Pakistani IT firm ‘on top of the world’

irf77
By irf77

ISLAMABAD — Photo editing software developed by a Pakistan technology firm Five Rivers became the best selling paid-for application for the Blackberry, the firm said on Wednesday.
Lahore-based Five Rivers said its Photo Editor Suite had hit the top spot across all sectors on Blackberry’s AppWorld store.
“This is extremely good news for us and especially for the Pakistani IT industry,” Mahe Zehra Husain, the head of operations and product management at Five Rivers Technology, told AFP.
“We feel we are on top of the world. This is incredible.”
The application “has been in the top five paid applications for quite a while now and on Sunday made its way to the number one spot,” she said.
Photo Editor Suite allows users to crop, rotate, adjust brightness and contrast, recolour and resize photos, Husain added.
The website of Five Rivers, which opened a year and a half ago, says it has developed and run out more than 100 mobile applications for the Blackberry and iPhone as well as other smartphones.
Pakistan, a nuclear-armed conservative Muslim country of 167 million people, is in deep recession, exacerbated by years of Al-Qaeda-linked bombings, an energy crisis, poor foreign investment and this year by catastrophic flooding.

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By syusufa• 22 Dec 2010 19:53
syusufa

Congratulations neighbours.... all the best.

By irf77• 22 Dec 2010 19:48
irf77

regarding last paragraph this is how it unedited by the www.khaleejtimes.com , follow the link. Also does not made much sense to me, have sent a note to editor.

Good to see positive news, shows huge potential country has

By irf77• 22 Dec 2010 19:48
irf77

regarding last paragraph this is how it unedited by the www.khaleejtimes.com , follow the link. Also does not made much sense to me, have sent a note to editor.

Good to see positive news, shows huge potential country has

By TailChopper• 22 Dec 2010 19:12
TailChopper

bloody terrorists !!

By anonymous• 22 Dec 2010 18:32
anonymous

I use Adobe CS4. (Made in Canada)

By chitra sharma• 22 Dec 2010 17:38
chitra sharma

there is no corelation of the last paragraph with the above lines...........anyways congrats well done

By FathimaH• 22 Dec 2010 17:33
Rating: 4/5
FathimaH

has its good, its bad, and its ugly sides. But after much being written and spread of the "bad" and "ugly" sides of Pakistan in the media lately, it certainly is pleasant to read of one of the country's good side..well done, Mashallah!

By anonymous• 22 Dec 2010 17:28
anonymous

...crop, rotate, adjust brightness and contrast, recolour and resize photos will make one IT firm on top of the world? ..that's good! keep up the good work!

By anonymous• 22 Dec 2010 17:17
anonymous

i presume that our friend is talking about INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY sorry to Calarify.

By anonymous• 22 Dec 2010 17:03
anonymous

You don't mess with the Pathan.

By Martin K. Mathew• 22 Dec 2010 16:35
Martin K. Mathew

You are correct Mr.Colt.!!!!!!!!!,he dont know whats that????

By dota• 22 Dec 2010 16:33
dota

me too im proud to be a QLers! =P

By lahori• 22 Dec 2010 16:23
lahori

Good and bad things go hand in hand.

Prrrouuud to be a Muslim and a Pakistani.

And ofcourse proud to be a Qatar resident.

By anonymous• 22 Dec 2010 15:57
anonymous

Who ever things Pakistan can be classified under one label is an idiot. Its a very diverse place.

By Colt45• 22 Dec 2010 15:17
Colt45

I don't think he read his post thoroughly after copying and pasting it :-P

By Lawahda• 22 Dec 2010 15:16
Lawahda

May ALLAAH give hidayat to all Muslims and Pakistanis as well...Ameen

By KHATTAK• 22 Dec 2010 15:06
KHATTAK

The last paragraph is for?

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