TechLahore

Musings on technology, startups and software

Entries for February, 2008

Emirates and Microsoft setup innovation lab in Dubai


Now this piece of news was interesting to me at multiple levels. First, since I travel quite a bit I’ve always wondered what the next generation of entertainment and business technologies available in-flight would be. Well, we now have an institution in our own neighbourhood that will be dedicated to improving the travel experience by [...]

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Mobilink being investigated for anti-competitive practices


The Business Recorder broke a story about an investigation that has been launched by the Competition Commission of Pakistan into Mobilink’s restrictive trade practices around their Blackberry offerings. The article highlights one specific area of inquiry, which is the inability for Blackberry handsets to access basic GPRS services without activating RIM data services. I think [...]

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"GoP has spent $67 Million promoting the Pakistan SW industry": Gartner


The Gartner publication we reported on earlier that places Pakistan in First-tier outsourcing destinations, also contains some other interesting factoids concerning the industry. One of them, picked up by this article at HiPakistan, suggests that so far the Government of Pakistan has spent $67 Million promoting the Pakistani Software Industry. It’s great that the Government [...]

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Hello Silicon Valley! OPEN introduces Pakistani startups to our friends in the Bay


The Organization of Pakistani Entrepreneurs (OPEN) in Silicon Valley recently hosted the PSEB delegation that is currently touring the US. Among the companies that were introduced to entrepreneurs, VCs and potential customers, were: Alp Business Service Management, CTO 24/7, Digital Prodigy, Digital Processing Systems, GoodCore Software, Intagleo Systems, Invaterra, Palmchip Pakistan, Prislogix, Post Amazers, Server4sale [...]

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