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Pepper.pk’s LED Notifier becomes the World’s #1 Blackberry App


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 [...]

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NYT says India’s pace of IT innovation slow. How is Pakistan doing?


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 [...]

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Mobile game development in Pakistan: An interview with Umair Javed, CEO of TkXel


I’m pretty bullish on this move towards product development in the Pakistani software industry. We’ve recently covered a number of up and coming startups that are working on exciting technology, going direct to the end customer and trying to  move beyond the sometimes-boring “software thaykaydaari”… Just recently, we had Hassan Baig from Islamabad based Facebook [...]

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