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What Does the ICANN Announcement Mean for Pakistan?

Following the ICANN announcement that allow the implementation of new domain names online, it’s interesting to see the implications it will have on a...

Turning Media Houses into Media Powerhouses

With the influx of television channels, print publication licenses and FM radio stations mushrooming across Pakistan, perhaps the only way that companies can actually...

Technologically Speaking

By Sadia Rauf While technology and our sheer existence are now a tightly woven pair – it still takes a bit of marketing trickery to...

SMS Usage Trends Continue to Accelerate

Data Services on wireless (GSM) devices have started getting response from Pakistani consumers. Text Messages (SMSes) in particular have experienced tremendous growth in the...

SAAS At Work: M. Sohail Amjad

M. Sohail Amjad was just an undergrad student at the Punjab University when he developed the Gmail Notifier for email running on Apps. When...

Re-inventing a Company: Sajid Hameed, Resident Director, Etilize

Here’s the situation: it’s the year 2000 and Azhar Hameed started up a young company called Etilize, put its signboard on the wall and...

Mobile Commerce in Pakistan: The Micro Scope

With a large unbanked population of Pakistan, mCommerce might just be the answer to the prayers of companies that are trying to find ways...

Let’s face[book] it…

Rather than beat the horse further on the age-old debate whether social networking is good or bad for the individual during office hours, it’s...

Inspiring Innovation: Shakeel Akhtar, Indus Hospital

When you have everything virtual and paperless in an organization, the reliance on a strong, redundant infrastructure is critical for the functioning and long...

CIO Issue 1 Editorial

Welcome to the first issue of the local edition of CIO, the world’s largest Business Technology Leadership Publication brand. It’s an exciting time for...

CIO’s FOSS Imperative

By Fouad Riaz Bajwa Software enables us to use computer hardware as well as connect and communicate in ways that drastically change the way we...

Back in the day

The internet was meant to be an interactive platform. Even in the days of the DarpaNet, the classical versions of the online medium, were...

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