TechLahore

Early in the morning, as I loaded up CNN to get my daily news fix, I was rather shocked to be staring at this front page story. A day has gone by and the international press is now abuzz with news of the repeated bomb blasts in India. The impact of these violent acts is [...]

Talk about the acceleration of a Bugatti Veyron being impressive. It just got left in the dust with the rate of growth the Pakistani cell phone market has demonstrated. The News reports that the cell phone user base in the country just hit 90 million! But here’s the scary part. If you make the following [...]

Telenor Pakistan’s CEO, Tore Johnsen, has been replaced by his Malaysian compadre, Jon Eddy Abdullah. Tore has been in charge since the 2004 launch of Telenor in the country. He has done nothing less than a fabulous job in ensuring market share, delivering a variety of innovative services and creating a pretty compelling brand identity in just [...]

FY ’07-08 has been closed out and we now know how well the country fared in attracting foreign inflows. In short, the numbers look very good. The Business Recorder reports that Pakistan attracted $6.45BN in foreign remittances. This represents growth of almost 18% over FY 2006-07. Not too shabby! In terms of the countries from [...]

We had reported a few weeks ago that Saudi Arabia and Pakistan had extensive investment discussions when Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani visited Riyadh recently. Part of the agreement that resulted from these discussions involved Saudi Arabia providing $4.82BN of oil on very soft, deferred terms to Pakistan. Apparently we were wrong about the amount. [...]

There was a two line news item in the Daily DAWN today that is of much consequence to the tech industry in Pakistan. The Asian Development Bank has decided to extend Pakistan an $810M facility to invest in the power distribution infrastructure in the country. This marks a continuation of the infrastructure investments being extended [...]

To follow-up on a story we reported on a few months ago, Huawei Technology from China has been chosen by Mobilink parent, Orascom, to deploy their WiMAX network in Pakistan. After Wateen/Warid’s WiMAX implementation, this will be the second largest. It’s interesting to note that Wateen chose a US-company, Motorola, for their implementation, while Mobilink [...]

The Daily Times reports that the Dow University in Karachi has implemented an Oracle/PeopleSoft Enterprise Campus Solution. This includes a student portal, access for professors and administration. Some of the more often used features include self-service workflows like registering for classes, checking scores and so on. For more information on this ERP system, you can [...]

Virtualization is one of the hottest Information Technology topics these days and it looks like Pakistan is getting its fair share of Virtualization activity. Various Pakistani tech publications – including TechLahore – have reported in the recent past that: 1) John Kish, the CEO of Wyse Technology, a thinclient manufacturer focused on providing client devices [...]

Here’s another piece of news to validate something we’ve known for a while now. Pakistan’s software industry continues to show great growth, with the past 4 years showing 50% YoY increases. This is especially impressive given that there was a lot of media coverage of supposed instability in Pakistan close to the November/December 2007 timeframe. The [...]