By Maija Palmer, Technology Correspondent

Published: December 17 2007 02:00 | Last updated: December 17 2007 02:00

Businesses are becoming increasingly frustrated at having no centralised organisation to which they can report instances of computer crime, and are calling on the government to form a central police e-crime unit.

David Roberts, chief executive of the Corporate IT Forum, which represents computer users in about half of the FTSE 100 companies, said his members were left with the feeling that the government did not take cybercrime seriously.

Fighting harassment on India's streets
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Source: csmonitor

New Delhi - For artist Jasmeen Patheja, moving to the
high-tech hub of Bangalore for college was an
introduction to India's chic new cosmopolitanism. But
the move also brought on something more regressive:
the nightly catcalls of mirchi (chili) and tamatar
(tomatoes) – food items being the common sexual taunts
for women pedestrians.

"I found myself feeling more and more vulnerable," Ms.
Patheja recalls. "And in addition to feeling angry and