About
IT Tazee is Mohtashim’s effort to track the tech industry in the Middle East and Pakistan, and the growing number of innovative startups that are appearing in the region.
Tazee means fresh in Urdu/Hindi, the blog takes its name from the popular Pakistani slang term “Aur koi nai tazee ?” , which means ” And what else is new?”
More About Mohtashim:
About the author of this blog:
Mohtashim (aka Mr Shim) is a Technology Management Professional based out of Toronto, Canada. His expertise includes software development & infrastructure solutions. He helps his clients with their most challenging business problems by implementing cutting edge solutions, and works to effectively bridge the geek->business strategy chasm. Some have called him the “geek in disguise” for his ability to walk into the boardroom from the software lab and back again without having to duck.
Before moving to Canada, he worked at IBM and for startups in Pakistan and in Austin, Texas. He is a Computer science graduate from the University of Texas at Austin and is now wrapping up his MBA at the Schulich School of Business.
He can be reached via email at mohtashim (at) gmail (dot) com, or you can find him on google by feeling lucky.
Besides technology, he enjoys reading, blogging-by-night, strategy gaming, Star Trek and Battlestar Galactica. In his free time (Star trek time does get marked as “busy” on the calendar) he likes playing computer games and hanging out with his wife. While he doesnt go to the gym as often as he should, he can build economies and raise formidable strategic armies in Age of Empires III (on weekends).
And now, for the disclaimer : I am NOT paid/endorsed by ANY company/person/entity I mention in my blogs. I am not paid to blog, and all opinions are my personal opinions not linked to my employer, workplace or any other person/entity.
Every now and then, we do have some Ads and polls running.
We are hosted by the famous and reliable Media Temple (Thank you Adnan! 
)
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December 22nd, 2006 at 2:28 am
Just came across your blog. Very interesting stuff. Would love to connect the next time I’m in Karachi.
January 15th, 2007 at 4:37 pm
excellent site, and really informative
March 27th, 2007 at 5:14 pm
i visit mohtashim blog almost 3 days in a week . it has nice news to read. Keep up the good work.
March 28th, 2007 at 2:01 pm
Mphtashim is a well known Seasoned IT Professional, and is contributing a lot to help improve the IT industry in Pakistan.
He is one of those individuals, I have found very creative with full of innovative ideas.
He is also one of those who are doing alot of hard-work and involved in many activities at the same time, and so he is ALWAYS BUSY!
I wish him GREAT LUCK…
April 3rd, 2007 at 5:27 pm
Love your site gonna watch it daily.
April 5th, 2007 at 1:11 am
Interesting site. Very few blogs that cover innovation in Pakistan.
April 16th, 2007 at 4:37 pm
Love the site, did you go to TieCon Karachi a few days ago?
April 22nd, 2007 at 8:53 pm
Hii
Nice blogging.
Kindly do a blog on animation.
Its got so much export potential.
Thanks
May 10th, 2007 at 4:08 pm
no i missed out on tiecon
Fahad i’ll do a post on animation soon!
June 14th, 2007 at 3:56 pm
Dude where is the RSS of your website or blogs???
June 17th, 2007 at 11:17 pm
http://mohtashim.wordpress.com/feed
here is the RSS link
September 23rd, 2007 at 3:35 pm
Mohtashim, amaana is aggressively hiring top engineering talent to move beyond Beta. How do we reach out to your audience and network to connect with the right people? Please shoot me an email back with your ideas. Thanks
September 25th, 2007 at 4:40 am
Waqas, now the WHOLE WORLD knows! Dude, one would think you know you’re posting to a public forum!
November 19th, 2007 at 11:23 pm
Certainly a quick and focused refresher on the EyeTee happenings in the local scene. I usually drop by once or twice a week whenever I am reminded of it, been following it when it was living at WordPress.
Keep up the spirit Mohtashim, and though I not know them personally I have met Ghais and Nasir, and yeah a friend of mine Aamir Kidwai is associated with Inbox for quite some time now maybe in network deployment.
Anyways thats it for now, me getting back to fiddle around with Linksys WRTSL54GS in a desperate attempt to create a Wi-Fi blanket at my home.
November 25th, 2007 at 12:16 am
Finally Taazi IT, i am adding you in my Fav links !
December 12th, 2007 at 2:19 am
good luck with the wifi blanket…
February 7th, 2008 at 2:33 pm
Hey mohtashim,
I accidently stumpled upon your blog today, which was a nice incident btw, I dont think you’d remember me, but I was one of the guys at FRT, Lahore in its early days. Good to have found you here, I’ve subscribed to your blog at my RSS reader, and I guess, I’d be hearing a lot more news from you, coming from Pakistan.
Keep rocking.
February 8th, 2008 at 12:51 pm
hey good to finally meet you again Suleman!
May 22nd, 2008 at 8:58 am
salam… hope all is well with you guys… i am in the market to find out about potential ERP client in the market and the type of money they spend currently on implementations… would you guys like to share any of your experiences in pakistan?
FYI this blog is REALLY COOL!!!
July 10th, 2008 at 1:59 am
Nice work man..
Please also cover Pakistan’s contribution in Open source industry
Regards
Shaharyar Imam
http://www.apnaportal.com
July 27th, 2008 at 2:34 pm
Dear Brother ,
You are doing great work , MASHALLAH
I am also working for iT and this is my web ittaleem.com . i will be thankfull if you can link us .
Regards
Master
http://www.ittaleem.com
June 22nd, 2009 at 1:37 am
You are not updating your blog since May 31. Why?
June 22nd, 2009 at 2:21 pm
Hi Tania, I’ll get right back to it
I didnt realize how much time had passed given the number of other things I am doing this summer!
September 30th, 2009 at 1:53 am
Hi Mohtashim,
If you want more information about the core banking sector in Pakistan please look at
http://www.ibspublishing.com Among other things we have databases of user lists for the country which are included in some of our publications.
November 15th, 2009 at 10:40 pm
nice work .
January 11th, 2010 at 10:23 am
Do u know a certain Rehana Moiz?
March 17th, 2010 at 11:31 am
good going, keep it up…. !!
March 31st, 2010 at 1:01 am
We would be really grateful if you could post the following news on your website:
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The Computer Science department at LUMS offers a choice of MS and PhD Degree in:
Computer Science
Computer Engineering
Apply online at http://www.lums.edu.pk by 9th of April, 2010
LUMS would like to invite students, parents, faculty of colleges/universities, student counselors, programme coordinators and HR heads to meet our computer science faculty and receive detailed insight about the programmes offered and the strengths of the Department in Islamabad and Karachi on the following dates and venues:
Date Venue Time Session
Saturday,April 3rd, 2010 Bahria University, Islamabad 11:00am – 1:00pm
3:00pm – 5:00pm
Saturday, April 4th, 2010 Regent Plaza Hotel, Karachi 2:00pm – 4:00pm
Regards,
Omair Ahmed Rao
Marketing Officer
Resource Development and Alumni Affairs
Lahore University of Management Sciences
Tel # 042-5608000 Ext: 4211
April 21st, 2010 at 7:46 am
You have a very good website really learned alot regarding new technologies and upcoming .Congrats on your great effort.
April 21st, 2010 at 7:47 am
great effort from you really appreciate your website and unique blogs.
August 18th, 2010 at 10:42 am
sir! i have done bsit(hons) and i want to join oracle software house for oracle internship plz kindly if any post is available for internship then plz call me i will be very thankful to you.