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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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Human Capital woes in the Pakistani IT Industry

The software industry in Pakistan is still nascent. We started off with grandiose visions, poor execution and bureaucratic nonsense but, to be fair, we’re since covered considerable ground. You may recall that it was Benazir Bhutto, when she was PM, who loudly proclaimed that we would quickly – and magically – build a double digit [...]

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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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Mobile game development in Pakistan: An interview with Umair Javed, CEO of TkXel

I’m pretty bullish on this move towards product development in the Pakistani software industry. We’ve recently covered a number of up and coming startups that are working on exciting technology, going direct to the end customer and trying to  move beyond the sometimes-boring “software thaykaydaari”…
Just recently, we had Hassan Baig from Islamabad based Facebook app [...]

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Startups in Pakistan: Getting the mindset right

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 industry, can [...]

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The Importance of SEO and SEM for Startups in Pakistan: A Short Tutorial

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 at [...]

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Pepper.pk’s LED Notifier for Blackberry hits Handango Top 10!

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 their [...]

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Be creative about offshoring: Make it easy for customers to outsource EVERYTHING!

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 of [...]

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TechLahore’s Predictions for 2010

I recently evaluated the predictions from last year. In a nutshell, I was about 80% correct. 2009 has certainly been filled with unique challenges, both at a global and national level. We’re all hopeful the future holds better things, and on that subject, I’ll share with you what I think will go down in 2010. Once [...]

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NetSol signs security deal with one of Pakistan’s largest mobile telcos

We don’t quite know yet who the telco is, but if it was THE largest (mobilink), they would have probably said so. That leaves Telenor, Ufone, Warid and Zong. Your guess is as good as mine. But more important than identifying the customer here is the fact that NetSol appears to be diversifying into the [...]

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