Want to Get Famous? You Will Need Just 200 Dollars for that!: ProPakistani

Want to Get Famous? You Will Need Just 200 Dollars for that!
Warid GLOW Brings ‘Bombay Dreams’ To Karachi
Telenor Gets High Tax Payer Award
Internet 2010 in Numbers [Summary]
Talkshawk Introduces 5 Paisa Offer
Mobilink Indigo Can be Your Ticket to the Cricket World Cup!
Broadband Subscribers in Pakistan Cross 1 Million Mark

Want to Get Famous? You Will Need Just 200 Dollars for that!

Posted: 27 Jan 2011 08:05 AM PST

Want to Get Famous? You Will Need Just 200 Dollars for that! is a post from: ProPakistani

Disclaimer: This is a mockery of how our media outlets process and publish news releases. Don't get things seriously and never execute them the way we mentioned below.

This is age of internet, where business are run over Internet and communication is done via emails. When all this is coupled with media companies who never care to counter-check the facts, you don't need to be an extra-ordinary man to get famous.

Aright, if you are an ordinary guy, living in a far-flung area of Pakistan, here's a way for you to get on TV channels, newspapers, internet and everywhere!

Follow these steps:

Hire someone who can write good English. A journalist can be of best help in this. Give him Rs. 500 or at most Rs. 1,000 to get you an extraordinary press release. (which should tell that you are the one and only person with this world who has achieved this and this. Best build your profile with everything that you can)
Develop a website, and drop you contact number there. Uploading a CV can do the best.
Create an account on PRweb.com
Submit your press release with advanced listing. It gonna cost you USD 200, if you are hungry for more hype, buy premium listing for USD 360. Here are complete price plans: http://service.prweb.com/pricing/
You are done. Just sit back and wait for the wonders!

Now, this press release will get circulated and published at all semi-automated news websites, including Yahoo news.

Thanks to Google Alerts, media companies and reporters will be notified of this news by email who will straight away Google your name. As you already have a website, with your contact number on it, they gonna call you in (immediately to break the news).

Here you go. You are already on the ladder, now climb efficiently and never look like a dumb fake.

You will get plenty of coverage, you can go on TV too, here's an evidence: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFZPKZYS14w

If you think i am kidding, and its impossible to fool the world, especially the media, then think again. Above mentioned technique worked absolutely fine for Mr. Aurangzeb Hafi. Check out the complete story here: http://www.mubashirr.com/2011/01/26/busted-a-aurangzeb-hafi/

Warid GLOW Brings ‘Bombay Dreams’ To Karachi

Posted: 27 Jan 2011 07:27 AM PST

Warid GLOW Brings ‘Bombay Dreams’ To Karachi is a post from: ProPakistani

Over the years, English theater in Pakistan has experienced tremendous growth. Warid has become a leader in promoting arts in the community. Greatly supporting the young talents, Warid GLOW has become synonymous to quality theater in Pakistan.

The much hyped and awaited play 'Bombay Dreams" is now staged at the Karachi Art Council for 25 days consecutively, starting from 27^th, January to February, 20^th, 2011.

Originally, the play was an Andrew Lloyd Webber production, created by famous Indian music director A R Rahman. Directed by Shah Sharabeel, it is an adaptation of the original one in accordance with the local scenario. The play beautifully hints at the identity issues confronting human beings.

GLOW and Center Stage Productions staged an array of successful plays over the years in the cities of Lahore, Islamabad and Karachi including; The Phantom of the Opera', Tom, Dick and Harry, Home Is Where Your Cloths Are, You Only Marry Twice, Moulin Rouge and Bombay Dreams. These are the largest plays of this magnitude in the region and believed to be the most expensive stage shows in Pakistan.

The long association between Warid and CSP has not only set a precedent of quality stage for dramatic presentations in Pakistan but has also groomed the audience which comes to appreciate quality theater. Center Stage Productions is the most recognisable figure in Pakistan theater that is rewriting the rules of commercial theater for our entertainment starved society for over 10 years. Back in 2010, Sharabeel brought 'Moulin' Rouge' to Karachi with this promise that he will return to Karachi again in 2011 to stage Bombay Dreams.

Commenting on Warid's backing of the play Mr. Suhail Jan, General Manager Commercial, Warid Telecom said‚ "We greatly support theater in the country because it is a way for us to foster the local talent of Pakistan and help our young leaders to pursue passion and also cultivate enthusiasm for arts and entertainment in the community. These plays are the biggest showcase of performing arts in Pakistan. In a country where talent is in abundance but finances can be a hurdle‚ Warid is proud to be a leader in promoting arts in the country."

Director of the play Shah Sharahbeel said, "On behalf of Centre Stage Productions, I am deeply grateful to Warid Telecom and its team for supporting Center Stage Productions. I am sure we as a Nation have all the guts and the talent to become a truly progressive Nation. We don't just do plays but we are building a norm, driven by our philosophy of being faithful to our talents. We demonstrate our best and that's what makes Center Stage Productions the finest and the most disciplined theatre production company in the country. Once again I am extremely grateful to Warid Telecom for all their generous support"

"The play is known for its rhythmic tones composed by A R Rahman and will definitely cheer the audience of Karachi" added Shah Sharabeel the director of the play.

Telenor Gets High Tax Payer Award

Posted: 27 Jan 2011 03:43 AM PST

Telenor Gets High Tax Payer Award is a post from: ProPakistani

Telenor Pakistan has won the High Tax Payer Award of Excellence from Pakistan Customs (Islamabad Collectorate) for the year 2010-11, said a statement issued by the company today.

In a ceremony held in Islamabad on Wednesday, Riaz Khan, Director General, Customs Intelligence and Vigilance (right) presented the award to Rana Saeed, Assistant Manager Logistics, Telenor Pakistan said the statement.

This is the third time Telenor Pakistan has won the High Tax Payer Award of Excellence from Pakistan Customs (Islamabad Collectorate).

Internet 2010 in Numbers [Summary]

Posted: 26 Jan 2011 09:58 PM PST

Internet 2010 in Numbers [Summary] is a post from: ProPakistani

Internet without any doubt has become an important part of our daily life routine. Every segment of a society especially professionals, students, kids and even senior citizens browse around this amazing sphere of 'networks of networks' as per their interest of usage.

From sending a simple text e-mail to viewing streaming movie video, Internet is there behind the scene.

Pingdom, an Internet research company has carried out an interesting exercise to identify what happened over the world of Internet during 2010. The numbers calculated by them show some appealing and astonishing information such as average number of e-mails sent per day during 2010 were 294 billion, 25 billion tweets sent on Twitter in 2010, 2 billion videos were watched per day over YouTube and 250 million new people joined Face book during 2010.

Following is the detail statistics provided by Royal Pingdom on various segments of Internet.

Email

107 trillion – The number of emails sent on the Internet in 2010.
294 billion – Average number of email messages per day.
480 million – New email users since the year before.
89.1% – The share of emails that were spam.
262 billion – The number of spam emails per day (assuming 89% are spam).
2.9 billion – The number of email accounts worldwide.

Websites

255 million – The number of websites as of December 2010.
21.4 million – Added websites in 2010.

Web servers

Web server market share1 Internet 2010 in Numbers [Summary]

39.1% – Growth in the number of Apache websites in 2010.
15.3% – Growth in the number of IIS websites in 2010.
4.1% – Growth in the number of nginx websites in 2010.
5.8% – Growth in the number of Google GWS websites in 2010.
55.7% – Growth in the number of Lighttpd websites in 2010.

Domain names

88.8 million – .COM domain names at the end of 2010.
13.2 million – .NET domain names at the end of 2010.
8.6 million – .ORG domain names at the end of 2010.
79.2 million – The number of country code top-level domains (e.g. .CN, .UK, .DE, etc.).
7% – The increase in domain names since the year before.

Internet users

14% – Increase in Internet users since the previous year.
825.1 million – Internet users in Asia.
475.1 million – Internet users in Europe.
266.2 million – Internet users in North America.
204.7 million – Internet users in Latin America / Caribbean.
110.9 million – Internet users in Africa.
63.2 million – Internet users in the Middle East.
21.3 million – Internet users in Oceania / Australia.

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Social media

25 billion – Number of sent tweets on Twitter in 2010
100 million – New accounts added on Twitter in 2010
7.7 million – People following @ladygaga (Lady Gaga, Twitter's most followed user).
250 million – New people on Facebook in 2010.
30 billion – Pieces of content (links, notes, photos, etc.) shared on Facebook per month.
20 million – The number of Facebook apps installed each day.

Web browsers

Videos

2 billion – The number of videos watched per day on YouTube.
35 – Hours of video uploaded to YouTube every minute.
2+ billion – The number of videos watched per month on Facebook.
20 million – Videos uploaded to Facebook per month.

Images

3000+ – Photos uploaded per minute to Flickr.
130 million – At the above rate, the number of photos uploaded per month to Flickr.
3+ billion – Photos uploaded per month to Facebook.

Focus Made an infographic of the same information in following manner:

Talkshawk Introduces 5 Paisa Offer

Posted: 26 Jan 2011 09:43 PM PST

Talkshawk Introduces 5 Paisa Offer is a post from: ProPakistani

Telenor Talkshawk is offering its customers to call 5 paisas per 30 second for on-net calls between 9 AM to 5 PM against a daily rental of Rs. 14.34 (including taxes).

Tariffs for Telenor 5 Paisa offer look like following:

telenor 5 paisa Talkshawk Introduces 5 Paisa Offer

Subscription Price:

Subscription price is Rs.12+tax (Rs. 14.34 inclusive of tax).

How to Subscribe:

Dial *345*201#

Lucky Subscriber – 100% Discount

Each day a certain number of "Lucky Subscribers" will be selected randomly and given 100% discount from 9am to 5pm – the same day of subscription.
Lucky subscribers will get to make 100% free calls on day of subscription, while the above rates apply for all other subscribers.

Subscription validity and Terms

Customers can avail discount between 9am and 5pm on day of subscription
1 day (i.e. same day) if subscription done between 12 am (midnight) and 4:30 pm
2 days (i.e. till end of next day) if subscription done between 4:30pm and 12 am (midnight)
In case subscriber migrates to another price plan, the service will be deactivated
If a customer has free minutes in his/her account and then activates this service then free minutes will be consumed first (even in the 9am to 5pm time window). This applies to the voice bundle minutes too.
The entire duration of the call will be charged at standard rates, even if part of it is past 9 am. Only calls initiated after 9am will be discounted.
Customers can only re-subscribe to this service after their existing subscription has expired (after 12am at night)

Mobilink Indigo Can be Your Ticket to the Cricket World Cup!

Posted: 26 Jan 2011 09:33 PM PST

Mobilink Indigo Can be Your Ticket to the Cricket World Cup! is a post from: ProPakistani

With all the cricket buzz in the air for the upcoming Cricket World Cup 2011, cricket fans all across the country are getting excited and pumped up to follow the matches and see which team take home the 2011 World Cup.

Understanding this passion for cricket shared by our valued customers, Mobilink indigo brings a thrilling new offer whereby all indigo customers can get a chance to win an all-expense paid trip to Sri Lanka to watch the World Cup Semi Final live!

Mobilink indigo Lucky Draw will give away 5 Grand Prizes for Sri Lanka, as well as many other exhilarating prizes including BlackBerry® Pearl® handsets with 1 year free indigo services (including Free Minutes, Zero Line Rent, BlackBerry internet services, etc.) as well as Samsung Galaxy Tabs!

How to enter the indigo World Cup Lucky Draw

New customers will gain entry into the Lucky Draw simply by purchasing a new indigo connection or converting their existing number to indigo
Current indigo users can gain entry by redeeming 200 Rewards points
Club customers can gain entry in the Lucky Draw by adding a line to their account.

Terms & Conditions:

Redemption of 200 Rewards gains another entry to the Lucky Draw (i.e., if a customer redeems 800 Rewards, they would gain 4 entries)
Offer ends on the 12^th of March
Limited time offer
Terms and conditions apply

Broadband Subscribers in Pakistan Cross 1 Million Mark

Posted: 26 Jan 2011 06:40 PM PST

Broadband Subscribers in Pakistan Cross 1 Million Mark is a post from: ProPakistani

Pakistani Internet Service Providers crossed one million mark for broadband internet subscribers in the country by totaling 1.052 million broadband subscribers in October 2010, up from 994,911 subscribers in September 2010, according to the recent most data provided by Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA).

DSL companies added the most subscribers for broadband and stood at 516,167 subscribers in October 2010, up from 488,946 in September 2010.

EvDO service providers added a total of 15,540 subscribers in one month, while WiMAX companies added a total of 14,066 subscribers in the month. Total number of WiMAX subscribers in the country has hit 306,665 mark, up from 292,599 a month ago.

DSL remains the top technology used for broadband internet in the country, while WiMAX stands seconds. EvDO is swiftly adding its share for the broadband subscribers.

HFC and FTTH remains the lowest adding subscribers technologies in the country. Check following graphs for more details:

broadband subscribers Oct 2010 Broadband Subscribers in Pakistan Cross 1 Million Mark