Here at TechLahore, we’ve covered GIS in Pakistan a few times in the past. We’ve even reviewed indigenous Pakistan mapping services, such as Naqsha.net. Google is obviously still the undisputed champion of open source GIS/mapping and satellite imagery. But where they have been found lacking in the past is the paucity of street maps and [...]
The going hasn’t been very good for Indian IT firms recently. First, there was the Satyam scandal which exposed many of the fundamental issues with Indian IT companies, corporate espionage, board level corruption, scamming of shareholders etc. Then, what was left of Satyam was to be taken over by a Government-appointed board, but there was [...]
If you’re in technology and you don’t think about the future – like *all* the time – then something’s probably wrong with you. The future is coming at us fast. And I don’t mean that in the sense of the Sardarji who wasn’t worried about his 14 year prison sentence since, “Koi gal naieen, 14 [...]
HD DVD, as well know, was Toshiba’s much-hyped successor to DVD technology. It was competing with the Sony Blu-ray technology, and while it provided slightly lower quality, it was cheaper and had the support of giants such as Microsoft. As a matter of fact, HD-DVD even made its way into the Xbox 360. None of [...]
Here’s something I’m getting more and more confused about every day. Whatever happened to SI3? I am referring, of course, to the systems integrator based in Karachi that had raised funds from former Fergusons partners and others. They had some initial implementations going with the Army, UBL and some others, but lately I have been [...]
The last post was the 200th for this blog. It’s been an interesting ride. What’s for sure is that the blog has evolved in ways I didn’t imagine when I started it back in 2007. Many of you might be new readers, and others may have hung around for the ride since the very first [...]
It was only back on the 30th of January that we covered the foreign exchange reserve position. At the time, the reserves stood at $10.2B and we had projected that this number would continue to rise very rapidly due to import reduction, healthy export performance and other expected inflows. Well, our projection has been borne [...]
