Published on January 11th, 2007 | by Babar Bhatti
The 2007 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) which is going on in Las Vegas this week is the biggest show in its category in the US. This year Apple has caused a lot of buzz with its iPhone (see [&hellip... Read More →
Published on January 10th, 2007 | by Babar Bhatti
Search for “Cell Phone Snatching” in google and many of the results will be about mobile phone snatching in Pakistan. It is a problem all over the world – but with the explosive growth of mobile phone subscribers in [&hellip... Read More →
Published on January 8th, 2007 | by Babar Bhatti
In 2006 Wateen-Motorola WiMAX project in Pakistan created a lot of buzz all over the world. Many similar trials and services are being offered around the World. However it is still a big unknown if Wimax will be [&hellip... Read More →
Published on January 5th, 2007 | by Babar Bhatti
According to this news item Pakistani mobile companies are going after the WLL operators – yet again. Since deregulation of telecom started in Pakistan the GSM based mobile companies and CDMA based WLL operators have been [&hellip... Read More →
Published on January 3rd, 2007 | by Babar Bhatti
It is always fun to talk about feature-packed gadgets. As 2007 starts lets take a look at the future of mobile phones. A recent BusinessWeek report presents some interesting views about mobile technology and its drivers. Also [&hellip... Read More →
Published on January 2nd, 2007 | by Babar Bhatti
I see some interesting developments for free or cheap calls to and from Pakistan using Voice over Internet Protocol – i.e. Internet Telephony. This is in parallel to new services (Rebetel and FreeCallPlanet for instance) in US and Europe which [&hellip... Read More →
Published on December 29th, 2006 | by Babar Bhatti
The earthquake of this week damaged the telecom and internet infrastructure, impacting many Asian countries. Banking services were severely hampered Wednesday but services had resumed Thursday after networks were reconfigured to detour around the broken cables. [&hellip... Read More →
Published on December 26th, 2006 | by Babar Bhatti
As the price of smart phones falls the popularity of email on mobile phones is on the rise. This is especially useful for business folks who need access to their email on the road. However the security [&hellip... Read More →
Published on December 26th, 2006 | by Babar Bhatti
This is from a recent WIRED magazine gadget test issue. It shows the source of the different metals used in making of a mobile handset but I liked how it illustrates the components (screen, circuit board, [&hellip... Read More →
Published on December 22nd, 2006 | by Babar Bhatti
Triple play made its way to Pakistan. Triple Play service is a marketing term for the 3 services: high-speed Internet, Video (TV, Video on Demand) and telephone service – all over a single broadband connection. Wateen, PTCL and Nayatel are [&hellip... Read More →
