Activists of the youth wing of the Indian nationalist party BJP attacked a Nokia shop in the central Jabalpur city in Madhya Pradesh state, India. The attack was provoked by the inclusion of the controversial Kashmiri valley as part of neighbouring Pakistan, in a Nokia mapping software. A video clip captured by Reuters shows activists
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Reuters is reporting agitations in Jabalpur city of Madhya Pradesh state of India after it was discovered that maps on Nokia devices are indcating Kashmir as a part of Pakistan.Reuters
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CellPassion on 23rd Dec 2008 (via cellpassion.mobi)
Nokia has landed into trouble in India due to its Maps application. According to Cellular News, people from BJP attacked a Nokia Shop as Nokia Maps shows Kashmir as a part of Pakistan. Being an Indian I know how serious this is and how it can hurt people's sentiments. Also the recent terrorists attacks in India originated from Pakistan. The angry BJP workers took Nokia cell phones from the sh...
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Orascom Telecom Holding (OTH) has shuffled its management - moving the current CEO of Bangladesh's banglalink, Rashid Khan to head up Pakistan's Mobilink, while appointing Ahmed Abou Doma to take over the vacant spot at banglalink.
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Standard and Poor's Ratings Services has lowered its long-term corporate credit ratings on Orascom Telecom Holdings and Orascom Telecom Finance to 'B' from 'B+' following weaker growth expectations from its Pakistan- and Bangladesh-based operations.
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Genasys says that it has signed an agreement with the firm CellTrack for a LBS project in Pakistan. CellTrack will launch, from the first quarter of 2009, location based services (LBS) in Pakistan.
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Telenor Pakistan has become the 100th customer for Nokia Siemens' NetAct Traffica real time customer traffic monitoring and analysis software.
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Orascom Telecom (OTH) has reported a 3rd quarter profit of US$90.5 million - down 28% on the same period a year ago thanks to lower revenues from its Pakistan subsidiary.
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