CyberLawTimes Monthly Newsletter February 2008

Setback for Indian Cyber Law - A shame
Lakshmana Kailash K, a computer engineer, was wrongly arrested from his home in Bangalore in August 2007 for having defamed Shivaji on Orkut.com, he was tracked with the help of information shared by ISP, Bharti Airtel. He was taken to Pune and put behind bars, where he spent […]

SIFY pays ahead of court date

I had filed application under section 27 of Consumer Protection Act, 1986 before District Consumer Redressal Forum, Shalimar Bagh, Delhi. Court date was fixed up for 27 July 2007 but they paid up the compensation ahead of the date, as they were left with no option, as time for appeal already expired way back in […]

SIFY did not appeal !!!

SIFY had an opportunity to appeal with State Consumer Redressal Commission, but failed to do so within the period of 30 days from the date of receipt of copy of District Forum order… i.e. till first week of February. But state commission records, nowhere include any such matter till date:!:
And as they still havn’t paid me the compensation of […]

Internet World Stats

World Population: 6,574,666,417
Internet users: 1,093,529,692 (16.6% of world Population)
Maximum Internet Users in Asia: 35.6 %
More stats at: http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm
NetCraft.com, provides the number of sites on the Internet as 106,875,138 sites.

Thanks to PTI…

Received a call from PTI.. the day case was reported in Times of India, so now SIFY case further reported in….
Telegraph - Calcutta in Nation Section courtesy PTI dated 11 December 2006 on Page 6
 

  
Read it online here: http://www.telegraphindia.com/1061211/asp/nation/story_7124077.asp
Also at Zee news website: http://www.zeenews.com/znnew/articles.asp?rep=2&aid=341348&ssid=29&sid=ENV
Times of India Rocks :D

Press Update: TOI & ‘TODAY’ dated 05 Dec

Check out SIFY Decision in today’s Delhi edition of Times Of India @ page 3 - “Court penalises broadband service provider over poor speed”!
 

 
Also another story regarding SIFY case will appear in the afternoon newspaper - “TODAY”, later in the day! Visited Today’s office at Jhandelwalan yesterday for an interview and a photo :)
Update: Here’s the news clipping […]

Press Update: ‘The Hindu’ reports SIFY case…

Today’s edition of “The Hindu” reports the case on Page 3 as follows:
“Sify ordered to pay damages”

Online available at: http://www.hindu.com/2006/11/26/stories/2006112610140300.htm

`Reducing the promised broadband speed is deficiency of service’

NEW DELHI: His broadband connection was meant to be a highway to the worldwide web, but proved to be a roadblock for Ankur Raheja. Having bought a […]

Search Engine Optimization

Now-a-days trying my hands on SEO tactics… bought the following book from Amazon. Its very well written book by Mr Mike Moran & Bill Hunt (IBM Press).

Buy: Search Engine Marketing, Inc.: Driving Search Traffic to Your Company’s Web Site
I must say… the ratings/reviews provided at Amazon.com are too good. Previously bought book on PHP through Fabmart.com […]

SIFY Broadband Final Decision

Following is the second last para of the decision
“It has been held that concealing hidden condition and not redressing the grievances of the complainant who made complaints with regard to poor customer service on number of occassions, in our considered opinion, amounts to deficiency in service on the part of Opposite Party and […]

SIFY BroadBand - Links !!!

Read about reactions of SIFY customers at:
1. http://ankurraheja.com/weblog/?p=14
2. http://broadbandforum.in/Sify-Broadband-Lawsuit-t8436.html
3. http://www.rimweb.in/forums/index.php?showtopic=5233&st=15
Case Summary submitted last in the court available at: http://www.sifycase.org