tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86699722012-02-17T05:55:49.422+05:00Discusses the various IT related issues Rafay Bin Alinoreply@blogger.comBlogger401100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8669972.post-1113325997423064982005-04-12T22:06:00.002+05:002008-03-31T03:17:00.719+05:00

Orkut, the premier online social networking software, has a serious flaw. While trying to update my profile photo, I discovered that there was no way to delete the previous profile photo. The only way to change the picture was to upload a new one. Hence, replacing the older one. So what happens to the old picture? Surely, implementing a delete algorithm is not difficult and requires a few lines

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The Freedom of Information Act is probably the biggest hindrance to e-government efforts in Pakistan. As of now, anything declared as classified by the federal government is considered out of bounds. Technically, this means each and every piece of information could be excluded from public scrutiny. It does not take a lawyer to figure out how such vague laws could be misused.The e-government

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Blogs are proving to be an excellent communications tool. By forging one-to-one relationships with customers, organizations have discovered a new medium to retain the customers. Organizational theories have confirmed that retention is more financially feasible than exploring newer ones. This is claim is backed by research and known to all executives.Uusing a blog often signifies the redefinition

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Virtual World requires a whole new branch in psychology that deals with issues of- Internet addiction- Personality changes in chat rooms- Virtual needs of today's net users- Human emotional needs and desires and how these are fulfilled virtually (love, sex, belongingness, friends, recognition)- Net related stress, hypertension, fear, anxiety My goal in this and many of the later posts would be to

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E-government is simply providing better services to the public using electronic means. By adding a layer between the government and the public, e-government can provide quality services that reach the maximum possible people. Have a look at the elementary model below that explains the concept of e-government. The e-government layer in the preceding model could provide the benefits depicted in

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Are we about to face another war?A war against outsourcing.According to this article, the American job market is continuously experiencing a downward shift due to offshore outsourcing. A strategy shift at bringing down offshore outsourcing is a thorny idea for our region.Read this article and tell me if you think offshore outsourcing could be used as a new weapon.http://www.newsfactor.com/

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Software Engineering is a continuous process that involves a series of steps. In a nutshell, an ideal software engineering approach starts by analyzing the problem and culminates at delivering a solution. This solution must be both technically and economically feasible.Feasibility is like a coin. It has two faces: one deals with organizational variables such as profitability and Return on

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Why have been Pakistani businesses slow to adopt IT despite tremendous benefits? After thinking over it for some time, I came up with a growth structure that we have followed thus far. Apart from the inconsistent and derogatory policies, the growth structure that we followed is unsatisfactory. It is depicted below: In such a structure, there is more supply than demand at the initial stages,

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Could the Internet ever end?Would it ever be 100 percent secure?Would we ever see the end of virus attacks?Could the organizational investment in IT be happily and fairly justified by IT managers, ever?Would the Internet ever be free of spam nuisance?Could the Internet ever be free?

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Companies today recognize the dynamics of the new digital economy: customization, digitization, personalization, Just-in-Time processes and lack of inventory. In their bid to leverage the new model to their benefits, companies have found the Internet to be a reliable and efficient information arbiter. Gathering data about the consumers' behavior to gain competitive intelligence is the first

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I am always hearing my friends degrading the status that a book has. Some claim that whatever is found in the books is hardly applicable in the real world, so why bother reading them. Still others from the same school of thought attribute their belief to the Internet. Here is an interesting article that talks about why the Internet may never replace a conventional library of books.Perhaps, it is

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Google has an amazing sense of business. It's engineers and business analysts seem to be more competent than of any other in the industry. Take Google Scholar for example. There is nothing new that Google couldnt already do. Google had allowed the use of prefixes that allowed filtering of online documents through its google.com entry point. The scholar.google.com service is basically a front-end

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Students these days are well aware of the power of search engines for their assignments, reports, presentations, etc. The load of information accessible via the Internet has made the use of search engines very popular among students, especially those enrolled in undergraduate and graduate programs. Search engines amass a wealth of information on a daily basis and sorting through the results could

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IT is an acronym for what many people consider to be the path to more money, a better career or land at the highest echelons of the social circle. Judging by the existence of various round-the- corner IT institutes in various localities of Karachi, demand for an IT education seems to know of no limits. The abundance of institutes and universities offering courses in the various disciplines of IT

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Strengths: a) free of cost b) integrated download manager c) integrated popup blocker d) integrated spyware detection e) integrated adware detection f) makes for a small download - 4.9 MB Weaknesses: a) in competition with Microsoft - which as we all know is loaded. b) doesnt come integrated with Windows Opportunities: a) more feasible for markets where intellectual property rights are

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Hello, I have recently put out my news aggregator for beta testing. Users can quickly add ATOM feeds of their blogs and then generate code to add live content to their blogs. Please give me your comments on the service. The URL is http://cyberdev.visit.ws

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There is a trend these days in Britain to find a date using BLUETOOTH. BLUETOOTH technology allows people to send anonymous messages to people in a close vicinity. Read this article to find out more. http://mklink.com/email/mkLINKNewsletter/april-newsletter/april.html It's quite interesting.

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For the past few days I have been receiving strange emails from a known email address with a hotmal.com domain! What happened was that a person contacted me on my GMAIL account via an email address with a Pakistani SMTP and IP address. I added this person to my MSN. After about an hour of adding this person, I received a sex email with an attachment that my hotmail account detected as infected.

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An international panel of experts has selected the work of the students of Lahore University of Management Sciences who made it to the top ten of the IEEE Computer Society's 5th Annual International Design Competition (CSIDC), 2004 held at Washington DC- USA. Their project was titled "SensUS Structure Security System." The system is actually a sensor based for security purposes. It can detect

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According to the DAWN Business, Friday Oct. 22, 2004, CBR has decided to establish a database with the intent "for maintaining uniformity in assessment of imported goods at all custom stations." The effort is worth a pat on the back.How manu custom officials would actually consult such a database is anybody's guess. Unless the plague of corruption is carefully diagnosed and eradicated, such

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The federal government has decided to setup a data center and an intranet. The strategy is to construct a data warehouse and automate the federal government operations. Seems encouraging.

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Spam Mail is at it again! The back to school season and the US Presidential Elections in November were subjects of about 82 percent of spam mail sent this August.

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Offshore outsourcing has come under the spotlight as an antagonist because of stolen code. According to Computer World Pakistan, Australian companies have began to rethink their corporate IT strategies while outsourcing projects to India. According to Ajoy Ghosh, a IT security consultant at Jolly Technologies in Mumbai, jacked code is partly due to the lack of strict laws relating to

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I have recently added a content syndication for this blog. You can see it right above the shoutbox. If you would like to add content syndication to your blogs, please email me at rafayali@gmail.com. I am also working on a script for a membership based site that would automatically allow people to create content syndication individually. Wish me Luck! I need all that I can get :)

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Ever wondered how to make money using your blog? Stop wondering and start clicking. http://sheysrebellion.ipadder.com/?view_id=5706#cstart

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Are there any possibilities of FREE INTERNET ACCESS in Pakistan? Even if an advertisement supported ISP model is adopted, there is much too corruption for this to become reality. What do you guys think?

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So you have pondered over it a bit at sehree and a little more during the iftar tea. Working 9-5 just doesn't suit your temperament and you would rather be your own boss. You heard of it, read about it and now dying to try it. The Internet entrepreneur-ship makes sense to you. You are certain that you've got what it takes to succeed in the digital economy. Good! "Now wait a second... Don't I

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I am working on a XML project for the financial industry. It is my belief that the Pakistan Financial Sector should have its own XML schemas (or DTD's) so that industrial cross-communication can be easier. You can read more about this project at http://www.rafay.com02.com

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Did you know that 31% of all of Claria's sales come from YahooGoogle Desktop may carry a virus. Read more about it at http://sheysrebellion.ipadder.comSome search engines categorize their sites by vulnerability. This categorization is available for anyone to access. Hence, a potential source of worm attacks to web sites! According to a report in ComputerWorld Pakistan -July 1, 2004- both

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The curriculum for most computer oriented disciplines such as computer science and engineering lack one crucial ingredient: business domain studies. Consequentlym the professionals floated in the market are unable to engineer visionary solutions. The comprehension of business domain is mandatory as, eventually, the professionals have to work for some organization. The computer experts should

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As the Internet continues to infiltrates our lives, the digitization of business processes is becoming akin to enterprise survival. While the western corporations have shifted some or all of their processes to the digital world, Pakistan has yet to trap the monster. Amongst a number of other compelling reasons for this failure, the consumers' skeptical attitude towards the electronic paradigm is

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Google has struck again. This time the company has launced a search engine for your desktop - much like Google.com. Google pitch claims that the users' data would never be transmitted over the wires. I find it hard to believe. How does a company continue to provide free services at no cost? It goes against the corporate nature - there are COSTS involved! WHAT ARE THOSE COSTS????? Go Figure

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SPOTLIGHT: Pakistani Web Developers Community A good attempt by Muhammed Bilal has been made to revive the dying Pakistani Web Development scene in Pakistan. The web site at http://www.webdev.com.pk is a fantastic forum based site to discuss Web Developement related issues. Good Job Bilal !

Rafay Bin Alinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8669972.post-1097858458404330102004-10-15T21:34:00.000+05:002004-10-15T21:40:58.406+05:00

According to SPIDER, Oct. 2004: India targets to quadruple software exports by 2010. Currently, software exports are worth US $12.5 billion!X-box is about to launch in IndiaSybase Inc. has decided to setup a development center in PuneAccording to The Gartner Group:About 80 percent of IT projects from major firms would have been outsourced to India by the year-end (end of 2004)Food for Thought:

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The Government of Pakistan has signed an agreement with UAE to setup three Internet Media Cities in the country: Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad. Good for Mr. Mustafa Kamal, IT Minister for Sindh. For the rest of us, we should wait and see how the project materializes before getting all enthusiastic about it. The Internet Parks (yes, those glossy buildings at Sharah-e-Faisal) have yet to prove

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The US has drafted an anti-spyware bill and it would soon be moved in the Senate and the House for approval. I think the whole exercise would be fruitless. How would such a law, if ever passed, be implemented across international borders? And imagine the amount of monetary committment such an act would require in the form of a new law enforcement agency, a new department to deal with it (if not

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No new post tonight. Was having a bit of rough time for the past few days and I got through them. Allah ka lakh lakh shukar hai. Guys, dont forget to tell me what u think about my spyware post.Allah Hafiz

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The purpose of spyware software is not to illegally monitor your Internet activities. Rather, it is to obtain information aboutconsumer tastes, preferences and behavior on the Net that wouldhelp the merchants in providing better goods and services. It is a giventhat consumers while on the Internet have very different attributes than when offline. And, market research is an absolute necessity to

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Internet presents numerous opportunities for freelancers to show off their talent and earn some serious money. There are numerous web sites that offering projects for freelancers to work on. Some good sites are: http://www.freelancedog.comhttp://www.rentacoder.com You can register for free, and then start to bid on projects that you want to work at. You can get paid easily through Western Union,

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Chatting as a medium of communication has gotten loads of attention. It is, perhaps, an activity undertaken by all netizens- surpassed only by our familiar friend, the email. It is, however, unfortunate that most people in Pakistan use chat as a means to satisfy their lust or, as they say in the local lingo bachee set karna. Don't get me wrong. I have probably tried to catch a girl's attention

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