Archive for November 17th, 2008

Pakistani Winners At APICTA Awards

Published by Babar Bhatti on November 17, 2008 under Business, Competitive Trends, Entrepreneurship, ICT, Information Technology, Mobile Applications

Just like last year, P@sha took the winners of their ICT awards to participate in the Asia Pacific ICT Awards (APICTA), held in Jakarta, Indonesia this year. There were 134 applications in the running for awards with only 16 trophies were awarded. Pakistan won 3 of them and it is a big honor. After all there was a lot of effort put in for preparing the presentations. Jehan Ara was right there and writes in her blog, In The Line Of wire:

PixSense PSP won the award for Best in Media and Entertainment Applications. Adnan was apparently not expecting it because he didn’t have a bag large enough to take it home.

TPS Pvt Limited’s IRIS won the Award for Best in Tools & Infrastructure Applications. It’s impressive diverse application wowed the judges and Shahzad Shahid was there to claim the trophy.

If the Kraysis team of Jamil, Khurram and Mustafa looks shell-shocked, it is because they were probably not expecting to win. They knew there was competition and had worked 25 hours at a stretch to revamp their presentation, put in all the missing meat and remove all the fat. They were chosen as the Best in the Startup Category.