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Entries for October, 2007

The Road Not Taken: The Systems, Microsoft Partnership

Oct.02, 2007 in SW Industry

A while back I heard this story about how Steve Ballmer had visited Lahore in the 70s, right around the time Systems Ltd. was founded. He apparently wanted to work with the company, but in those days Microsoft wasn’t quite like the behemoth it is today. On the other hand, Systems was sponsored and funded [...]

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Yar, Bell mar day!

Oct.01, 2007 in Living in Pakistan, Telecom

That’s what they call it in Lahore at least. But apparently the phenomenon is not local to the sub continent alone. C/Net takes note of the “missed call” technique in Africa. In fact, it apparently represents over 25% of the call volume there. Carriers are aghast and running around from pillar to post trying to [...]

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