Submarine Cable Announced to Link Asia-Europe Faster: ProPakistani

Submarine Cable Announced to Link Asia-Europe Faster
Dell XPS 14 [Laptop Preview]
Warid Launches Blackberry Curve 9300
Warid Introduces Group SMS

Submarine Cable Announced to Link Asia-Europe Faster

Posted: 10 Dec 2010 12:44 PM PST

Submarine Cable Announced to Link Asia-Europe Faster is a post from: ProPakistani

The launch of IMEWE (India-Middle East-Western Europe), a fiber optic submarine cable system which links India & Europe via Middle East was announced today in New Delhi.

The 13,000 km long three pair fiber optic cable named IMEWE (India- Middle East- Western Europe), has a design capacity of 3.84 terabits per second.

Backed by Bharti Airtel and deployed by Alcatel-Lucent, IMEWE is result of a consortium of nine partners comprising leading global telecom operators from South East Asia and Middle East.

Internet Service Providers and Network Operators hope to utilize the additional bandwidth to support high-bandwidth peer-to-peer IP-based broadband services such as multimedia streaming, broadband Internet and voice/video telephony.

The cable system will ease connectivity requirements of Middle East and European countries to Asia and vice versa. The IMEWE will also help provide alternate routes for meeting bandwidth requirements.

The IMEWE is funded by nine major telecom companies:

Bharti Airtel (India),
Etisalat (UAE),
France Telecom-Orange (France),
OGERO (Lebanon),
Pakistan Telecommunication Company Ltd (Pakistan),
Saudi Telecom Company STC, (Saudi Arabia),
Telecom Egypt (Egypt),
Telecom Italia Sparkle (Italy),
Tata Communications (India).

IMEWE has following landing points:

Mumbai (India) (two landing sites)
Karachi (Pakistan)
Fujairah (UAE)
Jeddah (Saudi Arabia)
Suez (Egypt)
Alexandria (Egypt)
Tripoli (Lebanon)
Catania (Italy)
Marseille (France)

Other functional submarine cables for same route includes

SEA-ME-WE 3 and
SEA-ME-WE 4

Via LiveMint

Dell XPS 14 [Laptop Preview]

Posted: 09 Dec 2010 11:45 PM PST

Dell XPS 14 [Laptop Preview] is a post from: ProPakistani

Manufacturers: Dell

Class: Dell XPS

Model: XPS 14 Laptop

Price: Rs.75,000 approx

Specs Overview:

Operating System: Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
Processor: Intel Core i5 460M (2.53GHz)
Graphics card: 1GB NVIDIA GT420M GeForce
RAM: 4 GB DDR3
Hard Drive: 640 GB, 7200 RPM
Battery: 6 cell, 5 hours 23 Minutes max
Display: 14" (1366 x 768)
DVD-ROM: 16x R/RW with Blue Ray Disc burner
Webcam: 2.0 MP Integrated HD Webcam
Wireless: 802.11b/g/n
Bluetooth: Internal Bluetooth 3.0

Great Appearance:

This laptop beats many others in the same range with its beautiful appearance. It has volume, play/pause, rewind, Bluetooth, wifi and some other functions that offer single touch activation. Unlike its HP competitors, it will not get your finger prints all over it self and would remain tidy.

Gaming and Designing apps:

If you aim to play games requiring high end systems, this is certainly the system for you. With its 1GB NVIDIA card, you can play almost any game released till date. Moreover 1GB card is only in the base configuration, if you choose to customize the laptop yourself, you can also add a 2GB card.

It would also work great with graphics designing apps that require high graphics processing capabilities.

Pre-Installed Software:

The preinstalled software include the McAfee Anti Virus (30 day trial) and Dell's own Data Safe online backup software (12 months) only. However, it will also offer you to buy some more software for your laptop for less than the market price. Dell has also stopped giving the win-7 recovery Discs and you will have to make them yourself.

Back Lit Keyboard:

One of the most impressive features of the laptop is its backlit keyboard. In a country like Pakistan, where electricity is a problem, many time we try to type in the dark and have to adjust the screen so we can get some light on the keyboard too. But in this model there is an option to light up the keyboard by built in LEDs. This is very useful when typing in the dark.

Small Speakers, Great Sound;

The speakers are somewhat small and occupy less area than those of HP or ACER laptops but their sound is better than most of their competitors. The Speakers are not Dell manufactured but of JBL, which is reputed to having one of the good speakers in the market.

Grainy Display:

Although the display is fine and easily usable but it is certainly not an improvement over the previous models. By just putting a drop of water on the display you will be able to see the small darks spots between the pixels and the display would appear washed. However, this problem is not your to worry about if you keep your display clean and tidy.

Bad Design:

Although the looks of the laptop are appreciative, the design is not. The most weird thing about the design is that Dell has put Hard Disk activity and Battery Charge LED indicator to the back of the display. Most of the times when the laptop is a little sluggish, users like to take a quick peek at the LED indicator. Here this isn't possible because you will have to tilt the display every time you want to see the LED indicator. Same goes for the battery indicator too.

A Load to Carry:

This system is a little heavy to carry around with you. With the standard 6 cell battery it weighs about 2.43Kg. If you have a 9 cell battery, it would be even heavy weighing some 2.8Kg. A laptop this heavy is a little difficult to carry around if you are constantly on the move.

Official Rating: 4.5/5

Underline:

It is a good system for gaming as well as office applications but if you have the money, upgrade the processor and graphics card to make it the best.

Warid Launches Blackberry Curve 9300

Posted: 09 Dec 2010 11:33 PM PST

Warid Launches Blackberry Curve 9300 is a post from: ProPakistani

Warid brings you the new BlackBerry® Curve™ 9300 smartphone, the latest in the line. The enhanced functionality of Curve™ 9300 combined with sleek and refined design makes this device highly user-friendly. The amazing features of the Curve™ 9300 allow its users to balance their work and life in an entirely new way!

Price:

The handset price is Rs.29,999/-

Size & Weight:

Height 4.29in,
Width 2.36in
Depth 0.55in
Weight 104 g

High Resolution Display

The BlackBerry® Curve™ 9300 smartphone has a high resolution 320×240 pixel color Transmissive TFT LCD, Light-sensing screen, creating a vivid viewing experience for all your photos, videos, files and websites.

Typing & Navigation

Trackpad
Full QWERTY
ESC key to right of trackpad
Menu key to left of trackpad
Keyboard backlighting

Multimedia

Enjoy music, videos, photos and documents in great color and sound. Easily sync data and audio files from your desktop to the BlackBerry® Curve™ 9300, and get up to 15 hours of music playback time.

Memory

256 MB flash memory expandable with support of microSD cards.

Video Recording

Along with a 2 MP camera, the BlackBerry® Curve™ 9300 smartphone features video camera functionality. Record and view videos on the hi-res screen, and share them through email, text messages or social networking sites.

Warid Introduces Group SMS

Posted: 09 Dec 2010 11:27 PM PST

Warid Introduces Group SMS is a post from: ProPakistani

Warid has now brought Group SMS, a facility to stay in touch with all your friend at same time.

Warid users can create their SMS group of up to 10 of their friends. Every message they send to the group will be sent to each person in the group, and when they respond, the replies will be sent to everyone in the group as well.

This makes group discussions and planning get-togethers and other group activities easy and spontaneous with just a couple of SMS's.

How to get started!

Create your group by sending 'Create <space> <GroupName>' to 9393.
You will be asked to set up your profile through SMS including your nickname. This will only need to be done for the first time you use Warid Group SMS.
Start sending invitations to your friends to join the group by sending 'INVITE<space> GROUPNAME<space> <MobileNumber>.
If you have created a group, you will be allocated a number through which you can initiate messages to your group members by simply sending an SMS to the allocated number.
In case that you have been added in to a group, you will be asked to save the number from which you received the confirmatory SMS on being added to the group. Now whenever you want to send an SMS to all your friends in your group, just send the SMS to the number you saved! For example: 'hey how's it going?' in an SMS to your saved number.
For help at any time, just send HELP<space>GROUPS to 9393

Available list Of commands (to be sent in an SMS to 9393):