The first generation iPhone was released in 2007 and since then Pakistani users have had a hard time reading Urdu on Apple devices. The main reason being the use of the not so popular Naskh style to display Urdu text. However, all this changed in 2017 when Apple integrated the Nastaliq font in all its iPhone devices. The man credited with Apple’s move is 40-year-old user interface designer Mudassir Azeemi. For four years Azeemi ran a campaign for the integration …
نیویارک(ویب ڈیسک)سوشل میڈیا کے استعمال سے جہاں رابطوں میں سہولت حاصل ہوئی ہے، وہیں اس کی زیادتی نقصان دہ بھی ثابت ہوئی ہے، ایسے میں فیس بک کا ایک نیا فیچر آزمائشی مراحل میں ہے جو کسی صارف کے اس ایپ کے استعمال کے دورانیے سے متعلق آگاہ کرے گا۔ غیرملکی خبررساں ادارے کے مطابق فیس بک کمپنی ’’یوورفیس بک آن ٹائم ‘‘کے نام سے ایک فیچر کی آزمائش کر رہی ہے، جس سے یہ معلوم ہوسکے گا کہ صارفین …
Facebook recently released a new tool that lets its users find out and connect with their local, state and federal representatives. However, the tool which is called “Town Hall,” is not the first to provide such a functionality. In 2001, when Facebook did not even exist an Indian immigrant Shukoor Ahmed founded StateDemocracy.com, which connected citizens with their elected officials in all 50 States and provided input to both Federal and State elected officials on legislation. Shukoor eventually shut down …
The High Commission of Canada to Pakistan fired back after receiving a message calling Ahmadis “non-Muslims” on social media. On 23rd August 2016 the twitter account of the Canadian High Commission shared a picture and wrote: “Acting High Commissioner Stuart Savage delighted to visit Faisal Mosque in Islamabad.” The picture of the acting High Commissioner was followed by another tweet in which the HC compared the area of Faisal Mosque, Islamabad to that of the Bait-un-Nur Mosque, Calgary. The Bait-un-Nur …
This week Twitter announced that it has removed an additional 235,000 twitter accounts, “in order to maintain a safe environment for users on Twitter”. The company said that the accounts were banned for their links to terrorism, while some were suspended for violating twitters policies on supporting extremism. In total the San Francisco-based firm has banned over 360,000 accounts, saying the rate has gone up to 80 percent since last year. Twitter also highlighted it’s own efforts to counter violent …
Pakistan has reportedly ordered the nation’s carriers to cease offering services that route email through BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES), a product that among other things encrypts email. Pakistan’s Express Tribune reports that the nation’s Ministry of Interior last Friday instructed the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) to tell telcos they must not offer the service from December 1st, depriving Pakistanis access to a secure e-mail service.
YouTube says it’s making a further push into virtual reality, promising to add 3-D support for videos that play back in its 360-degree format. Thursday’s announcement comes a day after the debut of the first online 360-degree ad, a commercial for Bud Light. Right now, viewers using the mobile YouTube app or Google’s Chrome browser can pan around in any direction in the 360-degree videos. They’re shot using special camera rigs that look in many directions, and software stitches together …
Haris Khan a student at Scoil Eoin ,Ballincollig has developed an iPhone App Super Soccer Kicks pictured with his 5th Class classmates. Haris Khan’s love of sport and computer games have helped him become one of the world’s youngest app developers. Super Soccer Kicks works on Apple’s iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch, and was launched last Friday — just days before Haris’s 11th birthday. He has seen nearly 400 downloads of the free app in the last week, but is …
According to indepdent reports Pakistan’s largest ISP PTCL has blocked access to alislam.org the official website of the persecuted Ahmadiyya Muslim Community. This is not the first time Pakistan has used its internet censorship system to block access to the community’s website. In a similar drive by the Pakistan Government in 2008 access to the persecution.org was restricted. ThePersecution.org maintains records & reports on the worldwide persecution of Ahmadis in various countries. Pakistan has already been accused of excessive internet …
Ever wished you could make payments by using just your iPhone without the need of swiping any cards or fondling your pockets for change well now you can and Square’s latest iPhone app called Sqaure Card Case lets you do just that. The iPhone app released on Wednesday lets you make mobile payments without even taking your phone out of the pocket. Card Case utilizes the “geofencing” technology which came bundled with Apple’s latest iOS5 update. Geofencing builds virtual boundaries …
South Korea is home to 49 million people and just 2 years ago there were only 500,000 smartphone users in the country. This march that number went up to 10million and an announcement made last week puts that number close to 20.1 million, that is a huge increase in just over 6 months. It is expected that the number of Smartphone users in Korea will shoot up to 30million in the first half of 2012 and to 40million by the …
Nokia one of the leading mobile makers has partnered up with Microsoft to make its map software Nokia Maps available on all Windows 7 Phone devices. In the past Nokia Maps was only made available to Nokia devices however the partnership agreement signed earlier this year between Nokia & Microsoft means that the application will soon make its debut in the Windows Phone marketplace as a free install within the next couple of weeks. This would mean people with Windows …