Say No To PECO 2009

“Say NO to PECO” or the Prevention of Electronic Crimes Ordinance was the clear message outlined on a wall poster behind the speakers at the conference. The press conference constituted of four influential members of the society namely Jehan Ara, President P@SHA, Sabeen Mahmud, President TiEcon, Barrister Zahid Jameel and Mr. Nadeem, Spokesperson ISPAK. 

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RETURN OF THE Viral wars!

Competition between brands can take to wars in ad campaigns, with each company coming up with ads to counter and hit back at the other. Yes, we’re talking about the recent ad war between two of Pakistan’s top telecom companies.
Termed as the ‘Ufone and Zong’s Cold War’ across forums in cyberspace, this counter ad campaign [...]

FYI on MITEFP-OPEN’s BAP

Not to have too many acronyms in your face but since CIO Pakistan is partnering with the MITEFP-OPEN Business Acceleration Program’s (BAP), we wanted to bring you an update on the details and dates for the program.

A Little Birdie Told Me…

Cyber activism through Twitter has provided a new forum in cyberspace to draw attention to a cause or event. The most recent case in point relating to Pakistan was the Twenty20 World Cup Finals when Pakistan Cricket made it to the trending topics on  Twitter, the term used to describe the ten most talked about [...]

Pakistan is the 6th most populated country. Facebook could be the Fifth

If there is anyone on the planet left wondering if Facebook is still a fad or simply something weaved into the fabric of our everyday lives, that’s a statistic that will blow your mind! According to UN estimates available on Wikipedia.org that puts the population of Pakistan at 166 million. Use this as a benchmark [...]

Is Facebook the New Faithbook?

Granted we’ve got more than one entry about the world’s largest online social community but this simply had to be reported! And yes, it IS a trend!

Businesses that Accelerated their Growth

MIT Entrepreneur Forum, led by Ken Morse and Bill Aulet of MIT Entrepreneurship Center, has been gaining momentum in Pakistan over the past two years. When the MIT Club of Pakistan Enterprise Forum (MITEF) was formed, it formalized activities driven by and people such as Dr. Zahir Ali Syed, an entrepreneur and educationist, Farrokh Captain, [...]

Pakistani Web Tops Google Mapmaker Stats!!

We all remember Lalit Katragadda, creator of the Google Map Maker, from the 2008 World Usability Day conference held in Lahore last year. But “Lalit” and “Pakistan” made the headlines again because Pakistani online users have posted the most localized data on Google’s Map Maker! According to a news report, Pakistan actually ended up posting [...]

Dial a Cloud By Zia Khan

There is so much hype about Cloud Computing with little understanding of what its real potential is. What perhaps added to the confusion was the recently released McKinsey report that headlined there was more hype than reality in the Cloud. For the enterprise sector, perhaps, but the SME and the organizations that are already strapped [...]

Online Political Activism

Political Parties Battle
Website Popularity!
A recent survey conducted by online political website, Pkpolitics.com, attempted to determine the popularity and strength of the political party websites. More than 1,300 votes were cast  in a short time span of 8 hours. The results were then telecast in Dawn News Television’s weekly program, Wired and Active.
At the close of [...]

Wind Energy is Clean, Green and Really Happening!

The first wind power project was inaugurated by Pakistan’s top government officials at Jhimpir. This is the first of 24 projects which are in the works, said to be capable of producing 50 Megawatts of energy. The strain on the country’s infrastructure has taken its toll with the bulk of the industrial zones generating their [...]

Meets & Greets

The Blogger Meetup series that was activated by Google Pakistan and CIO Pakistan seems to have inspired quite a flurry. The Sindh IT Ministry organized the first Bloggers National Conference which attracted quite a crowd. In addition to the bloggers and tweeters, some champions of Pakistan’s new media sphere were also present at the event. [...]

Pakistan’s Long March goes live

A feature of life in Pakistan, as in many other Third World countries is that there has been a wide take up of mobile communication technology. Getting a telephone landline requires too money and too many bureaucratic hurdles so mobile phone services have seized the opening with relatively lower entry prices. One byproduct of this [...]

mCommerce Has a Future We’re Just Not Seeing It Yet!

The eCommerce hype has forwarded its hype towards mCommerce, and we’re still waiting and watching for the pieces to come together. With more than 90 million Sim cards in circulation, you would think that mobile commerce is a no-brainer! But before you cloud your thinking with an array of arguments, here are some points discussed [...]

From Managed Services to Managed Offices!

Wouldn’t it be great if you could have the operations within your office just managed so you could pay attention to your business? Well, the concept of managed offices has been around for a long time – for those of you who are willing to bear the cost of unloading the headache, services like Regus [...]