News Roundup: Multiplex Collections At Three-Year Low, Unsecured WiFi Connections

Thanks to a stalemate between Bollywood film producers and multiplex owners over a revenue share formula, which has come in the way of new releases, box office collections in March were Rs60 crore, the lowest in three years, reports Business Standard. The situation is expected to get worse in April, with the IPL season kicking off. The story quotes Roopesh Shah, head of marketing for online movie ticketing portal bookmyshow.com, as saying that online bookings are also down by 40% in March.

According to a nation-wide study by Deloitte and Data Security Council of India, 86% of all Wi-Fi networks are vulnerable, reports BS. Thirty seven percent of wireless networks had no encryption at all, while 49% used inadequate protection.

Security of wireless networks came to the fore as terror groups hacked into Wi-Fi networks of unsuspecting users to send emails just before blasts in New Delhi and Ahmedabad.

According to this DNA story, someone blogging as a player of the Kolkata Knight Riders (or now just Knight Riders?) and spilling the beans on the teams strategy and what transpires in team meetings and dressing rooms, is causing embarrassment to the team. The blog in question is surely going viral. When we checked it last night, it had some 70-odd followers. Now the blog has 347 and growing. The team CEO has denied the possibility that it could actually be an IPL player, but the blog is surely entertaining IPL fans on the net.

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