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Streak 5 Launched in Pakistan

June 7, 2011
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Staff Reporter Dell in partnership with Mobilink launched, Dell Streak 5 in Pakistan. It is an all-in-one ultra-portable 5-inch Android™-based Pocket Tablet designed to provide users with the best web-browsing, digital entertainment, social connection, and personal navigation experience. Dell Streak 5 comes with 3 months of complimentary GPRS on the Mobilink network, Pakistan’s market leader [...]

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Telenor Announces Mobile Apps Competition

June 3, 2011
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By Staff Reporter Telenor Pakistan through its youth brand, djuice, invites young IT programmers to develop creative and useful mobile apps and get them market at its platform. Competition details The djuice has announced a competition for talented youth to showcase their talent and channel their creativity towards something constructive. The mobile apps will be [...]

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P@SHA Launches Rs 20 Million Social Innovation Fund

June 3, 2011
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By Staff Reporter Pakistan Software Houses Association (P@SHA) in collaboration with Google on Thursday launched Rs 20 million worth Social Innovative Fund to finance innovative and constructive ideas of young entrepreneurs and students of Pakistan. “We are certain that we will be able to get some creative juices flowing, spark the beginning of a few [...]

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Firefox Leads

June 2, 2011
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Worldwide market share of 14.2% of browsers has been recently conquered by Mozilla’s Firefox 4 by overtaking its previous version 3.6 which had 12.3% in its kingdom. The previous version of the browser – Firefox 3.6 – is still popular amongst Internet users, however both lag behind Chrome 11 browser and the ever-dominant Internet Explorer [...]

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Mixit Becomes a Member of NYSE Euronext

June 2, 2011
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NYSE Euronext has announced that MIXIT has become the first “three portal” member of its Power Partners ProgramTM, which recognizes companies that partner with NYSE Euronext to best meet the needs of mutual customers by providing the highest levels of services and products. Inclusion in the Power Partners Program is based on customers’ usage of [...]

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You’re a Developer, So Why Do You Work For Someone Else?

June 1, 2011
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by Halima Khan As a developer, you are success, an asset, a goldmine all combined in one. Never was it so simple to build something from scratch, with little or no capital and a marketing model that is restricted only by your imagination. Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Foursquare, or even Google for that matter: created by [...]

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Why Coders Should Become Marketers

May 25, 2011

Coders despise marketers, they despise marketing.  Coders often refer to them as ‘Marketing Weasles’. They think that marketers through their rhetoric only confuse and misdirect business owners and customers, but they fail to realize that without marketers businesses stagnate.  Marketers are their necessity. Marketing is legitimately a field of experts. Marketing professionals are avant-grand engineers. [...]

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iPhone 5- Coming Soon.

May 24, 2011
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If you are thinking of buying iPhone 4, stop right there, because is September Apple will be shipping its iPhone 5 all over the world. Touchscreen, introduced by iPhone in 2007, remains high in demand in the world market. It is also said that Apple will refresh its iPhone 4 later this year. Being the [...]

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LinkedIn Soars on the Stock Market

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LinkedIn, the home of business professionals, saw a stock market value soaring towards $8.3bn (£5.3bn) this Thursday, which was higher than the company had anticipated.  ‘The stock, issued at $45, went as high as $122.70 just before noon and closed at $94.25 on a trading volume of 30 million shares.’ The dramatic debut made by [...]

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Rising of a Bill Gates From Pakistan?

May 11, 2011
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  By Halima Khan Ask any school going child in Pakistan what he wants to grow out to be and the chances are that most will opt for a profession in IT or one closely related. This trend is plenty evidence that IT is seen as the ‘in thing without which the dreams of prosperity [...]

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