By Omar Ahsan
My sister who lives near the Silicon Valley is doing her Masters in Software Engineering and is currently working another Iranian software engineer to come up with a dot com idea taking inspiration from the recent success of facebook and twitter. Since this inspiration she has been pushing me to think about it [...]
Kubair Shirazee takes a look!
WHENEVER THINGS GET BAD THE FIRST REACTION OF MOST COMPANIES IS TO CUT BACK, lay people of, cross their fingers and weather the storm. As leaders we have all been there before and it is the first port of call to initiate the age old short term fixes like across the [...]
By Munawar Iqbal
“The report of WEF must be an eye-opener for decision makers as it suggests that a coherent government vision on information and communication technologies, coupled with an early focus on education is keys to spur network readiness and to lay the foundations for sustainable growth. For a sustainable ICT sector, the people at [...]
I was recently assigned to work on a project for a financial institution in Pakistan and had to travel to Karachi for a few days. For someone who is so plugged into the system, travel outside the comfort of the digitally integrated world, always proves to be an interesting experience. Keeping this in mind, [...]
Pakistan is at the crossroads of Information Technology (IT) revolution. With the right emphasis at the budgetary level and proper implementation of IT friendly policies, we should very soon be among the leading IT destinations of the World. However, if faced with continued apathy at the hands of policy makers, the IT industry is bound [...]
E-Commerce, E-Banking, Mobile Banking – it’s really all the same to me now. I think we’ve had enough people talk about this and explain everything to us. The more I listen to lectures and conferences, the more ideas I get about where we need to be going. For example, I recently spoke at a Mobile [...]
Like any country, Pakistan has had a tumultuous ride through history to come as far as it has. A quick shuffle through the history books reveals only a small, perhaps more glamorous side of politics, culture and socialism that makes it seem inconsequential. But the recent advances in technology platforms, development tools and infrastructure have [...]
Recent high-wire tensions between India and Pakistan over recent Mumbai attacks have reactivated the urge to treat freedom as a blessing from God and take liberty to use it the way it deserves. Correlation exists between freedom and Business Continuity and though I admit that businesses are well aware and well educated regarding importance of [...]
Everyone speaks of the Internet. Reminiscently referred to as the ‘World Wide Web’ or ‘the Cloud’ as some folks like to call it, the concept of collaboration and depending on others’ strengths comes to mind. The concept of ‘work what you’re good at’, ‘outsource what you can get done cheaper, or better elsewhere’; it’s all [...]
There has been a lot of talk, maybe way too much talk regarding Cloud Computing. The fact that companies and individuals are willing to keep data on someone else’s servers is interesting.
It does, of course, address the disaster recovery aspect since your data will be at some off-site location. Any damage to company property does [...]
Technology, at the end of the day, is only as secure as the person using it. You can have all the content filters and packet sniffing software in place across your network, but if there is someone viewing something he shouldn’t be, there is little you can do. Another example. Install all the anti-virus software [...]
Technology changes everything. Not just the size or the process, but it makes a resultant impact on the speed with which a decision can take place. How does Technology evolve the everyday workings of a CXO? Umair Naeem takes a look
Dr Aamir Matin takes a look at the role of the internet during the Media Blackout in Pakistan in November 2007
They say the one thing that causes widespread panic, is the lack of information. So when the all the local channels went off the air in early November, the public turned to the internet, normally [...]
By Imran Anwar
FaceBook, MySpace, linkedin, and so many other social networking sites offer great ways to connect with people – and lose touch with reality (and the total time spent on a computer). That is even before location-aware GPS and RFID devices, married to addictive platforms like FaceBook, Twitter and MySpaceTime.net (more on that later) [...]
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