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| Qubee Offers Referral Discounts Posted: 24 Mar 2011 06:47 AM PDT
Qubee Offers Referral Discounts is a post from: ProPakistani
How to Avail Discount? To avail this discount all a customer has to do is refer a friend to Qubee with his or her given Qubee account number and they will automatically be entitled to the mentioned discount of 20% in their next month's Qubee bill. Qubee says that the promotion is due to conclude on the 18th of April 2011. Chief Marketing Officer of Qubee, Mr. Hashim Sheikh said:
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| We Are Pulling Back Letters To Editor Section for a Distressing Reason Posted: 23 Mar 2011 09:35 PM PDT
We Are Pulling Back Letters To Editor Section for a Distressing Reason is a post from: ProPakistani In October, last year, we started this section called "Letters to Editor". Then, primarily the aim was to give due coverage to our readers' individual level complaints, queries which we couldn't entertain in our usual transmission. However, from today, we won't accept any letter based on a very unfortunate incident that happened this week. Following is the complete tale. If you are following ProPakistani, then you may know that we had a stance against Telenor's "Khamoshi ka Boycott", which is still there. For raising our concerns, we did multiple posts on the said topic, two of which were under "Letters to Editor". In connection to this ongoing series of posts on "Khamoshi ka Boycott", exactly after one month of our first post on topic, on March 22nd we received an email from a person named 'Nabil Anjum'. We believe this email was sent to multiple bloggers with an article titled "Why Telenor is portraying Pakistan so negative?". This was actually a lifted article that was already published on ApnaTime.
Later in the evening, Jameel Arif published the same article (that was sent to us as well) on his blog with a shocking revelation that document attached in the email was owned by Shamorck, the PR agency of Mobilink. We have checked our email too, and we can confirm that Jameel Arif's claim of Shamrock's ownership of attached document is valid. For the purpose, we contacted Shamrock, and asked if they are purposefully spreading this article about Telenor? to which they disowned this email, article and everything. They denied Shamrock's involvement with this incident at any level, and explained that changing the properties of a word file isn't a rocket science. Mobilink told us that they condemn whatever has happened and company isn't involved in it, directly or in-directly. Mobilink said that they are investigating the issue with their agency. So who sent us this email then? Case 1: Shamrock sent this email to various bloggers to get the article published. But as they are denying it – and we don't have enough proofs so its just a theory. Case 2: Another theory is that competition companies, maybe Ufone, Zong or Warid emailed the bloggers with this article attached. And they changed the properties and the ownership of word file. Case 3: Telenor sent this article to bloggers (while changing the ownership of document) to get a breakthrough and block the criticism they are receiving for their campaign "Khamoshi ka Boycott". ProPakistani's Stance on this: In our opinion, keeping the interest in the mind, there can't be the forth case. We strongly believe that no blogger, reader, PTA, trader, vendor, common person can do this except the up-mentioned 3 cases. In any of the above mentioned 3 cases, the person / organization responsible for this act is trying to defame competition, which is highly condemnable. At ProPakistani, we protest against this act, which has hampered PR, Blogging and Telecom community. As an action against it, we are pulling back our Letter to Editor section, which could be used for such illicit work. Through sources, we have heard that Telenor and Mobilink management is meeting today, or tomorrow at most to discuss the matter. However, neither Telenor nor Mobilink has confirmed us anything on this meeting. We are confident that we will be able to determine the original sender of this email in coming days. As always, we will keep you posted with whatever information we will get on this. On a side note, did you notice that Telenor didn't advertise "Khamoshi ka Boycott" during yesterday's Pakistan Vs West Indies quarter finals? Related posts:
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| Google Tips: Improving Your Search Skills Posted: 23 Mar 2011 09:32 PM PDT
Google Tips: Improving Your Search Skills is a post from: ProPakistani All of us are accustomed to using Google on daily basis, either directly or indirectly (like the ProPakistani search feature which is powered by Google). If I ask you what's the number of cancer patients in Pakistan? Almost all of you readers will jump onto Google or any search engine and query for the answer. Google is good at understanding natural questions like ‘what is this’, ‘what is that’ but Google is also able to understand certain other statements which can help you make your search less time consuming & relevant, here are a few. Get the World Time:You want to call someone who lives in let's say Canada but you don’t know the time there. Here’s the simplest solution, just Google ‘time Canada’. A screenshot of the result:
Currency ConvertorWant the currency exchange rates or the exchange value? Just Google Currency A in Currency B.
Local weather?No problem. If your city result doesn’t come up directly, use this term ‘weather channel CityName’ and open the first link of weather.com their reports are quite elaborate and neat.
Get DefinitionsWant the definition of potpourri but don’t want to read the Wikipedia article or lengthy explanations? Use this keyword, ‘define: DesiredWord’
A little calculation?
Search From a Particular Website:So you want to search for MMS Rates on Warid’s website but the search at Waridtel.com didn’t get you your desired results or you are on a website that has no search facility. Here’s how Google can help, write your search term than the keyword site: followed by desired website.
You read an article about blocking SMS on Telenor last week on ProPakistani, want to find it? Use the Search Tools on the left to limit your results to a specific time (last week in our case).
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| How Japan was Ready for the Earthquake? Posted: 23 Mar 2011 09:30 PM PDT
How Japan was Ready for the Earthquake? is a post from: ProPakistani
The casualty numbers currently stand at 8000 dead and over 12,000 missing. However, as bad as the situation currently is, it could have been much worse if a quake of this magnitude had hit any country other than Japan. Japan is one of the most prepared countries in the world for a disaster like this. And here's why. Japan probably has the toughest building sanctions in the world and has spent billions of dollars to make its buildings safer. Concrete is still used in a lot of construction so most of the buildings have deep foundations. Many modern techniques are also employed in order to protect the buildings against an earthquake, for instance, base isolation. It involves mounting the building at the ground level on large rubber blocks or sliding bearings, which allows the building to sway rather than act as a rigid structure which is much more prone to collapse. These act as shock absorbers on a car. Japan also enforces tough rules on building gas and water pipeline.
Other than building sanctions, Japan is also using technology and has employed a $ 1 billion early earthquake warning system which was launched in 2007. And this earthquake proved the money was well spent. The system sent out a warning to millions of people 10 seconds before the earthquake struck. People who were further away, like those in Tokyo got a full 1 minute heads up. The warnings also go out to railway operators who slow down; to crane operators who move heavy machinery and building material away from people; and gas and electricity companies who immediately halt their activities. Japanese children are told what to do in an earthquake from a very early age. Every year, routine drills are carried out. In the last annual drill, over 670,000 people participated. The need for these measures and the effort Japan exerts is because Japan accounts for 20% of the worlds most powerful earthquakes. There is no doubt that a lot of lives were saved due to Japans preparation. Now, other countries prone to earthquakes are moving to mimic the Japanese system for disaster management. There's a lesson to be learned for us Pakistani's too. Bring in mind the earthquake of 2005, and the chaos that ensued after it. It is clear we were simply not prepared for it. It's required that our government take a look at the Japanese model and try to emulate it so that lives can be saved when the next disaster strikes. Related posts:
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| Jazz Jazba: Free Calls After 2 Minutes Posted: 23 Mar 2011 09:28 PM PDT
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