Gone is time when access to information & entertainment was a real delimiter among different areas of the world, people were cling with their local believes & cultural values. Every place have a unique way to celebrate their joys by singing or using different musical instruments. Most of the time at one place, it take years to get familiar with the discoveries of surrounding continents. The communication among people of different nations are really slow or even dead. while animals like, horse & camel were used for transportation. I know most of the readers know about this chapter of history but the purpose of recalling this is to compare the past with the current trends of music, entertainment & socialization.
Music has the relation with human that is very old. It is also found in the roots of ancient civilizations. from prehistoric music to the current digitally lyrics of music, it exists with us at every age, however the tools of music has been altered with the passage of time. currently the pop music culture is all about what we called digital music with computer generated lyrics & voice alteration. yet i like it both classical & pop, but pop mostly because the lyrics made by guitar is stunning, one of my friend plays guitar well, I wounder how he learn it in a little time. but lately when i found some Guitar instruction dvds in the market i got the answer. I concluded here that now we are in the era where access to entertainment & social networking is quite easy but it is digitalized, we rarely meet people in real life, but can communicate with them using digital tools like phone & internet. Listning to music is no deal today but the real jolly of life exists in old music & warmth social interactions.
Corporate identity, trademarks or “logo” can be classified as the lingo of 21st century, where advertising & marketing becomes the essence of daily life. Now a days Trademarks & logo is the popular way to recognize a specific product, place, event, person or group. In 13th century trademarks for the first time was presented to identify people like Goldsmith & paper makers. Now logo or corporate identity is considered the most essential part of any business.
While looking at how the identity changes with time, Apple Inc in particular, has in the recent few decades changes their logos, Apple is an American multinational corporation that designs and manufactures computer & electronics products. Generally the logo design is changed when a new & advanced Logo designing software is introduced.
Apple fist logo was introduced when it was established in 1976, that was the time when the use of computer for designing graphics was not yet introduced at professional level, so that’s why we find this logo simple, in 1976 apple came up with another logo that is advanced from the fist one, similarly in 1998 we see the current logo which we find more attractive with a Web 2.0 concept. Logo designing for a directory, forum, blogs & other static or dynamic web portals is a growing profession. nowadays graphic designers use different graphics softwares in which Adobe photoshope & corel draw are most common.
Pakistan is among the early & rapid adapter when it came to the use of mobile phones. The journey of telecom industry became more competitive when different telecom companies appeared in Pakistan telecom market after Y2K. Similarly different mobile phone vendors from all over the world find Pakistan their new target market with a rapidly growing mobile phone user’s .currently mobile phones business in Pakistan is turned in to a mature industry at which many peoples are busy to earn their living.
This development provide path to create a new business unit, the shops & dealers related to mobile sales, repairing & accessories are the examples. These types of shops can be found at every place, from cities to small villages and towns. There will be hardly a market where one cannot find a mobile shop. These small business units provide sale & services related to mobile phone.like new mobile sales, repairing, unlocking & stuff like ring tones, wallpapers & so forth. the youth are often busy in downloading different ring tones from the internet. yes! having more then one phone for no reason became a fashion among the youngsters these days.
This new & relatively small business unit is rapidly growing, but despite this fact, yet there is no single mobile phone manufacturer in Pakistan; all the phones sell in Pakistan are imported from foreign countries in which china is the major contributor.
How to get internships in the telecom sector of Pakistan? There might be a lot of students & fresh graduates who seek paid or volunteer internship in Ufone, mobilink,Telenor & other cellular companies in Pakistan. In order to face the future challenges, it is necessary for fresh student to get practical work experience by joining any organizations as a fresh internee. In fact it is a very first step towards your career. In, particular the organization & team where you seek internship is very important, choose it with great care. this is because if you get a chance to work with a team of high repute, it is quite good to polish your hidden skills & make you able enough to face a challenging career path in future. Generally internships are offered in summer vacations in Pakistan by few companies and are limited to students from highly recognized universities/institutions. frankly speaking! the scenario of internships in mobile companies like Telenor, Zong, Ufone & Warid is quite frustrating. It is quite difficult to get internship opportunity due to lack of proper channels for internship. unless you have a good reference, nobody allows you work with them! because in most of the cases students get internship through a reference with someone in the management of company.
An year ago after the completion of my masters degree, I got a chance to secure a 3 months internship at Ufone customer services center in Peshawar regional office. It is surely a good chance of learning for me at that stage. Mainly my job description is to carry out customer services operations by resolving problems of walk in customers. So it was a great chance to interact with people from different walks of life, which is surely good for building up my communication skills. i must concluded that it was a good experience & yes! they pays stipend to cover incidental expenses.
Ufone & telenor offers internship program which is formally advertised at there websites but I wonder they seldom use that way to pick candidates for internship, so if you really want to join any telecom company as a trainee. For marketing internships you can directly approach the incharge of sales & customer service department, for technical & finance internship it is better to find acquaintances who is already employed there & use their reference to get your entry as an internee 
zong GPRS
Are you pissed off with the speed of dial up internet connection at your location? or you need a portable & cheap internet solution for your laptop? In both the cases this post might be helpful. This is a step by step tutorial about how to connect to internet via GPRS by using your zong connection.
First of all you have to subscribed for zong GPRS package. you can choose among 2GB, 4GB or unlimited GPRS. dial 905 & follow the instructions. OR by sms, write SUB
Once you successfully configured your mobile for GPRS the next step is to connect it to your PC or laptop. If you are using nokia cell phone you can either use data cable or bluetooth device. I’ll prefers data cable here because it is more effective. the 3 easy steps to connect. First – Install Nokia PC suit to your computer. Second – Connect your mobile to your laptop by using data cable, usually SUB cable connectors are provided with most of the recent nokia phones. Third open your PC SUIT software & click on the button “connect to the internet” & you are all done. Enjoy internet suffering with good speed. In fact i am quite satisfied after using it. It gives me the speed of 115kb/s on my laptop.
PS: IF anyone didn’t have PC suit software, they can also make internet connection manually on their PC, the step by step guide about manual settings can be obtained by requesting ZONG customer services representatives or by writing to me at email that can be found in about me section.
The existence of multinational & high ranked companies in any country is surely a valuable asset that not only make a good contribution when it cames to job opportunities but also plays a part in promoting quality education & skills development. most of the multinational companies in Pakistan often seems engaged in organizing different exhibitions, seminars & off the campus competitions in order to enhance the skills of the students who belong to the related industry.
Similarly what telecoms companies is doing here in this regard is creating an embody & practical demonstration of theory. This is what i can say an open invitation for creative students to came forward. Recently mobilink one of the favorite cellular company in Pakistan announced an inter universities completion for engineering students. The event which is called “Mobilink Super Engineer Competition 2009” will provide the path to students from different high ranked engineering universities to work in line with mobilink team on different technical projects. each team from a university has to present the assignment at the end which will be evaluated by a committee of senior technical team. the winner will be called the mobilink super engineer 2009. they will also get the opportunity of job interview at mobilink.
Telenor is also doing well in this regard, the events like telenor career management workshops & on the campus management trainee program is also an approach to explore the hidden skills of the students as well as a path to pick up the enthusiastic & talented one to be the part of their team. This is for sure a highly acclaimed strategy to maintain utmost levels of excellence at the roots human capital development in any dynamic organization.
Broadband surely become a necessity these days. From a general view with broadband 1 Mbps connection checking in on Facebook or any of your favorite social media, browsing to Twitter & other websites of your interest is a quick and easy job. similarly faster speeds have resulted in new trends of video uploading & sharing as well. In this era one cannot imagine to live without a the access of high speed internet.
With the growth of broadband users in pakistan, different broadband companies emerged in the market. most of them offers a broadband connection with relatively different technology. so lets discuss about the main competitors & the technology they are using.
In Fixed line broadband services with ADSL “Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line” & HFC “Hybrid Fiber Coax” technology etc, the main competitors are PTCL & linkdotnet, both have a strong portfolio but PTCL got extensively wide network then linkdotnet where their services are limited to main cities in pakistan.
In wireless broadband, the technology such as WiMAX & EVDO “evolution, data only” is targeting the customers in the market. Wateen telecom being the first wimax operator has more subscriber then the recently launched wordcall & wi-tribe, One the other hand wordcall & PTCL are offering Wireless broadband with EVDO technology.
The race among the broadband companies is still on the move, the competition in this sector ultimately leads them to provide the consumer the best broadband services at cheap price.
Javed choudhry articles are balanced & meaningful, I often read it online or either in the newspaper. It was few days ago when I came across one of his article that I want to discuss here in order to balance the cause why I write this post. In his article he explains how people from different backward regions discover highly advanced technologies. He put few examples when people who are living at the worst state of life in one place when happened to moved other places & cities, they easily get best opportunities to earn the prosper living standards. The distance between success & failure lies in the will & the decision to move. The conclusion of his article is that he wants to convey a message to unemployed people that if they fail to get opportunities in one city or a country they can possibly get their luck at other cities or countries.
Ok, now let’s talk about things practically, In Pakistan a number of students apply for visa to study in different foreign universities specially in London, Some of them are genuine with a keen intention to study while a number of them wants to fun around & enjoy their time at places like tantric massage london uk. traditionally most of them get this work done through foreign education consultants, yesterday I hear this news from a friend of mine who apply for study visa through a well know consultant in Peshawar, He submitted his tuition fee last month & according to him he is quite near to move abroad. Lately when he arrived to their office to find information about his visa he found a number of other students complaining that the office is closed since a week & the study visa program is just a fraud. They cheat them all & run away from the scene & left the student with empty hands. So try to learn from others experiences from both the positive & negative angle.