Almost 2 weeks since the last post..wow… a lot must be happening for such a thing to happen!. And alot has been happening….Besides working on ITT in my daytime life we have been hit by new projects, scaling up work on current projects, a new (much larger) office, and my other 20% time project that is now ready for beta 1. Whew. and now, back to our scheduled posting program on ITT…
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techCrunch reports that Naveen Jain (infamous for dubious practices at his last company, Infospace) is back with another company that sounds questionable … Infospace was arguably the Enron of the tech world.
Arrington being a very credible writer, I would not think he would have posted the article unless he was sure of his sources.
If you are in the technology business, the articles linked in this post are required reading…
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I just saw a real live working 3D Hologram!
Cisco and Musion Technologies seem to have done it… watch the video below and scroll to minute 2 or minute 8 and see what I’m talking about. Hmmm would this be a good time to buy Musion or Cisco stock? 
The full story is here:
http://www.musion.co.uk/Cisco_TelePresence.html
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P@SHA has released a summary of the much anticipated industry on its website, the summary is a quick snapshot of our industry’s metrics. The numbers look good, too. Links are below to the study and the posting on the site :
http://pasha.org.pk/PSHA-launches-Annual-Review-2007-pnews-page_130520082249.html
http://pashanews.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/psha_study_executive_summary.pdf
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So i heard this on the radio the other day. Windows Vista starter edition is retailing in Pakistan for Rs 2,600. Not bad, bravo Microsoft, now instead of a one time promotion, why dont you just make this the standard price for your OS? You will kill 70% of Windows OS piracy with one blow, which probably is the aim anyway. And if you make it cheaper for students, (at UT we used to get legal Windows, office and visual studio for USD $5 per CD, no jokes.) then no one will want to go to Rainbow center to buy software CD’s
In the wake of such rampant piracy of software which really has not gone down at all in the last several years at the consumer level, reducing prices to corner the market is really is the only option, and then offering a subscription based upgrade service to hold onto that market share would work…. Most consumers will not buy pirates software if prices of the legal versions are reasonable for them.
Now, oddly,sadly,insanely enough a copy of Windows Vista will cost about as much as a full tank of petrol!!
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In one word, yes. Alltop is one of those technologies that will seamlessly blend into your life, like your cellphone. Our parents used to (still do) read the paper every morning. We’ll read Alltop.
Check out the Pakistan page on Alltop, the relevance should hit home right away. This is like the cute litte buzz.pk but for everything. Alltop has lots of topics, such as Muslim Blogs, Going green, Marketing. A worldwide newsrack, only cleaner and easier to read than the real life version.
A big thanks to Guy and his team and to Atif for making pakistan.alltop.com happen.
Alltop helps solve the problem of information overload, using a simple elegant UI. I just hope they don’t run out of nice colours for the cool looking Alltop bar!
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Siebel must be making sense for local large corporation (I dont know how). While most of the world turns to salesforce.com and away from Siebel, we seem to be installing more and more of the application. Which may not be such a bad thing. Given our connectivity issues and the fact that there are certain laws that encourage corporation to keep their data in house, large hunky CRMs might be the only way to go for now.
After NIB, Emirates Global has also signed on for Siebel CRM deployment. So on my list I now have Mobilink, NIB and EIBL as companies where Siebel is being implemented.
I like Siebel though its old as a technology, but then that might be what we need, the Cultus after all is 20 years old and we still manufacture and use that thing here.
When I visited the Siebel campus a few years ago it really seemed like an innovative driven company, and yet I was never able to understand how and why they let salesforce.com take the lead from them. Anyhow, the bottom line is, that in Pakistan right now, CRMs like Siebel seem to be gaining traction. Avanza’s CRM solution also has alot of momentum and holds its own against the foreign vendors.
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For the geek in you : a Mac OSx Leopard VM running on my IBm T61 vista box. So, if I wanted, now I can run Leopard and Vista on an IBM T61 laptop. I call this having my cake and eating it too ;) Mac fans do not accuse me of blasphemy (yet), I am thinking of making the switch so I’m just playing with the OS to get an idea. Full post here.
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As reported earlier on Jan 1 on ITT, Mobilink is now no longer the only service offering Blackberrys for your obsessive email habits. Ufone has annouced in a huge ad campaign that they too now sport the device on their network.
on side note : Their new redesigned website (built with .net) is quite well done.
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Summary : I think this is proof that having alot of money to burn is NOT the answer to everything, and whether one has funding is not much of a factor for early success nowadays. The service I am reviewing is an example of how NOT to launch a tech startup.
Nilaam.pk was a “much anticipated” website if the all the press coverage was to be believed and according to nilaam.pk itself was the answer to all the world’s problems…This was supposed to be launched on April 18th but it seems they launched it earlier? either that , or they are testing their “php pro-bid” software out on their production server (a big no no no isn’t it?). Anyhow, here starts my user experience: When i go to their site i find this: (click to maximize)
Then I go , well since I’m a power user, I might want to try the full URL, so I do , and the site pops up (finally). By now 97% of all users have moved onto beliscity, myshop, lootmaar, whatever. I hang on, only to be greeted by a “meet men and women ad” that links to some iffy website on top of the auction pages. HMMMmmmm. Ok enough of this. I switch to another site as well. Game over.
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