Warid Telecom (Pvt) Ltd. and Trafco Group renewed their agreement and signed another contract through which Trafco Group will utilise voice and data communication services of the GSM and Edge network of Warid Telecom.

Warid Telecom (Pvt) Ltd. is providing voice and communications services through its state of the art GSM and Edge network to Trafco since May 2006. Both Trafco and Warid have enjoyed and benefited from the partnership and has decided to strengthen the business relationship by extending the service contract for another year.

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Residents of Muswell Hill, London and Whitchurch, South Glamorgan will be the first to try next generation broadband.

Exchanges in both areas are to become pilot sites where the fibre-based broadband will be tested.

Once the exchanges are upgraded home users should be able to go online at speeds in excess of 40 megabits per second (MBPS).

Up to 15,000 home and business customers in each area will get the chance to take part in the pilot.

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The operational pilots will run fibre-optic cables to the street cabinets that connect homes and businesses to telephone exchanges.
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Ufone Pakistan is introducing innovative mobile products in Pakistan, and has now launched BlackBerry Bold smart phone in the country. First to bring this inimitable marvel to the local market, Ufone will further add to its reputation as a front runner in providing BlackBerry services to customers on the go.

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Are you a frequent flyer and aware that everytime you board a plane, even for short distances, you are contributing to global warming?

A new software ‘Travelport Carbon Tracker’ launched by leading automated aviation ticket reservation systems company Galileo GDS will tell “your contribution” to carbon emission when you take a particular flight.
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Leading organisations in Pakistan are giving importance to Oracle, a software programme, to effectively address the important business issues, including compliance to regulatory requirements; data security; enhanced business efficiencies, disaster recovery and business recovery.

“With our experience of having served Pakistani enterprises for more than 10 years, we have come to understand their main points,” said General Manager, Technology Sales for Oracle South Asia Growth Economies West, Farhan Ibrahim,.

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SAN JOSE, Calif. - Struggling to climb back to profitability, Advanced Micro Devices Inc. suffered another setback Friday when the chip maker disclosed that two businesses it acquired in a pricey acquisition were underperforming.

AMD said the businesses’ values would have to be reduced by $880 million. It’s the second time AMD has had to slash the value of businesses it absorbed as part of its pricey — and controversial — acquisition of graphics chip maker ATI Technologies Inc.
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KARACHI: Mobilink has launched ‘Mobilink Genie’, a futuristic service of privileges and convenience, heralding the onset of mobile commerce in Pakistan. This service has been introduced with the collaboration of Inov8, CitiBank, KASB, Atlas Bank and Adamjee Insurance.

Bilal Munir Sheiks, Vice President, Marketing, Mobilink, said that ‘Mobilink Genie’ is a mobile payment solution enabling customers to use their mobile phones to buy a combination of products of their choice and pay for a mix of utility and general services.
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Will implement selected manufacturing solution projects as part of Wonderware-managed, solutions delivery teams.

Geometric Limited has partnered with the Wonderware business unit of Invensys, a supplier of industrial automation and information software solutions. Through this agreement, Geometric will work with Wonderware as both an endorsed systems integrator and as an endorsed industry solutions provider.
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The LinuxWorld conference programme will feature over 100 top-tier, educational sessions covering seven tracks that go deep into Linux and open source industry trends.
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International Business Machines Corp. said it agreed to buy Platform Solutions Inc. in a deal that eliminates litigation and a potential competitor for its lucrative mainframe business. IBM didn’t disclose what it is paying for Platform, a venture-capital backed, Sunnyvale, Calif., company with about 30 employees and ambitious plans to sell powerful computers that run the same software that runs on IBM’s Z-system mainframe computer, which can cost upward of $1 million.

Mainframes are used in the data centers of many of the world’s largest financial institutions and government agencies. The deal comes less than three months after European Union antitrust regulators said they would question IBM about its actions in the mainframe market.

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TOKYO: A new computer language that will allow for the instant slicing and dicing of financial data will be put to the test in Japan. Brokers, investors and companies everywhere should pay notice or risk falling behind.

Starting next month, Japanese companies will begin reporting their earnings in a language known as XBRL, the first time it will be used in filing results and forecasts in real time.

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Web regulators have voted to open up the internet’s domain name system to create hundreds of new website addresses, such as “.paris” or “.Pepsi”, in one of the biggest shake-ups in online history.

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) approved the overhaul, which has major implications for businesses and consumers worldwide, during its annual general meeting in Paris.

“This is a historic resolution. It is going to make a big difference to the way the Internet looks and works,” ICANN Chairman Peter Dengate Thrush told a press conference.
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