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11.05.2005 The Free Software, Free Society (FSFS) Conference, organized by Government and civil society organizations from Brazil, Italy, Venezuela and India, is scheduled for 28-30 May 2005 in the Southern Indian city of Thiruvananthapuram (Trivandrum), the capital of the province of Kerala.

10.05.2005 A recent study by the London School of Economics shows that parents who are unable to help their children use the internet properly could be stifling their education and reducing their job prospects.

10.05.2005 The World Health Organisation (WHO) has established an Internet alert system in a bid to crackdown on counterfeit drugs, Xinhua reports.

10.05.2005 Social engineering, cracking, steganography are all terms set to become as common as www, because that is where they emerge from and are used by criminals, as opposed to recreational hackers. The cracker is a criminal hacker.

09.05.2005 NASSCOM Foundation (NF) and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) on Friday announced the launch of the Knowledge Centre programme in Orissa as part of the Mission 2007-“Every Village a Knowledge Centre” initiative.

09.05.2005 SANGONeT, in collaboration with the Association for Progressive Communications (APC), is hosting a Thetha on 24 May 2005 to discuss whether Southern African organisations should use Creative Commons to licence the information that they produce.

09.05.2005 New generation computer Pentium 4 and other kinds of CPUs with different price tags have been introduced in the country under the brand name of Aamar PC by means of the assembling skills of hardware engineers from West Bengal.