SWANSEA: An electrician and his wife had a shock when they received a mobile phone bill for £163,000, then fought for months to have the debt cleared. For 15 years, Alan and Carolyn Mazkouri, from Swansea, had a business deal with Orange for 10 phones. They told the BBC’s Watchdog ...

WASHINGTON  - US Attorney General Eric Holder says he is unaware of the subpoenas for phone records of Associated Press, the American news agency,  but defended them as a necessary measure. Holder removed himself from the case that has been branded as an “unprecedented ...

WASHINGTON : The beleagueredUSgovernment claims it was only trying to protect American lives when it took the drastic step of seizing journalists’ phone records in a probe of what it calls a major security breach. President Barack Obama’s administration, embattled on several fronts, now ...

WASHINGTONAn American news agency, The Associated Press, Monday sent a letter to US Attorney General Eric Holder protesting the Justice Department's examination of AP phone records.The letter, sent by AP President and Chief Executive Officer Gary Pruitt called the examination of 20 telephone lines ...

LONDON: Ed Sheeran’s phone bill reached £5,000 while supporting Taylor Swift in the US. The ‘Lego House’ hitmaker has been supporting the singer on her US tour and revealed over the first four weeks phone calls home piled up to cost thousands of pounds. Speaking to The Sun ...

ISLAMABAD (APP): - The mobile phone imports into the country increased by 4.38 percent during the first nine months of the current year over the same period of last year. The imports of mobile phone during July-March (2012-13) were recorded at $536.7 million against $514.18 million during ...

ISLAMABAD : Sindh province is on top with 84pc mobile phone penetration followed by Punjab where such penetration touched 68.1pc mark till 2012. Other provinces have less than 50 % penetration i.e. KPK 42.2 % and Balochistan 45.9pc. The government and regulator PTA have been encouraging cellular ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AFP)Facebook unveils its "home" on the Android smartphone Thursday, a move expected to tie the leading social network's services tightly into mobile software. Invitations to a press event at Facebook's main campus in the Silicon Valley city of Menlo Park rekindled talk of a "Facebook ...

RAWALPINDI - Mobile phone jammers have been installed in Adiala Central Jail to stop illegal communication.Sources said that sensitive agencies have expressed concerns over the use of mobile phone from inside the jail upon which four jammers have been installed on central tower in the detention ...

Mobile phone services in many cities of the country, including Lahore and Karachi have been suspended.According to the reports, Karachi, Hyderabad, Khairpur, Mirpirkhas, Sukkur, Larkana and Nosheroferoz are facing cellular services suspension in Sindh Province.In Punjab province, the services were ...

NEW YORK (WO)A NYC musician used a combination of technology, a hammer and a bribe to reclaim his missing iPhone. Jazz trombonist Nadav Nirenberg left the mobile phone in a livery cab. The next morning, he learned via email that someone was sending messages to women using a dating app on the phone. ...

ISLAMABAD - Mobile phone services at certain places in the country can be shutdown anytime on August 19 (Sunday) and August 20 (Eid day) because of the terrorist threats, said Interior Minister Rehman Malik.Talking to the media on Sunday, the minister said that Lahore, Multan and Karachi were the ...

MOST of us have faced that terror of being trapped in a foreign country with little understanding or comprehension of the language.Whether it is a parking sign that makes no sense, or a menu that is all Greek to you, an app for Android and iPhone could be the solution by translating words ...

ISLAMABAD – Justice Qazi Faez Isa, who heads the memo commission, has said that telephone records submitted by US businessman confirm contacts between Mansoor Ijaz and Husain Haqqani.As the judicial commission probing the memogate scandal resumed hearing on Thursday, it directed ...

ISLAMABAD – Teenagers who excessively use their cell phones are more prone to disrupted sleep, restlessness, stress and fatigue, according to a research.The study, authored by Gaby Badre, MD, PhD, of Sahlgren’s Academy in Gothenburg, Sweden, focused on 21 healthy subjects, between 14-20 ...

ISLAMABAD  – The mobile phone subscribers across the country have slammed government’s decision to levy 2 per cent radio tax.It is worth mentioning that Federal government had announced to deduct 2 percent from all mobile subscribers as Radio Tax to pull out Pakistan Radio (PBC) ...

CHRISTINA Hendricks has contacted authorities after her mobile phone was hacked. The ‘Mad Men’ star was left furious after discovering a hacker had bypassed the security settings on her handset and downloaded several images, including shots in which she is not wearing make-up.  An ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Hits from The Beatles have finally joined the chorus of ringtones available for mobile phones.Catchy 30-second snippets from more than two dozen of the famed 1960s British rock band’s top tunes are available exclusive at Apple’s online iTunes shop, a message Wednesday at ...

LAHORE – Old Anarkali police claimed to have arrested a swindler shortly after he snatched a mobile phone and tried to flee from the crime scene on Saturday. According to the modus operandi, police investigators said two swindlers while riding a car hit two pedestrian friends and later came ...

PARIS  - Hailed as the French Steve Jobs, entrepreneur Xavier Niel is shaking up the country's mobile phone market with a maverick style far removed from France's traditionally conservative business practices.A rare business heavyweight not to emerge from the country's elite universities, Niel ...

ISLAMABAD (APP) The import of mobile phone in the country has registered increase of 13.79 percent during the month of August, as compared to the previous month of July, 2011. The import of the commodity in the country stood at $56.04 million during August 2011 whereas its import in July, 2011 ...

THERMOMETER, stethoscope... smartphone? Research from Worcester Polytechnic Institute shows that smartphones could replace anything from heart monitors to microscopes. Researchers proved that simply pressing a patients finger against a Motorola Android smartphones camera, they could harvest data as ...

HAFIZABAD - Dacoits in the district have become so daring that they last night deprived MPA Shahid Bhatti and his gunmen of two cell phones and Rs5,000. According to his workers who were touring along with the MPA in constituency PP-107 last night, when the MPAs vehicle reached near Nawan Manika on ...

Our Staff Reporter KARACHI - Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) has made a major value addition to its alternative arrangements for payment of monthly electricity bills through which customers can now regularly receive their bill electronically via email and cell phone. The alternate ...

LAHORE The Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) in its response to the statement issued by Supreme Court Bar Association President Asma Jehangir said that the agency had nothing to do with the phone recording of any individual. While talking to Waqt News, an ISI source, who requested not to be named, ...

ISLAMABAD - A luxury spending of Rs3.13 million by a former managing director of Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) during his tenure by just availing a single facility of mobile, among scores other, gives a little insight that how national carrier reached on the verge of collapse. Predecessor ...

WASHINGTON (INP) - It seemed an innocuous, catch-up phone call. Last year Abu Ahmed al-Kuwaiti, the pseudonym for a Pakistani known to US intelligence as the main courier for Osama bin Laden, took a call from an old friend. Where have you been? inquired the friend. Weve missed you. Whats going on ...

PUNE (India) Pakistans runaway wicketkeeper Zulqarnain Haider suspects that his telephone lines are being taped. Speaking to this scribe over from London, the 25-year-old Haider said, I suspect all my telephone lines in Lahore and here (England) are being taped. I dont know whether it is being ...

ISLAMABAD - Director General (DG) Pakistan Broadcasting Corporation (PBC), commonly known as Radio Pakistan, spent Rs 249,000 on his cellphone way above the entitlement of Rs 4,000 per month. Contrary to prescribed instructions, PBC Headquarter Islamabad paid a sum of Rs 249541 over and above the ...

A CAMERAPHONE application that finds names and addresses of total STRANGERS was blasted as a 'stalkers dream. The facial recognition app instantly identifies snaps by matching them to photos on websites like Facebook and Twitter, where personal info is accessed. Horrified security experts claim ...