Wednesday, March 2, 2011

74 % Pakistanis on Mobile Internet Use Nokia Devices: ProPakistani

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74 % Pakistanis on Mobile Internet Use Nokia Devices: ProPakistani

74 % Pakistanis on Mobile Internet Use Nokia Devices
Facebook Rolls Out Enhanced Commenting System
Telenor Fails to Block VimpelCom-Orascom Merger

74 % Pakistanis on Mobile Internet Use Nokia Devices

Posted: 01 Mar 2011 11:58 PM PST

74 % Pakistanis on Mobile Internet Use Nokia Devices is a post from: ProPakistani

Out of estimated 5 million mobile phone users, availing GPRS/EDGE facilities in Pakistan, 74 percent are on Symbian powered Nokia phones.

Over last one year, market share pattern has remained almost the same, where Apple powered devices, mostly the iPhones, share 8 percent market of mobile internet users. Nokia has lost its market share with a slight margin, from 76 % in February 2010 to to 74 percent in February 2011, however it looks that Nokia's dominance in Pakistan can't be compromised in near future.

This information is revealed by StatCounter, based on websites powered by statcounter analytics system.

Here are more details on market of Web OS for Pakistan:

web stats 74 % Pakistanis on Mobile Internet Use Nokia Devices

Nokia, the largest mobile phone manufacturer, enjoys high market share in all developing markets, including Pakistan, India, Middle East, Africa and South America. However, it has lost the race in the developed regions, such as USA and Europe.

Apple is dominating in North America, Europe and Japan. In fact, Nokia is not in stats for top Mobile OS being used in the said regions. Other significant players in North America and Europe include Android and Blackberry.

Following is a global depiction of Mobile OS share:

Click on image to view larger copy.
Above diagram (without stats for Pakistan in it) comes from icrossing.co.uk

Facebook Rolls Out Enhanced Commenting System

Posted: 01 Mar 2011 09:31 PM PST

Facebook Rolls Out Enhanced Commenting System is a post from: ProPakistani

Facebook, in a latest development to make websites more social, has deployed commenting system for blogs and websites.

This commenting system will allow website owners to make it possible for their readers to comment on their websites using their Facebook or Yahoo IDs. Yes, Facebook comment system doesn't allow comments with twitter, Google, name/website or anonymous IDs.

All comments posted on websites will be relayed on users' Facebook feeds. Not only this, Facebook users will be able to comment on websites from their Facebook home/news feeds as well.

Comments will look like something following:

If you want to get these comments rolled out for your website, then click this link

A great tool to go ahead, However, before you get the plugin you may need to think about following:

This comments system by Facebook can't be backed-up, so there's returning back. Once you integrate Facebook comments with your website then you won't be able to get rid of it to revert back to your default commenting system. If you do so, you will lose all the comments.
You may miss comments from those users who have Facebook blocked in their offices/schools.
Not everyone would want to reveal their real identity while commenting
Facebook comments accepts only Facebook and Yahoo IDs for commenters, no Twitter or Google IDs so far.
Very limited number of comments are loaded first up. You will have to load more to see all the comments coming
Users are reporting slower performance (in terms of load time) of Facebook comments' system.

Telenor Fails to Block VimpelCom-Orascom Merger

Posted: 01 Mar 2011 08:30 PM PST

Telenor Fails to Block VimpelCom-Orascom Merger is a post from: ProPakistani

As a result of English Commercial court ruling, Telenor failed to block a shareholders meeting due on March 17th to vote of VimpelCom’s merger with Egypt’s Weather Investments.

Telenor, which holds 36 percent shares in VimpleCom, has been opposing the proposed USD 6.8 billion VimpleCom-Orascom merger deal and had failed to get shareholders' vote support for scheduled VimpleCom meeting on March 17 to nullify the deal.

Based on its reservations, Telenor had commenced the arbitration to enforce claimed pre-emptive rights and to block the scheduled shareholder meeting on March 17th to vote on the deal.

Based on court ruling, Vimpelcom will be able to go ahead with its shareholder vote, however Vimpelcom took undertaking to the court that if Telenor wins the arbitration case, it will receive the pre-emptive shares, and that Telenor’s shares will not be diluted below 25 percent plus one share in the time between the closing of the Wind deal and a ruling in the arbitration case.

Vimpelcom said in a statement that the court rejected Telenor’s request for an injunction suspending the extraordinary shareholders meeting until its arbitration claim is settled.

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This week, we would like to highlight the new inventory management features in the new AdSense interface that let you easily search for specific channels, and see all associated ad units in a single click.

To try this feature, navigate to the My ads tab. In the sidebar under the 'Content' heading, choose 'Ad units.' Next, open the 'Advanced filters' section. If you type in the name of the channel you want to check out, you can hover over it and see the associated ad units highlighted in yellow. You can also click on the channel name to filter down the ad unit list just to the ad units tracked by that particular channel. If you would like to edit the ad units associated with the channel or any other channel information, visit the 'Custom channels' page for the product.

Try it now! Navigate to the new interface and click on the My Ads tab, and then 'Content,' followed by 'Ad units,' and then 'Advanced filters.'

Posted by Vincent Zanotti - AdSense Engineer

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How to Make Bahamian Sand Beads

by Angela Neal

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