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When a 19th century romantic French writer by the name of Victor Hugo said “Nothing is as powerful as an idea whose time has come” he obviously could not envision Pakistani bureaucracy. Not only can it reduce an idea to nothing more than its meager skeletal remains squirming in its own vile, it too often does.
Come 2004, the IT bubble is about to burst in a military run, democratic, American influenced politically independent subcontinent country by the name of Pakistan. It is here in our story that along comes an idea. It is a simple idea yet revolutionary in every way, the idea to prepare this country for the…
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Events General
The past whole week I was really excited about going to the exhibition on 5th and 6th at expo center Lahore since the theme read “home expo and super car expo”. I was counting on seeing some innovative home solutions, fancy cars and a lot of appliances for both. As I entered the arena, an ear piercing heavy bike engine race greeted me. Oh wow nice, we have bikes here too… and lots of them, but let’s see if we have the actual products that are expected.
First cars!! Honda Launched its new City Aspire at the event. This attracted a lot of young crowd who wanted to check it…
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General
NOTE: This is a sponsored post
Football. The most popular sport in the world. That may be hard to believe, we being a die-hard cricket nation, but there are many amongst us who get their blood pumping whenever our favorite team kicks some balls (pun intended). There’s excitement in the air, and the airwaves for that matter, when Spanish rivals Real Madrid and Barcelona are about to have a face-off on the field. Manchester United or Chelsea? The answer could incite either jeers or cheers, depending on who you’re surrounded by. It feels like you belong to an exclusive club really, not to mention how convenient it is to…
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Coffee Session General
There are two main things that are currently causing out growth in ICT to stall. One is the lack of original ideas, so most of the entrepreneurs either copy what is already around internationally or locally (same ideas of online shopping, online bidding) we still have not hit the jackpot with someone creating some thing like instagram or drawsomething and being acquired by one of the big names.
The second issue always lamented by entrepreneurs is lack of any funding sources in Pakistan. Over the years we have seen efforts being made to create funds which would help but what ended happening that most of these funds either did…
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Coffee Session General
We all know about the 7 layers of the OSI model. This is the framework by which computer networks are defined. Starting with the physical layer, going through the transport layer and finally culminating in the application layer where end user applications reside. I believe that this should be redefined to include and additional layer – the Social Layer. From the current vantage point, the Social Layer lies right above the Application layer – hence it is served by the Application layer.
The 90s witnessed a boom in what is now referred to as web 1.0. This consisted of static applications hosted over the web. Static applications meant that…
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General Mobile Apps Software & I.T.
Pakistani IT industry has been progressing rapidly over the last few years. It is heartening to see that the industry players are innovating and working in different areas to establish their expertise.
Recently, TenPearls, one of the leading IT companies of Pakistan, launched “Carumba!”, a 3D car racing game for iPhone and iPad. Carumba! has been designed and developed by TenPearls’ innovation labs. Launched as a free game, Carumba! allows users to earn coins during the race, and redeem them to unlock other cars and tracks or to get additional nitro boosts. It has also been integrated with Apple’s Game Center.
The game has received very good response from…
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Events General
‘Rethinking Pakistan’ [and my expression goes LOL and I will explain why] was the theme of the conference which took place at margalla hills Islamabad on March 31st 2011 organized by TEDx, lets just summarize here what TEDx is; before we further dig into the “theme” and happenings of this conference.
TED (Technology, Entertainment and Design) and ’x’ denotes the independently organized events under the TED umbrella, mission is “Ideas worth spreading” and this events basically brings together individuals, communities and organizations with the opportunity to excite dialogue through TED-like experiences at the local level (geographically). The programs combine live presenters, performers and pre-recorded talks from some of the most brilliant…
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Announcements Events General
ICT R&D Fund aims to provide graduating students a chance to really make their final projects counts. I have always felt that students in their final year some times product excellent products which due to lack of any infrastructure and proper guidance plus funding just go in the Universities Libraries.
Seems ICT R & D fund is giving these students a chance to take their projects to the next level by acquiring funding, if you are a final year student doing a project all you need is to get this form filled and submitted through your head of department .
Last date for submission for forms is 31st…
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Coffee Session General
I wanted to discuss the Thiel Fellowship and sort of run the idea among our readership to figure out if it was justified or not. Bay Area hedge fund manager Peter Thiel started a Fellowship program in his name about a year ago trying to capitalize not on start ups, but the smart kids who may actually come up with the next billion dollar idea.
Let there be no mistake. Innovation solves problems. Bankers, lawyers and hot shot executives are good for only one thing: managing an existing infrastructure. It is the innovators who turn existing ideas on to their heads and enable breakthroughs. Considering the point above, it…
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This is a bit old but oddly enough I just started getting Google Ads in gmail about Babar Iqbal, the world’s youngest Microsoft Certified Wireless Network Administrator. His brother Asif Iqbal – has done something like 15 Microsoft certifications as well.
5:14 pm
on a side note: it shows how pathetic the microsoft’s certifications are that a 10 year old with no practicle experience has been certified by microsoft.
8:02 pm
@Haris
Does that apply to Sun’s and IBM’s certification also?
Link: http://www.geeknewz.com/board/index.php?showtopic=2531
9:30 pm
This is the story of a ten year old geek in the making kid who gets microsoft certified.
Since he now knows html, he makes a decent personal website (for a 10 year old) filled with innocent bragging, and wants to put it online.
He wants to registers his own domain (unlike some unfortunate people (*ahem* adnanali not com)), his name – babariqbal.com is still available.
He asks an uncle(?) Mr. Fakhuruddin, to register it for him in April 2006. His uncle goes to Yahoo (he’s an old dog) and registers the domain, and since he has made so much money in UAE, he gets the kid some hosting (again from yahoo) to go along with it. The yahoo server is also running hundreds of other websites but that doesn’t matter to the kid. He’s just a kid after all.
Two years pass, and as a part of the annual Yahoo! marketing campaigns, the kid is reminded that he still has 100$ in free advertising available on Yahoo, thanks to his uncle, Fakhruddin, from Dubai.
Babar has grown up, and knows what adwords are. Being an inquisitive kid, he tries the free credit out.
Now it just so happens that one of his ads lands in a certain Osama’s browser, who wonders what the kid is upto and writes a post about it, which is read by 78 people.
Another guy who has plenty of time as he is waiting for dinner reads that post, and, after using 10 minutes on research (he is efficient) writes a (rather longish) comment/story about it.
References:
webhostinggeeks.com/yahoo_review.html
http://www.myipneighbors.com
http://www.babariqbal.com
and a special thanks to the commandline whois tool in kubuntu.
9:47 pm
Thats … one heck of a crazy story!
10:02 am
I Totally agree with haris that this shows microsoft certifications are just tooo easy so that every one, even 10 year old pakistani boy can do that…
11:46 am
I totally disagree with all those stupids who think themselves IT gurus, They should learn from this 10 years old boy whos has done a lot & still doing specially in country where there is NO space for IT & NO future for Technology.
& by the way whats bad in it that he knows HTML & web designing…??? & whats bad that he knows how to register domain names & how to launch websites & how to place different tags on them…?? I visted his websites several times His personal website is in latest version of Flash & is very decent.
Moreover he is working with international companies for different webdesigning & E-Marketing projects.
So this is 10 Years Old & now tell you me whats the bad thing about that?
11:55 am
& Now this is for all those who failed the Microsoft & IBM exam even after a tough time & at the age of 25-30.
Please dont be disappointed & work hard.
Be positive & keep on working……………. if the kids like
Arifa Karim , Babar Iqbal,Chandar Shekar & Shafqat Sisters can beat them, then why not YOU.
1:02 pm
sohaib: lolz! you’ve got some imagination man!
jamal: “So this is 10 Years Old & now tell you me whats the bad thing about that”
1:05 pm
sohaib: lolz! you’ve got some imagination man!
jamal: “So this is 10 Years Old & now tell you me whats the bad thing about that” — granted he’s doing this in the field of IT, but isn’t this CHILD LABOR!???
call me old fashioned, but i’d still like our children to have a CHILDHOOD rather than WORKING LIFE when they’re young.
11:53 pm
i have also heard about a pakistani girl arifa karim randhaya she also met bill gates she is 11 years old. i found babar everywhere on net his personal website is amazing, these pakistani kids are asset & proud of the country I hope they shall do some wonders in future
3:54 pm
I got shock when i listened this Jubilant news on GEO TV.I got very happy that we have still such a talent which is unmatchable and I solute Babar Iqbal.I don’t really have words for him.I want to suggest him that he should comes back in pakistan and should open such a center which helps the youngsters here.I agree with him that there is no support from pakistan but we are with you please come back we really need you.Someone will must here who will listen to us.
I am now your Fan and i want to be like you.
Carry on your work and don’t forget pakistan.
12:28 pm
hey.. dats not fair to dagrade sombdy like dat..
if he has da guts he had showed it to the world..and he didnt need to clarify anyting to any body.its jst bogus dat u are jeolous of dat kid..if u have da guts then jst show it to the world…hahah!!!
5:59 pm
I agree with Jamal Hussain to what he said about Babar Iqbal but I wonder what has made him believe that Pakistan is a country where there is NO space for IT & NO future for
Technology. It is obviously NOT true. Pakistan has made some good progress in the field of IT, and specially, the future is very bright here in science and technology. Some serious global political issues are disturbing the country temporarily but still Pakistanis – The 6th biggest nation of the world, show their potential to the world time to time almost in all fields of life.
7:19 pm
He has been featured on GoodJobdude.com also
http://goodjobdude.com/microsoft-certified-whizkids/