Online piracy is a sensitive issue, not just because activists make it sound like it, but it is also something that users don’t benefit from if seen closely. Recently, a study by a British legal firm revealed that most of the people don’t even understand what piracy actually is and which of their acts could be considered as indulging in piracy.

According to the survey from Wiggin, respondents actually liberty feigned and pretended that they are not aware, because internet downloading sites are also very clear about copyrights and if any infringe upon these, they are incriminated.

However, despite this, many people really don’t know what could constitute in them passing the line into illegal downloading of any text, image or video, or any other content. Intellectual property rights are safeguarded to protect the integrity and respect the labour of the creative people from whichever sphere they may be.

In Pakistan, cyber laws are not too strong already. There are many advocacy groups, however, that are working to get some sense into what behaviour is acceptable and legal online and where it is crossing the line, especially with piracy laws.

Although, there are many movies, books and even other items which are available in Pakistan in the open market, the law enforcement agencies themselves don’t take a keen interest in stopping it, simply due to corruption and incompetence. But when a user gets into trouble with international piracy laws or infringes upon rights of a copyrighted item from another country, there is bound to be an action against that user.

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We have heard and read about bizarre things made into a very expensive item just because of the material used in them. It also seems ironic to have things made of expensive material when the same can be available at much less and still perform the exact function intended. On top of it all, poverty is still a major issue in many parts of the world and such extravagance doesn’t suit sanity.

However, recently, a London-based luxury manufacturer, Luvaglio is offering a laptop worth $1 million. The laptop claims to combine luxury with performance with diamond-encrusted keys and top-of-the-line materials.

The idea is not too practical as well, because when seen from the point of view that the technology will run out of era and newer versions and better tools will be made quickly available to replace the old gadgetry, this whole expenditure will go in waste, though “diamonds are forever”.

The laptop, however, has all the necessary latest specs and features. It has a 17-inch LED widescreen and an anti-reflective glare and it comes with 128GB disk space with an in-built Blu-Ray player. The laptop is indeed an expensive one, but its claim of uniqueness lies in its personalised options.

The laptop is available in stone colours a user wants to have. Although there is no huge market for such rare objects of vanity, but there are some rich and “filthy” rich who wouldn’t mind spending their money on acquiring such a unique technology item.

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Recently, Apple gave such a upbeat news for its fans and regular consumers at a conference call which it gathered to announce its second quarter financial results. In particular, the CEO, Tim Cook was very excited to share future projects and plans about products that Apple will introduce later this year and early the next year.

The start for Apple this year has been slow according to experts and the team at Apple have been waiting for the right time to spread their charm again. Tim Cook believes in the innovations that Apple offers the world and has said that his team is working hard to come up with some new interesting hardware, software and other services. Tim Cook nearly couldn’t seem to wait because his confidence in Apple has never diminished and furthermore he believes that Apple will regain its populist status.

Although Apple has faces a lot of controversy over its manufacturing and labour laws violations as well as facing such legal battles over patents and on top of all that, Apple’s new innovations are not exciting people as they once used to. But, Tim Cook’s ability lies in having to keep aside these major failures to do something better next time. With the way Tim Cook has made the announcement at the conference call, it seems that Apple’s rumour mills will again get to working and hopefully with happier news.

Every major technology company introduces and launches new models of their products each year, some do it twice a year. With the tough competition around, it is helpful to get people excited and waiting for a new product, which in turns helps to market it. Let’s see what surprises Apple has in store this time.

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The ceremony was attended by the chairman of NADRA and the Consular Economic Affairs of the U.S. Embassy. Teradata has been working in Pakistan with its efforts being recognised within the industry and has contributed toward Pakistan’s growth in information technology sector. The awards recognised IT experts in software development, software export, networking, research and development, IT education, project management, IT media and publication and other IT related themes.

Often these industry awards are seen with skepticism as they are thought to be dependent on what generates more business and which individuals are more favoured over the others. However, regardless of what debate within the industry they might generate, it certainly is good for Pakistan that there is recognition of efforts on part of the individuals who have done their bit to make some progress and development for this country, so matter on how smaller a scale. With each ripple that is caused, a storm of change can be hoped for. This might sound a bit poetic and idealistic, but without a vision, no structure could be built.

The correct IT vision for Pakistan is necessary, and an American company of Teradata has been playing its role toward that despite all the negative news. Even though these are the election times and people are hoping for some real change. But one thing that remains constant during these transitionary period is growth, progress and development.

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Almost around 250,000 households in the U.S. have already filled their online census questionnaires. People have taken to the idea very positively in the U.S. and prefer using the internet for such a purpose. Because, earlier they had to fill it by hand and had to return it through the postal service.

This new going-tech idea for the government departments has taken much speed during the current administration and seeing it, other governments are also inspired. There is no doubt that technology is the way to go in these fast times of quick communication. Pakistan is also following in these steps, albeit slowly.

he U.S. Census Bureau developed its online questionnaire after a lot of research into how people responded to different questions and checking their eye-movements. The online version takes around 40 minutes to complete and asks for pin numbers and other special codes to access secured pages.

At least the environmentalists will be happy that papers are being saved and in turn trees are being protected. It has also saved a lot of financial spending on part of the government with one household costing $96 to the census surveys.

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This makes it the second most-used video hosting site. Having such a good position, Yahoo! is interested in purchasing it for around $200 million. The talks are still on between Yahoo and Dailymotion and it is likely that it will become part of the Yahoo company. How will it perform then, only time can tell, but Yahoo does not has a good reputation to keep its products at best service after getting them.

With YouTube being owned by Google, Yahoo surely wants to keep to that end too. We as internet users are somewhat negligent when it comes to reading terms and conditions of a website we want to join properly. We just simply sign-up putting a check mark and move on to surf the site.

However, the experts keep these things really in check and they have found Dailymotion to be more protective of their users privacy than YouTube. Dailymotion clearly says that it does not own a user’s content. Dailymotion also asks users to share their own person information at their own risks. It is also very protective of copyrights and has a strict policy against abusive, spam or notorious content.

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It received the largest number of patents last year and has become the world’s largest mobile manufacturer. The new analysis was done over seven million patents in the U.S. and Europe, the two places where most patents are registered. It was revealed through the analysis that around 72% of the patents are held by the U.S. and most of them are related to mobiles. By the end of this year, this 1 in 4 ratio will go to pass 25% it currently has.

In 2000, there were only 5% mobile related patents and within this decade that has changed. Mobile technology is developing very fast. It is generally believed that the iPhone 5 has more processing technology than was used to put man on the moon. How that happened is beyond any logical comprehension, but one thing is certain that it does show how much mobile technology is important and powerful.

Experts believe that the reason there are so many patents regarding mobile technology is because of the fear these mobile manufacturers have that another would use their technology and get ahead without proper attribution and benefit to their creativity.

This is also the reason why so many patent related legal cases are about mobile technology rather than some other technology. Mobiles are so much permeated into our daily lives and at times they seem to replace the need of having a computer. They have become mobile computers in of themselves.

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The language council considered the word for inclusion, but then Google entered into the picture and asked not to, until its meaning has been made more favourable to the company. Since Google is the world’s largest search engine and claims that nothing escapes its domain and one can find anything about anything just by simply using the search tool bar.

How can it be that something that can’t be found on the web using a search engine is “Ogooglebar” in Swedish language then? But, what the Google’s legal experts want the word to now mean is not any search engine, but Google’s search engine. Thus, it must mean something that cannot be found on the Web using Google. The trick here is in denying that there are any other search engines.

So if someone is using search engine like Yahoo!, but wants to express this idea that he or she did not find something on the web despite making a search for it online, it must be Google and none other. A bit of silly idea, but one which Google wants to promote. Hence, Google is proposing use the word “Ogooglebar” with a Google trademark so that people will know it is a trademarked company.

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MIT researchers say, that not only will your location will be revealed but who you are will also be known. The reason this happens is because for those users who are active with such apps on their mobiles like Foursquare, they are making a digital fingerprint that can be used to track down a person anytime and by the pattern that develops also reveal the person’s identity.

The MIT researchers tracked some 1.5 million different mobile users to conclude their latest research that took place over the period of 15 months. They were able to identify the person 95% of the time. Hence, the whole idea of a “Big Brother” watching is becoming more real than ever before in this active digital age.

However, from an ethical point of view, a lot of the people will feel their privacy is being intruded and they will begin to question such mobile technology more than they used to. Already a lot of these mobile companies and social networking sites are facing controversies and legal battles over their involvement with spilling personal data.

With this new research, it seems like the debate got more interesting. Should we begin to suspect the devices we so frequently use to reveal our identity? Where would our privacy privilege be if that begins to happen unintentionally?

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Just in hope of getting his camera back somehow, he thought of checking on the craigslist for second-hand camera sales. He just got what he came looking for as the thief had advertised just his model immediately the day after it was stolen from his home.

He was able to realize that it was his camera because of the scratch on the door that covers the SD card slot. The ad also said that there are no battery charger and no lens cap, just to fit the description of his stolen camera.

He faked an identity as a buyer and went into conversation with the thief. The thief used his real name while conversing. Hu then checked him up on Facebook and found his picture. He realised that this thief was amongst his “guests” at the party. Hu also got his friends help by asking them to become prospective buyers through fake identities so that he won’t get away. After all that he went through, needless to say, he really did caught his man.

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Waging such legal battles is not an easy task for companies looking to move ahead from both bad publicity and from their money going into more creative investment that will make their company stronger.

Mobile companies have all been sued, much to the extent that when one says mobile market, another thing that comes to mind is patent lawsuits. Google has taken this kind of large-hearted approach in the hope that other companies will also let go of their patented cloud software and big data processing software free of any legal claims.

According to Open Patent Non-Assertion (OPN) Pledge there are 10 patents of Google’s MapReduce software. Google also plans to spread its patent coverage to other technologies. However, not all of these patents will be free as Google has made its data processing software free.

Cloud data is an emerging technology and much can be explored through it. However, abusing such patents will not be the right path to take because it will result in nothing but unethical conduct, loss of image and proper growth of the consumer market a brand is looking to achieve.

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With the recent development of having to stop offering 3G data service to tourists, North Korea is becoming more of a closed country in communications and technology than ever before. Before this announcement of 3G data service discontinuation, tourists could get 3g-ready prepaid SIM cards. Most of the news about North Korea comes from Beijing-based news agencies as its tourist agencies also operate from other places.

SIM cards could have been used to make international calls, but still no internet access was allowed. North Korea is one of the strictest countries in the world when it comes to public communication system, and thus its notoriety is on the high.

Pakistan has been said to help in its nuclear programmes, but so far the government has officially denied any such accusations calling them propaganda by its enemies. However, public communications are largely developing in Pakistan and telecommunication sector is very much opened to booming and growth. North Korea on the other hand is in no way a country treading this path of openness.

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When it comes to the question as to what price tag should be put on such important memories, the answer is clearly not merely $25,000. One wonders what happened to all that technology that could also retrace the data from special modes. Since for a user the data is permanently lost, but ask the CIA or the FBI, they might know how to get it back.

The customer sent his iPhone, purchased in 2009, to an Apple Store for diagnosis on and within a week he was told that it is permanently dead. Perhaps the saddest news he had heard about his personally owned and cherished device. The kid would also feel frustrated with the loss of memory of his childhood that occurred at the hands of an incompetent and over-exaggerated Apple’s iPhone.

Apple’s rumours are always interesting to read, most of which the company generates itself to keep the hype, but similarly interesting are the cases of its lawsuits and class-suit actions by customers. Even though it is really bad for the people who feel the loss of their money and their expectations wasted, but it does not seem to bother Apple a bit.

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What it really be would be, will be totally public by the end of the next week. However, for the reasons of having some similarities to the already available brands and models, Facebook has been accused of stealing, but the company has denied any such charges. It was alleged that Facebook stole Apple’s iOS developers and through them got the technology on hand.

With such new additions like Poke, Facebook Messenger, and the Instagram, keen observers of Facebook are speculating this is just what it is, taking the best options and not calling them stolen. The Facebook Phone is expected to have a design of rounded edges, much similar to Apple’s iPhone just with a Facebook home button.

There were earlier such “Facebook phones” like HTC ChaCha and Nokia Asha 205 with prominent Facebook home button, that were not very successful. The display is rumoured to be 4.3 inches. The Facebook phone will have a 1.5Gz processor, 1GB of ram, 16GB of storage and a 5 megapixel rear camera and 1.6 megapixel front camera. So, more competitors for Apple and Samsung, however, Facebook will still have a long stride to make to even come closer.

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Since its launch in 2007, it has been steadily growing and by 2009, it really became a lot popular, though more so in America than in other parts of the world. It was founded in 2007 by David Karp and now has 167 employees. Tumblr is available in 12 languages. In 2012, it became one of the world’s top 10 most visited sites.

Now, the company will introduce mobile ads on the iOS and Android platforms in a couple of months this year. Any site that wants to see growth is also trying to capture the mobile market, because both the online world and the mobile world have intertwined in information technology and communication.

Tumblr users can monetise their blog and can start earning. Those who are avid bloggers will now the benefit of getting on this platform. It certainly is a great way to express one’s opinion, ideas, and anything that one wants to. There are not many Pakistani users on Tumblr, but it is also fairly popular amongst internet surfers here.

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