In The Line of Wire

• Buy & sell software portal launched by wi-tribe News for software developers who want to sell their software locally online! Wi-tribe has just announced the beta launch of wi-tribe Bazaar – Pakistan’s first Buy and Sell software portal – as a platform where Pakistani software developers can sell and monetize their software. The portal, as all things wi-tribe, is slick and the User Interface is [...]
• wi-tribe and UET unveil ‘wi-cam‘ wi-tribe Pakistan and Al-Khawarizmi Institute of Computer Science, University of Engineering and Technology (KICS-UET) unveiled ‘wi-cam’ at a press conference held at the UET campus today. wi-cam, a CPE (Customer Premises Equipment) Management and Administration tool, developed by students and graduates of KICS-UET using open-source technology, allows broadband companies, such as wi-tribe, to remotely configure [...]
• First visit to the Lahore Technology Park On 11th January Badar Khushnood, Haris Nadeem and I made our way to the new Lahore Technology Park (now renamed the Arfa Karim Technology Park) on Ferozepur Road. The idea was to check out the Auditorium, the multimedia projection system, the wifi and the sound system to ensure that everything was in good shape for [...]
• P@SHA is the proud user of SmartXS! As P@SHA expands its resource capacity, we thought we should have an Attendance system to document who comes in at what time – not that this will ensure how productive they have been during the day – but nonetheless it seemed like a cool thing to do. So how did we go about it? Well [...]
• Candy Pot does well on App stores worldwide Very often I am asked why I put so many hours into my work at P@SHA, why whenever I am on a visit to Lahore or Islamabad I try and meet as many people as I can. Admittedly, at the end of a long day trip, I am totally wiped out. So why is it worth [...]
• Entrepreneurs Roundtable to kick off first meeting in Kar... If you are an entrepreneur who wants to show off a prototype or get feedback on a new product that you have developed, now is your chance. On Tuesday, January 17, 2012 Entrepreneurs Roundtable (ERT) Pakistan is holding its kickoff event in Karachi from 7:00pm to 9:00pm at T2F 2.0 at 10C Sunset Lane 5, Phase 2 Extension [...]
• Talk about wastage! When I received this by courier yesterday I assumed it was a calendar or a diary or perhaps a box of chocolates. Imagine my surprise when I opened the box and found this!  Yes it was a teeny weeny credit card! What a waste! The card could easily have been sent in an envelope as credit [...]
• Strategy to avoid jinxing my New Year resolutions New Year resolutions have never been quite my thing and every year as friends and colleagues have put together their resolutions, I have had my “bah” “humbug” moments – telling them there’s no point in making resolutions that they had no intention of keeping. This year too just before the clock struck midnight heralding the [...]
• Interested in applying for the PSEB Incubator Program? You may remember that the Pakistan Software Export Board (PSEB) had initiated its “Smart Plug and Play Incubator Program” the purpose of which was to promote entrepreneurship and to encourage creativity  among young IT Graduates. The next stage of the program will start from January 2012 in which PSEB will provide necessary infrastructure support & [...]
• Fariha Akhtar talks about Online Privacy & Safety on The ... It is a good feeling when you involve young people in a cause and they make the cause their own. Fariha Akhtar is one such person who was part of the initial set of young people who was first introduced to the TakeBacktheTech campaign to end Violence Against Women over a Chinese meal at Yuan [...]