Lahore-based Five Rivers said its LED Notifier Pro hit the global number one spot on the global Blackberry marketplace, AppWorld on Tuesday while its Photo Editor Suite had hit the top spot twice in past three months.
The new best-seller, LED Notifier Pro, is a clever application that lets the user customize the Blackberry LED light so that it can blink different colors based on who is calling, texting or e-mailing, it said in a statement.
This useful feature lets a user know exactly who is calling without needing to even pick up the phone or examining the device's screen.
"Once might be luck. But thrice is a trend," Mahe Zehra Husain, the head of operations and product management at Pepper.Pk, the mobile application division of Five Rivers, told My Pakistan.
"We've shown that the Pakistan IT industry can consistently produce top quality products for a global audience and not only compete, but come out on top," Husain said.
"With repeat smash-hits, Pepper.Pk has now emerged as one of the World's premier Blackberry developers and we have a brilliant product road map in place," she said.
Photo Editor Suite which first took the top slot in December allows users to crop, rotate, adjust brightness and contrast, recolour and resize photos.
Five Rivers, which opened its subsidiary Pepper.Pk two years ago, says it has developed and run out more than 150 mobile applications for the Blackberry and iPhone as well as other smartphones.
The company started in 2003 and consists of 50 people and has worked with a number of leading technology firms at home and abroad.
According to the State Bank of Pakistan, software and IT-enabled service exports amounted to 204 million dollars in fiscal year 2009-2010 and the industry as a whole is worth around 2.8 billion dollars.
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 by catastrophic flooding last year.
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