No GPS (Global Positioning System) on your mobile phone? No problem! Thanks to Google Maps for Mobile you get still locate yourself on the map. Google maps make use of triangulation, the same technique used by mobile companies to track their subscribers, to point a user on the map. The concept is pretty simple, each mobile phone is connected to a particular mobile tower (also called a BTS (base transceiver station) or cell site). It is possible to calculate the distance between the mobile phone and BTS. Google makes use of this …

I frequently browse internet using GPRS on my Warid connection. What I witnessed today was truly surprising for me. When I opened Facebook homepage on my cellphone, I found an unknown email address in the username field. Then and there it was obvious that something is wrong. However, I was sure once logged in, I would not be able to view other users’ pages as Facebook itself is very secure, only to be proved wrong later. Upon replacing the username of this unknown person  and filling in my own login …