Make Do and Mend

Make Do and Mend: If, to use current parlance, a ‘creative’ has produced some ‘content’ which you would like to ‘consume,’ shouldn’t you pay for it? Or should you simply continue to download songs and films illegally and pretend that you are a revolutionary intent on destroying the old bourgeois world of controlling intermediaries?

There is nothing new in sharing artistic work. We once copied tapes and films. Those of us who still read borrow books from one another. The P2P impulse, at first sight, might appear to be a communitarian one offering an appealing resistance to the dogma of individualism. But it leaves us with a problem.

How are the people who live by their imagination to make money in a time of romanticised theft? Is it not the moment to bring to an end the Manichean conversation about Corporate Bad Guys versus Online Good Guys? Surely the ones we should be worrying about protecting are not those who receive, promote or sell, but those who make.

Garan Holcomb

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Why Bloggers Rule the Roost - our latest blog for The Huffington Post UK

Why Bloggers Rule the Roost - our latest blog for The Huffington Post UK:

In The Times' Saturday magazine last weekend, new fashion editor, Laura Craik squeezed into a designer dress, climbed into a pair of towering high heels and took centre stage in her own feature. These days, she said, fashion editors don't have much choice but to get in front of the camera and model the products themselves and this is thanks largely to fashion bloggers, who, "without a budget, created their own visual content" and made their blogs "all the more compelling for it."

Editors and traditional publishing outlets have been trying to harness the power of the blog for a while now - by forcing their writers to step into the limelight, by launching their own blogs and by inviting bloggers to write for them - but brands too are actively courting bloggers in their attempt to extend and add value to their publicity.

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Telenor Towards Changing Market

Telenor Towards Changing Market:

Telenor relaunched both their prepaid and postpaid brands Talkshawk and Persona last year and around a month back they have revamped their website. Apart from changes in the web look, some changes about Telenor brands/services have gone unnoticed. Some observed changes are:

1. No bifurcation of services/brand on basis of prepaid or postpaid.


2. No more Telenor Persona.


3. Persona Consumer is now Business Consumer.


4. Persona Karobar is simply Karobar with details shown to be coming soon.

These changes and some input from sources close to Telenor reveal that Telenor is moving towards making some changes in Paksitan telecom market.

The most significant change I see is dropping the pre/post bifurcation of market or we can say that changing the whole market segmentation scene. No more of persona and calling it business package supports the idea that plans are underway to step ahead of the prepaid and postpaid market segments and moving to segmentation on basis of consumer occupation or nature. This will mean that the business packages can go prepaid while the masses on packages like talkshawk and the youth on djuice can have postpaid billing services.

It is expected that prepaid connections for business consumers or SMEs will be the first step towards change. Let’s see when and how things unfold.

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Mobilink Meetab Meetup

Mobilink Meetab Meetup:

Mobilink has always been in the forefront in engaging with the blogosphere, pursuing the same policy, it organized a meetup for the bloggers in Islamabad to showcase the recently launched Samsung Galaxy 10.1 called the ‘Meetab’. Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 is the latest version of Samsung’s super-hit Galaxy tab which features a 10.1 inches screen and Android OS 3.1, Honeycomb

The event was attended by more than 50 bloggers from the capital city and included interesting discussions on the impact of social media, the new jazz bananas and features of the new Samsung Galaxy 10.1 tab which is the first ever dual-core smart tablet to hit Pakistan.

The bloggers also took part in various activities such as a quiz, a space invaders game and the most interesting of all – The Tweetathon. The Tweetathon was an activity where bloggers had to generate maximum number of mentions with the hashtag #Meetab in a limited frame of time. Ehtisham Khan won the Tweetathon by generating over 200+ tweets and won the Samsung Galaxy 10.1 Tab.

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Blackberry Service Update

Blackberry Service Update:

RIM’s CIO, Robin Bienfait wrote a letter to Blackberry customers and offered an apology for service outage. The letter also included a region-wise service status, it divided BB service in the following regions

• Europe, Middle East, India and Africa


• Canada and Latin America:


• The U.S.

Extract of the letter is given below:

Here is the current status of service and issues for the various regions that were impacted:

For Europe, Middle East, India and Africa:

• Email systems are operating and we are continuing to clear any backlogged messages. Support teams are working to minimize the impact on our customers.


• BBM traffic is online and traffic is passing successfully


• Browsing is temporarily unavailable as the Support teams monitor service stability and continue to assess when this service can be safely brought online


• Support teams have added capacity to help with message delivery between regions and continents

For Canada and Latin America:

• Email systems are operating and we are continuing to clear any backlogged messages. Support teams are working to minimize the impact on our customers


• BBM and browsing services are online and traffic is passing successfully (except for three carrier networks in Latin America that are serviced by the EMEIA infrastructure – browsing is temporarily unavailable for those three carrier networks)


• Support teams are investigating reports of BBM delays

For the U.S.:

• Email systems are operating and we are continuing to clear any backlogged messages. Support teams are working to minimize the impact on our customers.


• Support teams have added capacity to help with message delivery between regions and continents


• BBM and browsing services are online and traffic is passing successfully


• Support teams are investigating reports of BBM delays

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What's really at stake in the Google antitrust case?

What's really at stake in the Google antitrust case?:
The FTC probe into Google’s allegedly anticompetitive business practices may prove damaging to the search giant. But the entire technology market could be at risk, too.

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Telenor Pakistan holds awards ceremony for Apportunity competition

Telenor Pakistan holds awards ceremony for Apportunity competition:

An award/ prize distribution ceremony was held by Telenor Pakistan at Karachi for winners of its Apportunity competition. Prizes were given to recognize the developers whose applications were downloaded the most.

The Apportunity competition invited Pakistani developers to create applications and win prizes based on actual downloads. The competition consisted of 05 apps categories such as Games & Fun, Location & Presence, Health & Fitness, etc. Apps could be created for stores such as Apple’s App Store, Google’s Android Market, Nokia’s Ovi Store, and Samsung Apps; all major platforms were allowed such as Java, Symbian and Flash Lite.

The top two downloaded apps developers won iPads and the winners in each category were awarded with smart phones. All of the developers who took part in the competition were encouraged to take part in future competitions and were awarded with Rs. 5,000 worth of airtime.

Usman Javed, Director Marketing Telenor Pakistan said:

Apportunity is all about encouraging young Pakistanis to create apps for the global market. Given an opportunity, our app developers can compete with the best in the world. Already the apps created by the winners have been downloaded thousands of times by people across the globe. Telenor will continue to provide opportunities to the talented youth of Pakistan to enable them to excel in their fields.

Competitions such as Apportunity are vital in promoting the local talent and giving it a global exposure. Telecom companies should follow suit and announce competitions to promote Pakistani developers on the local as well as international level.

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Mobilink Hajj Roaming Discount

Mobilink Hajj Roaming Discount:

As the season of the Muslim Pilgrimage ‘Hajj’ draws clock, Mobilink comes first in introducing an Hajj Roaming Discount. The offer is 85% discount on international roaming on Zain Network in Saudi Arabia.

The offer is for all Mobilink customers and include:

• Lowest call rates for all incoming and outgoing* calls


• Lowest GPRS roaming rates


• Free incoming SMS


• No security deposit (for indigo customers)**


• No subscription/daily charges

* Applies on outgoing calls made to Pakistan and Saudi Arabia

** Requires Direct Debit agreement

*** Limited time offer

Details on Balance recharge for prepaid customers, subscription and tariff details can be checked here.

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Ufone 100 per 100 Offer

Ufone 100 per 100 Offer:

Remember the Zong 100 pey 100 offer, Ufone have introduced their version for it. With this offer on every recharge of Rs. 100 you will immediately receive 100 minutes talk time absolutely free.

To subscribe to this astonishing offer simply dial *36# and load balance of Rs. 100.

To make it further convenient, you can also keep yourself updated to the remaining balance and awarded free minutes, by simply dialing *707#.

Terms & Conditions:

• Subscription charges are Rs.5 + tax


• 100 free minutes will be divided into 90 minutes for Ufone to Ufone and 10 minutes to all other networks


• Validity of these Free minutes is for 3 days


• Balance loaded after subscribing to the offer and till the end of campaign will have UShare restriction


• This offer is available for Prepaid customers only


• Free minutes will not apply to calls made on short codes

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Easypaisa – Promotion for Mobile Account Holders

Easypaisa – Promotion for Mobile Account Holders:

Easypaisa brings in the first ever promotional offer for the mobile account holders. Send a fund transfer of more than Rs.1000 or pay your utility bills through your Easypaisa mobile account and get the following:

• 150 Minutes ( 75 mins Any Network and 75 mins Telenor Network)


• 1500 SMS (Any Network)


• 15 MB GPRS (Internet

This first time bundle offer from easypaisa comes only a few days after our prediction of such attractions with competition of similar service from another cellular giant is expected to roll out soon. Should we expect free money transfer as happened in Kenya when competition came in?

The offer details are:

• Sending a fund transfer of more than Rs.1000 or paying your utility bill through your Easypaisa mobile account and registered on the Easypaisa system will be considered to be a qualifying transaction.


• This offer is applicable for all new and existing Talkshawk and Djuice mobile account customers (pre-paid customers) only. The validity of this offer will be applicable for 10 days from the date a qualifying transaction is made. The total validity is for 10 days however in the event that a customer makes a second qualifying transaction prior to the expiry of the first validity period then the free minutes, SMS and MB (internet) will be added to the remaining balance and the next 10 days start from the date of the second qualifying transaction and the same shall apply to a third and last qualifying transaction.


• Mobile account customers can qualify for the offer for a maximum of 3 times in a month regardless of the number of qualifying transactions made.


• This offer is valid for a limited time.

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