TechLahore

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 [...]

Back in December 2009, I had come up with a list of predictions for 2010. I may have gotten a little lucky this year, because many of these predictions were spot-on to an uncanny degree. Here’s how I fared: Political predictions I don’t see Asif Zardari making it through 2010. I think he will be [...]

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 New York Times published an interesting article on the state of IT innovation in India. In a nutshell, the Times found that while India continues to be a low-cost offshoring destination, Indian companies are not being able to truly innovate and create compelling new products. Within India, there appears to be an overwhelming focus [...]

I often get emails from readers that I try to respond to as quickly as possible. A couple of weeks ago, my Inbox binged with an interesting question from an un-named Pakistani hardware engineer (aka Batman). Batman is originally from Lahore but is presently working in Austin, Texas. I thanked Batman for his email and [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

Virtualization is one of the hottest Information Technology topics these days and it looks like Pakistan is getting its fair share of Virtualization activity. Various Pakistani tech publications – including TechLahore – have reported in the recent past that: 1) John Kish, the CEO of Wyse Technology, a thinclient manufacturer focused on providing client devices [...]

Today, ClearCube, the PC Blade and Virtualization pioneer that has been a FiveRivers Technologies partner over the last many years, announced that it was spinning off a software company called VDIworks. Interestingly, this company will use talent in Pakistan, presumably also under the auspices of the FiveRivers relationship. The story that references the new relationship is available [...]