2009 November | CIOPakistan.com - Business Technology Leadership

@rai_azlan Reviews the LUMS Marketing Colloquium

Here’s a great post by Rai Muhammad Azlan, a full time blogger based out of Lahore. I first met Rai on Twitter and then chanced to call on him by random chance in the auditorium full of students! Here’s his perspective of the LUMS event!
http://mylandpakistan.blogspot.com/2009/11/lums-marketing-colloquium-2009-life.html

Eid Moobarak!

Eid, along with other festivities used to be so different in the age before Web 2.0 and cell phones. Today, telcos and web-based businesses brace themselves for the load that the holidays are going to bring. PTA gives out estimates that approximately 12 million SMSes are transmitted on a daily basis with the traffic increasing [...]

November 27, 2009 | Posted in Blogs, November 2009, Photo | Read More »

LUMS Organizes 2-Day Marketing Colloquium

CIO Pakistan was the online media partner for the event
Lahore, Pakistan- November 21 to 22, 2009: A two day marketing colloquium was held at LUMS (Lahore University of Management Sciences) campus. The objective of this conference was to provide a platform to students, corporate executives and other marketing related entities to ponder over the emerging [...]

November 26, 2009 | Posted in Domestic News, November 2008, November 2009, Our News, Photo | Read More »

Task Force on ICT Submits IT Policy Document to Planning Commission: NetSol PR

Editor’s Note: The following Press Release submitted by NetSol touches on a very sensitive issue already in discussion across the local ICT industry – We encourage you to leave your feedback and comments on the post so this voice of the industry can be heard.
The final document on first-ever-five-year Information Technology (IT) policy document is [...]

November 26, 2009 | Posted in Domestic News | Read More »

The Virus Wi-Tribe Didn’t Take Care of

7 days ago, I wrote an email out to the management of Wi-Tribe to let them know about an alert that my anti-virus kept throwing out when I tried to get to some of the pages on the website. Since 7 days later there was still no action taken, I thought we’d just go ahead [...]

November 25, 2009 | Posted in Reviews | Read More »

Shakeel Akhter, CIO Indus Hospital

Shakeel Akhter is the CIO of Indus Hospital and was the first cover CIO of the local edition of the magazine. These shots are courtesy Kohi Marri.

November 24, 2009 | Posted in August 2008, CIO Pakistan, Photo, Strategic CIO | Read More »

Seven Pakistan Universities Join the Oracle Academy

Over 2,400 Students to Benefit from Industry-Leading Technology and Business Training Program
[KARACHI, NOVEMBER 24]: Seven leading universities in Pakistan have joined the Oracle Academy and have integrated its Advanced Computer Science and Enterprise Business Applications programs into their IT curricula. As a result, over 2,400 students from the participating universities will gain access to world-class [...]

November 24, 2009 | Posted in Domestic News | Read More »