How Do You Rate Chairman PTA’s Performance During his Tenure [Poll]: ProPakistani

How Do You Rate Chairman PTA’s Performance During his Tenure [Poll]
Nokia Pureview 808 Soon to See a Launch in Pakistan
6.5 Million LinkedIn Passwords Get Leaked

How Do You Rate Chairman PTA’s Performance During his Tenure [Poll]

Posted: 07 Jun 2012 01:27 AM PDT

Dr. Mohammad Yasin, Chairman Pakistan Telecommunication Authority, will reportedly step down next month.

Dr. Yasin was promoted from member technical to Chairmanship of PTA back in 2008 to replace Maj. Gen (R) Shahzada Alam Malik.

Unlike Shahzada Alam, who enjoyed two service extensions, Dr. Yasin is not being offered such a chance, reportedly due to his differences with government following 3G auction process.

Having said this, some sources mention that Dr. Yasin himself doesn't want service extension, probably for the same differences.

One who has attended recent meetings of standing committees would have clear picture of relations between Dr. Yasin and the government.

Industry is already evaluating Dr. Yasin's performance during past four years of his service as chairman PTA. Interestingly, two fellow blogs namely More.PK and Telecom Recorder reported on Dr. Yasin's tenure having entirely different view points.

Mudassir Jehangir of More.PK attributed the fall of telecommunication to Dr. Yasin, while Ahmed Rayyan of Telecom Recorder said that performance of Dr. Yasin remained tremendous during his service term.

Mudassir Jehangir counted fall of foreign direct investments, lowering ARPUs and service quality, unbalanced price war, illegal SIMs and failed attempt of auctioning 3G licenses as Dr. Yasin's inability. Mr. Jehangir further explained that Pakistan missed tons of foreign direct investments just because PTA set irrational prices for MVNOs.

You can check Mudassir Jehangir's complete post here.

While Ahmed Rayyan of Telecom Recorder, on other hands, seemed convinced with Dr. Yasin's performance during his four year tenure. He writes:

Under his leadership, the authority along with cellular operators implemented various systems to streamline the cellular sector through all possible ways to stop the illegal sale and use of unregistered SIMs.

PTA launched "789 SIM Activation System" for introducing sale of post-activated SIMs of cellular operators. It implemented "668 SIM Information System" in October 2009 and May 2011.

Dr. Yaseen has done extraordinary work to bring out latest technology in the country particularly the internet services through broadband technology. It may not wrong to say that the entire sector was developed under his leadership and investors' friendly policy.

You can check Telecom Recorder's complete post here.

We have shared both viewpoints with you. Now we are leaving it up to you to decide about the performance of Dr. Yasin. For which, you can participate in below poll. You can of course share your thoughts in below comments too.

Nokia Pureview 808 Soon to See a Launch in Pakistan

Posted: 06 Jun 2012 09:44 PM PDT

Nokia Pureview 808, that is equipped with gigantic 41 megapixel camera, is soon to hit Pakistani stores, told us sources close to the company.

Nokia is said to be holding a Nokia Pureview 808 preview event for select bloggers and journalists tomorrow, after which the shipment of Pureview is likely to start with in a week or so.

We are told that Nokia Pureview 808 will be priced around PKR 52,000 in Pakistan.

Built on Symbian Belle, Nokia Pureview 808 is largely known for its extraordinary imaging capabilities that comes with Nokia's new PureView technology, coupled with highest performance Carl Zeiss optics to date and Nokia's brand-new pixel oversampling technology.

Pixel oversampling is said to be useful as it can switch camera pixels to make sure long and close shot offer best results alike.

Pureview Lens Specifications:

Carl Zeiss Optics
Focal length: 8.02mm
35mm equivalent focal length: 26mm, 16:9 | 28mm, 4:3
F-number: f/2.4
Focus range: 15cm – Infinity (throughout the zoom range)
Construction:
- 5 elements, 1 group.All lens surfaces are aspherical
- One high-index, low-dispersion glass mould lens
- Mechanical shutter with neutral density filter
Optical format: 1/1.2"
Total number of pixels: 7728 x 5368
Pixel Size: 1.4 microns

Nokia Pureview 808 Specification

four-inch, ClearBlack AMOLED display underneath Gorilla Glass
1.3GHz processor
There's 16GB of internal user memory, with support for MicroSD cards up to 32GB
Weight, including the battery, is 169g.
Battery:
- Talk time: up to 6 h
- Standby: up to 465 h

Nokia Pureview 808 Price in Pakistan:

While we are unsure of exact price of Nokia Pureview 808, we are sure that its price will not cross 55K mark. Our sources suggest that this mega camera device will be sold in Pakistan at or around PKR 52,000 to PKR 55,000.

6.5 Million LinkedIn Passwords Get Leaked

Posted: 06 Jun 2012 09:21 PM PDT

If you are LinedIn user, which most probably you are, then go to your LinkedIn account right away to immediately change your password. Even better, if you have this habit of using similar password over number of websites then try changing your password across all the websites.

This is because passwords of over 6.5 million LinkedIn users were dumped (or made available in zipped format) on to a Russian hacking forum.

It is yet to ascertain if hacker was able to retrieve corresponding email addresses these passwords as well or he was able to get hold of the passwords only.

LinkedIn has confirmed the security breach. It said in a blog post:

We can confirm that some of the passwords that were compromised correspond to LinkedIn accounts.

If you want to make sure that your password was leaked out or not, head to this URL: http://www.leakedin.org/ and type your password. This website will compare your password with leaked out passwords to tell you the situation.

LinkedIn, a social networking website for professionals, has over 150 million registered users, suggesting that this security breach could have impacted at least 10 percent of total LinkedIn user base.

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