They say a country resonates the will of its people; their lifestyle and habits. When you compare the physical infrastructure of the network of roads, bridges, overpasses and routes around the country, with the virtual network of switches, MANs, WANs, nodes and hubs, there are striking similarities.
The panel of speakers at the August 5th CIO Pakistan launch, looks towards the audience as Dr Awab Alvi (aka TeethMaestro) asks a question regarding the localization of language and the online trend. According to Margaret Adam, the challenge of localization is prevalent in many countries, including the Middle East, however Salman Ansari is of [...]
CIO Pakistan participated at Marketing 2.0
[August 30 2008: Karachi, Pakistan] CIO international magazine was recently launched in Pakistan, with IDG, a leading network worldwide. CIO recently supported an event on Marketing 2.0 held on the 26th of at Karachi. The conference focused on an efficient utilization of “Digital marketing” as the existing market is [...]
New Media It’s the age of content and everyone’s got an opinion. But if someone has a video camera and a high speed connection, even a quick tutorial of Windows Movie Maker will have you think of falling in the steps of Spielberg. If you’re wondering where the Pakistani video content is going, run a [...]
“The gradual migration from Linux to Windows means a more efficient development cycle, reduce the rollout time for new features and will allow us to be more aggressive in our expansion plans.”
Faisal Chohan, Ceo Cogilent Solutions
Being a web-based recruitment portal in Pakistan since 2002, BrightSpyre adds tremendous value to the Microsoft programs such as [...]
It’s a state of mind more than anything else. A CIO’s job today can’t be an easy one, and the Web2.0 we all love to love, isn’t making the Chief a very happy camper. One of the main reasons that an interactive internet is so good is because of the bi-directional ease with which information [...]
Read about how one of Pakistan’s oldest food companies managed the fastest implementation of SAP
Anyone who thinks that the processes involved in the purchasing, production and distribution of products within just one company in the Food sector are not complex enough, needs to look again.
As the local palette migrated overseas in search of faster, better [...]
Trends What do you get when you put a bunch of companies together in a hall and invite a couple of universities to fill in forms and allow them space to ask each other questions? Some event organizers might actually call that a ‘job fair’. It’s no secret that over the last several years, there [...]
Perspectives 80 million users, growing at the rate of almost a million a month, according to many telecom professionals, the local industry hasn’t been highlighted as it should be in the mainstream media. Nadeem Safdar, Country Manager Motorola Pakistan, comments, “The kind of growth the sector has experienced in the past 5 years must be [...]
Localization CRULP or the Center for Research in Urdu Language Processing, has been working on the challenge to reduce the barrier for the average Pakistani computer user to be able to access the internet in a language he actually understands. “There is no doubt that the internet has become a tremendous reservoir of knowledge-sharing which [...]
So how big is Open Source in Pakistan? Is there a future for the penguin at the enterprise level? Faraz Khan of Emergen Consulting shares his views on the matter…
What’s the biggest query companies have to deploy OpenSource solutions at the Enterprise level?
The biggest concern in Pakistan, as well as globally, is that of resources. [...]
Pakistan’s general elections were held on the 18th of February, 2008 after a series of incidents that literally rocked the foundations of the country. After experiencing a bullish market and a stability that we hadn’t experienced in decades, March 2007 to today, Pakistan has had to face one conundrum after another.
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Here’s the situation: it’s the year 2000 and Azhar Hameed started up a young company called Etilize, put its signboard on the wall and opens its doors for business. Sajid Hamid soon opened the company’s Karachi office and a short while after that, they were almost bankrupt. Today, Etilize is worth more than a billion [...]
By Fouad Riaz Bajwa
Software enables us to use computer hardware as well as connect and communicate in ways that drastically change the way we work and play. For users of software in developing countries, the adoption of software solutions and Information and Communications Technologies as an enabler for social and economic development, is severely limited [...]
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