TechLahore

We’ve been publishing since 2007 and TechLahore is hence not exactly a “new” blog. As institutions age, they accrue tradition, and TechLahore is no different. Our December evaluations of the past year’s predictions have been happening now for the past several years. In January, we’ll follow-up with a new set of predictions for 2012. Here [...]

Lahore-based Pepper.pk has been in the news quite a bit recently and that’s only because they’ve been doing newsworthy things! They’ve just completed a previously unparalleled feat – their third application, Ninja Fruit Bash, has hit World #1 on Blackberry Appworld. With over 25,000 applications now listed on the marketplace, this is no small achievement if [...]

Ok, I’m starting to sound like a broken record here, but when the news is this awesome, I hardly mind! You may remember that a few months ago we covered Lahore-based Pepper.pk’s Photo Editor application which had made it to World #1 on Blackberry Appworld. Well, they’ve done it again, and this time with a [...]

Everyone I talk to is coming unglued about what happened in yesterday’s Pakistan-India semi-final. It would seem as if we weren’t talking about a game of Cricket but something of an unfathomable gravity! Look, I’m a huge cricket fan. Bigger than most. And on certain days, I can get down about sports too. But come [...]

Stop the presses, ’cause here’s a piece of mind blowingly awesome news. Pepper.pk, a Lahore-based software company we’ve covered in the past, has hit it out of the park with their latest Photo Editor suite for Blackberry devices. Photo Editor has made it to #5 on the list of Top Paid Blackberry Applications ON THE [...]

The decline of Windows Mobile in the last few years is one of the most confusing, frustrating and inexplicable tech stories of the past decade. After becoming *the* smartphone operating system, besting Palm, Handspring and even RIM, Microsoft apparently went into a coma. They failed to keep up with emerging competition, like the Apple iPhone, [...]

Ah, it’s that time of year again! And how quickly it comes. It seems like yesterday that I wrote the predictions reproduced below, but look, three hundred and sixty five days have passed already. We must continue the tradition we started in 2007 and built upon in 2008… so here we go! I was right [...]

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 cricket [...]

There’s been a lot of buzz lately about the newly launched Ufone UConnect service, so I figured I’d share my perspective too. First off, the service is AWESOME. Truly. The breadth of capabilities that it brings to an inexpensive mobile phone is incredibly impressive to say the least. The problem with sophisticated applications like this, [...]

The Business Recorder broke a story about an investigation that has been launched by the Competition Commission of Pakistan into Mobilink’s restrictive trade practices around their Blackberry offerings. The article highlights one specific area of inquiry, which is the inability for Blackberry handsets to access basic GPRS services without activating RIM data services. I think [...]