Company Details of Syntax Communications - ProPakistanis

Syntax Communications was established in 

2004 as a new business unit of Synergy Advertising. Since then, Syntax Communications has created its niche as one of the leading PR agencies in Pakistan. 

Syntax Communications team includes diligent and dynamic individuals to provide dedicated and customized PR services to its clients. Syntax Communications is focused on providing strategic and client-centric PR solutions that are well-integrated with the overall marketing strategy of the client’s business. Over time, Syntax Communications has developed influential media relations and up-to-date media database to cater to its clients needs in the most timely, reliable and accurate way. 

As a proactive PR agency, Syntax Communications has the honor of being one of the few organizations to have successfully implemented PR 2.0 activities in order to enhance and compliment the traditional PR practices. It has developed a database of several active bloggers across Pakistan to feed them with relevant PR activities of our clients and create an online buzz in a short time. 

With a reputation for strong crisis management, Syntax Communications has to date served many leading local and multinational businesses such as Dupont, Motorola, DHA Cogen, Cathay Pacific, Crosby Asset Management Company, Nokia and Dawlance to name a few. 

Syntax Communications arranges thematic press conferences and round-table conferences on regular basis. Keeping the product being launched in mind, Syntax Communications puts up the most suitable and captivating theme to match the essence of product launch. 

Syntax Communications goal is to become a key source of PR knowledge base in Pakistan as it continues to promote brands in a most newsworthy and innovative fashion. At the same time, it is committed to establishing a benchmark for best PR practices in the local industry.

Specialties

Communications, Public Relations, Digital Communications, PR 2.0, Issues Advertising, Research, Events Management, Media Management, Crisis Management 

A professional team well rounded in all aspects of PR, marketing and advertising with definitive expertise in their respective disciplines.

Have a work ethic of constantly creating and thinking of opportunities to add value to our client’s corporate equity

Smart edge over other agencies in terms of quality of human resource and strategic thinking!

Syntax Communications give special importance to each and every one of Syntax Communication clients because they are an integral part of their business. Considering their clients precious, they pay attention to smallest of their needs. It is for these reasons that thay have retained reputed brands for long time. The list of Syntax Communications esteemed clients includes various well-known local and international brands/ corporations:

Syntax Communictions Clientle

    Address:   House# 133- Block B Sindhi Muslim Cooperative Housing Society,
                         Karachi, Pakistan-74400

    Phone:          021-34557220-21

    Email:            info@syntaxcommunications.com

    Website:      www.syntaxcommunications.com

LinkedIn to Setup Offices in Pakistan, Not Really - ProPakistanis

LinkedIn, world’s largest networking website for professionals, is making its way to start operations in Pakistan by setting up local offices in the country, reported Express Tribune citing Saleem H Mandviwalla, Chairman for Board of Investment (BOI) in Pakistan.

Chairman BOI said that board had detailed discussions with a LinkedIn Director for the move.

Mr. Saleem Mandviwalla further revealed that LinkedIn is likely to start setup offices in Pakistan by year end or early next year with initial investment of USD 10 million. “This will lead to the setting up of LinkedIn’s proper operations in Pakistan”, the chairman said.

Mr. Salaeem further mentioned that LinkedIn has shown great interest in Pakistani market which poses huge potential for internet companies with its 30 million internet users and growing.

Stats say that there are 1.2 million LinkedIn users in Pakistan, which largely consists of business professionals and decision makers of the country.

Board of Investment has said that it will use LinkedIn as an effective tool and an important platform for its business development activities.

Via Express Tribune

(September 27th – 1:30 PM)

Express Tribune has now reported that its earlier report, that was produced by APP (Associated Press of Pakistan) was untrue and that LinkedIn has denied opening offices in the country.

“While we are exploring some commercial opportunities in Pakistan, we currently have no plans to open a local office,” LinedIn spokesperson Darain Faraz was quoted as saying.

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Hamariweb and Bayt Join Hands to Offer Jobs Portal - ProPakistanis

Bayt.com, the top job site in the Middle East, has collaborated with Pakistan’s Hamariweb.com to form a job portal, specifically tailored for Pakistani audience.

A statement issued by Hamarweb said that this alliance will greatly facilitate employment in Pakistan for both job seekers and employers within the country and associate region.

Pakistan has a sufficient number of skilled professionals in job industry as well as produces over 400,000 university graduates every year. Those are being fulfilled the demand of various industries within the local as well as in international job market.

The job portal like Bayt.com, with most extensive network as well as relevant database of professionals and employers from middle east, can help to the both as significantly in our job market.

With Humariweb job portal, Pakistani job seekers will have an opportunity to keep a watch on jobs available in Pakistan, Middle East and beyond. Similarly, the employers can attract regional work force with expertise in their respective fields.

This new Job section can be visit at jobs.hamariweb.com

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Nokia’s Windows Phone 8 Smartphones are Coming on Nokia World, Sept. 5th: ProPakistanis

Nokia World has always been one of the most anticipated Nokia events that are held every year. Nokia World 2011 saw the announcement of the first ‘real’ Windows Phones, the Lumia 900 and 710.

Just as exciting was the Nokia World 2010 where Nokia announced the first Symbian^3 devices including the 12 megapixel cameraphone, the N8 and a bunch of other Symbian phones as well.

This year, Bloomberg has revealed that Nokia will be launching Windows Phone 8smartphones. This will be the second consecutive time that the event will see the launching of Windows Phones.

The event will be held on September 5-6 in Helsinki, Finland. The phones are expected to launch in October (around the time of launching of Windows 8 and Surface) or later.

The event is very important for for the Finland-based company because it will bring out the best of Windows Phones and will put Nokia in a place from where it will finally be able to compete with the big brands in this competition.

Samsung Pakistan: This is How a Poor Facebook Admin can Embarrass Your Brand: ProPakistanis

We have seen blunders happening on official Facebook pages of multinational brands before (so often for Pakistani brands), when relatively inadequate Facebook page admins post updates/pictures without researching, or let me say by heavily relying on Google.

History repeated itself yesterday, when Samsung Pakistan uploaded an image on its official Facebook page with caption: “Picture perfect view made even more perfect with Samsung Galaxy S3”

Check below the screenshot:

Soon after the upload, comments started to come-in, with shouts that its not Galaxy S3, rather it appears more like a cousin of Galaxy Note. Complying with the commentators (apparently without researching), the page admin edited the caption and changed Title to “Galaxy Note”.

This was when someone tipped to Engadget that Samsung Pakistan has mistakenly uploaded the image of upcoming Galaxy Note 2.

Following is what Engadget wrote:

There’s one big reason to be skeptical, which is that this exact same pic already did the rounds as a potential GS III image before that flagship was launched. The only difference here is that it’s on an official outlet, which implies the jpeg in question could be sitting on a member of staff’s hard drive.

Story was naturally picked by the whole internet. The Verge was, however, able to settled the confusion by identifying that this was a concept design for Samsung Galaxy S3 posted on a Russian website.

Even worse, Samsung Pakistan updated following status, revealing that the mistake was on part of poor Googling – yes official page of Samsung Pakistan uses the mighty Google for its images. Check below yourself:

Acer Reveals the Touchscreen Windows 8 Ultrabook, the Aspire S7: ProPakistanis

It seems that companies are becoming more and more active in rolling out their Windows 8 products in the past couple of months and Acer is one of them.

They announced their Acer Aspire S7 ultrabook a month ago but its only now that they have unveiled the specs of this thing.

To start of, this ultrabook has an (optional) touchscreen, comes in 11.6 and 13.3 inch versions and runs on Windows 7 which will be upgraded to Windows 8. Since it will launch in the second half of September, Acer won’t be able to put Windows 8 in this ultrabook.

Here are the specs:

• 11.6 or 13.3 inch versions with full HD displays
• Thickness: 12.5 mm
• Aluminium unibody (with a glass lid on the outside of the 13 inch flavor)
• Screen moveable by 180 degrees
• Backlit keyboard and a trackpad with no physical buttons
• Windows 7 running but might be upgraded by Acer themselves
• Intel Core (Ivy Bridge) i5 processors(you can have core i7 for some more money)
• 4 Gb RAM coupled with 128GB of SSD storage
• micro HDMI port/ Thunderbolt port/ headphone jack
• 2 USB 3.0 ports and a full size SD card slot
• Acer’s new Twin Air cooling system for keeping the ultrabook cool
• 9 & 12 hrs battery life for the 11 & 13 inch models respectively
• Option for more RAM, SSD storage and touchscreen

Other than having a touchscreen (which is very rare for an ultrabook), Acer Aspire S7 has an exceptional design which puts it in the same class as the Macbooks from Apple (design-wise). The ultrabook will retail for $1465 or around Rs. 160,000 or more when it launch in September.

Ufone to Give Away Free Minutes to Entire Customer Base on August 14th: ProPakistanis

ProPakistanis has reliably learned that Ufone has plans to gift its customers on August 14th this year, by crediting free minutes to its entire base of customers of over 24 million Ufone users.

Free giveaway of minutes to all its customers is also evident from below screen taken from Ufone’s Independence Day TVC.

We aren’t cent percent sure yet, but it is likely that Ufone will give away 14 free minutes to all of its customers – across the board – who will have to consume these free minutes the same day, i.e. August 14th. More, exact and official details are yet to come.

The extraordinary Independence day gift coupled with thought provoking TVC demonstrates Ufone’s commitment to the people of Pakistan and the fact that issue of governance do not reflect the innate talent of Pakistanis.

Ufone, this way, will give away some 336 million free minutes on its network, a hefty and daring gift that anyone could give away on Pakistan’s independence day. This is probably the only instance in the history of country that a telecom operator is giving away free credit to all its customer base.

We will recommend Ufone customers to avail these free minutes for wishing Independence Day to your friends and family and make this August memorable. How wonderful an experience and tradition it can evolve into. Ufone has germinated an idea, lets explore it further.

Twitter SMS Now Available For Warid Telecom Pakistan Customers: PRoPakistanis

Twitter SMS services are now available for Warid Pakistan customers. Warid customers can update their Twitter status via SMS. Can receive SMS notifications from their favourite Twitter users.

Charges:

• SMS notifications receiving is free
• Sending SMS to Twitter number 40404 charges are Rs.1 Per SMS
• No hidden or other rental charges

How to start:

• Send "Start" to 40404 or go to twitter.com/settings/devices
• You can start using Twitter from SMS even if you don't already have an Twitter account
• SMS commands available at help.twitter.com

Warid is always late in bringing this kinda services. Warid was last network in Pakistan to launch Facebook SMS notifications and Twitter SMS notifications after several months when other networks already launched these services for their customers.

Send SMS "Follow ProPakistanis" to 40404 to get our Blog Updates

Android Gets its Official Blog and Google Plus Page: PRoPakistanis

In order to give Android more exposure and to keep people aware of all its advancements, developments and releases, Google has launched an official blog and a Google Plus page specially for the operating system to keep the people updated.

This is yet another effort from Google to bring Android more to the public after it made an official account of Android on twitter just months ago with the name of @Android.

Before the Android blog, Google Mobile blog was used to announce most of the things related to Android but it was used for announcements of app releases for other websites too and several other things but this Android blog is the first one to have been created only for the operating system.

The announcement for the Android blog was itself done through the Google Mobile blog. It said in the announcement:

A few months ago, we asked what content you wanted to see more of on the Google Mobile Blog, and the answer was quite clear: more Android!

We launched +Android on Google+ and now we’ve launched the Official Android Blog, a new place for you to find all the latest news from the Android team.

The first major announcement by the blog was of Google Wallet. And although it has just been launched, it already has a lot of content.

As of now, the Android blog has an Alexa rank of 23 million but you should expect it to grow fast over the next few weeks.

Get Verification Tick for Your Google Plus Business Page: ProPakistanis

Google now allows manual verification for Google+ pages. Let your page members know that page is real with a verification tick. Google will send you mail with a pin code at your business address for verification.

Follow these steps for verification:
Create your page by going to google.com/+/business

After you’ve created your page, you can verify it:

1. Hover over Unverified at the top of your Google+ page. Click the Verify nowbutton when it appears. Or, click Verify now in the Is this your business? section below the map.
2. Confirm your address and click Request postcard. Your postcard should arrive within a week or so.
3. Once it’s arrived, go to the website listed on the postcard, google.com/local/verify
4. Enter the PIN listed on the postcard and click Submit.
5. If you've requested a postcard for multiple Google+ pages, make sure to click on the name of the business that the postcard is for.

Note:

• Any page manager can request page verification.
• Don't forget to fill in the address of your business in your page.

Manual verification on Twitter is also coming in future.

NADRA Will Launch Smart NICOP and Smart CNIC Together on Independence Day This Year: ProPakistanis

NADRA will launch Smart NICOP and Smart CNIC together on Independence Day this year.Smart NICOP will provide 2.5 million overseas Pakistanis in Europe with priority travel, banking facilities and increased security as well as the existing visa-free entry to Pakistan. NADRA plans to bring out a number of services on the Smart Card and these will be provided upon availability. The card is programmed with a match-on-card applet which first confirms the biometrics of the user and then grants access to it.

The card is printed on multiple layers of polycarbonate material, each layer containing its own security features. This card is hence the securest in the world and protects the data of citizens at every level, spokesman of NADRA said.

NADRA Smart NICOP will help trace and catch those Pakistanis who are staying illegally in the UK. This was promised by former PM of Pakistan Yousaf Raza to PM of UK Cameron.

Nokia to Hold a Global (Handset) Launch Event in Pakistan: ProPakistanis

Nokia has finally selected Pakistan for a global launch event for two of its handsets, most likely to be feature phones with mid-range specs.

More details about the phones are embargoed but we can tell you that these two phones will have internet rich features specifically aimed for emerging markets like Pakistan.

Event is scheduled for May 15th, 2012 in Karachi.

Nokia has said that they chose Pakistan for the global launch of its upcoming devices to demonstrate the importance of Pakistani market for Nokia.

An invite sent to media men and bloggers read:

“Nokia envisions is to connect the next billion people and the first ever announcement from Pakistan of the upcoming devices have been planned specifically with this goal in mind.

Keep a watch here to know further about new Nokia devices that are going to see a launch on May 15th, 2012.

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Samsung Galaxy S III Revealed: ProPakistanis

Samsung has finally revealed its flagship android device for the year, the Samsung Galaxy S III – billed as official smartphone for Olympics 2012 – a sequel of Galaxy line of smartphones.

First thing you will notice about Samsung Galaxy S III is its gigantic 4.8 inch Super AMOLED HD screen (1280 x 720) on a minimal design – which by the way isn’t liked by many due to its huge size and Samsung’s conventional plastic pack.

On hardware front, Galaxy S III comes with 1.4GHz Samsung Exynos 4 Quad processor, which is said to offer twice the processing capability of the older Exynos 4 Dual used in previous Galaxy phones, while it consumes 20% lesser power.

Samsung said that it has optimized the power usage for processor by enabling each core to use exactly the amount of power it requires for processing.

Yes, Galaxy S3 will run on Android 4.0.4 or Ice Cream Sandwich.

Then there comes a 8-megapixel rear-facing and 1.9 megapixel forward-facing camera. Camera has zero shutter lag so you can capture photos instantly. The camera is also capable of taking 20 photos at once in burst mode, and a feature called “Best Photo” will pick the best shot out of a group of eight.

“With the GALAXY S III, Samsung has maximized the consumer benefits by integrating superior hardware with enhanced smartphone usability,” said JK Shin, President and Head of IT & Mobile Communications Division at Samsung.

Specifications:

Here is a run down of complete specifications for Galaxy S3:

• Network:
  • 2.5G (GSM/ GPRS/ EDGE): 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 MHz
  • 3G (HSPA＋ 21Mbps): 850 / 900 / 1900 / 2100 MHz
  • 4G (Dependent on market)
• Display: 4.8 inch HD Super AMOLED (1280×720) display
• OS: Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich)
• Camera
  • Main(Rear): 8 Mega pixel Auto Focus camera with Flash & Zero Shutter Lag
  • Sub (Front): 1.9 Mega pixel camera, HD recording @30fps with Zero Shutter Lag
  • Recording & Playback: Full HD (1080p)
• Connectivity:
  • WiFi a/b/g/n, WiFi HT40
  • GPS/GLONASS
  • NFC
  • Bluetooth® 4.0(LE)
• Sensor: Accelerometer, RGB light, Digital compass, Proximity, Gyro, Barometer
• Memory: 16/ 32GB User memory (64GB available soon) ＋ microSD slot (up to 64GB)
• Dimension: 136.6 x 70.6 x 8.6 mm, 133g
• Battery: 2,100 mAh

Software:

Samsung has introduced a plethora of software enhancements for Samsung Galaxy S3, including a Siri challenger: S Voice.

Here are few of features Samsung Galaxy S3 will offer:

• Smart Stay: Samsung Galaxy S3 will dim its brightness when you’re asleep. So long as you are awake and will look at the phone, it will maintain a bright display.
• Direct Call: Samsung claims that Galaxy S3 knows when you want to talk. If you’re messaging and want to call instead, simply lift your phone to your ear and it will dial your friend automatically.
• Smart Alert: It knows when you’ve been away from your phone – vibrating nudge lets you know missed calls or messages.
• Social Tag: It keeps track of your loved ones: a glance at your friends’ photos will show you their current SNS status.
• S Voice: Samsung Galaxy S3 responds to your words: you can tell it to wake up, answer, even take a photo.
• S Beam: Place two GALAXY S IIIs back-to-back and you can transfer pictures, music, videos, and more.
• All Share Cast: Stream your photos, videos – even the game you’re playing – onto big screen, with your phone doubling as a controller.
• Buddy Photo Share: It shares with everyone instantly: as the phone recognizes your friends faces, it can share photos with them instantly.
• All Share Play: Galaxy S3 lets you share with everyone: access to documents and 
  multimedia files when you work somewhere else.

In addition Samsung Galaxy S3 will allow you to watch HD videos while you text, or while you are writing a long email. A distraction some may call it – fun for others.

Samsung also partnered with Dropbox to offer 50GB of cloud space for Samsung Galaxy S3 owners.

Samsung said that one should expect world over launch of Samsung Galaxy S3 in June this year. That’s the time when we are likely to see this smartphone surfacing in Pakistan too. No words on pricing yet, but it is anticipated it would land around Rs. 55,000 to Rs. 60,000.

If you still not convinced, see below the comparison of Galaxy S3 with rival flagship devices.

And now some images and videos of Galaxy S3; here you go: