I am an engineer, passionate about technology and businesses built around it. Although I write more about techy stuff now but anything may happen in these pages.
I am looking for a NSS/IN/VAS engineer with experience of 2 - 3 years preferably in a mobile operator. Position is based in Islamabad. Plea… 10 hours ago
One of the little mentioned qualities of a succesful professional is his ability to navigate through egos. #in2 days ago
Companies serious about customer service don't employ social media agencies. 5 days ago
This one was found in the snack box by Daewoo Pakistan bus service. Now Pakistanis are known for copying big brand names for naming their shops/stuff. However I was surprised to see that the biscuits were made in South Africa. Here is a link to twitter biscuits product page. Apparently, the company is doing this business since 14 years and yes, the owner has a very Pakistani name: Muhammad Majid.
We are somehow taught to think that people who get brilliant stuff done are extraordinary and cool. “Superheros are extraordinary and they can save us all.” We believe that such awesomeness is something very inherent to the person which enables him to do or achieve excellent stuff. I am not going to deny the possibility...
The standards of research are there to assure that all conclusion drawn have a solid ground and result in addition to knowledge base of mankind. The barrier to enter the research community and qualifying to be called a researcher is quite high. One needs to be accustomed to research terminology and practices, and then prove...
Of course, Unityon is power. All the car wash guys in Pakistan have come together to form a union and have raised the prices. I hope something similar would happen in telecom industry of Pakistan as well.
Google has entered the social networking battle in a big way with Google+. Unlike Facebook or any other social network website, Google has a lots of other applications as well. This opens up unlimited possibilities to change the way we use the web and internet-enabled devices. In this article, I am going to review Google’s...
Since the time when telephone exchanges were mechanical – only replacing phone operators with robots – the equipment vendors did one thing: follow the standards. The industry was simple: operators (mainly government organizations) would plan developing phone networks with tax money, equipment vendors would come in to deploy the infrastructure. The equipment knowledge was cryptic...
So I spent a weekend in Dubai and has a chance to visit the Burj Khalifa. Just as I was about to leave the place, this fountain show started and I got a piece of it.
Smashing Magazine recently asked people on their facebook page for their opinions about web design trends. While there were many useful comments by a lot of people, here is what I had to say: More intelligent content categorization and indexing on the lines of micro-formats and open graph. Better web design tools not only from...
The recent acquisition of Skype by Microsoft has started discussions about future of messaging all over the internet. From a service provider point of view, I somehow feel left out of this discussion. Simply put, SMS is something great but it has seen very little progress in technology and standardization to cope with today’s feature-rich...
