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Stories and comments across the archive that link to convergence.in.

Stories · 2

  1. India Joins China in Censoring Websites

    · posted by ryuzaki0 · from the keeping-up-with-the-wangs dept. · 303 comments
    cpatil writes "On the directions of the government of India, Indian ISPs have started censoring and blocking web properties. This was first noticed by Indian bloggers and upon inquiring with their respective ISPs, the actions are confirmed. Unfortunately, Blogspot and TypePad are the targets till now." There's an ongoing discussion of the censorship on GoogleGroups. The rediff.com coverage linked above indicates that the blocking is based on a list issued by India's Department of Telecommunications.

  2. Indian Companies Embracing Linux Faster Than Ever

    · posted by ryuzaki0 · from the slicing-the-pie dept. · 169 comments
    cpatil writes "CNBC-TV 18 India has just announced that India's largest Insurance company, LIC(Life Insurance Corporation of India) sealed a deal with Red Hat to use its desktop and server software. LIC has roughly 160 Million customers, making it a non-trivial deal. Leslie D'Monte over at rediff also has a closer look at Linux deployment in India."