Category: Technology
Citibank refuses to give Customers Cash on a Sunday
It’s a bit late to write about it but one can always blog about interesting stuff when observed. For example, the picture above is of Citibank’s ATM machine that happens to be at Park Towers. Now it’s quite odd that it wasn’t working on Sunday (February 12th), a time of high foot traffic. The questions [...]
FINALLY! Nokia Pakistan joins Facebook
The Next Big Thing has gotten the holds of Nokia Pakistan social media account, a move that has pissed off many an agency that was sure they were going down under. But why this Kolaveri, when you have sexy Faisal Khan on board of directors, failure is the hard and not of the possibilities. The [...]
Lets Make Karachi Intelligent
Pakistan leaders in government and business must come to terms with a pressing need for her cities to become more efficient and resourceful to progress and serve its people. Lets start with Karachi, a city known for adapting to changes faster than most. Using technology, we can create a New Karachi, one which stems a [...]
Idiots Guide to Augmented Reality
The seamless overlay of digitized images onto a real environment is referred to as Augmented Reality, which ends up producing a composite picture. An example now familiar to movie goers is by taking filmed shots of real scenery and actors or some digital effects. A time will come in the not so distant future when [...]
Idiots Guide to Cloud Computing
Ever wondered how Express Tribune stores all that data, blogs, articles, video’s and more on its website? Turns out, they utilize a cloud computing service called Amazon S3 (cloud storage solution) which allows sub-editors to obtain computing capabilities through the internet, regardless of physical location. To simplify, cloud computing comprises of massive data centers with [...]
Millions to be Blown on Fictional Asteroid Event
So basically, we have a recession in the air and a pressing hope that the leading governments of the world will use whatever wealth we have to maybe – say – use it to improve the lives of earthlings? Well prepare to have your faith in humanity restored, as the European Commission has approved an [...]
Telenor Talkshawk Protects Women From Stalkers, Maya Khan Jealous
The overweight morning talk show host for SAMAA TV is furious with her research team for failing to identify the goldmine story of frAndhsippers and stalkers. What is the even more unfortunate is now Telenor Talkshawk has beaten her to the aid of helpless women once victim to lewd calls and text messages by these [...]
Another boring after thought about electric vehicles
So I finally got down to reading an article by Sahlique Sultan titled “Electrifying the Auto Industry” which talks about the auto industry, the surprising claim that EV’s (Electric Vehicles) came before ICE (internal combustion engine) ones and what the auto companies need to do to create a more (lets say) relevant design for the [...]
Top 5 Reasons Windows Phone > iPhone
1. Unique User Interface – extremely hassle free and adjustable 2. Originality – and no controversy surrounding its creation source or USP 3. Updating Occurs on Microsoft Schedule – this limits device manufacturers from designing the phone in their hardware choice and creates uniformity in the brand 4. Doubles as a Zune – an inbuilt [...]
Electrifying the Auto Industry
At the start of the 20th century it appeared that electric vehicles (EV) would be the prime choice for transport by companies and citizens. But the growing popularity of the internal combustion engine (ICE) soon changed that and now a century later we are seeing the cycle come to a full circle. Trends, conversations, strategies [...]
Greatest Pakistani Alive, Deserves Nobel Peace Prize
The Nobel Peace prize is an annual prize awarded to individuals who have made formidable contributions to the pursuit of peace and have, through their work, changed the world for the better. As the founder of Pakistan’s largest welfare organization, the Edhi Foundation and trust, Mr Abdul Sattar Edhi embodies the spirit of this prize, [...]
Klaypex Refreshes Dubstep
The latest buzz for fans of electronic music comes from Canadian duo ‘Johnny and Mark’, collected known as KLAYPEX. Connect with them on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Soundcloud for some mindblowing original and remix tracks. The only known interview they’ve done so far can be found on CandyBeats. To get in touch with them, email [...]
Plagiarism? IoBM vs. CLIU
This is the vision statement of IoBM, a business school regarded by many (including myself) to be the 2nd best in Karachi. Now read this mission statement of Charles Linz International College. The matter was brought to my attention my a Pakistani student studying abroad, and has since been heavily discussed on Facebook and LinkedIn. [...]
P&G’s International IDS Challenge 2012
Some opt for student council, a hoard go to MUN and few try sports – in the name of building their personal brand, professional network and exposure. But none of these equate even remotely close to breakneck challenges at an international scale between universities, esp the challenges hosted by Fortune 500 companies. That’s what P&G’s [...]
Army of Awesome by Mozilla Firefox
If you are a Twitterholic and spend your most of the time using Twitter, you will love this. Mozilla has made a community via Twitter to help millions of Firefox users around the globe; it’s called the Army of Awesome. This is a crowd enabled community model introduced by Mozilla Firefox, where any Firefox user [...]
Top 9 Marketed iPhone Apps of 2011
As 2010 drew to a close, the then two and a half year old Apple iOS app store had grown to 300,000 unique apps. This was made possible by 62,000 developers churning out everything from utilities, word processors, communication tools, spreadsheets, and games. Tons and tons of games. It pays to know what lies ahead, [...]
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