Software testing company Thinksoft Global Services, a software testing company, has won a Rs. 50 million project from the Reserve Bank of India for offering end-to-end user acceptance testing programme. As per the deal, Thinksoft would be responsible for full project management including test strategy, planning, and execution. It would also provide an automated test [...]
It will be yet another happiest moment for the IT enthusiasts and job aspirants in Kerala when the French IT Giant & the biggest IT company in Europe, “Capgemini” to start functioning from Technopark, Trivandrum. But the official announcement is yet to publish. It is understood unofficially that “Capgemini” will soon start functioning from Leela [...]
MobME Wireless, Innoz Technologies and Flytxt, all headquartered at the Technopark Trivandrum, feature in the Nasscom’s list of 50 top emerging IT companies in the country this calendar year. MobME Wireless and Flytxt have been chosen in the Emerge Innovation category and Innoz Technologies in the Emerge Start-ups category, said a Nasscom release.
“Until we came here, we didn’t know that no workday of Technopark was affected by hartal.” This statement was made by NASSCOM chairman Rajendra Pawar, he was speaking during media interaction after opening its regional office at Technopark. The fact that Technopark remains uninterrupted during hartal amused the NASSCOM executive members. They said that there [...]
Advanced Training on GNU/R Launched as First Event in 10th Anniversary Celebrations of FOSS in Kerala. Free and Open Source tools were eminently suited to stimulate employment in the IT Industry, said Mr. Satish Babu, Director, ICFOSS, Technopark, Trivandrum. He was inaugurating the two-day Advanced Training programme in GNU/R, jointly organized by ICFOSS and the [...]
Infosys has created an interactive social networking portal to keep the employees networked, called Infosys Bubble. The social networking platform is said to be on the lines of leading social network platform Facebook and will cater exclusively to Infosys employees to share her/his views, pictures, moods and blogs among Infosys employees. The social networking platform [...]
Indian IT giant Wipro has announced a salary hike of 12-15 percent for its Indian employees and 2-4 percent for its overseas employees, effective from June 1. The announcement regarding pay hikes came by as Wipro reported a 14 percent year-on-year rise in net profit for the January-March quarter in line with the market trends. [...]
Technopark based RM Education Solutions India Pvt. Ltd. (RMESI), a fully owned subsidiary of RM plc UK, has achieved the coveted BS 25999 certification. The certificate was awarded under UKAS accreditation following a rigorous audit by the British Standards Institution (BSI). Speaking on the occasion, Mr Connell Viegas, CEO of RMESI, said: “RMESI has always [...]
Infosys, India’s number 2 IT services company has announced its plans to recruit 45,000 people in this financial year. The company has made 26,000 offers at campus for financial year 2012. The company, with a total workforce of 130,820 people, has added 8,930 employees (gross) in the quarter. The company has also managed to bring [...]
Soon after the announcement of its HR Director Mohandas Pai’s decision to resign from the company and its Board of Directors, Infosys has inducted former Microsoft India chairman Ravi Venkatesan into its board of directors as an additional director of the company. Prior to joining Microsoft, Venkatesan worked for over 17 years with Cummins. The announcements [...]
The world’s leading IT systems provider to the global air transportation industry, Technopark Trivandrum-based IBS Software, has received the prestigious “STAT TIMES International Awards for Excellence in Air Cargo” at the recently concluded Air Cargo Africa 2011 event in Nairobi, Kenya. Based on a global on-line poll, IBS was adjudged as the runner up in [...]
A breakthrough in the deadlock over the Smart City Kochi project is likely on Wednesday with the Governments of Kerala and Dubai having a one to one discussion. A delegation led by member of Supreme Committee for Dubai World Group and Dubai Holding Group Ahmed Humaid Al Tayer will be holding a meeting with Chief [...]
DIFC Governor will meet Kerala officials on February 2Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) Governor Ahmad Humaid Al Tayer is visiting Kerala in a last attempt to salvage the Smart City Kochi project. In a meeting held with UAE-based Indian businessman M A Yusuf Ali on Sunday evening, Al Tayer is said to have discussed the [...]
In a last-ditch bid to end stalemate over the SmartCity IT project in Kochi, a senior representative of the Dubai government is expected to visit Kerala shortly to iron out differences between the state government and Dubai-based Tecom, the partner for the venture. Confirming the reports in this regard, Chief Minister V S Achuthanandan told [...]
The State government will hold direct consultations with the Dubai Supreme Fiscal Committee (DSFC) in a final attempt to find a solution to the stalemate over the proposed SmartCity Kochi project. The move is considered a clear indication on the part of the government that it wants to take up the issue at the level [...]
A decision on the future of the SmartCity project will be taken within two days, S.Sharma, Minister for Fisheries said on Tuesday. A discussion was held in Dubai on Monday regarding the project he said. The minister said that the government is hopeful towards the implementation of the project. Sharma said that the LDF government [...]
The Kerala High Court on Monday admitted a public interest litigation contending that no area other than Cochin Corporation, and those included in Kochi taluk, should be called Cochin. The petitioner submitted that the names Kochi and Cochin confuse those coming from outside the state. For flight ticket bookings, the name of Kochi is shown [...]
Inaugurating the first phase of Cherthala Infopark, Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan said that the State had recorded the fastest growth in the IT sector in the country over the last four and a half years, with the number of IT parks growing to ten from two, and the software exports from Kerala rocketing to Rs.3,200 [...]
