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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 [...]

I’ve always wondered why India is having such trouble moving from IT enabled services into the product market. It has been obvious to every observer of the BPO ITeS market that wage based differentiation doesn’t amount to a long term, defensible competitive edge. There are two parallel threats – the first being the very high [...]

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 [...]

It’s been a while since I wrote about how I see Pakistan’s macro situation developing. Even though the noise in the media about Pakistan has died down considerably over the past year or so, you still come across oddities now and then that make you wonder how mainstream publications can put across nonsense that couldn’t be further [...]

The Satyam scandal just doesn’t stop unfolding. And with every successive twist the story takes, the magnitude of the disaster seems to get amplified and the corruption appears wider and increasingly more unfathomable. There have been two developments recently which we felt were an important follow-up to the coverage TechLahore has given the Satyam story [...]

Thanks to Mohtashim of ITtazee.com for bringing this to our attention. SanDisk is the latest in a long list of organizations, including the World Bank and others, terminating embattled Indian IT company, Satyam’s services. As we’ve mentioned here before, Satyam was at the epicenter of corporate espionage, fraud and other wrongdoings that have landed it’s [...]

If the title confuses you, let me quickly catch you up on this story. Satyam is one of the largest IT companies in India and has been the darling of the Indian outsourcing industry for some time now. The company is/was run by Ramalinga Raju, who has been hailed as one of the leading lights [...]

If you ever thought that a little GPS map embedded deep inside a tiny application in a relatively inexpensive piece of consumer technology was, in the grand scheme of things, unimportant and harmless, well, think again. Recent happenings in India will expose your naivete! Apparently, Nokia cell phones contain GPS maps of Kashmir, which (correctly, from [...]

Early in the morning, as I loaded up CNN to get my daily news fix, I was rather shocked to be staring at this front page story. A day has gone by and the international press is now abuzz with news of the repeated bomb blasts in India. The impact of these violent acts is [...]

More than a year after Pakistan announced the world’s largest WiMax network, India is following suit with a somewhat modest 200,000 user deployment. Tata group will be investing $500M over 3 years to build out a WiMax infrastructure primarily for commercial use. In Pakistan, the magnitude of WiMax adoption has been far more significant. Wateen [...]