Last week, a 13-year-old boy from Karachi’s Korangi neighbourhood was gang-raped by three men. The crime took place on the first night of Eidul Fitr. That’s right. When you and I were having dinner with our families or doing whatever we do to celebrate the holiday, a boy was screaming for...

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...