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.

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• Faisal Kapadia, Awab Alvi and Farhan Chawla discuss Dr. Aafia Siddiqui’s court verdict in the USA where she is charged with 7 issues on assaulting an officer
• Farhan Chawla shows off his Carputer
• Discussion on Shahid Afridi’s ball biting incident
• Discussion on the bomb blasts in Karachi
• Balaatkar is to be substituted by Chamatkar ppl…just in case someone has not seen the 3 idiots.

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• New Laidback Show Tech segment to review technology products
• Laidback Show Reps – opens doors for citizen journalists to submit content to be included in the Laidback Show
• All Pakistan Youth holds a peace rally at Quaid Mazar on 25th December
• Awab buys a Macbook Pro from Ebay
• Rai Azlan‘s video report on the Green and White program
• Solidarity Day by Aman Ittehad on 1st Jan 2010 all across Pakistan
• Faisal Kapadia talks about the nude cyclists in New Zealand
• NRO chucked away by the Supreme Court, is it biased towards PPP, or is that the start of the accountability process
• Danish Kaneria back in the Pakistan cricket team, what are the future prospects of the upcoming matches
• Shobz reviews Avatar 3D the movie
• HP gives away a few T-Shirts – question is asked in the show send your answers to info@laidbackshow.com and win yourself an HP T-Shirt
• Twitter went down for an hour by Pro Iran organization, warns US to stay out of Iranian affairs
• Farhan Chawla joins the Laidback Show to review HP Mini 110, more or less a decent review agreed upon by the entire Laidback show team, seems like a great netbook.

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• 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.

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• Bakra Eid comes knocking, millions of animals being sacrificed, quite a lot many do it as a show of wealth
• Jehan Ara discusses Take Back the Tech – violence against women, TBTT’s initiatives in Pakistan, blog post Take Back The Tech: join the16 days of activism
• Twitter activism takes a lead spreading the word #TakeBacktheTech
• TEDIndia’s presentation by Pranav Mistry on his Sixth Sense product
• Short discussion on P@SHA, Yousuf Jan takes over Chairmanship of P@SHA
• Google Wave turns out to be a flop
• Awab wants to predict that Facebook popularity is set to be taken over by other technologies
• Faisal Kapadia discusses how the government of Pakistan allows a Hindu temple to bring a moorti for its festival
• Awab discusses a Hindu temple in Hingol, Baluchistan called Nani Mander, where he has gone for Offroading
• Awab shares a picture of Zardari with Ami and Abu
• Laidback Show supports the Take back the Tech initiative and urges every one to STOP VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN

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• 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

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• Naveen Naqvi tells us the difference or similarities between podcasting and broadcasting
• Hillary Clinton’s visit to Pakistan and Naveen’s impressions upon meeting her
• MSM panel interviewing Ms Clinton, playing to the galleries?
• Shaanakth festival of arts, music and drama starts on 9th Nov, security concerns?
• Schools closing down, security briefings, talk of hostage situations imminent. Are our kids going to grow up in this environment?
• Facebook eulogy option, reviewing the new live feed, what happens when you die in the virtual world?
• Discussion upon Naveen incorporating twitter on her show “Breakfast at dawn” and how large a following the show has now because of it.

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• Cricket fiasco,  Pak captain accused of match fixing announces retirement
• Whats the point of a parliamentary oversight committee on cricket
• LBS covers Telenor “Easy paisa” launch with 14 different bloggers, reviewed by Faisal Qureshi, Farhan Masood, Arif sahab (telenor rep)
• Salman mehmood’s sad demise and our feelings for him and his family
• The importance of taking responsibility for tweets and retweets
• Attack on GHQ and other attacks all over Pakistan by militants
• The onus of the war on terror in Pakistan.

• 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]