Visit to apply for any of the 26 categories at http://www.techistan.com/2010/12/22/2011-techistan-international-awards/. A transcript of this video by a fan of Techistan is:

I’ve got to impress the boss. He wants more respect for the company. Why did I accept the marketing position? Pressure, I’m under so much pressure.

I can apply for an award, one that we deserve but where? (Tap tap tap on computer keys.) Google search, yeah. Nice. tinyurl.com/techistaninternationalwards … Only $79 to apply and everyone is a winner?

26 different categories … Sight over Internet, Unified Communications, Green Technology .. boss, I found a great idea!

A great list of ideas to impress your boss is also on CNN. Techistan will celebrate all the finalists and award winners during ITEXPO West in Austin, Gitex in Dubai, and ITCN Asia in Karachi 2011.

So, it’s true that no one gives a hoot (replace with any word that fits better) about you or us, your or our company, your or our country, your or our life when you or we are just one 24/7 commercial. It’s all NOISE! But, they are interested in what your customers and the industry in general think of you. Techistan reporters queried thousands of ITCN Asia 2010 participants such as Atiq Rehman, Executive Director at Ecommerce Gateway Pakistan and more. Visit http://www.itcnasia.com to register for the 2011 annual event of movers and shakers, ideas, innovations, services, and products in Internet protocol-based technologies and communications in Karachi, Pakistan.

In less than seven days, ITCN Asia will cast its glory on the Karachi Expo Centre with tens of thousands of individuals and organizations from Canada, France, United Arab Emirates, China, Malaysia, Australia, UK, Pakistan, USA and other nations to collaborate on the country’s rich human resources and telecom and IT initiatives.

Companies such as China Mobile, Mobilink, Telenor, Asterisk Pakistan, DIDxchange, Reve Systems, Etisalat, Telekom Malaysia, Yahoo!, Google, Wateen, PakSAT, WorldCall, LG, StarLink, PSEB and hundreds of other highly respected companies sponsor, exhibit, present and more for the joy of lucrative and innovative business development.

ITCN Asia 2010 is a UFI approved event. The producers and media partners have gathered the leading vendors, implementers and users under one roof to evaluate and share ideas and solutions regarding the multi-layered issues that drive and will drive the IT revolution locally and interactively with other companies abroad.

Because Ecommerce Gateway promotes close relationships with various Trade Associations and Overseas Trade Offices, delegates from abroad bring ever-increasing foreign participation of trade and industry. Increase brand awareness and enhance your company’s image in the industry by making sure you are among these movers and shakers August 3-5, 2010.

In the last few years, new products were launched and MOUs were signed between local and foreign companies and among local companies in the ITCN exhibition. For example, DIDXchange, a wholesale DID marketplace, gained new mobile operator and CLEC type companies to sell phone numbers and SIP trunking of China, South Africa, Australia and new areas of Europe.

Comprehensive publicity campaign catering National and International News Channels and almost 200 local journalists from the leading and esteemed magazines will cover the scene including the big guys and the new start-ups’ innovations.

Opportunities are available for coverage in the “Show Daily” published each day during the event and read by all visitors, exhibitors and delegates.

Techistan magazine and the thousands of yearly repeat visitors invite you to take advantage of the extensive industry, marketing opportunity and mass media coverage by participating with ITCN Asia. Sign up as a visitor at http://www.itcnasia.com/visitor_reg.htm or sign up to exhibit at http://www.itcnasia.com/pre_registration_form.htm. Contact for sponsoring is at http://www.itcnasia.com/contact_us.htm, but hurry. ITCN is soon and don’t miss your chance to stand out among competitors at an event that brings over 40,000 quality attendees.

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Yikes, I wish I had more time to share my experiences, knowledge, observations of best practices, and other items related to monetizing IP communications… before heading home for the day, I want share a memory of a great mobile phone service…

Zong is the Tibetan word for county, referring both to the traditional government units and modern counties established by the People’s Republic of China. It also is the name of a telecommunications service provider in Pakistan.

I used a Zong SIMM from China Mobile in my Nokia E61i during the month of August 2008 while participating in ITCN Asia and visiting with every voip company, wireless company and phone company I could find from Karachi to Sialkot to Faisalabad, Lahore, Islamabad, Peshawar and every smaller town possible in between.

(I remember the China Mobile representatives sitting near the front of the audience listening to the keynote panel which I was a part of at ITCN Asia 2008. They were happy when I said, “Hello” in many languages including “Nihao” at the beginning of my presentation.)

The service was excellent, very clear in voice quality, and inexpensive. For example, while using it during my telecom trek through Pakistan, it cost only one USD cent per minute to call from the Zong service to a USA phone number. Remember, I was in Pakistan calling from a cell phone!

China Mobile is the world’s largest telecom operator. It Zong service has over 550 million customers, more than 260 million calls per hour, and 720 million text messages each day. The service works all over Pakistan, even in the mountainous and poor areas of Northwest Pakistan that looked like no one would want to live there. I used it all over the area.

It also works outside of Pakistan, the same great service… even at the top of Mount Everest.

In addition, most mobile service companies offer only a few choices of types of service, but Zong offers hundreds of payment plans and packages to more easily and affordably match its customers’ usage patterns, usage needs and types, and level of income. In the USA, that will is not common.

China Mobile Pakistan is China Mobile’s first overseas subsidiary. It has a license to serve the entire country of Pakistan. The country is proving daily that it offers one of the most amazingly fast-growing mobile phone service markets on Earth. In fact, China Mobile will invest $300 million USD in Pakistan in 2010. This is the largest investment by any telecom operator in 2010 in the world to this date.

What is really incredible is that the company is responsible for over 42,000 new jobs directly in Pakistan with China Mobile or those directly leveraging China Mobile.

In conclusion, China Mobile and its Zong offers reliable, inexpensive mobile service, has created thousands of new jobs, and has invested millions of dollars in Pakistan. China Mobile and Zong are a “must watch,” and if possible, a “must do business with” like Zain of the Middle East and Bharti Airtel of India. Our company is paying attention.

July 6, 2010
Karachi, Pakistan: Thailand Ambassador to Pakistan H.E Marut Jitpatima paid a visit to Ecommerce Gateway, Monday afternoon. Mr. Udom Sapito, Consul General of Thailand in Karachi accompanied the Ambassador.
 
Royal Thai Ambassador lauded the long years of partnership between the two countries, and said he hopes to enhance the cooperation on different aspects of Pakistan-Thailand relations.
 
Pakistan and Thailand enjoy cordial bilateral relations. Both countries cooperate with each other in various regional and international organizations. Traditionally cordial bilateral relations experienced a significant upward turn during this decade.
 
Thailand is an important trading partner of Pakistan. Pakistan’s exports mainly include cotton yarn, rice, fruit, vegetables, petroleum products, carpets, cotton fabrics, textiles, surgical goods, pharmaceuticals, and precious stones.  Thailand is known for shrimp, coconuts, corn, rubber, soybeans, rice, sugarcane, tapioca, fluorite, gypsum, lead, lignite, natural gas, tantalum, tin and tungsten.
 
The Ambassador was apprised about the B2B Trade Exhibitions & Conferences being organized by Ecommerce Gateway, which is the only UFI approved Event Organizer of Pakistan certified by “the Global Association of Exhibition Industry, France”.
 
The Ambassador said that he would urge Thailand’s entrepreneurs and businessmen to participate in these B2B Events in Pakistan and explore trade, investment & joint venture opportunities with their Pakistani counterparts.
 
Ecommerce Gateway, on a statement issued Monday, said Dr. Khursheed Nizam welcomed the Ambassador and that the two had a cordial and pleasant exchange on a range of subjects including the historical and cultural linkages between the two countries as well as efforts currently underway to strengthen bilateral political, economic, trade, investment, educational, cultural, and security cooperation. Thailand’s role in support of Pakistan’s deeper partnership with ASEAN was also underlined.

Techistan is a press and media partner for ITCN Asia, producted by Ecommerce Gateway, and scheduled for August 3-5, 2010.

The most popular multi-national companies in the world as well as small acutely empowering start-ups converge on the Karachi Expo Centre in August each year for ITCN Asia. On August 3-5, 2010 look for companies like 360 BPO Solutions, Emergen Consulting, 360 BPO Solutions launched an exclusive car portal Car Port Online in early 2010 to facilitate the buying and selling of cars.

Individuals can “park” their cars online and buyers will browse all necessary details and information about the “parked cars” at www.carportonline.com.

Media General Inc. said it plans to extend a pilot advertising sales partnership with Yahoo Inc. to all of its television stations by the end of the 2010.

Yahoo recently promoted Raymie Stata to chief technical officer and senior vice president. He plans to maintain its relevance by personalizing the user experience within the search function and other services but its users completely privy of what, when, where, why and how. No duplicity in this court.

Emergen Consulting held the first Asterisk Pakistan bootcamp in 2009 with twenty-five of the sharpest developers in the area honing their IP telephony developer skills. Their customers include NADRA (National Database Registration Authority) and PhoneBook, a sister concern of Jang Press, Pakistan’s largest newspaper press.

Global Group of India is in talks to buy a 13% stake for about $50 million in a broadband wireless venture likely to be formed with Qualcomm Inc.

Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA), in collaboration with Qualcomm and Central Asian Cellular Forum (CASF), organized a recent 3G/4G seminar.

Eyeblaster’s flagship product, MediaMind, is the only ad serving and campaign management solution built from the ground up for agencies and advertisers.

MediaMind includes critical functions that simplify campaign processes, enable cross channel analytics, and streamline integration with other technology components. Their Channel Connect for Mobile adds simplicity, accountability and reliability to mobile advertising. Agencies are able to seamlessly serve ads to multiple mobile publishers.

Super Technologies, Inc.’s DIDXchange wholesale voip phone number marketplace reached a benchmark of serving over 17,000 telecom service providers in 170 nations in 2010, including several dozen in South Central and South East Asia.

Its Techistan online magazine attracts to its community in just a couple months almost 2000 Facebook fans with 53% as company decision-making females and 47% male with countries visiting the site most often in order from most:  India, USA, Pakistan, Cote d’Ivoire, Singapore, South Africa.

The USA city with most input is Fremont, California! DIDXchange and Techistan serve as media partners and press agents with tools such podcast channels, blogs, iTunes channel, video playlists and more.

See the complete exhibitor file for 2009 at http://itcnasia.com/download/Exhibitor_Index09.pdf and sign up to participate among the best from the

East and West at ITCN Asia 2010 and attract the right new vendors and clients to your products and solutions.

Prime Minister of Islamic Republic of Pakistan Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani honoring President Ecommerce Gateway Pakistan, Dr. Khursheed Nizam with the Brand Scientist Award, Brands Icon of Pakistan and Brand of the Year 2009 Award for UFI Approved ITCN Asia Exhibition & Conference. Governor and Chief Minister of Sindh Province are also seen.

 
Pakistan’s biggest and the only UFI approved ICT Event ITCN Asia Int’l Conference & Exhibition (www.itcnasia.com) has been honored with the “Brand of the Year 2009” and “Brands Icon of Pakistan” among four top brands in Pakistan. The annual Event is organized by Ecommerce Gateway, the only UFI approved Event Management Company of Pakistan, whose President, Dr. Khursheed Nizam has also been honored with “Brand Scientist” Award by the Prime Minister of Pakistan.

ITCN Asia is marking its 10^th year and will be held from 3-5 August, 2010 in Karachi, Pakistan. Since its inception, ITCN Asia has attracted keen participation of more than 2,250 foreign delegates from 97 countries while, approx. 55,000 domestic delegates from both public/private sectors also attend the event every year for joint venture, investment, collaboration and business matching purposes.

Ecommerce Gateway enjoys the credit of having organized over 150 high profile B2B corporate events like ITCN Asia, Textile Asia, ITIF Asia, Health Asia, Build Asia, Food, Agri & Livestock Asia. The Government of Pakistan is proactively developing the ICT sector with incentives like tax exemption till 2016, establishment of IT Parks with low rent, foreign ownership of equity invested in IT and 100% repatriation of profit allowed to IT companies. Thus, ITCN Asia is the strategic and opportune launch-pad for foreign ICT sector to penetrate into this potential market of Pakistan.

ITCN Asia is the ONLY UFI approved IT & Telecom Event of Pakistan ITCN Asia has been awarded with the title of “Brand Icons of Pakistan” and “”Brands Icon of Pakistan” award by BrandsAward. This is a big achievement for ITCN Asia and Ecommerce Gateway who produce the event. The conference is also marking its 10th year this August. It is a UFI Approved Event since 2006. On August 3-5, 2010 over 40,000 will converge in Karachi, Pakistan to network, gather information, educate, be educated, exhibit, present, sponsor, collaborate and compete. The conference attracts exhibitors such as Asterisk Pakistan, Yahoo!, Google, eyeblaster, PTCL, Siemens, Etisalat, Zain, wi-tribe, WYSE, Zong, khl group, LTE, bitdefender, DIDXchange, Wateen, Warid, Server4Sale, Teletimes, and HSBC.

So, what is it like to be in Karachi, Pakistan? The writer of this announcement has been there eight times, all full of fun, great business development, lasting friendships, and the most amazing entrepreneurs anyone can imagine. Karachi is the home of Paradise Point Beach, National Academy of Performing Arts, Kara Film Festival, the Mohatta Palace,  the National Museum of Pakistan, Mohatta Palace, Karachi Financial Towers, Korangi Industrial Area, and the Soldier Bazaar. Many friends have benefitted from my shopping trips at the bazaars for them, especially the ladies who love the sparkly, exotic looking materials and designs.

It was once named  Krokola, the place where Alexander the Great camped to prepare a fleet for Babylonia after his campaign in the Indus Valley; ‘Morontobara’ (probably Manora island near Karachi harbour), from whence Alexander’s admiral Nearchus set sail; and Barbarikon, a port of the Indo-Greek Bactrian kingdom.

Consider meeting us Techistan and others like Warid, Wateen, Google and Yahoo! at ITCN Asia this year August 3-5, 2010.

With names like PCCW Global, Telekom Malaysia Berhad, Rogers Cable Communications, Orange, and Bharti Airtel, together in Kuala Lumpur, fastest growing metropolitan region in the Malaysia, in terms of population as well as economy and one of the global telecom and technology hubs from the Middle East through Asia, good business will abound. Capacity Media Asia also boasts Deutsche Telecom, Telecom Italia Sparkle, Global Crossing, Hutchinson Global Communications, Telecom Egypt, Verizon Business and Zoha Kish Communications as sponsors. Scheduled this week November 4-5, 2009, readers have time to schedule flight and hotel now. (It is Nov. 2, 2009 Monday 7:47 PM, and I am checking Delta connections now. I have plenty of SkyMiles from a whirlwind schedule of 39 conferences in a 24 month period.)

At DIDX and Techistan headquarters we have been focusing on conferences in the Americas and Europe for the past five years or so, but more and more we are scheduling Asia, Africa, the Pacific and Middle East with shows in Singapore like CommunicAsia, PTC, ITCN Asia, Softec, tradeshows in Kenya and South Africa, Gitex, and ICT Expo Indonesia. A majority of new wholesale DIDX seller members are from this region and the a large majority of the new wholesale buyer members are from this region. The latter are also requiring more direct inward dialing from the EMEA and APEC regions.

Book your registration by downloading the order form and then email to Claire Russell or pay online with the Shopping Cart.

Browse the Capacity Media Asia Agenda. Learn from representatives of Unicom (China), the CEO of Capacity Magazine, Tata Communications, NTT Communications, Telekom Malaysia, Hibbard Consulting, Reliance GlobalComm, and KDDI. Mix with some exciting exhibitors such as Ancotel, iconX, Viettel, Telecom Asia, WirelessAsia, CommsDay and more.

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Thanks to Viddler.com, we were finally able to upload a copy of my presentation given at ITCN Asia 2008 in Karachi, Pakistan where 127,000 individuals attended and around 200 exhibited. I was definitely excited about the opportunity to speak among Asia’s brightest telecom, government, technology-related minds.

Pakistan is a trend-setter in telecommunications. Its Wateen provides countrywide WIMAX, the first in the world to do this. PTCL offers countrywide IPTV, another world first. The price of a call to the USA from a Pakistan cell phone is around 1 cent per minute and SMS is commonly used, included in your package. Ufone, Chinamobile (I used Zong while there, great deal), Mobilink, and other cell phone services offer more services at lower rates than any cell phone services in the United States.

While in Pakistan, I visited with each of these companies at their offices as well as Telenor, Telecard, Hazara Telecom and more.

My stop in Pakistan was one of many stops around the world in August 2008 where my goals were to visit current and potential clients, suppliers, and the world’s telecommunications think tank. Next time, I’m bringing my colleagues Steve Cayona, Anna Hollis, Sergey Okhapkin, and Lisa-anne Routley and any of the others who are ready for a global trip.

The presentation is at http://www.viddler.com/explore/suzannebowen/videos/1/. Other videos of other speakers are listed on my TMCNET blog, Youtube, and Google.

(One last item, as mentioned by me at Viddler, I apologize for my comment about Chinese and Vietnamese accent on English. If I could take it back, I would.)