Infrastructure status for IT industry in offing
Information technology minister Pramod Mahajan has decided to take up the IT industry's demand for infrastructure status with finance minister Yashwant Sinha in order to increase the flow of investment

Pioneer Online to invest Rs 100 cr on setting up six ISP gateways
Hyderabad-based internet service provider Pioneer Online plans to invest upto Rs 100 crore over the next three years in setting up over half a dozen ISP gateways across the country.

Sites and sighs -- Business-to-business still not mature enough
Most B2B sites are pretty bad, says US-based market research house, Forrester Research. The firm scanned 30 B2B sites and discovered that not one of them measured up on value, ease of use and reliability. Their design was so bad that they just turn off potential users.


  MTNL ready for revenue-sharing with ISPs
  Another infotech group set up with Silicon stars
  Canon India to diversify into IT solution services
  Fear of the Net cannibalising ad revenues haunts print, TV
  Deltagram plans major foray into e-business
  Autodesk launches new design tools
  50 start-up firms expected at Nasscom 2000
  Global Software sets up Indian arm
  Mindtree House inaugurated