Google has approved a grant of US$250,000 towards the Flood Relief efforts in Pakistan. More details to be posted soon though a dedicate home page will be set up through google.com.pk shortly.There will obviously be a great deal of due diligence before funds can be disseminated through to registered NGOs and Associations that are doing [...]
Saadia Qamar’s journey through some of the leading social media companies in the world, the journalist writes about her travel to Google Inc.
Day 3: Mountain View, San Francisco, California.
What is Google all about? Google Inc. is a place that could easily be termed a paradise for techno-geek. That is the place to be. So when [...]
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. [...]
Google and CIO Pakistan Organize Lahore Tweetup
Wateen and Intel Sponsor Lahore Tweetup09!
[August 14, 2009: Lahore, Pakistan]: The world’s most powerful search engine, Google, and CIO Pakistan recently organized the Lahore Tweetup at the Hot Fuzon Café, the second its nationwide Tweetup series. Gathering more than 140 active bloggers and microbloggers to engage [...]
Google and CIO Pakistan Organize First Kolachi Tweetup
[July 26 2009 : Karachi - Pakistan] The world’s most powerful search engine, Google, and CIO Pakistan recently organized the first Kolachi Tweetup at the Royal Rodale Club. Gathering 80 active bloggers and microbloggers to engage in a discussion of how virtual networking platforms are being used [...]
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 [...]
A chat with Zia Khan, founder of Operation Badar
Believe it or not, this Cloud that everyone talks about, has been around forever. Like most things, technology advancement, intervention coupled with professional innovation has been able to recycle concepts and repackage them into something more practical and significant.
Technology, in its essence, is about making processes more [...]
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, [...]
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!
What started off as a really small 20 person event at LUMS has grown into something more than 100 attendees overnight… literally! LUMS IEEE Students Chapter (in collaboration with CIO Pakistan & Google Pakistan) present the Lahore Bloggers meet on November 23, 2008. How did the explosion of so many confirmed attendees happen?
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It’s all about making life easy”
The Interaction Design Center is organizing World Usability Day 2008 on Thursday, November 13, 2008 in Lahore at the University of Management and Technology (UMT). This event is part of a globally-coordinated effort that is being simultaneously held in over 175 cities around the world. This is the first time [...]
Everyone writes endlessly about Content Management Systems and how they will revolutionize your web presence. They’re really not weaving a tall tale there! The websites of the years before 2.0 were primarily static, where, with a little love from web development applications such as Dreamweaver or Frontpage, you’d conjure up standard html pages, link them [...]
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