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White Rabbit launches its first Facebook game: Feline Frenzy

Hassan Baig of White Rabbit has been a regular guest contributor on TechLahore, so we’re especially pleased to announce today that his company, White Rabbit, just came out with their first Facebook game. It’s called “Feline Frenzy: Robot Wars” and it promises to amuse and entertain. Be sure to check it out! Here are some [...]

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Social Gaming: A Primer for Pakistani Facebook App Developers

This is another guest post from White Rabbit’s Hassan Baig. I hope you’ll enjoy Hassan’s writing as much as I do! More about the author at the end of this piece.
“Walls are only built to keep out people who don’t want it bad enough” – Randy Pausch, Last Lecture Series
Some drab definitions [...]

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TechLahore is competing in the Pakistan Blog Awards – please vote!

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 issues, especially [...]

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This French rap song about Pakistan puts a little spring in my step

I don’t like hip hop or rap music. But I’m sharing with you the one exception that proves the rule. French-Pakistani rapper Pakos has produced this really awesome song celebrating Pakistan. The video below, I believe, is a fan production but does a pretty good job of getting the point across. The point being, of [...]

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Pakistan's Mindstorm Studios launches world's most sophisticated Cricket game (PC)

Lahore-based Mindstorm Studios have been working on this project for a while now… but the wait is finally over! Mindstorm Cricket Revolution is OUT (no pun intended). As will be amply evident from all the screenshots I’m posting here, the game looks absolutely amazing. There is great attention to detail, a rich team selection, multi-player [...]

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MySpace India staff getting the axe; China and Japan offices in-tact

MySpace has had its share of troubles recently. Unlike Facebook, they don’t seem to believe that it’s OK to raise hundreds of millions of dollars and never make a cent. But what do I know? Clearly, Smart Investors seem to love Facebook’s business model and their $10 Billion valuation. Previously, Even Smarter Investors couldn’t get [...]

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TechLahore decamelized

Yeah. I’m done with the camel. Say hello to the new me.

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LUMS students launch an internet based radio station

I recently heard from Farrukh Jawed over at LUMS. He wrote to me excitedly about a project that he and his LUMS compadres have been working on for quite some time now. No, it’s not a souped up dialup network for people in developing countries, or a submission to an MIT contest. It’s actually a [...]

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Warid Zem's wzone brings popular movies and music to your phone

Driving around in Lahore the other day, I came across these large Warid banners at several places in the Cantt. area. As you can see from the image, Warid is investing quite a bit in advertising their newest service, wzone.
wzone is a mobile destination you can visit using your cell phone which provides you with [...]

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Is Pakistan the best place on earth to launch a Web 2.0 company?

Quite possibly. I started thinking along these lines when a hot-shot American investment banker friend mentioned that “70% of the US’ GDP is consumer driven”. That much, huh?! It’s no secret that THE key point of interaction for consumer businesses is now the web. In fact, most Web 2.0 companies are consumer focused, even as [...]

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