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Entries for May, 2010

Setting Tom Friedman Straight: Exposing an agenda of vilification


Tweet I get it. There are neocons and then there are neocons. The first reference would be to the easy to identify variety; those of the Perle and Cheney ilk. Folks that don’t bother to pretend or cover their tracks. They shoot first and ask questions later. But then there’s the more insidious, surreptitious genus [...]

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The Anatomy of a Social Game


Tweet Here is Hassan Baig again with his thoughts on what makes Social Games tick! I thoroughly enjoyed his insight, as I am sure you will. Without further ado, I’m turning it over to Hasan: This is confessedly a bad time to talk about social gaming – Facebook, the premier social gaming platform, is in [...]

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Pakistani WiMAX provider Wi-Tribe gets new CEO: Where do they go from here?


Tweet The last few years have seen a profusion of WiMAX services enter the Pakistani IT market. There are already three major vendors delivering these services, including Wateen, Mobilink and #3 player, Wi-Tribe. Wateen and Mobilink are obviously huge behemoths that can subsidize their WiMAX operations, if needed, by leveraging their booming cellular telephony businesses. [...]

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Pepper.pk launches Cricket World Championship, a super-fun iPhone cricket game


Tweet Back in October last year, we covered Mindstorm Studio’s exciting new cricket game for the PC. It is clearly “best in class” when it comes to a cricketing experience on the PC. Well, another Pakistani mobile gaming company just jumped into the fray! Pepper.pk has come out with a fun-to-play cricket game for the iPhone. What [...]

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Pakistani Computer Scientist wins global Supercomputer Design Award


Tweet Pakistan has produced a lot of computer science talent that is powering not only our local industry but also academia and research. As they are incredibly interesting and important areas, distributed systems, parallelism and supercomputing have attracted the attention of many of our brightest stars. These areas have almost been fused together lately, with [...]

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Stuff about the iPad that sucks… TechLahore’s conclusions thus-far


Tweet For those of you who are not fully up to speed with the plot, Jack, Kate, Sawyer and Hurley try to escape the Island in a stolen sailboat… no wait, that’s the wrong plot. We’re not talking about Lost here, we’re discussing the iPad! So, last week I told you about the iPad I [...]

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