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- Groupin.PK is Launching – First Up Sugar Deal for Rs. 25 Per KG
- PSEB Has Almost Lost Its Website, For Ever!
- Samsung to Sponsor Punjab Olympics
- MoMo Event Held in Islamabad
- No Life For Fresh Grads!
- Zong Partners with Twitter to Offer Services via SMS
- Government to Devolve HEC
| Groupin.PK is Launching – First Up Sugar Deal for Rs. 25 Per KG Posted: 04 Apr 2011 06:30 AM PDT
Groupin.PK is Launching – First Up Sugar Deal for Rs. 25 Per KG is a post from: ProPakistani
Now we are told that Groupin.PK is launching its operation tomorrow (in Islamabad for now) and as a promotion company is offering sugar at Rs. 25 per kilogram. As we mentioned in our last coverage, the idea behind Groupin.PK is that they offer (from a minimum of 50% up to 90%) discounts coupons to their subscribers. This discount is made possible only when a minimum number of people sign up for that deal, lets say, 100 people. This way, all 100 people will enjoy the discount, while the seller/vendor can enjoy the bulk sale. In the case of Sugar, we are amazed at the discount rate, I mean they are offering even lesser than the factory cost. When we asked if Groupin is subsidizing the sugar as a launch promotion, the Marketing Head of the start-up opted not to disclose the trade secret. Groupin is likely to start its operations in Lahore and Karachi in a month's duration. Also to mention here, there is a cap of 5 KG per account for this sugar discount, meaning that, one account holder will not be able to buy more than 5 kilo grams of sugar. Also remember this that deals won't stay on Groupin.PK for ever. Usually deals are going to say valid for 24 hours or so. Though, old deals (the popular ones) may come back again, based on the demand and seller's will. You can signup here: Groupin.PK Related posts:
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| PSEB Has Almost Lost Its Website, For Ever! Posted: 04 Apr 2011 06:28 AM PDT
PSEB Has Almost Lost Its Website, For Ever! is a post from: ProPakistani The official website of Pakistan Software Export Board is down for three days now, with a note on it saying that site is being updated and it will be back soon.
However, a source in PSEB who requested not to be named told ProPakistani that PSEB lost its website due to non-payment of its hosting bills. He further told us that PSEB is likely to lose all its data as hosting service provider has terminated the account on account of non-payment of hosting dues. We have learned that PSEB has shifted its website to a new server for time being, however, the old data is yet to be recovered from old host, which won't be possible unless PSEB clears its outstanding dues. Previously PSEB was hosted with Server4Sale, however it never paid for the hosting services, told us Server4Sale representative in Pakistan. Hosting company confirmed ProPakistani that PSEB account was suspended after un-acknowledged multiple notices. When asked from PSEB, a official denied to comment on hosting/payment issues, however, he said that website will get back online till tomorrow evening. We have heard unofficially that PSEB may develop a new website design/content to get it back online, at earliest. PSEB is said to be the responsible body for promoting IT industry in the country and then taking those locally developed products and services abroad to get them exported. Related posts:
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| Samsung to Sponsor Punjab Olympics Posted: 04 Apr 2011 05:10 AM PDT
Samsung to Sponsor Punjab Olympics is a post from: ProPakistani Samsung has announced to sponsor sports activities at the Punjab Stadium-Lahore, from the 7th to 9th of April, 2011. This extravaganza of sports and athletics is titled as the "71st Samsung Punjab Olympics". Out of the 26 competitive events planned during the 71st Samsung Punjab Olympics, 19 events will feature sportsmen and 8 events will feature female competitors. Hundreds of well trained athletes hailing from eight different zones of the Punjab province will be participating in these games to win popularity and valuable prizes. The Managing Director of Samsung Pakistan, Mr. Yee commented on the benefits and enthusiasm of the Punjab Olympics by saying;
Over the years, Samsung has also been sponsoring the global Olympic Games regularly and extending passionate support to numerous other sporting activities. As a continuation of this tradition, this year, Samsung's sponsorship for the Punjab Olympics is worth over 7 million Rupees. The Punjab Olympics have been held regularly for over seven decades now. Therefore, it has steadily evolved into a healthy social event and a provincial festival, where hundreds of sports enthusiasts converge annually to demonstrate their competitive talents and share their skills and successes. Thus, it also brings an opportunity for the Pakistani sportsmen and women to gather onto one interactive platform and learn from each other. Related posts:
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| Posted: 04 Apr 2011 02:23 AM PDT
MoMo Event Held in Islamabad is a post from: ProPakistani Mobile Monday (MoMo) event was held last Monday in the faculty cafeteria, Faculty Block, CIIT, Park Road, Islamabad. More than 100 participants (Faculty and students) participated in the event. As PTA was seeking expert's opinion on implementation of 3G/4G in Pakistan so the theme of this event was declared as "3G/4G wireless Network implementation in Pakistan: Is this required". The program started with short introduction about the theme of the event. Later, a presentation was delivered by Mr. Shahwaiz Iqbal on the generation of Mobile networks. The presentation was focused on the difference between 1G, 2G, 2.5G, 3G and 4G and what further hardware/software etc. will be required to implement 3G/4G in Pakistan. After Presentation, an open discussion was started among the participants. Everyone took part in the discussions and presented their point of view. The gathering was dominated by final year students of EE department and CS department and they took part in this lively discussion. The recommendation made in this event will be forwarded to PTA
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| Posted: 03 Apr 2011 10:15 PM PDT
No Life For Fresh Grads! is a post from: ProPakistani
For some reasons, however, nothing substantial has risen to surface. In terms of number of graduate students, universities have long gone crossed the threshold that industry can accommodate. In any eco-system where entrepreneurship is alienated in talks (and behaviors) of high profile intellectuals, such a scenario only becomes embitter for the economic future of that country. A high official from Aircom Pakistan comments on this matter "we do want to hire youngsters with no or little experience so that we can mould them our way. But for the past few years, we have been experiencing that those with 5 to 6 years of experience apply for low level jobs and because of the joblessness in the market, they accept packages that are not meant for their skillset. Such experiences have warmed us the wrong way. Management now seeks to fit veterans (at low cost) and save themselves from training and grooming freshers." Huawei's Senior Account Manager said on behalf of the world's second biggest vendor that Huawei is not hiring fresh graduates anywhere in Pakistan these days. There are vacancies, no doubt, but those are for middle level experienced people. (I hold my reservations on this comment as I know a few of my young fellows being accepted and embraced in the Chinese giant) If you would swim across any local job portal, you would figure it out easily that there are openings for engineers with 2 to 3 years of experience on relevant equipment. Mobilink South currently has openings in Optimization department but they don't want to hire youngsters too. In an article I wrote last month, which was later removed from the website it was published at, I talked about how telecom companies try being at the forefront of all youth driven activities end up hiring relatives of Governors in place of potential and transparent fresh applicants. However, in such cases you cannot blame the internal administration too. Note: Names of the respective officials of Aircom and Huawei have been blotted out on account of anonymity. Related posts:
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| Zong Partners with Twitter to Offer Services via SMS Posted: 03 Apr 2011 10:01 PM PDT
Zong Partners with Twitter to Offer Services via SMS is a post from: ProPakistani
Zong is only the second network after Mobilink that officially supports Twitter updates via SMS. Pricing: More importantly, this service is free, at least for now. How to use Twitter SMS Service with Zong: To start using Twitter SMS service with Zong, SMS 'Start' from your Zong to 40404 as SMS. You will be guided through an account setup wizard to connect your Zong number with an existing twitter account or otherwise signup for an new account. To get SMS notifications for your followers you must activate SMS notification in your twitter account settings as well:
Twitter SMS commandsFollowing are few commands that you can use with Zong's SMS service for Twitter:
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| Posted: 03 Apr 2011 09:59 PM PDT
Government to Devolve HEC is a post from: ProPakistani Federal government is considering dissolving Higher Education Commission and transfer its powers to provinces after the 18th amendment. While the government is seeking a cover and just to escape from fake degree issues, Academicians of the country see it as a step back ward rather forward for the Higher education in the country. According to the Express Tribune report, Vice chancellors of 36 universities along with Chairman HEC met Raza Rabbani and stressed him to not to take this decision of dissolving the HEC as provinces do not have required capacity and funding for whole process.
According to The News report on April 2nd "Government's this step to dissolve the HEC will cost it $550 million dollars. USAID has given an indication to halt its grants to HEC after this step by our government", the News report claimed. World Bank has also told the higher officials of HEC to wait for the 300 million dollar loan as HEC future is not clear. World Bank had recently promised 300 million dollar loan on easy pay back conditions for HEC for its next five years operations. Dr. Atta ur Rehman, HEC chairman from 2003 to 2008 who laid the foundation for reforming higher education sector in the country is also against this move of Federal government. In his statement he has said "Handling responsibility to the provinces would undo the achievements of recent years, which saw a huge expansion in the university sector, provided for with federal funds". HEC for the very first time in Pakistan history enabled poor and bright young people to go abroad for higher studies on scholarships thus making them focus all their attentions on studies rather than making them first earn for their fee and daily expenses. HEC is also credited for an achievement for the first time Pakistan that three universities were ranked in world top 500 universities of the world. HEC is bearing the brunt of Parliamentarians as it has termed 50 legislators degrees fake and about 200 of them as suspicious. The legislators are also not cooperating with HEC even after the clear orders of Supreme Court. Government has applied various tactics to stop HEC declaring legislator's degrees fake or dubious. One such move of the government was to arrest the HEC chairman Javed Laghari brother 'Frooq Laghari' in July 2010 to pressurize the chairman. Farooq Laghari was released after 10 days in custody following Javed Laghari meeting with the Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gillani. We can argue about the performance of HEC in past 9 years but there is not doubt about HEC's great work done for promoting higher education in Pakistan and instead of giving more powers and grants to improve its capacity it is being dissolved. While world is praising the performance of HEC our own legislators are bound on its destruction by giving it to provinces which lack the infrastructure, funds and man power. Having said all this, final decision has not yet been taken and past record of this government reflects that it is not impossible to make government change its mind as we have seen several times amid mounting media and political pressure government retreat. So it is once again the time to build pressure on government through media to change its mind bound to dissolve the HEC. Related posts:
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Almost a month ago, we 
The imbalance between our academic institutions and industry is growing stark with passing time. Much has been written and said about it; both sides claim to be vigorous and honest in taking measures to safeguard the young minds that leave their universities with ambitious plans and resolute determinations.
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