Posts Tagged ‘ pakistan ’

No One Gives a Hoot about You, but They Do about What People Say about You

Oct 22nd, 2010 | By omar shaikh | Category: Videos

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 [...]



650 GOT 86’d

Oct 18th, 2010 | By omar shaikh | Category: Opinion Letters

To a Muslim a woman, is not to be a piece of meat. (“Fact or opinion? Your call?” asks the a group of Techistan editors from 3 continents.)
She is the custodian of a life before it is delivered to this world! A woman to a Muslim as a mother is very [...]



MobileMonday celebrated 10 years of networking success in Helsinki and Tallinn

Sep 29th, 2010 | By omar shaikh | Category: Mobile applications

Jessica Colaco of Kenya’s iHub, Kei Shimada of Infinita, Shankar Meembat of Nokia, Jeffrey Stern of Amdocs,



A Peek at What Mobile Does and Could Do for the Toughest Areas in the World

Sep 29th, 2010 | By omar shaikh | Category: Featured

Since year 2000, Mobile Monday chapters have been meeting offline at physical monthly events – around the world – to explore and experience the electric atmosphere of exciting opportunities of the mobile industry. Simply Put – What a wild ride it has been for everyone!
While MoMo has traditionally meant face-to-face encounters, the need for digital [...]



MobileMonday Peer Award Winner Revence Kalibwani of Uganda Enables Carriers and Users

Sep 28th, 2010 | By omar shaikh | Category: Featured

Uganda, home of kadongo kamu, ornate headdresses, facial ornaments, a mobile innovator Revence Kalibwani whose mobile developments benefit carriers and users, a grand slam for mobile ecosystem.



Mobile Monday Karachi Marks the Progess of Pakistan’s Mobile Industry

Sep 27th, 2010 | By omar shaikh | Category: Mobile applications

MobileMonday celebrates 10 years of collaboration, community, and innovation with the new chapter launch in Karachi, Pakistan. With Karachi becoming its 106th chapter, MobileMonday is now active in all continents. Karachi mobile community will join the worldwide group of mobile movers and shakers under the direction of Rehan Allahwala, CEO of Super Technologies and inventor [...]



Meet Techistan’s CEO, VP and Editors at ITEXPO, CTIA and Mobile Monday Summit

Sep 27th, 2010 | By omar shaikh | Category: Featured, Mobile applications

Techistan will be at ITEXPO in Los Angeles, October 4-6, booth 143; CTIA Enterpriseand Apps in San Francisco, October 6-10, booth 244, and Mobile Monday Summit in Helsinki, Finland, September 2



A mythical racist culture by Sadaf Fayyaz

Sep 15th, 2010 | By omar shaikh | Category: Digital Social Activism

“We are now all Pakistanis–not Baluchis, Pathans, Sindhis, Bengalis or Punjabis–and as Pakistanis we must feet behave and act, and we should be proud to be known as Pakistanis and nothing else.” ~~Jinnah
(Straight from … AAJ News, the only digital satellite channel to have an Earth Station in Pakistan that broadcasts directly to the AsiaSat [...]



Silicone Coated Hammers and Sickles! – Amyn A. Ghulamali

Sep 8th, 2010 | By omar shaikh | Category: Digital Social Activism

When I was in school I lived through many theories like the West rocked and basically that the East sucked! As I evolved from my Neanderthal school boy stage into a not so intelligent college idiot the premonition continued and I was heavily influenced by the fact that Lenin Stalin and Mao were communistic [...]



Craigslist Adult Listings, Blocked in the Least Likely Country

Sep 7th, 2010 | By omar shaikh | Category: Featured

United Arab Emirates? Singapore? Japan? No, the latest is the United States of America! That’s right…..