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Instantly connect to Yahoo, MSN, ICQ and AOL buddies Invite them for an ALL-IN-ONE Conference

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Dumb Janitors.

Instantly connect to Yahoo, MSN, ICQ and AOL buddies Invite them for an ALL-IN-ONE Conference

More info here:
IndiaTimes Messenger

This Economic Times article, (which was rejected by the editor's) very beautifully articulates that Intellectual Property is not a right but a privilege. Qoute: "Few people outside Cuba and North Korea would be opposed to the concept of patents, trademarks and copyrights. However, given that the cost of these to the public, worldwide, is in tens of billions of dollars, it is desirable that the debate on the subject be carried out in rational terms. It is therefore advisable that a non-emotive term be used to describe these concepts. IPRs have a closer relationship with innovation, novelty and distinctiveness. Normally, every IPR would involve innovation or novelty, though not everything which is innovative may be entitled to an IPR. As discussed above, IPRs are, at best, negative rights. An IPR-holder has an exclusive right to do something to the exclusion of all others. In essence, therefore, an IPR is not a right, but a privilege. When the holders of such exclusive rights sue to maintain the exclusion against third parties, they can hardly be said to be defending their rights, they are actually enforcing their privileges. In terms of their legal incidents, IPRs are no different from such privileges, albeit with a far better policy justification to support them." So, to summarise, by using term's such as right, Corp's & lawyer's are essentially exaggerating their claim.

Most students in the cities have email and access the net quite regularly, if only for gaming or chat through these cyber-cafes and not at home. Also gives privacy ;-)....

And once the government legalises VoIP there is definitely going to be a huge boom in the use of the cyber-cafes.

I am pretty sure that this must be the case in most developing economies. Of course like this article says it needs to become a productivity tool.

and you get all that information from your fabulous government controlled communist red media right? take a plane to india before you talk bullshit, i know of hundreds of chinese working in Bangalore cuz they get better pay there than in China! oh by the way they almost got busted out by indian immigration because they were suspected to developing software for Osama and Taliban, here's the link. hell we are even harbouring millions of your tibetian refugees, so much for progressive china!

anyway i have something you never will... FREEDOM! go suck on that! i can go down to my country's parliament complex and scream that the Prime Minister is an asshole who will not be there very much longer because at least I certainly will not vote for him and no tanks will be sent to roll over me, the last time any chinese tried to do that i think it was called the Tinammen Square bloodbath! now go back to that slave nike factory and start stitching thoese shoes or that government appointed red communist guard will kick your ass into oblivion :)

C-dac, based in the western city of Pune, plans to link the seven Indian institutes of technology (IITs), the Bangalore-based Indian Institute of Science and other academic institutions in the I-Grid, Arora said.

I can tell you for sure that the terms of use of computational facilities at IIT's prohibit the use of computers for any nuclear or missile research. We don't do those kinds of work there. They're done in BARC and ISRO (though ISRO has joint projects with a few of iit's). But yes you can never draw a line between civilian and defence research. There are many applications of research. People will always find ways to use the civilain reseach for defence purpose but that doesn't mean one should not do research at all and go back to living in caves and hunting animals (ok a bit of exaggeration ;-))

Here is an article on the same subject in the Times of India: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow.asp ?art_id=2867426

check out the new Indiatimes messenger that can connect to five different messenger systems and chat simultaneously with all of them and even invite all of them for a conference. If this technonlgy is as goods as it sounds, why is there no hype about it?. why have i not heard of it before?.

...it would wreck the whole system, wouldn't it? Better hope we just email the link around.

The Times of India story lists several of these hotbutton words—Kashmir, Lashkar, Pakistan, Musharraf, Jaish, attack, kill, rocket— along with an assurance that those who send email using these keywords will be put under surveillance.

Then they put a link at the bottom to email the story to your friends!!!

I can barely catch my breath, I'm laughing so hard!

Elementary Watson. The site indiatimes.com via a partnership with Overnight Express as USPS is all geared up to have people in america use email to send printed letters to people back in India. Read about it here.