Tag: internet
Meet Project AirGig: Gigabit Wireless Internet Delivered Via Power Lines
October 14, 2016
Hasnain
AT&T just revealed a new project that it has been experimenting with. Dubbed as AirGig, this project is a new type of wireless infrastructure that is not only low cost but is deployed onto existing infrastructure that has been around for decades: power lines.
AirGig basically piggybacks onto [...]
Netflix Launches Internet Speed Testing Tool!
May 19, 2016
Hasnain
Netflix, the widely renowned streaming service for films and television series was recently rolled out in a lot of countries including Pakistan. Users have been pretty excited about it being finally available and the response has been pretty good. However, today Netflix has made a new announcement. [...]
PTA to Launch Speed Testing Mobile App!
November 30, 2015
Hasnain
On Friday, 27th November 2015, 2nd Consumers IT Telecom Conference was held in Pearl Continental Hotel Karachi, hosted by Consumers Association of Pakistan (CAP) where many top ranking officials from the telecom industry came to sit together and discuss the persisting issues be [...]
Internet Exchange Point to offer Better Quality Internet in Pakistan!
November 20, 2015
Hasnain
At the recently held 3-day INET conference, the first ever digital economy conference of its type held in Islamabad by PTA (Pakistan Telecommunication Authority) in collaboration with ISOC-APAC (The Internet Society-Asia Pacific) the decision to build an Internet Exchange Point (IXP) in Islamabad [...]
Li-Fi Brings Internet Access to Remote Areas!
November 09, 2015
Hasnain
We live in the digital age and technology is progressing day by day. Communication and data transfer modes have become faster. There has been evolutionary progress in every mode of communication so much that now we take these for granted as we can access information in the blink of an eye with a few [...]
Biometric Verification Now Required For Broadband Internet Connections
November 02, 2015
Hasnain
Pakistan Telecommunication Authority(PTA) has recently issued a new Standard Operating Procedure(SOP) for all Wireless Local Loop WLL operators nationwide which implements Biometric Verification System(BVS). This comes after PTA previously implemented BVS on all Telcos and also ordered reverificatio [...]
Want to see how a website looked 5 years ago?
January 24, 2015
Bilal Akbar
Ever wondered how the famous websites that you visit daily looked like years ago? Fortunately you can do so easily. Non-profit organization by the name of Internet Archive has developed a website by the name of Archive.org that has build an internet library, using their search tool [...]
Easy way to delete your data from hundreds of website
December 16, 2014
Sibtain Jiwani
Every other website you visit now be it social media, news, application and etc. ask you to sign up and give out personal de [...]
Internet of Things (IoT): The future of Mobile Apps
December 10, 2014
Bilal Akbar
Internet has changed the world very rapidly. We are living in an era where life without internet access is a misery. Internet Protocol Version 6 abbreviated as IPv6 has opened new doors of connectivity. According to Steve Leibson IPv6 is enough to assign a unique Internet Protocol address to every a [...]