Monsoon magic -- VSNL cuts Internet access tariff 50%
Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd (VSNL) has slashed its Internet access tariff by 50%. This is applicable for both TCP/IP dial-up and ISDN accounts.

Mumbai-based ISP to invest $300 million in broadband services
Mumbai-based CityMainStreet.com India proposes to invest nearly $300 million in Maharashtra to provide integrated broadband services, lay optic fibre cables and facilitate the processing of funds transfers and pre-paid services including telecommunications cellular and Internet.

GECS, Silicon Mountains put Internet on tap in Pune
Silicon Mountains (India) Pvt Ltd and Global Electronic Commerce Services (GECS) have for the first time in the country launched Internet access over fibre optic cable in Pune.

Lotus to bloom in Karnataka with 8 mega software parks
Lotus Inc, a US-based international management consulting group is in talks with with 13 top MNCs to form a consortium to set up 8 software townships in Karnataka including one in Bangalore, according to the company's general manager (projects) B Meghashyam.

`We will not back B2C ventures'
Venture capital coiffeurs in India may be bursting at the seams stuffed as they are with cash with fewer feasible ventures to chase than ever, but it has not deterred global private equity firm Insight Capital Partners (ICP) to locate its Asian entity ConnectCapital in India.

Are websites using porn to seduce users for eyeball-popping numbers?
Sex sells and there's no two ways about it. Even as the Government passes Bills and entrusts policemen with powers extraordinaire, to stop virtual promiscuity on the Web, some B2C sites are resorting to spamming Netizens with obscene, unsolicited mails, in a crude bid to increase hits on the site.


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