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The police hosted a workshop for cyber caf owners here on Monday. Nearly 200 cyber caf owner participated in it. A free cyber caf security software was launched by Ideacts Innovations Ltd on the occasion.

The objective of the workshop was to ensure cyber security and better data management at cyber cafs. Cyber cafs are sought after by all sorts of anti-social elements such as fraudsters, data thieves and terrorists. Given the growth of such unlawful activities over the last few years, it has become absolutely essential for cyber cafs to have a foolproof system to monitor their customers, said Krishna Swamy, retail head of Ideacts Innovations.

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Remember yesterday when I told you that you could get a boatload of free software  from Microsoft, including Vista and Office, for allowing them to track your computer usage for a few months? Well, apparently a lot of you jumped on it, as Microsoft shut down the offer yesterday afternoon. Too slow? Sorry pal, I'd be happy to spy on your computer usage, but I'm not promising any free software for the honor.

Premier Farnell plc (LSE:pfl), the leading multi-channel, high service distributor, has announced the launch of EAGLE software version 5.8. This enhanced version of CadSoft's award winning software, Europe's best selling CAD tool of its kind, is a FREE licence edition 'Freemium', allowing EDE's to design boards more conveniently with better power management in their circuits and with more schematic sheets for free.

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Apple’s iPhone seems to have taken its admirers for something called mass hysteria. There always has been a lot of anticipation and waiting for the company’s latest version of the iPhone in the market. Apple successfully develops that “much awaited” tag to its device every time it launches its new product.

Undeniably many of iPhone users had a bad experience with the network it works on. The phone gets locked to a specific cellular service provider, leaving very less options to change the network provider or to go for the best plan.

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The Finnish mobile phone manufacturer has introduced the Nokia 5235 a new model of its series “Comes with Music”. The handset comes with device’s software, which allows a year of free access to the approximately six million songs from the Nokia Music Store. The songs are in WMA format and are mostly encoded at 192 kbps. Downloaded songs can be continued even after the flat rate to use.

The phone has a 3.2-inch touch screen with a resolution of 640 x 360 pixels. The phone has the operating system Symbian S60 Touch. The interface offers a media bar for quick access to multimedia applications and a contact strip can be stored in up to 20 people.

The Nokia 5235 comes with 70 MB of internal memory. For extra storage a microSD card slot available, the memory cards with up to 16 GB capacity is supported. The integrated 2-megapixel camera comes with a three-fold digital zoom, video can be recorded at up to 640 x 360 pixels at 30 frames per second.

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Students with an ITLabs Account at the University of Minnesota have access to a wide range of free software (legally) for their personal computer. This includes software ranging from Microsoft Windows to Microsoft Office to ProEngineer to Mathematica.

Much of this software is offered through ITLabs and can be found on the ITLabs Resources Page. The software available here includes Matlab and Mathematica. You can also sign up here for access to Microsoft Developer Network Academic Alliance, where you can get free licenses for almost any software that Microsoft makes, including the Windows Operating System from Windows XP to Windows 7 Release Candidates (Pre-Release Versions), Microsoft Office (including Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Project, and OneNote), and almost any other current releases of software they make.

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And that's exactly what the Free Software Foundation plans to do on Wednesday, staging a demonstration in Boston where it will encourage businesses to throw away Microsoft Windows in favor of free alternatives.

In addition to the public display, the foundation is sending letters to the CEOs of Fortune 500 companies, warning that Windows is a threat to their businesses' privacy, security, and freedom.

Although the demonstration and letter center around Microsoft's imminent release of Windows 7, Free Software Foundation Executive Director Peter Brown says the protest has to do with Microsoft's approach in general and not with the specifics of Windows 7.

"Any time Microsoft tries to push them to a new version, it's a good time to make that case," Brown said in a telephone interview on Tuesday. 

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YEOVIL MP David Laws has encouraged local charities to apply for free software from Microsoft.  Microsoft have written to Mr Laws about their software donation programme, which is run in conjunction with the Charity Technology Trust.

This has supported over 3,600 charities nationally since it was launched in 2006.  Various charities within South Somerset have received recent donations, including the South Somerset Disability Forum and the Yeovil Visually Impaired Bowls Club.

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Chris Anderson's new book, Free, explores the direction part of our economy is taking -- a direction in which the infinitely copyable, ie digital content, gravitates towards costing nothing, with revenue generated via other means. To Anderson, "$0.00 is the future of business."

And, it transpires, he is by no means alone. AVG's CEO, JR Smith, openly admitted in a recent interview with CNET UK that, "Free is what drives our business. Without it, we'd be nowhere today."

AVG offers three main anti-virus and anti-malware products. Two will cost you a few tenners each year, but the other offers to protect your computer from viruses and infections, in real-time, and AVG just gives it away to tens of millions of people worldwide.

"It's probably the single biggest driving factor," Smith explained. "And in Europe, [free] is highly disruptive to the big guys. They definitely don't like the fact that we're out there giving a product away for free."

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whether an Office file contains malicious content.  Microsoft also provided updates on the three security collaboration programs it first announced last year at Black Hat, the Microsoft Active Protections Program (MAPP), the Microsoft Exploitability Index, and the Microsoft Vulnerability Research (MSVR) program, as well as Project Quant, which represents an effort to create metrics and quantify the cost and efficiency of an organization's security patching process.

The announcements, which Microsoft made at Black Hat USA in Las Vegas today, came amid the backdrop of two out-of-band patches the software giant said it will issue tomorrow -- one for a recently revealed bug in Visual Studio, and another for Internet Explorer. "While this release is to address a single, overall issue, in order to provide the broadest protections possible to customers, we'll be releasing two separate security bulletins," said Mike Reavey, director of the Microsoft Security Response Center in a blog post today.

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