make sure its reading Jawwad’s “The List” post… see below
http://alchemya.com/wordpress2/2007/06/26/the-technology-scene-in-pakistan-or-the-list/Jawwad estimates software company revenues and industry size using some basic assumptions and numbers. This is a must read if you ever wondered how those software houses are actually doing. Quite controversial too. weee!
SME Bank and Olympia Chemcials are the two latest customers for IBM’s Bladecenter servers. This also means that they automatically becomes IBM storage solution customers, since the Bladecenter doesnt work without one. (this is how you cross sell!) . Both organizations are considered to be medium sized businesses…which -hopefully- means that the IBM Bladecenter has also gotten alot more afforable. Read more…
…when you realize Apple has rolled out their website redesign. One of the best designed websites of all time has changed its look. Looks more in line with the new Apple UI across the products and IPhone product.
See it here:
You wont realize the implications of this unless you’re a geek, MAC geek, a web/graphic/UI designer or someone whose been associated with Apple for awhile. Look at the footer links of the new website. Look at the black background, gray toolbar. The drop down list on the bottom of the page. Yup, the world has changed indeed…whether we like it or not. Time for me to quietly sit and reflect on this with a hint of nostalgia…
..TPS signs up Etisalat as a customer, and a NEDian takes his company to an IPO on Wallstreet. For this and more news on recent industry achievements, head on over to pasha.org.pk for your quaterly (or so) news update…
The biggest thing in IT this week is the PASHA Job Fair. Don’t miss IT! If you’re anyone or want to be someone in the local IT scene, this is the place to be. You can not only look for a job but to find candidates and see who is hiring and what everyone is upto and grow your network.
Links to the job fair :
http://www.pasha.org.pk/careerexpo2007/index.aspx
(well designed website too!)
This saturday the next years fiscal budget becomes public knowledge. The hope is that this year, the news would be more favourable than the last but I doubt that.
For starters, there is talk of adding a “VAT” ie value added tax onto “contractual services” (vague, eh?), which would presumably encompass It services as well. Hmm expensive IT services. Well lets see where that goes, but there is something more alarming. read on… Read more…
Or is firefox just better? Im using IE 7 (the legal version) and Firefox 2. And even though Firefox is a memory hog, its like that Apple feeling. Its just feels like it performs its function better. anyhow, back to the grind…
I found a quirk in epaper.dawn.com 
I love this web application and use it often. As a technical person though, one thing i discovered about it irks me. IF I set my computer’s date back say 3 days, it will only show me the dawn edition upto that day. So, if the days the 9th of June in Pakistan and I am in the US and its 12 hours behind, I possibly wont get the latest version of Dawn on the website, but a day old (since Dawn follows Pakistan time). Read more…
UBL’s Orion product, a mobile payment solution launched its public beta a few days ago. The service, which seems like an innovatice cross between A cellphone, Paypal and Western Union allows you to use your mobile phone just like a credit card or cash for that matter. Click on more for details… Read more…
The years most anticipated event for the loyal and aspiring soldiers of the Empire (I mean Microsoft) once again comes to Karachi this month….promises to have tons of marketing, and some useful insights into new MS technologies. I might drop in to get the skinny on this new SilverLight platform, but why oh why are they not demostrating the new Microsoft Surface here?! or are they? Read more…
