A forum for discussion on the topic of Modern Day Marketing Communication was organized today at Avari Towers. It was put together by a group of SZABIST students to gather relevant data that would facilitate their thesis topic.
The list of people invited to this interactive discussion included, Ali Raza Merchant (Executive Dir. Synergy), Amir Rammal [...]
Map-o-fying Pakistan!
All around the world, Google Map Makers have been in high-gear over the past six weeks, becoming Map Maker Ambassadors by organizing local events to spread the word about how people can “map” the places they know and love. Supported by Google, these dedicated mappers have secured event locations at local universities, translated presentations [...]
Punjab government, Microsoft sign accord
A strategic partnership agreement was signed between the Punjab government and a leading computer software company Microsoft here on Friday, under which Microsoft would extend all-out co-operation for the development of local IT industry. The company will also set up an innovation center at Software Technology Park, disclosed an official. [...]
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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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 [...]
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 [...]
Wateen hosted a Bloggers Meetup managed by Rabia Garib of CIO Pakistan and Badar Khushnood of Google Pakistan. I was available in the country and although I had a crazy schedule, there was no way that I was going to miss it. So off I went to Royal Rodale at 4 pm to meet up [...]
Although Google is generally known as a web search engine, it has many business products in various categories including internet advertising, communication & publishing, development, geo, search, statistics, etc. The idea behind this talk is to introduce Internet Marketing with Google AdWords. You will learn fundamentals of Internet marketing, online advertising lingo, benefits of AdWords, [...]
Who doesn’t know about Android? In fact, application development for the mobile platform has been on the rise with at least 3 Pakistani companies selling apps on a regular basis on iTunes for the Apple platform. As early as 3 years ago, a young company by the name of MicroMiles began developing games for the [...]
Android is the Open Handset Alliance’s mobile software platform. Come learn about Android and our vision for more open, powerful, and useful mobile devices.
The tremendous MAP Convention which took place in Karachi in early December 2008, had a great line up of speakers. Even those who were unable to attend the convention, made the effort to join us via the power of the Video Conference. Rishi Jaitly who was at a conference in another part of the world, [...]
In line with the tri-city series of the Bloggers Meetups, the Islamabad Bloggers Meetup is being held at the Bahria University on Monday, December 29, 2008 at 5pm. If you are interested in finding out more information about the meet, please visit the Group on Facebook or else you can register yourself through this online [...]
World Usability Day (worldusabilityday.org) was celebrated in Pakistan for the first time at an event organized by the Interaction Design Center (www.ixdc.org) at the University of Management and Technology in Lahore on November 13, 2008. The event was part of a globally-coordinated effort with simultaneous events taking place in 170 cities and 45 countries across [...]
18-year old Haris Nadeem and 20-year old Saad Hamid talked about how they started blogging, how they manage to maintain their phenomenal traffic of 10,000 and 25,000 unique visitors a day and how they continue their success online! Here is the the video clip of there presentation!
Welcome to the second issue of CMO Pakistan!
When Badar Khushnood (Google Pakistan) and CIO Pakistan collaborated on the Lahore Bloggers Meet in LUMS, the speed at which the viral marketing fever overtook the event was a sight you had to witness. It all happened right in front of our eyes: before the event, during the [...]
The Business of IT: Campus Conversations Goes to Preston University
Campus Conversations: Bit by Bit, Frame by Frame at Iqra University
IBA Invent Comes to a Close:
Of Degrees and Salary-Scales: Campus Conversations at BIZTEK
Pizza for Breakfast: UBL CIO Hosts a Mentor Nashta
With iOS, Apple gets the OK to borrow a Cisco name
Where People Matter: Usability – Theme of Lotus Notes and Lotus Domino
Lotus Knows Because It Makes An Effort – Cloud Computing Is It?
The UnConference that Could… and Did
Wave14 Launch in Lahore
Oracle Modernizes EFU’s IT Systems for its New Insurance App!
Operating On IBA’s Revised CS Curricula
All Hands on TweetDeck!
IBA Hosts its First CEO Forum
Oracle Hosts a CIO Dinner Discussion on Aligning IT Strategies to Business Needs