Bangalore takes on tasks a world away; foreign companies flock to India's high-tech capital

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Bangalore is emerging as India's high-tech center where the needs of the growing domestic computer market and the demand for high-value software exports are met. Among the foreign companies with joint ventures in Bengalore are DEC, Texas Instruments Inc, Motorola Inc, HO, Apple, Sun Microsystems Inc and Intel Corp. India is a small but lucrative microcomputer market; out of its population of 850 million, only 100,000 have microcomputers and annual sales are expected to double within five years. India's skilled labor is relatively cheap and this allows hardware companies to assemble their products there for marketing in other countries. India's software engineers are also considered among the world's best and can meet the complex programming needs of giant companies. Bengalore has a year-round temperate climate like California's Silicon Valley. It is also a major research and engineering center in India.

Computer industry, India, Bangalore, India, Market Penetration, Foreign Manufacture, International

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Chinese firewall; Beijing seeks to build version of the Internet that can be censored; crackdown on outside views also includes satellite TV and financial news wires; rule of 'throat and tongue.' (Government Activity)

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China is purchasing and implementing the hardware necessary to create an infrastructure for high-tech information sharing, but government officials are simultaneously attempting to establish ways of monitoring the exchange of data to eliminate undesirable elements. Chinese computer scientists are using filtering technology developed by Sun Microsystems to create an isolated network with full access restricted. The business of information transmission has increased substantially in China during the 1990s, as externally broadcast satellite and wire services as well as internal independent information services have penetrated the market. The Chinese government has long been able to reap profits from a variety of information mediums, and this trend must continue for the Internet to spread significantly throughout China.

China, Internet, Telecommunications regulations, Science and technology policy, Government communications regulation

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Electronic vandals tamper with Web pages

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An increasing number of Web sites are being marred by electronic vandals that erase, alter, deface and tamper with the design and integrity of the pages. These computer hackers often have motives as simple as vanity and boredom, but the results of their vandalism can involve costly repairs and create embarrassment for the proprietors of host sites. The federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act offers meager protection against computer tampering, and it is often extremely difficult to determine the origin of the offense. Computer hackers can use sophisticated database searching tools to decipher a Web server's password, and there are few legitimate safeguards that average Web-site constructors can realistically implement.

Methods, Crimes against, Computer crimes, Computer crime, Internet/Web overview, Computer hackers, World Wide Web, Hacker

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