TechLahore

This makes for a nice follow-up to the previously posted Large Hadron Collider story.
Sciencewatch is a global database that tracks scientific publications, papers and citations. Last month, Pakistan topped the list of countries with the biggest percentage increase in citations. Pakistan leads in the largest number of categories when compared to any other country. These [...]

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is drawing a lot of media attention. As it should, since the LHC is the most expensive piece of experimental gear ever assembled. It aims to uncover no less than absolutely fundamental truths about creation, and the universe we live in. Will we find the elusive Higgs Boson? Will we [...]

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 [...]

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 been [...]

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 global [...]

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 Technical cooperation, [...]

A great article in the Business Recorder discloses plans to establish a sophisticated network in rural areas, delivering agricultural decision support systems, data mining and extraction using clustering techniques and other useful – and complex – functionality. Much of the infrastructure that powers these Agri AI systems is developed in Pakistan, particularly the environmental and [...]

One of the things we’ve always loved and cherished about Pakistan is how close families are in our culture. Generally, we’re there for each other regardless of what the occasion or the severity of the problem! We’re also thrilled to see that younger parents are spending an ever increasing amount of time with their children. [...]

Lahore’s University of Engineering & Technology and its student science society are putting together a number of Open Source Workshops on the 22nd of March. If you’re in Lahore, and into Open Source technology, don’t miss out on the opportunity to attend. Registration is free and topics include everything from building scalable web based systems [...]

TechLahore announces a $1,000 prize to any individual or team (of students) in Pakistan who will build a computing device on the lines of Prof. Harry Porter’s remarkable relay computer. If the team is successful in building the device, TechLahore will provide further reimbursements of up to $500 for materials used. That’s $1,500 total. And [...]