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Virtualization is obviously a fact of life now. It occupies a central role in future IT architectures and is a cloud building block. We’ve covered virtualization and connection brokers in the past, and have even reviewed some desktop virtualization products. There is, in fact, some interesting virtualization work happening in Pakistan also. Some of the [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

I recently evaluated the predictions from last year. In a nutshell, I was about 80% correct. 2009 has certainly been filled with unique challenges, both at a global and national level. We’re all hopeful the future holds better things, and on that subject, I’ll share with you what I think will go down in 2010. Once [...]

Software piracy is fast becoming extinct in Pakistan. Yes, it still happens at an individual level, but these days you can hardly find a reasonably sized company that deliberately uses pirated software. Microsoft and the BSA have played a huge role in this, for obvious reasons! But the upshot of all of this is that [...]

If you’re in technology and you don’t think about the future – like *all* the time – then something’s probably wrong with you. The future is coming at us fast. And I don’t mean that in the sense of the Sardarji who wasn’t worried about his 14 year prison sentence since, “Koi gal naieen, 14 [...]

Last year, I listed out a set of predictions and just recently I evaluated how they turned out. But on to more important business: what’s 2009 going to be like for Pakistan, for the IT industry and for the world at large? There are lots of very important trends unfolding before our eyes and they can [...]

News is starting to leak out about HP redirecting significant internal resources to develop a consumer, mass market operating system that will end up competing with Microsoft Windows. As you all know, HP is one of Microsoft’s largest partners, and has billions of dollars invested in various joint software development, hardware support, driver development, marketing and [...]

And I don’t think you can afford to exhibit the bravado Axl Rose once did when he said, “They’re outta get me, they won’t catch me…”. Rest assured, the Business Software Alliance means business and they WILL catch you.  The BSA has made some strides in the last few years and increasingly, smaller IT shops [...]

Now this piece of news was interesting to me at multiple levels. First, since I travel quite a bit I’ve always wondered what the next generation of entertainment and business technologies available in-flight would be. Well, we now have an institution in our own neighbourhood that will be dedicated to improving the travel experience by [...]