Laidback Show Tech segment evaluates the Nokia 5230 Experience Bus parked at the Forum Karachi. Farhan Chawla and Faisal Kapadia rendezvous with the Nokia team and get a run through the bus and a decent review of the phone itself.

Show notes after the jump

• Laid back show now present in itunes for subscription!
• Laid back show will be available in mp3 format also
• Obama accepts the Nobel peace prize, blech!!(by ayesha & alihammad)
• Review of the movie 2012 & avatar sneak peak
• (by shobz)
• Comparisons between Avatar of the future and Afpak now
• Ecological disasters and Zaid hamid
• Off road adventure group heads to hingol/baluchistan for a day trip/camping today Dr Awab is a member.
• NFC awards, discussion on how to best distribute the nations resources between provinces
• The plight of Baluchistan
• New world order, secret societies, Illuminati
• Jihadi tourism, 5 Muslim Americans caught while trying to join jihad in Afpak.

Show Notes After the jump

• Awab heads to Mysore, India for TEDIndia, meets many people including some top India bloggers like Amit Agarwal of Digital Inspiration fame and Amit Varma of India Uncut
• Naveen Naqvi [@NaveeNaqvi] leaves Breakfast at Dawn show
• Fasial Qureshi believes that “the new media” is not engaging with prime time to become a credible voice to change
• Shanaakht Festival was held in Karachi, safely without any controversy
• Fasial Kapadia switches to an IPhone 3G
• Transparency International report bumps Pakistan to #42nd most corrupt nation: debate on why TI chooses to label DHA as the most corrupt organization as compared to customs
• NRO List appears after two years?
• MQM Rabta Committee representative goes to meet Imran Khan, possibility of an urban political force? Street power of MQM combines with the popular face of Imran Khan
• Awab forced to leave the digital world for two weeks, he survived
• Michael Jackson had some serious issues with child molestation charges – the media was hounding him – was he naive
• Large Hadron Collider had its first collision – resolving the big bang thoery – watch it on twitter
• Will twitter go into a paid-for service model – to monetize the huge server usage?
• Hat-tip to Faisal Khan / Babushka99 for suggesting the new HD camera Logitech Webcam c905 for Laidbackshow

• Name of the show Laidback Show courtesy of Ali, a comment on the blog
• Farrukh Ahmed a guest on the Laidback Show – blogs at Bytesizer, and is a musician with the band [NO IDEA]
• Achmed the Dead Terrorist – by Jeff Dunham a must watch youtube video
• Eid discussion by Farrukh, Awab and Faisal Kapadia, memon style eidi
• Julia Roberts creates an uproar in a temple controversy, respect religious areas
• Sana Saleem invited to blog at the Dawn Blog, Blackwater: Widening the rift…
• Discussion on Blogging and Journalism
• Kerry-Luger Bill – 1.5 Billion in Aid to Pakistan
• Blackberry Gemni - 8520
• Blackberry Bold vs IPhone vs Nokia > Awab and Faisal own a Blackberry Javelin
• Farrukh Prefers Windows Model – he owns a PDA 2k
• Discussion on Saad Khan Tragedy, Saad was Farrukhs friend
• Farrukh sings a song from his debut album – Khamoshi at [NO IDEA]

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Show Notes for The NoNam Show Episode 1.0 below

• Suggest a Name for our show
• Why we are doing it > A causal discussion to review the online community
• How is Main Stream Media tackling the online media
• Dawn.com testing the waters of the online scenarios
• Do they know how to harness the power of Online platform
• Naveen Naqvi incorporating Twitter into her show on Dawn TV – Breakfast at Dawn – BAD
• Is the Main Stream Media dead?
• An online survey shared that the MSM is defintely facing a battle with the new media
• PC Magazine goes online wraping up its print version
• Friday Times has a strict subscirber only online website
• Faisal Kapadia’s European QWERTZ keyboard on his Blackberry Curve 8900
• Nokia N-97 – not that snazzy
• Farhan Chawla reviewed the N-97
• Faisal Qureshi bricks his iPhone
• 3G Phone in Pakistan – is it useful to buy it here where 3G is not available
• Memory upgrade on Blackberry curve makes it goes faster
• Nawaz Sharif has no choice if he wants to be next in line, he has to behave
• Kashmala Tariq degraded on tv by Dr. Firdous Ashiq – Express TV anchor sat without editing out
• Marvi Memon tweeted that they will serve notice
• Fasial Kapadia discusses the menace where parks being conqured by mosques
• Junaid Jamshed lands into another controversy on Aalim Online [Jahil Online] discussing the 18 Women who were crushed to death in a stampede for free flour
• Tazeen Javed wrote a strong article on the Junaid Jamshed blunder, closely followed in the footsteps of his Lays blunder
• A short discussion on Asif Zardari > A successful politician, but NRO and corruption is another issue
• Faisal Qureshi tweeted a survey Is Asif Ali Zardari the best president Pakistan’s ever had?
• Is Blackwater a reality or a hoax
• Ahmed Quraishi’s article on Blackwater recruiting in Pakistan
• David McDougal on twitter reported that his landlord refused him from renting his place unless he proves he is not blackwater
• Responsibility of bloggers – their influence in sparking controversy, do you compromise fearing the repercussion
• Faisal Kapadia publishes an article in the latest Friday Times
• The MeeraJee controversy
• Facebook privacy issue – Children’s photographs being lifted from facebook albums and being used on pornographic website