PTA negotiating with SBP to introduce mobile banking services: Chairman, Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) Dr Mohammed Yaseen has said that to achieve cost efficiency in the operations, telecom operators need to enhance their collaboration by sharing infrastructure, they can save costs and yet maintain quality. He said this while addressing at Nokia Siemens Networks Industry Seminar here on Thursday.

Mobile phone sales fall record 8.6% in Q1: Global mobile phone sales fell a record 8.6 percent in the first quarter to 269 million units and will likely decline 4.2 percent for the full year, the Gartner research group said Wednesday. The anticipated fall comes after more than six years of uninterrupted growth and was the biggest quarterly decline since Gartner began monitoring in 2001

User photographs can still be found on many social networking sites including Facebook after people have deleted them, British researchers said Thursday: The findings by a team from Cambridge University raise questions about the ability of users of the sites to permanently delete potentially embarrassing photographs, AFP reports The researchers posted photographs on 16 popular websites and noted the web addresses where the images were stored, before deleting them. But researchers said that although the images appeared to have gone, they were still able to find them 30 days later on seven sites, including Facebook, by using the direct web addresses. Special photo-sharing sites, such as Flickr and Google’s Picasa, fared better than Facebook and Microsoft’s Windows Live Spaces removed the photos instantly, the research found. ‘In theory, the photos could take months to disappear.’