Category: Technology

  • Paypal in Pakistan

    With the ever increasing popularity of e-commerce, everyone desires to take a bite into the sweet pie, and why not? But sadly Pakistanis are being left behind as Paypal, one of the most popular e-commerce networks has still to list Pakistan in its permittable countries for registering with the service. We are then forced to…

  • Time: Person of the Year – YOU

    TIME Magazine has just named their Person of the Year and the winner is You. It seems that you, me & us control the information age which has resulted in a paradigm shift in the world as we know it. By You they give the award to anyone involved in user generated content – everything…

  • Sony p990i or I-Mate JASJAM

    Its sad but true, thieves live everywhere. For over two years in my heart I kept dreading that one day while walking on the streets of Karachi I would be nabbed of my old yet faithful Nokia 9300. Who knew that I would end up being stripped of this faithful contraption across the world in…

  • Psiphon: Censorship Circumvention Solution

    The University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab has just released an open source application which allows users from countries where there is Internet censorship to utilize anonymous servers located worldwide. The system is a far improvement from the over burdened anonymity software called TOR.

  • Asia 21: Wrap up

    Apologies for the delayed report Asia 21 Young Leaders Summit was a great event to be a part of as it was an opportunity to meet some brilliant people from across the world. The last day of the event started off with a good discussion on the citizen media revolution where five digital journalist shared…

  • ReviewMe !!

    Review Me is a website which pays bloggers for reviewing websites, at its initial beta launch a few weeks, it has finally resurfaced opening their doors for a full public launch, it appears ReviewMe has made a strategic move to require all bloggers who participate in the program to issue a disclaimer openly showing that…

  • ACT NOW! 24 Hours Against Internet Censorship

    Reporters Without Borders have started its online protest. The Internet is increasingly falling prey to censorship round the world. The 13 “Enemies of the Internet” are blocking access to news which displeases them and imprisoning bloggers who express themselves too freely. Join the campaign now to defend the right of all of us to freedom…

  • RSF plans for an Online Protest Against Internet Censorship

    Reporters without Borders is organizing a 24-hour Online Protest between 11 a.m. on 7 November and 11 a.m. on 8 November. This protest is to raise our voice against the 13 Governments that are being labelled as ‘Internet Enemies’. We as Pakistanis and activists of the Don’t Block the Blog where we condemn the Censorship…

  • 236 years of US Military Conquest in 90 seconds

    Have you ever wondered which American Presidents and political parties were responsible for America’s deadliest wars? Republicans, Democrats, or the Founding Fathers? This 90 second illustration easily answers all our question by actually illustrating the history of American conflict from the Revolutionary War to Iraq. It gives a new meaning to the term we call…

  • Bahraini Blogger Blocked By Bahrain

    Pakistanis don’t need to be told how much it can hurt to be at the receiving end of a censorship on their own blog, we sadly have had a massive blockade on the entire Blogspot.com cordoning off more then 10 million blogs for over 11 months and counting. Its sad to note that a few…

  • Greek Blog Aggregator Arrested for RSS Linking

    In a very interesting turn of events, the administrator of a Greek RSS aggregating service blogme.gr got sued, arrested and jailed by the Greek cybercrime division for hosting a link to a blog with offending content, after having been served with a libel lawsuit without prior notice, because a public figure was offended by a…

  • Eid SMS Messages

    There is no doubt that in the recent years, almost every EID is filled with a massive exchange of SMS Eid Greetings. To be honest Eid has not even started in Pakistan as its midnight on chand raat and I have already received over 25 eid wishes on SMS, I can only wonder what will…

  • Zune is the ‘F’ word in Hebrew

    Many must already know that on November 14th Microsoft is set to launch an iPod rival with the name of ‘Zune‘. Its a feature full media player which is being touted to challenge Apple iPod (I doubt it), Zune has a significant number of variations which can suit any persons needs. Interestingly ZUNE is actually…

  • Bush ‘the Devil’ – Hugo Chavez

    The Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez tore into his United States counterpart, referring him to as a racist, imperialist “devil” who has devoted six years in office to military aggression and the oppression of the world’s poorest people. “The devil came here yesterday,” Chavez said, referring to Bush, “And it smells of sulfur still today.” Chavez…

  • Nancy Johnson (R-CT) hits out at Pakistan

    Nancy Johnson (Wikipedia) a republican congresswoman from Connecticut has recently launched a TV commercial where she actually depicts Pakistan as the source of terrorism. Watch the short commercial here. We as Pakistanis object to such accusations and must work against people who label Pakistan as a terrorist state. Ever since 9/11 Pakistan has stood shoulder…