Nokia Pakistan recently conducted a Nokia Developers’ Workshop at University of Karachi in partnership with P@SHA, which aimed at providing students an insight into the world of mobile app development and the rise in demand of apps in the local market. The workshop focused on inculcating app development skills for the S40 Full Touch devices.

The training was imparted by Syed Faraz Ahmed, Senior Engagement Manager, Lakson Business Solutions. On the occasion of the successful completion of the workshop, Faraz said, “It was wonderful to interact with such enthusiastic students and share with them the S40 background and provide hands-on training on the SDK LWUIT 2.0 available to work on mobile apps for S40 Full Touch platform. The students clearly understood why it will be beneficial for them and their community to contribute towards content development and they all took keen interest in the workshop.”

Expressing her views, Rabia Azfar Nizami, Head DX, Near East, Nokia said, “I appreciate the interest level of Karachi University’s UBIT students to learn and excel in their chosen field. Nokia has been organizing these kinds of workshops for developers in Pakistan since the past few years and this workshop was geared towards channelizing the strengths of these students and providing them a rich bundle of resources to develop more locally relevant mobile apps for Nokia devices which are most popular among the masses in our country. Recently, the Nokia App Store witnessed more than two million downloads of localized content and apps per week in Pakistan, which has given rise to the need for developers to make apps and generate revenue that cater to this segment of the market.”

The students were enthusiastic about learning hands on skills from a professional mentor and showed their interest towards the development of local content for the Nokia Store. At the workshop’s conclusion, certificates were distributed among all the participants.

SAP APJ’s software revenue grew for the 10th consecutive quarter, driven by increased customer adoption of SAP solutions. SAP Asia Pacific Japan (APJ) announced their best-ever second quarter results with 25% growth in Non-IFRS Software Revenue. These notable earnings were announced by Darren Rushworth, MD, SAP Philippines and the Emerging Markets. Within the region, Pakistan has made a commendable contribution to drive the revenue figures higher aided by increased customer adoption of Mobile and HANA In-memory database solutions.

Speaking on the occasion of the announcement, Rushworth said,

“The APJ regioncontinues to deliver outstanding results for Q2 2012, making it the tenth consecutive quarter of exceptional growth.Our key regional markets led the way once again with solid double-digit growth and particularly strong growth in key developing markets like Pakistan.”

Adding to his remarks, he said, “Our customers continue to respond positively to our breakthrough innovations in In-memory (HANA), database and mobility.  In Q2 2012, HANA In-memory database grew strongly at 103% year-over-year, while mobility and database solutions showed a growth of 181% and 25% respectively over their corresponding period in 2011. Our pipelines are strong and we continue to see strong demand for SAP’s innovations for the rest of 2012.”

In Q2 2012, SAP APJ’s Non-IFRS Software and Software Related Services Revenue grew 23% while Non-IFRS Total Revenue saw a corresponding 25% growth.

Commenting on SAP APJ’s performance and Pakistan’s growing market, Hassan Jamal, Country Liaison Manager, SAP Pakistan said,

“Pakistan’s part in driving SAP APJ’s growth is momentous. It fills our hopes with optimism about the on-coming year as we continually invest in our future success by providing top quality and innovative solutions in Mobility, In-memory and Cloud. These solutions bring unrivaled competency to all the industries in Pakistan. Our customers continue to tell us that they see value in what SAP does for them – they gain better business insights and speed their decision making to drive growth and operational efficiency.”

Talking about pioneering technology when it comes to prestige, durability and credibility of products, Apple will never be out from the list. From telecommunications, gaming consoles, music and now television, Apple has dominated the entertainment world by putting some taste of innovations to their products.

However, we cannot define perfection without failures. Perfection is molded from the numerous failures and shortcomings. Like Apple products, there are few errands that need to be perfected in order for them to perfect their own craft.

One of the seen products is the Apple HD TV which problems are more concentrated in wireless internet connections. To further discuss possible problems with the connection, let us identify some of the cause and effects.

Internet connection source

Apple HD TV is very sensitive to the internet connection source. Unlike other products, Apple has maintained its credibility because of its high technical securities in their products. It can identify unsecured networks.

This is the basic thing to do when you are dealing with the wireless internet connection. Always check the reliability of your internet connection and make sure that your internet service provider is giving you the speed that you paid for.

Check the DNS settings

Now after checking the internet connection, another way to fix the issue is to change manually the DNS settings of your Apple HD TV. Usually, Apple TV will automatically detect DNS settings. However, in some cases, different DNS can be identified by the product especially when there is a multiple connection. You can try to put the DNS manually by going to Settings, General, Network, and Configure TCP/IP and then choose manually.

Check the hardware

Check your wifi router. Since most of the wifi routers should be identified first by Apple products, it is very helpful to keep those drivers. In the other hand, most routers won’t connect to some products that they do not recognize. So the thing is to completely configure both the Apple HD TV and your wifi router so that they will be synchronized.

Mirroring

Another best feature about Apple products is it allows mirroring of movies from different apple products like iPhone and iPad. These products have a light internet hardware that is capable to handle wireless internet connection. If you can play movies without any issues like buffering in your iPhone and iPad, then you can probably use it to mirror it in your Apple HD TV.

Check Your Time Zone

Now, this is a little weird because Apple TVs are very sensitive to time zones. This is because they must have a good timing on the available shows on TV. Usually, it has automatic clock set up which really depends on the nearest internet connection source you got. Check the correct time zone in your area by going to settings. In there, you can select your place to where it will be automatically set the time. However, if there are still discrepancies with the time, you may check the third party applications.

Mr. Jashon Wills is an internet expert and a technology lover. He writes articles after reviewing most the latest technologies and services in the online world. You may check his articles at Broadband Expert.

The Nokia 808 PureView is the first smartphone to feature Nokia’s PureView imaging technologies, which bring together high performance sensors, exclusive Carl Zeiss optics and Nokia developed imaging algorithms. With a default resolution of five megapixels and the ability to capture and condense up to seven pixels of information into one perfect pixel (known as “oversampling”) the Nokia 808 PureView provides the sharpest images imaginable and startling HD video on the device.

The Technology:

PureView Pro imaging technology doesn’t represents a change in smartphones camera performance but Nokia 808 is the very first device of its kind featuring PureView Pro camera technology which allows people to take even better images and video footage than ever before.

The Output:

Unprecedented camera control and versatility, combined with truly spectacular-quality images and video. Nokia 808 PureView sets new industry standards — it will give you around 3x lossless zoom for stills, and 4x zoom in full HD 1080p. For video you get:

Video resolutions: Full HD (1920×1080) 30fps, HD (1280×720) 30fps, and nHD (640×360) 30fps. Nokia Rich Recording for stereo audio recording in video Frame rates supported for video capture: 15, 24, 25, 30fps

Technical Specifications:

• 41 megapixel camera sensor
• Fullscreen 16:9 viewfinder with easy on-screen touch controls
• Xenon flash with operating range up to 3.5m depending on conditions
• LED for video recording
• Lossless zoom:
  • Still images: 3x
  • Video: 4x1080p [Default], 6x720p, 12x360p

You might be interested in Nokia 808 Full Spec & Images.

Nokia 808 Imaging Capability

Low Light:

The Nokia 808 Pureview was however clearly superior low light performance (also thanks to the oversampling) makes it possible to take pictures on the Nokia 808 PureView even under the most challenging of lighting conditions.

Zoom:

The Nokia 808 PureView has lossless zoom. Zooming is done by sliding the finger across the viewfinder in a vertical direction, and you get magnificent zoom to your images without bursting out the original pixels.

Bokeh effect:

Background blur, or “bokeh”, is the appearance or feel of out-of-focus areas in portrait and macro imaging. The longer the distance between your subject and the background, the more powerful the bokeh effect. The Nokia 808 PureView offers SLR-quality bokeh due to its very long 8.02mm focal length. Standard mobile phone cameras have a focal length of just 4mm.

Video:

The 4x lossless zoom and bespoke PureView oversampling technology enables the Nokia 808 PureView to shoot video in Full HD. The handset also includes best in class low light performance, continuous autofocus, Nokia Rich Recording and Dolby Headphone audio playback (exclusively to Nokia).

How 41 MegaPixel Camera?

When I introduced the 41 megapixel Nokia 808 camera smartphone they just surprised and most of them refused to accept the fact. So there might me a number of people around to whom I would set a detailed explanation of what happens behind the lens.

The starting point is a super-high-resolution sensor. This has an active area of 7728 x 5368 pixels, making a total over 41 megapixel. Depending on the aspect ratio you choose, it will use 7728 x 4354 pixels for 16:9 images/videos, or 7152 x 5368 pixels for 4:3 images/videos as is shown in image below:

 Fig:The image circle and the 16:9 and 4:3 image areas.

What happens next depends on the settings and whether or not you’re using zoom. But to give you an idea, the default still image setting is 5Mpix at 16:9, and for video it’s 1080p at 30fps. Using these settings, the zoom is around 3x for stills and 4x for video. Conventional zoom tends to scale up images from a relatively low resolution, resulting in poor image quality. We were convinced there must be a better way, and we found it.

via Nokia Products

Cell phones are in demand right around the world, from boys and girls, men and women, grandpas and grandmas, all kinds of people and for a variety of purposes. Whether you’re a full-time professional looking for a cell that you can use while on the train to a business meeting or a cool teenager looking for something that allows you to update your Facebook status every few minutes, the options are there for everyone.

Simple cell phones are available for people wanting to ring the family once a week, carrying it around for emergencies, while the more elaborate and technologically advanced models are there for the real gadget lover.

Image source: Flickr

Unfortunately a lot of cell phones cost substantial amounts of money, with many prices comfortably inside the 3-figured bracket and that’s before you start talking about contracts and call time. Like most luxury items, if you want the very best and the latest, you have to pay top dollar for the privilege, especially with phones such as the iPhone or Blackberry.

If you go into a store or online, you can find that there are a great deal of offers available that will help to reduce the price of the overall cell plan – something everybody wants – and you can even find that you can pick a brand new cell up for absolutely nothing with certain carriers.

Go online and type in the carrier you’re looking for, take T-Mobile free cell phones as an example, or go into your nearest cell phone store and ask about the packages available which enable you to take out a contract or prepaid deal whereby you only pay for the deal, not the phone. This doesn’t necessarily only apply to old models of cell phones with some of the very latest models included in a number of deals.

By taking advantage of deals which allow you to pay absolutely nothing for the handset itself, it frees up your budget to spend a little bit extra – if necessary – on your plan. This means that you could pay a bit more each month for additional minutes to make more calls, or for more messages to stay in regular contact with your friends, or even data to allow you to spend more time using the Internet on your phone, if that’s your thing. Alternatively, you could just put the money back in the account and save it for your next touch of luxury!

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There has been an immense rise in the advancements of mobile technology in recent times. One of the widely awaited smart phones from Samsung has unveiled, and is popularly known as Samsung Galaxy S III. This exclusive smart phone possesses some of the best features that one can expect from Android phones. It is basically a touch screen phone that comes in the form of candy bar and is available in two shades – pebble blue and marble white. The touch screen is quite bigger than other smart phones that are currently available in the market. The features of Samsung Galaxy S III are overall good, and can definitely be considered as one of the best smart phones.

As far as spying on Samsung Galaxy S III is concerned, there are quite a few mobile monitoring applications such as Flexispy, Mobistealth, Mobile Spy, and many more that effectively monitors the Samsung phones.

Features of spying applications for Samsung Galaxy S III are quite amazing and the application can be installed with ease. The major benefit of spying the Samsung Galaxy S III through mobile monitoring applications is that the information gets captured as well as logged in real time. The data remains intact in the spying application account.

How does the spying application work on Samsung Galaxy S III?

You can download the spying software on the internet with ease and install the same on your Samsung Galaxy S III. By doing so, you would be in a position to listen to phone calls, retrieve text messages, control the Samsung phone remotely, track the correct location through GPS, and call logs. All the information stored in the Samsung Galaxy S III gets uploaded secretly into a website that is password protected. Out of so many spying applications, Mobile Spy has been considered to be one of the most accurate and effective spying applications that monitors every detail of your Samsung Galaxy S III phone. There are quite a reviews updated by its users that proves its effectiveness.
There are spying applications designed specifically for Samsung smart phones. These spying applications are highly useful for various reasons. Some of the primary reasons have been listed below.

Parents can worry less about their child as the spying application thoroughly monitors all the activities of their child. Intercepting the calls and text messages would help parents to keep a track of their child and preventive measures can be taken if they are associated with harmful people.

An employer can check if his employees are misusing the company provisions, and also staff productivity can be tracked with the help of spying applications. Employers can also protect the confidentiality of the data through this spying application. Most often, employees try to leak out company’s confidential information to the competitors or rivals. However, with the help of spying applications, employers can prevent such incidents.

You can find out what is cooking between your spouse and his or her friend/colleague. The precise location of your spouse can be tracked especially when your spouse makes frequent excuses that they are caught up in meetings. Spying application is one of the ideal ways to check the infidelity of spouses.

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According to the latest statistics from Twitter, there are about 140,000,000 active users and over 340,000,000 Tweets posted each day! That means that when it comes to advertising your blog on Twitter, you need to stand out. One way to do this is to personalize your Twitter homepage. Here are a few ways to do that:

The Essentials: Link, Bio, and Picture

First, it’s absolutely essential that you do the basics of personalizing your Twitter homepage. Make sure your page links to your blog’s main page. You may not get a ton of traffic to your blog through this particular link, and the nofollow designation means it won’t help you with Google rankings either. However, it does keep your brand consistent, and it might draw you a new reader here and there.
Of course, you also need to change your bio and your picture to something that is personal to you and your blog. Your picture should either be of yourself or of something related to your blog so that people will know what you’re blogging about. A custom-designed logo as your picture is a great, professional-looking option!

Change Your Background

Changing the background on your Twitter homepage to something more personal isn’t quite as important as creating a custom header if you want a professional-looking blog, but it’s still an important way that you can personalize your homepage. There are several options for personalizing your homepage through a new background.

One option is to upload a photo of yourself or a photo you’ve taken, but you can also use desktop backgrounds meant for PCs. The problem with these is that users with a lower screen resolution may not be able to see the whole background. At the very least, you’ll want to consider how the background will look if a user’s view of it is truncated.

One final option is specialized Twitter backgrounds from the web. If you want a really sleek design, consider hiring a designer to make you a custom background specially tailored to Twitter requirements. A background that is like your blog header in style and colors can be a particularly good option.

Change the Theme

If you’re changing your Twitter background, then change your theme to go along with it. The theme will change the colors of different boxes and pieces of text on your Twitter homepage. It’s possible with some programming knowledge to create a custom theme, but it may be simpler to just pick out a theme that will work with your Twitter background colors.

Make the Sidebar Transparent

If your Twitter homepage background has some really neat images that you want your followers to be able to see, you can actually make the sidebar on your homepage transparent so that they can see the full background image behind it. This is a great way to customize your homepage if you’re linking up your Twitter background with the images found on your blog.
You can make your sidebar transparent by going through the settings menu and changing the color of the sidebar. If you are going to make your sidebar transparent, you’ll definitely want to make sure you can read the words over your background image. This works best when a background image isn’t overly busy, and when the text on the sidebar is highly contrasted with the background image.

Should You Hire a Pro?

As with your actual blog, when it comes to Twitter, design is less important than content, but it’s still important. If you’re a professional blogger or are really serious about your blog, chances are likely that you’ve at least toyed with the idea of hiring a professional to create buttons and a header for your blog. If you already have a professional design for your blog, you might want to carry that over into Twitter, since it can help solidify your brand and make all your online content more coherent.

Whether or not you hire a professional, you should still most definitely make sure that you’ve got the essentials of your Twitter homepage customized, and you should consider matching the theme with your blog. These things make you look more polished and can only help you when it comes to connecting with your readers through Twitter. Don’t forget to follow iTechGiz on Twitter.

Ashyia Hill is a social media advocate at CreditDonkey.  Small business owners can visit her team’s blog to compare credit cards by reading their reviews and deals.  While you certainly don’t have to hire a professional to take care of customizing your Twitter homepage, if it’s something you think will serve your bottom line, you can look at credit card deals to cover some of the cost of getting a professionally designed Twitter background or theme. A business credit card can have some good benefits for your business and can help you kickstart something like a great Twitter feed by giving you a little more flexibility in your business-related spending.