Tweet Business Recorder reports that business at internet cafes is petering out. And it makes sense too… with the proliferation of EDGE enabled phones, mobile and wired broadband, WiMAX, and most of all, inexpensive computers, who needs to go to a net cafe now? Yeah, I know the smart aleck response is, “Those who don’t [...]
Tweet It’s pretty clear that 2010 is going to be the Year of the Tablet. Here we are in the first week of January and I’ve already seen more tablet products concepts than I can count on all my fingers and toes. There’s the ill-fated Crunchpad since reborn as the ridiculously named JooJoo, the Apple [...]
Tweet Pakistani software companies are churning out some exciting gaming titles! I was very pleased to see Mindstorm Studios launch their cricket game for the PC. Undoubtedly, it’s been built with a lot of love and attention to detail and frankly, all of it shows. This is clearly one game designed by cricket enthusiasts for [...]
Tweet You KNOW it’s going to happen! We can either extend our own biological capabilities by tapping into the science and innovation fuelling robotics and AI, or we’ll essentially become irrelevant. I’m not the only one saying it. Ray Kurzweil‘s been on this bandwagon for a while, in fact, I think he’s behind the wheel! [...]
Tweet IBM, as you might have noticed, have continued to invest heavily in the Pakistani market and broaden their software offerings. Most recently they announced the Pakistan launch of Lotus Workforce and Talent solutions, an extension to IBM’s ERP and HRM offerings. The application is a web based tool implemented in J2EE that will allow [...]
Tweet Yay! We made it this far. The previous post on Emirates’ in-flight entertainment system was our 100th published post. To celebrate the occasion we decided to share with you some of our personal favourites from the past few months – hope you enjoy reading them as much we enjoyed writing them: The fools at [...]
Tweet Netsol has lost more than half its market cap since the last week of October this year. The stock has fallen from its high of $4.64 to just $2.00 today. Part of this is because of concerns about the US economy in particular and the global economy in general. The first three trading sessions [...]
Tweet Here is a list of our predictions for 2008. While most of these predictions have to do with technology and IT companies in Pakistan, some of them are political. We’ll circle back on Jan 1 2009 to see how accurate our crystal ball was; until then, we’d love to hear your opinions! Share this:
Tweet I hope Telenor perishes! Why? Here’s why. I’ll start from the top. As I mentioned on this blog a while back, I was looking at Telenor’s TV service. Despite the cost, I bit the bullet and subscribed. Right after sending the SMS message to initiate the subscription, I received a prompt confirmation message. So [...]
Tweet Netsol is one of Pakistan’s major software outsourcing companies. And if you’ve been following Netsol stock on the NASDAQ (NTWK), you’ll find that over the last couple of months, the stock price has roughly doubled. This is mostly due to a recent earnings call where management disclosed healthy growth and also an increasing percentage [...]
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