Bloggers meet held in Chennai

Bloggers in the Chennai city got together to talk about the art of
blogging and to promote it.A blogging portal along with Microsoft
recently conducted their fifth bloggers meet at Hotel Dee Cee Manor at
T.Nagar on Sunday.
Many enthusiastic bloggers from the Chennai city took part in this
meet. Statistics say that of the 3000 bloggers already registered in
the directory of indiblogger.in, 500 are from Chennai.
Since blogging is an online activity, bloggers finally got the chance
to mee...

Facebook and social networking sites are the biggest office time-wasters

According to Rik Ferguson, of Trend Micro which carried out a survey on
work wasting unofficial breaks, says that in the past, cigerette breaks
caused major headaches, but times have changed.
The latest breaks wasting office time and giving bosses headaches are
social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace. Four in ten managers
say they now find that workers addicted to sites like Facebook and
online shops are the biggest office time-wasters.
Employees who respond to non-work emails...

Online fraud: Cops to probe Meerut techies

AHMEDABAD: The four accused in Rs 1-lakh online fraud case will be brought to Ahmedabad from Meerut for interrogation on Saturday.
The
cyber sleuths of the city crime branch in late March had tracked down a
software engineer, Sourav Sharma, involved in a online fraud case and
through him reached to the other accused in the case.
According to the case Sharma and three others are accused of duping Dehgam-based Dr Chandrakant Shah of Rs 1 lakh.
“Shah, had received an email asking for his account details. As the website had a private bank logo and even the similar colour scheme, the doctor was convinced and provided his bank details.
However,
the mail was sent by the fraudsters in which they had used the
pseudo-website to get the details. Soon, the fraudsters transferred the
amount of Rs 1 lakh from two interlinked accounts. Shah had then
registered a case in this regard on January 3,” said an Ellisbridge
police official.
According to the city
police, Sharma, Kuldip Verma, Faizal-ur-Rahman and Mohammed Gulrez -
all residents of Meerut in Uttar Pradesh, were tracked down by city
cyber crime cell late in March and a team headed by a sub-inspector was
sent to Uttar Pradesh.
However, due to
cases registered against the gang in the local police, the team could
not get hold of the members and had to wait for four months. Sources
added that the accused will be questioned by Usha Rada, assistant
commissioner of police, Crime (women cell).

American University and Pirated Songs

American University and Pirated Songs
The music industry is tightening its grips on University of Utah
students who they believe have pirated songs.
The Recording Industry Association of America, a trade group that
represents the U.S. recording industry, notified the university of its
intent to sue individuals who it contends have illegally shared
copyrighted music.