Archive for October 7th, 2008

Jaadu: The First iPhone App From A Pakistani Developer

Published by Babar Bhatti on October 7, 2008 under Entrepreneurship, ICT, Information Technology, Mobile Applications, Mobile Web, Smart Phones, Speech, Value Added Services, iPhone

Thanks to Jehan Ara for sharing this great news.

Meet brilliant young Jahanzeb Sherwani, the first developer from Pakistan whose application has been accepted into Apple’s iPhone App store!

Jahanzeb is going to talk at an event at The Second Floor (T2F) on October 11th at 7pm. He will talk about Jaadu - an application which allows you to connect to your PC through iPhone using VNC. A bit about his background:

Jahanzeb is a final year PhD student at Carnegie Mellon University and is working on speech interfaces for emerging markets in South Asia. He believes speech interfaces can be a revolutionary medium of interaction for a massive cell-phone consumer base that has, for the most part, not been able to tap into the digital revolution.

Please read the full post at In The Line Of Wire and while you are there, check out some other positive posts about Pakistan and the resolve of its people against all odds.

Half Rates with PTCL on Sundays

Published by Babar Bhatti on October 7, 2008 under Competitive Trends, PTCL, Telecommunications

Remember the free local calls at night time promotion? It got mixed reviews from people and PTCL ended it on Sep 30, 2008. Now PTCL has introduced a new tariff reduction plan from October 1st, 2008 called Half Rates on Sundays. This is perhaps a way for PTCL to keep its customers interested in using its services. Enjoy it while it lasts.

On Sundays the call charges for local, NWD & mobile calls will be as follows:

Local Calls: Rs. 1 for 3 mins. (On Net including Vfone)
NWD Calls: Rs. 1 for 1 min. (On Net including Vfone)
Mobile Calls: Rs. 1.25 for 1 min.

PTCL website had a note that Sunday Half Rates will not affect Pakistan Plus subscribers for NWD calls as their NWD minutes are already free till 2500 minutes but they will be able to make local calls and mobile calls on half rate. International calls will be charged as per regular/current tariffs.