WhatsApp drops $1 annual subscription fee
The most famous mobile messaging service WhatsApp has announced today that it is waving off its annual subscription fee of $0.99. This fee was applicable after the first year of use.
The most famous mobile messaging service WhatsApp has announced today that it is waving off its annual subscription fee of $0.99. This fee was applicable after the first year of use.
A new desktop app called Smartflix now available for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X which will simply let you pick and choose from Netflix content which is normally only available in the US, Canada and any other regions.
It’s been only a day or two when Netflix Internet TV services were launched in more than 130 new countries, the secrets about the services have started popping up.
Netflix has surprised the world by having launched its internet TV services simultaneously in more than 130 new countries worldwide including Pakistan.
Mobilink has introduced a buy 2 get 1 free offer on its 3G 3-day bundle for its 3G centric subscriber base with an emphasis on providing more for less.
YahClick, a satellite broadband internet service of UAE based Yahsat (Al Yah Satellite Communications) officially launched at an event in Islamabad, Pakistan. #TechProlonged
Google is testing its new service dubbed “Contributor” to help remove ads on the websites – but that is currently the main source of revenue for the websites or web publishers. Google Contributor will allow visitors of the website to pay a fee from $1 to $3 monthly if they really don’t want to see ads on the website they are exploring. Instead of the advertisement, the visitors will see a “Thank you” note.
However currently the bigger ratio of internet usage is from the PC users but while the days pass, Pakistani internet users are gaining momentum in using their smartphones for the purpose. Desktop is dominant with 91 percent owning a PC at home, 45 percent also own a smartphone or tablet. 18 percent cite the latter as their primary device. Mobile devices are gaining momentum: 86 percent use PCs to access the Internet daily, 77 percent use smartphones, 73 percent use feature phones and 59 percent use tablets daily.
After being successful on iOS and Android, finally Instagram has released the most popular image filtering and sharing app on Windows Phone platform. It’s almost over a year and half when Instagram was launched for Android OS, according to Instagram the community is now over 150 million people and spreads globally.
Microsoft, with Atari and Grant Skinner, has just launched Atari Arcade with eight of the most popular Atari games that include Pong, Combat, Lunar Lender, Super Breakout, Yars’ Revenge, Asteroids, Missile Command, and Centipede. These classic arcade games will run on all modern browsers with support of HTML5. Internet Explorer 9 on Windows 7 PC will also be useful for playing the listed games.