Gadgets

CEO or Farmer – No one’s Safe from Mobile Addiction

by Absar on May 25, 2011 · 0 comments

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Pakistan didn’t see it coming. The early 90’s insidiously ushered in a potent addiction which never made it to the DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders). When the Y2K didn’t turn out to be a virtual apocalypse and Pakistan made it to the early 2000’s, this particular addiction was already too deeply rooted [...]

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‘Face2Face’ App Alerts Users When Their Online Friends Are Nearby

by Absar on April 15, 2011 · 0 comments

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A cup of tea and two Pakistani brains made it possible to bring to life the new online social network, ‘Face2Face’ App Alerts Users When Their Online Friends Are Nearby Less than six months after its launch, Face2Face crossed 100,000 users in January 2011 in North America alone. It has been featured in Mashable, The New [...]

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‘Jaadu’ App for iPhone

by Absar on April 12, 2011 · 2 comments

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There’s a lot of criticism that Pakistan lacks entrepreneurs interested in research, however Jahanzeb Sherwani, CEO of iTeleport, is a businessman who has succeeded in both. During his final year as a PhD student at Carnegie Mellon University he developed Jaadu VNC, an application which allows you to have remote control power over your computer [...]

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‘Photo Editor’ By Pepper.pk Becomes Blackberry’s Best-Selling App Worldwide

by Absar on April 10, 2011 · 3 comments

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“What has pepper got to do with pictures,” you ask? Then you’ll probably be even more puzzled when I talk about the months of September and December and technology companies in the same context. Ok, ok! Hold your horses and let me explain… Around about September last year (2010) a company called “Pepper.pk” launched a [...]

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