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TechLahore launches the Pakistan Technology Forum

After 3 years of being a blog, TechLahore is making the leap to being a little bit more than that… we’re launching the Pakistan Technology Forum today which we hope will serve as the favourite haunt for local techies, hackers, startup studs and tech business belles. The forum launches today at the following URL:
www.techlahore.com/forum
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What is up with Indian politicians and cheap computers?

Here comes another announcement heralding the arrival of an inexpensive computer made in India. Is it the Sakshit? No. Is it the Simputer? No. This time it’s a new red herring… an as-yet unnamed tablet unveiled by an Indian politician, Kapil Sibal, who is currently the head honcho at the Indian Human Resources Ministry. It [...]

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A quick and inexpensive way to supercharge your PC

If you want to give your PC a quick and inexpensive upgrade, you might consider doing what I just did: upgrade the storage subsystem. With 6.0Gbps SATA III cards now under $30, and RAID cards for SATA drives available on the cheap, there’s no reason to live in the old days and run your OS [...]

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Cisco unveils Android-powered home energy management device

One of the most significant challenges facing mankind at a global level is the environmental catastrophe that will surely materialize if we fail to transition towards a more sustainable and environmentally friendly energy infrastructure. The statistics are staggering. With increasing per capita energy consumption in the developing world, a gargantuan overall energy footprint in the [...]

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PASHA Launchpad: A great place to pitch your business ideas and get funded!

I must say, a lot of interesting tech events and forums have been arranged recently. First the Blog Awards, then TEDx Karachi, which by the way deserves another post altogether. Now, Jehan Ara, President of PASHA (Pakistan Software Houses Association) has announced that her organization will be starting a series of events appropriately called “Launchpad”. [...]

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

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 bought [...]

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TechLahore’s prediction about Palm comes true – Palm bought for $1.2B by HP

This news doesn’t make me particularly happy, because a great, innovative company that pioneered the handheld market has been gobbled up today for a paltry sum that may be less than the value of its patents alone. But I have to say, I did see this one coming. Almost two years ago I predicted that [...]

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TechLahore buys an iPad

Those of you who have been following the blog for a while know that I have been tracking the iPad since many moons. I even promised I would go and buy it when it came out despite my abhorrence of Apple and its closed, uber controlling policies. Well, Steve Jobs is now several hundred dollars [...]

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Dell inaugurates a new Center of Excellence in Karachi

Dell has been pretty active in Pakistan of late. They’ve got a decent reseller network, with companies like Gerry’s and DWP Group reselling their wares. Heck, Michael Dell’s even had his business cards printed in Arabic script!
Moving on from the conventional box-pushing business and standard PCs (yawn!), they’re now growing in to more of a [...]

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Job opportunities for ex-pat hardware engineers in Lahore, Pakistan

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 and [...]

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