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Here comes the Centro! After the Foleo fiasco, Palm had some sense knocked into their head, probably by Elevation Partners, who now have way too much – $325M much, to be exact – riding on their success. Apparently Bono, who is one of the key investors and General Partners at Elevation, brought the U2 boys [...]

The World Bank publishes an annual “Doing Business” report which ranks countries by the ease with which business can be conducted there. In the “Doing Business 2008″ report, Pakistan features as the second best country in South Asia (after Maldives) and overall, ranks above India and China. The report makes note of several improvements, most [...]

Recently, DPS, an Islamabad based software services company had to layoff about 30-45 people due to a customer walking away. The nature of the services business is such that unless you have been operating for a while and have accumulated a veritable war chest, you can’t really have a significant percentage of your staff on [...]

Hopefully you can read the message on the back of this rickshaw, but if not, I’ll spill the beans in just a minute. On my way to work this morning, the above is what I saw. A beaten down orange rickshaw with a message that the HR managers in our local IT industry need to [...]

Here’s one in recognition of the rapid progress that’s being made in cellular telephony in Pakistan! After Minister Leghari accepted the GSM Association’s rapid growth award a year ago, now Mobilink has been nominated for the “Best Operator in a Developing Market” for WCA2007. Share this:

The last thing India and Pakistan need is another way to wage war against each other. But apparently, that’s exactly what they’ve now got. Not satisfied with their confrontation on the Siachen Glacier, nor with the low intensity conflict in Kashmir, or the mutually sponsored acts of random violence in each other’s countries, the two [...]

Many of you may be aware that Telenor recently launched an EDGE/GPRS TV service over their cell network in Pakistan. I haven’t used it myself, since I thought it was too expensive… but I digress. My least favourite IT reporter, Mr. Zamir Haider, reports that the Government of Pakistan has apparently warned Telenor that they [...]

If you’re running an IT business, or working in one, human resources and infrastructure are more important to you than pretty much anything else. This post is about infrastructure related promises made, but never kept. If you read (and believed) the stories that have been appearing about the new infrastructure being put into place in [...]

The Daily Times, today, carries an article attempting to praise (I guess…) the outgoing Vice Chancellor of the Punjab University, who apparently, on his departure has handed the reins to a known IJT (Islami Jamiat-e-Tuleba) sympathizer. The article further states that the Governor Punjab, has always had a soft spot for the outgoing VC and [...]

I recently heard a rather shocking story involving a local software firm (which we will leave unnamed, for it is barely germane to the rest of the story) and one of its former employees. Apparently, said company was having some payment problems with a foreign customer. By all accounts, the foreign customer was being quite [...]