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Editor's Note
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Editorial 8
Reader's Response
Letters to the Editor 9
Interview
Economy is on a dangerous junction: Shahbaz 22
Telepedia
PTA suffers with Rs 7.609 billion 10
Naveed Saeed honours with prestigious APNS award 12
Govt. adds to miseries of telecom industry 14
Mobilink encouraging female bloggers 15
3G,the emerging telecom threat scenario 16 Cover Story
What next: A journey of dual SIM to 4 SIMs 17 Page
What's right age to get your child a cell phone?
3G: Time to cash air, space
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China Mobile selects NSN to deploy TD-LTE 28
mHealth industry to take off all over 29
Cellular dealers offer great benefits to attract buyers 30
Smartphone market to grow 50 pc in 2011 31
Manage Wi-Fi on smartphones, tablets 42
Smartphones help to grow your business 47
Babar visits PTA, Mobilink-Ufone MoU, Zong shop 49
Cover Story
Govt's non-professional attitude continues 34
InsighT Page
Computer's impacts on our lives
Creativity through computer education
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12 Naveed Saeed honours with prestigious APNS award
E-waste becomes another garbage time bomb 26
The internet: open and closed information systems 37
The frightening pace of change in the world 38
Wi-Fi cars shipments surge worldwide 40
Easy way to create video sales page 41
Black market cybercrime tools on the rise 43
Order management megatrends in 2011 44
Watch industry gets smartphones to keep wristwatches ticking 45
New attack escalates ongoing cyber conflict 48
Lock down your life! 51
Exclusive
The meaning of cool at CTIA Wireless 2011 18
April Fool's Day cool pranks
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Tech Tools
Mobile Review
Current Mobiles
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72 19 April Fool's Day
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What next: A journey
Upcoming Mobiles 76
High Range Mobiles 78 cool pranks of dual SIM to 4 SIMs
Low Range Mobiles 79
Laptops 80
Computers 81
Accessories 82
Gaming Zone 84
Mosaic
National Mosaic 62
International Mosaic 67
Synopsis
Babar Awan commends USF efforts, contribution 23
Subscribers contribute Rs 36.35 bn to national exchequer 50 Page
NetSol signs contract with TCS
PTCL introduces bill payment points
PTCL signs business promotion pact with ADG LDI
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49 The internet: open and closed information systems
Ufone gets ICAP 'Best Corporate Sector Project' award 55
Website give new twist to' arranged' marriages 56
Lenovo launches LePad ablet in china 57
Caps to be imposed for 2012 4G-spectrum auction 58
New startup Color builds community with photos 59
Standard & poor downgrades Nokia credit rating 60
1st world TDD/FDD dual mode LTE network to launch 61
National News 64
International News 68
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31 Smartphone market to grow 50 pc in 2011
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Have you dreamed of owning your own The new Lenovo ThinkPad W Series laptop
Ferrari for so long now? Although it's would be staying atop for a while. Considered
quite difficult to reach that dream, as one of the most powerful laptops less than
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This scale model Ferrari comes with a new and innovative touch sensitive technology. To deliver an unequaled display quality, the graphics
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Wake Up on Time with Pac-Man Alarm Clock Zypad WL1500 The Wearable Computer
Once you see this Pac-Man Alarm It's about time humans even the
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your mind is that famous arcade Predator aliens have the upper hand
game that you used to play. with their wrist console panel that
Controlling Pac-Man through a controls their vision modes, Plasma
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able to eat all the dots before the a fully functional cloud-enabled
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actually give yourself, if you're one access to 128 MB of SDRAM flash memory. The hand operated device uses
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alarm clock provide you with that crazy sound you need to wake up on multiple communication protocols including Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, 3G,
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arcade game. So the moment you hear it, you'll be up in a jiffy.
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While Ridge Racer 3D brings little in the The Samurai Warriors series has long Folks familiar with the Ghost Recon
way of new features or ideas to the series-- been devoted to transporting players to its series may be accustomed to tactical
relying largely on Ridge Racer 7's feature unique version of feudal Japan, a place military action from a third-person
set--there's still fun to be had. Races are fast, where a few extremely powerful and stylish viewpoint, but they are in for a surprise with
twitchy experiences, thanks to good circuit officers meet countless identical, mindless Shadow Wars. This is a turn-based combat
design and visuals that give a real sense of grunts on vast fields of battle to engage in game that plays out on tiled maps from a
speed. The arcade-style handling is as repetitive, shallow hack-and-slash combat. more or less bird's-eye view. In every
unrealistic as ever; it lets you spend most of Samurai Warriors Chronicles is faithful to its mission, you assault your enemies and
your time careering around the track forebears, bringing all the tedium that has accomplish your objective while ensuring
sideways, skidding around corners to characterized earlier games in the series to that none of your squad members perish.
perform impressively long drifts. Tight Nintendo's new handheld. Success requires careful maneuvering and a
controls and an impressive array of Additionally, when you've filled up a strong knowledge of each soldier's unique
customisable cars make mastering those gauge to a certain point, you can perform and diverse capabilities. The difficulty
drifts fun, and each car's unique handling powerful musou attacks that often involve ramps up smoothly during the very lengthy
characteristics add variety too. It's a shame, bright bursts of energy, lending the combat a campaign, but even in the early going, one
then, that there aren't a whole lot of tracks to dash of much-needed visual flair while bad choice can result in a failed mission.
drive those cars on, nor is there any online turning you into an even more effective This creates an engaging sense of tension,
multiplayer to spice things up. killing machine for a moment. The generic spurring you to be smart and use the richly
Ridge Racer 3D is a handsome-looking clones you slaughter often make Chronicles detailed environments to your advantage. In
game, if a little on the dull side. Circuits like as dull to look at as it is to play, and anyone addition to the campaign, there are a host of
Downtown Rave City and Rave City who has played console games in the series interesting one-off scenarios, as well as a
Riverfront look great with their bright neon will note that there aren't as many of these two-player competitive mode that, while
lights and huge bridges, but others like buffoons standing around here as is typical, intriguing, can only be played using one
Redstone Thunder Road and Shadow Caves which makes expanses of the battlefield system. This oddity notwithstanding,
eerily empty. But the officers are colorful Shadow Wars is a great new entry in the
are filled with brown textures that have been
and striking, and the way the terrain Ghost Recon series that delivers tens of
slapped onto the side of an endless stream of
stretches off into the distance in 3D makes hours of exciting and engrossing tactical
blocky mountain ranges. Switching on 3D these areas feel vast. It also creates the
livens things up; the aforementioned action.
sensation that you're actually covering
mountain ranges now stretch off into the ground as you hurry from one spot to the The campaign can last tens of hours, and
distance, and huge jumps become much next. you unlock a bevy of stand-alone scenarios
more exciting when you can see how far up Everything here comes back to shallow, and multiplayer maps as you go. The
you're about to go. A few cheap tricks are repetitive hack-and-slash action that quickly specific scenarios offer a nice variety of
used, such as ticker tape and piles of leaves grows tedious. That combat defines the challenges that use generic soldiers to create
that fly at your face during a drive, but on the Samurai Warriors experience and prevents some interesting situations, like defending a
whole, 3D is used effectively, adding depth the game's more interesting elements from lighthouse with only engineers and their
to circuits and giving races a real sense of shining. Chronicles also supports the 3DS's turrets. Completing these missions (as well
speed. StreetPass feature, letting you put together a as those in the campaign) furthers your
Ultimately, there's little in Ridge Racer team of four characters to clash with other persistent rank and helps unlock more maps.
3D that fans won't have seen before, and players' teams, with the outcome The multiplayer mode pits two generic
while the 3D is nice to look at, it's hardly automatically decided. If your team emerges forces against each other, and the variety of
enough to justify a purchase if you're victorious, you receive weapons and items. soldiers and complexity of the maps ensure
looking for something different from the You can also use StreetPass to send weapons that the strategic depth translates well. It's
series. The idiosyncratic handling of the cars to friends. But these options certainly aren't unfortunate that the only way to play
isn't for everybody either, but if you enjoy interesting enough to redeem this game. multiplayer is by passing the 3DS back and
the unique style of racing and can live Devoted fans of the Samurai Warriors series forth, however, because an online
without online features, Ridge Racer 3D is a will find more of the same in Chronicles; the competitive option could have provided
84 fun drive. uninitiated are better off remaining that way. some more longevity.