Tweet I often get emails from readers that I try to respond to as quickly as possible. A couple of weeks ago, my Inbox binged with an interesting question from an un-named Pakistani hardware engineer (aka Batman). Batman is originally from Lahore but is presently working in Austin, Texas. I thanked Batman for his email [...]
Tweet For all the negative crap in the media about Pakistan, you wouldn’t know news from reality until you kept your eye on the massive economic and infrastructure deals Pakistan’s been busy inking! Pakistan and Turkey, in particular, have really stepped up joint projects in the recent past. I’ve been trying to keep up with various civil [...]
Tweet The following is a guest post submitted by Hassan Baig of Islamabad-based, White Rabbit. More about the author at the end of the post. Foreword: Social psychologists have long known that any social set-up has a tendency to stifle dissenting voices and bring about conformity. This tendency, seen in the context of the tech [...]
Tweet We’re competing in the Pakistan Blog Awards and would appreciate your support. Here is why we think TechLahore deserves recognition: TechLahore is a blog focused on the technology industry in Pakistan, but it often also covers international technology development relevant to the Pakistani context. We sometimes comment on wider economic, social or international relations [...]
Tweet Search Engine Optimization, or SEO, and its sister area of expertise, SEM (Search Engine Marketing) are incredibly important for most technology startups. In fact, for any kind of online retailer of physical or virtual goods. The bulk of traffic at most websites comes from organic search, or in other words, when users plug-in keywords [...]
Tweet In a short span of time, I’m doing two posts about the same company. That’s a rarity, but I think it’s well deserved. Products being developed in Pakistan that do well on the international scene make me super excited. So when I heard from the guys at Pepper today and they told me that [...]
Tweet Sometimes individuals pursue self-destructive policies, sometimes companies do. But on this occasion, the Government of Israel shows us how to lose all your friends in no time flat! Watch the Israeli government and learn what NOT to do: Turth be told, this Danny Aylon character (aka Insolent Jackass), the Deputy Foreign Minister of Israel, is [...]
Tweet Business Recorder reports that business at internet cafes is petering out. And it makes sense too… with the proliferation of EDGE enabled phones, mobile and wired broadband, WiMAX, and most of all, inexpensive computers, who needs to go to a net cafe now? Yeah, I know the smart aleck response is, “Those who don’t [...]
Tweet It’s pretty clear that 2010 is going to be the Year of the Tablet. Here we are in the first week of January and I’ve already seen more tablet products concepts than I can count on all my fingers and toes. There’s the ill-fated Crunchpad since reborn as the ridiculously named JooJoo, the Apple [...]
Tweet With businesses in the US looking for more and more ways in which they can save money in the current economic climate, interesting new trends in outsourcing are emerging. I recently finished reading a rather thought-provoking book (more on this later), that makes a compelling case for outsourcing every-day repetitive tasks and activities. Many [...]
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