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Someday, someone in an appropriately empowered government position in Pakistan needs to take a bold step forward and break through the bureaucracy and red tape government is despised for. There are so many incredibly high value, low cost initiatives to take up in areas as diverse as agriculture, education, energy and information technology that the shortage is [...]

Rafe Needleman at C|net just published an interesting piece on the best startup ideas from 2011. Net-net, he says the following trends made it big through a variety of startups: 1) A focus on bringing technology to the physical world: Products that reach outside the digital realm and enable interactions with the physical world in interesting [...]

This news item should have gotten a lot more coverage than it did. The Pentagon has launched a programme under which their operatives will be creating thousands of false identities on social networks to engage in “conversations” with people in the ME, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Central Asia. The idea is to use software as a [...]

I was recently logged in to my Facebook account when a friend I’m connected to, but don’t often communicate with, initiated a Facebook chat with me. I was a little surprised because this was the first time the person in question was reaching out like this. Not being particularly technically savvy, I didn’t really expect [...]

Who can forget the recent controversy involving Facebook, some cartoons and a religious figure deeply revered by muslims. I don’t want to get into the details because they are not important. What is important, however, is the lessons we can learn from our ridiculous reactions to things we should really be ignoring. Nothing good comes from idiocy, [...]

Here is Hassan Baig again with his thoughts on what makes Social Games tick! I thoroughly enjoyed his insight, as I am sure you will. Without further ado, I’m turning it over to Hasan: This is confessedly a bad time to talk about social gaming – Facebook, the premier social gaming platform, is in the [...]

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 [...]

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 first [...]

How many times will we come across these “Digital map shows Kashmir in Pakistan” stories? Well, certainly more than once! After all, it wasn’t too long ago that we reported on the outbreak of great outrage and violence in India because Nokia’s digital maps showed Kashmir to be a part of Pakistan. In that instance, [...]

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 [...]