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Internet-based Services 24 Mar 2010 | 08:19 pm
What brick-and-mortar based services come to your mind that can be readily offered over the Internet for a local customer base that do not have access to or willingness for using credit card/paypal fo...
The ‘voice’ of Internet 6 Mar 2009 | 12:53 am
ISPAK – or anything similar – is badly needed today for fixing the current content-meddling activities of PTA. Unfortunately, with the demise of conventional ISPs and the rise of voice-driven telcos ...
Offline Gmail – Made for Pakistan 29 Jan 2009 | 08:36 pm
Part of the magic that the search company has been able to cast on the human race has to do with its very deep strategic thinking bit. Email, at least a few years (months?) ago, had been the killer ap...
E, bay, pay, tay, say, jeem 13 Jan 2009 | 01:46 am
No, I am not dead. Yet. I am reproducing Faisal Khan‘s recent open letter to eBay for the lack of paypal services in Pakistan below to show solidarity with the cause (thanks for the tip Jehan Ara). A...
LDI-backed Anti-voip Move – Now More Evil 27 Aug 2008 | 08:15 pm
There is nothing bad in an Internet world than to fear new technologies. In fact, fearing new technologies in general is a bad idea itself. Pakistan – like the rest of the developing countries – stan...
India to allow Internet Telephony 19 Aug 2008 | 04:42 pm
Update: Here is the pdf version of the press release issued by TRAI on this subject.Thanks to Wasim at TGP. Very much related to my previous post, an interesting news from India is coming – possible ...
Internet-based LL Services 17 Aug 2008 | 06:16 pm
Fellow blogger and friend Babar Bhatti has complained about the problems he is facing in using Braintel’s local loop services (probably from out there in US). A reader has commented on this citing a P...
PTA Meets on PKNIC Issue 4 Jun 2008 | 01:37 am
PTA has conducted a meeting of various stakeholders and industry representatives on the issue of PKNIC today in Islamabad. There have been a series of interesting posts on TGP on this topic since this...
DST in an Internet Age 1 Jun 2008 | 10:26 pm
Last night, Pakistani clocks have been moved forward by an hour to implement the Daylight Saving Time which is aiming at reducing some of our energy costs. DST is debatable, to say the least. Look up ...
PKNIC Outage 1 Jun 2008 | 06:33 pm
PKNIC, the entity responsible for the global top level domain of Pakistan (.pk), is reportedly down for the past 8 hours. This is the latest in the series of now very ‘old pains’ that have now become ...
