Mobilink CEO – Nominated For WCA CEO Of The Year

This year the CEO of the year category in World Communication Awards (WCA) has a nomination from Pakistan – Mr. Rashid Khan, President and CEO of Mobilink Pakistan.

Rashid Khan took over as CEO of Mobilink Pakistan in October 2008. He previously served as chief executive of Bangladeshi mobile operator Banglalink, also an Orascom company.
“In this moment of recession he has shown his skills to manage the sinking ship Mobilink and put it to road of success,” said one of Khan’s supporters.
“Excellent vision and knowledge of the industry with a vast experience in telecom industry,” added another.
The awards would be held on 25th November 2009. You can cast your vote and see the other nominations here.
The WCA are held every year to recognize the companies and individuals responsible for the innovations, achievements and great new services that are helping to build tomorrows industry.

MOVIE PLAYER 1.0

Movie Player 1.0

Movie player is an extremely easy to use software which can play almost any audio/video file in almost any format including vob, rmvb, mp4, 3gp, wmv, mov, xvid, divx, avi, mpg, flv, mkv. Mp3, aac, flac, wma, m4a, ac3, wav etc. It acts as your DVD decoder too. This player associates itself with all these formats so all you need to do is double click on the file which you need to be played. You can also create, edit, open and save playlists. There are various other options available like changing video ratio to fit it on screen, synchronizing audio/video, synchronising subtitles, frame steps etc.

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EU Slashes Mobile-Phone Roaming Rates

EU Slashes Mobile-Phone Roaming Rates

The European Union has dramatically slashed the rates that wireless carriers can charge consumers roaming across the EU's member states.

Previous rate reductions introduced in 2007 cut the cost of voice roaming calls within the EU by 70 percent. Under the new rules that went into effect Wednesday, noted EU Telecommunications Commissioner Viviane Reding, EU roaming charges have been reduced by a further 60 percent.

"The roaming rip-off is now coming to an end, thanks to the determined action of the European Commission, the European Parliament, and all 27 EU member states," Reding said. "From today, all Europeans making calls or sending texts with their mobiles can experience the EU's single market without borders."

The Downside for Carriers

Though the new EU rules are limited to reducing the rates that wireless operators charge each other, Reding expects the changes will make it much cheaper for roaming consumers to place and receive calls, send text messages, and surf the Web on mobile phones.

"I call on the mobile industry to pass these savings on to data roaming customers swiftly," Reding said. "The commission and national regulators will monitor data roaming charges very carefully and assess next year whether the roaming market is finally becoming competitive."

The new rules come at an inopportune time for the region's wireless carriers. The EU's earlier roaming cuts have already had a negative impact on the carriers, which previously had "made margins on inter-country calls, and particularly on data roaming," said Jessica Ekholm, a Gartner principal research analyst. T-Mobile said earlier this year that "lower roaming revenues and newly introduced regulation on roaming and termination charges had a negative impact on revenues."

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Nokia E51 software version 400.34.011 released

Nokia E51 software version 400.34.011 released














This software release brings improvements and increased stability in Mail for Exchange, SMS reception improvements and stability and usability improvements for VoIP and WLAN. The release also includes robustness improvements when pressing the Home key. This software release is available through the Nokia Software Updater

Telenor Persona Karobar For Small & Medium Businesses

Persona For Small & Medium Businesses

Telenor has introduced a new package called Persona targeted for small and medium sized businesses. It seems to be a smart move and the product has good features. However the website needs some improvements.

Below is the main page of Persona which is linked from the home page. The flash design is not appropriate for business users. There is no text based information about the different parts of Persona Karobar unless you click on one of the images. I had to click twice (total three clicks from the home page) before I could get to the packages and pricing info. It should have been a single click.

There are other small things missing such as the page title does not spell out the purpose of the page but just says ‘Telenor’.

Thanks to Anam Khan for the post suggestion and information.

China orders Google to suspend some search services

Chinese regulators have ordered Google Inc. to suspend search services for foreign Web sites via its Chinese Web site, the official Xinhua News Agency reported Friday, a day after the company was warned over pornographic content available through its search engine.

It wasn't immediately clear if the order applies to all foreign Web sites or just certain sites. Currently, foreign Web sites are still searchable and accessible from Google's Chinese home page.

Google was also ordered to suspend searches for certain key words when summoned by unspecified regulators Thursday afternoon, the report said.

On Thursday, Google was admonished by a government-backed Internet regulator for "disseminating large amounts of pornographic and vulgar information."

It was the third time that Google had been criticized over the issue by the China Internet Information Reporting Center, which has also handed out warnings to Chinese operators such as Google rival Baidu Inc.

Google spokesman John Pinette said Friday he was unaware of any request to suspend search activities. A call to the Internet regulator's office was unanswered.

"Google met with representatives of the government to discuss problems with the Google.cn service and its serving of pornographic images and content based on foreign language searches," a Marsha Wang, a Google spokeswoman, said in a statement Friday.

"This has been a substantial engineering effort, and we believe we have addressed the large majority of the problem results," the statement said.

David Wolf, chief executive of Wolf Group Asia, a Beijing-based technology marketing firm, said Google has had technical problems with its filtering of English-language searches for pornography.

"They've been very careful with Chinese searches, the problem is with English searches," he said.

Wolf added that Google likely hasn't invested as much in self-censorhip as Chinese Internet companies, which often resort to large numbers of people to manually sweep their sites and remove objectionable material.

Beijing attempts to block access to various forms of material online, including a wide range of politically sensitive topics.

Google started its Chinese Web site in 2006 in order to accommodate Chinese censorship requirements. The Chinese site filters out search results for sensitive topics such as the 1989 crackdown on protesters in Tiananmen Square.

Still, Wolf said the latest campaign against Google reflected a sincere desire to rid the Chinese Web of pornography and likely wasn't directly related to political censorship

How To Configure SSH Keys Authentication With PuTY And Linux Server In 5 Quick Steps

How To Configure SSH Keys Authentication With PuTY And Linux Server In 5 Quick Steps

This tutorial explains how you can replace password-based SSH authentication with key-based authentication which is more secure because only the people that own the key can log in. In this example, we're using PuTTY as our SSH client on a Windows system.

1. Get the zip file with all PuTTY binaries

http://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/latest/x86/putty.zip

2. Generate a private and public key pair

Open PuTTYgen.exe, press Generate button, move mouse. Once the keys are generated, type your key passphrase (choose a "hard to guess" one). Save Public key. Save Private key.

3. Configure your Linux server (create user, save public key)

For this guide let's assume you regular login name is autotimesheet (replace it with one that you use regularly).

As root, on the shell, type:

adduser autotimesheet --disabled-password

You will be asked to fill in some details such as the user's real name (empty string is fine).

Now type:

su autotimesheet
cd /home/autotimesheet
mkdir .ssh
chmod 700 .ssh
cd .ssh

Then in that folder, create and edit a file called authorized_keys2.

In there, cut/paste your public ssh key, on ONE LINE (That is very important!!!)

Do not add the email@example.com at the end of the line.
Do not add the BEGIN PUBLIC KEY or END PUBLIC KEY.
Do not add the rsa-key-20090614 at the end.
Make sure, there is ssh-rsa at the beginning.

It should be something like:

ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAABJQAAAIBzPeFQv+295iKzuuPH0jA9449pSHVpCwXvCR9EstmYh...

Type:

chmod 600 authorized_keys2

4. Add Private key to PuTTY SSH authentication agent

Start the PuTTY SSH authentication agent PAGEANT.EXE. When started, right-click its syspanel icon...

... and select "add key". Select your private key file, and type in your passphrase when you add the key. The Pageant works as a passphrase keeper.

5. Use PuTTY to connect to your server

Open PuTTY and connect as autotimesheet@yourserver:

See that you log in without a password ...