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Pakistani President Dr Arif Alvi suggests proactive steps for IT

29Jul

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Pakistani President Dr Arif Alvi suggests proactive steps for IT

President Dr Arif Alvi stressed the importance of IT and said that the IT sector could enormously contribute to Pakistan’s economic and scientific development ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN - On Tuesday July 27th in a meeting at the President House, President, Dr Arif Alvi discussed the importance of IT Development in Pakistan. The president stressed upon the growth of IT sector saying that it can enormously contribute to Pakistan’s economic and scientific development. A briefing on (NUCES) National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences was done in the meeting. NUCES’s Rector, Dr. Ayub Alvi gave the briefing. President, Arif Alvi during the briefing on NUCES stated, “Globally, the focus of development policies is shifting from brick-and-mortar projects to the intellectual developme...

2M Indian WhatsApp Accounts Banned for Violating Policies

26Jul

By Maru J3 Comments

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2M Indian WhatsApp Accounts Banned for Violating Policies

WhatsApp revealed the reason behind blocking these accounts saying, ''It was due to the unauthorized use of automated or bulk messaging." INDIA - WhatsApp, very recently, has blocked over 2 million accounts in between May 15th to June 15th. WhatsApp started to ban the users after it released its new regulations for India’s Information Technology. According to these new rules, social media companies have to publish a compliance report every month. These reports must have details of how many complaints they received from Indian users and what action they took. The new regulations were instilled in May. The first ever report showed that WhatsApp blocked over 2 million accounts within the Indian region. India is WhatsApp’s biggest user market with over 400 million active users in ...

Twitter finally announces that it is shutting down ‘Fleets’

17Jul

By Maru J2 Comments

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Twitter finally announces that it is shutting down ‘Fleets’

“We will explore more ways to address what holds people back from participating on Twitter”, says the platform. Twitter, on Wednesday, 14th July, announced that they have decided to discontinue the Fleets feature after almost 9 months of its release. The social media released ‘Fleets’ back in November of 2020. While releasing it the company in a blog post said, “We hoped Fleets would help more people feel comfortable joining the conversation on Twitter”. It released this feature so that it could encourage people who shy away from public conversation on the application. The platform wanted to encourage them to take part in the social medium and be much more active on the application than before. Twitter has a goal to achieve more than 315 million daily users by 2023. Goodbye ...

Jolta Electric bike, Pakistan’s first environmental friendly

10Jul

By Maru J3 Comments

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Jolta Electric bike, Pakistan’s first environmental friendly

The Prime Minister, Imran Khan at the launch event said that Environmental friendly vehicles are necessary for the country as they will help reduce pollution. ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN - On Thursday, July 7th 2021, Pakistan’s first ever environmental friendly named ''Jolta'' is released. Jolta is an electric bike which is extremely user friendly and looks just like other bikes that we see on Pakistani roads. Jolta launched multiple variants and models, this is done so that the company captures a large audience and creates a bike for almost every price range and category. The names of the various models that are available in the 70cc category are JE-70, JE-70 L and JE-70 D All 70cc models of Jolta looks just like the standard 70cc, due to the bike being electric, no engine is used...

SONY reassures users it will continue selling PSP games

7Jul

By Maru J1 Comment

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SONY reassures users it will continue selling PSP games

The company promised users that they would still keep the PS3 and Vita stores open, however will end PSP’s commerce functionality. In March 2021, SONY announced that they are planning to close down the PS3 and Vita stores while also removing user’s ability to buy PSP games from those stores. The news of both the stores closing down and the inability to buy PSP games was surely a sad for people that love to play on consoles. PSP being a 16-year-old handheld console was the star of its time. The console has managed to live in the hearts of console lovers for so long. User’s love for the PSP led them to go out on Twitter and protest against SONY’s decision. https://twitter.com/anshsharma/status/1376594559803686914 Decision reverted? SONY, after receiving a big amount ...