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PTI Facebook Pages Hacked, Millions of Fans go wasted
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s more than 30 fan pages were hacked yesterday in a single go, costing the political party millions of fans go wasted. No one has taken the responsibility for this massive hack down of PTI’s facebook fan pages. Citing President of the Insaf Students Federation in Karachi, Arsalan Ghumman, The Express Tribune reported that the official Facebook pages of PTI leader Imran Khan, the student wing Insaf Students Federation, and several, more including that of Dr. Alvi were hacked into and hidden from the public’s eye. “The pages were hijacked at 3 pm on Friday. We are in touch with the Facebook authorities to recover them,” he said. On other hands Facebook is notorious for taking such cases non-seriously. Reportedly, hacker first cracked the gmail id of Mr. Imran Ghazali, the web manager of … Read entire article »
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Pakistan Cricket Board Facebook, Twitter Banned for Pakistani Cricket Players
Pakistan Cricket Board has strictly asked all its members of the national cricket team to not to use any social networking website, especially Facebook and Twitter. The crackdown comes in the wake of Zulqarnain Haider’s recent Facebook updates when he went missing in Dubai during one-day series against South Africa. He had updated his status on Facebook mentioning that he was facing some kind of pressure. The board has added a clause in the contract for players, saying that no one can use Facebook or Twitter during the contracted period. Pakistan manager Intikhab Alam confirmed the directive, but maintained the ban was part of a clause in the players’ contract with the board. “There is a clause in their contracts which states clearly they can’t use these social network sites or discuss cricket issues while … Read entire article »
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Mobilink’s HTC HD7 Blogger Meet-up in Islamabad: Review in Photos
Yesterday On 7th December Mobilink organized a Blogger Meet-up at Rendezvous, Islamabad to launch the new HTC HD7 smartphone especially in the blogging community. Near about 45 bloggers many from Islamabad but some from Karachi and Lahore attended the event. The meet-up was interactive and had a lot of online activities to keep the blogging community active and give them chances to win prizes during the blogger meet-up. A brand new HTC HD7 smartphone was also given away by Mobilink to one of the bloggers through an online Facebook competition. All participants were asked to take write a message in an empty HTC HD7 phone frame on paper, take a photo and upload it on their Facebook pages with a caption to encourage their friends to help them win the free smartphone by Mobilink. Instantly, all … Read entire article »
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Free Calls to your Facebook Friends with Vonage Mobile™ app
If you have hundreds of friends in your Facebook profile and you want to speak to them without having to use the FB chat facility you’ll be pleased to hear about this. Popular VoIP provider Vonage this week introduced the Vonage Mobile application for Facebook, a free service that allows Facebook friends to make mobile calls to each other for free all over the world. This app is completely free to download and is available for iPhone, iPod touch, and Android devices, and coming soon for the iPad. According to Vonage, it works over Wi-Fi and 3G/4G networks in most countries, and only requires logging into the service one time. After that, Facebook contacts are automatically loaded and grouped by friends who can be called for free and those who can … Read entire article »
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Mobilink Announce the Winners of Apni Kahani Contest
Mobilink Jazz initiated an online story contest, Jazz Apni Kahani to acknowledge the importance of loved ones in making one’s dreams come true. Participants were required to submit their stories of achievement glorifying the role of their loved ones who helped them achieve their goals. Hira Wahid, a student of NUST engineering college was declared winner of the best story and she won a brand new laptop while two runner-ups, Mazhar Abbas from Rawalpindi and Abdul Ghani from Karachi won mobile handsets. The contest also gave away 50 free minutes each to 30 lucky Jazz participants through Jazz Apni Kahani Lucky Draw. … Read entire article »
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Play Foosball to Win PS3 and iPods with wi-tribe
wi-tribe offers you the excitement of Foosball over the internet with this very interesting online game to play online . How to Play: Simply point your browsers to http://www.wi-tribe.pk/foosball/ or to wi-tribe Facebook page. Enter your name/ email and start playing. You can select from available teams, once done start kicking the ball into the goal. Each goal will score you points, which are important to make as they can win you PS3s and iPods through lucky draw. Prizes: Those with highest scores will enter into a lucky draw to win 1 PS3 3 iPods … Read entire article »
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Yahoo! Launches Facebook Features
Yahoo As part of last year’s partnership with Facebook, Yahoo! announced today new features that will allow users of both networks websites to link their accounts and view and share updates. According to Yahoo!, people who use Yahoo! and Facebook will now have access to the Facebook News Feed on the Yahoo! homepage, in Yahoo! Mail and other Yahoo! sites and services. In addition, people who create and share information on Yahoo! sites (including Yahoo! News, Flickr and Yahoo! Movies) can now share content with friends on Facebook. “From news to sports to entertainment, Yahoo! sites provide ideal experiences to share with friends,” Director of the Facebook Developer Network Ethan Beard said, “By integrating with Facebook on a global scale, Yahoo! is building upon an already valuable brand to give … Read entire article »
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FIR Registered in Pakistan Against Facebook Owners
Punjab Police has registered an FIR against three Facebook owners Mark Zuckerberg, Dustin Moskovitz, Chris Hughes and a lady named as Andy who had moved draw Mohammad campaign on Facebook, told deputy attorney general of Pakistan in Lahore High Court during Facebook case hearing. He presented register of Civil Lines Police Station, Lahore, before the court and said that an FIR has been registered against the four foreigners, however it got sealed, for publishing blasphemous content under blasphemy ordinance section 295-C. Petitioner, Mr. Muhammad Azhar Sidiqque said that he will wait for the police to contact Interpol for making arrangements for the arrest of Facebook owners and the lady who started the campaign. Deputy attorney general explained the High Court that Pakistan’s representative in United Nations is asked in written to escalate … Read entire article »
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Ufone Get 100000 On Facebook Fans Page
Now a days all Telecom companies are investing on Facebook.They market their servicies & products,adverts,conduct quizzes and much more through hefty base available on Facebook. Ufone on top in this race is , which stepped in long before others. Yesterday, Ufone completed a landmark of getting 100,000 fans on Facebook. Unlike other companies, Ufone didn’t advertise much, but like the phenomenon of Facebook fanpages, their fans increased exponentially after initial boom. “Congratulations everyone! with the continuous support of our customers, Ufone has become the first telecom company in Pakistan to have more than 100,000 Facebook fans. Thank you for your love”, Status Update, Ufone Indeed an achievement by Ufone. Following is a list of telecom companies with their links to Facebook fan pages and number of fans with them (as of now). Ufone: 100,382 Fans TelenorEasyPaisa: 24,154 … Read entire article »
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