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Cafes yet to follow guidelines to combat cyber crime in Siliguri

SILIGURI, Aug.24: Days after three children were injured in an improvised explosive device (IED) blast at Shantipara in Siliguri, weeks after the Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) raided a flat in Navi Mumbai after tracing the IP address of the persons who sent a threat e-mail minutes before the Ahmedabad blasts, and months after the police in Ghaziabad detained the owner of a cyber cafe from where an email claiming responsibility for the Jaipur blasts was sent, the authorities in Siliguri have not acted promptly.

Shaw pics legal in Internet cafes

the Hong Kong-based film library and TV channels group, has struck a three-year deal that will allow its movies to screen legally in China's booming Internet cafés.

Benugo to open Museum of London cafes

benugoAs part of a £20.5m refurbishment operation, the Museum of London has contracted café deli group Benugo to open a series of outlets within the site.

Vietnam Officials To Check Online Games

The Ho Chi Minh City department of Information and Communications has asked its controlling structure, the Vietnamese Ministry of Information and Communications, to examine eight online games which have been generating massive interest in Internet cafes and other outlets among students and citizens alike.

Forget the Damn Linux Netbooks. Can Windows Replace Windows?

"The big question: Can Linux replace Windows? Well, ask the Atlanta Public School district, which is deploying 25,000 Linux thin-client terminals in its classrooms as a result of a successful pilot of 2200 Linux terminals in 7 schools. Ask companies like Ndiyo who have successfully deployed pilots in 3rd-world countries in educational environments and Internet cafes. Ask the Ubuntu project which can genuinely claim millions of downloads of its free end-user OS."

Wawawa Hopes Three-Cent Tracks Can Crack China's Music Piracy

imageJust how cheap do music downloads need to be before listeners will buy them rather than pull ‘em from P2P? About three cents, reckons one new Chinese platform. That’s how much a track costs at Wawawa, a new offering started by ringtone firm R2G with repertoire from San Fran-based indie distributor Ioda. The service offers up to 88 MP3s per month for 20 yuan ($2.92) - the price set low in a country all too used to pilfering free music. This, Variety points out, is both the first Chinese foray for foreign indies and, in a stroke, China’s largest music store with more than one million tracks, which can also be web-streamed, not just downloaded, for the hoardes of Chinese who use internet cafes.

Three-Cent Music Tracks Try To Crack China's Piracy Problem

imageJust how cheap do music downloads need to be before listeners will buy them rather than pull ‘em from P2P? About three cents, reckons one new Chinese platform. That’s how much a track costs at Wawawa, a new offering started by ringtone firm R2G with repertoire from San Fran-based indie distributor Ioda. The service offers up to 88 MP3s per month for 20 yuan ($2.92) - the price set low in a country all too used to pilfering free music. This, Variety points out, is both the first Chinese foray for foreign indies and, in a stroke, China’s largest music store with more than one million tracks, which can also be web-streamed, not just downloaded, for the hoardes of Chinese who use internet cafes.


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