TechnoparkToday.com>>July 31: The world got its most expensive auction-generated Tata Nano, as a hand-painted art car put on sale after India’s first biennale has gone under the hammer for more than 13 lakh rupees. The outlandish-looking multi-colour four-wheeler fetched the Kochi Biennale Foundation (KBF) Rs 13,01,402 ($22,438, inclusive of buyer’s premium) as a 24-hour-long online bidding organised by Saffronart at www.saffronart.com …

TechnoparkToday.com>>  July  2013:  The hugely acclaimed Kochi-Muziris Biennale, India’s first such contemporary international art event, has fetched for its media consultant top honours at the inaugural Indian edition of the prestigious Sabre Awards, 2013. MD Niche, a fledgling Delhi-based media consultancy company, was conferred The Gold Sabre Award For Excellence In Public Relations in two categories — media relations and …

TechnoparkToday.com>> July 29, 2013:  Coffee@DBG, an interactive technical session, conducted by Technopark-based Digital Brand Group every month, will be held on August 7, 2013 at 5 p.m.   “Tooling for Modern Web App developer” will be the topic of this edition.   Praveen Vijayan, Flip Media, will lead the session. Coffee@DBG is an open interactive session on technology trends, where technology enthusiasts …

TechnoparkToday.com>> July 2013: The Government of Kerala has decided to set up a seed support scheme for early stage investments to help new entrepreneurs and strengthen the state’s objective under the new IT policy to nurture one product startup a day, with the target of at least 3,000 companies by 2020, Hon’ble Chief Minister Shri Oommen Chandy said today. Speaking …

TechnoparkToday.Com>> July 27, 2013: Path Solutions India Pvt. Ltd, a leading provider of Islamic core banking system today opened its first Global Support and Development Centre in India at Infopark Cherthala. The new office was inaugurated by Aroor MLA, Adv. A M Arif in the presence of Principal Secretary IT, GoK  P H Kurian, Infopark CEO Hrishikesh Nair and Path …

TechnoparkToday.com>> July 27, 2013:  Technopark employees are being charged excessive fare by Auto drivers in Kazhakuttom.   “We have to pay Rs. 25 for one Kilometer journey from Technopark main gate to Thejaswini building, and Rs. 40 – 50 for two Kilometers journey from Kazhakuttom Railway station to Technopark. From kazhakootam junction to Thejeswini Building, for the 2 Km, they charging …

TechnoparkToday.com>> July 26. 2013:  DC Books organizing Penguin Book Fair at Infopark, kochi, from July 26 to August 31, 2013.  Infopark CEO, Hrishikesh Nair, inaugurated the event at Infopark.   Infopark Techies will get an opportunity to grab favorite titles at an attractive price from the entire group of Penguin publishers.

TechnoparkToday.com>>  July 26: Startup Village is opening its doors to the public on Sunday (July 28) as part of its celebration of the entrepreneurial spirit that has helped the project become one of India’s best regarded business incubators in just 15 months of its inception. Weekend @ Startup Village is a two-day flagship event hosted by the country’s first telecom …

TechnoparkToday.com>> July 24, 2013:  Kerala with its rich human capital is a capable contender of the technological revolution, and right policies will help create an ecosystem that fosters innovation-led growth, Mr Sanjay Vijayakumar, Chairman of Startup Village, India’s first telecom technology incubator, has said. “Over the Internet, it is now possible for a student here to acquire world-class learning from …

TechnoparkToday.com>> July 24, 2013:  A group of 10 visually challenged students completed their 8-month course which was enabled by speech enabled software titled Job Access With Speech (JAWS) and were given official send off from Society for Rehabilitation of the Visually Challenged in Infopark. Well known Malayalam film director and screenwriter, Siddique, the leading television anchor cum model, Ranjini Haridas …

TechnoparkToday.com>> July 23: The Startup Village in Kochi can provide cash-strapped entrepreneurs an ecosystem to flourish if they have the intelligence and courage to pursue their goals, according to Sanjay Vijayakumar, chairman of the enterprise that is looking to create a ‘Silicon Coast’ in Kerala. The Startup Village is on course to achieve its five-year goal at the end of …

TechnoparkToday.com>> July 22, 2013:  Uttarakhand Relief Fund collected from Technopark employees, by Prathidhwani, will be handed over today.   The amount, Rs. Rs.70,052/-, will be handed over to Ganapathy, Branch Manager SBI, Trivandrum, in the presence of M Vasudevan, Sr. Manager Bdusiness Developement, Technopark.  Vinod B, Circle Inspector Of Police, Kazhakkuttom will be the chief guest of the function, which will …

TechnoparkToday.com>> July 22, 2013:  Microsoft, in association with super MUG and PMI Trivandrum Kerala chapter, is conducting two sessions for Project Managers, developers, and Testers on July 25, 2013 at Athulya Auditorium, Infopark, Cochi. Topics for Developers: 1. Building Modern Applications with Visual Studio 2012 2. .NET Framework 4.5 New Features Topics for Project Managers: 1. Testing Session-Visual Studio 2012 …

TechnoparkToday.com>> July 22, 2013:  Ever wondered about who can donate blood when you are in a medical emergency!!! Or who can receive blood from you in an emergency!!! Life Saver is an application that helps you keep connected with individuals in need of blood and who are willing to donate blood.  Application basically brings together those who seek for blood …

TechnoparkToday.com>> July 19, 2013: Satish Babu, the Director of International Centre for Free and Open Source Software (ICFOSS), has been declared elected to the 2014 Nominating Committee (NomCom) of Internet Corporation for Assigned Numbers and Names (ICANN). He has been the past national President of the Computer Society of India, and the past Chair, IEEE Kerala Section. ICANN is a …

TechnoparkToday.com>> Prathidhwani, a socio-techno- cultural organization, in association with Technopark, is organizing a relief fund collection for the victims of Uttarakhand disaster.  Techies can drop donations in the collection boxes kept at the entrance of each building on Friday, July 19, 2013.  The organizers will consolidate the contributions and will hand it over to Uttarakhand CM’s Relief Fund on July22, …

TechnoparkToday.com>>  July 17, 2013:  NASSCOM, the industry association of Indian IT and ITES sector is now setting up a Regional Council (RC) for Kerala.  NASSCOM finds Kerala as an emerging destination for IT and ITES industry in the country.  Kerala will be NASSCOM ‘s the 5th RC across the country. Chief Minister Oommen Chandy will launch the Kerala Regional Council …

TechnoparkToday.com>> July 11, 2013:    UST Global, Technopark-based information technology solutions and services company for Global 1000 enterprises, announced that CEO Sajan Pillai has been recognized by STEMConnector(R), the one-stop for STEM Information, as one of the ‘100 CEO Leaders in STEM’ for promoting education and innovation in technology. Pillai’s work and perspective on the need for a STEM (science, …