Zong Revamps its Website

Zong has got new design and layout for its corporate website. Apparently, transition is in process – however most part of revamp is done.

New look gives professional feel that old design was lacking. Also elements are better arranged with top menu well in place. Enough space on home page is designated for featured offerings, for instance its BlackBerry for now – we may see scrolling featured offerings in a day or two.

Zong has incorporated very intelligent, search button. It’s not intelligent only in terms of search results but its predictive nature will save you time of loading a new page.

Zong has added new features, including Media Center, CS Center, about us along with enhanced form of coverage map, career portal.

Rest you click on this link to see yourself – do share your experience and thoughts in comments, particularly about the color scheme.

Xbox 360 Slim Shots Fake, Just HD DVD Drive

While from first impressions, it does seem believable with its curvature, matching color and Xbox 360 typeface on the side. But those who have spent any amount of time with the Xbox 360's now-out-of-production HD DVD player will know better. pretty clever, as the HD DVD add-on says "Xbox 360" on the side too.

Earlier in March we reported on leaked images showing what appeared to be a greatly redesigned Xbox 360 motherboard – rumored to be the "Valhalla" revision – that integrated the CPU and GPU into a single package. Such a redesign would presumably be able to allow Microsoft to shrink the Xbox 360 into a smaller, slimmer form factor.

Google Chat Can Do File Transfers From Browser

Now you can send and receive files directly through a web browser that supports Google Chat.

Avid Gmail users will know that the webmail service from Google has grown into much more than just simple email. Now users can view status updates from Buzz, chat with their friends as well as see each other over webcam. The next step appears to be file transfers.

Google updated in one of its blogs today that it has introduced file transfer functionality in iGoogle and orkut chat, which allows transferring files without needing an installed client. Those running the Google Talk client, however, will be able to communicate and transfer files between the web and the installed software.

Google said that it is working on bringing the file transfer functionality into Gmail, which seems to be shaping up to be a full communications portal. Google will announce further details as file transfers come to Gmail.

Manage Your Zong Prepaid Numbers with E-Care

Here Zong comes with another exciting portal for their users who have access to the internet.

It is something like Telenor’s Web self service but with more options and feature than of Telenor’s web self service.

Named as Zong’s E-Care web portal, which was previously available for only postpaid customers is now accessible for Zong prepaid users too – to manage their Zong Numbers and various related setting .

Located at http://ecare.zong.com.pk:8080/aiecare/index.jsp

How to Register:

All you need is your Zong Number and CNIC – that’s it. And when you login Zong will use your registered name against your Zong connection.

Once logged in, you can perform plenty of tweaking with your Zong number. You will have full control over whatever you want to play with your Zong Number.

Monthly bill details is only for postpaid customers, however, for prepaid customers there is account recharge history with full details of recharging.

Click on payment history, choose month and click submit: Remember that Zong E-care service will use popup window to show your account recharge history, so allow your browser to let Zong E care site to launch popups.

Students Develop Pong You Control With Eyeball

Keep your eyeball on the ball!

Video gaming is a wonderful pastime that relies heavily on both sight and motor skills, which is a shame that those with disabilities aren't able to enjoy it. Engineering students from Imperial College London have constructed a video game and interface that's controllable using eye movements, which could upon up new opportunities for gamers of many more types.

The students have used an open source version of Pong and adapted it to be playable using a pair of special glasses containing an infrared light and a webcam that records the movement of one eye.

Although video games are a great application of any new technology, the equipment could be adapted to more sophisticated applications such as controlling wheelchairs and computer cursors.

Perhaps the most remarkable about the effort is that the technology built in this experiment costs just £25 (US$37). Current eye and brain tracking setups cost more than 1,000 times that much, though we'd hope they're more elaborate.

Dr Aldo Faisal, the team’s supervisor from the Department of Computing and the Department of Bioengineering at Imperial College London, noted of their successes: "Remarkably, our undergraduates have created this piece of neurotechnology using bits of kit that you can buy in a shop, such as webcams. The game that they’ve developed is quite simple, but we think it has enormous potential, particularly because it doesn’t need lots of expensive equipment.

"We hope to eventually make the technology available online so anyone can have a go at creating new applications and games with it and we’re optimistic about where this might lead. We hope it could ultimately provide entertainment options for people who have very little movement. In the future, people might be able to blink to turn pages in an electronic book, or switch on their favourite song, with the roll of an eye."