Study sees Microsoft brand in sharp decline April 1, 2008
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Microsoft’s brand power has been in sharp decline over the past four years, an indication the company is losing credibility and mindshare with U.S. business users, according to a recent study by market research firm CoreBrand.
According to the CoreBrand Power 100 2007 study, which polled about 12,000 U.S. business decision-makers, Microsoft dropped from number 12 in the ranking of the most powerful U.S. company brands in 2004 to number 59 last year. In 1996, the company ranked number 1 in brand power among 1,200 top companies in about 50 industries, said James Gregory, CEO of CoreBrand.
Nine Ways to Win at Office Politics April 1, 2008
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By Rachel Zupek, CareerBuilder.com writer
Politics in the workplace can get vicious - and we’re not talking about the governmental kind. Rather, office politics, or how power and influence are managed in your company, will be a part of your career whether you choose to participate in them or not.
Some workers say they don’t want to get caught up in politics at work, but most experts argue that playing the game is crucial to your career success. By not getting involved, you may find your talents ignored and your success limited, and you may feel left out of the loop, says Louellen Essex, co-author of “Manager’s Desktop Consultant: Just-in-Time Solutions to the Top People Problems That Keep You Up at Night.”
Fair and Unbiased Media - Pakistan March 23, 2008
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source:http://www.pakistanforums.pk/articles/14/1/Fair-and-Unbiased-Media—Pakistan/Page1.html
DAILY TIMES - March 13th, 2008
published under the heading of:
………the other 46 percent
the comment of the newspaper under the heading reads…..
The government claims that Pakistan’s literacy rate is 54 percent. This picture shows men disregarding a sign that says pedestrians are supposed to take an underground tunnel to cross Jail Road. abid nawaz
The above picture and its caption from a Leading Daily Newspaper in Pakistan shows just How Fair and unbiased the media is in Pakistan.
War on JANG March 20, 2008
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source:http://www.jang.com.pk/thenews/spedition/waronjang/
February 1999
Feb. 10
Jang Group newsprint released, accounts unfrozen
SC adjourns hearing in Jang, PFUJ petitions
Walkouts in NWFP Assembly on arrest of MPA, press freedom
Govt condemned for biased attitude against press
New batch of journalists takes over at hunger-strike camp
| Feb. 09 | PRESS FREEDOM MARCH | |
 KARACHI:Benazir Bhutto leading a massive press freedom march on Monday.–The News photo by Aijaz Hashmi |
Massive press freedom march in Karachi Mir Shakil pleads SC to suspend notices against Jang Group Hearing of Jang Group’s plea today Newsmen pledge to uphold press freedom Benazir writes to HR groups on govt’s victimisation of Jang Group Overseas Pakistanis criticise govt for targeting Jang Group I am duty-bound to protect interests of Jang: Hameed All-party rally in favour of press freedom Journalists hold protest meeting, start hunger-strike PBC seeks to be impleaded in Jang Group petition |
 Various political parties brought out a rally to express solidarity with the journalists’ struggle against the government’s attitude towards Jang Group on Monday. The rally — led among others by PPP’s Benazir Bhutto and JI’s Prof Ghafoor Ahmed — is seen passing through I I Chundrigar Road. –The News photo by Aijaz Hashmi |
Feb. 08
Will Resignation of Musharraf solves our problems? March 16, 2008
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If Musharraf resignes today, what will happen?
People will be relieved and there will be white flags flying all around, no more terrorists and no more terrorism.. White doves flying and singing happy songs…? I pray?
But will this actually happen. People all around me, at-least most of them, think so. But I do not agree that only resignation of Musharraf will cool down those bloody people from killing more Pakistanis and foreigners.
On average more than one bomb blast every week since 2006 . Most of our so called matric fail journalists and third class TV channels ( who think high of themselves and compare themselves with cnn, bcc, sky and other news channels ) blame Musharraf for this and call it a “Reaction”, a reaction of Lal Masjid and whats happening in Waziristan and wana etc.
OK, I agree with you guys, correct, its reaction. My friends say that these people from Lal masjid and wana were being brutally butchered and their loved ones took law in their hands and now they are “Reacting”.
How fire was invented ?? March 14, 2008
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Transparent Screen … March 14, 2008
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source:http://techfo.info/2008/03/13/transparent-screen-make-one/
It’s very easy to make your own Transparent Screen.
Its easy too just take one picture with a laptop’s screen closed and another one with the screen open, and then just paste the background on top of the screen in Photoshop.
Pakistan: The War of Drones March 12, 2008
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source: http://www.chowk.com/articles/13776
Pervez Hoodbhoy March 10, 2008
Drones, machine and human, have drenched Pakistan with the blood of innocents. On the one side are US-made drones such as the MQ-1B General Dynamics Predator – a remote controlled, self-propelled, missile-bearing aerial system. On the other side are the low-tech human drones, armed with explosive vests
stuffed with ball bearings and nails. These lethal engines of destruction, programmed by remote handlers, are very different. But neither asks why it must kill, nor cares about the death and suffering it causes.
On January 13 2006, a bevy of MQ-1Bs hovering over Damadola launched a barrage of ten Hellfire missiles at the village below. They blew up 18 local people, including five women and five children. Such cold statistics say nothing about the smashed lives of the survivors, or the grief of the bereaved. The blame was put on faulty local intelligence.
An inconvenient truth… March 11, 2008
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source: http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=100179
Saturday, March 08, 2008
M P Bhandara
Various expressions such as ‘massive victory’, ‘crushing defeat’, ‘a clean sweep of President Musharraf’s allies’, ‘the nation rejects previous rulers’ and a slew of chest-thumping slogans have been used by the victors and the media to celebrate the electoral success of the PPP and the PML-N. Even the New York Times, on February 29 referred to the “overwhelming rejection of Musharraf’s party by the voters this month”; surprising since the Times has a reputation for scrupulous fidelity to facts. There is an inconvenient truth about this election and President Musharraf has pointed it out in his assertion that his allies have got more votes than his adversaries.
Let us consider the voting facts for a moment: According to the statistics of the Election Commission, the PML-Q and its allies, the MQM, the PML-F and the PPP-S received 10,844,233 votes. The PPP-P received 10,055,491 votes and the PML-N 6,240,343 votes. Therefore, the PML-Q and allies received 40 per cent of votes, the PPP-P 37 per cent and the PML-N 23 per cent of the 27.14M votes cast for the three major parties.
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Pakistan move knocked out YouTube March 11, 2008
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source : http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/02/25/pakistan.youtube/
(CNN) — An apparent move by the Pakistani government to block YouTube, the popular video-sharing Web site, knocked out access to the site worldwide for more than two hours, Internet analysts say.
The outage followed a letter sent Friday evening by the Pakistani Telecommunications Authority (PTA) to Internet service providers, ordering them to prevent people in Pakistan from visiting YouTube.
The authority cited a “highly blasphemous” video featuring right-wing Dutch politician Geert Wilders.
The block was intended to cover only Pakistan but extended to about two-thirds of the global Internet population, The Associated Press cited Renesys Corp, an Internet monitoring company, as saying.
What happened was that Pakistan Telecom established a route that directed requests for YouTube videos from local Internet subscribers to a “black hole,” AP cited Renesys as saying. It then published that route to its international data carrier, PCCW of Hong Kong, which accepted, AP quoted Todd Underwood, vice president of Renesys, as explaining.
The move also coincided with the temporary shutdown Friday evening of Aaj TV, a Pakistani television cable and satellite channel, after it reportedly upset President Pervez Musharraf. Since declaring a nationwide state of emergency on November 3, he has taken independent television stations off the air; they would later be allowed to resume service.
In YouTube’s case, it was completely inaccessible on Sunday from 10:48 a.m. PT to 12:51 p.m. PT (11:48 p.m. Sunday to 1:51 a.m. Monday in Pakistan), said Shawn White, a spokesman for Keynote Systems, a San Mateo, California-based Internet-performance monitoring company.
