon umongsL LeIecom servIce provIders Issued u
dIrecLIve Lo LIe PTA Lo dIsconLInue LIe nLernuLIonuI CIeurIng House
(CH) regIme esLubIIsIed LIrougI un eurIIer dIrecLIve Lo
subsLunLIuIIy dereguIuLe LIe InLernuLIonuI IncomIng LruIIIc
LermInuLIng on PukIsLunI neLworks. TIIs dIrecLIve oI LIe MoT
eIIecLed Irom 1sL oI AugusL zo1q gIvIng suIIIcIenL LIme Lo ong
DIsLunce nLernuLIonuI (D) operuLors Ior dIscIurgIng LIeIr
commILmenLs under LIe prevuIenL CH urrungemenL.
CH wus creuLed by LIe Iormer governmenL Lo curb gruy LruIIIc In
LIe counLry und cIunneIs uII LIe InLernuLIonuI cuIIs LIrougI one und
InLegruLed sysLem InsLeud oI dIIIerenL guLewuys by uII operuLors.
WILI LIe emergence oI CH, Luxes were Imposed Lo Increuse
nuLIonuI Income by US$ 6oo mIIIIon every yeur. TIIs ucL Ius creuLed
dIIIIcuILIes Ior overseus PukIsLunIs und LIey sIow deep concern over
CH were voIcIng uguInsL LIIs on every Iorum.
TeIenor PukIsLun, Zong Ius unnounced Lo sLop uII InLernuLIonuI
cuIIs LermInuLIng LIrougI nLernuLIonuI CIeurIng House (CH) Lo
beneIIL LIe InLernuLIonuI cuIIers. 11 compunIes IncIudIng PTC
reIused Lo ucL us per new dIrecLIves Issued by LIe PM und Look sLuy
order Irom LIe courL. PukIsLun TeIecommunIcuLIon AuLIorILy (PTA)
uIso Iuvour In esLubIIsI APC (Access PromoLIon CIurge) und
removuI oI CH. PTC revenue wIII be uIIecL buL PTC Iuve muny
producLs, servIces Lo muInLuIn ILs revenue.
PTC sIouId InLroduce more InnovuLIve producLs und Iocus on
servIces Lo LIe suLIsIucLIon Lo LIe consumers und uccepL LIe decIsIon
oI LIe governmenL wIoIe-IeurLedIy. No doubL, PTC producLs und
servIces ure creuLIveIy uddressIng uIIordubIIILy, quuIILy, uLIIILy und
IdenLILy needs oI consumers becuuse IL Ius mIIIIon users oI IundIInes
und broudbund In LIe counLry. L sIouId uIso resoIve $8oo mIIIIon
ouLsLundIng puymenL Issue umIcubIy.
L Is perLuInIng Lo menLIon Iere LIuL LIe LIree successIve
governmenLs, IncIudIng LIe presenL one, Iuve IuIIed Lo recover $8oo
mIIIIon ouLsLundIng puymenL Irom LIe buyer oI LIe PukIsLun
TeIecommunIcuLIon Compuny ImILed (PTC) sInce AprII zoo6.
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P
akistan is plagued by a deep eneigy ciisis
one with tioubling consequences foi its fiag-
ile economy and volatile secuiity situation.
Pakistan, in fact, has desciibed eneigy as a
gieatei challenge than teiioiism. Eneigy is also a
majoi public concein. Recent polling finds that moie
than 9O peicent of Pakistanis aie woiiied about en-
eigy shoitages.
This confeience seeks to capitalize on the uigency
of the ciisis. It will focus on steps that can and should
be taken in the immediate futuie to addiess both sup-
ply- and demand-side aspects of Pakistan's eneigy co-
nundium. It will also piopose actionable
iecommendations foi Pakistani policymakeis. Addi-
tionally, it will addiess implementation huidles and
how to oveicome them.
This confeience has been made possible thiough
the geneiosity of the Iellowship Iund foi Pakistan.
Accoiding to the Statistical Yeaibook foi Asia and
the Pacific-2O13 iepoit ieleased by a UN commission
said about 1.3 billion people in the woild aie living
without electiicity, two-thiids of them being in 1O
countiies and foui of them, including Pakistan, in the
Asia Pacific iegion, says a iepoit of the United Na-
tions. No doubt, the piesent goveinment is stiuggling
to eliminate eneigy ciisis in the countiy and staited
many piojects including solai and theimal powei to
oveicome the chionically spieading issue. The gov-
einment must given timefiame to end loadshedding
in the countiy because PPP goveinment given many
timefiame to end eneigy ciisis. The main ieason of
PPP goveinment lost in polls seveie loadshedding
and gas shoitage. If the piesent goveinment will ovei-
come these two ciises than the definitely choose
them. It is good omen that the Punjab Chief Minis-
tei Shahbaz Shaiif pledged to take people out of
daikness at any cost. Addiessing the meeting of spe-
cial committee on eneigy constituted by the piime
ministei, the chief ministei said that completion of
all the ongoing eneigy piojects would be ensuied by
2O17. "Despite the pioblems and complications,
China's full coopeiation in eneigy sectoi is highly ap-
pieciable," the CM said.
The steeiing committee on eneigy piojects undei
China-Pakistan Economic Coiiidoi held its meeting
iecently and decided to expedite the eneigy piojects.
"The Chinese goveinment is keen to puisue the
economic coiiidoi and has shown tiust in govein-
ment's policies," said Planning Ministei Ahsan Iqbal
who also the steeiing committee.
The meeting was also attended by Punjab Chief
Ministei Shahbaz Shaiif and fedeial ministeis. It ie-
viewed feasibility studies of eneigy piojects, demand
and supply fiamewoik of ongoing and new piojects,
integiated plan foi geneiation, tiansmission and dis-
tiibution, payment modalities of powei puichase
agieements, cuitailing powei losses and integiated
coal logistics plan foi coal powei piojects.
The planning ministei told the committee that the
China-Pakistan Economic Coiiidoi is a key initiative
which would help meet eneigy shoitfall and link Pak-
istan with iegional economies, paiticulaily China.
The steeiing committee has been constituted by
the piime ministei. Mi Ahsan Iqbal said that duiing
his most iecent visit to Beijing togethei with Punjab
chief ministei, the delegation sensitized Chinese au-
thoiities to piioiitise Pakistan's eneigy piojects. The
Chinese goveinment expiessed its full commitment
to help Pakistan oveicome eneigy challenge.
Mi Ahsan Iqbal highlighted the impoitance of
Caddani Eneigy Paik which has been dedicated as
Pakistan-China Eneigy Paik, and said it will be the
countiy's biggest eneigy piojects to pioduce
6,6OOMW of eneigy. The meeting also ieviewed
piogiess on diffeient eneigy piojects undei the coiii-
doi, such as coal-based powei piojects at Caddani,
1etty and infiastiuctuie at Caddani, Quaid-i-Azam
solai powei paik, iail piojects, coal-based powei pioj-
ects at Poit Qasim.
Watei and Powei Ministei, Khwaja Mohammad
Asif infoimed the committee that his ministiy was
woiking on stiict timelines and ensuiing tianspaiency
and timely completion at all costs in piojects.
The steeiing committee constituted a woiking
gioup, consisting of iepiesentatives fiom ministiy of
poits and shipping, watei and powei, planning and
development and Pakistan Railways to addiess the is-
sues ielated to tianspoitation of coal. Aiound 22
solai powei piojects having a cumulative capacity of
772.99 MW aie undei diffeient stages of develop-
ment and can achieve commeicial opeiation by 2O15-
16.These piojects will achieve commeicial opeiation
by stipulated peiiod subject to availability of Ciid by
National Tiansmission & Despatch Company
(NTDC) Limited Pakistan and announcement of tai-
iff by National Electiic Powei Regulatoiy Authoiity
(NEPRA).
Souices at Alteinative Eneigy Development
Boaid (AEDB) on Sunday said the depaitment is pui-
suing and facilitating the development of Alteinative
and Renewable Eneigy (ARE) based powei piojects
thiough piivate sectoi. The Renewable Eneigy (RE)
powei piojects based on wind and solai eneigy aie
being developed by piivate sectoi on Independent
Powei Pioducei (IPP) mode. Moieovei, the souices
said two wind powei piojects of 49.5 MW and 56.4
MW capacities iespectively aie opeiational while
thiee wind powei piojects of 15O MW capacities in
total aie undei constiuction and expected to be com-
pleted this yeai. Chief Ministei Punjab Mian
Muhammad Shahbaz Shaiif inauguiated Quaid-e-
Azam Solai Eneigy Paik Pioject in Bhawalpui on
Satuiday. This pioject would piovide one thousand
megawatt electiicity.
While addiessing the inauguial ceiemony of the
pioject, Shahbaz Shaiif said that the electiicity pio-
duced by this pioject would be piovided to South
Punjab and othei cities. He said Rs 2OO billion would
be invested on the pioject. He said that Pakistan Mus-
lim League-Nawaz (PML-N) is taking piactical meas-
uies foi advancement of the Southein Punjab.
No doub|, |hc prcscn| ovcrnmcn| is s|rulin |o climina|c cncrv crisis in |hc coun|rv and
s|ar|cd manv procc|s includin solar and |hcrmal powcr |o ovcrcomc |hc chronicallv sprcad-
in issuc. Thc ovcrnmcn| mus| ivcn |imclramc |o cnd loadshcddin in |hc coun|rv"
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COMMERCE Mazhaiul Haq

Punab Chicl Minis|cr Shahbaz
Sharil plcdcd |o |akc pcoplc ou|
ol darkncss a| anv cos|. Addrcss-
in |hc mcc|in ol spccial com-
mi||cc on cncrv cons|i|u|cd bv
|hc primc minis|cr
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Ilaie Repoit EVENT
T
he economy of the countiy appeais to
have tuined a coinei duiing the thiid
quaitei. Revival of economic activity is a
key development in Iiscal Yeai 2O14,
with ieal Cioss domestic pioduct (CDP) giowth of
4.1 peicent which is the highest in the past five yeais.
State Bank of Pakistan (SBP), in its 3id quaiteily
iepoit foi IY14 on the state of economy ieleased ie-
cently, said that aftei many yeais of low giowth sen-
timents about the economy seem to have impioved.
Manifestations can be seen in the iebound in ieal
CDP giowth, the iise in piivate sectoi ciedit, a con-
tained fiscal deficit, the subdued inflation outlook,
the shaip inciease in foieign exchange ieseives, and
the appieciation and subsequent stability in the ex-
change iate.
The SBP's iepoit mentioned that impiovements
in the economy weie the iesult of the goveinment's
iesolve to addiess the eneigy shoitage, a giowing
peiception of business fiiendly policies and exteinal
inflows that have iecently been iealised.
Moie specifically, auction of 3C/4C licenses, a
laigei than piojected inflow via Euiobonds, pio-
giamme loans fiom the inteinational financial in-
stitutions (IIIs), and SBP's effoits to suppoit the
foieign exchange ieseives have shaiply impioved
the outlook of the countiy's exteinal sectoi and,
to some extent, its fiscal position.
Howevei, it emphasised that these signs of im-
piovements should not discount the challenges
faced by the economy and that the effoits foi much
needed stiuctuial iefoims should continue.
These positive developments piovide a stiong
platfoim to move towaids sustained economic
giowth in the medium teim.
The iecent influx of exteinal iesouices not
only stabilised the exchange iate but shaiply in-
cieased SBP's foieign exchange ieseives. On May
3O, 2O14, the SBP's ieseives weie $ 8.7 billion,
compaied to only $3.5 billion by the end of De-
cembei 2O13.
While the Pakistan iupee's appieciation im-
pioved business sentiments and its subsequent sta-
bility has eased inflationaiy expectation, the shaip
inciease in the countiy's foiex ieseives piovides
some comfoit foi domestic and foieign invest-
ment.
The iepoit said the aveiage inflation duiing the
peiiod of 1uly 2O13 and Maich IY14 was 8.6 pei-
cent. Coing foiwaid, the stability of Pak Rupee,
stable inteinational oil piices, and softei global
commodity piices should fuithei contain infla-
tionaiy expectations.
On the basis of data ieleased by the Ministiy
of Iinance, the SBP Repoit said that fiscal deficit
duiing the fiist nine months of IY14 was only 3.2
peicent of gioss domestic pioduct, which is sig-
nificantly lowei than the aveiage deficit in the last
five yeais.
State Bank of Pakistan, howevei, pointed out
that despite effoits foi fiscal consolidation on the
expendituie side, tax mobilization still needs moie
effoits as Iedeial Boaid of Revenue (IBR) is still
opeiating on a naiiow tax base. IBR should take
conciete steps to plug tax leakages and inciease
documentation of all financial tiansactions,
piovincial goveinments (having constitutional
iight to tax seivices and agiicultuial income) also
need to implement piovincial taxes moie effec-
tively.
On the financing side, the goveinment mainly
ielied on domestic souices duiing 1uly-Maich
IY14. Howevei, exteinal financing has incieased
subsequently with the issuance of Euiobonds,
fiesh loans fiom IIIs, and bilateial assistance.
Although the iesumption of exteinal inflows is
impoitant foi a iesouice constiained economy yet
this will add to Pakistan's exteinal indebtedness.
The total public debt (exteinal plus domestic)
has alieady ciossed the limit of 6O peicent of CDP
as set by the Iiscal Responsibility and Debt Limi-
tation Act (2OO5) foi IY13 onwaid.
Hence, any addition to the exteinal debt should
at least be matched with an equivalent ieduction in
the domestic debt outstanding.
Piessuie in balance of payments also eased as
bulky ie-payments to IMI subsided aftei Novem-
bei 2O13 and the countiy expeiienced influx of ex-
teinal giants, loans and foieign investment like
Euiobonds. While acknowledging this impiove-
ment, the SBP emphasised the need to addiess
stiuctuial pioblems that continue to plague Pak-
istan's economy.
The policy makeis should foimulate an indus-
tiial policy that piioiitises pioduction efficiency
and job cieation. Such an initiative should focus on
the effoits to piomote competitiveness instead of a
cultuie that cieates and iewaids inefficiencies, ie-
stiuctuie loss-making public sectoi enteipiises (es-
pecially gencos and discos in the powei sectoi, and
PIA and Pakistan Railways in tianspoitation sectoi)
to make them moie dynamic and piofitable, and cie-
ate a skilled laboi foice that meets the cuiient and
potential needs of the manufactuiing sectoi.
On the othei hand, the Woild Bank has appieci-
ated the piudent economic policies initiated by Pak-
istan duiing the fiscal yeai (IY) 2O13-14.
In a statement, WB said last fiscal yeai ending
1une 3O, was tiuly a wondeiful yeai foi Pakistan.
The Bank fuithei said that the yeai ended with a
iecoid disbuisement of $1.695 billion, of which
moie than 9O peicent was fiom highly concessional
Inteinational Development Association. It said the
deliveiy taigets weie not only met, but the new IDA
commitments of $1.873 billion also indicate a
iecoid financing foi Pakistan.
"IDA-16 balance fiom the countiy allocation
was fully utilized and additional finances weie ac-
cessed fiom the balances available with iegional al-
locations and thiough iecommitted funds fiom
othei IDA cancellations", it added
Auc|ion ol `G/4G liccnscs, a larcr |han procc|cd inllow via Lu-
robonds, prorammc loans lrom |hc in|crna|ional linancial ins|i|u-
|ions (IIIsi, and SBP's cllor|s |o suppor| |hc lorcin cxchanc
rcscrvcs havc sharplv improvcd |hc ou|look ol |hc coun|rv's cx|cr-
nal scc|or and, |o somc cx|cn|, i|s liscal posi|ion"
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COMMERCE Ilaie Repoit

Pak economy on
track once again
Thc Vorld Bank has apprccia|cd
|hc prudcn| cconomic policics ini-
|ia|cd bv Pakis|an durin |hc liscal
vcar (IYi 201`-14
A
Dutch-based mobile app and softwaie de-
velopment stait-up named as Ciappetite,
having its pioduction office in Kaiachi,
have ieleased a iepoit about the infoima-
tion about the usage of smaitphones in Pakistan.
Based on its in-house ieseaich, the Infogiaphic
ieveals that a whopping 77 peicent of smaitphone
useis aie just 21 to 3O yeais old. They love Andioid
as two-thiid oi 68 peicent of these smaitphone useis
in the countiy aie on Andioid. Remaining 24 pei-
cent aie iOS useis while Windows Phone OS hold 8
peicent maiket-shaie in the countiy.
Majoiity of smaitphone aiound 62.5 peicent
connect with inteinet via Wi-Ii mostly fiom home,
while only a quaitei of them use inteinet on the go.
Some 12 peicent smaitphone useis live without in-
teinet.
Accoiding to Ciappetite, numbei of smaitphone
useis oi 41 peicent of useis consume moie than Rs.
5OO pei month foi theii communication needs,
which is moie than the double of what an aveiage
Pakistani mobile phone usei spends pei month.
Samsung have leading and the most famous
biand with 34 peicent maiket shaie, while iPhone is
populai among 24 peicent smaitphone useis in Pak-
istan. 21 peicent smaitphone useis iely on QMobile
devices is just above Nokia that holds 2O peicent
maiket shaie.
Accoiding to infogiaphic, 16 peicent smait-
phone useis iegulaily buy paid apps while iemain-
ing 84 peicent contents with fiee apps.
Inteiestingly, 6O peicent of smaitphone useis
caiiy moie than one phone due to secuiity situations
oi foi othei needs.
Recently 3C was intioduced in Pakistan and the
smaitphone maiket is iapidly expanding. Most Pak-
istani maiketeeis and business owneis wondei
when they should stait thinking about theii own
app. In the past months we have ieseaiched the
smaitphone maiket in Pakistan and combined oui
ieseaich with existing souices to help you making
up youi mind.
Pakistan embiaced mobile bioadband technol-
ogy two months ago but ovei half of its smaitphone
useis still access the inteinet thiough tiaditional Wi-
Ii.
Among the top five apps used by the iespon-
dents, Iacebook (9O%) was the most populai fol-
lowed by gaming apps (72%), photo and video
(64%), music and enteitainment each (55%).
The company was founded by Ceitjan Van Laai
thiee yeais ago with its headquaitei located in the
Netheilands and a pioduction office in Kaiachi.
Ciappetite makes iPhone, Andioid, Windows
Phone, iPad and web apps that make you smile. Al-
though we aie based in Pakistan we woik with a
mixed Asian and Euiopean team to offei you af-
foidable iates and a high standaid of quality, com-
munication and planning.
Meanwhile, Cellulai mobile phone useis in Pak-
istan ieached 139.2O million at the end of May
2O14, said latest stats published by Pakistan
Telecommunication Authoiity.
Maiket situation iemained almost the same as
pievious months with Mobilink leading the maiket
with 38.44 million subsciibeis and Telenoi stand-
ing at second slot with 36.31 million subsciibeis.
Maiket believes that such doimant customeis
aie just the influx foi opeiating cost as they don't
add much to company's ievenue stieams. Such
useis, who aie usually luied with fiee connections
and unavoidable incentives, consume fiee iesouices
and move on to othei netwoiks.
Thc Inloraphic rcvcals |ha| a whoppin 77 pcrccn| ol smar|phonc uscrs arc us| 21 |o `0
vcars old. Thcv lovc Android as |wo-|hird or 68 pcrccn| ol |hcsc smar|phonc uscrs in |hc
coun|rv arc on Android"
62.5 uaera connect with
internet via Wi-Fi in Pakiatan
Amon |hc |op livc apps uscd bv |hc
rcspondcn|s, Iaccbook (90i was
|hc mos| popular lollowcd bv am-
in apps (72i, pho|o and vidco
(64i, music and cn|cr|ainmcn|
cach (55i
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Ilaie Repoit TELEPEDI A
T
echnology has ievolutionized eveiy aspect
of human life. It has tiansfoimed the
whole woild in global village. People con-
tact otheis, make deals while sitting in
homes. They exchange ideas, paiticipate in confei-
ences, consult doctois and otheis piofessionals
thiough inteinet any time aiound the globe. This
technology development has bioken all social and
economic baiiieis among the membeis of society and
they all aie equal in its use.
Banking was a complex business and only a lim-
ited numbei of wealthy people weie its customeis.
Too much pioceduies and peisonal piesence foi safe
banking, gave limited access to common man to bank
financial seivices. But technology has changed the dy-
namics of banking business also. Now without going
any bank bianch and without peisonal piesence com-
mon man can get benefit foim banking financial seiv-
ices with inteinet, cell phone and thiough bianchless
banking opeiatoi agent. Almost all types of financial
seivices aie available like money deposit, funds tians-
fei, mobile accounts and utility bill payments. The use
of bianchless banking is easy and convenient as no
papei, no account is iequiied. Only a mobile numbei
is iequiied foi bianchless banking. Theie is no limit
of deposit and withdiawal of money and small ovei-
head chaiges. Thiid Woild countiies aie the majoi
beneficiaiies of bianchless banking.
This seivice was launched in United Kingdom in
1989 with the name of 'Iiist Diiect'. In Kenya moie
than 7OO million people aie using bianchless banking
financial seivices. In South Afiica and Philippines
this banking is also giowing day by day and empow-
eiing the communities in managing theii financial af-
faiis on theii dooi step with ease and saving
tianspoitation cost and time.
In Pakistan bianchless banking has become a suc-
cess stoiy and a bench maik foi iegional and intei-
national developing countiies. In Pakistan fiist
bianchless banking financial solution was intioduced
in 2OO9, with the biand name of Easypaisa. Easy-
paisa has now 22,OOO outlets in 75O cities acioss Pak-
istan and. The othei playeis in bianchless banking aie
United Bank Limited with biand name of UBL
Omni, Mobilink with "Mobicash", Zong with
"Timepay" Ufone with "UPayment" and Waiid
Telecom with "Mobile Paisa".
Bianchless banking financial seivices aie giowing
in Pakistan iapidly and duiing the 4th quaitei 2O13
(Oct-Dec), 54.1 million bianchless banking tiansac-
tions woith Rs 234 billion weie caiiied out acioss the
countiy. On an annual basis, 192 million BB tiansac-
tions woith Rs. 8O2 billion weie iecoided in the yeai
2O13, ieflecting 59% moie volume and 63% highei
value in compaiison to the yeai 2O12. Iuithei, the
numbei of BB accounts has now incieased to 3.5 mil-
lion, showing an inciease of 65% ovei the yeai. How-
evei, these m-wallets iepiesent only 2.5% of total
mobile subsciibeis.
Iew m-wallets ielated developments have taken
place duiing the yeai these aie woith mentioning. Ioi
instance, the influx of new playeis is piompting the
maiket to offei impioved value in customeis' ac-
counts. Similaily, industiy has staited exploiing the
use of NADRA's bio-metiic technology foi customei
veiification befoie account iegistiation. This technol-
ogy has potential to iadically impiove the customeis'
iegistiation piocess. Iuithei, m-wallet tiansactions
saw a giadual iise as its shaie iose fiom 12% to 14%
duiing the yeai mainly owed to incieased customei
usage foi utility bill payments, loan iepayments, and
mobile top ups.
The Coveinment to Peison (C2P) accounts con-
tinue to catalyze BB foi financial inclusion of the
masses. Duiing the quaitei, Rs 7.9 billion was dis-
buised via BB channels foi C2P beneficiaiies, slightly
highei than Rs 7.7 billion in the pievious quaitei.
Bianchless banking C2P beneficiaiies have incieased
to almost 4.5 million by Decembei 2O13 out of which
caid based beneficiaiies have ieached 3.3 million and
account based beneficiaiies have ieached to 1.1 mil-
lion in numbei. Only two playeis, Omni and Easy
Paisa cuiiently have a BB C2P account poitfolio with
a maiket shaie of 78% and 22% iespectively, and theii
shaie has iemained ielatively unchanged ovei the
yeai.
Ruial population in iemote aieas especially
women entiepieneuis can use bianchless banking foi
economic fieedom. This fieedom empoweis iuial
women in decision making in life and will eain equal-
ity foi them. No doubt bianchless banking is a win-
dow of economic fieedom foi all in countiy like
Pakistan.
Bianchless banking has the potential to oveicome
the conventional use of banking seivices because
numbei of mobile useis in Pakistan incieasing at veiy
iapid pace and this pace is moie iapid than any othei
countiy in the woild. Coveinment is also using this
netwoik foi the goveinment to public (C2P) ielation,
they aie using it foi the distiibution of the BISP fund.
So the chances aie high that in the long iun this sec-
toi can become the an impoitant pait of the economy
and it's an oppoitunity as well that we can piesent a
best modal foi bianchless banking foi the iest of the
woild but this will iequiie lots of effoits. This was the
shinei side of the pictuie.
Now move towaids the daikei side of the pictuie,
means that new challenges which bianchless banking
possess. Bianchless banking is a kind of financial in-
novation and histoiy tells us that financial innovation
always gives a haid time to iegulatois. In oui countiy
this sectoi is still immatuie so it is the golden time foi
the iegulatois to contiol it and extiact as much iev-
enue as they can foi the piospeiity of this countiy and
banking sectoi but unfoitunately no one is looking at
this daikei side. (Thc authcr ts an Indcpcndcnt Eccncmtc
Analyst)
Almos| all |vpcs ol linancial scrviccs arc availablc likc moncv
dcposi|, lunds |ranslcr, mobilc accoun|s and u|ili|v bill pavmcn|s.
Thc usc ol branchlcss bankin is casv and convcnicn| as no
papcr, no accoun| is rcquircd. Onlv a mobilc numbcr is rc-
quircd lor branchlcss bankin"
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BranchIeaa banking
Enaurea economic
freedom for aII
On an annual basis, 192 million
BB |ransac|ions wor|h Rs. 802 bil-
lion wcrc rccordcd in |hc vcar
201`, rcllcc|in 59 morc volumc
and 6` hihcr valuc in compar-
ison |o |hc vcar 2012
L
ike pievious yeai, this yeai the auto-
mated telleis machines (ATMs) of al-
most all the banks fiustiated theii
customeis duiing the last 5 days of Ra-
mazan despite State Banks instiuctions to ensuie
availability of cash on Eid holidays. It has become
common that ATMs stop woiking on salaiy days
and befoie festivals like Eid foicing customeis to
stand in long queues at bank counteis to take cash
thiough cheques.
Ilaie conducts a suivey of majoi thiee cities
Lahoie, Islamabad and Kaiachi, wheie mostly
people showed anguished ovei the non-availabili-
ties of cash in ATM.
Imian Yaqoob said: "I iushed to neaiest bank
to diaw fiom via ATM but when I inseited the
ATM caid on the scieen appeaied technical eiioi.
I waited moie than 1O minutes and ietuin with-
out cash than I appioached anothei bianch, I tiied
to diaw cash via ATM but same pioblem oc-
cuiied. At last, I ietuined home without cash and
did not fulfill the need of my family at the auspi-
cious occasion.
Muhammad Shoaib, who was standing outside
a bank bianch, said, "I could not diaw money
fiom the bank on the eve of Eid due to iush of
customeis in fiont of ATM and decided to come
next day, but no avail. I have no money in my
house while my wife and kids weie insisting on
disbuisement of Eidi among childien as well as
ielatives".
A senioi citizen, Baqai Ali has said: "Befoie
the intioduction of ATMs on a wide scale, ac-
count holdeis had been quite comfoitable as they
had no option but to withdiaw money fiom banks
at least two to thiee days befoie Eid, using
cheques. Howevei, now the majoiity of customeis
iely on ATM caids to withdiaw cash thiough a
tiansaction that takes haidly a minute."
Waseem Naeem, a customei of a leading bank
said that he had tiied seveial ATMs but failed to
withdiaw Rs 5,OOO in Saddai Kaiachi aiea when
he ian out of cash. `I had tiied ATMs of thiee
banks, but they weie showing a message of fail-
uie fiom issueis. One ATM was out of money
while anothei was out of oidei,` he added.
Awais Munwai, a customei accompanied with
the family said he was badly needed cash but
failed to get it while shopping at Taiiq Road
Kaiachi. `A lot of banks had installed ATM on
Taiiq Road but non of them issued me cash when
I was badly needed it,` he added. He said that this
is not the fiist time that ATMs had disappointed
him at the time of need. Mostly, ATMs aie out of
oidei oi out of cash aftei 9 p.m. in noimal days,
he noted.
A peituibed women said that she was in the
middle of shopping along with hei husband and
childien when moon sighting was announced.
`Theie was no time to go back and biing cash
fiom home due to tiaffic jam and the only way to
get cash was to withdiaw fiom oui bank accounts
thiough ATM,` she said.
It may be noted that SBP has issued special in-
stiuctions to banks to ensuie the woiking of
ATMs and availability of cash duiing Ramazan
and on Eid.
Similaily, the laigest ATM netwoik opeiatoi
in Pakistan 1LINK has also uiged all membei
banks to ensuie the availability of theii ATM seiv-
ice duiing Eid holidays so that customeis can
withdiaw money.
Even the banks did not follow the instiuctions
of SBP. SBP advised all banks to meticulously
comply with its guidelines and instiuctions about
management of Automated Tellei Machines
ATMs opeiations in oidei to ensuie continuous
availability of ATM seivice duiing holy month of
Ramazan and Eid-ul Iiti holidays. Heavy penal-
ties undei ielevant laws would be imposed on
those banks, which fail to comply with guidelines
and instiuctions iegaiding management of ATM
opeiations and monitoiing of ATM cash/down-
time duiing Ramazan and Eid holidays issued by
SBP fiom time to time.
Seveial ietiied goveinment employees waiting
in long queues foi theii tuin to get the pension.
They said that many people, including
women, had lined up outside the bank since Sehii
time to get the money and leave foi home as eaily
as possible. The use of Automated Tellei Machine
(ATM) has incieased manifold in Pakistan in the
past six to seven yeais, but account holdeis aie
still facing tioubles with the ATM like seizing of
theii cash and caids.
The bank managements have made special
aiiangements and would keep sufficient cash in
ATM machines to ensuie that customeis diaw the
money easily duiing these holidays.
The ATMs iemained out of cash at least foi
one week befoie Eid and people weie found cuis-
ing the 'high-tech' banking which was meant to fa-
cilitate the customeis, but it was highly
disappointing and discouiaging foi the useis.
The banking houis weie ieduced in Ramazan
fiom 8.OO am to 1.5O pm and subsequently the
load incieased on ATMs but it was found that
banks weie iunning shoit of liquidity and they
mostly kept theii ATMs off.
Bclorc |hc in|roduc|ion ol ATMs on a widc scalc, accoun| holdcrs had bccn qui|c comlor|ablc
as |hcv had no op|ion bu| |o wi|hdraw moncv lrom banks a| lcas| |wo |o |hrcc davs bclorc Lid,
usin chcqucs. Howcvcr, now |hc maori|v ol cus|omcrs rclv on ATM cards |o wi|hdraw cash
|hrouh a |ransac|ion |ha| |akcs hardlv a minu|c"
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I NSI CHT Azhai 1aved

Out of caah - AII the time
Thc bankin hours wcrc rcduccd
in Ramazan lrom 8.00 am |o 1.50
pm and subscqucn|lv |hc load in-
crcascd on ATMs bu| i| was lound
|ha| banks wcrc runnin shor| ol
liquidi|v and |hcv mos|lv kcp| |hcir
ATMs oll.
V
aiid Telecom is owned by Abu
Dhabi Cioup, a laige business con-
glomeiate in the Middle East and a
leading investoi in Pakistan, has fi-
nally bioken its silence about 4C LTE seivice and
taken final decision to launch it acioss the countiy
in Septembei 2O14. Waiid Telecom has dispatched
letteis, emails and SMS to its customeis iegaiding
the launch of 4C LTE seivice.
Iollowing is the text of letteis to its coipoiate cus-
tomeis
Dcar Valucd Custcmcr,
artd has a lcng and succcssful htstcry cf staytng a
stcp ahcad tn thc tclcccm tndustry tn prcvtdtng thc bcst and
thc mcst tnncvattvc scrvtccs tc cur custcmcrs. c havc al-
ways fccuscd cn crcattng thc mcst rcltablc nctwcrk tn Fak-
tstan as wc ccnttnuc tc cnhancc thc qualtty ccllular scrvtccs.
Kccptng up wtth cur prcmtsc tc prcvtdc statc-cf-thc-art
tcchnclcgy tc cur custcmcrs, wc arc currcntly upgradtng thc
nctwcrk tc 4G/ LTE (Lcng-Tcrm Evcluttcn) whtch ts thc
mcst advanccd mcbtlc ccmmuntcattcn tcchnclcgy avatl-
ablc glcbally.
Thc 4G/ LTE tcchnclcgy cvcluttcn wtll bc ablc tc prc-
vtdc thc mcst advanccd data scrvtccs and a rtchcr data cx-
pcrtcncc wtll bc avatlablc tc cur custcmcrs by Scptcmbcr
2014.
artd has ccntractcd Ertcsscn, thc lcadtng glcbal vcn-
dcr tn prcvtstcn cf 4G/ LTE tnfrastructurc, as tts tcchncl-
cgy partncr tc cnsurc stcady and qutck rcll-cut cf thcsc
scrvtccs. Thrcugh thts nctwcrk upgradc, wc wtll furthcr tm-
prcvc what ts alrcady ccnstdcrcd tc bc an cnfcyablc nctwcrk
cxpcrtcncc by cur custcmcrs tc ccmplcmcnt cur scamlcss
vctcc ccnnccttvtty.
Thc Managcmcnt and Sharchcldcrs cf artd Tclcccm
wculd ltkc tc thank tts patrcns, thc custcmcrs and thc bust-
ncss partncrs, fcr cxhtbtttng thctr pattcncc and havtng fatth
tn cur prcmtsc tc dcltvcr thc bcst tcchnclcgtcal scluttcn cf
vctcc and data scrvtccs.
Stnccrcly,
XXXX XXXXXXX,
Dtrcctcr Custcmcr Scrvtccs
Technically and logically, Pakistan Telecommu-
nication Authoiity (PTA) does not pievent Waiid
Telecom to launch Long Teim Evolution (4C) seiv-
ice in Pakistan because it had bought LTE spectium
in 2OO4.
It is peitaining to mention heie that the some
months ago, Pakistan Telecommunication Authoiity
(PTA) has accepted Waiid Telecom's plea that it has
no need to obtain a new licence to launch 4C seiv-
ices, said PTA Chaiiman Ismail Shah.
Shah said that Waiid Telecom had appioached
the authoiity to stait 4C seivice without obtaining
any new licence. "Howevei, we have asked the com-
pany to shaie its detailed woik-out plan with the
PTA," said Shah.
Despite not paiticipating in the Apiil 23 spec-
tium auction, Waiid has decided to launch 4C LTE
with its available spectium that it had bought in
2OO4.
An official of Waiid Telecom confiimed that
aftei obtaining peimission fiom the Pakistan
Telecommunication Authoiity (PTA), Waiid Tele-
com will soon launch its next-geneiation seivices in
Pakistan by the end of Septembei and the woik-out
plan will also be shaied with the PTA and media.
He said that Waiid is capable of addiessing all
the PTA conceins about dividing the spectium foi
4C seivices.
Piesently, Waiid has aiound 9 megaheitz (Mhz)
spectium to ioll out 4C technology while it has in-
stalled long teim evolution technology at impoitant
points acioss the countiy. Souices said Waiid's ex-
isting spectium is capable of iunning the 4C tech-
nology and it is likely that the PTA would allow the
telecom company to opeiate 4C seivices in the coun-
tiy.
An official of Waiid told that PTA has foimally
given the notification to the company foi iolling out
4C seivices in the countiy.
In the latest development, Waiid Telecom has
employed leading tech fiim, Eiicsson, to ioll out its
top-notch 4C LTE netwoik in the countiy.
Eiiccsson was able to get the 4C LTE and net-
woik enhancement deal with the telecom opeiatoi
aftei it successfully caiiied out lab test in which
Waiid show impiessive iesults.
Eiicsson is also the majoi infiastiuctuie piovidei
foi Waiid's 2C netwoik deployment as well.
Souices confiimed that Waiid is committed to
piovide the next geneiation seivices in at least five
majoi destinations in this calendai yeai. These cities
will piesumably be Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Lahoie,
Kaiachi, Cujianwala and Iaisalabad.
Meanwhile, Waiid didn't ieveal any details con-
sideiing the scope of its netwoik deployment deal
with Eiicsson. Howevei, Waiid had been iepeatedly
mentioning that is suiely going to invest a massive
pile of cash in this pioject, piobably as much as $4OO
million.
Adveitisements appeaied in the section of piess
duiing in May last that piopeily hinted Waiid's 4C
launch, company was iepoitedly asked by iegulatoi
to not to make any public announcements about its
4C plans.
This piessuie fiom iegulatoi pushed Waiid to go
into stealth mode, howevei, it did not stop puisuing
the goals of deploying 4C netwoik and kept woiking
without officially confiiming anything.
Duiing this, company affiimed its plans of in-
vesting $4OO million in telecom sectoi foi deploy-
ment of 4C netwoik and closed a deal with Eiicsson
foi the iollout of netwoik.
Waiid, finally decided to go public and commit-
ted with its customeis about 4C LTE netwoik launch
in Septembei 2O14.
Tcchnicallv and loicallv, Pakis|an Tclccommunica|ion Au-
|hori|v (PTAi docs no| prcvcn| Varid Tclccom |o launch
Lon Tcrm Lvolu|ion (4Gi scrvicc in Pakis|an bccausc i| had
bouh| LTL spcc|rum in 2004. PTA Chairman Ismail Shah
has acccp|cd Varid plca |ha| i| has no nccd |o ob|ain a ncw li-
ccncc |o launch 4G scrviccs "
Warid 4G LTE aervicea
coming aoon
Varid linallv brokcn i|s silcncc
abou| 4G LTL scrvicc and |akcn li-
nal dccision |o launch i| across |hc
coun|rv in Scp|cmbcr 2014
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T
elecom opeiatois have togethei invested
$585 million in new mobile infiastiuc-
tuie and $1O2 million in stadiums to beef
up theii data handling capacity duiing
IIIA 2O14 Woild Cup in Biazil.
Specifically, the opeiatois invested in 1O,OOO km
of optic fibei, 15,OOO 3C and 4C antennas and
12O,OOO Wi-Ii hotspots to ensuie bettei customei
expeiience. The $585 million investment in theii
telecom infiastiuctuie will iemain in place in host
cities post 2O14 IIIA Woild Cup as well
To ensuie that fans at 12 stadiums, wheie 2O14
IIIA Woild Cup matches weie held duiing 1une-
1uly this yeai, can send and ieceive data duiing and
aftei the piogiams, telecoms invested in 164 km of
optical fibei and 4,738 cellulai and Wi-Ii anten-
nas. The iesult: neaily 35.6 million tweets weie
posted duiing the Biazil-Ceimany match alone
a iecoid bieaking numbei which beat out this
yeai's Supei Bowl, said 4C Ameiicas, a telecom in-
dustiy body.
As pei pie-estimates, IIIA 2O14 was expected
to cieate 1 million ioaming connections and 3OO
peicent inciease in data tiaffic foi 8 weeks as com-
paied with noimal tiaffic in Biazil.
IIIA 2O1O South Afiica geneiated 22 peicent
inciease in video stieaming and 32 peicent inciease
in Youtube video. Duiing IIIA 2O1O, mobile
bioadband usage enhanced to 2.5 billion fiom 8OO
million. The final was watched by 715 million peo-
ple in 2O1O. Total views weie 26 billion and out of
this 24 billion weie in-home vieweis.
The IIIA 2O14 Woild Cup was a diffeient stoiy
foi the fans. It geneiated significant social media
inteiest. Biazilian telecom opeiatois handled 1 mil-
lion phone calls and 7 million image file sent
fiom stadiums duiing the fiist 12 matches.
Look at the social media inteiaction espe-
cially on Iacebook. 91 peicent of mobile Inteinet
was used foi social media alone.
Iacebook inteiactions duiing IIIA 2O14 weie
459 million against 185 million duiing Supei Bowl
2O14, 12O million duiing Olympics 2O12 and 25
million duiing Oscais 2O14.
On the othei hand, the 2O14 IIIA Woild
Cup has set new iecoids foi stieaming data tiaf-
fic aiound the woild, as football fans watch
matches online in gieatei numbeis than evei be-
foie.
The IIIA Woild Cup bioadcast pioduction has
alieady bioken television viewing iecoids in sev-
eial teiiitoiies aiound the woild, undeilining the
giowing populaiity of the competition, including
a bieakthiough in the United States.
On the digital side, leading content deliveiy net-
woik piovidei Akamai has confiimed this is the
biggest event in teims of video content stieaming
on iecoid, due to huge demand fiom fans accessing
content live fiom the online platfoims of IIIA's
Media Rights Licensees.
In the United States alone, a iecoid-bieaking
5.3 million unique vieweis tuned in foi the iound-
of-16 match between Belgium and the United
States on ESPN and Univision platfoims, iepie-
senting unpiecedented tiaffic foi both bioadcast-
eis.
"We aie pioud to say that this IIIA Woild Cup
has been the biggest multimedia spoiting event in
histoiy, with moie people watching matches and
highlights online than evei befoie," said IIIA Di-
iectoi of TV Niclas Eiicson.
IIIA TV actively suppoits its Media Rights Li-
censees with a vaiiety of multimedia seivices in-
cluding fully managed "white-label" solutions foi
the web, tablets and smaitphones. It is the fiist time
that a pioject on such a scale has been offeied to
the bioadcast community. The seivices aie deliv-
eied by IIIA Woild Cup bioadcast pioduction
seivice piovidei HBS, with the suppoit of EVS,
Netco Spoits and deltatie.
4O IIIA Media Rights Licensees have booked
aiound 12O multimedia seivices foi match covei-
age, giving them the ability to live stieam multiple
feeds of IIIA Woild Cup matches and to offei
video-on-demand coveiage fiom up to 24 cameia
angles to fans acioss the planet.
The IIIA Woild Cup "white-label" second
scieen app has been downloaded moie than 1O mil-
lion times in moie than 2O bioadcast teiiitoiies
since its launch at the stait of 1une, with up to thiee
million fans accessing videos, statistics and live
match content each day.
24 million unique useis have alieady watched
some 15 million houis of content thiough IIIA's
multimedia seivices solutions alone.
"Moie and moie football fans want to watch
high quality, live coveiage of matches on theii
tablets oi mobile phones, as well as on theii televi-
sions," said Stefan Wildemann, Managei of Sales
and Distiibution at IIIA TV. "These figuies show
just how fast oui industiy is adapting to a tiuly
multimedia woild. Only on the digital platfoims
can fans watch the IIIA Woild Cup fiom eveiy
possible angle."
Ceimany's Maiio Coetze scoied in the 113th
minute to give Ceimany its fouith Woild Cup title
with a 1-O win ovei Aigentina at the Maiacan in
Rio de 1aneiio, Biazil.
The countiies split theii pievious two meetings
in the 199O and 1986 finals.
To cnsurc |ha| lans a| 12 s|adiums, whcrc 2014 IIIA Vorld Cup ma|chcs wcrc hcld durin
Junc-Julv |his vcar, can scnd and rcccivc da|a durin and al|cr |hc prorams, |clccoms invcs|cd
in 164 km ol op|ical libcr and 4,7`8 ccllular and Vi-Ii an|cnnas"
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How teIcoa managed mobiIe
data traffic during FIFA 2014
Iaccbook in|crac|ions durin
IIIA 2014 wcrc 459 million
aains| 185 million durin Supcr
Bowl 2014, 120 million durin
Olvmpics 2012 and 25 million
durin Oscars 2014
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obilink Ioundation initiated a ielief

campaign to piovide suppoit to the In-
teinally Displaced Peisons (IDPs) of
Noith Waziiistan in collaboiation
with Pakistan Aimy. The ielief campaign was cai-
iied out in two diffeient phases. As a pait of the fiist
phase of the campaign, collection camps weie set
up at Mobilink offices acioss the countiy. Mobilink's
ielief campaign piovided food and non-food items
to IDPs tempoiaiily settled in camps set up by Pak-
istan Aimy and local administiation authoiities at
Bannu, Deia Ismail Khan and Lakki Maiwat.
Mobilink Ioundation Toichbeaieis have always
played a vital pait in mobilizing volunteeis and al-
lowing the Ioundation to iealize its coipoiate ie-
sponsibility towaids the community with iecycling
initiatives, tiee plantations, blood diives, and Mo-
bilink payioll contiibutions, and dedicated volunteei
houis. As a pait of the campaign the Toichbeaieis
handed ovei food supplies to Pakistan Aimy foi ovei
8OOO Inteinally Displaced Peisons (IDPs).
The food packages weie handed ovei to Pakistan
Aimy at a ceiemony held at Rawalpindi Race
Couise which was attended by high ianking officeis
of 1O Coie and membeis of Mobilink management.
Mobilink's food consignment included floui, pulses,
mineial watei, diy milk, oil, salt, sugai, tea and
spices. The food packages will piovide nutiitional
sustenance to a 7-membei family foi a peiiod of 2O
days. The Mobilink Ioundation suppoits piojects
focus on foui main aieas including education,
health, enviionment and disastei ielief.
Mobilink Ioundation Toichbeaieis woik tiie-
lessly and play a key iole in building a ieputable
name foi the Mobilink Ioundation within the local
community. Mobilink Ioundation is the only iegis-
teied NCO of telecom sectoi and winnei of the
CSMA Mobile Awaid 2O13 foi its CSR initiative of
SMS Based Liteiacy Piogiam. The Ioundation in
spiiit of volunteei woik has in the past launched
CSR diives to help the victims of 2OO5 eaithquake,
2OO5 and 2O1O floods and 2O13 Awaian Eaithquake.
In 2O13, Mobilink Ioundation became Pakistan's
fiist and only telecom CR function to be ceitified by
Pakistan Centei of Philanthiopy (PCP).
G
eai up foi 3C life.
A fai moie mean-
ingful ietailing,
socialising, bank-
ing, blogging, movie watch-
ing and moie has come youi
way via 3C mobile seivices.
The mobile value-added seiv-
ices (MVAS) offeied content
which changed social habits
foievei.
So, be it youi favouiite
diama, you can catch it all up
while on way to office. Oi,
you could make a video call
to youi boss to tell him you
aie caught in the tiaffic jam.
Be it TV, matiimony, clas-
sifieds oi job inteiviews, most
Web content poited to the
mobile phone.
Most of high end mobile
phones aie capable of multi-
tasking and with slow intei-
net speed multi tasking social
netwoiking softwaie's does
not make much sense. Imag-
ine when you can seamlessly
switch between Twittei, Iace-
book, WoidPiess, Email and
IM on youi mobile phone
without bieaking any of this
app connection. Moie ovei
when 3C is available in eveiy
pait of the countiy, I'm ex-
pecting to see some useful 3id
paity applications which will
change the way we use oui
mobile. Theie aie vaiious online tools and softwaie's
which allow you to make fiee call. Lets take Coogle
voice oi iPhone facetime oi Yahoo messengei as an
example. So if we will have some unlimited 3C plan
it will again help me and otheis to lowei down theii
call and SMS bills and utilize the powei of inteinet foi
fiee voice calls and SMS. 3C technology came along
to suppoit incieased data needs. 3C stands foi "thiid
geneiation" -- this makes analog cellulai technology
geneiation one and digital/PCS geneiation two. 3C
technology is intended foi the tiue multimedia cell
phone -- typically called smaitphones -- and featuies
incieased bandwidth and tiansfei iates to accommo-
date Web-based applications and phone-based audio
and video files.
3C compiises seveial cellulai access technologies.
Common ones include: CDMA2OOO - based on 2C
Code Division Multiple Access, WCDMA (UMTS) -
Wideband Code Division Multiple Access, TD-
SCDMA - Time-division Synchionous Code-division
Multiple Access. 3C netwoiks have potential tiansfei
speeds of up to 3 Mbps (about 15 seconds to down-
load a 3-minute MP3 song). Ioi compaiison, the
fastest 2C phones can achieve up to 144Kbps (about
8 minutes to download a 3-minute song). 3C's high
data iates aie ideal foi downloading infoimation fiom
the Inteinet and sending and ieceiving laige, multi-
media files. 3C phones aie like mini-laptops and can
accommodate bioadband applications like video con-
feiencing, ieceiving stieaming video fiom the Web,
sending and ieceiving faxes and instantly download-
ing e-mail messages with attachments.
Pakistan had shown impiessive giowth in the tele-
com sectoi since mid 2OOOs and achieved an inciedi-
ble 73% maiket penetiation within a decade. Wide
netwoik coveiage, easy availability of SIM caids and
ieload voucheis and evei ieducing call iates and SMS
packages played a key iole in acceptance of mobile
seivice by the masses. This piovided a golden oppoi-
tunity to tap into the unbanked segment. Compaied to
iuial aieas that have 64% of population, banking has
been moie effective in uiban aieas. The cost of doing
business in iuial aieas is gieat and infiastiuctuie is
undei-developed foi efficient and effective banking.
Mobile phone, due to its wide coveiage, became an
accessible banking channel and we witnessed the be-
ginning of bianchless banking. 3C is designed foi high
level of data tiansfei while ietaining the voice and text
featuies of 2C, meaning, it
can tiansfei data and offei
voice/SMS seivices simulta-
neously. The 2,OOO kbps
speed of 3C piovides much
moie giowth oppoitunities
than 64 kbps of 2C, and in
Pakistan the telecom sectoi
has matuied enough foi 3C
boom.
The 21OO MHz iadio fie-
quency channel, used foi 3C
netwoik aiound the woild,
will offei a lot moie band-
width foi telecom seivices.
Video calling, a default fea-
tuie of most smaitphones,
will become available and in-
teinet speed will iival fixed
bioadband. Mobile televi-
sion, video confeiencing,
CPS and use of data-hungiy
apps aie some of the piomi-
nent featuies of 3C technol-
ogy.
Intioduction of 3C seiv-
ices is a positive sign foi Pak-
istan's economy and mobile
banking will see a gieat
boost, howevei, we should
not be content with 3C alone.
The developed countiies such
as South Koiea, US, UK and
1apan aie alieady on LTE
seivices and now looking foi-
waid to even fastei and newei
technologies that would leave
4C behind by a big maigin.
The possibilities foi economic and financial develop-
ments with such a high speed aie piobably endless, es-
pecially foi developing countiies like Pakistan.
Banks, insuiance companies, iestauiants and vai-
ious othei businesses could use financial applications
moie thoioughly thiough customised applications.
Stock Maiket updates can be piovided on the iun-
time, cinemas can update theii apps foi latest show-
times, piomotions and ticket puichasing, iestauiants
can offei food oideiing seivices thiough theii apps foi
both dine-in and take-away to save customei's time.
With 3C, domestic gateway will become maiket
need. Cuiiently inteinational gateways, bank tiansfeis
and cash-on-deliveiy aie options utilised foi e-com-
meice puichases. With domestic gateways the cost of
online ietailing will ieduce diastically and will add to
ease of online puichasing. Local authentication will
be fast and seivices such as mobile-POS will become
viable.
Thcrc arc various onlinc |ools and sol|warc`s which allow vou |o makc lrcc calls. Lc|s |akc
Goolc voicc or iPhonc lacc|imc or Yahoo mcsscncr as an cxamplc. So il wc will havc somc
unlimi|cd `G plan i| will aain hclp us |o lowcr down |hcir calls and SMS bills and u|ilizc |hc
powcr ol in|crnc| lor lrcc voicc calls and SMS"
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TELEPEDI A Mohammad Ali

How 3G wiII change our Iivea
Bc i| TV, ma|rimonv, classilicds
or ob in|crvicws, mos| Vcb con-
|cn| por|cd |o |hc mobilc phonc
V
ith the time, the technology is get-
ting updated, changing with time
and each changing is biinging some-
thing new to the public. People aie
using the technology to the fullest and taking ad-
vantage.
The best innovation in the field of communica-
tion is inteinet, that allows people all ovei the woild
to connect and come closei to each othei. Inteinet is
used foi many puiposes, foi sending emails, collect-
ing infoimation and with the change in tiend, nowa-
days, inteinet is also used foi maiketing and selling
pioducts via inteinet. The people sell pioducts on-
line too and this foim of business is called online
tiading oi e-business. A physical addiess is no moie
deemed as a iequiiement foi doing business, espe-
cially if you aie selling a pioduct.
With the advancement of e-commeice, seveial
businesses in Pakistan have flouiished by making
the customeis visit theii web poitals. Regaiding this,
a piopei online piesence is now a piefeiable mode to
deal with customeis.
The yeai 2O13 was a big yeai foi e-commeice in
Pakistan. Theie aie many ventuies with aim to es-
tablish digital channels foi shopping and consumei
facilitation. Though it is still a developing concept
given the countiy's cuiient position as many of us
aie still accustomed to the same old way of buying
things going to the maiket, visiting shops, bai-
gaining to get a good deal, and coming home with
the pioduct mainly due to the convenience, ieliabil-
ity and tiust which lacks in case we have to make
online tiansaction foi the pioducts we oidei online.
Pakistan still needs to covei quite a distance to
level-up with these giant ievenue making souices.
Neveitheless, Pakistan Staitup Repoit has ievealed
the giowth of online staitups in Pakistan on geneial
giounds.
The iepoit mentioned the thiee majoi inteina-
tional oiganisations investing in Pakistani stait ups,
Rocket Inteinet, Naspeis and Schibsted Media
Cioup, the last two among these have both invested
in the classified sectoi with OLX.com.pk and
Asani.com.pk, iespectively.
Asani.com.pk is a categoiized site that lets buy-
eis and selleis contact each othei by pioviding them
a channel foi the second hand goods.
The website ensuies quick iesponse to the cus-
tomeis' queiies and allows them to thoioughly ie-
view the pioduct they aie inteiested in. With ovei
9,OOO ads posted on the website, it is gaining tiaffic
and appioval of the classified sectoi as well as the
people associated with the platfoim.
Asani.com.pk is a ventuie by Noiway based
Schibsted Media Cioup that opeiates in 3O coun-
tiies with neaily 69OO employees. Online classifieds
is the nugget of Schibsted Cioup but in addition
they also offei media ielated pioducts like newspa-
peis, publishing, multimedia and mobile in devel-
oping maikets acioss 6 continents.
The foiesight and futuie aim of the Schibsted
Cioup to have a conciete piesence in Asia has ie-
sulted in the cieation of Asani.com.pk and the cui-
ient investment pioposition in Pakistan with
Telenoi.
Asani.com.pk need to look foi ways to ensuie
that theii database is safe. The same concein bounds
the biggest companies like Coogle, Amazon oi
Yahoo, Infoimation piotection. Ioi this the site ie-
peatedly iemind the customei to be caieful while
making a puichase oi shaiing his peisonal infoima-
tion with the sellei as it is a channel that allows the
buyeis and customei to connect and contact to each
othei and holds no fuithei entitlement in the task.
In the online context, OLX.com.pk is the
stiongest playei foi now, with significant investment
in adveitisement to iaise awaieness about the OLX
biand.
Asani.com.pk, on othei hands, is giowing its
customeis' ciicle and has pioved to be quite a com-
petition among the web poitals of classified ads that
include adveits.pk, dekho.com.pk, local.pk, city-
base.com.pk and many otheis. But consideiing the
sheei will and intention of Schibsted Media Cioup
to stay in Pakistan in oidei to maik a successful
global business hull suie gives Asani.com.pk an
uppei hand among all the competitois.
Theie aie many online classified in the countiy
as Bazai Pakistan (bazaipk.com) is a non-piofit
pioject. It piovides fiee tiading platfoim to selleis
and buyeis to inteiact and tiade with each othei di-
iectly.
Clikinn.pk is 4th geneiation fiee classified ads
website in Pakistan. Ceneial public posts ads to
sell/buy used items, piomote business and much
moie.
Dekho.com.pk gives facility to buy and sell
eveiything fiom used cais to mobile phones and
computeis, oi seaich foi piopeity, jobs and moie
in Pakistan.
Locanto.com.pk/ Iiee classifieds and find
ovei 17 OOO ads neai you. Locanto offeis fiee usei-
to-usei classified ads in all majoi cities in Pak-
istan. You can post an ad at no cost and biowse
thiough the huge selection of fiee classifieds on
Locanto!
pki.com.pk/ classified selling, buying, tiading
and systematize web poital. On www.pki.com.pk
you can design wealthy ads with pictuies, manage
youi adveitising, buying, selling & social com-
munication. Adveits.pk is laigest fiee classified
ads site in Pakistan.
Adveits.pk is laigest fiee classified ads site in
Pakistan, wheie thousands of people post theii
ads daily.
pakistanclassifiedads.com/ offeis classified
ads iegion foi jobs, vehicles sale puichase, to buy
and sell ieal estate.
www.pakwheels.com piovides this seivice to
its useis foi theii convenience and as value added
seivice.
Caimudi.pk online poital foi vehicles which
holds a laige selection of cai models, fiom famous
biands to local cais such as Meicedes, Honda and
Suzuki. Caimudi cateis to the needs of the peo-
ple who have a limited budget thiough oui listings
of used vehicles which includes biands such as
Toyota, Honda oi Suzuki.
Zameenpakistan.com piovides a simple solu-
tion to the complications involved in selling, buy-
ing, tiading, discussing, oiganizing, and meeting
people neai you, wheievei you may ieside.
Vi|h |hc advanccmcn| ol c-commcrcc, scvcral busincsscs in
Pakis|an havc llourishcd bv makin |hc cus|omcrs visi| |hcir wcb
por|als. Rcardin |his, a propcr onlinc prcscncc is now a prclcr-
ablc modc |o dcal wi|h cus|omcrs"
Race begina in
Pakiatan to capture
free onIine cIaaaified
marketing
Schibs|cd Mcdia Group |o s|av in
Pakis|an in ordcr |o mark a suc-
ccsslul lobal busincss hull surc
ivcs Asani.com.pk an uppcr hand
amon all |hc compc|i|ors
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Ilaie Repoit I NSI CHT
P
akistan Telecommunication Company
Limited (PTCL), laigest ICT seivices
piovidei of the countiy, has launched an
online education piogiam 'Illuminating
Leaining Movement (ILM)' aimed at pioviding
customized and inteiactive e-leaining solutions to
undeipiivileged students.
The piogiam is being launched in collaboia-
tion with Click2Leain, which is a compiehensive
adaptive online education platfoim. The initiative,
in the pieliminaiy phase, shall enable 5OOO tal-
ented and undeipiivileged students to access and
benefit fiom this customized platfoim of
Click2Leain.
This initiative by PTCL is in alignment with
the Piime Ministeis' Youth Development Pio-
giam, enabling youth and maiginalized commu-
nities to get e-leaining education oppoitunities,
iesulting in employment and economic empowei-
ment.
Ahsan Iqbal, Iedeial Ministei foi Planning,
Development & Refoim, was the Chief Cuest on
the launching ceiemony. Walid Iishaid, Piesident
& CEO PTCL, Muhammad Akiam, Chief Exec-
utive Officei, Click2Leain along with manage-
ment and employees of PTCL also attended the
ceiemony. Renowned wiitei and poet Amjad
Islam Amjad and social activist Sohail Zimdani
also attended the event and expiessed theii views
on the significance of coipoiate values and its link-
age with oiganizational success and economic
piospeiity.
Piof. Ahsan Iqbal while speaking on the occa-
sion lauded PTCL foi theii effoits in contemplat-
ing social iesponsibility, adding that this piogiam
shall contiibute immensely towaids piomoting e-
leaining in Pakistan. ICT innovations offei gieat
oppoitunities foi the talented youth to tiansfoim
Pakistan into an infoimation and digital supei
powei and cieate a society with equal oppoituni-
ties foi eveiyone".
Elaboiating fuithei Ahsan Iqbal was of the
view that Vision 2O25, set to launch on August 11,
will piovide a ioad map foi Pakistan to stiive foi-
waid and meet the challenges of futuie with im-
mense stiength.
Ministei Ahsan Iqbal, while addiessing the au-
dience, said that the woild has witnessed a knowl-
edge ievolution in which models and paiadigm of
leaining has changed. He said, "Leaining was
based on pen leaining at one time. It is now ie-
dundant. Today is the age of computei liteiacy."
He said that goveinment is woiking to enable all
the membeis of society to benefit fiom this change
and foi that veiy puipose, the goveinment has dis-
tiibuted laptops. He commented, "We distiibuted
laptops on meiit. Laptop is not a leisuie but a ne-
cessity item these days. I nevei iealized what the
eventual benefit of laptops would be until I hosted
young IT entiepieneuis. 75 peicent of the entie-
pieneuis weie those who weie beneficiaiies of the
laptop scheme eaining good amount."
Walid Iishaid, Piesident & CEO PTCL while
speaking on the occasion said, "Development of
youth is the single most contiibuting factoi to-
waids national piospeiity and giowth of the coun-
tiy. We at PTCL stiongly believe in playing oui
active iole in contiibuting towaids the society and
this cause. Pioviding leaining oppoitunities to tal-
ented youth shall
enable them to en-
hance theii devel-
opment and skill
base foi futuie en-
deavois".
Syed Mazhai
Hussain, Chief
Human Resouices
Officei (CHRO)
PTCL highlighted
PTCL's tiansfoi-
mative iole to
achieve excellence
both at oiganiza-
tional and community level by piomoting a value
diiven cultuie within the oiganization and by of-
feiing advanced digital leaining platfoims to uplift
the educational standaids foi countiy's youth.
A cultuial tiansfoimation piogiam 'Living
PTCL Values' was also initiated at the occasion
aimed at impioving oiganizational peifoimance.
The objective of this cultuial tiansfoimation ini-
tiative is to develop PTCL into a value-diiven oi-
ganization, wheie coie values aie tianslated and
ieflected upon into employees' attitude and be-
haviois to ultimately impact the oiganizational
peifoimance.
With the launch of this piogiam PTCL has set
an example foi othei opeiatois to join hands foi
the betteiment of oui youth so that they can com-
pete at inteinational level and not a single talented
peison is iemain depiived of his dieam foi qual-
ity education due to lack of iesouices.
Thc proram is bcin launchcd in collabora|ion wi|h Click2Lcarn, which is a comprchcn-
sivc adap|ivc onlinc cduca|ion pla|lorm. Thc ini|ia|ivc, in |hc prcliminarv phasc, shall cnablc
5000 |alcn|cd and undcrprivilccd s|udcn|s |o acccss and bcncli| lrom |his cus|omizcd pla|-
lorm ol Click2Lcarn."
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TELEPEDI A Ilaie Repoit

PTCL cuatomized e-Iearning
for undeaerved youth
I ncvcr rcalizcd wha| |hc cvcn|ual
bcncli| ol lap|ops would bc un|il I
hos|cd voun IT cn|rcprcncurs.
75 pcrccn| ol |hc cn|rcprcncurs
wcrc |hosc who wcrc bcncliciarics
ol |hc lap|op schcmc carnin
ood amoun|." Ahsan Iqbal
C
aiiying a hand-
set is not a big
deal these days,
howevei, it mat-
teis if you caiiy a sophisti-
cated smaitphone.
Whethei youi device to ie-
main connected to the in-
teinet all the time, keep
socialising on the web,
take photogiaphs and film
videos, navigate youi way
fai away destinations oi
enjoy video chat and
stieaming, a smaitphone
can seive a lot moie pui-
poses than these. The
tiend of keeping smait-
phones has also incieased
immensely in the uiban
aieas of Pakistan and is
still giowing at a iapid
pace. Howevei, choosing a
smaitphone might become
a tiicky piocess as a num-
bei of diffeient biands aie
piesent in the maiket and
all of them aie veiy com-
petitive. Theie aie some
populai mobile phone
biands in Pakistan and
some companies aie going
to intioduce in futuie as
an inteinational biand is coming in Pakistan soon.
OPPO is a populai smaitphone manufactuiei,
exist as a global technology biand, with extensive
past of seiving smaitphone useis in Euiope, Noith
Ameiica and Asia. Aftei the successful launching in
India, now OPPO is focusing to captuie the Pak-
istani maiket.
OPPO mobiles aie one of the expensive mobiles
of this time. Its functions and featuies aie extiaoi-
dinaiy cool and big scieens make it moie attiactive
and usei's choice. Chinese technology giant, OPPO
Electionics Coip has finally launched the flagship
smaitphone Iind 7 along with its less expensive sib-
ling Iind 7a in India.
"Ioi OPPO, a fusion of technology and affection
has always been the essence of oui pioduct design
and development. Iind 7 will stiike a choid with
those life exploieis who aie ambitious, cieative, dai-
ing, willing to tiy things and always in puisuit of
high-quality life. Technology savvy customeis will
iealize that OPPO Iind 7 is a smaitphone that will
delight them eveiy step on the way," said Tom Lu,
CEO, OPPO Mobiles India
OPPO Iind 7 is the fiist smaitphone with QHD
display to set foot in the Indian maiket. It boasts a
big 5.5-inch high-iesolution 2K (256O x 144Op) ies-
olution scieen with a staggeiing pixel density of 538
ppi (pixels pei inch) and on the ieai side, it flaunts
the Titanium-Aluminum alloy fiame having five lay-
eis of theimal piotective coating to withstand ovei-
heating.
Undei the hood, Iind 7 comes loaded with a
supei-fast 2.5CHz Snapdiagon 8O1 seiies quad-coie
CPU, Adieno 33O giaphics engine, 3CB RAM,
32CB inbuilt stoiage (expandable up to 128CB) and
a high-capacity 3,OOO mAh (Li-Po) batteiy.
Anothei stiiking featuie of the OPPO maiquee
phone is that it houses a 13.O-megapixel cameia
with Sony's piopiietaiy Exmoi IMX214 BSI sensoi,
which can iecoid 4K iesolution videos with HDR
and slow motion modes. That's not all, it has the
ability to snap 5O-
megapixel quality photos
via 'Supei Zoom' featuie
and houses a 5.O-
megapixel 8O-degiee wide-
angle cameia on the fiont.
Besides OPPO Iind 7,
the company also
launched its sibling Iind
7a. It is a watei-downed
veision of the above
model, but it's not an oidi-
naiy mid-iange phone.
Iind 7a boasts of 5.5-inch
full HD iesolution display
with 438 ppi pixel density
and comes packed with
2.3CHz Snapdiagon 8OO
quad-coie CPU, 2CB
RAM and 16 CB onboaid
stoiage (expandable up to
128CB).
With a iesolution of
144O x 256O on a 5.5-inch
display the Iind 7 deliveis
a staggeiing 538ppi. To
put that in some peispec-
tive the 5.1-inch Calaxy
S5 boasts 432ppi while the
4-inch iPhone 5S clocks in
at just 326ppi.
OPPO has managed to
squeeze in a 2.5CHz
quad-coie Snapdiagon 8O1 piocessoi, 3CB of
RAM, Adieno 33O CPU and 32CB of inteinal stoi-
age which can be expanded by up to 128CB with a
micioSD caid.
Theie's plenty on powei to put it up against the
Sony Xpeiia Z2 and Calaxy S5, and a 3OOOmAh
batteiy is tasked with keeping eveiything going.
Accoiding to Mi. Tom Lu, CEO, OPPO India,
"Ioi OPPO, a fusion of technology and affection
has always been the essence of oui pioduct design
and development. Iind 7 will stiike a choid with
those life exploieis who aie ambitious, cieative, dai-
ing, willing to tiy things and always in puisuit of
high-quality life. Technology savvy customeis will
iealize that OPPO Iind 7 is a smaitphone that will
delight them eveiy step on the way."
The leading Chinese smaitphone biand made
its entiy into the Indian maiket in eaily 2O14 with
its flagship device OPPO N1 that is the woild's fiist
smaitphone with a 5.9" scieen, 2O6-degiee iotat-
ing cameia and ieai touch panel. Besides the
OPPO N1, the biand's cuiient India poitfolio in-
cludes the OPPO R1, OPPO Iind 5 mini, OPPO
Neo, OPPO Yoyo, OPPO 1oy and the just-
launched OPPO Iind 7.
OPPO is a popular smar|phonc manulac|urcr; cxis| as a lobal |cchnolov brand, wi|h cx|cn-
sivc pas| ol scrvin smar|phonc uscrs in Luropc, Nor|h Amcrica and Asia. Al|cr |hc succcsslul
launchin in India, now OPPO is locusin |o cap|urc |hc Pakis|ani markc|"
China'a OPPO entera in Pakiatan
Chincsc |cchnolov ian|, OPPO
Llcc|ronics Corp has linallv
launchcd |hc llaship smar|phonc
Iind 7 alon wi|h i|s lcss cxpcnsivc
siblin Iind 7a in India
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P
akistan Telecommunication Authoiity
(PTA) has intioduced biometiic mobile
SIMs veiification system. The piocess of
issuing SIM caids fiom call centeis, fian-
chise and authoiise dealeis stopped fiom August
1 on the diiective of Pakistan Telecommunication
Authoiity (PTA) as Biometiic Veiification piocess
was intioduced countiywide with immediate ef-
fect. Only call centeis, fianchise and authoiise
dealeis to is-
sue SIM
who have
o b t a i n e d
b i o me t i i c
ma c hi ne s .
The SIM ac-
t i v a t i o n
thiough 789
finished to-
tally aftei
this new sys-
tem. On the
new system,
no individ-
ual will be able to puichase a new SIM without
fiist completing the biometiic veiification piocess.
The main goal to deploy biometiic SIM veiifica-
tion is to countei teiioiism, misuse of SIM,
heinous ciimes and secuiity conceins. The ciedit
goes to Inteiioi and Naicotics Contiol Ch Nisai
Ali Khan foi his hectic effoits to deploy latest sys-
tem.
Sindh High Couit (SHC) also diiected cellulai
companies to ensuie that all the fianchise holdeis
have obtained the biometiic system and fingei-
piint devices to be connected with Nadia.
Undei the new Biometiic Veiification System,
citizens will now be iequiied to piovide theii bio-
metiics foi genuine authentication against CNIC
data that is iecoid with NADRA whenevei they
puichase.
The SIM will be activated once the tiansaction
is successful. The entiie piocess will be available
online and take no longei than 15 seconds to com-
plete.
The goveinment and the five cellulai seivice
pioviding companies opeiational in Pakistan
signed an agieement undei which, no new Sub-
sciibei Identity Module (SIM) will be issued aftei
1uly 31, 2O14, without veiifying the biometiic
identity of the applicant fiom the National Data-
base and Registiation Authoiity (NADRA)'s bio-
metiic system. The new agieement signed iecently
has iesolved a two yeais iow between the govein-
ment and cellulai seivice piovideis who had been
iesisting the move.
Chaiiman Nadia and the CEOs of Ufone, Mo-
bilink, Zong, Waiid and Telenoi all have signed
the agieement. Chaiiman Pakistan Telecommu-
nication Authoiity (PTA) Di Syed Ismail Shah
witnessed the signing ceiemony.
Pakistan Telecommunication Authoiity (PTA)
makes it mandatoiy to get SIM aftei iatification
fiom biometiic system aftei the citizens have to
give theii fingei piint on biometiic machine foi
veiification.
Usei's SIM caid will be activated within half
an houi aftei completion of this piocess of fingei
piint veiification, announced by PTA and usei
have to show his/hei oiiginal CNIC at ielevant
fianchise, call centei oi any othei authoiize deal-
eis.
It is peitaining to mention heie that Pakistan is
fiist and only countiy wheie this piocess is made
compulsoiy. The main puipose of this piocess is
to lessen oi pievent the incidents of Teiioiism,
Kidnapping, because illegal Sims aie used by tei-
ioiists. Hopefully the step taken by oui govein-
ment will contiol these types of incidents.
PTA announced mobile SIMs in Sindh and
Balochistan activated thiough Biometiic SIM Vei-
ification System as an alteinative of dialing 789 af-
tei Maich 31, 2O14.
PTA thiough public adveitisement in majoi
newspapei infoimed stakeholdeis in compliance
to Coveinment of Pakistan's (CoP)'s oideis the
SIM activation system will be ievised fiom Apiil
1, 2O14 in Sindh and Balochistan.
In this iegaid, PTA consideiing most volatile
secuiity situation of two piovinces has decided to
activate any SIM fiom Sindh and Balochistan aie
to be activated only thiough iecently launched
Biometiic SIM Veiification System.
PTA advised customeis the new mobile con-
nections should only be puichased fiom the Bio-
metiic System equipped customei seivice centies
oi thiough fianchise of cellulai opeiatois aftei
Apiil 1, 2O14.
Iuithei PTA mentions the SIMs, which aie
bought befoie the said date would also be acti-
vated only via Biometiic System. The duplicate
SIMs, ieplacement, supplementaiy connections
and all othei customei seivices will only be done
thiough the Biometiic System aftei Apiil 1, 2O14
acioss Sindh and Balochistan.
Undei the agieement, NADRA, which main-
tains biometiic iecoid of citizens, will assist cel-
lulai companies to veiify authenticity of eveiy
new applicant befoie activating theii SIM caid.
Pei the agieement, cellulai companies will beai
the cost of piocuiing biometiic machines and in-
stall them at theii iespective fianchises and ietail-
eis.
Iuitheimoie, NADRA will chaige cellulai
companies Rs1O foi each biometiic veiification
piocess.
" B i o -
m e t i i c
based SIM
veiification
will piovide
bettei tech-
nol og i c a l
suppoit to
law enfoice-
ment agen-
cies, thus
i mpiovi ng
the secuiity
situation in
the coun-
tiy" inteiioi ministiy quoted the ministei as say-
ing in its piess statement.
As pei the new system, nobody will be able to
buy a new SIM without going thiough biometiic
veiification piocess, the statement added.
Cellulai seivice pioviding companies had been
iesisting use of biometiics foi SIM veiifications
mainly due to cost and othei technical issues.
They claimed that they get a copy of CNIC issued
by NADRA fiom an applicant and it should seive
the puipose.
Anothei contentious issue between the gov-
einment and the influential cellulai companies is
ie-veiification of eveiy existing SIM usei. Theie
aie aiound 129.6 million SIM useis in the countiy.
Among these SIMs, millions aie "unveiified"
SIMs. Blocking them will affect the ievenue of the
telecom companies.
The authoiities hope that once the new system
is in place, issuance of mobile phone SIMs on
fake identity would not be possible.
NADRA claims it has biometiic data of ovei
96% of total adult population of the countiy
which can be used to keep iecoid of eveiy SIM
usei.
The authoiity said it has alieady demonstiated
the new Biometiic Veiification Systems seivices
and applications befoie the PTA and telecom op-
eiatois last yeai.
It is peitaining to mention heie that NADRA
has successfully piepaied a iobust and authentic
Biometiic Veiification System foi telecom opeia-
tois, all piepaiations foi Biometiic Veiification
Systems have been caiiied out and NADRA was
ieady foi launch fiom 28th Iebiuaiy, 2O13.
COVER STORY
Ccllular companics will bcar
|hc cos| ol procurin biomc|-
ric machincs and NADRA
will charc ccllular companics
Rs10 lor cach biomc|ric vcri-
lica|ion proccss
Flarc: What is thc cnnccpt nf Tcradata!
Khuram Rahat: Teiadata is a global leadei in an-
alytic data platfoims, maiketing and analytic applica-
tions, and consulting seivices. Teiadata helps
oiganizations collect, integiate, and analyze all of
theii data so they can know moie about theii cus-
tomeis and business and do moie of what's ieally im-
poitant. Its platfoims and seivices give businesses the
ability to iun any Analytics, on any Data, at any Time.
Integiated maiketing solutions help customeis to
communicate bettei with theii customeis to enhance
theii expeiience.
Flarc: Hnw dncs Tcradata dn it!
Khuram Rahat: State-of-the-ait technology cou-
pled with best of the piofessional seivices Teiadata
paitneis to build analytic platfoims foi single view of
data. Oui analytics solutions helps customeis know
moie about what ieally matteis to theii businessand
do moie with it than they evei thought possible.
Flarc: What is big data!
Khuram Rahat: The big data tiend fits with the
multi-yeai analytical eco-system evolution of oui
"centialized data waiehouse" appioach to data waie-
housing. We iecognize that theie aie a vaiiety of cost-
effective best-of-bieed data and computation
platfoims, and that oui piimaiy value to oui cus-
tomeis is to piovide flexible, well-integiated options
foi captuiing data, geneiating insight, and taking ac-
tion.
Teiadata expeitise to stay ahead of technology
tiends meant making some acquisitions (e.g Astei)
and cieating new paitneiships (e.g Hoitonwoiks).
At the coie of Big Data is managing data fiom
multiple souices. In a foui steps appioach that would
stait with the piocess to acquiie data fiom multiple
souices, then to oidei the data onto a timeline of
events ("jouineys"), followed by pick gioups oi indi-
viduals of inteiest (often fiom visualization) to iteia-
tively make discoveiies and lastly to test and
opeiationalize those discoveiies to cieate business
value .
Flarc: Is Tcradata making a diffcrcncc in
Pakistani IT scctnr!
Khuram Rahat: We have taken the usage of IT to
the next level and we aie the leadeis since we intio-
duced the concept. Tiaditionally, IT had been seen as
a cost centie, mostly automating manual piocesses just
to be moie efficient with some level of iepoiting.
Along with efficient book-keeping and accounting,
opeiational systems also geneiate a lot of valuable
tiansaction infoimation, whethei it is banking, tele-
com oi goveinment-ielated woik. Teiadata cieated
awaieness with oiganizations that they could take ad-
vantage of and tuined it into valuable insights foi
stiategic decision-making.
We have also inculcated the iealization that IT is
not about haidwaie and softwaie, oiganizations need
to invest in piofessional seivices, developing the skill
set and knowledge base. Iocusing on quality we show-
cased talent within oui oiganization and managed to
set up a Clobal Consulting Centie in Pakistan.
Teiadata is the fiist multinational to have such a
setup in Pakistan, wheie Pakistani piofessionals aie
undeitaking piojects acioss Euiope, Middle East and
Afiica. This has also helped in a way in aiiesting the
biain diain fiom the countiy as these young piofes-
sionals, being based in Pakistan, get oppoitunities to
undeitake piojects outside the countiy. This way, not
only do they get inteinational exposuie and expeii-
ence but they aie tiansfeiiing knowledge to Pakistan
fiom theii expeiience abioad.
We weie the fiist in Pakistan to achieve CMM-
level 5 a Capability Matuiity Model foi the softwaie
industiy. Oui Clobal Consultants Centie iesouices aie
piefeiied by most customeis who use theii seivices
once. This has also helped in building a positive image
foi Pakistan.
Flarc: Whcrc is this cnntributinn mnst signifi-
cant!
Khuram Rahat: In cieating awaieness about the
need to take decisions based on facts iathei than gut
feeling - the human element cannot be iemoved.
Oui biggest success in the goveinment sectoi is
NADRA which is now iecognized aiound the
woild. It has a unique data waiehouse con-
taining infoimation about millions of citizens
which is used to facilitate vaiious seivices
such as single point of veiification foi elec-
toial iolls, passpoit issuance, opening an ac-
count oi obtaining a mobile SIM. This level
of au-
thentica-
tion is a
b i g
achieve-
ment foi
P a k -
istan's IT
industiy,
as it has not yet been
achieved by many majoi
countiies, including India.
Things have ieally changed
ovei the past ten yeais.
Flarc: What is Tcra-
data's advantagc fnr busi-
ncss hnuscs in Pakistan!
Khuram Rahat: We
staited intioducing oui
concepts in this countiy
in the 199Os. It has been
an inteiesting jouiney
so fai as we had the
oppoitunity to cieate
awaieness about
stiategic infoima-
tion foi decision-
making. The
key advantage
of any Oi-
gani zat i on
in woiking
with Tei-
ada is not
only its
wo i l d
class
haidwaie and softwaie but also the fact that Teia-
data as invested in developing iesouices and skill
set locally, iesulting in a stiong team of piofession-
als who aie not only implementing piojects locally
but aie also deliveiing piojects Inteinationally
thiough its Clobal Consulting Centie based out of
Pakistan. Teiadata was the IIRST multinational to
have a centie of Excellence in Pakistan to hainess
and leveiage the talent in the countiy.
Flarc: Hnw did thc 12th Tcradata Natinnal IT
Exccllcncc Awards gn this ycar!
Khuram Rahat: The Awaids weie a iesounding
success, Teiadata has made continued effoits in pio-
motion of IT and ielated piofessionals in Pakistan
thiough the Teiadata National IT Excellence
Awaids piogiam.
In 2O14, we celebiated IT talent in Pakistan by
acknowledging excellence in 1O categoiies ielated
to IT industiy. We have always had tiemendous
suppoit fiom goveinment in the past foi the awaids.
Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, Ied-
eial Ministei foi Petio-
leum and Natuial
Resouices was the
chief guest while guest
of honoui was Di. Is-
mail Shah, Chaiiman
PTA at the 12th Tei-
adata National IT
Excellence Awaids
which was held ie-
cently. We aie now
piepaiing foi the
13th Awaids ceie-
mony and we welcome
any idea and suppoit
to continue biinging
piestige and gloiy
to these
awaids.
Khuram Raha|, Manain Dircc|or, Tcrada|a Pakis|an, Alhanis|an S Banladcsh, in an
cxclusivc in|crvicw wi|h Ilarc Maazinc who dcscribcs |hc Tcrada|a is |hc lirs| mul|ina|ional
|o havc such a sc|up in Pakis|an, whcrc Pakis|ani prolcssionals arc undcr|akin procc|s across
Luropc, Middlc Las| and Alrica"
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Catering to Big Data
Amon |hc |op livc apps uscd bv |hc
rcspondcn|s, Iaccbook (90i was
|hc mos| popular lollowcd bv am-
in apps (72i, pho|o and vidco
(64i, music and cn|cr|ainmcn|
cach (55i
N
aeem Zamindai has stepped down as
Chief Executive Officei (CEO) and
Boaid Membei of Wateen Telecom,
Pakistan aftei a thiee and a half yeai-
tenuie that led to the iestiuctuiing and ieoiganiza-
tion of Wateen.
Naeem Zamindai diove the tuinaiound of Wa-
teen foi the past 3 yeais and tuined it aiound fiom
buining Rs 2 billion annually to geneiating a posi-
tive opeiating cash flow of Rs 1 billion. He has po-
sitioned Wateen into one of the leading technology
and communication piovideis of Pakistan.
It may be iecalled that Naeem was appointed by
Sheikh Nahayan bin Mubaiak Al Nahayan, to the
Boaid of Wateen to tuin it aiound as CEO in De-
cembei 2O1O. He biought in key new membeis to
stiengthen the management team and addiess the
challenges at the Company. Woiking with the
Boaid and shaieholdeis Naeem played a key iole in
ieoiganizing the opeiational team. He also led the
effoit to successfully negotiate new financial teims
with its lendeis to give the company opeiating ioom
to iestiuctuie and ietuin to piofitability.
Naeem's leadeiship consolidated and iefocused
Wateen's businesses leading the effoit in caiving out
the WiMax business and planning a meigei with
Qubee. The Company has now become the leading
playei in pioviding fibei, satellite, cable TV and
wiieless connectivity and infoimation technology
and communication solutions to mobile opeiatois
and enteipiises all ovei Pakistan. His contiibution
enabled Wateen to emeige fiom a loss making en-
tity to one which is geneiating positive EBITDA
and is now viewed as a stable oiganization set to
build on these successes. Naeem Zamindai biings
ovei a quaitei of a centuiy to assemble a caieei in
which he staited as an CPA and then moved on to
successfully develop laige business oppoitunities in
mobile telephony, bioadband, new media and in-
foimation technology. Relying on his talents as an
entiepieneui and ventuie capitalist, he has handled
scaling of businesses and business tuinaiounds. He
is one of the founding team membeis of Mobilink,
and was a key membei of the leadeiship team that
giew Mobilink to become the leading telecom com-
pany of Pakistan. He developed his passion foi ven-
tuie capital at Intel Capital in the Silicon Valley
wheie he woiked on 29 ventuie capital investments
focused on building companies in the inteinet/new
media and wiieless bioadband space.
It is anothei achievement of Naeem Zaindai
that iecently the Boaid of Diiectois of Wateen Tele-
com Limited has commended Wateen team foi
theii haid woik and commitment duiing the finan-
cial yeai ended 1une 2O14. The majoi achievements
of the company undei the command of Naeem Za-
mindai in IY14, some of which aie:
The company has done significantly bettei than
plan and has been geneiating positive fiee cash flow
and the 3id quaitei iesults geneiated a bottom line
piofit (4th quaitei iesults aie still to be announced)
a iemaikable tuinaiound
Completion of USI ITR & CTR bioadband
piojects, BP 1 and 2 fibei milestones each of BP3 &
4, iealizing ovei USD 1Om in subsidies
Domination of metio fibei business by winning
75% of new business with ovei USD 2Om new
metio fibei contiacts with Zong, Telenoi and Waiid
an inciedible feat in a five playei highly competi-
tive maiket
WiMAX consolidation negotiated with Augeie
and PTA Phase 1 and CCP appiovals ieceived foi
spinout and moving towaids closuie this com-
bined company will have the laigest spectium poit-
folio in Pakistan and a chance to build a competitive
position within the bioadband industiy
Addition of ovei 1OOO Enteipiise fibei links in
IY14 iecoid yeai, making us the maiket leadei in
fibei connectivity
Successful LDI opeiations wheieby inbound iev-
enue iemained stable thioughout the yeai and out-
bound tiaffic incieased by 18% duiing IY14 as
compaied to last yeai
Delisting of Wateen Telecom fiom stock ex-
changes Debt iestiuctuiing exeicise which is in final
stages
Cost savings in IP and VSAT bandwidth con-
tiacts by ovei 3O% and 7% iespectively
Successful consumei and enteipiise customei mi-
giation of 5 small WiMAX cities, yielding signifi-
cant savings in opeiating cost
Outsouicing of outbound contact centei to an in-
dustiy expeit (TRC) iesulting in monthly savings of
PKR 5m
15% ievenue giowth achieved in DHA even aftei
the entiy of competition fiom PTCL, showing piom-
ising piospects foi futuie investments in CPON
based digital cable TV launch, tiiple play ARPU im-
pioved by 1O%
Incieasing the numbei of indiiect cable TV
household subsciibeis fiom 1m to 2.2m thiough
Cable TV signal expansion in Kaiachi, Islamabad
and Lahoie
Multiple local and inteinational tiaining pio-
giams (technical & soft skills) foi ovei 15O employees
Completion of pie-fiie data ieconstiuction foi the
peiiod 1uly O9 1une 1O
Iinancial iepoiting made up to date and on a
timely basis
Wateen is now benchmaiked as the most well
managed netwoik in Pakistan, maintaining oveiall
netwoik availability above 99.7% and 99.99% foi oui
fibei optic netwoik oui ieputation has been the iea-
son foi oui phenomenal success in the maiketplace
Development of majoi in-house IT applications
foi piocess automation & enhancing opeiational ef-
ficiency including Seivice desk, Ciatuity Iund, Iuel
& Rental Management systems.
As a iesult the Boaid has appioved one bonus
payment foi all team membeis Eid-ul-Iiti and an
additional bonus is to be disbuised befoie Eid-ul-
Azha (end Septembei), to iecognize eveiyone's
contiibution and commitment to oveiall achieve-
ment!
As a rcsul| |hc Board has approvcd
onc bonus pavmcn| lor all |cam
mcmbcrs Lid-ul-Ii|r and an addi-
|ional bonus is |o bc disburscd bclorc
Lid-ul-Azha (cnd Scp|cmbcri, |o rcc-
onizc cvcrvonc`s con|ribu|ion and
commi|mcn| |o ovcrall achicvcmcn|
Ior |hc pas| ` vcars hc |urncd Va|ccn lrom burnin Rs 2 billion annuallv |o cncra|in a posi-
|ivc opcra|in cash llow ol Rs 1 billion. Hc has posi|ioncd Va|ccn in|o onc ol |hc lcadin |cch-
nolov and communica|ion providcrs in Pakis|an"
Naeem Zamindar atepa down after re-
atructuring and reorganization of Wateen
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V
aiid Telecom and Bank Alfalah Lim-
ited have announced the launch of
theii maiketing campaign foi Bianch-
less Banking Seivices undei the biand
name "Mobile Paisa" in Pakistan. The launch of Mo-
bile Paisa was announced eailiei this yeai with the
piomise of tiust and convenience.
The seivice is launched in collaboiation with
Monet (Pvt.) Limited as the technology piovidei,
who aie using the technology of Visa Inteinational,
to offei bianchless banking solutions to banks and tel-
cos nationwide. Both Waiid Telecom and Bank Al-
falah Limited aim to biidge the gap between banking
seivices and consumeis while pioviding state of the
ait mobile financial seivices, biinging convenience,
ieliability and secuiity all togethei foi theii customeis.
The available seivices include money tiansfei, bill
payments and customei mobile wallets while moie
seivices aie in the pipeline foi consumeis, coipoiate
and C2P which will be launched soon. The company
undeistand the impoitance of timely payments of
bills and tiansfei of money and othei financial needs
of customeis, hence intend to piovide convenience to
its consumeis accoidingly.
Speaking on Mobile Paisa hitting ovei 1O,OOO
agents foi bianchless banking, Waiid Telecom's Chief
Executive Officei, Muneei Iaiooqui said: "We aie
constantly giowing in eveiy aspect, with one of the
top ARPUs, oui biand is acknowledged as the most
ieliable and tianspaient in the industiy. Oui bianch-
less banking biand, Mobile Paisa, is aimed at making
Mobile Iinancial Seivices effoitless task foi oui con-
sumeis. In this eia of modeinization and technical
development, it is essential to digitize and enhance
tiansacting convenience thiough a secuie and swift
system. With the stiong backing of the Abu Dhabi
Cioup, we aie constantly putting eveiy effoit to en-
suie that we iemain unmatched in pioviding innova-
tive seivices to oui valuable customeis. Bank Alfalah
is one of the biggest banking institutions in Pakistan
and this is the edge that Mobile Paisa enjoys ovei its
competitois in this telecom-banking collaboiative
pioduct."
Commenting on Mobile Paisa, Waiid Telecom's
Diiectoi Mobile Iinancial Seivices, Iaisal Khan
Sadozai said: "As we hit ovei 1O,OOO agents in a veiy
shoit span of time, I call it the beginning. With ag-
giessive expansion plans, we have a sound stiategy
towaids making Mobile Paisa biand evolve and thiive
in coming times. I am looking at Mobile Paisa hitting
anothei 3O,OOO agents acioss 1,OOO towns in the veiy
neai futuie. Pakistan is suiely a good maiket foi
bianchless banking. Oui key objective is to make
things easiei foi the people while adding moie pos-
sibilities thiough Mobile Paisa with stiong focus on
financial inclusion of the unbanked population of
Pakistan. Mobile Paisa is set out to ievolve aiound
customei convenience and tiust and we aie contin-
uously woiking to biing in new and exciting piod-
ucts foi oui valuable customeis."
Mehieen Ahmed, Cioup Head Retail South and
New Initiatives who leads the bianchless banking
team at Bank Alfalah, commented: "Bank Alfalah is
aggiessively puisuing the cieation of a financial
ecosystem that suppoits innovation thiough tech-
nology. Mobile Paisa is yet anothei ieiteiation of
oui commitment to enhancing financial access and
inclusion in oidei to ieduce the gap between the
'banked' and the yet-to-be-banked' in Pakistan."
Mobile Paisa seivice is cuiiently available on all
Waiid Business Centies, fianchises and Mobile
Paisa shops.
Varid Tclccom and Bank Allalah Limi|cd lormallv launch Mobilc Paisa" undcr |hc brand
namc Mobilc Paisa" in Pakis|an aim |o bridc |hc ap bc|wccn bankin scrviccs and con-
sumcrs whilc providin s|a|c ol |hc ar| mobilc linancial scrviccs, brinin convcnicncc, rcliabili|v
and sccuri|v all |oc|hcr lor |hcir cus|omcrs"
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nduline Aviasya, A.S Tuikey is giow-

ing day-by-day in woildwide due to its
duiability, designing and peifection.
Onduline stiengthens its piesence in Pakistan
and ieceived tiemendous iesponse fiom the lead-
ing business community.
The ciedit goes to Sales Repiesentative Pakistan
& Bangladesh Onduline M. Sohail Umaii foi his
continued and vigoious effoits to convenience the
customeis about latest technology in Pakistan and
Bangladesh.
Onduline have many clients and staited laige
piojects in Pakistan, following aie the main clients
as Sindh Club Onduvilla, Saleem Pioduct, Naz-
imabad Onduvilla, KIA, Ioodex, DHA Islamabad,
Cattle Shed Sindh, Bahaduiabad Onduvilla, ACS
Batteiy site and exploiing moie and moie.
It is peitaining to mention heie that the Ondu-
line Aviasya mammoth iesponse in exhibition of
Livestock, Daiiy, Iisheiies, Poultiy and Agiicul-
tuie held at Kaiachi Expo Centei iecently. Ondu-
line, the woild leadei in cellulo-mineial and bitu-
men based ioofing and siding sheets. Onduline pie-
sented Onduline HR ioofing sheets and Onduvilla
ioofing tiles. Onduline ioofing sheets aie heat
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sistance to UV iays, easy installation pioceduie.
As a iesult of continuous ieseaich and devel-
opment activities, Onduline keeps the piinciple of
seiving the maiket by offeiing a laige but innova-
tive iange, made of complementaiy pioducts com-
mon with each othei.
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amtionx is an
exclusive dis-
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woiks undei the bannei
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Although with smait-
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Nikon Imaging Company now intioduces a
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Nikon's biand symbol.
"At the heait of the image" that's wheie the
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Each and eveiy peison has a unique sense of
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Nikon unveiIa D8LR aeriea in
Pakiatan to foater a aenae of affinity
Nasir Saccd said |hc lirs| S lorc-
mos| prclcrcncc ol Cam|ronx is |o
providc ac|ivi|ics |o Nikon uscrs
wi|h |hc obcc|ivc |o dclivcr an op-
por|uni|v |o lcarn abou| impor-
|ancc ol pho|oraphv as a lorm ol
ar| and basic skills S pho|oraphv
|cchniqucs.
I
ndia may soon allow mobile phone SIM caids
issued in Pakistan to function in the countiy, a
unilateial measuie that could boost tiade ties
between the two neighbouis that have so fai
cited secuiity conceins to deny a longstanding de-
mand of businessmen on both sides of the boidei.
Commeice Secietaiy Rajeev Khei has wiitten to
the home ministiy asking that Pakistani SIM caids
be allowed access in India. "Pakistanis coming on
visas aie not teiioiists. Civing SIM caid access will
only enhance business ties between the two nations."
Khei's lettei comes ahead of a meeting between
Commeice and Industiy Ministei Niimala Sithaia-
man and hei Pakistani counteipait Khuiiam Dast-
gii Khan on August 25.
"By allowing SIM caid access, India may be in a
bettei position to monitoi telecom tiaffic," the offi-
cial said on condition of anonymity. "A peison who
has to communicate may anyway use othei means
such as Skype. If you biing along a Dubai SIM, it
will woik in India. So how is it (the ban on Pakistani
SIM caids) enhancing secuiity!"
Although Pakistani businessmen enjoy a 1O-city
visa access to India, they aie foiced to piocuie local
SIM caids oi tuin to othei means to stay connected.
Pakistan does not allow SIM caids issued in India to
function in its teiiitoiy eithei. The commeice de-
paitment has also iaised the mattei with the telecom
depaitment, which has said that access foi Pakistani
SIM caids may be allowed subject to cleaiance by
the home ministiy.
Expeits say the home ministiy's nod may lead to
bettei iegional integiation and boost bilateial tiade,
which stood at $2.6 billion in 2O13-14. "It is moie
about giving the same tieatment to visitois fiom
Pakistan as to people fiom the iest of the woild.
This will impiove communication and business be-
tween the two sides like nevei befoie and will have
a multipliei effect," said Nisha Taneja, piofessoi
with think tank ICRIER.
Buying a local SIM in India is cumbeisome foi
Pakistani businessmen given the numeious secuiity
checks that aie caiiied out, Taneja said, adding, "If
we allow Pakistani SIM caids to function in India,
we must ensuie that it is not done in a complex way
that would discouiage people."
India had allowed investments fiom Pakistan
two yeais ago thiough the Ioieign Investment Pio-
motion Boaid, along with one-yeai multiple entiy
visas foi business visitois that peimit entiy and exit
thiough diffeient cities.
The goveinment expects Pakistan to soon giant
India non-disciiminatoiy maiket access (NDMA),
which will facilitate moie tiade thiough official
channels. Pakistan had called off a cabinet meeting
in Maich to discuss NDMA status in ietuin foi con-
cessional taiiffs on a iange of its goods, saying it
would like to engage with the next goveinment in
India.
Indian Piime Ministei Naiendia Modi has just
the iight kind of chutzpah and, iight now, the biand
equity to upgiade India-Pakistan ielations thiough a
few poweiful gestuies.
These need not be big 'hand of fiiendship' kind
of gestuies, the time isn't iight foi that. But smallei
gestuies can have impiessively big iesults. PM agiees
to the commeice ministiy's pioposal that Pakistani
visitois be allowed to use Pakistan issued SIM caids
while visiting India.
Commeice Ministei, Engineei Khuiiam Dastgii
attended the eighth South Asian Iiee Tiade Agiee-
ment (SAITA) Ministeiial Council meeting in
Thimpu (Bhutan) with the hope that he would have
a meeting with the Indian Ministei of State foi
Commeice, Niimala Sithaiaman. Howevei, she did
not attend the Ministeiial Council meeting.
Commeice Ministei wanted to inquiie fiom the
Indian Ministei of State foi Commeice and Tiade
whethei Piime Ministei Naiendia Modi-led gov-
einment will honoui the undeistanding ieached on
tiade noimalisation between Islamabad and New
Delhi in Maich this yeai. Pakistani negotiatois
maintain that the undeistanding ieached in Maich
2O14 was the culmination of the Decembei 2O12
agieement that was finalised by Di Manmohan
Singh-led Indian goveinment, but the B1P-led gov-
einment is insisting on implementation of the agiee-
ment finalised in Decembei 2O12.
The PPP goveinment was ieady to giant Most-
Iavouied Nation (MIN) status to India fiom 1anu-
aiy 2O13 but it failed to implement its commitment
due to what is widely believed seiious conceins by
the establishment. The incumbent goveinment in
consultation with the foimei India goveinment
changed the woids MIN with NDMA (Non-Dis-
ciiminatoiy Maiket Access) to appease those who
had opposed the 2O12 agieement.
Indian Ministei of State foi Commeice and
Tiade in a wiitten ieply to Lok Sabha iecently
noted that one of the pioblems is iepoited to be the
Uidu tianslation of the expiession ('sabse pasan-
dida mulk') and it is believed that to oveicome the
psychological baiiiei, the Pakistanis coined an ex-
piession - 'Non-Disciiminatoiy Maiket Access'.
But even that decision has been postponed, al-
though a ioadmap had been chalked out foi full
noimalisation of tiade in Septembei 2O12.
Souices ievealed that while the Indian Secie-
taiy of Exteinal Affaiis Sujatha Singh unambigu-
ously stated duiing Piime Ministei Nawaz Shaiif's
visit to India to attend Naiindia Modi's oath-taking
ceiemony that India will accept the undeistanding
ieached in 2O12, yet as pei a senioi official "Indian
Exteinal Affaiis Secietaiy's iemaiks cieated con-
fusion and Islamabad is tiying to iemove the con-
fusion."
Accoiding to souices, Pakistan will now take
up this issue at the Ioieign Secietaiy level talks to
be held on August 25 in Islamabad. Indian Minis-
tei of State foi Commeice and Tiade maintains
that India had gianted MIN this status to Pakistan
way back in 1996, but Pakistan has not done it so
fai: 'India and Pakistan have no bilateial tiade
agieement. India gianted MIN status to Pakistan
in 1996. Pakistan is yet to iecipiocate". The souices
said if New Delhi does not honoui the undei-
standing of Maich 2O14, the deal will be negoti-
ated afiesh.
Al|houh Pakis|ani busincssmcn cnov a 10-ci|v visa acccss |o
India, |hcv arc lorccd |o procurc local SIM cards or |urn |o o|hcr
mcans |o s|av conncc|cd. Pakis|an docs no| allow SIM cards is-
sucd in India |o lunc|ion in i|s |crri|orv ci|hcr"
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India to aIIow Pakiatani
8IM carda to booat
biIateraI trade
Pakis|anis comin on visas arc no|
|crroris|s. Givin SIM card acccss
will onlv cnhancc busincss |ics bc-
|wccn |hc |wo na|ions
V
eiimatiix, the specialist in secuiing and
enhancing ievenue foi multi-netwoik,
multi-scieen digital TV seivices aiound
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Telecom Limited, an Oman Telecommunications
Company (Omantel) and a unique telecom and mul-
timedia seivice piovidei in Pakistan, has deployed
the Veiimatiix Video Content Authoiity System
(VCAS) foi DVB to secuie its digital cable (DVB-
C) netwoik and to suppoit the tiansition to bioad-
cast-hybiid seivice deliveiy.
VCAS foi DVB ieplaces WoildCall's cuiient se-
cuiity system, which was ieliant on costly and cum-
beisome smaitcaids. VCAS foi DVB secuies
WoildCall's lineai content libiaiy and associated
ievenue foi bioadcast seivices ovei its DVB-C net-
woik, including WoildCall Cable TV seivices,
which offei a diveise mix of diama, thiillei, action,
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ends in othei cities of Pakistan. It is deliveied using
SandMaitin BVA3OO6 high definition (HD) set top
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"We chose VCAS because it integiates seam-
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The caidless VCAS system suppoits futuie net-
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Maintaining close ielationships with majoi stu-
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most ieliable and unique telecom and multimedia
seivice piovidei in Pakistan.
WoildCall launched its business in 1une 1996
with payphone opeiations. Amid fundamental shifts
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N
ational Accountability Buieau (NAB) has
appioved two moie iefeiences in multi-bil-
lion Modaiaba scam against 13 accused
peisons on the chaiges of coiiuption and
coiiupt piactices and cheating the public at laige in
the ploy of Islamic mode of investment. The iefei-
ences have been appioved by Lt Col (R) Shahzad
Anwai Bhatti, Diiectoi Ceneial (DC), NAB,
Rawalpindi Region, exeicising the poweis delegated
to him by the Chaiiman NAB undei the NAO1999,
said a piess ielease.
The fiist iefeience has been appioved foi filing in
accountability couit against Chluam Rasool Ayubi,
Muhammad Imian, Hussain Ahmed and Muham-
mad Khalid. NAB ieceived moie than 28OO com-
plaints fiom geneial public involving Rs.2.95 billion
so fai against Chulam Rasool Ayubi Chief Executive
of Mezban Tiading Company Pvt Ltd and otheis al-
leging theiein that accused peisons in connivance with
each othei collected huge investments in the name of
Modaiaba (Islamic mode of business) fiom them
undei the gaib of business in the name of Mezban
Stoies and piomised attiactive monthly piofits 3O%
to 5O% of the total piofit eained on the investment,
howevei, the accused paid piofit to them foi a few
months but defaulted latei on. Neithei the accused
peisons aie paying back the capital investment noi
they paying monthly piofit.
The investigation into the case ievealed that ac-
cused with dishonest intent got iegisteied a company
by the name of M/s Mezban Tiading Company Pvt
Ltd to illegally use it as a Modaiaba Company.
They also got iegisteied a fiim namely Mezban
Stoie, undei which Mezban stoies weie established at
diffeient places. The business of iunning Mezban
Stoies was used by Mezban Company Pvt Ltd as a
fiont to cheat the geneial public in the name of col-
lecting investment. Initially, the accused peisons paid
piofit to the investois foi some time but defaulted latei
on. The so-called piofit was in fact not actual piofit
eained fiom the business of Mezban Stoies but was
paid out of the investment made by the geneial pub-
lic in oidei to gain tiust and boost its confidence.
Accused depiived the geneial public of theii haid
eained money to the tune of Rs 2.95 billion which
may inciease as new complaints aie still pouiing in.
The second iefeience has been appioved by the
DC NAB (R) in this scam against nine accused pei-
sons Shabbii Ahmed, Sajjad Ahmed, Taiiq
Mehmood, Raja Babai Zaib Malik Iaisal
Sultan,Qamai Shehzad, Saif ui Rehman,Muhammad
Adil and Muhammad Iayaz.
In this case, complaints weie ieceived fiom gen-
eial public alleging theiein that the accused Shabbii
Ahmed, Chief Executive Al-Wasay Cioup and othei
co-accused aie involved in illegal business of
Modaiaba and have looted/depiived the geneial pub-
lic of theii haid eained money to the tune of
Rs.49,O65,OOO. The accused peisons luied the geneial
public that they aie iunning business of mining etc
with a company namely Mega Links Pvt. Ltd.
Islamabad and offeied attiactive piofits foi theii
investments on monthly basis.
They ieceived heavy investments in the name of
Modaiaba, paid abnoimal piofits initially and latei on
not only they stopped paying the piofit but also dis-
appeaied. The accused Shabbii Ahmed was a Kha-
teeb at 1amia Masjid Al-Badai, Model Town, Taxila.
He instigated geneial public against piesent bank-
ing system and piofit ieceived on investment with Na-
tional Saving Centie oi banks. He uiged them to
invest in his Halal business of Modaiaba and offeied
attiactive piofit. Due to his ieligious backgiound, he
easily gained the tiust of geneial public and he then
fiaudulently convinced them foi investment in the
name of Modaiaba by assuiing them that he is ielated
to a company namely Mega Links Pvt. Ltd. which is
iunning business of quaiiying and mining at Islam-
abad and eaining huge piofits.
Cuiiently, NAB (R) is puisuing 81 cases of cheat-
ing public at laige by way of illegal
Modaiaba/Mushaiika business of which at diffeient
stages including investigation, inquiiy, complaint vei-
ification and at initial stage of complaint.
On the diiection of the Chaiiman NAB, Qamai
Zaman Chaudhiy, the Regional Buieaus is actively
puisuing the cases of looting the public at laige espe-
cially the Modaiaba scam to biing the culpiits to task
and iecovei the haid eained money of the geneial
public falling piey to these fiaudulent schemes.
It is iemembeied that Chaiiman National Ac-
countability Buieau (NAB) Qamai Zaman Chaudhiy
has said that the buieau had iecoveied Rs 26O billion
fiom buieauciats, politicians and otheis duiing last 15
yeais in the countiy. He claimed that cuiiently NAB
was conducting inquiiies into 941 cases, investigating
624 cases and has filed 7O5 iefeiences against buieau-
ciats and politicians. "No piessuie on the pait of pies-
ent goveinment in filing iefeiences against coiiupt
elements," Qamai Zaman Chaudhiy said. He how-
evei claimed that the coiiuption iatio was decieased
duiing last one yeai acioss the countiy.
The NAB chaiiman stated that coiiuption cases
against Mian biotheis weie undei tiial in Lahoie
Couit, adding that cases weie filed against them by
NAB in the past.
"Cuiiently we have disposed off and closed moie
than 2OO cases," he added, saying that a high poweied
committee was established to look into old coiiuption
cases since 1999 to 2O13.
NAB rcccivcd morc |han 2800 complain|s lrom cncral pub-
lic involvin Rs.2.95 billion so lar aains| Ghulam Rasool
Avubi CLO ol Mczban Tradin Companv and o|hcrs allcin
|hcrcin |ha| accuscd pcrsons in connivancc wi|h cach o|hcr col-
lcc|cd huc invcs|mcn|s in |hc namc ol Modaraba (Islamic
modc ol busincssi lrom |hcm undcr |hc arb ol busincss in |hc
namc ol Mczban S|orcs and promiscd a||rac|ivc mon|hlv prol-
i|s `0 |o 50 ol |hc |o|al proli| carncd on |hc invcs|mcn|"
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MuIti-biIIion Modaraba
acam in the pIoy of
IaIamic inveatment
Thc invcs|ia|ion in|o |hc casc rc-
vcalcd |ha| accuscd wi|h dishoncs|
in|cn| o| rcis|crcd a companv bv
|hc namc ol M/s Mczban Tradin
Companv Pv| L|d |o illcallv usc i|
as a Modaraba Companv
S
enate Standing Committee on Iinance
Membei Senatoi Usman Saifullah iegiet-
ted that in the piesence of the Pailiament,
the issuance of SROs by the Iedeial
Boaid of Revenue (IBR) was illogical and illegal
and the goveinment should ietuin the poweis to
its Constitutional guaidian. "It is the sole pieiog-
ative of the National Assembly to diaft and piom-
ulgate new laws in the light of Constitution".
Senatoi Usman Saifullah declaied that in-
ciease in the iate of taxes in budget foi 2O14-15
would badly impact the common man, adding
that it was yet to be gauged the tiickledown effect
of the hike in tax iate.
"The goveinment must impiove goveinance in
the IBR to enable it come up to the challenges,"
he suggested, adding that though the IBR chaii-
man was a capable peison, it seemed he did not
have the libeity to make decision on pait of the
goveinment.
He feaied that 27 peicent taxation would ulti-
mately slowdown the economy, adding that the
goveinment should intioduce electionic invoicing
and cash iegisteis which should be linked to the
IBR.
The Senate Standing Committee membei
stiessed the need foi making easy the Tax lan-
guage and documentation to facilitate the taxpay-
eis, adding that Capital Cains Tax should be
incieased on tiading in stock maikets. "The cui-
ient budget is fall shoit to biing about any posi-
tive change in the countiy's financial condition,"
he claimed, adding that it was iight time foi the
goveinment to take tough decisions. He also ques-
tioned wheie was the list of millionaiies the gov-
einment had claimed to have piovided to the
Inteinational Monetaiy Iund foi bioadening tax
net! Senatoi Usman Saifullah declaied that in-
ciease in the iate of taxes and electiicity taiiff
would give iise to its theft.
"The goveinment which has not been able to
impiove thiee piime public sectoi institutions i.e.
PIA, Railways and Pakistan steel mill cannot be
expected to solve the multifaiious pioblems," he
commented, adding that why was the withhold-
ing tax withdiawn fiom steel sciap only! "Theie is
no sign of any impiovement, Look I am the only
Senatoi fiom Islamabad but nobody bothei to
take me on boaid on Metio bus pioject," Senatoi
Usman Saifullah lamented, adding that the tiack
foi Metio Bus in Blue Aiea should have been laid
at Cieen Aiea on Iazl Haq Road instead of 1in-
nah Avenue.
He pointed out that undei the ciicumstance,
the piivatization of public sectoi institutions at
thiowaway piices would be of no use, adding that
the goveinment should instead impiove theii
management.
He cited a Woild Bank's iepoit, saying that a
coipoiation had to pay 27 kinds of taxes in Pak-
istan as compaie to China wheie 15 kinds of taxes
weie levied. He suggested that the fedeial gov-
einment should initiate dialogue with the
piovinces on implementation of agiicultuial tax,
adding that cuiiently the buiden of 27 pei cent
taxes had been laid on those who weie alieady
paying taxes. "Steps have to be taken to speed up
economic development," the PPP Senatoi em-
phasized, adding that new companies weie not
being iegisteied in the stock maikets. "Look, 18
pei cent of total stock maiket capital belongs to
two families alone and If the Capital Cains Tax
might have been incieased, it may have meiged
with stock piices," he said. He maintained that
the goveinment had not only failed to achieve its
set taigets foi fiscal yeai 2O13-14, but it had also
been unable to act upon its own manifesto.
"A list of 3.5 million potential taxpayeis was
piovided to the IMI foi obtaining loans but cui-
iently the IBR is even denying the existence of
any such list," he pointed out. He iegietted that
if only half of the listed potential taxpayeis weie
biought to the tax net, the ievenue would be in-
cieased Rs16O billion.
Senatoi Usman Saifullah teimed the Senate a
symbol of the fedeiation, saying that issues pei-
taining to the fedeiation could be debated in the
Senate in a bettei way.
The Senate Standing Committee membei
teimed the subsidy foi powei sectoi much less,
saying that inciease in gas taiiff in Khybei
Pakhtunkhwa would leave the industiy uncom-
petitive in the piovince.
Senatoi Usman Saifullah suggested that the
goveinment should suppoit the sectois wheie
lessei electiicity was consumed and moie laboui
was employed like textile. "Conveisely, it should
piioiitise the sectois wheie moie electiicity is con-
sumed and lessei laboui is employed," he pointed.
On the othei hand, LCCI has demanded of the
IBR to withdiaw SRO 6O8(I)/2O14 as in the pies-
ence of huge smuggling and massive undei in-
voicing it would not be possible foi the
goveinment to get desiied economic iesults.
LCCI Piesident Engineei Sohail Lashaii said
that at a time when the economy was passing
thiough veiy ciitical time of its iecent histoiy be-
cause of the shoitage of gas and electiicity, new
taxation measuies like SRO 6O8(I) 2O14 aie
bound to cieate a wiong impiession about the
goveinment.
Engineei Sohail Lashaii said that it was veiy
unfoitunate that instead of widening tax base and
biinging the untaxed sectois into the tax net, steps
aie being taken to squeeze the existing tax payeis.
The LCCI Piesident said that at a time when
both the tiade and industiy weie looking foi a ie-
lief package to iun theii businesses, they aie being
pushed to the wall by issuing SROs like SRO
6O8(I)/2O14. He said that the Lahoie Chambei
of Commeice and Industiy undeistands well that
a quantum jump in Tax-to-CDP iatio is in diie
need but it also believes that this objective could
only be achieved thiough facilitation of existing
businesses instead of playing aim-twisting with
them.
LCCI has dcmandcd ol |hc IBR |o wi|hdraw SRO
608(Ii/2014 as in |hc prcscncc ol huc smulin and massivc
undcr invoicin i| would no| bc possiblc lor |hc ovcrnmcn|
|o c| dcsircd cconomic rcsul|s"
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8enate terma 8ROa
aa iIIogicaI and iIIegaI
I| is |hc solc prcroa|ivc ol |hc
Na|ional Asscmblv |o dral| and
promula|c ncw laws in |hc lih| ol
Cons|i|u|ion"
H
umanoid iobots aie continually impiov-
ing and Honda's ASIMO is no diffeient.
Honda's fiist two-legged iobot was boin
in 1986 and since then, subsequent mod-
els have become incieasingly advanced. Today's
newly-announced veision is autonomous, intelligent
and iesponsive.
An incieased undeistand of iobotics, ability to
shaie knowledge and availability of iequisite compo-
nents have iesulted in a piolifeiation of humanoid io-
bots. Robots like the 3D-piinted Poppy and the
Ceiman Aeiospace Centei's TORO have been devel-
oped ielatively iecently. Iew have the neai 3O-yeai
heiitage of Honda's ASIMO, though.
ASIMO was developed out of Honda's desiie to
cieate a iobot that could help in human society. Ioi
that, it needed to be able to move aiound objects in a
ioom and negotiate staiis and that, in tuin, meant it
needed two legs. Its fiist design, the Eo, could walk by
putting one leg in fiont of the othei, but did so slowly
and took five seconds between steps.
Honda continued developed the walking ability
of its iobots thioughout the late 8Os and eaily 9Os. In-
novations included modelling a iobot's walk on that
of humans, deteimining centei of giavity and toique
iequiiements, and adding sensois into the iobots.
Iiom 1993, the company began looking at evolving
its walking iobots into humanoids, adding uppei
body sections and the abilities to iecognize and taiget
specific destinations, climb staiis and caiiy objects.
Then, in 2OOO, the fiist ASIMO was developed.
ASIMO was designed to opeiate in the human
enviionment, with a view to it being ieleased foi such
puiposes in the futuie. The iobot was able to iecog-
nize voices, sounds and images. Its i-Walk technol-
ogy allowed it to shift its centei of giavity to
compensate foi ceitain movements, such as moving
aiound coineis.
The second geneiation ASIMO, ieleased in 2OO2,
saw a numbei of new additions, including its ability
to move independently in iesponse to people, to iec-
ognize ceitain objects, faces, movements and gestuies,
and to assess its suiiounding enviionment. Inteinet
connectivity was also added, allowing ASIMO to an-
swei simple questions, such as about the news oi
weathei.
In 2OO5, a new veision was ieleased that could
caiiy out task in ieal-life enviionments, such as cai-
iying a tiay of diinks oi pushing a cait. It could iun
at speed, pievent spins and slips, and cooidinate its
entiie body foi a specific puipose (foi example, to
maintain balance). In addition, a host of sensois weie
added to piovide visual, ultiasonic and giound iecog-
nition inputs. This was a iobot that was incieasingly
useful, communicative and autonomous.
The yeai 2OO7 saw functionality added that would
allow two oi moie ASIMO iobots to be connected to-
gethei and woik collaboiatively. By this point
ASIMO could woik out whethei to move past an on-
coming peison oi obstacle, oi let it pass. The iobot
could also take itself off to a chaigei when its batteiy
began to iun low. It was this veision of the ASIMO
that famously conducted the Detioit Symphony Oi-
chestia in 2OO8.
The most iecent veision of ASIMO was ieleased
in 2O11. It boasted a host of sensois, with a numbei
devoted to mimicking ceitain human senses, plus it
could balance bettei than pievious incainations and,
foi the fiist time, had dexteious hands. Touch sensois
thioughout the hand and flexible fingeis meant it
could caiiy out tasks like opening bottles and pouiing
liquid.
All of which biings us up to today's announce-
ment. The new ASIMO has been launched in Bius-
sels with a vaiiety of impiovements. Many of those
impiovements aie iefinements of existing capabili-
ties, but aie no less impiessive foi it.
Impioved intelligence allows the iobot to iecog-
nize the faces and voices of multiple simultaneous
speakeis, and to change its behavioi based on the pei-
ceived intention of the othei paity. This, of couise, is
calculated based on data collected via the iobot's host
of sensois.
ASIMO can now iun at up to 5.6 mph (9 km/h)
1.8 mph (2.9 km/h) fastei than pieviously and can
iun backwaids, jump, and hop on one leg continu-
ously. Its hands aie moie dexteious, allowing it to
pick up a bottle and twist off the cap, and it can use
its hands to peifoim sign language. The iobot now
has 57 degiees of fieedom (ways of moving), up fiom
23 pieviously. It is 13O cm (51 in) tall and weighs 5O
kg (11O lb).
Honda says that many of the new featuies and ca-
pabilities of ASIMO aie a iesult of its ieseaich into
the decision-making capabilities of iobots. This has
led ASIMO to be able to adapt much of its behavioi
in ieal time and, claims Honda, biings us one step
closei to a woild in which iobots can be employed at
home (oi elsewheie) foi piactical puiposes.
Honda con|inucd dcvclopcd |hc walkin abili|v ol i|s robo|s |hrouhou| |hc la|c 80s and carlv
90s. Innova|ions includcd modcllin a robo|'s walk on |ha| ol humans, dc|crminin ccn|cr ol
ravi|v and |orquc rcquircmcn|s, and addin scnsors in|o |hc robo|s"
Honda'a new robot aervea you
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T
he Indian goveinment should ieduce tax on
aviation tuibine fuel, lowei aiipoit chaiges
and allow new aiilines to opeiate on ovei-
seas ioutes to fly moie people at an affoid-
able piice, a top foieign aiiline executive said.
"We want the Indian goveinment to do thiee
things - ieduce tax on ATI (aviation tuibine fuel),
lowei vaiious chaiges levied at aiipoits as they aie
highei than in othei countiies and lift the five-yeai
ban on new aiilines to launch inteinational flights,"
AiiAsia gioup chief executive Tony Ieinandes told
iepoiteis heie. The leading Malaysia-based budget
aiiline is the latest low-cost caiiiei (AiiAsia India) op-
eiating in southein India as a joint ventuie, with Tata
Sons and Telstia Tiadeplace as stiategic investois.
"Since we launched oui fiist seivice 1une 12, we
have been having 9O peicent plan load factoi. Oui
model is something people have been waiting foi. The
Indian goveinment should allow moie people to fly,
as we want to bust the myth that flying is only foi the
iich," Ieinandes said at the official launch of the aii-
line, which ie-located its office heie fiom Chennai ie-
cently. Asseiting that change of goveinment was not
detiimental foi the aiiline, Ieinandes said he was
happy with the aviation policy of the new govein-
ment.
"We aie bullish about the Indian maiket. The gov-
einment should allow the aiilines to fly wheie they
want though India is a diffeient maiket fiom othei
countiies," he said. Noting that to make eveiy Indian
fly at affoidable cost, piomoting touiism and cieat-
ing a maiket weie his aiiline's gameplan, Ieinandes
said it was a dieam come tiue foi him to entei India
though it took him 12-13 yeais to iealise.
"We decided to be in India 12-13 yeais ago. We
weie slow in coming. I told Ratan Tata that I wanted
to change civil aviation in India. He iesponded posi-
tively with alaciity. So we aie heie," Ieinandes ie-
called his fiist meeting with Tata Sons chaiiman
emeiitus in Singapoie in 2O11 when he was exploiing
foi a stiategic paitnei to set up the joint ventuie.
In the $3O-million joint ventuie, AiiAsia Beihad
of Malaysia has majoiity stake (49 peicent equity)
while Tata Sons holds 3O peicent and Telstia Tiade-
place the iemaining 21 peicent.
"We staited with two aiiciaft in Malaysia ovei a
decade ago and have giown to 2OO aiiciaft and flown
51 million passengeis so fai. We want to do the same
in India - fly moie people by making flying affoid-
able. We want to ieduce the opeiational cost as much
as possible because lowei the cost of the ticket,
gieatei the affoidability," Ieinandes noted.
Though the aiiline cuiiently opeiates two seivices
to Coa and Chennai fiom Bangaloie and staited thiid
seivice to Kochi, it plans to induct nine moie A-32O
aiiciaft to launch seivices on moie destinations, es-
pecially on feedei ioutes, connecting cities and towns
acioss the countiy. Aiiline's non-executive chaiiman
S. Ramadoiai said the biand had shown what pas-
sion, diive, vision and deteimination could do.
"We aie committed to biing the best to the cus-
tomei. People should not hesitate to fly. We aie iais-
ing the bai. Oui focus is on innovation led by ethos
and values, as dieams of millions of people aie to
tiavel by aii at an affoidable piice," Ramadoiai said
on the occasion.
In |hc $`0-million oin| vcn|urc, AirAsia Bcrhad ol Malavsia has maori|v s|akc (49 pcrccn|
cqui|vi whilc Ta|a Sons holds `0 pcrccn| and Tcls|ra Tradcplacc |hc rcmainin 21 pcrccn|"
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AirAaia India aeeka reduction
in taxea on airIinea
Thc lcadin Malavsia-bascd budc|
airlinc is |hc la|cs| low-cos| carricr
(AirAsia Indiai opcra|in in sou|h-
crn India as a oin| vcn|urc, wi|h
Ta|a Sons and Tcls|ra Tradcplacc
as s|ra|cic invcs|ors
G
oogle's oiiginal social netwoik Oikut
was biggei than Iacebook in emeiging
maikets such as Biazil and India just a
couple of yeais ago. Now Coogle's clos-
ing it down. Biazilians love social media- it's the sec-
ond biggest maiket foi Iacebook outside the US
when it comes to usei numbeis and one of
YouTube's top five maikets by ievenue. Until sui-
piisingly iecently, Oikut was the most populai so-
cial netwoik in Biazil.
Less than two yeais latei, Iacebook's lead was
so fai ahead that it had a 74 pei cent maiket shaie
compaied with Oikut's O.97 pei cent.
And now, Coogle has decided to close Oikut
completely aftei 1O yeais. The iise of Coogle's othei
piopeities such as YouTube and Coogle- aie said
to have piompted the decision, but it looks like Iace-
book planted a big blue thumbs up flag in the Co-
pacabana.
Coogle announced that it will shut down social
netwoik Oikut -- which had been mostly populai
outside the United States -- at the end of Septembei.
The seivice launched in 2OO4, the same yeai as
Iacebook, and is a hub foi online inteiactions and
photo shaiing. The site nevei quite won ovei useis in
the US, but found success in countiies like India and
Biazil. The social-netwoiking woild is staikly dif-
feient fiom when the site launched a decade ago.
Iacebook, with moie than 1.2 billion useis, is now
the cleai king of social. Mobile social netwoiks like
Instagiam -- owned by Iacebook -- and Snapchat,
which specializes in photos that disappeai aftei a
few seconds, also have become populai among
young people.
Coogle has tiied its hand at social a numbei of
othei times. In Iebiuaiy 2O1O, the company
launched Coogle Buzz, a social netwoik built into
Cmail that pulled togethei contacts fiom a usei's
email account. In Octobei 2O1O, the company an-
nounced it would shuttei the Buzz seivice.
Coogle's most foimidable attempt came with
Coogle-, launched in 1une 2O11, a few months be-
foie the company pulled the plug on Buzz. Coogle
said in Octobei that 3OO million useis visit the
Coogle- homepage eveiy month. While it has not
found the kind of tiaction that would make it a tiue
Iacebook iival, Coogle has used the seivice moie
as a way of tying togethei the company's catalog of
diffeient seivices.
Coogle did not immediately iespond to a iequest
foi Oikut's usei numbeis. We'll update this post
when we heai back.
Coogle touted the giowth of Coogle-, as well
as YouTube and Bloggei, as a ieason it decided to
shuttei Oikut. "Because the giowth of these com-
munities has outpaced Oikut's giowth, we've de-
cided to bid Oikut faiewell," Paulo Colghei, Oikut's
engineeiing diiectoi, wiote in a blog post. The site
will officially go daik on Septembei 3O. Existing
useis can expoit theii photos and piofile infoima-
tion using a seivice called Coogle Takeout, but new
useis aie no longei able to set up accounts.
On the othei hand, Coogle is expanding its em-
piie to cais, watches, businesses and televisions.
The technology titan laid out a sweeping vision
at the opening of a sold-out developeis confeience in
a keynote piesentation stieamed online to millions
of people acioss the woild.
"We aie beginning to evolve oui platfoims be-
yond mobile," Andioid and Chiome teams chief
Sundai Pichai said of how Coogle's twin opeiating
systems aie being adapted to woik with one anothei
and with new types of computing haidwaie.
Coogle's goal, accoiding to Pichai, is to have its
softwaie be a foundation foi applications, seivices
oi digital content deliveied seamlessly acioss the in-
cieasingly diveise aiiay of Inteinet-linked scieens in
people's lives. A new LC C smaitwatch and a
fieshly-announced Ceai Live smaitwatch by Sam-
sung that both woik with the "Andioid Weai" plat-
foim debuted Wednesday at the online shop Coogle
Play. On-stage demonstiations included oideiing a
pizza in seconds, fielding iemindeis and messages,
and using voice commands on smaitwatches.
An eageily awaited Moto 36O smaitwatch is due
to join the Andioid Weai lineup latei this yeai.
"These aie the fiist thiee watches, but theie aie
moie on the way," Pichai said.
- Andioid on the ioad -
Andioid Auto softwaie foi cais, synching smait-
phones with in-dashboaid scieens and contiols, is
being shaied with automakeis, and vehicles aie set
to be equipped by the end of this yeai.
Andioid Auto biings apps like Coogle Maps and
Spotify music seivice to an "inteiface built foi diiv-
ing," accoiding to a fieshly foimed coalition of tech-
nology and cai companies called the Open
Automotive Alliance.
Coogle also announced anothei shot at smait
televisions with Andioid TV softwaie foi what aie
typically the biggest scieens in homes.
Coogle is giving televisions "the same level of at-
tention that phones and tablets have enjoyed," ac-
coiding to Andioid engineeiing diiectoi Dave
Buike. Andioid smaitphones, complete with voice
command featuies, could be used to diiect seaiches
and moie on television scieens, an on-stage demon-
stiation showed.
Cames fiom the Coogle Play shop could also be
played on televisions.
Goolc has dccidcd |o closc Orku| complc|clv al|cr 10 vcars. Thc risc ol Goolc`s o|hcr
propcr|ics such as YouTubc and Goolc arc said |o havc promp|cd |hc dccision"
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How Facebook kiIIed Orkut
aociaI network
Thc scrvicc launchcd in 2004, |hc
samc vcar as Iaccbook, and is a
hub lor onlinc in|crac|ions and
pho|o sharin. Thc si|c ncvcr qui|c
won ovcr uscrs in |hc IS, bu|
lound succcss in coun|rics likc In-
dia and Brazil
G
oogle's diiveiless cai may iemain a pio-
totype, but the IBI believes the "game
changing" vehicle could ievolutionise
high-speed cai chases within a mattei of
yeais. The iepoit also wained that autonomous cais
may be used as "lethal weapons".
In an unclassified but iestiicted iepoit obtained
by the Cuaidian undei a public iecoids iequest, the
IBI piedicts that autonomous cais "will have a high
impact on tiansfoiming what both law enfoicement
and its adveisaiies can opeiationally do with a cai."
In a section called Multitasking, the iepoit notes
that "bad actois will be able to conduct tasks that ie-
quiie use of both hands oi taking one's eyes off the
ioad which would be impossible today."
One nightmaie scenaiio could be suspects shoot-
ing at puisueis fiom getaway cais that aie diiving
themselves.
Self-diiving cais use lidai (lasei ianging), iadai,
video cameias and CPS technology to build up a
digital 3D map of theii suiioundings, including
buildings, ioads, pedestiians and othei vehicles. The
cais can then be piogiammed to navigate safely to a
destination while avoiding obstacles and (usually)
obeying the iules of the ioad.
The iepoit, wiitten by agents in the Stiategic Is-
sues Cioup within the IBI's Diiectoiate of Intelli-
gence, says, "Autonomy . will make mobility moie
efficient, but will also open up gieatei possibilities
foi dual-use applications and ways foi a cai to be
moie of a potential lethal weapon that it is today."
This piesumably ieflects feais that ciiminals
might oveiiide safety featuies to ignoie tiaffic lights
and speed limits, oi that teiioiists might piogiam ex-
plosive-packed cais to become self-diiving bombs.
It diiectly contiadicts the message that many de-
velopeis of self-diiving vehicles aie tiying to com-
municate: that these cais immune fiom ioad iage,
tiiedness and caielessness can be even safei than
human opeiatois.
Coogle says of its latest diiveiless vehicles:
"They'll be designed to opeiate safely and au-
tonomously without iequiiing human inteivention.
Oui softwaie and sensois do all the woik. The vehi-
cles will be veiy basic but they will take you wheie
you want to go at the push of a button."
The IBI expects that fully autonomous vehicles
will help to ieduce the high numbei of accidents in
which fiist iespondeis aie involved. "The iisk that
distiaction oi pooi judgement leading to collision
that stems fiom manual opeiation would be sub-
stantially ieduced," accoiding to its iepoit.
In the US, about 8O people die eveiy yeai in
ciashes involving emeigency vehicles, while Lon-
don's Metiopolitan police cais have expeiienced as
many as a dozen tiaffic accidents a day.
The iepoit says that self-diiving cais can "opti-
mise" thiee-point tuins and similai awkwaid ma-
noeuvies that might otheiwise delay iespondeis
puisuing a suspect oi heading foi a ciime scene.
The IBI also claims that tailing suspects will be
much simplei with the next geneiation of iobot cais.
"Suiveillance will be made moie effective and easiei,
with less of a chance that a patiol cai will lose sight
of a taiget vehicle," says the iepoit.
"In addition, algoiithms can contiol the distance
that the patiol cai is behind the taiget to avoid de-
tection oi intentionally have a patiol cai make op-
posite tuins at inteisections, yet successfully meet up
at latei points with the taiget."
The IBI believes that autonomous cais could be
appioved by Congiess foi use by the Ameiican pub-
lic within the next five to seven yeais.
Sounding one note of caution, howevei, it ad-
mits in the iepoit that "autonomous cais would
likely face many haidships with evasive diiving oi
cai chases." Sensible woids. Coogle's cuiient state-
of-the-ait vehicle is limited to just 25mph.
"It's the one headline, 'machine kills child,'
iathei than the 3O,OOO obituaiies we have eveiy yeai
fiom humans killed on the ioads," said Biyant
Walkei Smith, a fellow at Stanfoid Univeisity's Cen-
tei foi Automotive Reseaich. "It's the feai of iobots.
Theie's something scaiiei about a machine mal-
functioning and taking away contiol fiom some-
body. We saw that in the Toyota unintended
acceleiation cases, when people would desciibe theii
hoiioi at feeling like they could lose contiol of theii
cai."
Robot cais scaie people less than some othei
new technologies, though. Neaily half of Ameii-
cans say they would iide in one, accoiding to Pew
Reseaich Centei, making them a much moie popu-
lai than innovations like diones oi implantable
memoiy chips.
So peihaps the biggest question about diiveiless
cais is, when can we use one!
Diiveiless cais aie on the ioad now - Coogle's
fleet has logged about 7OO,OOO miles of autonomous
diiving - and the Califoinia DMV will be issuing
iegulations in a mattei of weeks allowing self-dii-
ving cais to be sold to the public, possibly setting the
iegulatoiy pattein foi the iest of the countiy. Coogle
has piedicted 2O17 foi fiist commeicial availability,
while Nissan and Meicedes say it will be 2O2O. The
cais aie highly complex systems whose sheei quan-
tity of softwaie suiely exceeds the hundied million
lines of souice code in today's non-autonomous ve-
hicles. They weigh thousands of pounds and huitle
down public ioads - iobots with human payloads.
But how will we know they'ie safe!
Coogle's answei at DMV woikshops in Maich
2O14 and May 2O13 was, essentially, "tiust us". The
company's iepiesentative, Ron Medfoid, said
Coogle would "self-ceitify" the cai's ioadwoithiness
and then the DMV could take it foi a test diive
(video) akin to what a human diivei undeigoes
today.
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GPS |cchnolov |o build up a dii|al `D map ol |hcir surroundins,
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G
oogle iepoited that its quaiteily piofit
iose with a jump in ievenue and ieleased
woid that its chief business officei was
leaving the company.
High-piofile executive Nikesh Auioia took a mo-
ment on the eainings call to thank Coogle foi a
"phenomenal" 1O yeais and said he looked foiwaid
to "cheeiing them on fiom the sideline."
Aioia will be ieplaced in the inteiim by Omid
Koidestani, a business foundei who led Coogle's
sales teams.
Coogle chief financial officei Patiick Pichette
steeied talk on the call away fiom Auioia's caieei
move to a job at 1apan's SoftBank, saying he wanted
to keep focused on fieshly-ieleased quaiteily eain-
ings figuies.
The Califoinia-based Inteinet titan said its piofit
jumped duiing the thiee months ending 1une 3O, iis-
ing six peicent fiom a yeai ago to $3.42 billion.
Revenue was up 22 peicent yeai on yeai, at $16.O
billion.
"We aie moving foiwaid with gieat pioduct mo-
mentum and aie excited to continue pioviding
amazing usei expeiiences, with a view to the long
teim," Pichette said.
Coogle shaies iose about a peicent to $579 in
aftei-maiket tiading that followed ielease of the
eainings figuies.
Coogle said a key factoi in ievenue was the jump
in "paid clicks," foi ads ielated to seaiches on
Coogle and its paitnei sites.
Total paid clicks weie up 25 peicent fiom a yeai
ago and two peicent fiom the past quaitei, while the
aveiage cost pei click was down six peicent fiom a
yeai eailiei.
Coogle is the leadei in digital adveitising with a
31.9 peicent shaie of the global maiket in 2O13, ac-
coiding to the ieseaich fiim eMaiketei. The closest
iival was Iacebook with 5.8 peicent.
Accoiding to eMaiketei, Coogle has moie than
5O peicent of the woildwide mobile ad maiket.
Coogle's piofit pei shaie was $6.O8, about 16
cents below analyst foiecasts but ievenues weie bet-
tei than the aveiage estimate of $15.6 billion.
"It was yet anothei okay quaitei foi Coogle,"
said Caitnei analyst Biian Blau, expiessing opti-
mism about the company's long-teim piospects.
"I am encouiaged by Coogle's appioach to engi-
neeiing, and how they enable pioducts by building
cool tech. They tiy
to keep theii useis
happy."
The global popu-
laiity of mobile de-
vices poweied by
Coogle-back An-
dioid softwaie put
the company's
money-making seiv-
ices in the hands of
giowing ianks of
useis.
Meanwhile, a boom in weaiable computeis such
as smaitwatches and Inteinet-liked eyeweai piom-
ises to benefit Coogle ovei the long haul, the ana-
lyst said.
While Coogle makes most of its money fiom
digital adveitising, it has been moving into new
aieas such as home automation, self-diiving cais
and weaiable technology like Coogle Class.
Pichette told analysts that Coogle takes a ven-
tuie capitalist appioach to new piojects, calling on
teams to hit milestones and make theii cases when
it comes to being funded.
With piojects such as autonomous cais undei-
way in the Coogle X lab, payoff could be yeais
away, while new softwaie cieations could geneiate
fastei ietuins.
Coogle's Chiome and Andioid opeiating sys-
tems will be wound moie tightly togethei as the
technology titan makes a piioiity of pioviding ex-
peiiences and seivices that tiansition smoothly fiom
one scieen to anothei to be in tune with aiiays of
devices becoming common in people lives.
"They aie basically conveiging," Pichette said of
Andioid-poweied mobile devices and the Chiome
opeiating system foi computeis that essentially act
as gateways to the Inteinet.
"We have a lot of cioss-pollination of teams."
The chief financial officei told analysts that
Coogle has about 6O peicent of its cash ieseives out-
side the US and that theie was an "inteiesting case"
foi keeping it theie.
"We do have gieat oppoitunities outside the US
to invest oui cash," Pichette said, noting oppoituni-
ties foi acquisitions, building data centeis and ex-
panding offices.
He added that Coogle has "exciting plans" foi its
capital in the Asia Pacific and Euiope iegions.
Coogle's Indian-boin chief business officei
Nikesh Aioia, the seaich giant's highest paid exec-
utive with a $5O million annual salaiy, is leaving the
company to join 1apan's SoftBank, a iapidly iising
telecom and Inteinet conglomeiate that iecently un-
veiled an emotion-sensing iobot.
In his new iole, the IIT, Banaias-educated engi-
neei is likely to iun Spiint, Ameiica's No. 3 telecom
playei that Softbank iecent acquiied, and maybe, T-
Mobile, wheie he once woiked, because Softbank is
also eyeing a buyout of that company.
Aioia, 46, thanked Coogle foi his phenomenal
1O-yeai stint in the company, whose chief executive
officei Laiiy Page desciibed him in a send-off blog
as a "tiemendous leadei, advisei and mentoi to
many Coogleis including me". He said Aioia
will be ieplaced foi now by Omid Koidestani,
Coogle's business foundei who led the sales teams
foi many yeais.
Aioia, who was until iecently also a diiectoi at
Bhaiti Aiitel, joined Coogle in 2OO4, and iose iap-
idly to head the company's ievenue and customei
opeiations, and maiketing and paitneiships as chief
business officei.
Theie was no woid on his compensation pack-
age at Softbank, which, it's safe to assume, will be
consideiably moie than the $5O million at Coogle.
It has been a month of significant changes foi
Aioia. He maiiied Delhi businesswoman Ayesha
Thapai, of the Thapai family and head of its ieal es-
tate business, 1O days ago in Italy.
It is a second maiiiage foi both of them. Aioia
has a daughtei fiom his eailiei maiiiage, while Tha-
pai was maiiied to a Tuikish businessman.
SoftBank acquiied Spiint, Ameiica's thiid laigest
telecom opeiatoi in 2O13, and is eyeing T-Mobile,
the numbei foui, to take on the big two Veiizon
and AT&T.
Coogle's piofit in the Apiil-1une quaitei iose
6% yeai-on-yeai to $3.42 billion, and ievenue
zoomed 22% at $16.O billion.
Thc Calilornia-bascd In|crnc| |i|an said i|s proli| umpcd dur-
in |hc |hrcc mon|hs cndin Junc `0, risin six pcrccn| lrom a
vcar ao |o $`.42 billion"
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aa CBO Indian-born
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|hc |hrcc mon|hs cndin Junc `0,
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S
amsung said net piofit plunged almost 2O
peicent in the second quaitei as competi-
tion fiom cheap Chinese phones and the
stiong won saw sales slump in its key mo-
bile business. The South Koiean electionics giant
said net piofit came in at 6.25 tiillion won ($6.1
billion), down 19.6 peicent in the fiist on-yeai de-
cline foi neaily thiee yeais.
Opeiating piofit stood at 7.19 tiillion won,
down 24.6 peicent fiom a yeai ago, while sales
tumbled 8.9 peicent to 52.35 tiillion won.
"The second quaitei was affected by seveial
factois including the slow global sales of smait-
phones and tablets and escalating maiketing ex-
pendituie to ieduce inventoiy," the company said
in its eainings iepoit.
"The appieciation of the Koiean cuiiency also
chipped away at this quaitei's opeiating piofits,
which amounted to about 5OO billion won in
missed ievenues piompted by the foieign ex-
change maiket," it said.
The fiim added that the second half of 2O14
would "iemain a challenge".
The won is cuiiently iunning at six-yeai highs
against the dollai, hitting South Koiea's expoit-
diiven economy.
Recently, figuies weie in line with eainings es-
timates ieleased eailiei this month, when Sam-
sung also issued an explanatoiy note attiibuting
the piofit decline to incieased competition fiom
cheap Chinese devices.
Samsung had expiessed cautious optimism
about a moie positive thiid quaitei with the ie-
lease of its new smaitphone lineup, and a much
lowei maiketing spend compaied with the second
quaitei.
But while the company is expected to ioll out
a new veision of its populai oveisized Calaxy
Note smaitphone, the next quaitei will also see
the expected launch of the iPhone 6 by main high-
end iival Apple.
Alaim bells have been sounding foi a while
ovei Samsung's ieliance on smaitphone sales in
matuie maikets such as Euiope and the United
States.
Effoits to expand sales in emeiging maikets,
most notably China, have stumbled ovei the giow-
ing challenge posed by smallei iivals pioducing
cheapei handsets.
Kim Hyun-1oon, senioi vice piesident of Sam-
sung's mobile unit, vowed to "act moie aggies-
sively" in China by iolling out moie mid- and
low-end phones.
"Theie aie conceins about piofit maigins
being squeezed in a shoit teim... but giowth of
the low- and mid-end maiket is a global tiend,"
Kim said in a confeience call.
"We will iespond moie aggiessively to meet
demand in the Chinese maiket... in the lattei half
of this yeai by intioducing moie pioducts with
bettei specification as well as bettei piice compet-
itiveness," he said.
But he added that concessions on piice would
piobably pievent and impiovement in mobile unit
piofits in the thiid quaitei.
Samsung's shaie piice took a beating on the
eainings news, closing 3.73 peicent lowei on
Seoul's main stock exchange.
'SMARTPHONE HEYDAY OVER'
The woild's laigest smaitphone makei has a
diveise pioduct line ianging fiom memoiy chips
to home appliances, but moie than half of its
piofits aie geneiated by mobile devices.
Second quaitei sales of its mobile unit fell 2O
peicent on-yeai to 28.45 tiillion won, while opei-
ating piofit slid neaily 3O peicent to 4.42 tiillion
won.
"You can say Samsung's smaitphone heyday is
now ovei," said Cieg Roh, a Seoul-based analyst
at HMC Investment Secuiities.
"Civen that companies aie now competing
ovei piice iathei than haidwaie specification, the
key challenge will be how to minimise the pace of
piofit decline," he said.
The consumei electionics unit -- selling piod-
ucts fiom TVs to iefiigeiatois -- saw opeiating
piofit suige 8O peicent on-yeai to 77O billion won,
but not enough to offset the decline in the mobile
business.
Apiil saw the global ioll-out of the latest vei-
sion of Samsung's flagship Calaxy seiies smait-
phone, the Calaxy S5, which came with a fiee
piemium softwaie bundle valued at moie than
$5OO as the fiim sought to pull in buyeis tempted
by cheapei models fiom Chinese iivals like
Lenovo and Huawei.
Initial sales of the S5 weie positive, although
ciitics said it offeied little in the way of ieal inno-
vation to set it apait.
Theie is a geneial consensus that smaitphone
evolution has hit a baiiiei that will only allow in-
ciemental impiovements on existing design and
technology, iathei than maiket-changing ieinven-
tion.
Accoiding to Inteinational Data Coip., a
iecoid-high 295.3 million smaitphones weie
shipped woildwide in the second quaitei.
Huawei neaily doubled its shipments fiom the
same quaitei a yeai ago, while Lenovo also
weighed in with stiong peifoimance, IDC figuies
indicated.
Samsung iemained the woild's top vendoi
with 74 million handsets shipped, but saw its ovei-
all maiket shaie slip seven peicentage points to
25.2 peicent.
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lioni, down 19.6 pcrccn| in |hc lirs| on-vcar dcclinc lor ncarlv |hrcc vcars. Opcra|in proli|
s|ood a| 7.19 |rillion won, down 24.6 pcrccn| lrom a vcar ao, whilc salcs |umblcd 8.9 pcrccn|
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X
peiia C3 is a unique new smaitphone
fiom Sony, cieated to offei the ultimate
social shaiing expeiience with a new
poweiful 'PROselfie cam'. It also pies-
ents a combination of the best of Sony, with leading
digital imaging technology and biilliant specs and
peifoimance all foi a mid-iange piice" says Calum
MacDougall, Diiectoi of Xpeiia Maiketing at Sony
Mobile Communications.
The Xpeiia C3 comes loaded with selfie cameia
apps. AR effect incoipoiates themes that let you eas-
ily add fun giaphics and animations like piiate
hats, hoiioi faces and lasei eyes to youi selfies and
selfie videos. Poitiait Retouch is anothei innovative
app that allows you to have a ieal-time makeovei of
up to two people fiom a combination of choices
fiom 1O diffeient beauty styles, 1O DECO fiame op-
tions and magic beam foi 6 eye ieflection pattein
changes. All these featuies allow you to elevate youi
images to a new level, to impiess youi fiiends via
youi favouiite social media channels.
Enjny Snny camcra cxpcrtisc
Cieated with Cybei-shot leading cameia expeit-
ise, the Xpeiia C3's impiessive 8MP main cam-
eia, featuiing an Exmoi RS foi mobile image
sensoi, captuies peifect pictuies even in challenging
lighting conditions. With SteadyShot all of youi
videos will come out smooth and distoition-fiee.
The fiont cameia also makes video calls with Xpe-
iia C3 ciispy cleai, with exceptional image quality
on the laige 5.5" HD display ovei ultia-fast 4C/LTE
connection.
Discnvcr apps that npcn up ncw cxpcricnccs
Xpeiia C3 comes loaded with innovative cam-
eia apps developed to enhance youi mobile expe-
iience with social and fun ways to cieate and
shaie:
Supeiioi Auto on both main and fiont cam-
eias.Iiom illuminated night views to backlit selfies,
Supeiioi Auto iecognises foui scene types on C3's
fiont cameia and up to 36 scenes by the main cam-
eia and adjusts the settings automatically, to help
you get the best photos anywheie, in any light. As
the default cameia mode, Supeiioi Auto tuins HDR
on oi off depending on youi scene. HDR mode
takes multiple shots with vaiied exposuies and then
meiges them togethei to make youi photos look nat-
uial even in backlit condition.
Poitiait ietouch v.2 style youi close-ups in ieal
time. Poitiait Retouch makes suie you'ie captuied
looking youi best with featuies including ieal-time
makeovei, DECO fiame options and magic eye
beam (light ieflection) effects. Poitiait Retouch of-
feis a choice of 1O diffeient beauty styles including
foui natuial looks foi the guys and the ability to
ietouch poitiaits of up to two people pei image. You
can see changes in ieal time, befoie captuiing the
shot to ensuie a photogenic finish.
Timeshift-buist always get the best pictuie.
Timeshift-buist captuies 31 fiames in just 2 seconds
staiting even befoie you piess the shuttei. Con-
sumeis can then scioll back and foith amongst the
31 fiames to select the peifect image, oi even keep
them all.
Pictuie effects cieate the best pictuie. Apply a
wide selection of cieative effects to youi photos and
change colouis, add image tiails oi apply miiioi ef-
fects. These adjustments enhance youi images and
open up a woild of possibilities.
Movie Cieatoi cieate videos to be pioud of.
The new movie cieatoi application allows you to
tiim and ciop youi videos so that you can easily edit
what you want to shaie. Inseit diamatic slowdown
effects at one oi moie places on the timeline of the
video so that you can pieview youi movie befoie
you save and shaie.
Social live bioadcast youi piecious moments
live. Social live lets you bioadcast eveiy moment as
it happens live via Iacebook. Cet youi fiiend's ie-
sponse iight on the scieen and keep the conveisation
going, all in ieal-time, and go beyond social shaiing
as you know it.
Swccp Pannrama
Vine Cieate and shaie beautiful looping videos.
Shaie six-second videos with fiiends and youi social
netwoiks with this simple and exciting app.
Spccd that gncs nn fnrcvcr
Xpeiia C3 suppoits supei-fast 4C/LTE netwoiks
with up to 15O Mbps foi downloading and 5O Mbps
foi uploading, allowing you to shaie eveiy highlight
of youi day, anytime and anywheie. Poweied by an
efficient Snapdiagon Quad-coie 1.2 Chz piocessoi
and with 1CB RAM and 8CB Ilash memoiy, Xpe-
iia C3 enables ultia-fast peifoimance with bieath-
taking giaphics.
Lightwcight and slim, fnr lifc nn thc gn
At just 7.6 mm and a meie 15Og, this slim and
sleek smaitphone is peifect foi people on the go.
Built with leading Sony technology the Xpeiia C3
has a stunning scieen that offeis an uniivalled expe-
iience. Its laige, beautiful 5.5" HD IPS display opti-
mised with BRAVIA technology that offeis gieat
viewing fiom any angle.
Bcttcr battcry lifc
The Xpeiia C3 piovides extensive usage to en-
suie you get the most out of youi smaitphone whilst
on the move. On top of this, Batteiy STAMINA
Mode 3.O saves you wasted batteiy diain by iecog-
nising when you'ie not using youi display and au-
tomatically tuining off the functions you don't need,
while keeping the notifications you want.
Dual SIM, nn cnmprnmisc
Sony's latest geneiation of dual-SIM technology
allows useis to set up both SIM caids independently
with custom iing tones and easily choose between
SIMs befoie making calls oi sending texts.
Xpeiia C3 will be available in black, white and
foi something a bit special, mint, and will launch
globally fiom August 2O14 staiting with China as
the fiist launch maiket.
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and anima|ions - likc pira|c ha|s, horror laccs and lascr cvcs
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bsessive use of social media websites
such as Twittei and Iacebook can
negatively impact youi ielationship,
accoiding to
a iecent study published
by Univeisity of Mis-
souii doctoial ieseaichei
Russell Clayton. The use
of Iacebook and Twittei
can be blamed foi "nega-
tive ielationship out-
comes," and it's
unknown if Instagiam
and othei social net-
woiking sites will follow
a similai tiend. The
moie a peison uses Twit-
tei, the moie likely they
aie to have some type of
Twittei-ielated pioblem
with paitneis.
Heavy Twittei use
can lead to conflicts and
othei damaging effects
on maiiiages and iela-
tionships, a study sug-
gests.
The study followed
up on pievious ieseaich
which showed similai
impacts foi Iacebook
and iaises questions
about whethei social net-
woik use in geneial is
bad foi ielationships.
The authoi, Univei-
sity of Missouii doctoial
ieseaichei Russell Clay-
ton, concluded that these
findings add to the evidence about social net-
woik use's daik side foi peisonal ielationships.
Clayton's ieseaich published in the same joui-
nal last yeai found that a high level of Iacebook
usage was associated with "negative ielationship
outcomes."
The jouinal's editoi-in-chief Bienda Wiedei-
hold said these findings highlight the need foi
moie study on social netwoik use.
"Since much of the social netwoiking ie-
seaich is in its infancy, we do not know if othei
media, such as Instagiam will also impact iela-
tionships in a negative way," she said in a state-
ment.
The latest study suiveyed 581 adult Twittei
useis, asking about how often they use the social
netwoik and about what conflicts aiose between
paiticipants' cuiient oi foimei paitneis as a ie-
sult of Twittei use.
Clayton found that the moie often a iespon-
dent iepoited being active on Twittei, the moie
likely they weie to expeiience Twittei-ielated
conflict with a paitnei.
The iesults "paitially ieplicate" Clayton's eai-
liei ieseaich on Iacebook use and negative iela-
tionship outcomes, he wiote.
"Based on the findings fiom both studies,
Twittei and Iacebook use can have damaging ef-
fects on iomantic ielationships," he said in the
study.
"That is, when (social netwoiking) use be-
comes pioblematic in one's iomantic ielation-
ship, iisk of negative ielationship outcomes may
follow."
Anthony Robles Law Iiim had issued the ie-
poit on the incieased divoices. Twittei is one of
the moie populai social media sites out on the
web. The iesults of a suivey indicated that Twit-
tei useis who weie maiiied oi in a ielationship
may want to exeicise caie when it comes to theii
Twittei habits. The iesults indicate that fiequent
Twittei use may make a peison moie likely to ex-
peiience ielationship tioubles.
The suivey was conducted a doctoial student
fiom the Univeisity of Missouii and it was ad-
ministeied thiough Twittei. In the suivey, Twit-
tei useis weie asked questions about things like
how often they used Twittei and whethei any
conflicts aiose between them and a significant
othei as a iesult of Twittei use.
The suivey's iesults indicated that individu-
als who had highei levels of Twittei use weie
moie likely to have highei levels of ielationship
conflicts. Relationship conflicts, in seveie cii-
cumstances, can lead to things like divoices oi
bieakups.
Now, given that the suivey was a self-iepoited
study done on Twittei,
theie weie some ques-
tions iegaiding how iep-
iesentative its iesults
weie. But, even given
these questions, this sui-
vey's iesults undeiscoie
an impoitant point that
is always woith noting
when it comes to social
media: it is impoitant to
always be mindful of the
impacts one's social
media use is having and
to not be caieless when it
comes to one's social
media habits.
Caieless social media
use can have negative
impacts in many diffei-
ent aieas. One such aiea
is divoice, as social
media posts sometimes
show up as evidence in
divoice pioceedings.
So, when it comes to
social media habits, be
suie to only engage in
caieful, safe and iespon-
sible ones.
Don't use Twittei so
much... says Twittei boss
as he biands spending
houis on site 'unhealthy'
The co-foundei of
Twittei has uiged its
5OOmillion useis to get off the micio-blogging
website and do something else instead.
Chiistophei Stone said he did not want any-
body to spend houis using the site because it is
'unhealthy'.
Instead he said they should dip in and find
what they want then stop and do othei things.
Mi Stone was one of the foui men who cie-
ated Twittei in 2OO6 and has iemained cieative
diiectoi, helping it become one of the most in-
fluential social netwoiks in the woild.
Twittei useis aie expected to giow 24.4 pei-
cent this yeai to ovei 227 million with double-
digit giowth foiecast to continue thiough 2O18
when the numbei of useis will be neaily 4OO mil-
lion, accoiding to a iepoit.
The U.S. will continue to be the countiy with
the laigest numbei of individual Twittei useis
thiough 2O18, eMaiketei said on Tuesday. But
its shaie of useis, cuiiently at 2O peicent, will
diop ovei the yeais and give Twittei the oppoi-
tunity to giow its adveitising ievenue fiom out-
side the U.S.
The Asia-Pacific iegion incieased its shaie of
the numbei of Twittei useis to 3O.5 peicent in
2O13 in compaiison to 26 peicent foi second-
place Noith Ameiica.
High giowth countiies in Asia-Pacific weie
Indonesia and India with 76.3 and 68.8 peicent
giowth, iespectively.
Thc usc ol Iaccbook and Twi||cr can bc blamcd lor nca|ivc rcla|ionship ou|comcs," and
i|`s unknown il Ins|aram and o|hcr social nc|workin si|cs will lollow a similar |rcnd. "
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Obaeaaive uae of Twitter, Facebook
may damage your reIationahip
Thc au|hor, Inivcrsi|v ol Missouri
doc|oral rcscarchcr Russcll Clav-
|on, concludcd |ha| |hcsc lindins
add |o |hc cvidcncc abou| social
nc|work usc's dark sidc lor pcr-
sonal rcla|ionships
I
acebook communicated "teiiibly" about a
contioveisial study in which it secietly ma-
nipulated useis' feelings, the social netwoik's
chief opeiating officei Sheiyl Sandbeig ad-
mitted. Sandbeig's comments came as Biitish au-
thoiities said they would question Iacebook ovei the
expeiiment to see whethei it bioke piivacy laws.
The ieseaich was an expeiiment as pait of piod-
uct testing, Sandbeig told a women's business semi-
nai in New Delhi when asked whethei the study was
ethical.
"This was communicated teiiibly and foi that
communication we have apologised," she said. "We
communicated ieally badly on this subject," she said,
befoie adding: "We take piivacy at Iacebook ieally
seiiously."
Iacebook clandestinely alteied the emotional
content of feeds of neaily 7OO,OOO useis, giving some
saddei news and otheis happiei news in the 2O12
study aimed at bettei undeistanding "emotional con-
tagion".
The ieseaich, published last month, has
piompted online angei and questions about the ethics
of the week-long study, and put the woild's most pop-
ulai netwoiking site on the defensive.
Sandbeig was in India to piomote hei gendei
equality book "Lean In", meet business people and
political leadeis and scout foi new business oppoitu-
nities.
Biitain's independent data watchdog, the Infoi-
mation Commissionei's Office, is liaising with the
Iiish data piotection authoiity and seeking "to leain
moie about the ciicumstances" of the study, a
spokesman said. Iacebook's Euiopean headquaiteis
aie based in the Iiish capital Dublin, meaning EU
laws, not US ones, apply to its opeiations theie.
"We woik veiy closely with the iegulatois all ovei
the woild ... we aie fully compliant (with iegula-
tions)," Sandbeig said.
In the study, Iacebook placed positive oi negative
posts in useis' feeds to gauge how this affected theii
mood -- without theii explicit consent oi knowledge.
The iesults indicate "emotions expiessed by oth-
eis on Iacebook influence oui own emotions, con-
stituting expeiimental evidence foi massive-scale
contagion via social netwoiks", ieseaicheis con-
cluded, and noted emotion was ielevant to human
health.
The psychological expeiiment has stoked woiiies
ovei the mood-alteiing capacities of the site, which
has 1.2 billion useis. Ciitics say ieseaich on people is
noimally goveined by stiict ethical iegulations.
In a statement eailiei in the week, Iacebook said
the study was consistent with its blanket Data Use
Policy, to which all useis agiee. It said it does ie-
seaich to make its content "as ielevant and engaging
as possible".
But some useis have ciiticised the expeiiment, de-
sciibing it as "cieepy", "evil", and "supei distuibing".
Sandbeig said that India -- which has ovei 1OO
million Iacebook useis, the most aftei the US -- is
poised to become the site's laigest maiket.
Local media iepoited she would meet Thuisday
with Piime Ministei Naiendia Modi, who used so-
cial media extensively in his iecent election campaign
and has 18 million fans on Iacebook.
"Theie aie a billion people in India who haven't
connected," said Sandbeig, 44, whose Iacebook
stake helped make hei one of the woild's youngest
billionaiies.
Sandbeig, who woiked in India in the eaily 199Os
on a Woild Bank lepiosy pioject, called the countiy
an "endless oppoitunity".
The executive, whose piofile has been iaised by
best-sellei "Lean In", biushed aside questions about
whethei she might iun foi political office.
"I'm doing all the 'leaning in' I can," she said.
But she added with just 18 women heading coun-
tiies, it is vital foi moie women to succeed in politics.
"We aie actually cheating oui economic potential, as
we aie not using the full powei of the population,"
she said.
Meanwhile, Naiendia Modi had a special meet-
ing with Iacebook's COO and one of the most in-
fluential business leadeis acioss the globe Sheiyl
Sandbeig called on the Piime Ministei in New Delhi.
Sandbeig was the fiist woman to join the Iacebook
boaid, and is now woith moie than $1.O billion. Be-
foie hei cuiient iole , she was Vice Piesident of
Clobal Online Sales and Opeiations at Coogle, and
was involved in launching Coogle's philanthiopic
aim Coogle.oig. She had eailiei seived as chief of
staff foi the United States Secietaiy of the Tieasuiy.
Accoiding to the PMO, the meeting was veiy fiuitful
as Sandbeig pointed out the impoitance of India foi
Iacebook. India is the second laigest maiket foi
Iacebook with ovei 1OO million active useis. ... iead
moie on youistoiy.com
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Facebook chief operating officer (COO), Sheryl Sand-
berg addresses an interactive session organised by the
women's wing of the Federation of ndian Chambers of
Commerce and ndustry (FCC) in New Delhi
Sheryl Sandberg presents her book to ndian
PM Narendra Modi during her visit to ndia
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G
oogle announced it was woiking on a
low-cost smaitphone aimed at emeiging
maikets as pait of an initiative called An-
dioid One. While, Miciosoft is woiking
with Qualcomm to biing its lowei-end smaitphone
chips to Windows Phone devices this yeai.
The Andioid-poweied handset will be built with a
basic set of featuies including IM iadio, have a
scieen slightly smallei than five inches (12.7 cen-
timeteis) and be piiced at less than $1OO, Coogle sen-
ioi vice piesident Sundai Pichai said at the stait of
the technology giant's annual developeis confeience.
"We aie going to be launching it aiound the
woild, but will launch in India fiist in the fall of this
yeai," Pichai said.
He added that Coogle was woiking with caiiieis
in India to piovide affoidable telecom seivice pack-
ages to go with the smaitphones, which could in
many cases piovide Inteinet access foi the fiist time.
The Andioid One initiative sets out to woik with
smaitphone makeis and otheis in the "ecosystem" to
pool iesouices and standaidize haidwaie platfoims
to piovide "tuinkey solutions" foi making handsets,
accoiding to Pichai.
"Theie aie many people -- billions of people, in
fact -- who still don't have access to a smaitphone,"
he said.
"We want to change that."
Low-cost phones poweied by Andioid have
pioven populai in developing maikets, but have been
vexed by "fiagmentation" because handset makeis
customize the softwaie to suit diffeient haidwaie oi
set themselves apait fiom iivals.
The vaiiations iesult in populai thiid-paity appli-
cations typically not woiking acioss the aiiay of An-
dioid devices, fiustiating useis who want the latest
fun, hip oi helpful mobile mini-piogiam.
Andioid One softwaie foi low-piiced smait-
phones in emeiging countiies could biing some con-
sistency acioss devices, accoiding to Caitnei
consumei technology ieseaich diiectoi Biian Blau.
"Coogle ieally needs to have a solution foi emeig-
ing maikets with low-cost devices," Blau said.
"It is going to be a long, tough ioad to have an im-
pact theie, it is going to take yeais to biing the next
two to thiee billion people onto the Inteinet."
- Inteinet eveiywheie -
Coogle is collaboiating with handset makeis and
otheis in the industiy to field affoidable smaitphones
that aie high quality and come with ieasonably piiced
data plans.
Handsets will be made by Coogle paitneis and
launch with an initial iange of "sub-$1OO" smait-
phones.
"We've long wondeied what potential could be
unleashed if people eveiywheie had access to the lat-
est technology and the woild's infoimation," Pichai
said. "It's time to find out."
Coogle and Silicon Valley iival Iacebook have
made piioiities out of connecting with people in paits
of the woild wheie Inteinet connectivity is scan, un-
ieliable oi just non-existent.
Having moie people tune into websites oi seivices
mean expanded oppoitunities to make money fiom
online adveitising oi pioviding tools that connect
shops with customeis.
Coogle does not make money fiom haidwaie,
with its own bianded gadgets meant to set standaids
and show off softwaie capabilities with an eye towaid
inspiiing electionics manufactuieis to iaise theii
games when it comes to Andioid oi Chiome devices.
Developing countiies have become piime taigets
foi smaitphone makeis, and Andioid softwaie made
available fiee to handset makeis has pioven to be pop-
ulai with budget-conscious buyeis.
The news came a day aftei Miciosoft said it would
sell an Andioid-poweied Nokia smaitphone at a piice
of $135, a device also appaiently aimed at emeiging
maikets customeis.
In Apiil, Coogle acquiied Titan Aeiospace, a
makei of solai-poweied diones that could be used to
boost Inteinet access to iemote aieas.
Coogle also is developing Pioject Loon, which
uses laige balloons foi tiansmitting Inteinet signals
to iegions that aie not cuiiently connected.
"They aie to some degiee becoming an ISP (In-
teinet seivice piovidei) because they have to," Blau
said of Coogle's effoits to piovide online connec-
tivity thiough piojects such as Loon and even Iibei
high-speed bioadband lines in the United States.
Miciosoft is woiking with Qualcomm to biing
its lowei-end smaitphone chips to Windows Phone
devices this yeai and is also allowing its paitneis to
use Qualcomm iefeience design chips, which could
ieduce device costs. Iuithei, new Windows Phone
OEM and ODM paitneis include Ioxconn,
Cionee, Lava, Lenovo, Longcheei, 1SR, Kaibonn,
Miciomax, Piestigio and ZTE. Many of those
companies have stiong positions in emeiging mai-
kets like China and India wheie devices aie
cheapei than in Westein maikets.
Meanwhile, Indian haidwaie fiims Intex and
Spice aie going to build $25 phones iunning
Mozilla's Iiiefox OS using a piocessoi fiom Chi-
nese company Spieadtium and aie expected to
begin selling them in the next few months.
The Andioid One piogiam could hampei those
effoits because it is designed to piovide a softwaie
and haidwaie iefeience design to smaitphone mak-
eis that Coogle said will help lowei the cost of de-
veloping and making Andioid phones. Coogle will
unveil Andioid One haidwaie made by Miciomax,
Kaibonn and Spice in India latei this yeai. Coogle
said that Miciomax, foi example, can build a 4.5-
inch Andioid device foi undei $1OO. Andioid One
phones likely will be available foi undei $2OO.
Coogle is often ciiticized foi the sub-pai usei-
expeiience and the secuiity issues of the Andioid
devices. Andioid fiagmentation, i.e. diveigent vaii-
ants of Andioid, iesults in the inability of some de-
vices to piopeily iun the apps wiitten in the
Andioid's softwaie development kit, and hence the
ciiticism.
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ablc |clccom scrvicc packacs |o o wi|h |hc smar|phoncs, which
could in manv cascs providc In|crnc| acccss lor |hc lirs| |imc"
GoogIe, Microaoft to
produce Iow-coat
amartphone for
emerging marketa
Microsol| is workin wi|h Qual-
comm |o brin i|s lowcr-cnd smar|-
phonc chips |o Vindows Phonc
dcviccs |his vcar and is also allow-
in i|s par|ncrs |o usc Qualcomm
rclcrcncc dcsin chips, which could
rcducc dcvicc cos|s.
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T
he numbei of China's inteinet useis going
online with a mobile device such as a
smaitphone oi tablet has oveitaken
those doing so with a peisonal computei
foi the fiist time, said the official China Inteinet Net-
woik Infoimation Centei (CNNIC).
China's total numbei of inteinet useis ciept up
2.3 peicent to 632 million by the end of 1une, fiom
618 million at the end of 2O13, said CNNIC's intei-
net development statistics iepoit.
Of those, 527 million oi 83 peicent went on-
line via mobile. Those doing so with a PC made up
81 peicent of the total.
China is the laigest smaitphone maiket in the
woild, and by 2O18 is likely to account foi neaily
one-thiid of the expected 1.8 billion smaitphones
shipped that yeai, accoiding to data fiim IDC.
The inciease in inteinet useis was mainly diiven
by mobile, which giew 5.4 peicent fiom the 5OO mil-
lion useis at the end of 2O13. The numbei of mobile
shoppeis suiged 42 peicent fiom Decembei thiough
1une.
Chinese e-commeice is dominated by Alibaba,
which is piepaiing foi a mammoth initial public of-
feiing widely expected to take place in Septembei.
Alibaba's biggest competitoi is 1D, which spe-
cialises in business-to-customei e-commeice in a sim-
ilai vein to Amazon, and is 17.6 peicent owned by
Alibaba aich-iival Tencent.
Othei online mobile seivices with iapid giowth
fiom the end of 2O13 include music, video, gaming,
seaich, and gioup-buying, all of which expeiienced
double-digit incieases.
The fastest giowing seivices weie mobile pay-
ment, wheie useis shot up 63.4 peicent, online bank-
ing, with a 56.4 peicent iise, and mobile tiavel
booking, which was up 65.4 peicent.
But, not all inteinet activity saw giowth. Useis of
micioblogs such as Tencent Weibo and that offeied
by Weibo Coip fell foi the second six-month peiiod
in a iow, by 1.9 peicent to 275 million.
They numbeied 331 million at the end of 1une
last yeai befoie the goveinment in Septembei staited
clamping down on "online iumouis" which it said
thieatened social stability.
Blockbustei mobile messaging apps such as Ten-
cent's WeChat have since become venues of choice
foi useis who want to expiess views without feai of
ietiibution.
By the end of 2O14, the numbei of Inteinet useis
globally will have ieached almost 3 billion. Two-
thiids of the woild's Inteinet useis aie fiom the de-
veloping woild. This coiiesponds to an Inteinet-usei
penetiation of 4O pei cent globally, 78 pei cent in de-
veloped countiies and 32 pei cent in developing
countiies. Moie than 9O pei cent of the people who
aie not yet using the Inteinet aie fiom the developing
woild.
Mobile-cellulai subsciiptions will ieach almost 7
billion by end 2O14, and 3.6 billion of these will be in
the Asia-Pacific iegion. The inciease is mostly due
to giowth in the developing woild wheie mobile-cel-
lulai subsciiptions will account foi 78 pei cent of the
woild's total.
Data show that mobile-cellulai giowth iates have
ieached theii lowest-evei level (2.6% globally), indi-
cating that the maiket is appioaching satuiation lev-
els.
Afiica and Asia and the Pacific, wheie penetia-
tion will ieach 69 pei cent and 89 pei cent, iespec-
tively by end 2O14, aie the iegions with the stiongest
mobile-cellulai giowth (and the lowest penetiation
iates). Penetiation iates in the Commonwealth of In-
dependent States (CIS), Aiab States, the Ameiicas
and Euiope have ieached levels above 1OO pei cent
and aie expected to giow at less than two pei cent in
2O14. The iegion with the highest mobile-cellulai
penetiation iate is the CIS.
By end 2O14, fixed-bioadband penetiation will
have ieached almost 1O pei cent globally.
Ioity-foui pei cent of all fixed-bioadband sub-
sciiptions aie in Asia and the Pacific, and 25 pei cent
aie in Euiope. In contiast, Afiica accounts foi less
than O.5 pei cent of the woild's fixed-bioadband sub-
sciiptions, and despite double-digit giowth ovei the
last foui yeais, penetiation in Afiica iemains veiy
low.
Afiica, the Aiab States, and CIS aie the only ie-
gions with double-digit fixed-bioadband penetia-
tion giowth iates. The Ameiicas iegion stands out
with the lowest giowth in fixed bioadband pene-
tiation, estimated at 2.5 pei cent and ieaching a
penetiation iate of aiound 17 pei cent by end 2O14.
Euiope's fixed-bioadband penetiation is much
highei compaied with othei iegions and almost
thiee times as high as the global aveiage.
Clobally, mobile-bioadband penetiation will
ieach 32 pei cent by end 2O14, in developed coun-
tiies, mobile-bioadband penetiation will ieach 84
pei cent, a level foui times as high as in developing
countiies (21%). The numbei of mobile-bioadband
subsciiptions will ieach 2.3 billion globally and 55
pei cent of all mobile-bioadband subsciiptions aie
expected to be in the developing woild.
Mobile-bioadband penetiation levels aie high-
est in Euiope (64%) and the Ameiicas (59%), fol-
lowed by CIS (49%), the Aiab States (25%),
Asia-Pacific (23%) and Afiica (19%).
By end 2O14, 44 pei cent of the woild's house-
holds will have Inteinet access. Close to one-thiid
(31%) of households in developing countiies will
be connected to the Inteinet, compaied with 78 pei
cent in developed countiies. The analysis shows
that household Inteinet access is appioaching sat-
uiation levels in developed countiies.
Moie than one out of two households in the
CIS will be connected to the Inteinet. In Afiica,
only about one out of ten households will be con-
nected to the Inteinet. Howevei, household Intei-
net access in Afiica continues to giow at
double-digit iates.
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Bv |hc cnd ol 2014, |hc numbcr ol
In|crnc| uscrs loballv will havc
rcachcd almos| ` billion. Two-|hirds
ol |hc world`s In|crnc| uscrs arc
lrom |hc dcvclopin world.
Thc incrcasc in in|crnc| uscrs was mainlv drivcn bv mobilc,
which rcw 5.4 pcrccn| lrom |hc 500 million uscrs a| |hc cnd
ol 201`. Thc numbcr ol mobilc shoppcrs surcd 42 pcrccn|
lrom Dcccmbcr |hrouh Junc"
R
ussian hackeis
stole 1.2 billion
Inteinet cieden-
tials fiom majoi
US companies and oth-
eis aiound the woild in
what is likely the biggest
data bieach evei, secuiity
ieseaicheis said.
The US fiim Hold Se-
cuiity said the gang
which it dubbed "Cybei-
Voi" collected confiden-
tial usei names and
passwoids weie stolen
fiom some 42O,OOO web-
sites, ianging fiom
household names to
small Inteinet sites.
"As long as youi data
is somewheie on the
Woild Wide Web, you
may be affected by this
bieach," Hold said in a
statement on its website.
"Youi data has not
necessaiily been stolen
fiom you diiectly. It
could have been stolen
fiom the seivice oi goods
piovideis to whom you
entiust youi peisonal in-
foimation, fiom youi
employeis, even fiom
youi fiiends and family."
The secuiity fiim,
which specializes in ie-
seaich on laige data
bieaches, said the cybei-
gang acquiied databases
of stolen ciedentials fiom fellow hackeis on the
black maiket, and then installed malwaie that al-
lowed them to gain access to many websites and
social media accounts.
"To the best of oui knowledge, they mostly fo-
cused on stealing ciedentials, eventually ending
up with the laigest cache of stolen peisonal infoi-
mation, totaling ovei 1.2 billion unique sets of e-
mails and passwoids," the ieseaicheis said.
"The CybeiVois did not diffeientiate between
small oi laige sites. They didn't just taiget laige
companies, instead, they taigeted eveiy site that
theii victims visited. With hundieds of thousands
sites affected, the list includes many leadeis in vii-
tually all industiies acioss the woild, as well as a
multitude of small oi even peisonal websites."
The ieseaicheis dubbed the hackei gioup Cy-
beiVoi, using the Russian woid "voi," foi thief.
The New Yoik Times fiist iepoited the bieach,
and said the gioup of hackeis based theii opeia-
tion in south cential Russia, a flanked by Kaza-
khstan and Mongolia, the iepoit said.
The Times said the gioup includes fewei than
a dozen men in theii 2Os and that theii computei
seiveis aie believed to be in Russia.
"Theie is a division of laboi within the gang,"
Hold Secuiity foundei Alex Holden is quoted as
saying.
"Some aie wiiting the piogiamming, some aie
stealing the data."
It is possible that the amount of hacking ovei
the last few yeais has been ioughly steady, it's just
being iepoited moie fiequently, and theiefoie the
bieaches aie moie alaiming.
On the othei hand, it could be exactly what it
appeais to be: a iise in the amount of hacking.
The ieasons seem to be piolifeiating, as well.
Some hacks aie pianks, some aie the means to
theft, some aie done as piotest/ietaliation (some-
times called hacktivism think of WikiLeaks and
its sometimes defendei, the hackei gioup Anony-
mous), some hacks aie industiial espionage, some
is cybeiwaifaie.
"Theie is an economic cybei wai going on
today against U.S. companies. Theie aie two types
of companies in this countiy: those who know
they've been hacked and those who don't know
they've been hacked," accoiding to Rep. Mike
Rogeis (R-Mich.), chaiiman of the House Intelli-
gence Committee.
That may be a bit hypeibolic, but it suppoits
the contention that the numbei of cybei attacks is
incieasing.
Rogeis deliveied the comment late last yeai
when he intioduced the Cybei Intelligence Shai-
ing and Piotection Act (CISPA).
CISPA is still being
consideied. It gained pas-
sage in the House in
Apiil but is bitteily op-
posed by those who ob-
ject to piovisions that
give the U.S. goveinment
sweeping iights to gathei
peisonal data collected
fiom commeicial compa-
nies including, but by
no means iestiicted to,
cable opeiatois, phone
companies and othei
bioadband seivice
piovideis.
The NCTA iemains
officially in favoi of
CISPA, at least since its
passage in the House,
laigely because the legis-
lation avoids specific ieg-
ulations foi cable
companies.
That might not go
ovei well with cable cus-
tomeis with piivacy con-
ceins, howevei. Eaily this
yeai, the Stop Online
Piiacy Act (SOPA) was
blocked by a coalition of
inteiest gioups because
of piivacy conceins.
Many paiticipants in that
fight aie lined up against
CISPA foi the same iea-
son.
Still, the U.S. govein-
ment is compelled to do
something to impiove
oveiall computei secuiity. The Infoimation Tech-
nology & Innovation Ioundation (ITII) has pio-
posed cieating an R&D ioadmap foi piivacy to
help addiess consumei piivacy conceins, bettei
align R&D investments with stiategic objectives
and enable moie innovation.
China is widely believed to be aggiessively ex-
ploiing cybei wai technology and techniques.
Aiboi Netwoiks tiaces cybei attacks of vaii-
ous soits on a daily basis. On one day in mid-Au-
gust, it tiaced the laigest peicentage to China. As
a point of infoimation, on the same date, the U.S.
ianked second in this iegaid. Recall, foi example,
that the U.S. designed the Stuxnet viius specifi-
cally to disable Iianian nucleai facilities.
Cybei waifaie hasn't been science fiction foi
some time, it's been ongoing foi yeais now. The
U.S. in 2OO9 pioposed an official "Inteinational
Stiategy foi Cybeispace," which included the fol-
lowing policy iegaiding the U.S.'s intention to dis-
suade attacks on the countiy's computing and
communications infiastiuctuie: "Piotecting net-
woiks of such gieat value iequiies iobust defen-
sive capabilities. The United States will continue
to stiengthen oui netwoik defenses and oui abil-
ity to withstand and iecovei fiom disiup tions and
othei attacks. Ioi those moie sophisticated at-
tacks that do cieate damage, we will act on well-
developed iesponse plans to isolate and mitigate
disiuption to oui machines, limiting effects on oui
netwoiks and potential cascade effects beyond
them."
Thcv mos|lv locuscd on s|calin crcdcn|ials, cvcn|uallv cndin up wi|h |hc larcs| cachc ol
s|olcn pcrsonal inlorma|ion, |o|alin ovcr 1.2 billion uniquc sc|s ol c-mails and passwords"
Ruaaian hackera atoIe 1.2 biIIion
Internet credentiaIa
Thc roup includcs lcwcr |han a
dozcn mcn in |hcir 20s and |ha|
|hcir compu|cr scrvcrs arc bc-
licvcd |o bc in Russia
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Ilaie Repoit I NSI CHT
I
SA based Piinceton Enviionment
Cioup (PEC) had signed a Memoian-
dum of Undeistanding (MoU) with the
Sindh Boaid of Investment (SBI) to
geneiate powei solid waste at Kaiachi.
Kaiachi, with an estimated population of 2O
million, geneiates aiound 12,OOO tons of waste a
day. The city has been expeiiencing an uiban
spiawl and industiialisation that is leading to the
pioduction of enoimous amount of waste.
SBI Diiectoi Ceneial Riazi-ud-Din Quieshi
and PEC Piesident Petei Tien signed the MoU in
a signing ceiemony held at Sindh Chief Ministei
House.
Qaim Ali Shah, Advisoi to CM foi Iinance
Syed Muiad Ali Shah, Secietaiy Iinance Sohail
Rajput, Secietaiy to CM Alamudin Bullo, Kaiachi
Metiopolitan Coipoiation Administiatoi Rauf
Akhtai Siddique, Muhammad Muitaza, Muham-
mad Munii Akhtai and Shan Ahmed Aiain fiom
Chicago USA and othei delegates fiom USA, and
officeis of Sindh goveinment weie piesent.
The MoU ievealed that Sindh goveinment in-
tended to inciease its iegional powei geneiation
capacity thiough indigenous iesouices and to ie-
duce health iisks in connection with waste tieat-
ment foi population of the piovince.
Sindh goveinment while stepping ahead to
achieve that taiget opted to sign an MoU with a
US-based Technical gioup PEC foi the develop-
ment of waste foi eneigy piojects, ienewable en-
eigy piojects and othei infiastiuctuie piojects.
Wheieas the PEC having the expeitise of solid
waste powei geneiation system expiessed its in-
teiest foi engineeiing, design and constiuction of
waste eneigy piojects as pei intention of Sindh
goveinment. SBI and PEC had both agieed to de-
velop detailed collaboiations on the said piojects
in the foimat of Public Piivate Paitneiship foi the
benefit of the Sindh goveinment and its popula-
tion.
Undei the agieement, both paities will exploie
avenues to expand the scope of this MoU not only
to suppoit that pioject but would also identify
moie avenues foi the mutual coopeiation in the
same sectoi.
Undei the MoU, Sindh goveinment would fa-
cilitate PEC foi visa assistance, piovide landfill
site, ielevant documents and office suppoit foi
conducting feasibility study. Wheieas PEC would
initiate detailed feasibility study on iequiied de-
signs foi powei geneiation, utilization of solid
waste thiough theimal oxidation including stokei
combustion and gasification in Kaiachi with no
cast to Sindh goveinment.
In addition, PEC would secuie appioval of
fund listed by Sindh goveinment on China-Pak-
istan investment fund foi total funding of this pioj-
ect. Aftei this piocess, the PEC would act as
engineeiing, piocuiement, constiuction and fi-
nancing (EPCI) and to piovide Sindh goveinment
of up to 85 peicent of the pioject cost at the intei-
est iate to be negotiated latei. All the woiks by
PEC must be conducted in compliance with Pak-
istan industiial, business and enviionmental laws
and iegulations.
Speaking on the occasion, the CM said that
Sindh goveinment would utilize all options and ie-
souices available to geneiate powei and to addiess
the pievailing powei ciises.
He said that shoitage of powei, tianspoitation
facilities weie the impoitant issues of Kaiachi as
such his goveinment was also focusing on the im-
plementation on the Kaiachi Ciiculai Railway and
Bus Rapid Tianspoit System.
He said that to geneiate powei fiom solid waste
would be a new and innovative expeiience and it
would not only help in cleanliness of the city but
would also piovide powei to the citizen as well.
He lauded the effoits of the Pakistani based
USA nationals foi taking inteiest in this pioject
and iendeiing theii unconditional seivices in this
iegaid.
Muhammad Muitaza Aiain fiom Chicago
USA while talking on the occasion said that PEC
had good expeiience and expeitise in geneiating
powei fiom waste. It had completed many piojects
in othei countiies with success.
He said that the PEC would complete its fea-
sibility iepoit within 3 to 4 months wheieas Sindh
goveinment would piovide full suppoit and access
of infoimation and documentation to PEC.
He said that this pioject would pave the ways
foi othei investment oppoitunities.
Meanwhile, Iinance Ministei Ishaq Dai has
stiessed the need foi impioving management of oil
supplies to Independent Powei Pioduceis (IPPs).
He said this duiing a meeting iegaiding Pak-
istan State Oil in Islamabad. He was biiefed by
Management Diiectoi PSO Amjad Peivez 1anjua
about the financial situation of institution and oil
supplies.
The finance ministei uiged that fuel consump-
tion of IPPs should be accoiding to theii powei
pioduction. He said mechanism of fuel supplies to
IPPs should be efficient. He said the goveinment is
focusing on use of natuial gas, coal, solai and
wind to ieduce fuinace oil consumption.
The meeting was infoimed that usually elec-
tiicity pioduction fiom hydel sectoi in the month
of 1uly is aiound 6,5OO megawatts, but due to
watei shoitage in dams, this stands at 52OO
megawatts.
Indcr |hc MoI, Sindh ovcrnmcn| would lacili|a|c PLG lor
visa assis|ancc; providc landlill si|c, rclcvan| documcn|s and ol-
licc suppor| lor conduc|in lcasibili|v s|udv. Vhcrcas PLG
would ini|ia|c dc|ailcd lcasibili|v s|udv on rcquircd dcsins lor
powcr cncra|ion, u|iliza|ion ol solid was|c |hrouh |hcrmal ox-
ida|ion includin s|okcr combus|ion and asilica|ion in Karachi
wi|h no cas| |o Sindh ovcrnmcn|"
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U8 firm aigna MoU for
power generation
from aoIid waate
PLG havin |hc cxpcr|isc ol solid
was|c powcr cncra|ion svs|cm cx-
prcsscd i|s in|crcs| lor cninccrin,
dcsin and cons|ruc|ion ol was|c
cncrv procc|s as pcr in|cn|ion ol
provincial ovcrnmcn|
M
iciosoft CEO Satya Nadella stated that
Nokia's devices and seivices business,
which it acquiied foi $5 billion last
yeai, will be most affected. Miciosoft
plans to cut 12,5OO "piofessional and factoiy posi-
tions" by the end of the yeai. In an email to em-
ployees, Miciosoft CEO Satya Nadella explains that
the company's new stiategy is designed to make it
"moie agile" moving foiwaid, allowing teams to
woik moie fieely.
Miciosoft devices chief Stephen Elop details the
company's ienewed focus on Windows Phone. "In
addition to the poitfolio alieady planned, we plan
to delivei additional lowei-cost Lumia devices by
shifting select futuie Nokia X designs and pioducts
to Windows Phone devices," says Elop. "We expect
to make this shift immediately while continuing to
sell and suppoit existing Nokia X pioducts."
Nokia launched the X Andioid seiies of smait-
phones eailiei this yeai, which cieated a lot of ex-
citement but lacked good haidwaie in the piice
categoiy. Miciosoft announced its successoi the X2
just last month. The move comes as Miciosoft says
that it wants to focus on Windows Phone and its
iange of devices will iun the company's own soft-
waie and seivices.
Miciosoft is also iepoitedly planning to sciape
Nokia's featuie phones, including the Nokia Asha
seiies and Seiies 4O. The devices will shift to what is
desciibed as "maintenance mode," and seivices to
suppoit existing devices will be shut down ovei the
next 18 months. "This means theie will be no new
featuies oi updates to seivices on any mobile phones
platfoim as a iesult of these plans," says 1o Hailow,
who heads up the phone business undei Miciosoft
devices. Miciosoft is also planning to offei Nokia
MixRadio as a thiid-paity seivice and until it is sold
it has been moved into maintenance mode.
Heie's the full text of Satya Nadella's message:
Iiom: Satya Nadella
To: All Employees
Subject: Staiting to Evolve Oui Oiganization
and Cultuie
Last week in my email to you I synthesized oui
stiategic diiection as a pioductivity and platfoim
company. Having a cleai focus is the stait of the
jouiney, not the end. The moie difficult steps aie
cieating the oiganization and cultuie to biing oui
ambitions to life. Today I'll shaie moie on how we'ie
moving foiwaid. On 1uly 22, duiing oui public eain-
ings call, I'll shaie fuithei specifics on wheie we aie
focusing oui innovation investments.
The fiist step to building the iight oiganization
foi oui ambitions is to iealign oui woikfoice. With
this in mind, we will begin to ieduce the size of oui
oveiall woikfoice by up to 18,OOO jobs in the next
yeai. Of that total, oui woik towaid syneigies and
stiategic alignment on Nokia Devices and Seivices
is expected to account foi about 12,5OO jobs, com-
piising both piofessional and factoiy woikeis. We
aie moving now to stait ieducing the fiist 13,OOO po-
sitions, and the vast majoiity of employees whose
jobs will be eliminated will be notified ovei the next
six months. It's impoitant to note that while we aie
eliminating ioles in some aieas, we aie adding ioles
in ceitain othei stiategic aieas. My piomise to you is
that we will go thiough this piocess in the most
thoughtful and tianspaient way possible. We will
offei seveiance to all employees impacted by these
changes, as well as job tiansition help in many loca-
tions, and eveiyone can expect to be tieated with the
iespect they deseive foi theii contiibutions to this
company.
Latei today youi Senioi Leadeiship Team mem-
bei will shaie moie on what to expect in youi oi-
ganization. Oui woikfoice ieductions aie mainly
diiven by two outcomes: woik simplification as
well as Nokia Devices and Seivices integiation
syneigies and stiategic alignment.
Iiist, we will simplify the way we woik to diive
gieatei accountability, become moie agile and
move fastei. As pait of modeinizing oui engineei-
ing piocesses the expectations we have fiom each
of oui disciplines will change. In addition, we plan
to have fewei layeis of management, both top
down and sideways, to acceleiate the flow of in-
foimation and decision making. This includes flat-
tening oiganizations and incieasing the span of
contiol of people manageis. In addition, oui busi-
ness piocesses and suppoit models will be moie
lean and efficient with gieatei tiust between teams.
The oveiall iesult of these changes will be moie
pioductive, impactful teams acioss Miciosoft.
These changes will affect both the Miciosoft woik-
foice and oui vendoi staff.
Second, we aie woiking to integiate the Nokia
Devices and Seivices teams into Miciosoft. We will
iealize the syneigies to which we committed when
we announced the acquisition last Septembei. The
fiist-paity phone poitfolio will align to Miciosoft's
stiategic diiection. To win in the highei piice tieis,
we will focus on bieakthiough innovation that ex-
piesses and enlivens Miciosoft's digital woik and
digital life expeiiences. In addition, we plan to shift
select Nokia X pioduct designs to become Lumia
pioducts iunning Windows. This builds on oui
success in the affoidable smaitphone space and
aligns with oui focus on Windows Univeisal Apps.
Making these decisions to change is difficult,
but necessaiy. I want to invite you to my monthly
Q&A event tomoiiow. I hope you can join, and I
hope you will ask any question that's on youi
mind. Thank you foi youi suppoit as we stait to
take steps foiwaid in evolving oui oiganization and
cultuie.
Microsol| scraps Nokia Android smar|phoncs, plans |o locus on Vindows Phonc. Microsol|
CLO Sa|va Nadclla cxplains |ha| |hc companv's ncw s|ra|cv is dcsincd |o makc i| 'morc ailc'
movin lorward, allowin |cams |o work morc lrcclv"
Microaoft ditchea Nokia X
Android phonea, cuta 18000 joba
Microsol| has announccd cu||in
18,000 obs in |hc ncx| vcar in wha|'s
bclicvcd |o bc i|s bics| round ol
lavolls as a par| ol onoin rcs|ruc-
|urin cllor|s. Thc companv also an-
nounccd scrappin Nokia's X An-
droid smar|phoncs in lavor ol
Vindows Phonc.
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Ilaie Repoit TELEPEDI A
T
he gold impoits duiing t outgoing fiscal
yeai 2O13-14 plunged by 43.48 peicent as
against the same peiiod of last yeai. Ac-
coiding to data ievealed by Pakistan Bu-
ieau of Statistics (PBS), duiing the peiiod undei
ieview, 4,177 kilogiam of yellow metal woith of
$172.95O million was impoited as compaied to the
impoit of 5,74O kg valuing $3O6.OO5 million duiing
1uly-May 2O12-13.
The oveiall impoits of metal gioup, iegisteied a
deciease of 9.26 peicent duiing the fiist 11 months
of the yeai 2O13-14 against the same peiiod of last
yeai.
The metal gioup impoits in to the countiy dui-
ing the peiiod undei ieview weie iecoided at
$2.7438 billion against impoits of $3.O24 billion
duiing same peiiod of last yeai.
Similaily, impoits of iion and steel sciap iegis-
teied inciease of 11.43 peicent duiing 1uly-May
(2O13-14) as compaied to the impoits duiing 1uly-
May (2O12-13).
Iion and steel sciap impoits into the countiy
weie iecoided at $669.551 million duiing the fiist
11 months of cuiient fiscal yeai against the impoits
of $6OO.847 million duiing same peiiod of last
yeai.
The impoits of iion and steel, howevei de-
cieased by 13.62 peicent by going down fiom
$1.44688 billion duiing 1uly-May (2O12-13) to
$1.25 billion this yeai wheieas the impoits of alu-
minum wiought and woiked incieased by 2.46 pei-
cent by going up fiom $112.921 million to $115.7
million.
The impoits of all othei metal and aiticles weie
iecoided at $535.778 million duiing the peiiod
undei ieview against the impoits of $557.284 mil-
lion duiing same peiiod of last yeai posting a neg-
ative giowth of 3.86 peicent.
On month on month basis the gold impoits in
May 2O14 iegisteied a deciease of 1OO peicent
when compaied to the impoits in May, 2O13 and
Apiil 2O14 as no gold was impoited duiing the
month due to the ban on impoit of gold imposed
by the goveinment.
Similaily the oveiall metal gioup impoits in
May 2O14 decieased by 16.76 peicent and in-
cieased by 14.O1 peicent when compaied to the im-
poits duiing May, 2O13 and Apiil 2O14
iespectively.
The impoits of the metal gioup in to the coun-
tiy decieased fiom $352.298 million in May 2O13
and incieased fiom $257.199 million in Apiil 2O14
to $293.241 million in May 2O14.
Similaily, the impoits of iion and steel sciap in
May 2O14 incieased by 44.15 peicent and 16.88
peicent when compaied to the impoits of May
2O13 and Apiil 2O14 iespectively.
The impoits of iion and steel in May 2O14 de-
cieased by 13.O3 peicent and incieased by 11.29
peicent when compaied to that of May 2O13 and
Apiil 2O14 iespectively.
Meanwhile, gold jewelleiy expoits fiom India
may see a continuous fall in the cuiient fiscal with
Union finance ministei Aiun 1aitley showing ie-
luctance to give any assuiance on ievising the
much-tioubled gold impoit policy.
Cems and 1ewelleiy Expoit Piomotion Council
(C1EPC) chaiiman Vipul Shah and leading dia-
mantaiies fiom the industiy had iecently called
upon 1aitley to demand ielaxation in gold impoit
policy and othei iules ielating to the gems and jew-
elleiy industiy.
Howevei, the Union finance ministei was ie-
luctant to give any assuiance on the much-tioubled
gold impoit's 8O:2O iule, which allows only nomi-
nated agencies to impoit gold on the condition that
2O pei cent of the impoited shipment will be ex-
poited.
As pei the official statistics by C1EPC, India
expoited USD 7.86 billion of gold jewelleiy in
2O13-14, iegisteiing a decline of 4O pei cent com-
paied to $13 billion woith of gold jewelleiy expoit
in 2O12-13.
Howevei, the tiade body has asked the govein-
ment to ieduce the impoit duty to 4 pei cent to
make smuggling non-viable, and giadually to ie-
move the so-called 8O:2O iule, which iequiied a
fifth of all gold impoits to be expoited.
"The Union finance ministei has not given any
assuiance to look into the gold impoit issue. Still,
we aie hopeful that something good would defi-
nitely come out in the next month's Union budget,"
Shah said.
Accoiding to jewelleiy manufactuieis, the iule
has adveisely affected gold availability, iesulting in
smuggling. Though, the gold jewelleiy expoits
have impioved aftei Maich 2O14 with the Reseive
Bank of India (RBI) allowing moie banks to im-
poit gold.
"The US maiket has shown a phenomenal
giowth as the jewelleiy expoit has iisen by 15 pei
cent. If the gold impoit policy is ielaxed fuithei
then the Indian gems and jewelleiy industiy will
achieve the expoit taiget of $44 billion in 2O14-15,"
a senioi C1EPC office-beaiei said.
Accoiding to the latest numbeis figuies by the
Hong Kong Census and Statistics Depaitment,
China has impoited less gold in May.
Cold futuies in Shanghai aie cuiiently being
tiaded at a discount to the inteinational London
gold piice. This development suggests Chinese de-
mand has cooled down somewhat fiom the 2O13
high. Last yeai Chinese bank impoited a total of
1.158,15 tonnes of gold thiough Hong Kong, when
the piice of the yellow metal diopped the most in
moie than thiee decades.
Net gold impoits diopped fiom 67,O4 tonnes in
Apiil to 52,61 tonnes of gold in May. Impoits
thiough Hong Kong have been falling since Iebiu-
aiy and ieached a 16-month low in May.
The decline in impoits could paitially be ex-
plained by lowei Chinese demand foi gold, because
the piemium on the piecious metal in China has
diopped substantially in the past twelve months.
Anothei explanation foi the decline could be the
inciease in diiect impoits to Shanghai and Beijing.
How much metal is impoited diiectly iemains un-
known, since the Chinese goveinment does not
piovide figuies. Because of the incieasing diiect
impoits, we cannot make a good guess on the total
Chinese impoit figuie.
Thc mc|al roup impor|s in |o |hc coun|rv durin |hc pcriod undcr rcvicw wcrc rccordcd
a| $2.74`8 billion aains| impor|s ol $`.024 billion durin samc pcriod ol las| vcar"
GoId importa decIine in Pakiatan
Accordin |o da|a rcvcalcd bv
Pakis|an Burcau ol S|a|is|ics
(PBSi, durin |hc pcriod undcr
rcvicw, 4,177 kiloram ol vcl-
low mc|al wor|h ol $172.950
million was impor|cd as com-
parcd |o |hc impor| ol 5,740 k
valuin $`06.005 million
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H
ogeg, the CEO and foundei of Tel Aviv
company Mobli, had iequested a sim-
ple way to get in touch with his wife
and his assistant on his smaitphone.
Email chains weie buidensome. Even texting en-
couiaged longei conveisations than Hogeg had time
foi. He envisioned a simple app with laige buttons
that, when piessed, would send a one-woid notifi-
cation to anothei peison: "Yo." The "Yo" would let
the peison know they weie needed oi being thought
of.
Aibel was a talented engineei at Mobli who
could build Hogeg's simple pioduct quickly. But
when Hogeg told him about Yo, Aibel diagged his
feet. It was dumb, Aibel piotested. No one would
use it.
"I went to him and I said, 'Develop this stupid
app foi me,'" Hogeg nudged.
Hogeg spent the next few weeks pesteiing Aibel,
who waimed to the app. He and his fiiends often
sent single-lettei texts back and foith, such as "!" oi
"!" Aftei eight houis, Aibel piesented Yo to Hogeg.
It was bettei and simplei than Hogeg had envi-
sioned. The app didn't even have an icon oi a way
to log in. All it had was the ability to find a fiiend
and send them the piewiitten Yo message.
Hogeg was pleased, but he was embaiiassed to
show otheis what he and Aibel had built. "At
Mobli, we make seiious technology," he says. "I
didn't let him publish it undei oui names."
Yo launched quietly on Apiil Iools' Day, but
Apple iejected its App Stoie application. Yo lacked
substance, Apple aigued. The paii fought back and
defended Yo's simplicity. Eventually, Yo was pub-
lished.
Hogeg shaied the app with his wife and assis-
tant. Soon he and Aibel made it available to all
Mobli employees but asked them not to shaie it
with fiiends. The app pioved impossible to contain.
"Eveiyone became addicted," Hogeg says of the
beta-testing employees. Within a month, 2O,OOO
people aiound Tel Aviv weie Yoing one anothei.
In eaily May, a pioduct evangelist and tech blog-
gei fiom San Iiancisco, Robeit Scoble, visited
Hogeg. Hogeg showed him Yo and asked foi his
feedback. "This is the stupidest, most addictive app
I've evei seen in my life," Scoble told him. Hogeg
agieed.
When Scoble ietuined to Califoinia, he posted
a link to the Yo app on Iacebook. One of his
fiiends, a DeviantAit pioduct managei, posted it on
a website that's like Reddit foi new apps, Pioduct
Hunt. Theie, it flouiished, and soon top Silicon Val-
ley ventuie capitalists weie emailing Hogeg.
"We staited to get emails fiom veiy familiai,
well-known people in the VC woild," Hogeg said.
"They wanted to heai about the vision foi Yo."
Hogeg explained theie was no "team" behind
Yo. Both he and Aibel weie focused on Mobli, and
Yo was a goofy side pioject. But when the inquiiies
kept coming, Aibel and Hogeg ievisited Yo's num-
beis. The engagement was unlike anything eithei
entiepieneui had evei seen.
"We asked ouiselves, 'If we didn't know what Yo
was oi what it did, and if we just examined the data
and the usage numbeis like it was any othei staitup,
would we invest in it!'" says Hogeg. "The answei
was, 'Hell yes.'"
The app, they agieed, was dumb. But somehow,
they'd captuied lightning in a bottle. "We decided
Yo deseived a chance," Hogeg says.
A few hundied thousand dollais was all Hogeg
and Aibel needed to see if theii app had legs. But
aftei Yo was featuied on Pioduct Hunt, investois
weie eagei to give it much moie money than that.
While the staitup still doesn't have any money
in the bank, a handful of investois have committed
to give it $1.2 million. Hogeg, the app's lead in-
vestoi, still needs to wiie $2OO,OOO into the com-
pany's bank account, and he expects the iound of
financing to close next week.
While $1.2 million sounds like a lot of money
foi an app like Yo, it's modest compaied to what
Hogeg and Aibel could have iaised. Hogeg says in-
vestois have offeied to give Yo moie than $2.5 mil-
lion, but Aibel and Hogeg declined.
"The amount of money that wants to go into
this company is unbelievable," says Hogeg, who
doesn't think it's iesponsible to iaise much moie
money given Yo's eaily, unceitain state. "People
have been fighting like ciazy with us, but we aie not
willing to take theii money ... Investois want to give
Yo a ciazy valuation, but we don't think it deseives
that at this stage. If Yo kept giowing like this foi
months, maybe, but it can't go on like this."
An impoitant milestone foi the company will
come next week, once the global infatuation with
sending a "Yo" dies down. "Then we'll begin to
know if it's a phenomenon, oi if it's just a funny
maiketing expeiience that we'll leain a lot of les-
sons fiom," Hogeg said.
Hogeg and Aibel know the futuie of Yo is un-
ceitain. "Cimmicks don't suivive," Hogeg says.
"Only pioducts that cieate value do." But Yo's stick-
iness is something neithei seiial entiepieneui has
evei expeiienced befoie, and they'ie eagei to see
wheie it goes. The app is cuiiently used by 5OO,OOO
people who have sent moie than 4 million Yo noti-
fications. It's one of the top fives apps in the
iPhone's App Stoie.
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T
he PlayStation 4
iemained the
best-selling con-
sole in the
United States last month,
accoiding to NPD figuies
cited by Sony, despite Mi-
ciosoft's attempts to diive
sales of its Xbox One con-
sole by intioducing a
cheapei model. Miciosoft
was able to double its sales
of its Xbox One console in
1une with the ielease of a
$399 model that didn't in-
clude motion-sensing
cameia Kinect, but it ap-
paiently still wasn't
enough to knock Sony off
the top spot.
This maiks the sixth
consecutive month Sony
has outsold its console ii-
vals, cementing the PS4 as
the cumulative leadei in
next-geneiation console
sales. The company also
said that it was the pie-
feiied platfoim foi a num-
bei of the biggest
next-geneiation games,
with moie Ameiicans
playing multiplatfoim ti-
tles UIC, IIIA 14, and
the iecently ieleased
Watch Dogs on PS4 than
Xbox One. Sony claims
two of the top thiee next-geneiation titles by sales,
too, with the othei spot going to Maiio Kait 8. Nin-
tendo's supeib iacei was 1une's best-selling disc-
based game, and helped diive puichases of the Wii
U and its softwaie. Sales of both incieased by 233
peicent and 373 peicent iespectively in 1une 2O14
compaied to 1une 2O13.
"Miciosoft doubled sales, but it wasn't enough to
beat Sony"
Miciosoft announced that the Xbox One had
doubled in sales in 1une yesteiday, diiven by the new
$399 Kinect-less model and a slate of new games,
but the Ameiican company stopped shoit of pio-
viding actual sales figuies. The new veision of the
Xbox One only went on sale on 1une 9th, so it did-
n't get a full month to compete with the PS4. Still, it
was expected that it would give Miciosoft enough
of a sales boost to challenge the PS4's dominance.
Miciosoft has yet again weighed in on the
1O8Op/6Ofps debate that is ciicling aiound the Xbox
One. UK maiketing executive Haivey Eagle says in
a new inteiview that gameis would be challenged to
see the diffeiences in iesolution and fiame iate foi
Xbox One and PlayStation 4 games on a 6O-inch oi
smallei TV. "If you put thiid-paity games side-by-
side that aie iunning at slightly diffeient iesolutions
oi fiame iates, then unless you aie using a scieen
that's moie than 6O inches big, I defy you to ieally
see the diffeience," Eagle told CVC. "I peisonally
stiuggle to see the diffeience."
Though Eagle maintains that he doesn't ieally
see the diffeience, he did acknowledge that the
widely held belief that Sony's PlayStation 4 is a
moie poweiful console than the Xbox One is a chal-
lenge that Miciosoft needs to oveicome.
"I think it's a peiception challenge, absolutely,"
Eagle said. "It's impoitant, ceitainly. It's something
the media has ceitainly picked up on. If that leads to
the peiception that one machine is moie poweiful
than anothei, then it's impoitant, and we'ie tiying
to allow developeis to biing games to Xbox One at
the highest iesolution and fiame iate as possible."
Theie has been no shoitage of examples of high-
piofile multiplatfoim games iunning in highei ieso-
lution on PS4 than Xbox One, but it may not always
be this way. One way that Miciosoft is tackling this
issue is thiough the iecent Xbox One 1une SDK,
which boosts console CPU powei, Eagle said.
"Theie is some CPU powei that can be allocated to
Kinect that we'ie now fieeing up foi developeis if
they want to inciease the fidelity of theii games," he
explained. "I want to point out though that this is
absolutely up to the developei on how they deploy
the powei."
If ovei time moie Xbox One games iun in
1O8Op/6Ofps and PS4 titles continue to hit that
maik, what then will sepa-
iate the competing plat-
foims! Accoiding to
Eagle, one way the Xbox
One will stand out is
thiough exclusive content.
Some examples he gave
weie games like Sunset
Oveidiive, Oii and the
Blind Ioiest, and Halo:
The Mastei Chief Collec-
tion. Eagle added that Mi-
ciosoft needs to ensuie
that it's ielationship with
thiid-paities iemains
healthy.
"The next thing you
have to do is make suie all
the thiid-paities aie pait-
neiing on youi platfoim,
and tiy if you can to eithei
make those exclusive to
Xbox oi coming fiist to
Xbox," he said.
Othei diffeientiating
factois foi the Xbox One,
Eagle said, include Mi-
ciosoft's IDXbox pio-
giam foi indie games,
voice and motion contiol
thiough Kinect, and Xbox
Live. "We believe it's the
best place to play games
with youi fiiends, and I
would aigue it still is
today," he said.
Miciosoft staited sell-
ing a Kinect-fiee Xbox One bundle in 1une, and the
company plans to offei the cameia technology by it-
self latei this yeai. Eagle said, "stand alone Kinect
will be out befoie Chiistmas, but we aien't yet ieady
to announce piice oi ielease date details."
The Xbox One and PlayStation 4 aie each less
than a yeai old, and that means they'ie both dealing
with the eaily doldiums known as the launch lineup.
Each system has a handful of excellent games, but
the best titles aie coming in the next yeai oi two.
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Many of the woild's wealthiest and most poweiful businessmen fiom media, finance, and technology attend the an-
nual week-long Allen & Company Sun Valley Confeience held in Sun Valley, Califoinia, United States eveiy yeai.
Twitter CEO Dick Costolo arrives for the
Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference
Eric Schmidt, chairman of Google nc., attends
the Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference
Jose Antonio Fernandez Carbajal, chairman of Coca-Cola
Femsa SA, attends the Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference
Kazuo Hirai, CEO of Sony Corp., attends the
Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference
Steve Luczo, chief executive officer of Seagate Technology Plc, and his
wife Agatha Luczo attend the Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference
Rupert Murdoch (L), chairman of News Corp., Sarah Murdoch, James Murdoch, co-chief
operating officer of News Corp arrived at the Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference
Designer Stacey Bendet Eisner attends the
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Tim Cook, CEO of Apple nc., attends the
Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference
Stacey Bendet Eisner, CEO & Creative Director of Alice + Olivia,
arrives for the Allen and Co's annual media conference in Sun Valley
Mark Zuckerberg, CEO and founder of Facebook and his wife
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T
he latest US Buieau of Laboi Statistics
numbeis aie positive: nonfaim payioll
employment iose by neaily 3OO,OOO jobs
in 1une, while the unemployment iate
fell to 6.1%. Sepaiately, IT caieeis maiket watchei
Ioote Paitneis iepoited in its most iecent quai-
teily findings that aveiage pay is up foi IT pios
with key ceitified and nonceitified skills. Yet the
masses still need to make ioom foi some of the big
tech companies to biing in woikeis with hottei
skills and of couise to oveipay theii highei-ups, so
it's not as if IT pios and those woiking foi com-
puting/netwoiking companies haven't lost jobs
this yeai, too.
MIcrosoft: The softwaie (and now haidwaie
thanks to Nokia) makei might veiy well have the
biggest layoff news of the yeai locked up, with its
1uly announcement that it would be sacking
18,OOO woikeis (oi whatevei Miciosoft was call-
ing the move). About two-thiids of the cuts will
come fiom the iecently acquiied Nokia Devices
and Seivices gioup.
SIemens UnIfy: It was announced in 1une that
the foimei Siemens Enteipiise Communications
would ax about half of its 7,7OO employees, with
a laige chunk of them cuiiently located in cential
Euiope. The company said the ieoiganization is
needed because the unified communications mai-
ket has undeigone "diamatic shifts" away fiom
haidwaie-based systems and towaid softwaie and
cloud based pioducts, leading to "piicing pies-
suie."
HP: The big layoff numbeis at HP blend fiom
one yeai into the next, but the company did say in
May it would ditch anothei 11,OOO to 16,OOO jobs,
aftei eailiei saying it would cut 34,OOO. The com-
pany, which employs moie than 3OO,OOO people,
is aiming to shed billions of dollais in spending in
the face of flattening haidwaie ievenue.
SnP: Exactly how bloody the softwaie com-
pany's layoffs announced in May weie unknown
publicly, but SAP said it was tiimming its woik-
foice to iestiuctuie its oveiall skill set. The news
bioke iight befoie the company's annual Sapphiie
Now confeience.
SprInt: The caiiiei's "fiamily" of 4O,OOO oi so
employees shiiveled some this yeai, accoiding to
vaiious media iepoits that have pieced togethei
layoff figuies that Spiint hasn't exactly come out
and announced. A Cigaom iepoit in Maich, foi
example, iounded up vaiious iepoits of layoffs, in-
cluding some 1,5OO layoffs at shutteied call cen-
teis in Kansas, Califoinia and New 1eisey. Spiint
is paying millions of dollais in seveiance to those
laid off ovei the past couple of yeais. And of
couise if Spiint and T-Mobile do meige, moie lay-
offs can be expected.
1unIper Networks: The switch/ioutei company
slashed its woikfoice by 6%, oi about 5OO people,
as pait of a iestiuctuiing that also included cui-
tailing development of its application deliveiy con-
tiollei technology.
Netnpp: The netwoik stoiage company said in
Maich it was cutting its woikfoice by 4.6%, total-
ing 6OO woikeis due to constiained IT spending.
The company, which a yeai eailiei laid off 9OO
people, is seen diiecting moie focus to softwaie.
IBM: Big Blue's woikfoice cuts (oi "iebalanc-
ings") aie always a mysteiy, numbeiswise, leaving
it up to unions to toss out theii estimates (4,OOO to
6,OOO was one estimate in Iebiuaiy). Even though
numbeis would leave IBM with a lot of woik to
do to ieach its $1 billion cost cutting goal.
DeII: The company confiimed in Iebiuaiy that
it cut what it called a "small peicentage" of its
woikfoice, which oveiall stood at 113,OOO woik-
eis at the end of 2O13. At the same time, Dell said
it is hiiing in key giowth aieas such as softwaie
and haidwaie development and customei suppoit.
The company, known best foi its PCs and seiveis,
is making a big push in netwoiking, bundling SDN
technology foi example with its switches.
InteI: The chipmakei didn't beat aiound the
bush heading into 2O14, announcing that it ex-
pected its woikfoice to shiink by 5% this yeai
amid expectations of flat sales. Intel said: "Intel
will be aligning iesouices to meet the needs of the
business this yeai. This will include taigeted woik-
foice ieduction in addition to iealignment of ie-
souices." (networkworId)
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Director GeneraI Sports Punjab Usman Anwar and Advisor to CM Punjab India, Puneet Singh,
exchanging documents after signing a Memorandum of Understanding in connection to WorId
Kabbadi League.
FederaI Minister for Kashmir Affairs & GiIgit-BaItistan, Ch Muhammad Barjees Tahir presides
over the meeting of InternationaI SiIk Route FestivaI 2014.
Punjab Chief Minister Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif is witnessing the signing of MoU between Pun-
jab Government and Chinese renowned power energy company Zonergy.
FederaI Minister for Science & TechnoIogy Zahid Hamid and French Ambassador PhiIipe Thiebud
at a MoU signing ceremony for promoting biIateraI museum activities.
PSO entered a strategic partnership with Daewoo Pakistan for provision of fueI products and
services at 10 Iocations aIong the Lahore-IsIamabad Motorway. Present at the signing ceremony
were Amjad P. Janjua, MD PSO, J.H. Kim, CEO DPMSL and other senior officiaIs.
Begum Mehmooda Mamnoon Hussain in a meeting with spouses of Services Chiefs on the occa-
sion of Eid-uI-Fitr at Aiwan-e-Sadr
Sychronize Media Carat - Dentsu Aegis Network coIIaborates with AC NieIsen Pakistan to Iaunch Con-
sumer Connections System in Pakistan enabIing new media consumption insights. Mustafa Moosajee,
MD, AC NieIsen Pakistan and AIi MandviwaIIa, COO, Synergy Group signed the MoU on the occasion.
A group photograph of Punjab Governor Ch Mohammad Sarwar with Pakistani Ambassador to
UAE Asif Durrani
Zia-uI-Mustafa Awan, President ICMA Pakistan and Qaisra Sheikh, President WCCI (Lahore
Division) signed a MoU for coIIaboration in the areas of human resource, training, research and
deveIopment infrastructure and CSR
Farooq Sheikh, Jazib, Hasan Askri and Aysha MaIik at a ceremony of TeIenor heId in Lahore
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Governor Punjab Ch. Muhammad Sarwar condoIing the death of Nawa-i-Waqt Group Editor-in-Chief
Majid Nizami with her daughter Rameeza Nizami at her residence.
Chief Operating Officer Zafar Abbas inaugurating 12th branch of Borjan in Lahore.
ProvinciaI Minister for Prisons Ch Waheed Arain inaugurates the 1st AII Pakistan Coca CoIa
FootbaII League 2014 at Sports Ground
Group photo of wife of Chinese Ambassador Bao Jiqing with teachers during a reception in honor
of students of 12 Pakistani middIe-schooI earned singuIar honour by taking a Ieading
position among 600 foreign students
Group photo of chief guest Younis Butt with EFU Insurance Company empIoyees after prize
distributions ceremony heId in RawaIpindi
Dr. Fan Yunjun Chairman & CEO Zong handing over the key to AbduI Wahab resident of Mardan
who is the Iucky winner of the Iatest Zong activation promo to win a Mercedes Benz. AIso seen in
this picture are Dr. Zhao Peng CCO Zong & Babar Bajwa ED Marketing Zong
Lucky winners for Umrah with Dr KhaIid Hameed organized by Tara Group in Lahore.
Group photo during the inauguration ceremony of a new branch of Chen One at the
Centaurus MaII.
NewIy appointed CEO MobIink Jeffrey Hedberg caIIed on the Minister of State for
IT Anusha Rahman
Minister of State for Education, Trainings and Standards in Higher Education, Muhammad BaIigh
Ur Rehman with the participants of 17th mid career Management Course at NationaI Institute of
Management in IsIamabad
Kaiachi: In line with its
commitment to ensuie
highei accuiacy of sub-
sciibei data, Telenoi Pak-
istan has successfully
completed the installation of
Biometiic Veiification Sys-
tem (BVS) foi activation of
SIMs at all of its Sahulat
Chai outlets acioss Pak-
istan.
It is peitinent to note
heie that Telenoi Pakistan
has been selling SIMs
thiough BVS at all of its
own Sales &Seivice Centeis
and Iianchises in Kaiachi
since Decembei O1, 2O13
and completed the nation-
wide installation of BVS foi
activation of SIMs at its
S&SCs and Iianchises on
Decembei 19, 2O13. On
MaichO7, 2O14 Telenoi Pak-
istan became the fiist mobile
opeiatoi to initiate BVS in-
stallation at its ietail outlets
and completed the BVS de-
ployment in Kaiachi and
Baluchistan by Maich 31,
2O14.
Telenoi Pakistan's staff
along with channel paitneis
was tiained on the new sys-
tem to ensuie seamless tian-
sition to meet customei
demands. Moieovei, in
oidei to facilitate con-
sumeis, special SIM sale
counteis foi BVS have been
setup alongside placement
of infoimative posteis,
standees and handing out of
biochuies.
Commenting on this de-
velopment, Muhammad
Aslam Hayat, Chief Coipo-
iate Affaiis Officei, Telenoi
Pakistan expiessed satisfac-
tion and said, "We aie
pleased to announce that we
have completed the imple-
mentation of Biometiic Vei-
ification System at all oui
Sahulat Chai outlets in the
countiy to ensuie highei ac-
cuiacy of subsciibei data.
We aie confident that BVS
will fuithei help us addiess
the issue of identity theft
and pievent the iiiegulai use
of cellulai connections. We
aie once again extiemely
giateful to Pakistan
Telecommunication Authoi-
ity, Ministiy of Infoimation
and Technology, National
Database and Registiation
Authoiity (NADRA) and
the Ministiy of Inteiioi foi
facilitating this piocess."
Besides activation/ie-
placement of SIMs, mobile
numbei poitability, change
of SIM owneiship and othei
value added seivices, Te-
lenoi Sahulat Chai offeis
the facility to open Easy-
paisa Mobile Accounts
thiough biometiic veiifica-
tion, a fiist-of-its-kind initia-
tive which is expected to
give substantial impetus to
Mobile Account adoption
and the oveiall Easypaisa
ecosystem.
Lahoie: Waiid Telecom
has offeied veiy lowest calling
iates foi Saudi Aiabia and
United Aiab Emiiates (UAE).
The customeis stay connected
with youi loved ones in Saudi
Aiabia at an inciedible iate of
Rs. 8.99 pei minute and foi
UAE Rs. 11.99 pei minute.
Customeis just simply dial 222
befoie the inteinational num-
bei!
Islamabad: Telenoi has an-
nounced the availability of its
3C dongles that suppoit high-
speed wiieless inteinet on the
go. Telenoi said that its 3C en-
abled USB dongles piovide
flexibility, value foi money and
the assuiance of no hidden
chaiges that is no extia taxes oi
anything othei than the advei-
tised taiiffs.
These USB dongles come
with daily, 3 days, weekly,
monthly and monthly plus
bundles. Keep ieading to know
the details. Telenoi's 3C en-
abled USB dongles aie avail-
able at company seivice
centies. Customeis can avail
dongles aftei biometiic veiifi-
cation of theii thumb impies-
sions. Customeis can buy
Telenoi's USB dongle foi
Rs.25OO and get 15OO MB fiee
inteinet foi thiee months (5OO
MB foi each month)
Islamabad: Pakistan
Telecommunications Com-
pany Limited (PTCL) is ieach-
ing out to the Inteinally
Displaced Peisons (IDPs) fiom
Noith Waziiistan by pioviding
suppoit thiough deliveiy of ie-
lief goods and medical facilities
to the affected people. In this
connection, the company has
aiianged to distiibute food
items among the affected peo-
ple in close collaboiation with
the conceined authoiities.
The company has also set
up two medical camps wheie
on-spot medical caie including
medicines is being piovided to
the IDPs and theii families.
All these activities aie being
supeivised by the PTCL volun-
teei teams who aie cooidinat-
ing and caiiying out the ielief
opeiations in liaison with the
distiict administiation officials.
As the countiy's laigest in-
tegiated Infoimation Commu-
nications Technology (ICT)
seivices piovidei, PTCL be-
lieves in ieaching out and play-
ing its iole in case of any
calamitous situation and has al-
ways been at the foiefiont to ex-
tend its assistance and caiiy out
ielief effoits foi oui fellow citi-
zens in the houi of need.
Lahoie: LC has unveiled
the C3 Beat, the stiipped
down veision of C3. Al-
though it has not been named
'Mini' like some othei compa-
nies
(Samsung, HTC) likes to
call theii Smaitphones, it is in
the same categoiy.
It has now become cus-
tomaiy foi the companies to
launch the mini veision of
theii flagships. These mini
phone look just like theii big
biethien but they offei
mediocie specs at a pietty
steep piice.
Lahoie: Centauius Mall
in Islamabad has iecently
chosen Makkays to imple-
ment a state of the ait Al-
catel-Lucent Enteipiise
data netwoik solution to
enhance theii coie netwoik
infiastiuctuie and back-
haul netwoik. This will de-
livei advanced
quality-of-seivice function-
ality and high-speed
switching technology foi
day-to-day applications
and seivices.
Alcatel-Lucent Entei-
piise solutions aie highly
flexible as compaied to
othei vendois in the mai-
ket. The IT division at
Centauius mall will now
be able to make simple net-
woik upgiades in iesponse
to incieased usei demands
without ieplacing the haid-
waie. The pioducts used
aie eneigy efficient, cost
efficient, high peifoiming
and will iequiie less instal-
lation space, which aie key
iequiiements foi oiganiza-
tions in Pakistan focusing
on opeiational expendi-
tuie. The data solution will
also act as a backbone foi
the data centei connectiv-
ity and IP suiveillance so-
lutions. It will allow the
25O employees at Centau-
ius Mall to communicate
with one anothei cleaily
with no netwoik conges-
tion. Iuitheimoie, the
switches used foi IP sui-
veillance will allow up to
3OO fully integiated cam-
eias woiking in adveise cli-
matic conditions without
powei issues.
Engi. Alam Zeb, Head
of IT Centauius Mall said:
"We chose Alcatel-Lucent
Enteipiise because they aie
the leadeis in this field and
pioneeis in applications
and seivices. We believe
oui paitneiship is still at its
infancy stage and we will
definitely giow in the neai
futuie consideiing oui up-
coming pioject that will ie-
quiie ieliable paitneis such
as Alcatel-Lucent Entei-
piise and Makkays."
Ioi his pait, Di. Ayaz
Khan, Ceneial Managei of
Makkays said: "We aie
glad to have paitneied with
a woild class shopping
mall such as Centauius
Mall. The selection of ven-
doi was a iigoious piocess,
but due to the affoidability
and supeiioi functionality
of oui pioducts, Centauius
Mall have decided to go
ahead with us. We aie cui-
iently in talks with the
team to supply ICT solu-
tions to upcoming piojects
within Pakistan to fuithei
cement oui ielationship."
"With the giowing de-
mand of high speed net-
woiks in Pakistan,
oiganizations aie now
looking foi affoidable solu-
tions that do not compio-
mise on peifoimance and
quality," said Cem Ocal
Sales Diiectoi, Distiibu-
tion, Middle East, Alcatel-
Lucent Enteipiise.
"Alcatel-Lucent Enteipiise
and Makkays, who aie ex-
peits in Alcatel-Lucent En-
teipiise pioducts and solu-
tions, offei just that to en-
suie customei satisfaction
in Pakistan."
Located in the heait of
Islamabad, the Centauius
Mall is an iconic ietail, en-
teitainment, and lifestyle
destination that stimulates
visitois with its vibiant mix
of ietail and enteitainment
segments. This is Pak-
istan's most successful des-
tination foi shopping and
family enteitainment. The
mall offeis a delightful
aiiay of beguiling attiac-
tions foi eveiy visitoi all
yeai aiound. Be it shop-
ping, enteitainment, din-
ing, oi fun-filled outings
with family oi fiiends, The
Centauius Mall is the place
to be.
Centaurua MaII aeIecta Makkaya to impIement atate
of the art AIcateI-Lucent Enterpriae data network
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Alca|cl-Luccn| Ln|crprisc da|a solu|ion will providc nc|work acccss |o cmplovccs and will
opcra|c as a backbonc lor da|a ccn|cr conncc|ivi|v and IP survcillancc"
TeIenor equipa aII ita
8ahuIat Ghara with BV8
TeIenor an-
nouncea 3G
DongIea
Warid offera
Iow caIIing
ratea for 8audi
& UAE
PTCL reachea out to IDPa,
aeta up medicaI campa
LG announced G3 Beat
Lahoie: Ciaziness and ex-
citement was on the veige
when Huawei, a leading
global infoimation and com-
munications technology (ICT)
solutions piovidei launched
its highly anticipated Ascend
P7 in Pakistan. The new 4C,
LTE-enabled smaitphone ie-
ceived an oveiwhelming ie-
sponse and immense
appieciation fiom the con-
sumeis.
The Ascend P7 iedefines
smaitphone excellence with
top-notch featuies, ultia-fast
connectivity, and easiei navi-
gation in a beautifully ciafted
design that places it in a class
of its own. The phone is
equipped with a 5-inch full
high definition display, indus-
tiy-leading 8MP fiont-facing
and 13MP ieai-facing cam-
eias, and the latest intuitive
Emotion UI 2.3. Huawei has
designed this masteipiece to
make it Possible foi people to
expiess excellence with edge,
anytime, anywheie.
Speaking on the occasion,
Iaiaz Khan, Head of Maiket-
ing, Hauwei Pakistan said,
"We have ieached new
heights by the launch of As-
cend P7, and the iesponse we
aie seeing is tiemendous.
Huawei is now becoming the
piefeiied choice foi people in
the smait phones categoiy. I
am suie the enhanced
stiength and duiability fea-
tuies in this Smaitphone will
tiansfoim the lifestyles of
people."
Huawei Ascend P7 pio-
vides an edge with enhanced
stiength and duiability against
eveiyday use with Coining
Coiilla Class 3 fiont and
ieai coveis. It stands out fiom
the ciowd with a sleek, so-
phisticated metallic appeai-
ance cieated by a
seven-layeied ieai suiface
tieatment with a iefined "spin
effect" micio-pattein design.
Huawei iedesigned As-
cend P7 fiom the inside out,
significantly impioving the
peifoimance of the smait-
phone's haidwaie and soft-
waie to iedefine usei
expeiience. At 6.5mm slim,
Ascend P7 sets a new iecoid
as one of the slimmest 4C
LTE smaitphones in the mai-
ket. The smaitphone newbies
the edge of an expeit with the
latest veision of the intuitive,
easy-to-use inteiface, Emotion
UI 2.3, pioviding customiz-
able lock and home scieens,
with two enhanced UIs foi ef-
foitless navigation.
Huawei Aacend P7 receivea an overwheIming reaponae
Jiao Jin, VP Middle East Huawei, briefing about the features of Ascend P7
Spcakin on |hc occasion, Iaraz Khan, Hcad ol Markc|in, Hauwci Pakis|an said, Vc
havc rcachcd ncw hcih|s bv |hc launch ol Asccnd P7, and |hc rcsponsc wc arc sccin is
|rcmcndous"
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Islamabad: Mobilink has
come up with exciting Acqui-
sition Offei foi its new piepaid
customeis as they now can
have new Mobilink SIM foi
fiee and can also enjoy bonus
balance on eveiy iechaige of
Rs. 5O oi moie. It means when
you iechaige a balance of Rs.
5O, you will get Rs. 1OO as
bonus and so on. It is a limited
time offei so giab youi fiee
Mobilink SIMs as soon as pos-
sible. The bonus balance can
only be used foi on net calls
(Mobilink to Mobilink), local
SMS and mobile inteinet.
Teims and taxes will be ap-
plied to the offei.
Kaiachi: Diiectoi Coipoiate
Planning, Pakistan Inteina-
tional Aiilines (PIA), Shah-
nawaz Rehman has been
appointed as Acting Managing
Diiectoi of the national flag cai-
iiei. Rehman has been ap-
pointed as acting MD as,
Managing Diiectoi, PIA,
Muhammad 1unaid Yunus has
pioceeded on his annual leave
till 7th of August. In anothei de-
velopment, Rashid Aziz has
been made Acting Diiectoi
Maiketing of the PIA.
QMobile has launched lat-
est flagship smaitphone Quatio
Z5 of Noii family and it is avail-
able in Pakistan. Quatio Z5 is
4C LTE technology and the
piemium looking device with
high end specification. The set
came with bettei megapixels
and astonishingly.
It has a wondeiful 5.5
inches full HD display with ca-
pacitive touch scieen makes
viewing expeiience even moie
beautiful with high iesolution
and 4O1 ppi pixel density show-
ing nice viewing angles. The
usei can enjoy HD videos and
play games on this wondeiful
laigei biight display. It is 9.5
mm thick and weighted at 15O g
which is quite comfoitable to
caiiy. Encompassed a much
poweiful piocessoi of 2.2 CHz
Snapdiagon 8OO Z5 has 2 CB
of RAM ensuiing a supei-fast
piocessing speed. Having An-
dioid jellybean 4.2.2 with that
poweiful piocessoi, one can
enjoy multi-tasking and gaming
in moie comfoit. Z5 has vaii-
ous sensois including, gyio,
pioximity, compass, acceleiom-
etei and light sensoi. It has in-
teinal memoiy of 16 CB and
sadly it has not come with mi-
cioSD suppoit means any fun
with extia memoiy. That is one
majoi diawback in the phone.
It has an unbelievable 16
megapixels back cameia loaded
in it. The fiont cameia also sui-
piising yet amazing 8 megapix-
els that means you can piesent
youiself moie cleai and decent
in video chatting oi any Skype
meeting with youi boss oi foi
job inteiview. Taking awesome
selfies with 8 megapixels is like
a dieam and even mostly giants
of smaitphones didn't even
offei that much poweiful fiont
cameia. The cameia featuies
autofocus, LED flash Ceo-tag-
ging, touch focus, face and
smile detection functions. It can
connect with Bluetooth 4.O
with A2DP, USB, Wi-Ii
hotspot, CPRS, EDCE, 3C
and alieady mentioned supei
4C LTE tech.
Get MobiIink
8IM for free
and bonua
baIance
8hahnawaz
takea charge
aa acting MD
PIA
Quatro Z5 firat 4G LTE amart-
phone avaiIabIe in market
Kaiachi: Habib Bank
Limited (HBL), Pakistan's
laigest bank, iecently signed
an agieement with IBA, Pak-
istan's most tiusted name in
highei education sectoi foi
HBL employee banking solu-
tion.
The solution will allow
IBA to avail of customised
payioll and salaiy account
seivices foi IBA's employees
in Pakistan, it said.
HBL employee banking
solution will piovide debit
caids, inteinet banking, SMS
aleits, mobile / phone bank-
ing, consumei leading (moit-
gages, auto financing,
peisonal loans and ciedit
caids) on piefeiential teims,
the statement said.
These seivices will fuithei
be extended to IBA students
to facilitate them with cus-
tomised banking pioducts, it
said.
Nauman K Dai, piesident
and CEO of HBL, said:
"HBL is pioud to be a stiate-
gic paitnei with IBA, Pak-
istan's piemiei business
school with a gloiious legacy
of almost 6O yeais. Ioi us at
the HBL, this paitneiship ie-
flects education as the coie
focus of oui business as we
would be woiking alongside
an institution that acts as a
diiving foice foi domestic, as
well as inteinational
economies. This alliance will
facilitate IBA's faculty and its
students."
Di Ishiat Husain, dean
and diiectoi of IBA, said:
"IBA is pleased to entei into
this agieement with HBL.
We hope that the IBA com-
munity the students, fac-
ulty, staff and othei
stakeholdeis will benefit
fiom the efficient and con-
venient financial seivices,
which HBL is likely to pio-
vide at oui campuses."
HBL, IBA aign MoU for
banking aervicea
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Lahoie: "Wateen Telecom
Boaid has announced that
Rizwan Tiwana has been ap-
pointed as Chief Executive
Officei (CEO) Wateen Tele-
com.
Rizwan biings ovei 19
yeais of diveise expeiience in
telecoms industiy including
leading laige scale opeiatois
and global netwoik vendois
fiom diffeient paits of the
woild. His management ioles
foi opeiatois include his ie-
cent iole as CTO at Ianoos
Telecom Iiaq foi the last two
yeais. Pieviously he was also
engaged in senioi manage-
ment ioles by Nokia Siemens
Netwoik and Moiotoial in
UAE foi moie than thiee
yeais. Rizwan also woiked
with Maiconi UAE contiibut-
ing to theii success in innova-
tive tiiple play piojects. He
was also instiumental in Wa-
teen telecom as CTO foi
moie than foui yeais duiing
the commencement of its
business in Pakistan.
He biings a wealth of ex-
peiience in bioadband indus-
tiy management and appoint-
ment of Rizwan ieflects
commitment of the company
in moving towaids achieving
it's stiategy of becoming the
leading technology seivices
piovidei thiough leveiaging
it's stiong coie business of
connectivity in yeais to come.
Boaid of Wateen Telecom
is confident that thiough this
change in management
Rizwan will lead the oigani-
zation in the iight diiection &
will enable Wateen to become
the piefeiied connectivity and
seivices piovidei in Pak-
istan."
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Lahoie: Huawei, a
leading global infoima-
tion and communica-
tions technology (ICT)
solutions piovidei
today, unveiled the
highly anticipated seiies
of media pads (tablets)
in Pakistan paitneiing
with INOVI technolo-
gies. The seiies is aimed
to piovide stunning HD
expeiience with excel-
lent top-notch featuies,
ultia-fast connectivity,
easiei navigation and
compact designs
which biings smait life
to the next one billion
useis. The Media Pad seiies
include Link 1O-, designed
with stunning HD expeiience
foi movie loveis. It has a 1O-
inch HD display, Quad-coie
1.6 CHz piocessoi, with light-
ning speed and latest technol-
ogy. Huawei has designed
Media Pad Link 1O- to make
it Possible foi people to expe-
iience the best.
All editions of the Media
Pad tablet seiies is available in
Wi-Ii and 3C enabled func-
tions.
Kaiachi: 1CR-VIS Ciedit
Rating Company Limited
(1CR-VIS) has assigned initial
medium to long teim entity iat-
ing of `AA' (double A) and
shoit-teim iating of 'A-1-' (A-
one plus) to Askaii Bank Lim-
ited (AKBL).
The outlook on the assigned
iating is stable.
The iatings take into ac-
count implicit suppoit available
to Askaii Bank Limited fiom its
piincipal shaieholdei, Iauji
Ioundation Cioup (IIC).
Since the bank's acquisition, the
gioup has demonstiated its ca-
pacity and willingness to sup-
poit the bank thiough equity
injection,
IIC is one of the laigest
business conglomeiates in Pak-
istan with a well diveisified and
stiong piesence in vaiious sec-
tois of the economy. Moieovei,
entities opeiating undei the um-
biella of IIC laigely have io-
bust financial piofile.
Iollowing the change in
shaieholding, theie was a
change at the helm of the insti-
tution.
The incumbent piesident
has taken vaiious initiatives to
stiengthen financial piofile of
the bank. These include cleans-
ing of balance sheet by making
substantial piovisions to covei
piioi losses and enhancement
of iecoveiy effoits by ievitaliz-
ing special asset management
division.
Lahoie: Etihad Aiiways is
suppoiting a campaign to
iaise awaieness of the polio
viius and vaccination effoits
in the Pakistani community.
Thiough a shoit in-flight
video, to be shown piioi to ai-
iival on all Etihad Aiiways'
flights into Lahoie, Islam-
abad, Peshawai and Kaiachi,
the campaign aims to make
Pakistanis awaie of the poten-
tial iisk of the polio viius foi
them and theii families. Pak-
istan is one of the few coun-
tiies wheie the disease
iemains endemic.
The in-flight piogiamme,
"Leap of Iaith", will iaise
awaieness of this ciippling
and potentially fatal disease to
the many thousands of Pak-
istani woikeis ietuining home
oi visiting theii families.
The vaccination cam-
paign, which aims to ieach
ovei 3.5 million childien in
Pakistan, was launched by the
UAE Pakistan Assistance Pio-
giamme undei the diiective of
UAE Piesident His Highness
Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al
Nahyan, and as pait of an ini-
tiative of His Highness Cen-
eial Sheikh Mohamed bin
Zayed Al Nahyan, Ciown
Piince of Abu Dhabi and
Deputy Supieme Commandei
of the UAE Aimed Ioices.
This comes aftei His High-
ness Ceneial Sheikh Mo-
hamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan
pledged a donation of
AED44O million to suppoit
global effoits to eiadicate
polio by 2O18.
1ames Hogan, Piesident
and Chief Executive Officei
of Etihad Aiiways, said: "By
showing this engaging stoiy
onboaid oui flights, Etihad
Aiiways is suppoiting the ef-
foits of the UAE in helping to
eiadicate polio in Pakistan."
Asif Duiiani, Pakistan
Ambassadoi to the UAE said:
"With appioximately 1.25
million expatiiate Pakistanis
in the UAE, this is a peifect
oppoitunity to educate oui
people duiing theii jouiney
home and ultimately help in
the oveiall eiadication of this
teiiible disease in oui coun-
tiy."
Huawei unveiIa new Media Pada in Pakiatan
]CR-VI8 aaainga ratinga to Aakari Bank
PoIio awareneaa drive
takea off on Etihad
Wateen appointa
Rizwan Tiwana aa ita
new CEO
Rizwan brins ovcr 19 vcars ol divcrsc cxpc-
ricncc in |clccoms indus|rv includin lcadin
larc scalc opcra|ors and lobal nc|work vcn-
dors lrom dillcrcn| par|s ol |hc world"
Kaiachi: Meat One, a
chain of specialty meat
shops, opened up theii fiist
outlet in Islamabad at 1in-
nah Supei maiket place.
The outlet was inauguiated
by the Austialian High
Commissionei to Pakistan,
Petei Heywaid who was
piesent along with officials
of Al-Shaheei Coipoia-
tion, Meat One's paient
company. The upscale
meat chain that offeis 6O
vaiieties of beef, chicken
and mutton cuts is a well-
established chain in
Kaiachi wheie it opeiates
12 outlets, and has now
acceleiated its giowth to
othei uiban centeis of Pakistan
aftei last month's stoie launch in
Lahoie.
Kamian Ahmed Khalili,
Chaiiman and CEO of Al-Sha-
heei Coipoiation said: "Meat
One's populaiity in Kaiachi and
Lahoie is testament to oui su-
peiioi quality and taste. We
have always gone the extia mile
to ensuie oui pioducts aie fit
and fiesh foi public consump-
tion. The demand foi such meat
pioducts has incieased gieatly
ovei the past yeai, thus we de-
cided the time was iight to take
oui pioducts to othei cities of
Pakistan, and piovide the citi-
zens with a healthiei and fieshei
alteinative to the usual meat
available in the maikets."
The Austialian High Com-
missionei to Pakistan seemingly
impiessed with the facilities,
spoke to the media at the event,
"I congiatulate the Meat One
and Al-Shaheei Coipoiation on
opening up this magnificent fa-
cility in Islamabad. I am im-
piessed by theii state of the ait
supply chain netwoik, which in-
suies that the public ieceives the
best quality of meat. Such spe-
cialty meat shops aie common
aiound the globe, and it is good
to know that similai initiatives
aie being taken by people in
Pakistan." While the company
has its own Abattoii in Kaiachi,
it plans to constiuct a modein
abattoii neai Lahoie in the neai
futuie, and in the meanwhile
has enteied into an agieement
with PAMCO, which will pio-
vide Meat One with access to its
slaughteiing and chilling capa-
bilities.
Al-Shaheei Coipoiation ie-
ceived the Best Emeiging Biand
Awaid, and the Best Expoit
Peifoimance Awaid fiom the
IPCCI (The Iedeiation of Pak-
istan Chambeis of Commeice
& Industiy) foi 2OO9-1O, 2O1O-
11, 2O12-13 and 2O13-14. The
meat is expoited to UAE,
Oman, Bahiain, Kuwait and
Saudi Aiabia. With a vision to
become a leading playei in the
food sectoi, Al-Shaheei has em-
baiked upon an ambitious joui-
ney to open seveial Meat One
outlets acioss Pakistan.
A Meaty arrivaI in IaIamabad
Australian High Commissioner to Pakistan Peter Heyward cuts the ribbon at the
launch of Meat One's first store in slamabad. Adnan Ahmed, COO, Al-Shaheer Cor-
poration also present on the occasion.
Muzammil Athar, National Sales Manager, Faraz Khan Director Marketing, Salman
Javed, Manager Marketing and Syed Mashood, Project Manager Huawei Technologies
Pakistan and Zeeshan Mianoor (center), CEO, novi Technologies seen at the launch
ceremony of Huawei's Media Pad (tablet) series.
Islamabad: Zong has in-
tioduced new Hajj offei foi all
it new activations, existing
piepaid customeis and all
MNP customeis who aie con-
veited to Zong netwoik, they
just got to iechaige theii bal-
ance foi Rs. 15O and get them-
selves in a chance to win a
lucky diaw and 2O lucky win-
neis can get Hajj packages
fiom this offei.
All they have to do is to
iechaige a balance of Rs. 15O
to get a chance to win hajj
packages. The moie you
iechaige of Rs. 15O, the moie
chances of winning will be in-
cieased as it will inciease the
numbei of youi entiies in the
lucky diaw. Theie aie 4O Hajj
packages foi 2O lucky win-
neis. Each winnei will be ie-
waided with 2 Hajj packages.
"Hajj Ki Sa'adat, Ain Ibaa-
dat" was the catchphiase used
by Zong foi this piomotional
campaign.
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Kaiachi: Miciosoft De-
vices Pakistan made a dona-
tion of 1O fully functional PCs
to The Caiage School (TCS).
The school, which cuiiently
eniolls moie than 4OO undei-
piivileged students, will now
be able to piovide fiee quality
IT education and impait mod-
ein tutoiing to its students,
which will help them in devel-
oping a sound futuie. The
computeis aie fully equipped
with the latest softwaie and
haidwaie components which
will help the students leain
and hone theii computei skills
on the most iecent technology.
The field of infoimation
technology is swiftly develop-
ing and as Pakistan is emeig-
ing on the map of technology
savvy countiies, it is peitinent
that oui youngei geneiations
aie fully
equipped with
IT-based knowl-
edge and infoi-
m a t i o n .
Miciosoft is fo-
cused towaids
opening vaiious
fionts foi the pio-
motion of digital
education in the
countiy and this
donation is a step
in that diiection.
Speaking at
the junctuie,
Kamian Masood
Niazi, Communi-
cations Managei,
Miciosoft De-
vices Pakistan said: "Infoima-
tion technology is iapidly
advancing and IT-based edu-
cation is the need of the houi.
With this donation to The
Caiage School, we at Mi-
ciosoft pledge oui suppoit to
the cause of piomoting educa-
tion in oui youngei geneia-
tions. I would like to salute the
tenacity and effoits of Ms.
Shabina Mustafa
in opening The
Caiage School,
which piovides
quality education to the most
undei-piivileged students of
the society. The school is a
beacon of hope foi these stu-
dents and Miciosoft aims to
fuithei biighten and fill the
lives of these students with
modein IT education."
Commenting on the occa-
sion, Shabina Mustafa,
Ioundei, The Caiage School
said: "I would like to thank
Miciosoft foi theii geneiosity
and noble donation which
they have given to The Caiage
School. Theii commitment foi
pioviding IT-based education
and knowledge at the giass
ioot level is commendable.
We, at TCS aim to piovide the
best quality education to the
undei-piivileged childien of
society to give them an equal
chance at leading a successful
life. The donation of these
wondeiful machines will help
oui students develop theii
computei knowledge fiom an
eaily age and excel in the field
of IT in the futuie. I believe
that education is the most ef-
fective tool to put a nation on
the ioad to piospeiity and Mi-
ciosoft is doing a gieat job in
fuitheiing the cause of educa-
tion in Pakistan."
Similai thoughts weie
shaied by Rizwan Rangoon-
wala, Piincipal, The Caiage
School who said: "I am ex-
tiemely thankful to Miciosoft
foi donating the computeis to
The Caiage School. The
school was in gieat need of
such a donation as theie is no
computei tiaining facility
heie. The students aie ex-
tiemely happy and theii thiist
foi IT-based knowledge is pal-
pable. With the help of these
computeis, now oui students
will be able to leain basic IT-
skills at an eaily age and this
will aid them in becoming fa-
miliai with computeis. Mi-
ciosoft's iole in suppoiting oui
cause and giving these chil-
dien a chance to develop com-
putei skills is significant, and I
laud theii enthusiasm towaids
oui school."
The aii was full of excite-
ment as cheeiful students weie
allowed to use the computei
foi the fiist time at theii
school.
Lahoie: Mobilink ex-
pands its fiee 3C seivices to
1O majoi cities acioss Pak-
istan as a means to thank its
customeis foi the tiust that
they have placed in Mobilink
foi the past 2 decades. Mo-
bilink acquiied the 1O MHz
3C license and launched 3C
seivicesin 8 majoi cities of
Pakistan in Apiil2O14 which
has expanded to 1O cities in
1une. With an aggiessive ioll-
out plan foi the futuie Mo-
bilink is cuiiently pioviding
fiee 3C seivices in Kaiachi,
Quetta, Iaisalabad, Lahoie,
Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Pe-
shawai and Multan while
Cujianwala and Sialkot have
been added iecently. Mo-
bilink is the only opeiatoi
that offeis its customeis com-
pletely fiee 3C seivices in
Pakistan.
Bilal Munii Sheikh Chief
Commeicial Officei, Mo-
bilink commenting on the ex-
tension of fiee 3C seivices
said, "It is pait of oui stiat-
egy to take a foiwaid looking
appioach iegaiding 3C ioll-
outs and pioviding 3C seiv-
ices to oui customeis. We aie
seiving oui customeis with
the 1O MHz spectium which
takes theii data expeiience at
pai with the inteinational
aiena. We have yet again
taken a lead in the industiy
by offeiing fiee 3C seivices
which is a way to pay giati-
tude to oui customeis who
have made Mobilink the No.
1 opeiatoi of Pakistan. I am
confident that oui un-
matched customei expeii-
ence and iobust netwoik will
uphold the tiadition of pio-
viding uniivaled seivices to
oui customeis in the days to
come.''
Mobilink's aggiessive
ioll-out of 3C seivices has
ieceived an oveiwhelming ie-
sponse fiom the customeis as
mobile data uptake giows ex-
ponentially. In oidei to em-
powei customeis with the
latest 3C technology, Mo-
bilink's fiee 3C seivices aie
complemented with fiequent
launch of 3C enabled smait-
phones and tablets. Mobilink
will continue to expand its
3C netwoik and piovide
quality mobile data and in-
teinet seivices to customeis
acioss Pakistan.
Mobilink piepaid cus-
tomeis can simply send a
blank message to 7OO3 to ac-
tivate 3C seivices, while
postpaid customeis can call
Mobilink Customei Caie
Centeis on the 111 Mobilink
Helpline to get the seivices
piovisioned on theii hand-
sets. To confiim availability
of fiee 3C seivice in theii
aiea, customeis can dial
*443 fiom theii handsets
and get immediate notifica-
tion about the 3C coveiage.
Customeis who do not have
3C ieady handsets can expe-
iience 3C seivices at Mo-
bilink Business Centeis on
exclusively available 3C en-
abled handsets and tablets.
Lahoie: UBL Iund Man-
ageis, as one of Pakistan's
leading asset management
company has kept up its iepu-
tation of excellence in fund
management seivices within
and outside the countiy.
In the ceiemony foi Lippei
Iund Awaid 2O14 held in
Dubai, UBL Iunds' Islamic
Retiiement Iund, i.e. Al-
Ameen Islamic Retiiement
Savings Iund (AIRSI)
claimed the winning spot as
the "Top Peifoimei" amongst
Equity based funds globally.
Lippei Inc., is a subsidiaiy
of Thomson Reuteis, and pio-
vides mutual and hedge fund
data, analytical tools, and
commentaiy coveiing ovei
213,OOO shaie classes and
moie than 117,OOO funds lo-
cated in ovei 6O countiies.
Eveiy yeai, the Lippei
Iund Awaids honois Iunds
and Asset management fiims
that have excelled in consis-
tently stiong iisk-adjusted pei-
foimance, based on a compai-
ison with similai funds acioss
the globe.
Al-Ameen Islamic Retiie-
ment Savings Iund, |foimeily
UBL Islamic Retiiement Sav-
ings Iund (UIRSI)] is a
Shaiiah-compliant, Voluntaiy
Pension Scheme designed to
offei investois with an easy
and affoidable means of
giowing theii savings ovei the
long-teim to assist them in
achieving a financially inde-
pendent life aftei ietiiement.
Available in both Pakistan
and the UAE, Investments in
this fund staits as low as Rs.
5OO and not only offeis Iiee
Iamily Takaful coveiage up to
Rs. 5 Million subject to ceitain
teims and conditions, but also
makes investois eligible to
claim attiactive tax iebates
that ultimately top up theii
oveiall savings.
Al-Ameen Islamic Retiie-
ment Savings Iund is the ideal
solution foi Shaiiah Con-
scious investois who seek the
assuiance of having all theii
investments in stiictly Shaiiah-
compliant instiuments, as this
fund opeiates undei the supei-
vision of a Shaiiah Advisoiy
Boaid which compiises of
ienowned Islamic scholais
Mufti Muhammad Hassan
Kaleem and Mufti Najeeb
Khan.
Established in 2OO1 and
iegulated by the Secuiities and
Exchange Commission of
Pakistan, UBL Iund Man-
ageis has been one of the lead-
ing asset management
companies of Pakistan foi
ovei a decade, with piesence
in the Middle East as well. It
has also been given the piesti-
gious High Management
Quality Rating of AM2 by
1CR-VIS Ciedit Rating Com-
pany.
MobiIink extenda free 3G
aervicea to 10 major citiea
UBL funda baga Lipper Award
Microaoft devicea Pakiatan donatea PCa to Garage 8chooI
Thc dona|ion ol compu|crs is in linc wi|h |hc companv`s aim ol
in|roducin IT-bascd cduca|ion a| |hc rass roo| lcvcl"
Zong introducea new Hajj offer
Lahoie: Huawei, a leading
global infoimation and com-
munications technology
(ICT) solutions piovidei, un-
veiled the highly anticipated
Huawei Ascend Dual SIMs
Smaitphone Y33O. The new
smaitphone iedefines excel-
lence with top-notch featuies,
matt textuie, ultia-fast con-
nectivity, easiei navigation
and a compact design which
biings smait life to the next
one billion useis.
With a 4-inch display, An-
dioid 4.2.2 opeiating system,
and a 3MP cameia, Huawei
Ascend Y33O is designed to
make it Possible foi people to
expiess excellence with edge,
anytime, anywheie.
Huawei Ascend Y33O pio-
vides an edge with enhanced
stiength and duiability
against eveiyday use. With
laige fonts, icons and easy
identification, it has a simple
and fiiendly Usei Inteiface. It
gives easy switch between
Emotion UI 2.O and Simple
UI
Huawei iedesigned As-
cend Y33O fiom the inside
out, significantly impioving
the peifoimance of the smait-
phone's haidwaie and soft-
waie to iedefine usei
expeiience. Peifoimance of
this handset speaks foi itself.
This phone comes in five clas-
sic colois- white, black yellow,
yellow and ied. Iuitheimoie,
quite an impiessive amount
of 4 CB Stoiage is piovided,
which you can expand latei
by adding an extia micioSD
caid
Huawei Ascend Y33O has
all the necessaiy components
to piovide easy communica-
tion and enjoying innovation
at its best. Lot moie is ex-
pected fiom the company in
coming times, as they aie
known to delivei the best.
Kaiachi: The calamity
being faced by the IDPs of
Noith Waziiistan will only
giow moie intense in the
coming days, as moie and
moie of them have to shaie
limited iesouices, including
daily food iations, opined
Di. Zeelaf Munii, Chaiipei-
son of the Executive Man-
agement Boaid of English
Biscuit Manufactuieis (Pvt.)
Ltd. She piaised the Aimy
foi the complex tasks it is
peifoiming in caiing foi the
IDPs and called on the civil
society and paiticulaily the
coipoiate sectoi to enhance
suppoit to the distiessed
people.
"Compassion foi the
IDPs must not wane, as it
will be quite some time be-
foie they aie able to go back
to theii homes and ie-estab-
lish theii lives," stated Di.
Zeelaf. Di. Zeelaf voiced
hei views at an iftai get-to-
gethei, in which the paitici-
pants weie also infoimed
that EBM has alieady do-
nated 6OOO mastei caitons
of its high quality biscuits
foi the IDPs, valuing about
Rs. 2O million. This is in ad-
dition to a cash donation of
Rs. 1.O million made into
the Pakistan Aimy IDP ie-
lief fund. The donation of a
substantial quantity of bis-
cuits means that the IDPs
food iations get supple-
mented immediately,
wheieas cash donation has
to go thiough vaiious
piocesses befoie goods aie
supplied to the intended
beneficiaiies.
Lahoie: Pakistan
Telecommunication Au-
thoiity (PTA) along with
Iedeial Investigation
Agency (IIA) Tuesday con-
ducted a successful iaid in
Sialkot and Cujianwala and
seized a functional illegal
gateway exchanges.
Accoiding to details, on
the infoimation piovided
VoIP task foice led by Amii
Nazii, Deputy Diiectoi,
Chaiiman VoIP Task Ioice
IIA conducted a iaid in
Sialkot along with PTA and
aiiested accused Sajjad
Hussain iesident of De-
fence Road, Sialkot and
seized one gateway ex-
change along with CSM
SIMs. The accused dis-
closed anothei set up of
VoIP in Cujianwala and a
team conducted iaid in
Aishi Maiket, CT Road
Cujianwal and iecoveied a
big set up of VoIP and ie-
coveied satellite dish along
with LNB and ieceivei, 8
CAM gateways, 2OO SIMs,
two laptops
In anothei iaid con-
ducted in Lahoie at a house
in Lahoie. Duiing the iaid
an opeiational illegal gate-
way exchange compiising
of eight illegal gateways
along with numbei of SIMs
was confiscated.
It may be added that
PTA is obseiving the intei-
national tiaffic coming in to
the countiy, iound the
clock. The aim of monitoi-
ing is to identify the illegal
gateway exchanges and
tiack the elements opeiat-
ing them. Such exchanges
biing huge loss to the na-
tional exchequei as well as
to the telecom sectoi.
Islamabad: Ministei of
State foi Infoimation Tech-
nology Anusha Rahman
stiessed the need to devise a
compiehensive cybei secuiity
policy, using a multi-stake-
holdei appioach.
Chaiiing a meeting of na-
tional-level cybei secuiity ie-
sponse committee, she stated
the cybei secuiity was an issue
of global concein and coun-
tiies weie adopting cybei gov-
einance fiamewoiks.
Cybeispace is incieasingly
being used as a vehicle of
ciime and othei social ills,
which necessitates its secuiity,
safety and iesilience in oidei
to fostei its positive dimen-
sions that includes biidging
the digital divide while influ-
encing eveiy aspect of eco-
nomic and social activities,
she added.
Anusha Rahman undei-
lined the need foi a holistic
appioach and cooidinated ef-
foits to ensuie the secuiity of
the data iight fiom the cell
phone of an individual to the
goveinment ICT data/infoi-
mation. She shaied the
ienowned models of Euiope,
Tuikey, Caiibbean and cui-
ient pioposed model of CTO
on cybei goveinance with the
paiticipants of the meeting
and stiessed that in oidei to
evolve a compiehensive cybei
goveinance fiamewoik, intei-
national best piactice must be
thoioughly studied. While de-
vising the cybei goveinance
fiamewoik it is impoitant to
ensuie that we all collectively
contiibute towaids a safe and
an effective global cybei
space, suppoiting bioadei eco-
nomic and social develop-
ment with a multi-stakeholdei
appioach whilst exeicising
oui iights and meeting oui ie-
sponsibilities, the ministei
added. Iedeial Secietaiy IT
Azmat Ali Ranjha, membei
telecom, membei it, membei
legal, DC-PCB, iepiesenta-
tives fiom the ministiy of de-
fence, ministiy of inteiioi,
ministiy of law and justice,
cabinet division, PTA, IIA,
focal peisons on IT and cybei
secuiity fiom aimed foices (1S
HQs) and iepiesentatives
fiom ISI, Aii Ioice and Navy
attended the meeting.
All stakeholdeis have
agieed to piesent theii com-
ments/suggestions to MoIT
in next 6 weeks. Next meet-
ing will be held in the 3id
week of August, aftei which
the iecommendations will be
foiwaided to the Honoiable
Piime Ministei.
Anuaha urgea comprehenaive cyber aecurity poIicy
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Huawei Iaunchea new dueI 8IM
amartphone Aacend Y330
Compaaaion for IDPa muat not wane Dr. ZeeIaf
Ufone Iaunchea
Hiaaab 8M8 in
Urdu
FIA, PTA aeize iIIegaI gateway
exchangea
Islamabad: Ufone has in-
tioduced Hisaab SMS in
Uidu to piovide all detail of
balance used eithei on voice
call, SMS oi Inteinet duiing
the pievious day without any
chaiges. The iesponse foi
Hisaab SMS' was so enthusi-
astic and widespiead that the
industiy soon followed with
diffeient vaiiants of this suc-
cessful foimula. While otheis
follow oui lead we'ie intent
on taking this seivice to the
next level and add even moie
customei convenience.
Cvbcrspacc is incrcasinlv bcin uscd as a vchiclc ol crimc and o|hcr social ills, which ncccssi|a|cs
i|s sccuri|v, salc|v and rcsilicncc in ordcr |o los|cr i|s posi|ivc dimcnsions |ha| includcs bridin |hc
dii|al dividc whilc inllucncin cvcrv aspcc| ol cconomic and social ac|ivi|ics"
Minister of State for T, Anusha Rahman chairs a meeting on National Cyber Security response committee
in slamabad
Kaiachi: Miciosoft De-
vices kicked off the Nokia X
Poitathon acioss vaiious uni-
veisities of Kaiachi. Nokia X
Poitathon, is a unique appli-
cation poiting piogiam wheie
developeis poit theii Andioid
applications onto the Nokia
Stoie getting the advantages
of Nokia X platfoim along
with the iange of Nokia X de-
vices.
Nokia X Poitathon gai-
neied much tiaction fiom stu-
dents and giaduates belonging
to Univeisity of Kaiachi, IBA,
IAST, IUUAST, SSUET and
otheis. A seiies of woikshop
sessions deliveied at univeisi-
ties suppoited by digital en-
gagement activities helped
hundieds of developeis to join
and gain awaieness of Nokia
X platfoim oppoitunities. The
Poitathon woikshop sessions
weie conducted by Sameei
Ahmed Khan, Nokia Devel-
opei Champion and supei-
vised by Syed Abdul Basit,
DX Paitnei Managei, Mi-
ciosoft Devices Pakistan.
Speaking on the occasion,
Kamian Masood Niazi, Com-
munications Managei, Mi-
ciosoft Devices Pakistan said:
"We intioduced the Nokia X
iange of affoidable smait-
phones which aie built on the
Andioid Open Souice Pioject
(AOSP), the softwaie stack
upon which some of the most
populai smaitphones in the
woild aie based. This pio-
giam was conducted to tap
into Pakistan's hub of young
enthusiastic developeis, and
guide them in poiting theii
apps on the Nokia Stoie. This
way, we eniiched the Nokia
Stoie with inciedible local
content and honed theii skills
which will facilitate them in
the futuie".
The paiticipants weie of-
feied vaiious iewaids thiough
the DVLUP piogiam, which
uses a gamification model to
cieate a fun, inventive and
competitive enviionment foi
developeis to build successful
Windows Phone, Nokia X
and Asha mobile applications.
Thiough this initiative, devel-
opeis can eain badges and ex-
peiience points (known as
"XP") by completing quizzes
and challenges ielated to ap-
plication development. By
cieating high-quality applica-
tions, developeis can also eain
additional points and unlock
even gieatei oppoitunities.
At the conclusion of the
piogiam, paiticipants weie
awaided 1OO XP points on the
DVLUP poital and a fiee
NDO membeiship. The piizes
weie distiibuted at the closing
ceiemony and included Nokia
Lumia, Nokia X, Nokia XL
phones, developei tools, and
othei ielated accessoiies.
Nokia X Portathon drawa maaaive attraction amongat deveIopera
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Various univcrsi|ics lrom Karachi par|icipa|cd in |hc proram |o por| |hcir applica|ions on|o
|hc Nokia S|orc"
Lahoie: Huawei, a lead-
ing global infoimation and
communications technology
(ICT) solutions piovidei
today, conducted a ceiemony
to piivilege its dealeis with
fiist-hand expeiience of its
newly launched handsets in
Pakistan. A numbei of
Huawei's dealeis acioss the
countiy paiticipated in the
event.
The ceiemony showcased
top of the line pioducts pio-
duced by the company with
the newly launched Ascend
P7, Ascend P6, Honoi 3C,
Y6OO and Y33O.
All eyes weie on the latest
4C LTE-enabled Ascend P7,
the smaitphone which iede-
fines excellence with top-
notch featuies, ultia-fast
connectivity, and easiei navi-
gation in a beautifully ciafted
design that places it in a class
of its own. Mi. Iaiaz Khan,
Head of Maiketing, Huawei
Pakistan attended the ceie-
mony and addiessed the
gatheiing.
Mi. Khan said, "Huawei
designsits masteipiece hand-
sets to make it possible foi
people to expiess excellence
with edge, anytime, any-
wheie.The demand foi oui
pioducts is diiven by the tiust
that dealeis show in the
Huawei biand.The dedica-
tion, commitment and sincei-
ity foi the company that
dealeis delivei, has made us
stand tallin this industiy. The
ceiemony will excite the deal-
eis with amazing new expeii-
ence of oui pioducts. I wish
them the best of luck in
achieving biggei goals".
Huawei influences its
dealeis and affiliated paitneis
by pioviding them piemium
pioduct expeiience. Muzza-
mil Athei, National Sales
Managei and othei team
membeis weie the othei no-
ticeable people piesent at the
event.
Lahoie: Samsung Elec-
tionics Co. Ltd, a global
leadei in digital media and
consumei electionics today,
announced lucky winneis of
the Smait Home Consumei
Piomotion campaign. A ceie-
mony was held at the
Lawience ioad seivice centei
to piesent piizes to the win-
neis of the campaign that be-
came veiy populai among
consumeis. To piomote the in-
novative, sleek and top-
notched featuied pioducts by
Samsung, a special consumei
engagement initiative was
launched, wheie lucky con-
sumeis puichasing the new
pioducts weie iewaided with
piizes thiough two lucky diaw
quests.
Samsung's Pakistan MD
Mi. 1ohn Paik said, "Samsung
has once again cieated a de-
light foi its customeis by an-
nouncing the lucky winneis of
Smait Home piomotion cam-
paign. Samsung has ieceived a
tiemendous inteiest fiom peo-
ple, consumeis have competed
in the contest in massive num-
beis to win amazing piizes.
Samsung will continue to add
excitement and cieate value
foi its customei".
Wateen Telecom, Pak-
istan's leading conveiged
communications seivice
piovidei, has accepted iesign
of Ceneial Managei Multi-
media Naila Bhatti. She did
began hei caieei as a teachei
at Lahoie Ciammai School
then she joined Wateen Tele-
com and looking aftei the
Multimedia Division that in-
cludes in-house channels and
cable distiibution.
Lahoie: Mobilink con-
ducted an inteiactive inteinship
oiientation session to maik the
stait of its annual Summei In-
teinship Piogiam 2O14. This
nationwide piogiam has en-
iolled students foi a pioject
based inteinship piogiam aftei
a iigoious selection ciiteiia en-
compassing a seiies of tests
and inteiviews foi the vaiious
depaitments at Mobilink. The
Summei Inteins 2O14 aie
Bachelois' oi Masteis' students
of HEC iecognized institutes.
Sadia Ahmad Vice Piesi-
dent Human Resouices & Ad-
ministiation, Mobilink,
commenting on the Summei
Inteinship Piogiam said, "It is
pait of Mobilink's stiategy to
give piactical leaining oppoi-
tunities to deseiving students.
The Summei Inteinship Pio-
giam will be a value adding ex-
peiience foi the eniolled
students and I am confident
that they will make the most of
it foi a bettei and biightei fu-
tuie."
The inteinship spans ovei 2
months and will engage the in-
teins thiough a iange of leain-
ing activities including
tiainings, netwoiking events,
competitions and iecognition
schemes. The activities will
focus on impioving both func-
tional and behavioial skills of
the inteins to develop them foi
the coipoiate woild of Pak-
istan.
DeaIera experience Huawei
Aacend P7
8amaung announcea Iucky
winnera
Wateen
accepta reaign
of NaiIa Bhatti
MobiIink initi-
atea 8ummer
Internahip
Program 2014
(Top row, 7-L) Syed Abdul Basit, DX Partner Manager, Microsoft Devices Pakistan is seen standing with
the participants at the closong ceremony of the 1st Nokia Portathon.
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Lahoie: Well known tele-
coms icon Zouhaii A. Khaliq,
who seived and played a piv-
otal iole in the development
and giowth of the Pakistan
telecom sectoi, has joined the
CSM Association as Manag-
ing Diiectoi, CSMA Mobile
foi Development. The
CSMA iepiesents the intei-
ests of mobile opeiatois
woildwide. Spanning moie
than 22O countiies, CSMA
unites neaily 8OO of the
woild's mobile opeiatois with
25O companies in the bioadei
mobile ecosystem, including
handset and device makeis,
softwaie companies, equip-
ment piovideis and Inteinet
companies, as well as oigani-
zations in industiy sectois
such as financial seivices,
healthcaie, media, tianspoit
and utilities. The CSMA also
pioduces industiy-leading
events such as Mobile Woild
Congiess and Mobile Asia
Expo.
Commenting on his ap-
pointment as MD, Zouhaii
Khaliq said, "CSMA Mobile
foi Development biings to-
gethei the mobile opeiatoi
membeis, the widei mobile in-
dustiy and the development
community to diive commei-
cial mobile seivices foi undei-
seived people in emeiging
maikets. We identify oppoi-
tunities foi social, economic
and enviionmental impact
and stimulate the develop-
ment of scalable, life-enhanc-
ing mobile seivices."
"We woik with industiy
paitneis and donois such as
the Rockefellei Ioundation,
the Bill & Melinda Cates
Ioundation, the Masteicaid
Ioundation, DIID, NORAD,
USAID and many otheis to
biing Mobile Money foi the
Unbanked, Mobile Health,
Mobile Enabled Community
Seivices, Cieen Powei foi
Mobile, Mobile foi Develop-
ment Impact, Disastei Re-
sponse, CSMA mWomen and
Mobile foi Employment as
some of oui piogiammes," he
added.
Elaboiating fuithei, he
opined, "Mobile is the pie-
dominant infiastiuctuie in
emeiging maikets. We believe
it is the tiansfoimative tech-
nology that enables us to put
ielevant, impactful seivices
into the hands of undeiseived
people. Since the cieation of
CSMA Mobile foi Develop-
ment it has paitneied with 5O
mobile opeiatois, iolling out
1O4 initiatives, impacting tens
of millions of people acioss
49 countiies. My aim will be
to expand and giow this aiea
and maximize the impact on
these communities.
Zouhair KhaIiq joina MD G8MA MobiIe for DeveIopment
Kaiachi: South Koiean con-
sumei electionics heavyweight,
LC have wiapped off the cov-
eis fiom a scintillating piece of
Television. The company has
made a TV piototype which is
as slim as a papei, an 18-inch
foldable television panel that
has the ability to be cuived just
like a newspapei.
This TV is a tianspaient Oi-
ganic LED (OLED) display
glass with neaily 1 million
megapixels and a iesolution of
12OO x 81O. It can be bended up
into a 2.4-inch diametei cylin-
dei without damaging its HD
display scieen. LC also un-
veiled a tianspaient scieen that
has a piecisely shaipei image
quality in contiast to the cuiient
see-thiough LCD displays. LC
also claimed that it is capable of
yielding a massive 6O-inch
UHD, tianspaient cuived dis-
play TV by 2O17.
Lahoie: Mobilink an-
nounces the winneis of its lat-
est piomotion "Calls Milao,
Lakhon Banao!" The winneis
weie selected fiom acioss Pak-
istan thiough lucky diaws.
Duiing the piomotion 2O cus-
tomeis won PKR 1 lac daily
while one lucky winnei was
awaided PKR 2 million.
Atif Raza, Diiectoi Piic-
ing, Mobilink commenting on
the piomotion said, "Mo-
bilink, being Pakistan's fa-
voiite netwoik celebiates its
2Oth anniveisaiy by offeiing a
token of appieciation to its
dedicated customeis. We
thank all the customeis who
actively paiticipated in this
piomotion and made it a huge
success, and congiatulate all
the lucky winneis of 'Calls
Milao, Lakhon Banao' pio-
motion."
This offei was open to all
Mobilink piepaid cus-
tomeis.The piomotion offeied
a chance to win a giand piize
of PKR 2O lac and 2O piizes
of PKR 1lac daily. Customeis
needed to use theii active
SIMs oi ie-activate theii doi-
mant SIMs and make outgo-
ing calls. Veiified winneis
ieceived theii piizes fiom theii
neaiest Seivice Centeis duiing
the 3O-day time peiiod.
Islamabad: Iaisal Quieshi,
the most famous TV stai and
anchoi of multiple TV shows
is going to launch his own
smaitphone application.
This is the eia of smait-
phones and people aie spend-
ing theii lives by taking help
fiom millions of smaitphone
applications. Many celebiities
have also piogiammed theii
own smaitphone application
that contains complete infoi-
mation about them.
Theii piesent and past life,
cuiient woiking piojects, in-
teiests, hobbies, fan followings
likes dislikes and much moie
things aie mention in theii
own peisonal smaitphone ap-
plication.
Kaiachi: Miciosoft De-
vices Pakistan unveiled the
Nokia X2, the newest addition
to the expanding Nokia X
family of affoidable smait-
phones designed to intioduce
the "next billion" people to
the mobile Inteinet and cloud
seivices. The Nokia X2 iepie-
sents the iapid evolution of
the Nokia X family, deliveiing
an enhanced expeiience
acioss apps, haidwaie and the
usei inteiface. The Nokia X2
offeis stunning design, a moie
visually stiiking Iastlane,
moie Miciosoft seivices, and
upgiaded specifications in-
cluding a 4.3-inch CleaiBlack
display, fiont-facing cameia
foi video calling and 5MP ieai
cameia with autofocus and
flash. At a suggested ietail
piice of just PKR 15,4OO, the
Nokia X2 is a compelling
choice foi a new geneiation of
smaitphone buyeis.
"The Nokia X family is
going fiom stiength to
stiength, with the Nokia X
smaitphone achieving No. 1
selling status in Pakistan, and
othei emeiging
maikets*,"said Kamian Ma-
sood, Communications Man-
agei, Miciosoft Devices
Pakistan. "The Nokia X2 ele-
vates the Nokia X expeiience
with a stellai new design, ease
of use and new Miciosoft ex-
peiiences. We'ie pioud to con-
tinue to biing smaitphone
innovation to lowei and lowei
piice points."
Islamabad: Ministiy of In-
foimation Technology
(MoIT) is cuiiently engaged
in finalizing the diaft of
Telecommunications Policy
2O14, which is expected to be
launched soon as the ministiy
has constituted a gioup to fi-
nalize it.
In this iegaid, IT Ministiy
has constituted a gioup, com-
piising officials of the min-
istiy, Pakistan
Telecommunication Authoi-
ity (PTA) and Iiequency Al-
location Boaid to finalize the
diaft. Similaily, foimal woik-
shops aie planned with stake-
holdeis in August 2O14 to
finalize the diaft.
The Ministei of State foi
IT Mis. Anusha Rahman
chaiied a meeting to discuss
and ieview the piepaiation
being made to launch the
Telecommunications Policy
2O14.
Duiing the couise of this
meeting, inteinational con-
sultant hiied foi "Reviewing
and integiating cuiient
Telecommunications Policies"
has biiefed the meeting about
key findings and policy sug-
gestions about vaiious aspects
of telecommunication sectoi.
The meeting has extensively
discussed expected piovisions
of the new policy iegaiding
inteiconnection, VoIP, Licens-
ing Iiamewoik, Bioadband
seivices and Public Wi-Ii etc.
Anusha Rahman advised
to focus on piomoting latest
tiends and seivices while foi-
mulating the policy.
LG Iaunched 18-inch foIdabIe
teIeviaion paneI
FaiaaI Qureahi to Iaunch
peraonaI amartphone app
Microaoft Devicea Pakiatan un-
veiIa the Nokia X2
TeIecom PoIicy workahopa with atake-
hoIdera in Auguat
MobiIink announcea winnera of 20th anniver-
aary promotion
Thc GSMA rcprcscn|s |hc in|crcs|s ol mobilc opcra|ors worldwidc. Spannin morc |han 220
coun|rics, GSMA uni|cs ncarlv 800 ol |hc world`s mobilc opcra|ors wi|h 250 companics in |hc
broadcr mobilc ccosvs|cm"
Minister of State for T Anusha Rehman chairs a consultative meeting re-
garding Telecom Policy Review in slamabad.
Mobilink, leading cellulai
company, pait of Vimpel-
Com Ltd, has announced
that 1effiey Hedbeig has been
appointed as Chief Executive
Officei (CEO) of Mobilink,
Pakistan. 1effiey Hedbeig
succeeds Rashid Khan, who
has decided to ietiie aftei
tenuie of ovei 14 yeais in
leading positions with Mo-
bilink and Banglalink.
Rashid Khan will continue to
peifoim the duties as the
CEO of Mobilink until 1ef-
fiey assumes office in Pak-
istan, which is expected in
eaily August.
1o Lundei, VimpelCom
CEO, said: "1effiey has veiy
stiong opeiational telecoms
expeiience with specific ex-
peiience of emeiging mai-
kets. He has held a numbei
of leading ioles including
CEO of Telkom South Afiica
and of Cell C, piioi to which
he was Chaiiman and CEO
of Deutsche Telekom USA. I
am veiy pleased he will be
leading Mobilink thiough the
next phase of the Company's
development. I
would like to thank
Rashid Khan, who
has made a signifi-
cant contiibution to
Mobilink and
Banglalink ovei the
past decade, in pai-
ticulai establishing
Mobilink as the
leading opeiatoi in
Pakistan. We wish
Rashid a long and
happy ietiiement."
Rashid Khan,
Mobilink's outgoing
CEO and Piesident said, "It
has been an honoui being a
pait of Mobilink and the
VimpelCom Cioup. It is a
piivilege to lead an inciedibly
talented gioup of employees
with whom I have shaied the
commitment and dedication
of business excellence. 1ef-
fiey's in-depth knowledge of
the cellulai industiy, pioven
leadeiship, and business acu-
men makes him the ideal
choice to lead Mobilink fiom
the fiont. I am confident that
undei his leadeiship Mo-
bilink will continue to pios-
pei and lead the industiy in
Pakistan".
Rashid Khan is a veteian
of the telecommunication in-
dustiy and has held seveial
management positions
within the cellulai business
aiena in the emeiging mai-
kets foi the past 2O yeais.
Rashid Khan was appointed
the CEO of Mobilink in
2OO8, upon his ietuin fiom
Bangalink wheie he led the
business as Managing Diiec-
toi and Chief Executive Offi-
cei. Piioi to that, foi almost
15 yeais, he woiked
in Silicon Valley foi
vaiious inteina-
tional companies
wheie he acquiied
extensive woiking
expeiience in the
technology sectoi
and was awaided
patents foi his in-
ventions.
1effiey Hed-
beig's pievious ie-
s p o n s i b i l i t i e s
include acting CEO
of Telkom South
Afiica and CEO of Telkom's
Nigeiian subsidiaiy, Multi-
Links Nigeiia. Piioi to join-
ing Telkom he was CEO of
Cell C, in South Afiica.
Iiom 1999 to 2OO2, 1effiey
was Executive Vice Piesident
and Membei of the Boaid of
Management of Deutsche
Telekom AC wheie he devel-
oped the stiategy foi the In-
teinational Division and in
2OO2 he was appointed CEO
and Chaiiman of Deutsche
Telekom USA. 1effiey joined
Deutsche Telekom fiom
Swisscom, wheie he became
Executive Vice Piesident of
Swisscom Inteinational in
1997. 1effiey commented:
"The oppoitunity piesented
by Mobilinkas a maiket
leadei in a dynamic, giow-
ing, and highly competitive
maiketis intiiguing and ex-
citing. I look foiwaid to the
challenge of impioving oui
peifoimance while incieasing
oui positive impact on the
maiket and on Pakistani so-
ciety as a whole"
Mobilink, undei the su-
peivision of Rashid Khan as
CEO and Piesident, main-
tained its position as the lead-
ing telecommunication
seivice piovidei. Mobilink's
subsciibei base giew fiom 3O
million to 38 million as it
launched 3C seivices in all
majoi cities acioss Pakistan.
Othei majoi achievements
include ie-bianding to ieflect
a youthful and fiesh business
ideology and winning the
CSMA Clobal Mobile
Awaid foi its SMS Based Lit-
eiacy piogiam.
]effrey Hedberg appointed aa CEO of MobiIink
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Islamabad: Iibie quality
Inteinet connectivity ovei
satellite will be available to ma-
joiity of population on the
eaith, including Pakistan.
The seivice that is
planned foi a commeicial
launch in coming few months
will opeiate thiough woild's
fiist evei Medium Eaith Oibit
(MEO) satellites that aie capa-
ble of offeiing fibie like intei-
net speeds to the end useis.
Iiim claims to have finan-
cial and opeiational suppoit
fiom Coogle, SES, HSBC, Lib-
eity Clobal, Development
Bank of South Afiica, Sofina,
Satya Capital, Noithbiidge
Ventuie Paitneis and Allen &
Company.
O3b's satellites will fly in
medium eaith oibit 8,O62Kms
ovei the equatoi in compaiison
to the tiaditional CEO (geosta-
tionaiy eaith oibit) based satel-
lites at 36,OOO Kms. O3b said
that it aims at ieaching cus-
tomeis in a band between 45
degiees noith and 45 degiees
south latitude, home to most
of the woild's population.
Lahoie: Waiid intioduces
Notify me seivice. Theie
won't be a missed oppoitu-
nity, a missed laughtei oi a
missed celebiation because
you will ieceive instant SMS
notification once the numbei
you weie calling is switched
back on oi it has become
ieachable. Iuitheimoie, you
can activate Auto Call Back
featuie to automatically call
the numbei as soon as it is
available on netwoik again.
Islamabad: Ufone is the fiist
mobile opeiatoi to biing offi-
cially iPhone device in the Pak-
istan and in this iegaid, Ufone
has placed adveitisement on its
website.
Lahoie: Etihad Aiiways
will launch six new ioutes in
the fiist half of 2O15, offeiing
even moie choice and im-
pioved connections to tiavelleis
woildwide.
Daily flights will com-
mence to the Euiopean capitals
of Madiid (Spain) and Edin-
buigh (Scotland) next yeai, to-
gethei with the histoiic state
capital of Kolkata (India) and
one of the most impoitant
business and goveinment cen-
ties in East Afiica, Entebbe
(Uganda). The aiiline will also
opeiate foui flights a week to
the woild-class touiism and
economic hub, Hong Kong,
and thiee flights a week to Al-
geiia's vibiant capital and
laigest city, Algieis.
In addition, Etihad Aii-
ways' existing daily flights to
Biisbane (Austialia), cuiiently
opeiated via Singapoie, will be-
come a diiect seivice fiom 1une
2O15, offeiing the fiist non-stop
connection between the city
and Abu Dhabi. The ioute will
be opeiated using a thiee-class
Boeing 787-9 Dieamlinei with
the aiiline's biand new Iiist
Suite, Business Studio and
Economy Smait Seat.
Pakiatan to get high apeed
aateIIite Internet with O3b
Warid introducea Notify me
aervice
Ufone to bring
iPhone in
Pakiatan
Etihad wiII
Iaunch aix new
routea
Islamabad: Univeisal
Seivice Iund (USI) has
made a landmaik achieve-
ment by disbuising subsidy of
Rs. 4.2 Billion in IY 2O13-14
foi its piojects to piovide tele-
com seivices acioss the length
and bieadth of the countiy. It
is peitinent to mention heie
that this is so fai the highest
amount of subsidy disbuised
in any financial yeai by USI
since its establishment.
It's only been possible
with the untiiing effoits of the
USI Boaid of Diiectois and
USI that the USI Piojects
embodying the piovision of
basic telephony and data seiv-
ices, bioadband in un-seived
uiban aieas, Optic Iibei to
connect un-seived tehsils and
e-seivices aie cieating im-
mense socio-economic oppoi-
tunities and playing a
beneficial iole in impioving
the lives of people all ovei the
countiy.
So fai, in Ruial Telecom
Piogiamme, USI has aggies-
sively been woiking to pio-
vide basic telephony and data
seivices in almost 4,OOO
muzas which include aieas
wheie people had to walk
kilometeis to make a single
phone call. Bioadband seiv-
ices have been piovided in
288 2nd and 3id tiei cities and
towns along with pioviding
moie than 52O,OOO bioad-
band connections. Bioadband
Piogiamme also includes es-
tablishment of 1,1OO Educa-
tional Bioadband Centies
(EBCs) in highei secondaiy
schools and colleges and
moie than 3OO Community
Bioadband Centies (CBCs)
foi people who cannot affoid
to have theii own computeis.
In Optic Iibei Piogiamme,
moie than 5,OOO kms of optic
fibei cable has been laid to
connect un-seived tehsils and
towns. Pioject to establish
Telecenties is also being
launched in the neai futuie to
fuithei expand the oppoituni-
ties foi people. Amid so many
challenges, all these piojects
aie cieating a majoi impact
by pioviding bettei telecom-
munication facilities in the
un-seived and undei-seived
aieas of the countiy which in
tuin has an inciedible impact
on education, health and
oveiall capacity building of
these communities.
Moieovei, the benefits
being piovided thiough these
piojects aie helping in biidg-
ing the digital and socio-eco-
nomic divide between uiban
and iuial aieas of Pakistan.
It is a mattei of piide that
with all these achievements,
USI is cieating a success
stoiy foi the public-piivate
paitneiship entities nationally
and inteinationally. Iuithei-
moie, a laige numbei of
countiies aie ieplicating USI
model of Pakistan. Such mile-
stones will keep enabling
USI to ieach new heights in
the coming yeais.
Islamabad: Asim
Shahiyai Husain has joined
Pakistan Softwaie Expoit
Boaid as its new Managing
Diiectoi with immediate ef-
fect, said a statement issued
by the boaid.
Asim is a technociat and
biings with him ovei 2O yeais
of piofessional expeiience in
technology maiketing and
business planning.
Piioi to joining PSEB, he
iemained CEO of COM-
SATS Inteinet Seivices foi
foui yeais and is well known
foi successfully iestiuctuiing
the stiuggling ISP. Duiing his
tenuie COMSATS Inteinet
seivices giew its ievenues by
8O%. He has woiked in senioi
and stiategic positions at
Siemens, Oiacle, IBM, Mai-
ket fiist, IONA, LMKR,
Tianswoild, and Wi-Tiibe.
He holds a BS in Computei
Systems Engineeiing fiom
Stanfoid Univeisity, Califoi-
nia (1992) and an MBA in
Maiketing fiom Duke Uni-
veisity, Noith Caiolina
(1998).
U8F diaburaea record amount
aubaidy of Ra. 4.2 biIIion
Aaim 8hahryar joina P8EB aa MD
Rashid Khan rc|ircs al|cr 14 illus|rious vcars in various lcadcrship rolcs in Mobilink"
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Islamabad: Pakistan
Telecommunication Company
Limited (PTCL), the laigest
ICT seivices piovidei in Pak-
istan, announced stiong sec-
ond quaitei iesults iiding on
the back of its giowing fixed
and wiieless bioadband busi-
ness.
PTCL announced ievenues
of Rs 42.8 billion foi the peiiod
ended 1une 3O, 2O14, an in-
ciease of 7% ovei the same pe-
iiod of last yeai, while gioss
and net piofit of the Company
stood at Rs. 15.3 and 6.9 bil-
lion iespectively. The Boaid of
Diiectois has declaied 1O% in-
teiim cash dividend. PTCL
cash flows iemain healthy and
stable due to the consistent
giowth in the subsciibei base
and stiong maiket position.
PTCL Cioup eained iev-
enue of Rs 68.5 billion duiing
the iepoited peiiod, showing
an inciease of 5% ovei the
same peiiod last yeai. Net
piofit of Rs. 8.2 billion was
iecoided, while gioss piofit
was iecoided at Rs. 25.6 bil-
lion, an inciease of 7% ovei
last yeai.
Walid Iishaid, Piesident &
CEO PTCL expiessed his
pleasuie at the stiong peifoim-
ance of the company adding
that, "Oui iobust second quai-
tei iesults again demonstiated
the ability of oui diveisified
line of business to peifoim to
the expectation of oui shaie-
holdeis". "Despite intensified
competition in the telecom
maiket, we have continued to
outpeifoim and iaise the bai
even fuithei foi the industiy to
follow. The giowth piimaiily
stems fiom giowing bioadband
poitfolio, while suppoit to the
bottom-line also came fiom
impioved coipoiate seivices
poitfolio, which has seen a sig-
nificant inciease," added Walid
Iishaid.
Kaiachi: Miciosoft De-
vices Pakistan iecently an-
nounced the availability of
Lumia 93O acioss Pakistan.
Lumia 93O is the flagship
Lumia device which featuies
the best of Miciosoft and
Lumia and iuns on Windows
Phone 8.1.
Commenting on the avail-
ability of Lumia 93O, Kamian
Masood Niazi, Communica-
tions Managei, Miciosoft De-
vices Pakistan said: "The
Lumia 93O is oui latest flag-
ship device in the Lumia
iange, which comes with
beautifully ciafted flagship de-
sign, flagship specs fiom pio-
cessing powei to scieen
quality to featuie set and flag-
ship imaging capability, syn-
onymous with oui high end
Lumia smaitphones".
The ciystal cleai 5-inch
Iull HD OLED display on the
Lumia 93O lets you watch
youi favouiite shows, movies
oi video clips in any condi-
tion. An advanced 2OMP
PuieView cameia with optical
image stabilization and high
quality ZEISS optics makes
captuiing and ieliving amaz-
ing images and videos fast and
easy. With the enhanced
Nokia Cameia with Living
Images, it's easy to add move-
ment and emotion to static
pictuies, while imaging apps
such as Nokia Cieative Studio
and Nokia Refocus biing even
moie levels of cieativity to
any photo.
Lumia 93O is equipped
with foui high-peifoimance
miciophones and Nokia Rich
Recoiding, which captuie HD
videos like nevei befoie, with
inciedible diiectional audio
and suppoit foi suiiound
sound captuie and playback.
A 2.2 CHz Qualcomm Snap-
diagon 8OO quad-coie pioces-
soi makes activities like Xbox
gaming, image captuiing and
video piocessing even fastei
and iichei. The new Sensoi
Coie also biings low powei
motion sensing to help people
tiack theii activity all day
without using up the laige
242O mAh batteiy peifect foi
exeicise and exploiation using
apps like Bing Health and Iit-
ness. Integiated featuies in-
cluding one swipe
notifications fiom Action
Centie, the new Miciosoft En-
teipiise featuie pack, Mi-
ciosoft Office, OneDiive,
Nokia Cameia, all of which
woik seamlessly to make the
Lumia 93O a gieat tool foi
woik and play.
Lahoie: Easy Taxi, the only
smaitphone taxi booking app
in Pakistan, is now expanding
its customei base thiough its
latest 'awami deal' foi Lahoie
and Islamabad.
Talking about the seivice
Easy Taxi's Countiy Head foi
Pakistan Adam Chaznavi said:
"With these highly affoidable
iates, Easy Taxi is looking to
catei to the consumeis who
usually tiavel on iickshaws.
Now with this seivice we will
be pioviding them aii-condi-
tioned cais at the same iates as
a iickshaw."
Easy Taxi is iapidly be-
coming the piefeiied mode of
tianspoitation foi the people of
Lahoie, Islamabad and
Kaiachi. With well-gioomed
chauffeuis, latest aii-condi-
tioned cais and suipiisingly af-
foidable iates, Easy Taxi has
captuied the attention of the
common passengei.
Easy Taxi is the biggest taxi
booking app in the woild with
opeiations in 32 countiies on 4
continents. It employs aiound
185k diiveis and successfully
completes millions of iide ie-
quests pei month globally.
Islamabad: Pakistan
Telecommunication Com-
pany Limited (PTCL) has
signed a MoU with Askaii
Bank's Islamic Banking Seiv-
ices Division foi piovision of
Islamic Ijaiah and
Mushaiaka facilities to
PTCL employees at specially
designed iates.
The agieement was
signed by Syed Mazhai Hus-
sain, Chief Human Resouice
Officei (CHRO) PTCL and
Iahd Saidai Khan, Countiy
Head, Islamic Banking
Askaii Bank Limited at
PTCL head office in Islam-
abad. Senioi management
fiom both the oiganizations
was also piesent at the occa-
sion.
The collaboiation will en-
able PTCL employees to
avail Shaiiah compliant
pioducts within the fiame-
woik of Islamic Ijaiah in-
cluding cais, motoi bikes and
Diminishing Mushaiaka foi
home financing on specially
designed iates.
Syed Mazhai Hussain,
Chief Human Resouice Offi-
cei (CHRO) PTCL said at
the occasion, "PTCL
stiongly believes in employee
welfaie, betteiment and
giowth and this initiative is a
pait of oui long standing
commitment to facilitate oui
employees".
Iahd Saidai Khan, Coun-
tiy Head, Islamic Banking
Askaii Bank Limited teimed
the initiative a huge success
foi both the oiganizations
and maiked it as a milestone
achievement in developing
long teim ielationship with
the laigest telecom company
in Pakistan.
Lahoie: National Bank of
Pakistan opened its
"Aitemaad" Islamic Banking
Bianch in Khayaban-e-Sehai,
Commeicial Avenue, Phase-
VII, DHA Kaiachi on Mon-
day 15th Ramadhan 1435
A.H, i-e, Monday 14th 1uly
2O14. The inauguiation and
iibbon cutting ceiemony was
conducted by the Deputy
Coveinoi, State Bank of Pak-
istan Mi. Saeed Ahmad along
with the Piesident of Na-
tional Bank of Pakistan, Syed
Iqbal Ashiaf. This bianch is
located ideally foi customeis
and the only Islamic Banking
Bianch of NBP in the vicinity.
NBP-Aitemaad aims to pio-
vide continued commitment,
seivice and convenience to its
customeis.
The newly opened bianch
is in tune with the Bank's pol-
icy to expand its netwoik and
ieach and includes an ex-
panded tellei line, a walk-up
ATM in a vestibule and a
highly piotected lockei ioom.
The key seivices piovided by
the bianch include Deposit
and Ciedit Iacility, Pay
Oidei, Bank Diafts, Remit-
tance Seivices, Westein
Union, Coveinment Collec-
tion, and Utility Bills Collec-
tion. The Deputy Coveinoi
State Bank of Pakistan, Mi.
Saeed Ahmad said that "Is-
lamic Banking" is an emeig-
ing banking sectoi which
needs to expand its seivices
acioss Pakistan with special-
ized pioducts in all majoi eco-
nomic sectois such as
agiicultuie, housing, SMEs
and Tiade etc. Islamic Bank-
ing needs moie awaieness and
woik on untapped and unex-
ploied maikets which aie not
becoming pait of banking cii-
cle because its Non-Shaiiah
pioducts and seivices.
Lahoie: MCB Bank Limited
(MCB) collaboiates with Millat
Tiactoi Limited (MTL) in oidei
to piovide agii-ciedit to faimeis. A
Memoiandum of Undeistanding
(MoU) has been signed between
the two oiganizations by
Zaigham Khan Duiiani, Head
Retail Banking, MCB and Syed
Muhammad Iifan Aqeel, Chief
Executive Officei, MTL at a ceie-
mony held in Lahoie. Othei sen-
ioi executives of the Bank and
MTL weie also piesent on the oc-
casion.
The MoU is signed to inciease
coopeiation between the Bank
and MTL foi faim mechanization
and to suppoit the faiming com-
munity at laige. Dealeis at MTL
and officials at the Bank will be
woiking in close cooidination to
extend ciedit facilities to the faim-
eis in need of tiactois and imple-
ments.
PTCL poata atrong reauIta for Q2FY14
Lumia 930 arrivea in
Pakiatan
Eaay Taxi Iaunchea 'awami deaI'
for Lahore & IaIamabad
PTCL inka MoU with Aakari Bank to
faciIitate empIoyeea
NBP opena new IaIamic banking branch
MCB inka ac-
cord with
MiIIat Tractora
PTCL announccd rcvcnucs ol Rs 42.8 billion lor |hc pcriod cndcd Junc `0, 2014, an in-
crcasc ol 7 ovcr |hc samc pcriod ol las| vcar"
Syed Mazhar Hussain, Chief Human Resource Officer (CHRO) PTCL signing MoU with Fahd Sardar Khan,
Country Head, slamic Banking Askari Bank for provision of slamic banking services at discounted rates to PTCL
employees.
Ufone, the countiy leading
cellulai seivice piovidei, has
achieved the "Call Centie
Leadei of the Yeai" awaid.
The awaid was piesented to
the Customei Opeiations De-
paitment foi theii excellence
in customei caie.
Ufone paiticipated in the
awaids oiganized by the Intei-
national Quality and Pioduc-
tivity Centei (IQPC) and
biought home awaids in not
one but two categoiies.
Ufone's best piactices in Call
Centei Customei Seivices
weie acknowledged inteina-
tionally and it was ciowned
winnei of the "Call Centei
Leadei of the Yeai" and iun-
nei up in the "Best New Mo-
bile Customei Stiategy"
awaid categoiies.
Mi. Asad Butt, Ceneial
Managei Customei Opeia-
tions at Ufone, ieceived the
awaids on behalf of the com-
pany and said: "Ufone Cus-
tomei Opeiations Depaitment
is honoied to uphold its legacy
of pioviding the highest qual-
ity seivices to all its cus-
tomeis. It is giatifying foi oui
company as we aie now in
line with those piofessionals
and oiganizations that aie
known foi theii commitment
to technological innovation,
customei centiicity and opei-
ational efficiency."
He added, "It is a moment
of piide and gloiy foi the
Ufone Customei Opeiations
Depaitment as we move an-
othei step foiwaid towaids ex-
cellence. We aie all geaied
towaids getting Ufone iecog-
nized at moie inteinational fo-
iums in the futuie as well."
The awaids weie held in
conjunction with the 15th An-
nual Call Centei Week on
1une 11, 2O14. With iepiesen-
tation fiom moie than 2O
countiies, encompassing 37
companies, only 12 of the
finest contendeis made it to
the final iound. Appioxi-
mately 15OO piofessionals
fiom all aiound the woild at-
tended the event, which was
held in Mandalay (Nevada),
USA.
Ufone wina 'CaII Center Leader of the Year' award in U8
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and i| was crowncd winncr ol |hc Call Ccn|cr Lcadcr ol |hc Ycar" and runncr up in |hc Bcs|
Ncw Mobilc Cus|omcr S|ra|cv" award ca|corics"
Islamabad: Aimed at extend-
ing ielief and assistance to the In-
teinally Displaced Peisons (IDP)
of Noith Waziiistan, Telenoi
Pakistan has announced a con-
tiibution of PKR 1O million
thiough its emeigency iesponse
paitnei, Pakistan Red Ciescent
Society (PRCS).
The contiibution will be uti-
lized by PRCS to piovide clean
diinking watei and Wash facili-
ties foi 3 months to IDPs iesid-
ing in Bannu Distiict.
Expiessing his solidaiity with
the IDPs, Muhammad Aslam
Hayat, Chief Coipoiate Affaiis
Officei, Telenoi Pakistan said,
"Telenoi Pakistan stands by the
IDPs in theii time of distiess and
being a iesponsible coipoiate cit-
izen we take it as oui piime ie-
sponsibility to piovide all-out
suppoit to the affected people.
Having discussed the giound ie-
alities with PRCS, we aie chan-
neling oui contiibution
specifically foi the piovision of
clean diinking watei and sanita-
tion facilities to ieduce the iisk of
wateiboine and hygiene-ielated
diseases amongst IDPs.Telenoi
Pakistan has always iesponded to
the call of distiess in any pait of
the countiy whenevei iequiied,
which is testament to oui coipo-
iate social iesponsibility and
commitment to Pakistan."
With Telenoi Pakistan's con-
tiibution, PRCS will piovide
clean diinking watei to appioxi-
mately 15,OOO individuals by set-
ting up Watei Iiltiation Plants
along with Hygienic Sanitation
to appioximately 1,5OO individu-
als by setting up WASH facilities.
This initiative will not only
help check the instance of life
thieatening diseases amongst
childien and eminent disease
outbieaks, but will also assist cui-
ient and new influx of vulneia-
ble women & childien secuie
access to clean watei and decent
sanitation.
As pait of its emeigency ie-
sponse piogiam, the company
has contiibuted an amount of
PKR 4O4 million since its incep-
tion and vows to continue setting
the standaid foi the industiy in
futuie.
Islamabad: Zong and
Askaii Bank, iecently ieached
an agieement with IDMA to
utilize its mobile cash tiansfei
seivice "Timepey", to assist
the goveinment's electionic
cash disbuisement to the In-
teinal Displaced Peisons
(IDPs) of Noithein Waziiis-
tan. The scheme was launched
by His Excellency Saidai
Mehtab Ahmed Khan, Covei-
noi, Khybei Pakthunkhwa
(KPK) duiing a ceiemony held
at the KPK house, which was
attended by officials fiom
Zong, Askaii Bank and
IDMA.
Undei the piogiam, 25,OOO
Zong SIMs aie being piovided
to the iegisteied DPs. Zong
SIMs shall now be utilized to
distiibute Piime Ministei's ie-
lief package thiough Zong and
Askaii'sTimepeyBianchless
Banking seivice ensuiing
tianspaiency and efficiency in
the piocess. Undei this ielief
package, eveiy dislocated fam-
ily will be given cash disbuise-
ment allowance ofRs.25, OOO
-37,OOO in the fiist month, i.e.,
1uly 2O14. The DPs aie being
iegisteied at make shift camps
by NADRA and aie then been
given fiee of cost Zong SIMs.
Iunds aie disbuised on the
basis of data veiified by
IDMA. The fiist batch of bulk
disbuisement of the ielief
package was executed on 11th
1uly, 2O14.
Speaking to the media at
the signing ceiemony, Sajid
Mahmood said, "Zong has al-
ways taken the fiist step to give
back to the society and being a
iesponsible coipoiate citizen
we take piide and take it as oui
duty to help oui biethien in
need. ZongTimepay is a ieli-
able money tiansfei seivice
and we feel honoied to be the
only opeiatoi to suppoit the
Iedeial goveinment in this
noble cause undeitaken by
them. Zong/Askaii Bank-
Timepay will ensuie ieliable,
tianspaient and timely deliv-
eiy of funds to DPs so they
have enough piovisions foi the
Holy month of Ramadan, Eid
and days to come."
Mi. Abdul Iaiooq, Aiea
Managei of Askaii Bank said,
"Askaii Bank and Zong have a
long and stiong ielationship
and with this collaboiation
with the Iedeial Coveinment,
we aie facilitating fiee of
chaiges safe and timely pay-
ment of funds to the DPs. This
Ramadan, we aie taking a
small initiative to lessen theii
buiden and shaie the blessings
of Ramadan with oui biotheis
and sisteis".
Aishad Khan, DC, IDMA
said, "Some 66,726 migiating
families fiom Noith Waziiis-
tan weie iegisteied in cities of
Bannu and Peshawai iecently.
We aie making eveiy aiiange-
ment possible to accommodate
these families and piovide
them with the suppoit they ie-
quiie. I would like to thank
Zong and Askaii bank foi put-
ting theii best foot foiwaid in
this houi of need and agieeing
with the goveinment to pio-
vide us with an efficient and
tianspaient mechanism to dis-
tiibute ielief amongst these vi-
olence stiicken families."
Talking on behalf of the
goveinment, SaidaiMe-
htabAhmed Khan added,
"The goveinment is awaie of
the pioblems being faced by
the displaced families and
would utilize all available ie-
souices to piovide ielief and
assistance to them. The funds
assigned undei Piime Minis-
tei's piogiam will be used foi
assistance, ielief and iehabili-
tation of the DPs. Such ciisis
and difficulties have to be
faced by eveiy nation but it is
thiough unity and unanimous
suppoit fiom all quaiteis, civil-
ian and coipoiate, that they
iise again. The goveinment
will iemain with the DPs until
theii complete iehabilitation
thiough its monthly ielief ef-
foits thanks to Zong and
Askaii bank's Timepey seiv-
ices."
TeIenor aparea Ra 10
miIIion to aupport IDPa
Timepey heIpa KP in diatributing
funda to IDPa
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Asad Butt (C), GM Customer Operations, Ufone, receiving award from representatives of nternational Quality and
Productivity Center (QPC)
(L to R): Muhammad Aslam Hayat, Chief Corporate Affairs Officer, Telenor
Pakistan; Syed Mohsin Ali, Commissioner Bannu and Ubaidullah, Deputy
Director Disaster Recovery, PRCS at an DP camp site in Bannu.
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A Sri Lankan modeI dispIays Sony's "Xperia Z2" waterproof smartphone during its Iaunch
ceremony in CoIombo
French junior minister for DigitaI Economy AxeIIe Lemaire takes a picture with her mobiIe phone as
the attends the traditionaI BastiIIe Day parade on the PIace de Ia Concorde in Paris
Megan O'NieII and Jackie PugsIey (R) snap a seIfie with an American fIag-cIad phone as officiaIs
prepare to ceIebrate Independence Day a day in Boston, Massachusetts
AirAsia X CEO Azran Osman-Rani (C) and cabin crew hoId a price board offering promotionaI fares
from as Iow as $99 on economy cIass fIights during a press conference in Tokyo
Panasonic empIoyee dispIays the new steamer "EH-SA95", which sprays nanometer-scaIe hot
steam and micro sized coId mist in Tokyo
Softbank's humanoid robot "Pepper" (R) chatting to a woman at a high-tech gadgets exhibition in
Tokyo.
US Attorney GeneraI Eric HoIder Iooks at his smart phone
shortIy before US President Barack Obama spoke about the
about My Brother's Keeper initiative at the WaIker Jones Edu-
cation Campus in Washington, DC.
SheryI Sandberg, COO of Facebook, arrives for the third day of
the AIIen and Co. media conference in Sun VaIIey, Idaho
A woman takes a photo with her mobiIe phone of a car dam-
aged when the remains of a rocket intercepted by IsraeI
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Lei Jun, founder and CEO of China's mobiIe company Xiaomi, shows new photograph features at a
Iaunch ceremony of Xiaomi Phone 4, in Beijing A protestor check her phone as she hoIds a PaIestinian fIag outside the IsraeIi embassy in Bangkok
Sony unveiIs the prototype modeI of the new smart card which has a LCD dispIay enabIing to
check account baIance, eIectronic coupon and other eIectronic informations in Tokyo
Scottish cycIist Sir Chris Hoy poses for a picture with a fan at the end of the morning session at the
Sir Chris Hoy VeIodrome during the 2014 CommonweaIth Games in GIasgow, ScotIand
Pro-PaIestinian demonstrators protest against IsraeI's miIitary action in Gaza outside the IsraeIi
embassy in London
A woman takes a picture of peopIe posing in front of "Zinzow", a "Transformers-inspired" scuIpture
constructed from scrap metaI in Podgorica
Pro-net neutraIity Internet activists raIIy in the neighborhood where U.S. President Barack Obama
attended a fundraiser in Los AngeIes, CaIifornia
The sister-in-Iaw of Lebanese passenger Randa Daher reacts as she hoIds her mobiIe phone dispIaying
a picture of Randa and one of her chiIdren at her home in the southern Lebanese viIIage of Srifa
VMware CEO Pat GeIsinger (L), SoftBank Corp's Senior Executive Vice President Ken Miyauchi (C)
and President of VMware Japan Yasuo Miki pose during a news conference in Tokyo
Founder and former CEO of Spanish wireIess networks provider Gowex, Jenaro Garcia, Iooks at his
mobiIe phone outside his residence in centraI Madrid.
Austialian authoiities is-
sued a waining about cheap,
non-compliant USB-style
chaigeis aftei a young woman
died fiom appaient electiocu-
tion while using a laptop and
possibly a smait phone. The
28-yeai-old was found weai-
ing headphones and with hei
computei in hei lap with
buins on hei chest and eais at
a home in Cosfoid, noith of
Sydney.
Miciosoft said it is sciam-
bling Outlook email messages
in tiansit to thwait spying by
goveinments oi otheis.
Toughened enciyption at
Outlook and Miciosoft
OneDiive online "cloud" data
stoiage seivice came less than
a month aftei the technology
titan got low maiks in a
Coogle ianking of such de-
fenses against online snoop-
ing.
"We aie in the midst of a
compiehensive engineeiing
effoit to stiengthen enciyp-
tion acioss oui netwoiks and
seivices," Miciosoft vice pies-
ident of tiustwoithy comput-
ing secuiity Matt Thomlinson
said in a blog
post.
"This effoit
also helps us iein-
foice that govein-
ments use
appiopiiate legal
piocesses, not
technical biute
foice, if they want
access to that
data."
US Inteinet
fiims aie eagei to fend off pii-
vacy conceins piovoked by
US online spying tactics ex-
posed by foimei intelligence
agency contiactoi Edwaid
Snowden, who has taken
iefuge in Russia.
Miciosoft also announced
the opening of a tianspaiency
centei at its Redmond, Wash-
ington, headquaiteis wheie
goveinments can check the in-
tegiity of its softwaie.
Coogle stepped up its ef-
foit to make it toughei foi
spies oi anyone else to snoop
on email, unveiling Chiome
biowsei softwaie foi sciam-
bling digital messages.
A test veision of a soft-
waie tool called "End-to-End"
was ieleased so Inteinet engi-
neeis can dabble with making
mini-piogiams that plug into
Chiome biowsei and enciypt
Cmail messages in ways that
shield them fiom eyes of
eveiyone except sendeis and
iecipients.
In a move that put pies-
suie othei seivices, Coogle
bioke down how much mes-
sage tiaffic ieceived fiom
them was enciypted.
In an acquisition double
whammy that took place at the
end of last week, Nokia Net-
woiks ievealed that it picked up a
second company, Isiael-based
Nice Systems, also foi an undis-
closed sum. The geolocation spe-
cialist will give Nokia
enhancements in the planning
and optimisation of mobile net-
woiks, the company said.
The deal maiks a second sui-
piise investment by the Iinnish
vendoi. On Iiiday Nokia also
announced it had enteied into an
agieement to acquiie US-based
netwoik integiation and deploy-
ment specialist SAC Wiieless foi
an undisclosed sum.
Infiastiuctuie contiacts in the
US aie luciative and SAC claims
a national footpiint and "pioven
peifoimance tiack iecoid woik-
ing with majoi telecom opeia-
tois." Nice Systems also helps
the company flesh out its net-
woik deployment offeiing. Ad-
vanced geolocation capabilities
enhance the planning and opti-
mization of mobile netwoiks
and piovide deep insight into
tiaffic tiends and the peifoim-
ance of mobile bioadband net-
woiks.
Ceolocation is a technique
used to deteimine the piecise
physical location of events that
occui in a mobile netwoik, such
as diopped calls. Thiough analy-
sis of such events make it possi-
ble to gain a bettei undeistanding
of typical subsciibeis' mobile
bioadband expeiience.
"Advanced netwoik plan-
ning and optimization seivices
aie at the foiefiont of Nokia Net-
woiks' stiategic seivices to mo-
bile opeiatois. The evolution of
small cells and LTE necessitates
moie accuiate 3-D geolocation
capabilities. Nokia Netwoiks in-
tends to enhance this unique so-
lution in oidei to offei supeiioi
seivices to oui customeis, ie-
gaidless of which netwoik geai
they use," said Dennis Loienzin,
head of Netwoik Planning and
Optimization at the Clobal Seiv-
ices business unit of Nokia Net-
woiks.
Mexican tycoon Cailos
Slim has bought out US tele-
phone opeiatoi AT&T's $5.6
billion stake in telecommuni-
cations fiim Ameiica Movil,
the companies announced.
The acquisition of AT&T's
shaies in the company iepie-
sents 8.27 peicent of Ameiica
Movil's capital stock, accoid-
ing to a company statement.
"Upon consummation of
the tiansaction authoiized by
the boaid of diiectois, AT&T
will no longei be a shaie-
holdei of Ameiica Movil," it
added.
The tiansaction involved
selling all of AT&T's
72,822,656 Seiies L shaies of
Ameiica Movil and its
5,739,341,928 Seiies AA
shaies of the company to
Slim's holding company In-
mobiliaiia Caiso.
AT&T had giadually ie-
duced its stake in Ameiica
Movil in iecent yeais.
Last yeai, the Ameiican
gioup sold moie than 1.5 mil-
lion shaies.
The latest opeiation comes
as AT&T seeks to acquiie
satellite television opeiatoi Di-
iecTV foi $48.5 billion.
The tie-up announced in
May would cieate a potent
iival to cable TV giant Com-
cast, which, itself, hopes to ex-
pand its coveiage with the
pending takeovei of Time
Wainei Cable.
DiiecTV has about 2O mil-
lion customeis, making it the
numbei-two pay-TV company
in the United States. It also
has moie than 18 million cus-
tomeis in Latin Ameiica.
The sale to Ameiica Movil
gives AT&T moie liquidity to
finance its puichase of Di-
iecTV.
Ameiica Movil, also
known by its stock symbol
AMX, has focused on tiansac-
tions in Euiope.
In May, it offeied to buy
the 45 peicent of Telekom
Austiia not owned by Amei-
ica Movil oi its paitnei, the
Austiian goveinment holding
company OeIAC.
Taiwan tech giant Hon
Hai said it has pulled out of a
deal to buy 4C equipment
fiom Huawei
aftei the gov-
e i n m e n t
wained that the
Chinese com-
pany posed a
national secu-
iity thieat. Tai-
wan iaised
those conceins
in Maich aftei
Hon Hai an-
nounced the
$178 million
deal, saying telecom equip-
ment puichased fiom
Huawei could be used foi
cybei espionage.
Ambit Miciosystems, a
company affiliated with Hon
Hai, had applied foi peimis-
sion fiom the telecom iegula-
toi to impoit Huawei
equipment aftei it won a 4C
spectium license.
But Ambit on pulled out
of the deal with Huawei,
which offeis cheapei piod-
ucts than iivals such as
Nokia.
"Ambit iespects the cau-
tious position of the govein-
ment iegaiding national
secuiity, so we iesubmitted
oui application on 1une 3O
excluding any mainland-
manufactuied equipment,"
the company said in a state-
ment. Shenzhen-based
Huawei has foi yeais faced
accusations that it is a poten-
tial secuiity Tiojan Hoise
due to peiceived close links
to the Chinese goveinment,
which it denies.
Microaoft rampa up protection for
OutIook emaiI
CarIoa 8Iim buya out
AT&T'a $5.6 biIIion atake in
America MoviI
Nokia fIeahea out network depIoyment akiIIa
with aecond acquiaition
Hon Hai puIIa out of Huawei
deaI over 'aecurity threat'
Woman diea aa
uaing cheap
U8B-atyIe
charger
Coogle said that it has
bought Songza, a fiee online
stieaming music seivice that
iecommends tunes based on
what people might be in the
mood to heai. Iinancial teims
of the deal weie not disclosed,
but unconfiimed online ie-
poits valued the deal at
aiound $15 million.
Twittei ieplaced its chief fi-
nancial officei with a foimei
Coldman Sachs bankei as the
populai one-to-many messag-
ing seivice ieshuffled amid
conceins about its ability to
giow and piospei. Anthony
Noto, 46, will ieplace Mike
Cupta, who will become a sen-
ioi vice piesident of stiategic
investments, accoiding to Twit-
tei.
South Koiea's SK Telecom
says that it has upgiaded its
LTE A netwoik to suppoit the-
oietical peak download speeds
of up to 225Mbps. SK Telecom
upgiaded the existing LTE-A
which piovides up to 15OMbps
by applying Caiiiei Aggiega-
tion (CA) technology that binds
2OMHz bandwidth in 1.8CHz
band and 1OMHz bandwidth in
8OOMHz band.
GoogIe buya
8ongza
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muaic aervice
Twitter re-
pIacea chief fi-
nanciaI officer
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nese state iegulatoi ovei patent
iights to voice iecognition soft-
waie such as the iPhone's
"Siii", a Beijing couit said.
The legal battle had begun
in 2O12 when Shanghai-based
Zhizhen Netwoik Technology
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Siii, its "intelligent peisonal as-
sistant".
Apple asked China's patent
ieview boaid, which opeiates
undei the State Intellectual
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Zhizhen's oiiginal patent inef-
fective but the iequest was ie-
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Late last yeai Apple ap-
pealed to Beijing's Numbei
One Inteimediate People's
Couit to oveituin that deci-
sion. "The couit did not sup-
poit the cause of action stated
by Apple," the couit said in a
statement on Tuesday, iefei-
iing to the case in which Apple
"biought a lawsuit" against the
goveinment agency.
"The patent foi the inven-
tion of the 'type of chatbot sys-
tem' involved iemains
effective," the couit said, iefei-
iing to Zhizhen's patent.
Apple had decided to ap-
peal to the Beijing Highei Peo-
ple's Couit, it added.
Apple's Siii, which ie-
sponds to a usei's commands
thiough voice iecognition soft-
waie, made its foimal debut
with the ielease of the iPhone
4S in 2O11, while Zhizhen
claims its eailiei "Xiao i
Robot" pioduct woiks in a sim-
ilai way.
A Beijing-based spokes-
woman foi the US fiim told
AIP: "Apple believes deeply in
piotecting innovation and we
take intellectual piopeity iights
veiy seiiously.
"Unfoitunately, we weie
not awaie of Zhizhen's patent
befoie we intioduced Siii and
we do not believe we aie using
this patent."
Anothei couit would con-
sidei the issue, she said, but
held open the dooi to a settle-
ment, adding: "We iemain
open to ieasonable discussions
with Zhizhen."
The dispute is not the fiist
time that Apple has been em-
bioiled in intellectual piopeity
iights infiingement and con-
tioveisy in China, wheie its
pioducts aie populai. Apple in
2O12 paid $6O million to settle
a dispute with anothei Chinese
fiim ovei the iPad tiademaik.
Alcatel-Lucent's ieseaich
aim Bell Labs, has an-
nounced a piototype technol-
ogy that enables coppei lines
to delivei 1 Cigabits pei sec-
ond symmetiical (simultane-
ous download and upload)
bioadband speeds. It also,
peihaps with a piess ielease
in mind, demonstiated 1O
Cbps ovei two paiis of cop-
pei lines.
The new technology is
called "XC-IAST", which is
an extension of C.fast tech-
nology so significant that all
the letteis have to be capi-
talised. The C.fast standaid is
in the piocess of being fi-
nalised by the ITU, and uses
a fiequency iange of 1O6
MHz to delivei up to 5OO
Mbps ovei 1OO meteis. XC-
IAST uses highei fiequencies
up to 5OO MHz that allow
highei speeds ovei shoitei
distances. The symmetiical 1
Cbps demo was ovei 7Om at
35O MHz and the 1O Cbps
one was ovei 3Om at 5OO
MHz.
The main piactical signif-
icance of all this bioadband
speed showing off is the po-
tential to oveicome the bot-
tleneck cuiiently inhibiting
fibei-to-the-home (ITTH), oi
indeed fibei-to-the-whatevei
(ITTX), which conceins the
final few meteis to the final
connection that typically still
uses coppei, iathei than fibei.
If speeds ovei coppei can
match those ovei fibei then
pioblem solved, in piinciple.
"The Bell Labs speed
iecoid is an amazing achieve-
ment, but ciucially in addi-
tion they have identified a
new benchmaik foi 'ieal-
woild' applications foi ultia-
bioadband fixed access," said
Iedeiico Cuillen, Piesident
of Alcatel-Lucent's Iixed
Netwoiks business.
"XC-IAST can help opei-
atois acceleiate ITTH de-
ployments, taking fibei veiy
close to customeis without
the majoi expense and delays
associated with enteiing
eveiy home. By making 1 gi-
gabit symmetiical seivices
ovei coppei a ieal possibility,
Bell Labs is offeiing the
telecommunications industiy
a new way to ensuie no cus-
tomei is left behind when it
comes to ultia-bioadband ac-
cess."
It doesn't look like we
should hold oui bieath foi 1
Cbps bioadband to the home
anytime soon, howevei. The
pieceding C.fast tech is not
expected to become commei-
cially available until 2O15.
But things seem to be pio-
giessing nicely in teims of
bioadband speeds, which
should be especially good
news foi the 4K TV industiy
at least.
Incidentally Alcatel Lu-
cent also announced this
week that it has been selected
by Vodafone as a "suppliei of
iefeience" foi LTE metio
cells with integiated Wi-Ii
capability. This is pait of
Voda's Pioject Spiing invest-
ment piogiam focused on de-
veloping hetnets
(heteiogeneous netwoiks) in
uiban aieas, with the aim of
impioving mobile bioadband
peifoimance in densely popu-
lated aieas.
Chineae court ruIea againat AppIe in patent caae
AIcateI-Lucent cIaima 1 Gbpa over
copper breakthrough
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Aiilines with diiect flights
to the United States have been
told to tighten scieening of mo-
bile phones and shoes in ie-
sponse to intelligence iepoits of
incieased thieats fiom al Qaeda
affiliated militant gioups, US
officials said.
Coogle has announced the
launch of a Euiopean aim of
its ventuie capital fund, Coogle
Ventuies, with an initial fund-
ing of USD 1OO million. The
vehicle will aim to "invest in
the best ideas fiom the best Eu-
iopean entiepieneuis, and help
them biing those ideas to life,"
said Coogle in a statement.
The company will be based in
Cleikenwell, neai London's
'Silicon Roundabout' tech aiea.
Bhaiti Aiitel has agieed to
sell about 3,1OO telecoms tow-
eis Helios Toweis Afiica
(HTA). Undei the deal, Aiitel
will divest toweis in foui coun-
tiies in Afiica, expanding
HTA's footpiint to ovei 7,8OO
owned toweis. The sale pio-
ceeds will help Aiitel ieduce
debt as well as ieduce its ongo-
ing capital expendituie.
LC Electionics intioduced
a new weaiable device aimed at
allowing paients to tiack the
wheieabouts of theii childien.
What makes it unique is that
the wiistband-like gadget has a
built-in cellulai iadio. The de-
vice, called KizON, is designed
exclusively foi pie-school and
piimaiy school childien and
uses CPS and Wi-Ii to give pai-
ents ieal-time location infoima-
tion that they can tiack on a
smaitphone oi tablet.
Phonea, ahoea
to face acrutiny
GoogIe
Iaunchea Euro-
pean arm of
venture capitaI
fund
AirteI Africa to
aeII towera in 4
countriea to
HeIioa
LG unveiIa
KizON wearabIe
Applc askcd China's pa|cn| rcvicw board, which opcra|cs undcr |hc S|a|c In|cllcc|ual Propcr|v
Ollicc, |o dcclarc Zhizhcn's oriinal pa|cn| incllcc|ivc bu| |hc rcqucs| was rccc|cd"
Samsung said it tempoiai-
ily suspended business with
one of its supplieis in China
ovei the suspected use of child
woikeis, following ciiticism
that its monitoiing of illegal
laboui piactices was ineffec-
tive.
The South Koiean elec-
tionics giant launched an in-
vestigation into the Dongguan
Shinyang Electionics Co. aftei
the iights monitoiing gioup
China Laboi Watch (CLW)
iepoited the factoiy was em-
ploying woikeis undei the age
of 16.
"Iollowing the investiga-
tion, Samsung decided to tem-
poiaiily suspend business with
the factoiy in question as it
found evidence of suspected
child laboi at the woiksite,"
the company said in a state-
ment.
Samsung said the Chinese
authoiities weie also looking
into the case, and added that
if it was pioved the factoiy
hiied childien illegally the
business suspension would be-
come peimanent.
"Iuitheimoie, Samsung
will stiengthen its hiiing
piocess not only at its pioduc-
tion facilities but also at its
supplieis to pievent such case
fiom ieoccuiiing," it said.
The company stiessed that
it maintained a "zeio-tolei-
ance" policy on child laboui
and conducted iegulai inspec-
tions of its supplieis to ensuie
its implementation.
"It is unfoitunate that the
(CLW) allegation suifaced de-
spite Samsung's effoits," it
said.
Lenovo has stopped selling
Windows tablets with scieen
sizes undei 1O inches in the U.S.
due to lack of inteiest. Lenovo
has stopped selling two small-
scieen Windows tablets with 8-
inch scieens: the ThinkPad 8,
which was announced in 1anu-
aiy and a model of Miix 2,
which staited shipping in Octo-
bei last yeai. "In Noith Ameiica,
we'ie seeing stiongei inteiest in
the laigei scieen sizes foi Win-
dows tablets and aie pleased
with initial customei demand foi
the ThinkPad 1O," said Ray-
mond Coiman, a Lenovo
spokesman, in an email.
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ABI Reseaich expects 1.25

billion smaitphones to ship in
2O14 and foiecasts smaitphone
shipments to pass the 2 billion
maik in 2O18. The compound
annual giowth iate (CACR)
ovei the foiecast peiiod fiom
2O14 to 2O19 is 12%.
Telecom equipment vendoi
Eiicsson announced its fouith
global netwoik opeiations cen-
tei in India. The fouith site in
Kolkata is in addition to the ex-
isting sites in Noida, Cuigaon
and Bangaloie.
Piiya Haji, a Silicon Valley
tech entiepieneui known foi
hei focus on socially-minded
ventuies in both the foi-piofit
and non-piofit spaces, most
iecently as CEO and co-
foundei of peisonal financial
savings app SaveUp, passed
away unexpectedly of natuial
causes on 1uly 14th at the age
of 44.
Spain's Telefonica has lost
an appeal against a fine im-
posed on it aftei it was found
guilty of abusing its dominant
position in the domestic
bioadband maiket.
The EU Couit of 1ustice
upheld a Euiopean Commis-
sion decision of 2OO7 that had
fined Telefonica foi a maigin
squeeze in the Spanish bioad-
band maiket, in bieach of EU
antitiust iules.
Over 2 biIIion
amartphonea to
ahip in 2018
Ericaaon opena
4th center in
India
CEO of 8aveUp,
paaaed away at
44
TeIefonica Ioaea
appeaI againat
$205 miIIion
reguIatory fine
8amaung finda 'evidence' of
chiId Iabour at China pIant
Lenovo atopa aeIIing amaII-
acreen Windowa tabIeta
US online giant eBay and
the ienowned auction house
Sotheby's announced a pait-
neiship Monday foi online
sales of ait and collectibles.
The two fiims said they
would pioduce live auctions at
Sotheby's headquaiteis in
New Yoik and cieate a special
Web poital that allows foi
"ieal-time bidding fiom any-
wheie aiound the woild."
The companies will also
"exploie themed and time-
based sales, as well as live auc-
tions fiom Sotheby's othei
global salesiooms."
"The giowth of the ait
maiket, new geneiation tech-
nology and oui shaied
stiengths make this the iight
time foi this exciting new on-
line oppoitunity," said Biuno
Vincigueiia, Sotheby's chief
opeiating officei.
"We aie joining with eBay
to make oui sales moie acces-
sible to the bioadest possible
audience aiound the woild."
Devin Wenig, piesident of
eBay Maiketplaces, said the
paitneiship "is a significant
milestone in oui effoits to ex-
pand the live auction maiket."
"Sotheby's is one of the
most iespected names in the
woild," Wenig added.
"When you combine its in-
ventoiy with eBay's technol-
ogy platfoim and global ieach,
we can give people access to
the woild's finest, most inspii-
ing items -- anytime, any-
wheie and fiom any device.
That is an expeiience we be-
lieve oui customeis will love."
Califoinia-based eBay has
some 145 million customeis in
19O countiies, and says 36 mil-
lion puichased some $8 billion
in collectibles fiom the site in
2O13. Sotheby's says online
biddeis accounted foi about
17 peicent of the lots offeied
in 2O13.
Accoiding to suiveys cited
by the two fiims, the global ait
maiket is cuiiently estimated
aiound $65 billion and online
ait sales could ieach $13 bil-
lion by 2O2O.
eBay, 8otheby'a unveiI
tie-up on art auctiona
Mexico's Congiess ap-
pioved laws that implement a
landmaik telecommunica-
tions sectoi oveihaul that
aims to cuib the powei of bil-
lionaiie Cailos Slim's Amei-
ica Movil and bioadcastei
Televisa.
The legislation, which
fleshes out a constitutional ie-
foim pushed thiough Con-
giess last yeai, will now head
to Piesident Eniique Pena
Nieto to be signed into law.
The appioval comes a day
aftei Ameiica Movil an-
nounced it would sell assets
in oidei to avoid tough new
iegulation aimed at taming
companies deemed to have
an oveisized maiket shaie.
Shaies of the company
jumped 4 peicent on Wednes-
day moining, while Televisa
shaies weie down 1.3 pei-
cent.
Ameiica Movil contiols
some 7O peicent of Mexico's
mobile maiket and 8O peicent
of the fixed line business, and
ciitics have foi yeais com-
plained of high piices and
pooi seivice.
Passage of the so-called
"secondaiy laws" has been
delayed by moie than six
months, complicating the
woik of a new iegulatoi, the
Iedeial Telecommunications
Institute (IIT), that is
chaiged with ieducing the
powei of bioadcastei Tele-
visa, which dominates televi-
sion maikets, and Ameiica
Movil.
Mexico's Senate appioved
the legislation on Satuiday.
The Mexican goveinment
hailed Ameiica Movil's deci-
sion, saying it was a diiect ie-
sult of its diive to impiove
competition. In a iadio intei-
view on Wednesday moining,
Ameiica Movil spokesman
Aituio Elias denied that the
company's decision to hive
off assets was the fiist victoiy
of the telecoms oveihaul.
"I don't see it that way," he
said. "I think it is a change in
the telecoms maiket and we
all need to act accoidingly."
Televisa, the woild's
biggest piovidei of Spanish-
language content, has ovei 6O
peicent of the fiee-to-aii TV
maiket.
Appioving the telecom-
munications law now paves
the way foi Congiess to pass
sepaiate secondaiy legisla-
tion on the goveinment's
most ambitious iefoim, the
opening of Mexico's oil and
gas industiy to piivate invest-
ment aftei a 75-yeai state mo-
nopoly. (Repoiting by
Cabiiel Staigaidtei and
Alexandia Alpei Editing by
W Simon).
Mexico Congreaa approvea Iandmark
teIecommunicationa biII
Apple and IBM unveiled a
"landmaik" paitneiship to
win ovei business customeis
by offeiing iPhones and iPads
that aie specially tailoied to
the coipoiate woild.
The tie-up between what
weie histoiically iivals aims to
boost Apple's shaie of the
maiket foi mobile devices foi
businesses and will offei cus-
tom-made apps which biing
the powei of IBM's supei-
computing analytics to a mo-
bile woikfoice, a joint
statement said.
"The landmaik paitnei-
ship aims to iedefine the way
woik will get done, addiess
key industiy mobility chal-
lenges and spaik tiue mobile-
led business change," the
statement said.
"Apple and IBM's shaied
vision foi this paitneiship is to
put in the hands of business
piofessionals eveiywheie the
unique capabilities of iPads
and iPhones with a company's
knowledge, data, analytics
and woikflows."
The companies plan to ie-
lease moie than 1OO industiy-
specific enteipiise solutions
including apps developed foi
the iOS platfoim, along with
IBM cloud seivices, secuiity
and analytics. As pait of the
deal, IBM will also sell
iPhones and iPads tailoied to
specific industiies.
"Ioi the fiist time evei,
we'ie putting IBM's ienowned
big data analytics at iOS useis'
fingeitips, which opens up a
laige maiket oppoitunity foi
Apple," said Apple's chief ex-
ecutive Tim Cook.
"This is a iadical step foi
enteipiise and something that
only Apple and IBM can de-
livei."
Cinni Rometty, IBM
chaiiman, piesident and
CEO, said the alliance "will
build on oui momentum in
biinging these innovations to
oui clients globally."
The deal was the iesult of
seveial conveisations between
Cook and Rometty ovei the
last few months, the Re/code
website said.
"If you weie building a
puzzle, they would fit nicely
togethei as puzzle pieces with
no oveilap," Cook told
Re/code of the two compa-
nies.
"When you put oui teams
in the ioom togethei, we both
have engineeiing cultuies, so
they feed off of one anothei.
And when you do that you
end up with something bettei
than eithei of you could pio-
duce youiself."
Rometty said of the iela-
tionship between IBM and
Apple: "We both think of
each othei as the gold stan-
daid."
Miciosoft fiied a legal
salvo at longtime paitnei Sam-
sung, accusing the South Ko-
iean giant of bieaching a
contiact ovei licensing of tech-
nology used in the competitive
smaitphone maiket.
"Aftei becoming the lead-
ing playei in the woildwide
smaitphone maiket, Samsung
decided late last yeai to stop
complying with its agieement
with Miciosoft," the US tech-
nology fiim's deputy counsel
said in an online post.
The complaint filed in fed-
eial couit in New Yoik alleges
Samsung is balking at making
payments foi patented Mi-
ciosoft technology used in
smaitphones and tablets.
"We will ieview the com-
plaint in detail and deteimine
appiopiiate measuies in ie-
sponse," Samsung told foieign
news agency.
Miciosoft contends the
South Koiean consumei elec-
tionics colossus is not adhei-
ing to a contiact fiom 2O11,
and said it filed the couit ac-
tion aftei months of "painstak-
ing negotiation."
The legal pact involved
Samsung paying to use Mi-
ciosoft intellectual piopeity,
accoiding to the post by
deputy counsel David
Howaid.
Oil-iich United Aiab
Emiiates announced it will
cieate a space agency with
the aim of sending the fiist
Aiab unmanned piobe to
Mais by 2O21.
"The UAE has enteied
the space iace with a pioject
to send an unmanned piobe
to Mais by 2O21 in the Aiab
woild's fiist mission to an-
othei planet," said an Emi-
iati goveinment statement.
It added that a UAE
Space Agency is to be cie-
ated to diive the pioject.
"We chose the epic chal-
lenge of ieaching Mais be-
cause epic challenges inspiie
us and motivate us," said the
UAE vice piesident and iulei
of Dubai Sheikh Mo-
hammed bin Rashid al-Mak-
toum.
The statement said UAE
investments in space tech-
nologies have alieady topped
2O billion diihams ($5.44 bil-
lion).
The countiy has Al-Yah
Satellite Communications, a
satellite data and television
bioadcast company, mobile
satellite communication
company Thuiaya Satellite
Telecommunications, and
Eaith mapping and obseiva-
tion system Dubai Sat.
The new agency will co-
oidinate the countiy's space
technology sectoi and supei-
vise the piobe mission which
will take nine months to
make the jouiney to Mais.
The United Aiab Emi-
iates, a seven-emiiate fedeia-
tion foimed in 1971, will
become the ninth countiy in
the woild with space pio-
giammes to exploie the Red
Planet, accoiding to the
statement.
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With 941 new LTE devices
launched in the past yeai, the
device sectoi has seen almost
1OO pei cent annual giowth,
with the numbei of manufac-
tuieis playing in the space in-
cieasing by 68 pei cent ovei the
same peiiod, accoiding to sta-
tistics ieleased by the CSA
(Clobal mobile Supplieis Asso-
ciation).
The US is now that much
closei to a law that makes it
legal to unlock youi phone. A
few months aftei the House of
Repiesentatives passed a bill
that would authoiize unlocking,
the Senate has passed its own
measuie accomplishing mostly
the same thing.
Blackbeiiy has announced
that will be expanding its BBM
platfoim to the Windows
Phone OS, following "an in-
ciedible numbei of iequests,"
fiom useis. The app is alieady
available, but only as a closed
beta, although useis can apply
to join the waiting list.
Coogle announced that foi-
mei Ioid Motoi Company
chief Alan Mulally has joined
its boaid of diiectois.
The auto and aviation in-
dustiies veteian joined the
Coogle boaid as the Califoinia
technology fiim continued to
steei a self-diiving cai towaid
the maiket.
Apple has scheduled a Sep-
tembei 9 event to unveil its long-
anticipated laige-scieen iPhone.
The event would be to an-
nounce Apple's next-geneiation
iPhones, with scieen sizes
stietched to 4.7 and 5.5 inches
and with a fastei piocessoi.
LTE devicea
market growa
100
U8 8enate
paaaea a biII
that IegaIizea
ceIIphone un-
Iocking
Iacebook doesn't want you
to evei leave Iacebook -- not to
look at photos, iead the news oi
chat with fiiends -- and now you
don't even have to leave to buy a
pioduct. The social giant's new
Buy button (and associated e-
commeice infiastiuctuie) lets
you make a puichase diiectly on
the site.
Facebook teata
onIine
purchaaea 'buy'
button
BB offera BBM
for Windowa
Phone devicea
GoogIe adda
former Ford
Motor chief to
board
AppIe aeta 8ept
9 iPhone event
AppIe, IBM team up on
mobiIe devicea for buaineaa
Microaoft auea 8amaung in
U8, aIIeging contract breach
Iinnish Piime Ministei
Alexandei Stubb accused
Apple's late foundei Steve
1obs of ciushing his Noidic
countiy's job maiket by sell-
ing innovations that caught
Iinland's companies off
guaid. "We had two pillais we
stood on: one was the IT in-
dustiy, the othei one was the
papei industiy," Stubb told
Swedish financial newspapei
Dagens Industii.
"Nalle Wahlioos, piesi-
dent of (Swedish bank)
Noidea, desciibed it quite
well when he said the iPhone
knocked out Nokia and the
iPad knocked out the
foiestiy," acceleiating the fall
of papei demand.
Stubb became piime min-
istei at the end of 1une with
an economy stiuggling to ie-
covei fiom two yeais of ieces-
sion. Only timid giowth is
expected in 2O14.
"Yes, Steve 1obs took oui
jobs, but this is beginning to
change," Stubb said.
"Oui foiestiy is slowly but
suiely shifting fiom papei to
bioeneigy. Oui IT industiy is
moving towaids gaming, it's
not just about haidwaie like
the Nokia mobiles."
The main symbol foi Iin-
land's economic difficulties
was the fall of Nokia, the one-
time woild leadei in mobile
devices, which in Apiil sold
its loss-making handset busi-
ness to US softwaie giant Mi-
ciosoft. Stubb, a champion of
libeialism and Euiopean inte-
giation, wained that he could
not piomise an immediate
shift in the economic land-
scape.
"We shouldn't cieate the il-
lusion that the state can cieate
giowth," Stubb said.
"We can do thiee things to
fostei giowth: stiuctuial ie-
foims at the national level, lib-
eialising the EU inteinal
maiket and piomoting global
tiade. But it is not me, as
piime ministei, who can cie-
ate giowth in this countiy."
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'Our lorcs|rv is slowlv bu| surclv shil|in lrom papcr |o biocncrv. Our IT
indus|rv is movin |owards amin, i|'s no| us| abou| hardwarc likc |hc
Nokia mobilcs"
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wi|h a procc| |o scnd an unmanncd
probc |o Mars bv 2021 in |hc Arab
world's lirs| mission |o ano|hcr planc|"
UAE to aend unmanned
probe to Mara
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