Nokia & Djuice Partnered Developers Workshop

Both companies have initiated a new series of Developer Workshops in Pakistan with

an aim to cater to the lower-end of the market

With a vision to cater to the lower segment of the market, Nokia Pakistan and Djuice have joined hands to start a series of Developer Workshops that aim to provide training focused on S40 devices. The first workshop in this chain was held at Telenor regional office where Tony Torp, Nokia External Trainer shared the details of development tools available to develop mobile apps for S40 devices and gave hands-on training to the participants.

Giving his views on the workshop, Tony Torp said, “Yet again it was wonderful to interact with the enthusiastic developers of Karachi, shared with them the S40 background and provide hands-on training on the tools available to work on mobile apps for S40 platform. The developers clearly understood why it will be beneficial for them and their community to contribute towards content development and they all took keen interest in the workshop.”

Expressing her views, Rabia Azfar Nizami, Business Development Manager EDX, Near East, NOKIA said: 

“I appreciate the interest level of Karachi’s developer community to learn and excel in their chosen field. Nokia has been organizing these kinds of workshops for developers in Pakistan for the past 1 year. As part of the chain that Nokia has initiated in Pakistan to provide new opportunities to the local developers, this time around Nokia partnered with Telenor to offer training for S40 platform. The workshop was geared towards channelizing the strengths of local developers and providing them a rich bundle of resources to develop more locally relevant mobile apps for S40 devices which are most popular among the masses in our country.”

Mr. Usman Javed, Director Marketing, Telenor Pakistan said: 

“Djuice is delighted to partner with Nokia to start offering these developer workshops. It is the first time that such a forum has been made available to students & faculty and we are receiving tremendous response from participants. Djuice supports initiatives that build young talent. Djuice Apportunity is one such initiative where we provide publishing, promotion & monetization support for applications developed by students & independent developers.”

At the workshop’s conclusion, certificates were distributed among all the participating developers. Events of this nature are pertinent to take the local IT/Telecom industry to the next level and enable better mobility experience for end consumers especially in countries like Pakistan where majority of people use S40 mobile phones.

wi-tribe Sponsored MMA Polo Cup 2011 in Lahore

Feroze Gulzar burst three goals in wi-tribe Shahsawars 5-0 triumph over Rangers/Blue Star in the MMA Polo Cup here at the Lahore Polo Club on Thursday.

 wi-tribe Shahsawars, right from the beginning, played attacking game and smashed three goals in the first chukker. The first one for the winners came from Nafees Barry while the rest of the two goals in the first chukker were converted by Feroze Gulzar. The winning team did not allow the losers to score even a single goal and remained dominant in the second chukker as well by hitting two goals first from Shah Shamyl Alam and the second one from Feroze Gulzar. No goal was scored in the third and the fourth chukker thus wi-tribe Shahsawars won the match by 5-0 margin.

In another match of the day, Rangers/Blue Star, having half goal handicap advantage, scored for more goals against Guard Group and won the match by four and half goals to one.

In the third match of the day, wi-tribe Shahsawars defeated Guard Group by five goals to half. Feroze Gulzar and Shah Qubilai Alam played superbly for the winners and hammered two goals each while the fifth one was converted by Nafees Barry.  In the last match of the day, eight-star Raja Samiullah steered Quick Link to an impressive 8-4½ goals victory over Sakuf.

Air blue Launches Awareness Campaign on World Diabetes Day

Commemorating the World Diabetes Day, air blue team distributed flyers to

all domestic as well as international flights

 

 

 As part of its CSR initiative, air blue has launched a two week campaign to create awareness about diabetes. Commemorating the World Diabetes Day on 14^th November in alliance with 

Eli Lilly, in the fight against diabetes. Eli Lilli is a multinational pharmaceutical company with leadership in diabetes care.

Air blue team distributed flyers to all domestic as well as international flights and also placed standees at its sales office counters across Pakistan, to create awareness.

 Pakistan, at this moment in time, has the world’s 7th largest diabetic population in the world and there is a grave danger as per the statistics that this number is going to double to around 18 million people by 2015.

Talking about its Diabetes campaign, Air blue GM commercial Mr. Raheel Ahmed said, “As part of this year’s ambitious agenda, we are putting all efforts to make an even better impact by reaching out to maximum audience. For the two week duration of the campaign, we have been distributing flyers to all domestic and international flights and have placed diabetes-specific standees at our sales office counters across Pakistan to highlight the need for people to take proactive measures against this disease. This is a global CSR initiative taken by leading pharmaceutical multinationals and we stand with them against this deadly epidemic.”

Air blue joined this global cause in 2010 to voice the UN hallmarked World Diabetes Day. This platform has proved to be significantly effective in its outreach to create awareness among the people of Pakistan to take effective precautions against this serious ailment.

 

HP Announced its Evaluation of Strategic Alternatives

“HP objectively evaluated the strategic, financial and operational impact of spinning off PSG. It’s clear after our analysis that keeping PSG within HP is right for customers and partners, right for shareholders, and right for employees,” said Meg Whitman, HP president and chief executive officer. “HP is committed to PSG, and together we are stronger.”

The strategic review involved subject matter experts from across the businesses and functions. The data-driven evaluation revealed the depth of the integration that has occurred across key operations such as supply chain, IT and procurement. It also detailed the significant extent to which PSG contributes to HP’s solutions portfolio and overall brand value. Finally, it also showed that the cost to recreate these in a standalone company outweighed any benefits of separation.

The outcome of this exercise reaffirms HP’s model and the value for its customers and shareholders. PSG is a key component of HP’s strategy to deliver higher value, lasting relationships with consumers, small- and medium-sized businesses and enterprise customers. The HP board of directors is confident that PSG can drive profitable growth as part of the larger entity and accelerate solutions from other parts of HP’s business.

PSG has a history of innovation and technological leadership as well as an established record of industry-leading profitability. It is the No. 1 manufacturer of personal computers in the world with revenues totaling $40.7 billion for fiscal year 2010.

“As part of HP, PSG will continue to give customers and partners the advantages of product innovation and global scale across the industry’s broadest portfolio of PCs, workstations and more,” said Todd Bradley, executive vice president, Personal Systems Group, HP. “We intend to make the leading PC business in the world even better.”

Nokia MakeMyApp Competition 2011 Winners Announced

Nokia awarded winners of its MakeMyApp competition at P@SHA ICT Awards 2011

Nokia announced the winners of its MakeMyApp competition 2011 during the P@SHA ICT Awards event held today. The competition winners in each category received the prize money of 400,000/- PKR in cash while a special winner bagged the prize money of 100,000/- PKR along with a Nokia E7 for a truly innovative app. The four categories for which applications could be submitted were Entertainment/ Fun & Games, Business Productivity, Easier Living and Think Green.

Winners in each category are Mr. Faisal Iqbal of Orison for Highway Racer app, Mr. Bashir Ahmed for Mobile Energy Saver app, Mr. Mohd. Bilal Junaid for SMS Spam Interceptor app and Mr. Azfar Sabih of Lakson Business Solutions for Save Planet app while Mr. Umair Cheema was recognized as a special winner for his app Chanda Mamoon.

The winners were finalized by a panel of judges comprising of Ms. Jehan Ara, President P@SHA,

Mr. Farhan Chawla, Technology Blogger & Enthusiast, Mr. Zia Imran, Managing Director of Pakistan Software Export Board (PSEB) and Ms. Rabia Garib, Editor-in-Chief, CIO Pakistan.

Commenting on the MakeMyApp competition 2011 in Pakistan, Haseeb Ihtisham, Head of Marketing, Nokia Pakistan said:

“On behalf of Nokia Pakistan team, I would like to express my heartiest felicitations to the winners of Nokia MakeMyApp Competition 2011. We are overwhelmed by the energetic response that we received from Pakistani developers for this competition. With their highly usable and practical apps, Pakistani Developers are making waves not only in Pakistan but all over the world. Thanks to their persistent efforts, every other day sees a new bundle of Pakistani apps added to the Nokia Store rendering it the most popular mobile app store in Pakistan today and there’s still so much more room for growth.”

Talking about the competition, Jehan Ara, President P@SHA said: 

“It is an honor for us to have players like Nokia in the industry who are playing a critical role in furthering not only their business but are also fuelling the growth of innovation in the country.”

Nokia's MakeMyApp competition gave an exciting opportunity to software developers in Pakistan to submit their best work and compete for a chance to win great prizes. The winning apps will be made available in Nokia Store for everyone to download and enjoy. P@SHA become a key partner for this competition and played an important role in spreading the word to the Industry, freelancers and Campuses. 

Entry submissions closed on 6th August 2011 and all eligible entries received were judged by the industry experts. Criteria for choosing the winner included quality and functionality; usability and creativity; uniqueness, novelty value and innovativeness; commercial viability and market potential in Pakistan; as well as Nokia platform compatibility.