The marriage of the Internet and the TV is what we should be looking as the next major technology.

Readers may recollect the low cost net PC launched by Novatium last year. Bharti Airtel has now launched a low cost net PC on similar lines. The Airtel Net PC is being marketed in Airtel and Next stores for a cost of Rs7,999.

Talking to each other is one of the most entertaining activities in India. Gossiping and having fun has been known as a traditional past time in rural as well as urban India since times immemorial. The biggest social networking site, Facebook, is all set to take advantage of this weakness.

YouTube, the most popular online site of video storage, has lastly found sex as less productive; at least it seems to be! The site sees hundreds of thousands of hits everyday, mostly from teenagers seeking sexually explicit videos.

In a major move to increase India’s Internet density, Govt. of India is funding a project, namely Rural Broadband Project, to provide fast broadband Internet connection to all Gram Panchayats (GPs) by 2012, said A. Raja, Union IT and Communications Minister.

The race for capturing revenue in the ISP section is gradually warming up in India. Ideally the service provider should provide all the three services, telephone, cable TV and the internet. However due to a technological gap all the three areas have progressed in a non linear fashion.