Category Archive: Science & Technology

Sep
09
2011

News of Bin Laden’s Death and Social Media’s Power of Communication

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I was about to sign out of my email account, when there appeared a new email in my inbox. I immediately opened it to check it out. It was from one of the citizen journalism social networking sites I am a member of. All it said without any details to the information was that Bin …

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Apr
14
2010

Golden Ages of World

Knowledge is an unfathomable sea having no bounds. It is a continuous journey towards light. It cannot be confined to any finite areas of studies. Allah Almighty (SWT) says: اقْرَأْ بِاسْمِ رَبِّكَ الَّذِي خَلَقَ “(O Beloved!) Read (commencing) with the name of Allah (SWT) Who has created (everything).” Everything created in the universe is attributed …

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Feb
24
2009

The ‘first true scientist’

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Original post on BBC by Professor Jim Al-Khalili University of Surrey Professor Jim Al-Khalili presents Science and Islam on BBC Four at 2100GMT on Monday 5, 12 & 19 January Isaac Newton is, as most will agree, the greatest physicist of all time. At the very least, he is the undisputed father of modern optics,­ …

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Oct
15
2008

Wi-tribe to be the next WiMAX Operator in Pakistan

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Aamir Atta at ProPakistani had reported back in May 2008 that Wi-Tribe is planning to enter into WiMAX market in Pakistan, after Wateen and Mobilink. Now after Motorola has signed a multi-year WiMAX contract with wi-tribe Pakistan limited, Wi-Tribe seems set ready for a the all-new wireless broadband Internet provider to enter the Pakistan. Motorola …

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Oct
14
2008

10.5 million unverified mobile connections blocked

Original post by Babar Bhatti at State of Telecom Industry in Pakistan While many numbers and policies have been floating around for the unverified SIM issue, PTA has issued a new statement which I am sharing here. As we know this has been one of the most difficult issues for the industry. A few big …

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Sep
16
2008

Pakistan’s Contribution to the Large Hadron Collider (LHC)

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Large Hadron Collider (LHC – not to be confused with Lahore High Court in anyway) is a Physicist’s dream come true. Being world’s biggest science apparatus ever built this is a show of science on how far have we come to in our mental and analytical evolution. Today with the LHC we are at brink …

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