Nokia Announces C2-05 and X2-05 Models: ProPakistani

Nokia Announces C2-05 and X2-05 Models
Wateen Represented Pakistan at Global Arab Meeting
Blackberry Services Get Lousy
PTCL to Offer IP / MPLS Services to NSO
Java to Live on

Posted: 12 Oct 2011 12:48 AM PDT

Nokia has announced these two new models yesterday, which primarily comes with enhancement in their previous versions. Interestingly, both the models use old naming convention – despite Nokia explicitly announced the use of new naming convention. But never mind, we still have a name to call them.

Other than standard features, the main attraction of both the models is the Ovi Browser, which is in beta, that uses Nokia's own compression technology to serve web pages faster than before. Nokia claims that this browser will deliver web content at a fraction of the bandwidth, and cost, of other mobile phones.

With this announcement Opera Mini will have it's direct competitor in the market, that too with huge share in mid-end devices.

Otherwise, both the handset come with standard features, including social networking apps, VGA camera, FM player with recording facility and so on – and are aimed at mid-end user. Read on to know the details.

Nokia C2-05

The Nokia C2-05 comes with a slider form-factor, and it designed in a way to slip easily into pockets and handbags. Nokia says that this phone is geared towards style-conscious social networkers.

In addition to Nokia Browser and Nokia Store, a dedicated Facebook and Twitter apps for updates on the go come included with Nokia C2-05. Other social networking apps can be added later by the user, of course.

On the hardware front, the Nokia C2-05 offers

2-inch QVGA resolution (320 x 240 pixels) LCD Display
VGA camera with digital zoom and a full-screen viewfinder.
There's also a media player for MP3 and MP4 files, as well as an FM radio with a recorder built in, to save songs to play later.
Allows for up to 32GB of external memory on a MicroSD card,
Features both Bluetooth and MicroUSB
There's a stereo headset included in the box.
Battery life is up to 20 days in standby or four hours talktime.

Nokia C2-05 comes in a range of colors including pink, peacock blue and dynamic grey. It also allows further personalization through themes, wallpapers and ringtones from the Nokia Store.

The Nokia C2-05 will become available in Q4 and will cost around Rs. 6,000

Nokia X2-05

The Nokia X2-05 comes in a candy-bar form factor that offers an emphasis on music and media.

Like the Nokia C2-05, it comes with the new Nokia Browser and Nokia Store on-board. There are also preloaded Facebook and Twitter clients.

As with other phones in the Xseries, the media player is a central focus. It can play MP3 and MP4 files, either through the stereo headset provided or through the loud loudspeaker. The speaker operates at 106phons – enough to entertain the whole room.

There's also an FM radio with a recording facility.

Other specs include:

VGA camera on the back
2.2-inch QVGA display offering 320 x 240 resolution.
cards with up to 32GB capacity can be fitted
Battery life is rated up to 25 days on standby or four hours talktime.
Bluetooth and MicroUSB enabled

Available in Black, Silver, White and Bright Red, the Nokia X2-05 will also ship in Q4 and is expected to cost around Rs. 5,500.

Wateen Represented Pakistan at Global Arab Meeting

Posted: 12 Oct 2011 12:38 AM PDT

Wateen Telecom recently participated in the prestigious Horasis Global Arab Meeting, held in Ras Al Khaimah, UAE, from 9^th-12^th October 2011.

The Horasis Global Arab Meeting takes place annually and aims at creating an opportunity for global leaders to meet, engage in business and discuss visions for a sustainable future.

In addition to keynote speeches by industry luminaries, the meeting offers panel-style boardroom dialogue sessions led by the event co-chairs, reflecting on specific opportunities and challenges in the global economic sphere. This year's event was attended by over 300 participants from 35 countries.

Wateen Telecom holds the honor of being the only Pakistani company invited to participate in this globally recognized platform for international dialogue. Wateen CEO Naeem Zamindar was selected as a co-chair for the event; the only participant from Pakistan was Makhdoom Amin Faheem, Senior Minister of Commerce.

As an event co-chair, Mr. Zamindar participated in two panel sessions. The first discussed the prospects of newly evolving political and economic alliances between the Arab world and other nations in the background of a waning Arab spring. The second panel session examined the role of technology as an incubator of social change.

Commenting on the event, Mr Zamindar said,

It was a great honor for me to represent Wateen – and Pakistan – at this incredible event. Not only was it a chance to interact with global leaders, it presented an opportunity to demonstrate Pakistan's crucial role in the global technology and telecommunications stage.

I hope that our participation this year will help define Pakistan's socio-economic relationship – one of partnership and cooperation – with the Arab world.

In addition to Makhdoom Amin Fahim from Pakistan, the event was also attended by leading international public figures such as H.H. Sheikh Saud Bin Saqr Al Qasimi, Supreme Council Member and Ruler of Ras Al Khaimah, UAE; H.E. Sheikha Lubna Bint Khalid Al Qasimi, Minister of Foreign Trade, UAE; H.E. Mohammad Abu-Hammour, Minister of Finance of Jordan, Jordan; H.E. Nicolas Nahas, Minister of Economy & Trade, Lebanon; and H.E. Kamal Nath, Union Cabinet Minister of Urban Development, India.

Blackberry Services Get Lousy

Posted: 11 Oct 2011 10:54 PM PDT

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Millions of Blackberry customers, across four continents, are without email, messaging and browsing services on their devices after a series of infrastructure failures in RIM's network.

Notable service issues were first reported on Monday when service was either delayed or not available in Europe, Africa and Middle East including Pakistan. However, the issue was resolved in less than 24 hours and service got restored.

But shortly after the restoration – due to non-responsive failover server, the serve went down for even more customers, stretching the outage in four out of five continents.

"Although the system is designed to failover to a back-up switch, the failover did not function as previously tested.

As a result, a large backlog of data was generated and we are now working to clear that backlog and restore normal service as quickly as possible,” RIM said in a statement today.

Failover refers to the automatic switching of service to a standby server in the case of a failure of a main system.

We don't have any deadline for restoration of service, but RIM said that it's doing the best to get the servers back online.

This service disruption has occurred at a time when RIM is tackling serious stakeholders' pressure for change in management, a possible sell out or a split in the company.

Company is fearing further decrease in market share after this massive outage to it's rivals iPhone and Android powered devices.

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PTCL to Offer IP / MPLS Services to NSO

Posted: 11 Oct 2011 09:03 PM PDT

Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) will provide country wide connectivity services to facilitate National Savings Organization (NSO) in transforming into an automated and dynamic corporation.

The NSO has initially awarded the project to PTCL to establish private, secure, and efficient wide area connectivity (Intranet) of 132 branches across the Pakistan.

PTCL will establish connectivity over its secure and efficient Internet Protocol (IP) /Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) Infrastructure to facilitate NSO in adopting new technologies and working approach. A fail-over solution is devised for NSO where each branch shall be provided with both primary and backup links.

By availing PTCL's state-of -the-art technologies NSO will be able to provide better services to its investors by extending the outreach to more countrymen in land and abroad, introducing new investment products and advanced working facilities. Furthermore, ensuring business continuity would result in building up stronger relationships with customers.

PTCL has also allocated its technological resources and expertise to NSO to streamline its processes that would, in turn, increase productivity of each employee. It will also make wide-ranging improvements and benefits in areas such as customer experience and retention, cost reduction, improve efficiency, and ensure compliance.

Furqan Qureshi, PTCL's SEVP, Corporate Services, while elaborating the use and benefits of modern telecom technologies mentioned that PTCL was determined to assist public and private sectors in promoting good governance by providing latest technologies, a wide range of product portfolio, and customized services that were critical for the public, corporate and social sector organizations in Pakistan to meet future challenges and serve their customers in the best way possible.

Java to Live on

Posted: 11 Oct 2011 08:55 PM PDT

Oracle has outlined plans for the future of the Java platform and showcased product demonstrations illustrating the latest Java technology innovations during the recently held JavaOne 2011.

Hasan Rizvi, senior vice president, Oracle Fusion Middleware and Java, along with Adam Messinger, vice president of Development, Oracle Fusion Middleware and Cameron Purdy, vice president, Development, Oracle, revealed Oracle's strategy to evolve Java platform.

"Our strategic objectives for the future of Java are to accelerate technical innovation in the Java platform and increase Java technology adoption.

We expect to keep Java vibrant and moving forward through ongoing support for open standards and by working closely with the Java developer community," said Mr. Rizvi.

Java is #1 programming language with 9 million developers worldwide and 80% of mobile developers using the Java platform. 97% of enterprise desktops run Java while more than 3 billion devices have been powered by Java technology including more than 125 million Java-based TV devices.

Oracle announced plans to improve the interoperability between HTML5 and Java technology in order to simplify the development of rich client/server interaction for cloud based applications.

Oracle also announced availability of JavaFX 2.0, an advanced Java user interface (UI) platform for enterprise business applications and the next step in the evolution of Java as a premier rich client platform. Oracle intends to submit a proposal to open source the JavaFX platform as a new project within the OpenJDK Community.

Java EE continues to be hugely popular with increasing developer adoption and over 40 million downloads of Java EE components, including Oracle GlassFish Server.

Java EE 7, the next generation of Java EE, is well underway which will further enhance the Java EE platform for Cloud environments with support for features such as multi-tenancy and elasticity (horizontal scaling).

Rob Benson, Director of Runtime Systems at Twitter, announced that Twitter has just joined both the OpenJDK Community, as well as the Java Community Process (JCP). Twitter will be collaborating with Oracle and the other members of the JCP and the OpenJDK Community to help evolve the Java platform.

IBM, Intel and Red Hat, as well as ARM, GetJar and Harris IT Systems, also demonstrated their ongoing support for Java technology.

To read more, click: Java to Live on
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