WorldCall EVDO: A Wireless Game Changer?
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Posted by on October 19th, 2008
Worldcall has recently started a new Wireless, internet anywhere, service for users that are always on the go. The Worldcall EVDO service supplies the subscriber with a USB device for Rs. 4500 initially, and then they charge slightly more than what you would pay for a wired connection.
Will this new entrant in Pakistan’s worsening economic situation make a difference? It might, or it might not. The much celebrated WiMax has still to find people to help it to deliver it’s good to people who are still in need of high speed wireless internet connections - making it an easier job of Worldcall to find some elbow room. But Worldcall is not run locally, and the foreign investor with Worldcall, OmanTel, might cut their losses and run.
Wi-Tribe in Pakistan [Rumor]
Posted by on May 14th, 2008
We come to know through another blog from Pakistan that the much promised WiMAX technology for the companies owned by the Orsacom group in Pakistan is here. It goes by the name Wi-Tribe and currently operates in Jordan. They are planning to run their their WiMAX services through LINKdotNET. If that happens, they will be Wateen WiMAX’s only competition in the country and might spur both of them in a heated competition.
From Wi-Tribe’s website I learn that they are deep into providing WiMAX and also into providing Wi-Fi hot spots all over Jordan.
[via Pro-Pakistan]
Blizzard Store now offers Downloadable Games!
Posted by on May 7th, 2008
The age of downloadable content over the internet is here. Blizzard Store recently revamped it’s design and function and will now serve all original-cd key holders as content delievery site where they can down their game anytime from anywhere if their cd key is verified and checks out for that particular game.
This not only helps buying a game over and over again just because you left your game in another country, or just because you scratched your cd and the cat made a treadmill out of it, it also helps the gamers keep playing the game.
Games available for download are:
- Diablo II*
- Diablo II: Lord of Destruction*
- Diablo II Battlechest*
- StarCraft
- StarCraft Battlechest
- StarCraft Anthology
- Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos
- Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne Expansion Pack
*digital download coming soon. World of WarCraft or any of it’s expansion packs are not available.
Novel idea, brilliant!
Wateen’s strategy? Others doing any better?
Posted by on May 3rd, 2008
So just when you thought they were good at marketing they signed film star Reema as their ‘brand ambassador‘. Nothing wrong in it, just that they are focusing on the wrong end of business, in my humble opinion. [Via Buzzwines]
A client of their’s made a long, yet slightly comic, post about her ordeal in getting her Wateen.
One of our esteem commentators, Usman Khawaja, has written about his headaches in subscribing to LINKdotNET’s 1Mbps connection Sialkot. He was formerly a Dancom Online’s DSL subscriber who is facing repeated disconnection problems.
WTF has happened to all of them all? Let’s hope super film star Reema can change all this.
Take your internet back!
Posted by on May 2nd, 2008
The penetration of the internet as a fast medium of information for the developing world of which Pakistan is a part of. And some people do not want you to know the truth. Well, the truth is out there and you need to take the internet back from them.
Of the late, YouTube has been a regular target of internet censorship in Pakistan, and since some ISPs have started unlimited-usage services on their high speed connections, they are fond of regularly blocking YouTube to avoid traffic clogging. Not only that, but due to a lot of objectionable material surfacing on online social websites, governments around the world are rethinking their decisions to let the information pipes run free. Which is absurd. But anyways. Help is on the way.
Kortaz has listed an awesome amount of web proxies that enable you to skip firewalls and visit website like Facebook and MySpace without much hindrance. Kortaz also lists user submitted proxies, and with all of them they have added a small description to let you know if the proxy would work on your destination website. The entry submission date is also given so you know which proxy is old and might be malfunctioning, etc. Proxy.org, is another website that has listed proxy websites according to various orders; country, popularity, usage, ISP, software, etc.
Check out our earlier posts on Web proxies to find out the ones we have already discussed and a few that have been suggested by our users.
Father of the intarwebbie speaks!
Posted by on April 30th, 2008
When a genius like him speaks, I listen!
He said competing technologies, such as Gopher, which was developed at the University of Minnesota, were also offering a method of using hyperlinks to connect documents across computers on the internet.
“If we had put a price on it like the University of Minnesota had done with Gopher then it would not have expanded into what it is now.”
Tim Berners-Lee on the infancy of the internet.
[Via BBC]
Booming Internet Market in China
Posted by on April 22nd, 2008
It was time that there would be news that China takes over the world as the leading Internet markets when everyday one would hear about the amount of investments, developments and usage of Chinese internet users was rising.
China has a population of 1.3 billion and in a recent report by USA Today the last year saw a 53% increase in internet usage. Currently at 233 million users as compared to 220 million users, China midgets the country that originally conceived and adopted this technology. With very low internet rates due to subsidiaries, and probably the lowest in the region, China offers basic broadband internet at $10 per month.
Gamers in China are relishing this boom as they get to play games more often with more players and there is always a room or map full of people ready to frag at each other. This potential is being exploited by game rooms and internet cafés all over China. The Chinese gaming community has seen a meteoric rise in the last few years and more people are taking up massively popular games like World of WarCraft and Counter Strike.
But due to a more controlled market, and a more restricted internet usage due to censorship, the amount of foreign investment is not as high as in other countries like India or South Korea.
[Via Digg]
Pakistan Unblocks YouTube, O’ Rly?
Posted by on February 25th, 2008
In what seemed a rash attempt at pulling the iron curtain down onto the poor, innocent surfers of YouTube by the government of Pakistan, turned out to be an honest attempt at alerting the web service of a Terms of Service (ToS) violation by the uploading party. Bloggers in Pakistan were furious about this decision citing this had been done since videos of malpractice in the recent electoral polls had also surfaced and been posted on the famous web video website.
Game-Monitor monitors servers for you!
Posted by on February 14th, 2008
Can’t find a server to play COD4? Can’t find enough slots to play CS1.6 with a balanced team on De_Dust? Can’t find a server with good enough ping to have a nice game for a while? Can’t find a server in your area? Well then don’t cry, Game-Monitor is here for the rescue! Game-Monitor lists thousands of servers online around the world. You name the game, it will list the server! Click the screen shots for an idea. It will list the map, ip, name, no. of players, no. of bots, the port, the game type and lets you create a favorites list too! Clicking on the server link takes you to a more detailed page about the server that also shows it on a map. Yeah! So you know how far you are from it and don’t end up joining a Brazilian Quake server to get your behind railed.
Careful, large images.
Cool Windows Live Services make life easier
Posted by on February 13th, 2008
I came across this new folder sharing service a friend shared on FaceBook. FolderShare is a part of the new series of Windows Live services that make use, or rather abuse the .NET framework. This service allows you to share stuff from one place, geographically, and open them at the other. The folders synchronize themselves, thanks to their integration with windows logon system. You may invite as many people to your private peer-to-peer network, and share with them or just yourself files as large as 2GB. The service, although in Beta, is open for anyone to sign up and the best thing are the low system requirements and that it’s free! Download the client here.
The second cool service which I am using right now is the Windows Live Writer (WLW) that went out of Beta a few weeks ago. This write-pad allows you to download your blog profile to it and post on your blog directly with full YISIWIG (what I see is what I get) editor. Cool functions include inserting smilies and four different type of views for your entered text. Other than that, it is a good way to edit stuff in HTML and see what it looks like in the normal or web view. Download the installer here.
