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Name: Babar Bhatti
Nickname: bbhatti
Member since: 2007-04-20 02:46:32
Website URL: http://telecompk.net
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SMS Based Purchasing System

December 25th, 2008 at 12:24 am

Good thinking and approach. The post does not provide enough information to judge the product. How is the account created, what’s the payment mechanism etc.

Admin: Some Minor Changes

December 16th, 2008 at 1:17 am

I also had issues with bumpin and removed it. The usability has to be improved I think.

Pakistan Telecom Industry Slows Down

September 15th, 2008 at 10:24 pm

UJMi – I think the disappointment is due to the self-inflicted wounds. The other day PTA chairman joined the mobile companies to complain about the increase in telecom GST to 21%. What is the government thinking?

Local Platform For Location Based Application

August 28th, 2008 at 9:13 pm

No need to worry — google’s solution is already proven in Pakistan. I wrote about it a while ago and many people verified it.
http://telecompk.net/2008/05/15/mobile-google-maps-find-me-pakistan/

The idea here is to collect location information from users and make it available to application developers.

Sohail – you need to join this discussion :)

Will Clouds Work In Pakistan?

August 27th, 2008 at 8:18 pm

Amazon made it work because a)it had to do it for its own business and b)it had the scale and c)cleverness.

I was thinking that startups in Pakistan can use this for quick ramp up. The service can be anywhere — as long as the connectivity speed and reliability is there.

From a business point of view — its more tricky to do it inside Pakistan. However someone in Dubai or Mumbai could do it and serve the Asian market.

Will Clouds Work In Pakistan?

August 26th, 2008 at 9:33 pm

SaaS was meant for businesses. Need CRM? Use salesforce for $100/user/year.

Cloud is for you and me to try out that great idea for which you need servers/storage but don’t want any strings attached.

As the WIRED article says:
” Key in your Amazon ID and password and behold: a data center’s worth of computing power carved into megabyte-sized chunks and wired straight to your desktop. Clones of that HP tower cost 10 cents per hour — 10 cents! “

Why Warid’s Location Based Service Matters And How It Can Be Improved

July 28th, 2008 at 9:49 pm

@Haris: turn your phone off if you dont want anyone to disturb you (remember the scene from eyes wide shut?).

I’ve heard that when car tracking technology was introduced in Pakistan, it caused quite a few divorces :)

ATP sells its soul - Rozee launches Campus Career Portals initiative based on ICT R&D Fund money

July 15th, 2008 at 7:37 am

Good points Mahmood. Lets take a deep breath here.

I have written for ATP a few times but I don’t agree with every post there. This one was a mistake in my opinion. (Please note that the comment above is from a different Babar).

It is important to keep in mind that Adil Najam does not approve or reject each post – there are other editors who run ATP on a daily basis. And all of them – like us – are professionals with busy jobs. Mistakes in judgement do happen and we should catch them … there is no individual, blog or company which is beyond criticism.

10 Startups To Watch

July 3rd, 2008 at 11:05 pm

Yeah thats what I thought too. The focus is probably on social web only. I was surprised that they did not include any big shot location based startup.

I think it would be cool to rank the 10 Pakistani startups of 2008!

Mobilink hints at the iphone in its TVC - any inside news?

June 23rd, 2008 at 9:15 pm

Funny – Roadside assistance, South Asian style.

Anything can be hacked for an ad. I have not found a good reason why Apple left out Pakistan for this year iPhone launch. But hey, 2009 is not that far away.

PTCL launches new packages OR finds a new way to rip us off!

April 2nd, 2008 at 10:41 pm

I can’t believe PTCL has done the “auto rip off” act again. Mansoor – I am writing about consumer complaints actively these days. May I cross-post this at my blog?

The Secret Ingredient of a Successful Company

April 2nd, 2008 at 10:38 pm

Well written Mansoor. I also highlighted a related post on my blog recently. It is very much in line with your thoughts.

http://telecompk.net/2008/03/22/fluid-architecture/

Trends: Story1 - How do you solve the mapping problem effectively?

January 31st, 2008 at 9:29 am

Good post Osama.

Guruearth disappointed me because the map and search capability was so poor.

Winners of PASHA ICT Awards 2007 announced

November 8th, 2007 at 9:44 am

Good to hear this. Congrats to you Osama and your team at CDF! Look forward to hearing more about Snip.

Exclusive Interview: Amaana coming out of Beta and Hiring for cool jobs

October 10th, 2007 at 12:26 am

Great insights into the company and its products. I also agree that trust and reliability is important and that will happen over time. All the best!

Green & White now on USA Today and more

October 10th, 2007 at 12:21 am

Nice! This means more responsibility for the authors :)

Mobilink advertising on YouTube? Or some ISP trick?

September 25th, 2007 at 9:30 pm

Is there a plugin which would filter all these unwanted [flash] ads?

TiE Launches "Khudee" Business Plan Competition

September 23rd, 2007 at 1:38 am

Great news. I’ve been interacting with TiE in the US for a while. Over there TiE is mainly an Indian group and OPEN is the Pakistani counterpart. From the description of the TiE Lahore chapter, I am glad to see that TiE is working as a group with broad and solid base in Pakistan.

Business Acceleration Program Launched In Pakistan

August 19th, 2007 at 9:07 pm

The date for the application has been extended from August 15th to August 22nd.