Lahore: Home of First Ever Computer Virus: ProPakistani

Lahore: Home of First Ever Computer Virus
Google’s Person Finder For Earth Quake Affected Japan
Warid Launches Fantasy Cricket
Supernet Enhances its VSAT Network Capacity
Ufone Brings Live TV Feeds to Blackberry Handsets

Lahore: Home of First Ever Computer Virus

Posted: 11 Mar 2011 01:11 AM PST

Lahore: Home of First Ever Computer Virus is a post from: ProPakistani

Just in case if you don't know, First ever PC computer virus, named as Brain, was written by two Pakistani bothers, Amjad Farooq Alvi and Basit Farooq Alvi, who are currently running an ISP, IPTV, Telephony and various other services under the name of Brain Telecommunication Limited.

Birthplace of this harmless virus is exactly where Brain's office is today, and interestingly, both the brothers mentioned their address in virus code that they had written:

Welcome to the Dungeon
(c) 1986 Basit & Amjad (pvt) Ltd.
BRAIN COMPUTER SERVICES
730 NIZAM BLOCK ALLAMA IQBAL TOWN
LAHORE-PAKISTAN PHONE :430791,443248,280530.
Beware of this VIRUS….
Contact us for vaccination………… $#@%$@!!

At 25th anniversary of computer viruses, Mikko Hypponen, Chief Research Officer at F-Secure, visited Pakistan to look for the home of 25 years old BRAIN virus, which turned out to be the root of multi billion anti-virus software industry.

This virus was not destructive in nature, in fact, it was created to test the replication attributes of DOS. Brain was capable of copying itself to every disk that was inserted in Brain-hit computer. The only effect of BRAIN virus was that it used to change the disk label (the “name” of the disk). The volume label used to change to read: “©Brain”

Following is the video that Mikko released on the lookout of Brain and its owners,

Google’s Person Finder For Earth Quake Affected Japan

Posted: 11 Mar 2011 01:05 AM PST

Google’s Person Finder For Earth Quake Affected Japan is a post from: ProPakistani

person finder 300x259 Googles Person Finder For Earth Quake Affected Japan After a huge disaster in Japan , Google has launched a very useful service for the people of Japan to search for their missing beloved ones.

The tool is available in English and Japanese. Users can click on the “I’m looking for someone” link or the “I have information about someone” link and enter what they know. Search by name or parts of a name, or – if you have information – enter the family or given name to create an entry.

Google stressed that all data entered is available to the public and viewable and usable by anyone. The search giant also does not review or verify the data entered into the system; after the immediate crisis has passed, Google archives the data. At this point, the system is currently tracking about 7,200 records.

After 2005′s Hurricane Katrina in the U.S., a variety of organizations created missing person registries, making it difficult to keep track. As a result, Google Person Finder accepts data from other registries using a common format known as PFIF, which was established by volunteers of the Katrina People Finder Project. Google engineers built the first Google Person Finder after the January 2010 earthquake in Haiti.

The program has an API, which lets press agencies, non-governmental agencies and others contribute to the database and receive updates. Web sites can also embed Google Person Finder as a gadget on their own pages.

By the way, following are useful links if you want to stay updated on Japan Earthquake / tsunami

Via TechLighter

Warid Launches Fantasy Cricket

Posted: 11 Mar 2011 01:00 AM PST

Warid Launches Fantasy Cricket is a post from: ProPakistani

Warid introduces yet another unique value added service that brings Warid customers more closer to live cricket experience.

Warid subscribers can now create and manage their own cricket team, trade world class players and win rewards by simply dialing 1200.

Fantasy Cricket is based on International Cricket series events including Test Matches, ODIs and T20s. The game offers lots of attractive prizes to game winners every month.
This service has an added innovative feature of inviting friends to play and compete against.

This means that all the friends invited by customers on the service will be added automatically to their Fantasy group and hence will keep them updated with their friend's team's score. They can constantly keep a track of their friend's team and strive to beat them for the prizes.

Fantasy points are awarded based on how well players perform in each of several statistical categories. Categories details are available at http://www.waridtel.com/consumer/product/warid-fantasy-cricket.php All real life statistics have associated points value, and each player's points are summed to produce team's cumulative points

Supernet Enhances its VSAT Network Capacity

Posted: 10 Mar 2011 11:23 PM PST

Supernet Enhances its VSAT Network Capacity is a post from: ProPakistani

Pakistani ISP and satellite service provider Supernet recently inked a capacity deal with SES World Skies for Ku-band transponder capacity on the NSS-6 satellite to support a large VSAT network for Pakistan’s corporate enterprise market, reported Satellite TODAY, citing Supernet CEO Imran Malik.

Malik while speaking with Satellite Today said that the SES World Skies capacity would enable Supernet to streamline its operations.

“We have physically split our two VSAT business segments – broadband Internet and enterprise networks – so that all of our enterprise VSAT customers are now being supported by the Ku-band capacity on the NSS-6 satellite,” he said.

According to information that we have got from Supernet, it looks that this split in both the segments is made while keeping long-term business strategy in mind.

This current capacity from NSS-6 Satellite is in addition to a partnership that company signed in 2010 with YahSat to provide the Ka-band YahClick service in Pakistan.

We want to use our existing broadband VSAT service to develop customers for our YahClick service. Thus we intend to be very aggressive with our broadband Internet service. Ku-band capacity is very hard to find in our region.

We can definitely use more and are actively looking for FSS Ku-band capacity.

Supernet has seen a significant growth in demand for VSAT services in Pakistan in the last few years. While Malik believes that 2011 will be a slightly slower year compared to previous years, he is confident that the GSM backhaul market will see good growth in the long term.

In 2011, our major growth driver will still be GSM backhaul. I see a shift from the fully loaded SCPC circuits to lightly loaded, shared VSAT sites. The Universal Service Fund can also play an important role in fueling the demand for VSATs.

We are looking at becoming a service provider in our neighboring markets as well, but in Pakistan, we see the state of the economy and the extended crisis in governance as a major challenge to growth. Competition will push profitability downwards.

The best part is that, by virtue, a few of our long-term contracts from 2010 are virtually guaranteed for the next three years, said Mr. Malik.

Ufone Brings Live TV Feeds to Blackberry Handsets

Posted: 10 Mar 2011 09:51 PM PST

Ufone Brings Live TV Feeds to Blackberry Handsets is a post from: ProPakistani

Ufone has made an arrangement to bring LIVE TV transmissions to your Blackberry smartphones. Charges are Rs. 100 per month – while Ufone is offering initial 15 days for free as a trial.

TV channels available:

PTV Home
PTV News
Aaj News
ATV
ATV Plus

How to Avail Service?

If you want to watch LIVE TV on your Blackberry Smartphone, you will have to download this application available here: http://172.16.33.39/setup/mtv.jad

The application will automatically update whenever a newer version is made available. If a newer version has been made available, users will not be able to use the application until the newer version is downloaded and installed.

Free trial offer can only be utilized once and will only be made available for 15 days from the first installation and use of application. Reinstalling the application will not entitle users for a new trial.

Subscription:

Download the application now and get a 15 day free subscription trial. At the expiry of the trial you will automatically be subscribed to the service. your subscription will be renewed automatically every month.

Charges:

Rs. 100 + tax per month
BlackBerry BES and BIS subscribed users do not get charged for data usage. All data browsing including streaming is absolutely free.

Un-subscription:

To unsubscribe from the service, call 333 log a un-subscription request. Un-subscription requests will be entertained within 48 hours.

Supported Handsets:

Service is only available on BlackBerry® smartphones running on OS 4.6 or higher.

Supported BlackBerry handset models are: