Intel Works with Pre-STEP to Promote Technology for Faculty Members

Intel Pakistan recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding with a consortium partner in Pre-STEP (the Pre-service Teacher Education Program). The agreement has been made to launch a technology program in Government colleges of Pakistan with a vision to improve the basic education by strengthening teacher training institutes.

Pre-STEP is a five-year, national program led by the Academy for Educational Development (AED), with support from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). The program is designed to improve the quality of basic education in Pakistan by improving teacher preparation practices and strengthening the capacity of up to 75 teacher training institutes and 15 universities. This program will also provide an opportunity for teacher educators to learn about, practice and make plans to use active teaching approaches.

Under this agreement, Intel Pakistan and Pre-STEP will develop and pilot a technology course, with the objective that trainee teachers receive hands on experience with technology aided teaching methodologies during their coursework at the college or university where they are enrolled.

“Intel aims to support trainee teachers to learn about key 21st century skills through the implementation of the Intel Teach Program,” said Ashar H. Zaidi, Country Manager, Intel Pakistan. “With the help of Pre-STEP & USAID, Intel aspires to help student teachers to gain first-hand experience with technology. This will not only breed creativity in a more productive learning environment, but also endorse their careers as teachers in the future.”

The Intel Teach program is designed to enable teachers to effectively use technology to enhance student learning in the digital world. It has evolved into a laudable venture that has achieved many milestones. Launched in the year 2002, the program has won much acclaim in Pakistan as well as the international market.

Intel to date has trained 220,000 teachers in Pakistan, reaching out to over 60 cities and districts of Pakistan. Intel Education also conducts forums and workshops, and so far has reached out to over 28,000 teachers and principals, focusing on integrating technology and modern teaching methods in the teaching and learning process in Pakistan.

Business Tariff Planner on Qubee WiMAX – Limitations!

Business Tariff Planner on Qubee WiMAX – Limitations!

Qubee, a wimax broadband operator based in Karachi, has offered a service TARIFF PLANNER on its website for business people.
By incorporating this service, Qubee wants to give business class people some suggestions and recommendations according to their needs. They just need to select the type of business and online presence frequency, and there you go. You will get recommended tariff by Qubee after three clicks.
Here is the link: http://www.qubee.com.pk/get-qubee/business

But what if someone has more than 20 people who wants to remain online, like  Call Center Business. Qubee has its limitations in offering services for more than 20 people. The planner just plans for staff of maximum 20 people. That’s probably a confession that WiMAX technology is not suitable for large sized businesses. This glitch is hard to admit, but it happens to be a fact that if you need more than 1 MB link than WiMAX is not the best of the option you have in hands.

What are they offering for my office who has got about 100 users online all the time? Digging further down, I found that we can only have 1MB connection with 30GB storage. That’s it – They are offering a 1MB for an office who has got up to 20 personnel. Isn’t it too low?

Well, its better than other wimax operators who are not offering anything like that. But it needs to be flexible. They need to incorporate more bandwidth for businesses.

Get Same Number for PTCL and Ufone

PTCL Ufone Get Same Number for PTCL and Ufone

PTCL is still trying to capture more and more landline customers and as a result after, the recent discount promotion PTCL once again has come up with another innovative and appealing offer which is a part of ongoing Synergy Projects with its sister concern company UFONE .

Through this offer any customer who wants to acquire a new telephone connection (NTC) can also get UFONE SIM with the same number (03xx-7 digit) as of PTCL Landline.

What’s the deal?

* No special charges for PTCL number/UFONE SIM
* Same installation fee and line rent charges for PTCL Landline.
* SIM will be sent to the customer through TCS (Courier Service). Customer just needs to pay ordinary UFONE charges (Rs 150 and a balance of Rs 100 will be available)

How to get this?

This service can be acquired by calling 0800 80 800 helpline or through walk-in channels.

Note:

* This service would be applicable on only new telephone connection requests.
* Existing customers can opt for secondary PTCL landline in order to avail this service.
* This is a PTCL NTC promotion, so UFONE customers cannot apply for this service for their existing numbers.
* You cannot suggest your own numbersNumbers are already matched in both networks which are not assigned to any customer yet.
* Every new telephone request in PTCL under goes a resource confirmation/ feasibility process, if that is clear then you will surely get the desired number which is selected at the time of order taking.
* Process takes at least seven days. Its depends on the area customer is in and the feasibility report.
* UFONE will send the SIM to customer premises through TCS. TCS Rep will collect Rs 150 from the customer as SIM charges.
* Identical numbers have been reserved Exchange wise in three main cities. Neighbor number is very important in order to indentify the right exchange for the requesting customer to avoid ambiguity at our end.
* There are no other special features except having Identical Number UFONE SIM as well.

EZY Launches Slim and Affordable PCs in Pakistan

EZY Infotech Pvt. Ltd. (part of EZY Group Holding) launched the Atom based Slim Top PC (new range of personal computers) in Pakistan just for Rs. 21,500 with LCD.

The EZY Slim Top PC is both Slim in price and Slim in Size. The Launching Ceremony held today at a local hotel in Karachi. Present on the occasion, Mr. Saeed Sheikh, CEO and Country Manager eSys Pakistan (Pvt.) Ltd. and EZY Infotech (Pvt.) Ltd. and Mr. Ashar Zaidi, Country Manager Intel Pakistan.

Mr. Ziadi said, “The importance of basic computing using Intel Atom Technology will provide benefits for consumers of Pakistan.” He added that EZY Slim Top is such a vehicle that would benefit the user.

“EZY Infotech introduced the Slim Top with an objective to offer affordable computers with high quality Computing. We believe that this will benefit the domestic and student segment as well as corporate sector,” said Saeed Sheikh.

Speaking on the need of the market and consumers, Mr. Saeed Sheikh said that beside EZY Slim Top PC, it would also offer wide range of EZY Notebook and Desktop PC in near future.

“Today we are proud to bring a uniquely designed and uniquely packed computer to Pakistan at the most affordable price. Now you can get a branded computer for only

Rs. 21,500 with one year limited warranty. Moreover, it comes with a 15.6″ LCD monitor, space saving designs and most importantly, a unique packaging system,” Mr. Saeed added.

This Computer is powered by Intel Atom technology, with increased energy efficiency and advanced thermal control solution.

EZY Infotech believes that the EZY Slim Top is a perfect start to its endeavor of providing a computer for every Pakistani. The EZY Slim Top that is just 11 inches in height, 3 inches in width and just 1400 grams in weight, is the slimmest desktop computer in the market. Its unique colors make it more appealing than other traditional computers and would make the owner proud to own a Slim Top. “Those days are gone when you had to hide the computer under a desk and it acquired too much of your desk space. The EZY Slim Top provides you with three different placement options to optimize your desk space, making it more smart and stylish to use,” said Mr. Sheikh.

The Slim Top is now available for the Pakistani consumers with the retail price of Rs. 21,500 with Open source OS (Linux Ubuntu 2.6) and option to bundle with Microsoft Win 7 Starter OEM at Rs. 3,000 only.

EZY Infotech has appointed two distributors for Pakistani market ‘Decent Computers’ for Northern region and ‘Optimum Technology’ for Southern Region. Besides that 100 different retail outlets will have the product on display throughout Pakistan.

Send Emails in Urdu with Gmail Tranliteration

Google have integrated Urdu Transliteration into Gmail. NScreenshot1 Send Emails in Urdu with Gmail Tranliterationow it is more fun while writing emails to friends. Posting blog Urdu posts, Writing Urdu news, sending gossips to friends in Urdu is fun now with Gmail.

It is easy to use and enable Gmail Urdu transliteration. Changing Gmail interface language is not necessary to use Urdu transliteration.

To enable Urdu transliteration, go to your Gmail settings and select the Enable transliteration option. Set Urdu as default transliteration language. And below to these options choose Right-to-Left editing support on

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Save settings by click Save changing button of your Gmail settings page. Your Gmail will reload.

Next go to compose option, this is the option which you use to write new email. Here you will see Urdu transliteration button, make sure Urdu is selected.

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Whenever you want to write using Urdu transliteration switch typing left-to-right to right-to-left, If you have followed my first step, then you will see left to right or right to left writing changing options too like in the screenshot below

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That is all :)

have fun using your country language.

My Wi-Tribe – Not Working

Wi-Tribe today gave a link on its website for its customers to check the amount of data they are consuming. Its called My Wi-Tribe. We thought to give it a try and see what they got in store for us. Here is what we found in-return.

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We thought that it must be us that we are not able to browse. So, we gave Jordan Link a try and we got in. See for yourself. Great service for customers indeed.

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It was much needed service, as Wi-Tribe is offering limited bandwidth, so it is extremely important to keep an eye on what limit you have consumed – let’s hope it will start working sometime soon.

Note: Wi-Tribe has removed this link for now – maybe they are still working on it.

Video Conferencing Services by NeyaTel

Video Conferencing Services by NeyaTel

By Aamir Attaa · Wednesday, Nov 25, 2009 5 Comments
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Nayatel is one of those companies offering videoconferencing services in Pakistan .

Neyatel’s encrypted video conferencing solution is primarily aimed at large corporations to save their time and budgets by eliminating the necessity of physical presence of decision makers/work force at one geographical site.

State of the art video conferencing can save your visit to Bay Area for in person meeting with your VC investor, or even better it can connect you to four branch offices, at a time, located in different parts of World, in real time.

Neyatel says that it can bring all the videoconferencing equipment to your office, or otherwise it has a conference room at Neyatel’s premises that can incorporate 22 to 25 seats at a time.

Note: Neyatel Video con services are available in Rawalpindi/Islamabad only.

Features:

* Elegantly designed all-in one set-top unit that fits easily on any standard television monitor
* Integrated wide angle view camera with extensive zoom, pan and tilt
* Capability to join 4 video sites and 3 audio sites with embedded multi-site functionality.
* Superior video quality incorporating the H.264 standard
* Calls with automatic down speeding and IPLR
* Protection against network interruptions in point-to-point and multipoint
* Standards-based embedded encryption(AES & DES)
* True CD-quality audio PC card slot for wireless LAN connection
* Video Conferencing System having ITU H264 / MPEG 4
* Independent Standalone Hardware Codec
* MIC: Included for 360 Degree Coverage, Cables, IR Remote
* Video Resolution: 30 fps and 60 fields per view
* Sound System 2.1 with amplifier
* Playback: You can play DVD, VCD, or from VCR
* Encryption for Security: DES & AES

Tariff

Following are detailed pricing structure of Neyatel Video Conferencing, which are expensive for a small sized or even mid-sized company, but Neyatel says one hour video conference will save you Rs. 50,000 for your Karachi visit.


Video Conferencing Services by NeyaTel

By Aamir Attaa · Wednesday, Nov 25, 2009 5 Comments
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Related Posts

* Bangladesh to Offer WiMAX Licenses
* Nayatel to deploy Pakistan’s First Gigabit Passive Optical Network
* What is 3G – And Where is 3g?
* Smart TV Device for Laptops

Nayatel is one of those companies offering videoconferencing services in Pakistan .

Neyatel’s encrypted video conferencing solution is primarily aimed at large corporations to save their time and budgets by eliminating the necessity of physical presence of decision makers/work force at one geographical site.

State of the art video conferencing can save your visit to Bay Area for in person meeting with your VC investor, or even better it can connect you to four branch offices, at a time, located in different parts of World, in real time.

Neyatel says that it can bring all the videoconferencing equipment to your office, or otherwise it has a conference room at Neyatel’s premises that can incorporate 22 to 25 seats at a time.

Note: Neyatel Video con services are available in Rawalpindi/Islamabad only.

Features:

* Elegantly designed all-in one set-top unit that fits easily on any standard television monitor
* Integrated wide angle view camera with extensive zoom, pan and tilt
* Capability to join 4 video sites and 3 audio sites with embedded multi-site functionality.
* Superior video quality incorporating the H.264 standard
* Calls with automatic down speeding and IPLR
* Protection against network interruptions in point-to-point and multipoint
* Standards-based embedded encryption(AES & DES)
* True CD-quality audio PC card slot for wireless LAN connection
* Video Conferencing System having ITU H264 / MPEG 4
* Independent Standalone Hardware Codec
* MIC: Included for 360 Degree Coverage, Cables, IR Remote
* Video Resolution: 30 fps and 60 fields per view
* Sound System 2.1 with amplifier
* Playback: You can play DVD, VCD, or from VCR
* Encryption for Security: DES & AES

Tariff

Following are detailed pricing structure of Neyatel Video Conferencing, which are expensive for a small sized or even mid-sized company, but Neyatel says one hour video conference will save you Rs. 50,000 for your Karachi visit.