Tweet There’s this amazing new building coming up in Dubai. You can write an article a week that starts with that sentence, but be talking about a different structure piercing the heavens above the United Arab Emirates. The amount of architectural innovation stemming from the increasingly audacious projects being pursued in Dubai is staggering. The Burj [...]
Tweet China Telecom is now the world’s largest telco. It’s yet another indication of how influence and power are continuing their eastward journey… as Bob Dylan once poignantly said, “The times they are a changin’”. In order to supplement its domestic growth, China Telecom is looking at international markets to expand into. Their 2007 entry into Pakistan has [...]
Tweet AutoPlus ERP Software, developed by Pakistan-based Acrologix, is being implemented by Chinese auto-manufacturer, Qingqi. This ERP software was developed under a PSEB (Pakistan Software Export Board) program that seeks to promote the use of locally developed software in a variety of different industries. As the first step, five verticals were chosen for which low-cost [...]
Tweet South Korea has been exporting textile units to Pakistan for the past many years. The machines that are part of these factories run large amounts of embedded software. But, though the South Koreans build excellent technology they don’t have much of an english speaking population. Hence, the software is typically all implemented in Korean thus limiting its [...]
Tweet There’s too much background to this headline for me to bring you up to speed in a short blog post. Suffice to say, one of my favourite authors and an all round Bright Guy, Ray Kurzweil, wrote a series of books culminating in his latest work, “The Singularity is Near“. In these books Ray [...]
Tweet While the world reels under the pressure of rising oil prices. Pakistanis have something to celebrate. Mr. Zardari, the co-chairperson of the ruling People’s Party, and the Prime Minister, Mr. Yusuf Raza Gilani were in Saudi Arabia to discuss a number of bilateral issues with various Saudi officials, including King Abdullah. As a consequence [...]
Tweet BASIS, for those of you who don’t know (a group that included me until 5 minutes ago), is the Bangladesh Association of Software and Information Services. It’s an industry group and the Bangladeshi equivalent of our very own PASHA (Pakistan Software Houses Association) or India’s NASSCOM. Anyway, a Bangladeshi newspaper, the New Nation, came [...]
Tweet We’ve covered the Karachi IT tower previously, but there’s some more news today about its date of completion. Another 2 years to go and we’ll be done with a massive IT complex that will house over 10,000 call center seats. Mustafa Kamal, the Nazim of Karachi, in a recent interview mentioned that currently the [...]
Tweet The value addition wars continue in the Pakistan mobile market. Now that China Telecom, Telenor, Mobilink, Warid and Etisalat/PTCL’s Ufone are all in the fray, the race to keep adding features continues. After the Telenor and Mobilink mobile TV offerings, PTCL’s broaband entertainment portal and Mobilink’s bill payment services, Ufone has now come out [...]
Tweet The Associated Press of Pakistan reports that the Saudi Arabian Ambassador in Islamabad, Ali Awadh Asseri, has announced a donation of $100,000 to COMSTECH. This is in addition to the usual financial support Saudi Arabia and other OIC member states extend to the organization. By way of background, COMSTECH is the Committee for Scientific and [...]
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