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Articles with tag: Internet

Confessions of Webaholics

Zainub Razvi   Sep 23, 2007   interacts: 1

Has it been five hours since you’ve been watching movie clip after movie clip on You Tube? Or may be you were just randomly searching people’s profiles on Facebook.

The Ugly Face of Internet Plagiarism

Zainub Razvi   Jun 7, 2007   interacts: 8

It was a matter of principle, and I expected, that an ezine that was seemingly proud of its open-mindedness and liberality, would respect and abide by laws.

Its media, Jim, but not as we know it

Bhaskar Dasgupta   Apr 2, 2007   interacts: 1

The traditional media is mutating into something that normal users havent really picked up on yet, what’s going on?

Cyber Love

Ammara Ahmad   May 19, 2006   interacts: 13

Online shopping is attractive because a lot of products of different brands, packages and prices are easily obtainable. The same is true of Internet dating. A wide variety of individuals are available

Internet Relationships – Blessing or Curse?

Khalid Sohail   Mar 9, 2006   interacts: 25

As a student of human psychology I feel that the mystery of internet relationships stimulates people’s imagination and they start the relationships where reality merges with fantasy

Unfaithfully Yours

Khalid Sohail   Feb 20, 2006   interacts: 158

Are we going to be ostriches or we are ready to face the reality, the truth of extra-marital affairs?

Violation of Personal Space

Samina W Perozani   Apr 18, 2005   interacts: 5

Email scans are not just conceivable but they are a sad truth which most of us are unable to come to terms with. Evidently, Big Brother has already sneaked his way into Pakistan and is here to stay, whether we like it or not.

Scam Dunk

Subroto Pant   Mar 10, 2005   interacts: 9

'I was just trying to figure out the amount of money that a military dictator of a third world country makes' said Nawab. 'Probably enough to make the directors of some Swiss bank very happy' I replied trying to figure out what was happening.

Tuning Into The WWW

Umair Mohsin   Aug 31, 2004   interacts: 3

Commercial radio or Television channels may be going down the tubes, but Internet radio is alive and kicking.

Use of the Internet by Terrorists

Salman Siddiqui   Aug 25, 2004   interacts: 22

Even shutting down the sites can’t stop them from spreading their agenda ... by the time the website is forced to shut down, the material has already been replicated all over the web.

The 786 Cybercafé on Tariq Road (continued)

Bina Shah   Jul 28, 2004   interacts: 19

Karachi in the 1990s was a wasteland of failed opportunities; the salaried class was on its knees under the burden of heavy government taxes, and the only people who could afford to set up franchises and industries were the already super-rich, super-corru

My Nephew’s Martian Retreat

Ali Hasan Cemendtaur   Mar 26, 2004   interacts: 9

I won’t get married till there is a sustainable human colony on Mars. I want my future wife to give birth to the first child born outside Earth.

Spam, Popup Blockers and Britney Spears

Irfan HAMID   Mar 4, 2004   interacts: 10

That cheap website has enough money to advertise prominently on one of the geek-world’s major websites. And trust me, geek websites are expensive to advertise at, because geeks have major buying power (usually also in corporate capacities). Therefor

The Voice-over-IP dilemma

Irfan HAMID   Oct 16, 2003   interacts: 6

Can we do it? Should we do it? Will they let us do it?

Online Education and Less Developed Countries

Bilal Altaf   Sep 5, 2003   interacts: 7

Bringing up the literacy rate has been amongst top priorities of individual nations. It is time now to make a combined global effort to bring up the literacy rate worldwide

Of Damn Pakis and Deregulation

Paagal Insaan   Jun 21, 2003   interacts: 20

Is the Pakistani public not yet mature and responsible enough to be introduced to a deregulated source of Information? If it is, then how can a censorship be justified? If it is not, what is the pride in bringing X-hundred cities online? Pornography on th

IT or a time to get LIT?

Shakir Husain   Feb 3, 2002   interacts: 57

... “Suckers bring your money and projects to Pakistan, but we as a Government don’t have faith in home-grown talent so we’re going elsewhere.”

OPEN for Business

Umair A Khan   Nov 11, 2001   interacts: 37

An introduction to OPEN, the Organization of Pakistani Entrepreneurs

TiECon 2001

Ras Siddiqui   Jul 10, 2001   interacts: 231

Inside the recent TIE conference

Telecom Dreams Sold Dirt Cheap

Shakir Husain   May 28, 2001   interacts: 36

If the Privatization Commission in Pakistan has a real asset then it is the telecommunications infrastructure of this country.

A critical look at Indian telecom policy in the ’90s

Arun Mehta   May 11, 2001   interacts: 40

The government attitude to opening up wireless seems to stem from an antiquated image of the spy huddling over a wireless transmitter

Umair.com: An Interview

Anita D Nasar   Feb 26, 2001   interacts: 32

Chowk’s co-founder talks about entrepreneurship, parenting, and Chowk in ten years

IT Is Not A Magic Wand

Pervez Hoodbhoy   Jan 30, 2001   interacts: 151

Pakistan yearns for a magic lamp

Science Is A Dead End Career

Raywat Deonandan   Nov 5, 2000   interacts: 28

The love affair between society and nerds, which peaked during the days of Einstein and Oppenheimer, is apparently over

Why Most DOT.COMS Will Fail

John Joss   Sep 15, 2000   interacts: 97

It’s the business model, stupid

Startup Genes I: A Tale of Three IPOs

Umair A Khan   Aug 26, 2000   interacts: 22

Expensive furniture and expensive looking people

IT Pie in the Sky?

Veeresh Malik   Nov 5, 1999   interacts: 27

And the beauty is that it seems to be working. Word is out, learn computers, or perish

Information Revolution - Utopia or Bust?

Wasiq Bokhari   Sep 2, 1999   interacts: 42

Finding a middle path in this time of extremes is probably not easy

An Interview with Nasser Khan Ghazi

Bina Shah   Dec 21, 1998   interacts: 14

A talk with the man who started the first ISP in South Asia.

On Cyberspace and Human Communication

Faraz Hoodbhoy   May 8, 1998   interacts: 4

Is it possible that this is yet another fad in human history that has a unifying appeal?

Beware, Now That You Have Left Your Homes

Farooq Hamid   Oct 15, 1997   interacts: 1

Words that break your will, and then build it up again. A Translation of Amjad Islam Amjad’s Gharo say Niklay ho ab to DayKho.

PPESA Seminar: How to Break The Glass Ceiling?

Farhat Ali   Oct 14, 1997   interacts: 2

Mr. Farhat Ali, Amdahl’s Vice President for Customer Services Operations, examines the management selection process at American corporations.

Internet and Secure Messaging

Basit Hussain   Aug 7, 1997

In which the authors present a treatise on secure information exchange over the internet.

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