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Pakistan Netizens Posting Record Data To Google Map Maker

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Pakistan is showing fast growth in it’s IT sector these days. It’s online users are growing at a very fast rate. Pakistanis are coming up with many online business models and contributing to over all Internet achievements. Not only in IT Industry but even in Telecom industry Pakistan’s growth has been remarkable in recent year and its progressing continuously.

Since the release of Google Map Maker,  a service that allows you to create a map by adding or editing features such as roads, businesses, parks, schools and more. Pakistanis have contributed a lot in populating its maps in Pakistan.

Recently reported by a news agency ANI, citing Bangalore-based ‘Lalit Katragadda’, the founder of “Map Maker” says:

“Pakistan netizens are posting more localized information and data to the Google’s ‘map maker’ than the web users of any of the 160 countries which are using the leading internet search engine’s experiment.”

Below is the full press release by ANI:

Silicon Valley (California), May 23 (ANI): Pakistan netizens are posting more localized information and data to the Google’s ‘map maker’ than the web users of any of the 160 countries which are using the leading internet search engine’s experiment.
Lalit Katragadda, the founder of Map Maker software informed that a particular Pakistani based in London has posted most frequent edits to the Google’s Map Maker,  a user-operated software.
Katragadda, who is based in Bangalore, told The Nation via teleconference that the software updates information instantly after a user sitting anywhere in theworld within 160 countries posts an edit to the live Map Maker.
When questions were put forth regarding the authenticity of the data provided by any of the net users, Katragadda said, it can always be verified by the software.
“We can always verify from authentic as well as independent sources within an hour’s time,” he added.
Any such experiment, related to a country’s geographical territory can always be a sensitive issue, and could have some implications, but the Google’s Map Maker had not come across any political issues till now.
“We have not faced any political issues so far,” Katragadda said. (ANI)

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Donate $5 for Swat Pakistan IDP’s From US Cell Phones

Pakistan Refugees

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived at the State Department promising what she called 21st century tools to meet global problems. It turns out you may have one of those tools in your pocket right now.
Tuesday Clinton enabled every American with a cellphone to help some two million Pakistanis driven from their homes in and around the Swat Valley in the battle against the Taliban. A quick text message from your personal phone sends in a $5 donation. This is in addition to the $100-million U.S. government aid package Clinton went to the White House to announce on Tuesday.
“Now, Americans can use technology to help, as well. Using your cell phones, Americans can text the word “swat” — to the number 20222 and make a $5 contribution that will help the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees provide tents, clothing, food, and medicine to hundreds of thousands of affected people,” Clinton said Tuesday in the White House briefing room.
Clinton tried it out herself, off camera. “And before I came over here, we did that in the State Department. So we are making some of the first donations to this fund.”

For details visit

http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2009/05/19/clinton-text-aid-straight-to-pakistan/

http://riseofpakistan.blogspot.com/2009/05/good-work-by-clinton-for-swat-relief.html#links

We Are Sorry – Liaquat Ali Khan Shaheed

You might have seen the news in different newspapers writing the shameful activities of some of our leaders during their current visit to United States. Well, i don’t have words to say anything about that, except that we are sorry to first prime minister of Pakistan Shaheed-e-Millat Khan Liaquat Ali Khan Shaheed. We can just pray for our leaders. May Allah show them the right path and a heart, which can feel what are they doing. And at a time when our more than 1.6 million brothers and sisters are homeless in their own homeland.

Ambri – Anwar Masood A Multilingual Pakistani Poet

Professor Anwar Masood is a multilingual poet. He is a teacher of the Persian language, and a poet of Urdu and Punjabi. Mostly popular for his Punjabi poetry. His poetry gives the message of the original and pure culture of Punjab. Anwar Masood is the only Punjabi poet who is popular among the masses. The way he has described the different aspects of life in his poetry have never been described before. Some of his poems have become so popular that where ever he went people desire to listen them again and again and have requested him to recite them before them. The most popular of them are Anar Kali Diyan Shana, Aj Kee Pakaeay, Banyan, Juma Bazaar, Umree and many more.Anwar Masood born in Gujrat (Pakistan), his family migrated to Lahore where he started his basic education. Again he went back to Gujrat and completed his matriculation from Public School. He achieved Role of Honor in B.A. from Zamidara College Gujrat. He started teaching in Islamia high school. He did his master in Persian from Oriental College Lahore and achieved gold medal. He started his service as a lecturer in 1962 and have been teaching in different college in Punjab.
Following is one of his beautiful poems in which he described the greatest of a Mother, A true story.

Pakistan Vs Korea – Asia Cup Hockey Final Today

LAHORE: Pakistan cruised to the final of 8th Men’s Asia Cup after beating hosts Malaysia by 4-2 in the second semi-final at Kuantan, Malaysia on Thursday. Earlier, Korea beat China by 5-1 in the first semi final.
The final match between Pakistan and Korea will be played on 16th May. According to the information received from Malaysia, the match between Pakistan and Malaysia match was played at a fast tempo.
Pakistan outplayed Malaysia in all fields. The match was tied by 1-1 at the end of the first half. Abu Ismail of Malaysia scored the first goal in 3rd minute. Rehan Butt leveled the goal in 18th minute. Akhtar Ali scored the second goal from Pakistan in 46th minute.
Rehan Butt scored the third goal in 63rd minute, while Abdul Haseem Khan scored the fourth goal in 67th minute. Malaysia got its fourth penalty corner in the last 70th minute of the match. Angkoo Malek scored the second goal on that penalty corner. India and
Japan will play the match for 5th and 6th position on Friday. Final match between Pakistan and Korea will be played on 16th May at 1730 (PST), while bronze medal match will be played between China and Malaysia at 1500 (PST) on Saturday.

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