What I Hear, What I See; What I Think (Mixed Thoughts)

by Haseeb Siddique Memon (HSM)
Editor’s Note: I met Haseeb at a recent All Pakistan Memon Federation event on Youth Leadership. When he wrote to me, I offered to publish his post if he wrote about what his learnings were from the event. Though I only met Haseeb for a short while, he seems to be [...]

IT & Telecom News Update: 29th Jan, 2010

FBR to Introduce Track And Trace System
Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) in collaboration with National Database Registration Authority (NADRA) has decided to introduce a high-tech Track And Trace System to stop the tax thefts across the country.
According to sources,  NADRA has received several application from internationally known companies for the developing the Track And Trace [...]

Stepping Forward

We’re well into the New Year and already find companies plunging into their calendars with a zest and zeal that should yield positive results. Considering the ever changing dynamics of telecom and software industry along with the potential threats we are facing, survival and sustainability are both areas that worry a lot of organizations.

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Ashar Zaidi, Country Manager Intel Pakistan, Introduces 2010 Core Processors Family

Country Manager Intel Pakistan Corporation Ashar H. Zaidi announced the lunch of the all-new 2010 Intel® CoreTM family processors, in Pakistan on January 21, 2010. The announcement was made in a press conference at PC Hotel, Karachi. The new 2010 Intel Core processors, i3, i5 and i7, are manufactured on the company’s 32 nanometer process, [...]

Pakistani Startup Featured on VentureBeat

Farzal Dojki, CEO of Next Generation Innovations, was featured on Venture Beat, easily one of the best blogs on the web. Author Saad Fazil chats with Farzal and JaaduVNC creator, Jahanzeb Sherwani, about the mobile platform developer market in Pakistan. Some great comments shared through the blog post, Farzal and Jahanzeb both help portray a [...]

Deferred Success

Deferred success became the new buzz word in the year 2009 in an attempt to make the word ‘failure redundant. The idea was proposed by a retired teacher Liz Beattie, who argued that using the term ‘failure’ would hamper the motivational level amongst the pupil who despite of various attempts to accomplish something just aren’t [...]

Marketing Localized

One of the things we have seen recently, other than intense ad campaigns in the Tele-communication sector of Pakistan, is the use of regional languages in their ads and their help lines. Which seems appropriate, as out of the 160 million people living in Pakistan, 60% live in the rural areas. And now, the  Pathan/Sindhi [...]

KASB Securities launches Mixit FIX interface

KASB Securities (KASB) announced the launch of The Mixit FIXTM Interface, which provides the ability for Kasb to connect to multiple trading partners across the globe and provide access to Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE).

DELL It Again, Sam!

DELL promotional activity at Park Towers Karachi, January 16-17, 2010
And so the new year has begun with companies coming out of the woodwork and into the everyday lives of consumers. DELL organized its first 2-day activity in Karachi at the Park Towers to let consumers know about its new range of offerings and great looking [...]

Recipe for Success

What’s on your menu today? Are you indecisive what to cook? Would you like to experiment and prepare something exotic for the evening? Do you have ingredients available but can’t understand how to put them together to feed your appetite? Wait, have you stepped into the kitchen before AT ALL?

Marketing Your Software Online: Google-PASHA Workshop

Measuring up in a Downturn
“The Best Marketers Fish where the Fish are” was the quote part of the workshop named “Marketing Your Software Online” organized by Google Pakistan, in partnership with P@SHA, on January 13 2010 at T2F. Badar Khushnood, Pakistan Consultant for Google, made a presentation on the topic which will help Pakistani [...]

Rickshaws that goes Tech Tech….

It’s always amazing how technology has integrated itself into the fabric of our everyday, ordinary lives. While the news continues to show a crippling, backward society, the ground reality doesn’t quite match. March through any street at random, and you’ll find computer peripherals, accessories and expertise available to reinstall your machine or redo your networking. [...]

2009 termed as a “mixed year” for the IT Industry

Chairman, Federal Task Force on Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) Mr. Salim Ghauri on Tuesday said, “The year 2009 would be remembered as a ‘mixed year’ for the Information Technology (IT) industry in Pakistan”.
His statement was based on the fact that, the year 2009 witnessed growth in investment by the Multinational companies (MNC’s) in the [...]

It’s 2010! Looking Back Across the Decade

It was around this time, 10 years ago, that I was pulling an all-nighter for work. We had a January 15th deadline to put Netxpress out in the market and I had just completed transcribing interviews and writing out all the stories for that first issue. Y2K bugs were scaring the daylights out of everyone [...]