NA passes Institute of Space Technology Bill 2009: The National Assembly passed The Institute of Space Technology Bill to provide for establishment of Institute of Space Technology.  The 43-clause Bill was moved by Minister of State for Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Mehreen Anwar Raja that was passed by the voice vote providing for the establishment of institute to provide education, and scholarship and make provision for research.  The President of Pakistan will be the chancellor of the Institute that would have the status of degree awarding institute.

Nokia says it has more than one million navigation clients: More than a million smartphone users have downloaded the free navigation software that Nokia started offering last month, the world’s leading mobile phone maker said on Wednesday.
“We’re averaging a download a second, 24 hours a day,” Nokia executive vice president Anssi Vanjoki said in a statement, adding that the number of users was “growing faster than even we predicted.”
In January, Nokia put pressure on players in the satellite navigation industry like Tom Tom and Garmin by offering car and pedestrian navigation for free to its smartphone users across the world.  The new version of Nokia’s Ovi Maps navigation software was downloaded one million times within a week of the launch, the Finnish company said, adding it had been downloaded 1.4 million times in total.  With the free navigation application, Nokia hopes to strengthen its position in the smartphone market, where it has faced tough competition from the likes of Apple’s iPhone and Research in Motion’s BlackBerry.