Posted in DAWN, Spider on May 1, 2007 | No Comments »
Online social networking seems to be the buzzword nowadays when it comes to activities on the internet. With a host of websites offering services that would connect you to your friends, family, co-worker, distant acquaintances and people you might have met at your childhood summer camp, such as Orkut.com, Friendster.com, MeetUp.com, Hipster.com and Facebook.com, and [...]
Posted in DAWN, Spider on December 1, 2006 | No Comments »
Change itself is the only true constant in life. That phrase rings closer and closer to home with each passing day given the rate at which advancements in technology in almost every field imaginable are being made. Nowadays, with every other person possessing enough skills to be considered half-a-techie, it is becoming increasingly difficult to [...]
Posted in DAWN, Spider on October 1, 2006 | No Comments »
The development and growth of electronic music on the internet has been phenomenal to say the least. What started out as a trend between a couple of individuals to share encoded files, which when played, produced music, turned into an alternative that record labels now consider a huge threat to their revenue and are increasingly [...]
Posted in DAWN, Spider on October 1, 2006 | No Comments »
How many times have you wished that you could just ray-gun someone of out your sight? Or while stuck in the infamous Karachi traffic, wished there were beaming stations from where all you had to do was say “energise” and you would then conveniently be transported (beamed) to the destination of your choice within seconds? [...]
Posted in DAWN, Spider on September 1, 2006 | No Comments »
A non-techie attendee at an informationation technology and telecommunication exhibition describes her enlightening experience
ITCN Asia was being held at the Expo centre in Karachi last month for three whole days and I was required to attend and get ‘educated’ on what the latest gadgets and services in information technology available in the market were.
Upon [...]
Posted in DAWN, Spider on July 1, 2006 | No Comments »
From the first ezine to the current, this article seeks to solve the following questions: what is an ezine? Where did it come from? And where is it headed?
Ezine, how many internet users can actually relate to that word? More so, what exactly is an ezine? According to Wikipedia ‘an ezine is a periodic publication [...]
Posted in DAWN, Spider on June 1, 2006 | No Comments »
A music buff’s quest to discover the perfect P2P software
The day I discovered that music could be downloaded – free of cost – using relatively simple P2P software was the happiest day of my life on the internet. It opened a world of possibilities for me. I could download any song that I wanted. I [...]
Posted in DAWN, Spider on June 1, 2006 | No Comments »
Spider talks to four professionals and asks them about the hardware and software they use to get the job done.
Sabeen Mahmud:
“I bought my first Apple Macintosh computer in 1990. It was an all–in-one unit with a nine-inch screen and a single floppy drive. It had one megabyte of RAM, an eight megahertz processor and [...]
Posted in DAWN, Spider on May 1, 2006 | No Comments »
From being virtually non-existent to becoming an industry-in-the-making, animation finally seems to have taken off in Pakistan. Spider decided to talk to those involved – both veteran and promising newcomers – on how they see the current animation industry and the factors affecting its growth.
Company Profiles:
Sharp Image: Founded in 1994 by two entrepreneurs, Tahir Moosa [...]
