Here we grow (again)…

Thank you all for your support and continued readership of IT Tazee. The blog has grown from a few readers now to literally hundreds each month. Its a nice warm fuzzy feeling at first and then it hits you that the one room apartment and the rented car is nice but just wont do anymore… and so I have decided to move IT Tazee to its own domain! (which means we move out of the garage and into a brand new office!)

Go to : http://www.ittazee.com for the new site!

A thank you to wordpress.com for hosting the blog. The current address will remain the same, but all new posts will now happen on ittazee.com!

Orgoo featured at TechCrunch40

Nowadays it seems like Pakistan is the place to be to open an offshore office for US tech startups. Earlier this month I mentioned AboutUS.org, Five Rivers, Scrybe, Pixsense, and more… the latest to add to my fast growing ‘Innovate.pk’ list is Orgoo, which was featured at TechCrunch40, a very highly respected annual Silicon Valley conference where 40 vigorously screened startups come to demo and show off their products and services.

The Lootmaar beta..go there and fish!

The game-changing lootmaar auction site’s beta has been live now for about a week at :

http://beta.lootmaar.com/

This is as close to a real local ebay as it gets… This is a limited public beta, and will only cater to a select number of sellers. But bidders can register and start buying or bidding right away.

CAA selects IBM GBS for ERP consultancy project

The civil aviation authority (the government entity that manages airports, gives out licenses to airlines,etc etc) has finally decided that its a better idea to use a computer to record your financial and organizational data (welcome to 1989..even if you finally got here in 2007!) .

IBM GBS has been selected as the vendor to do an ERP study and suggest a suitable ERP package. I’m betting its Oracle . No word yet on who does implementation, but usually the evaluator (IBM in this case) does not perform the implementation, but does oversee it.

Software App built in Pakistan wins Top award at VMWorld

I think this is a first for any software company in Pakistan and will go down in history as a first among firsts

ClearCube Technology’s  Sentral 5.6 Enterprise Management Suite is developed by FiveRivers Technologies, out of Lahore, and has been improved year after year for the past 4-5 years. FRT has been working with Clearcube for awhile now and the FRT team builds most of their enterprise management software products that compete with the likes of HP, VMware, IBM Tivoli, etc.

This year, Clearcube entered Sentral into the  VMware’s VM World 2007 and won the award for best Desktop virtualization software, over, yes OVER VMware workstation.

Sentral Screenshot:

Lootmaar beta launches…

The beta of highly anticipated Lootmaar is now live. Lootmaar is a new web 2.0 generation auction platform aimed at being the ebay for the Pakistani Market,with an a twist: Lootmaar registers users, confirms their identity and ships they auction themselves through couriers, and uses Amaana for payments (like paypal). Its actually a very credible way of conducting auctions and buying/selling online. 

 Watch this space for more, I will be posting updates and how/if you can access the beta site as this latest innovative startup as it comes out of stealth mode.

Ramadan Mubarak!

And I’m sure like me everyones looking for the Ramadan schedule. The folks at the Karachi Metroblog have a Ramadan schedule up, you can get to it by going here:

http://karachi.metblogs.com/archives/2006/09/ramadan_mubarak_1.phtml

All timings for the holy month are posted there. Also, expect everything (which includes me and the IT industry) to slow down even more

Pre-order your iPhone at MediaCenter

Earlier published a post about getting iPhones from Beliscity. Well, I just found a better (and a more solid warranty) deal thanks to Qurats comment on that post. Mediacenter, an Apple reseller is taking preorders for iPhones, their price is 50,000 PKR (still yikes but less than Beliscity’s 60,000 PKR) . If you want to order normally when its in stock, it will cost you between 38,000-49,000 PKR.

The industry event this week…

This Friday the whos who of the tech industry will be converging down to T2F   to discuss the new Cyber Crime Bill and have a bite as well.

Check out the link below to read all about the most happening IT Industry event this week

http://jehanara.wordpress.com/2007/09/05/call-for-action-against-draconian-e-crime-bill-2007/

Apple iPhone now available at beliscity.com

Yup, thats right. I dont know if these are locked or unlocked, or what the deal is right now. I just know they are selling for 60,000 a pop at beliscity.com (thats $1000 USD sheeesh!! double price really)

Check it out , and if you do buy one, please do share your experience here by posting comments,

http://beliscity.com/ProductDetail.aspx?did=6&bid=28&cid=76&sid=612&pid=6962&Desc=1