India could soon become nearly immune to the occasional undersea cable cuts that hamper Internet and telephone connectivity. Operators such as Bharti, Reliance, Tata Communications and BSNL are building multiple undersea cables that will enable in country and the entire region to enjoy disruption-free services.

The kind of ratings used for films could be applied to websites in a bid to better police the Internet and protect children from harmful and offensive material.

PCs with cartoon characters all over them, in lovely colours, designs and sleek casings & PCs with anti-bacterial keyboards. That's what computer manufacturers are now increasingly doing designing products targeting children, given that children are fast becoming major decision makers in PC purchases.

Despite the economic slowdown, Infrastructure Management Services (IMS) is becoming the lucrative vertical for Indian IT. According to NASSCOM, the remote IMS business out of India currently stands at $200-300 million but has a market potential of $55 billion globally.

Tackling e-waste: a major concern: Tangible and visible efforts like data centre energy cost reduction, virtualization leading to server consolidation, remote management leading to CO2 footprint reduction, reducing software footprint of applications by consolidation form the backbone of Green IT culture.