Last week Dr Awab Alvi and Faisal Kapadia, a couple of bloggers who comprise the core of the Pakistani blogosphere, interviewed me. They invited me on to their online current affairs show, The Laidback Show, the first podcast show to come out of this country. As I watched the grainy streaming video,...

Ever since Twitter became the online phenomenon, the battle for ‘real time’ web has been on. While you tweet and post a status update each time a fly flits by you at work, industry giants such as Google, Microsoft and Facebook are trying to figure out how to integrate more real time data into their...

Imran Yusuf laments the glorious sound of leather on willow being drowned out by the tones of tweeting. Let me go for it at the start, Imran Naziresque, on the attack from word go: I hate Twitter. I hate the word, its squeaky sound, its babyish look. I hate the very sight of it. I see the word and I...

Twenty paisas can mean the difference between development and disaster in the telecom sector, writes Huma Yusuf. Talking thumbs, attractive girls giving away their phone numbers, crazy nights with strange autobots and choreographed dances in dhabas – advertising for cellphones and mobile connection...

Dawn.com’s Huma Yusuf complains about the curse of unsolicited SMS messages. There was a time when eating was considered our national pastime. Now, there are some Pakistanis who spend more time sending SMS text messages than chewing. Several people I know would rather exchange up to 20 messages on...

Dawn.com officially launched the new Dawn.com web portal on Febrary 16, 2009. Tell us what you think of the new news site and blog and suggest changes you’d like to see.