The new Crickees.com website has been unveiled. The look and feel of the website has changed according to the new web 2.0 methodologies and Crickees now focusses on hosting cricket tournaments online.
Crickees’ Cricket Tournament Hosting Solution helps users to host cricket tournaments online within no time with its user-friendly platform and easily manageable interface. It provides a video tutorial and ample documentation to help users host and manage cricket tournaments online.

In addition to managing teams, players, matches and scorecard, Crickees offers features like live update, automated statistics, team standings, cricket talk, …

Today, German Ambassador to India, Mr. Thomas Matussek is visiting Technopark. Even though a hartal has been called by Bharatiya Mazdoor Sanghom (BMS), It has not affected the functioning of Technopark in any way.

Cre8tivebug started the social campaign(http://christmas.cre8tivebug.com/) at Christmas time with the message to spread peace and good will last year after the 26/11 attack.They received a very good response on our previous promotion and that encouraged them to move ahead every year with some noble cause at Christmas time.
This time They are helping Asraya, a volunteer organization based at Regional Cancer Center , Trivandrum. Asraya is a registered organization of service minded ladies, mainly housewives and retired career women, motivated by concern, sympathy and love for the poor and suffering. Cre8tivebug …

Trivandrum has historically been the biggest city in Kerala and is also the largest Municipal Corporation, both in terms of population and area. And it has just gotten even bigger.
The Kerala Cabinet has decided to add five Panchayaths to the Corporation - Kazhakkoottam, Sreekariyam, Vizhinjam, Kudapanakkunnu and Vattiyoorkkavu. With this, the number of wards in the Trivandrum Corporation is likely to increased to over 110 from the present 86 and the urban body will sprawl over 200 Sq.km., forming the core of the Trivandrum Metropolitan Area.
Current estimates for the population …

UST Global® (UST), a leading provider of end-to-end IT and BPO services and solutions for the Global 1000 market, based on Technopark In India, announced that they will expand the company’s Manila, Philippines workforce by hiring 1,000 new recruits.  Over the next few years, UST expects to bring the total head count at this IT services and BPO center to over 5,000.  This announcement reflects the growing demand for the company’s outsourcing services and strengthens the Philippines’ presence as UST’s second largest location outside the United States, following India.
“UST is …

The Confederation of Indian Industry is organising an International event on the IT industry at Trivandrum - India IT Summit 2009. The two day event will be organised at the luxurious Leela Kempinski, Trivandrum on December 10 and 11, 2009.
The India IT Summit will bring the top leadership of the IT and IT infrastructure industries and the Central and State Governments to Trivandrum - Kerala’s IT hub and will be an opportunity to showcase the city as India’s 8th biggest IT/ITES destination and includes a visit to Technopark.
With major projects …

In an effort to create awareness among techies on security matters, a one-day programme on security and related issues was organized at the Tecnopark on Monday.
Chief Security Officer of Kochi Refineries T.V. Sasikumar spoke at the programme which was attended by Chief Executive Officers and other senior officials of various companies.
Technopark CEO Mervin Alexander, who also attended the programme, said that a security committee would be formed at the Technopark to sort out various concerns on the campus relating to security and other issues

The Big-B, Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan is all set to save the world, albeit in a digital avatar.
The ‘Shehenshah of Bollywood’ is lending his voice for the feature length animated film, ‘Twinergy’, which is being directed by acclaimed filmmaker Priyadarshan.
The film based on the universal theme of good and evil is filmmaker Priyadarshan’s first animation project and will see Big B playing the lead as well as lending his famous baritone to his character.
A B Corporation has entered into a tie-up with media entertainment major Toonz India to produce the …

Here is a good news for all IT folks! India to top Asia Salary growth in year 2010.
Companies in Asia are set to offer bigger pay rises next year as the region continues to rebound from global recession, notably in India where base salary levels are poised to jump nearly 10 percent, a survey showed on Wednesday.
Salaries in Indonesia and China will also surge, by 8.7 percent and 6.7 percent respectively, whereas workers in Japan can expect a paltry 2.1 percent pay rise, according to the survey by Hewitt Associates. …

Kerala has confirmed its participation in GITEX Technology Week 2009. The state will showcase the IT parks in the state, including the just launched Infopark-Koratty, and various other investment opportunities in the IT sector across Kerala.
Kerala IT, the unified brand developed to promote business opportunities in the field of information technology in the state, will be represented by a senior level delegation. The delegation is being led by Dr. Ajay Kumar, Secretary – Information Technology, Government of Kerala, and will include Dr. Ratan Kelkar, Director – Kerala IT Mission, and …

Nearly 200,000 jobs in information technology sector would be created in the next two years. This is said by Kerala Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan Saturday inaugurated the third IT park in the state - Phase 1 of Infopark Koratty. He also said a Cyber Park at Kozhikode, similar to the IT parks already functioning, would be opened soon.
There are nearly 200 IT companies which employ more than 30,000 professionals at the Technopark in Thiruvananthapuram and Infopark campus in Kochi.
The Phase 1 of the state-of-the-art Infopark Koratty is about 40,000 sq …

TCS Wiz Quiz, India’s largest tech quiz for school students, being organised by Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), will be here on October 10 2009.
The event would be conducted at IMA House, near Jawaharlal Nehru International at Kaloor in which students from Class 8-12 can participate, TCS said in a press release here.
Last year, over 1000 students participated in the quiz here. Each institution can send eight teams (two members per team) through the respective insitutions before Oct 5 to the TCS IT Wiz Quiz coordinator, Tata Consultancy Services, Tejomaya, Infopark.
The …

The Snakes and Ladders game, developed by Technopark-based Travancore Analytics, which is into the development of software in the areas of Imaging Technology and Image Processing, has turned out to be one among the most favorite free-downloads at App Store.
According to a company official, the game has managed as many as 2,50,000 downloads in the past week alone, which is the highest for an iPhone application developed by any Indian software company. More than 70 per cent of the download have been from Canada, the UK and the US.
The free …

Watch out really rare picture… Harley Davidson in Kerala..

Infopark Kochi, an IT park promoted by the Kerala government, Tuesday said its exports almost doubled last fiscal to touch Rs.600 crore ($124.5 million).
It said in a statement that the companies based in the Infopark campus have hired 2,500 IT professionals in 2007-08, taking their total head count to 9,000.
Infopark houses 51 IT companies.
Kerala’s total IT exports last year stood at Rs.4,000 crore.
“What the work environment in Kerala offers is a growth opportunity for both employers and employees,” Kerala’s IT Secretary Ajay Kumar said.
Infopark’s achievement comes at a time when …

Health care Receivables Cycle Management (HRCM) major Accentia Technologies Ltd has recommended a final dividend of 20 per cent on the face value of its Rs 10 shares for the financial year 2008-2009.
An Accentia spokesperson said this is despite the fact that owing to the current global recession, BPO and KPO companies are facing challenges leading to extreme measures including large scale pink slips and other cost cutting steps.
Pradeep Viswambharan, CEO of Accentia Technologies, added that the recession in the US economy, on which we too depend for our major …

IT sector is likely to be the worst hit in the global economic downturn which has also stifled the expansion of the IT sector, the state government has deferred the payment of 50 percent of the current year’s rent of firms operating in Government-owned IT parks to 2010-2011.
The government has issued an order regarding this on May 30 and directed the Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) of Technopark, Trivandrum and Infopark, Kochi to take necessary steps in connection with it. There are 159 companies working on rented space in Technopark while …

Technopark-based RM Education Solutions India (RM ESI), the offshore development centre of RM plc, UK has been concorded the ISO 20000-1:2005 certification.
An RM ESI official said that RM ESI, had undergone an audit conducted by Intertek, an international certification organisation providing professional management systems certification services, on behalf of RvA of the Netherlands, the accreditation body
RM Education Solutions India Pvt Ltd (RM ESI) had come into being at the Trivandrum Technopark in February 2003. RM ESI supports RM plc UK, in providing software solutions through a wide range of futuristic …