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Samsung Receives Seven Awards at IDEA 2012: ProPakistanis

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd, a global technology leader has received seven awards at IDEA (International Design Excellence Awards) 2012. Organized by Industrial Designers Society of America, IDEA is the world’s most prestigious design contest. Also the most popular brand for consumers, Samsung Electronics received the largest number of awards among participating companies.
In the enterprise category, Samsung Electronics was presented with seven awards – four gold awards, two silver awards, and one bronze award.

The company’s digital X-Ray equipment (XEGO-GU60, XGEO-GC80) and digital X-Ray user interface received the gold award, indicating a bright future for Samsung Electronics’ newly developing Medical Equipment business.    

‘Digital X-Ray (XEGO-GU60)’ received a favorable evaluation in recognition of its application of a color indication system that provides intuitive information to the user and patient on the equipment operation status and the progress of the exam.

‘Digital X-Ray (XGEO-GC80)’ received the gold award for its substantial reduction of the examination time by displaying X-Ray results without having to go through a print process; as well as the ‘Digital X-Ray User Interface’, which has visualized important information to increase user visibility.

A portable induction cooktop (CTN431SC01) is a kitchen appliance gaining rapid popularity, which received the gold award in recognition for its application of a surface material that ensures easy cleaning and an intuitive user interface.

Silver award has been announced for the ‘Series 9’, which is an ultra-slim, ultra-lightweight notebook measuring 12.9 millimeters in thickness only. The 9-series notebooks are the thinnest and lightest notebooks available in the market that also come with a combination of performance, style and reliability maximized.

The ‘NX200’ – a digital camera that has applied metal to emphasize its image as a precision instrument for professionals also won a silver award

The ‘SB970’ a Samsung monitor that has adopted clear glass for its front giving exceptional beauty to its form received the award in the bronze category.

Samsung’s Pakistan’s Managing Director, Mr. John Park expressed his joy and said, “I am glad that the Samsung’s user-centered designs have been acclaimed to such a great degree. We will continue to unveil designs that are outstanding in terms of both aesthetics and functionality.”

Samsung Electronics is strivingto boost design competitiveness even further.  The efforts include decisive and bold design management, SADI, as well as various design expert-training programs such as the Samsung Design Membership.
The IDEA 2012 awards ceremony will be held in the USA on 18th August 2012.

NBP presented with “Pakistan Deal of the Year Award 2011″ ProPakistanis

KARACHI: National Bank of Pakistan (NBP) has received “Pakistan Deal of the Year Award 2011″ for acting as inter-creditor agent as well as lead arranger and advisor with regards to financing of two renewable wind energy power projects of 50 MW each in the country.

The two power projects are Pakistan’s first ever 100% Islamic financed renewable energy power project which has also set a new precedent in terms of Islamic financing structure in the local banking sector.

According to NBP here on Tuesday, group chief of corporate and investment banking group Nadeem A Ilyas and head of investment banking Rehmat Ali Hasnie received the award from Islamic Finance News (IFN) based in Malaysia at a recently held ceremony in Dubai in relation to the transactions.

The deal included arrangement of Rs 6 billion under Musharaka (Shirkat ul Milk) finance facility with a consortium of local banks and a foreign debt component of $ 134 million being provided under Ijarah finance facility by Asian Development Bank (ADB) and Islamic Development Bank (IDB) whereas NBP has acted as Inter-creditor Agent for both local and foreign lending group.

The Finance Facility Agreements of these two projects were signed in May 2012 whereas the construction of the projects is expected to commence in August 2012.

PTA Makes it Harder for You to Register Complaints Against PTCL :ProPakistanis

Pakistan Telecommunication Limited or also known as PTCL is notorious for its after sale support services.

Without any doubt, there would be customers not happy with PTCL services, be it the broadband or any other service offered by PTCL. Such customers would naturally want to register complaints against PTCL at PTA’s website where the authority offers the telecom consumers to register their complaints online.

But you would be surprised to know that PTCL isn’t even listed as an ISP in the said complaint form available at PTA’s website for online complain registration, leaving no chance for consumers to register complaints against PTCL.

We have taken a screen shot for you – but you can visit PTA’s website to check this your self:

Initially we thought this could be a human error and PTCL was probably left out by mistake but interestingly you won’t be able to find PTCL even for Wireless Local Loop (WLL) category, creating an impression that PTCL was intentionally taken of the list.

Check following screen shot or visit PTA’s website to verify this yourself.

Is this a deliberate attempt by someone to keep PTCL away from complaints?

Just to mention, PTA maintains and publishes the number of complaints (in its quarterly and annual reports) that it receives against all operators. Probably, this trick will make PTCL look lot better in PTA’s quarterly and annual reports.

Thanks Abdullah Shakoor for the tip

Update:

It appears that PTA has added PTCL in the list now.

Who is This, Getting Free Promotion on PTCL Website? @ProPakistanis

After what we learned from official website of Tourism, I am sure it would be the webmaster – though we don’t know whether PTCL is having in-house web development department or they outsource this work.

Chances are that webmaster is milking PTCL’s official website without letting the officials know about it. If so, then this doesn’t mean that PTCL officials are spared from this corruption, rather you can term them ignorant enough that they don’t notice their website closely.

If you are wondering what kind of promotion and corruption we are talking about then see this below screenshot to have an idea:

This is home page of PTCL’s website – having Page Rank 6. Anyone with very little knowledge of SEO can well imagine the worth of a PR6 page. There is someone who has inserted a live, do-follow link on this PR6 home page.

That’s not it. Upon investigate we found more invisible links of same website on internal pages of PTCL’s website.

For instance if you check the source code of http://ptcl.com.pk/index_0.php (A PR 5 Page) then here is what you will find:

Officials concerned should be questioned for letting this to happen because (Just to let you know) the guy is using black hat SEO tricks to promote his/her website which can result into a ban of ptcl.com.pk domain on Google services, such as Google Search and others.

Its about time that government and large corporations should increase the scrutiny procedures for their websites and webmasters.

Update:

PTCL team has apparently removed above mentioned external links.