Tag Archives: Infopark

Good news for the hungry Technoparkian – a new hotel has come up in Kinfra Media Park, around 3 km from Technopark, Trivandrum. The Bypass , a member of the Travancore Heritage group, has started its operations recently. The food is marginally more expensive than Tejaswini Food Court, but the ambience and taste should hopefully make it more than worthwhile. …

We have all read endless stories about people who have found love or heartbreak while looking for a relationship on the Internet. Numerous websites have been dedicated to finding that perfect match online. From chat rooms to social networking sites and dating sites – the Internet has changed the way we live and love. But the question is: how real …

External Affairs Minister Shashi Tharoor urged the IT industry to make dedicated efforts to increase domestic usage of IT for better governance and acceptance of IT. Other speakers at the IT summit held recently at Trivandrum were unanimous in their opinion, that India could achieve long-term sustainability in the IT industry only if it changed its cost and labor arbitrage …

UST Global , one of the biggest employers among software development companies in Kerala, has been accorded the Co-Developer status for setting up its own Private IT campus near Technopark Trivandrum.  The approval is given by the Board of Approval of the Ministry of Commerce. By becoming the co-developer of Technopark, UST Global would be eligible to claim all the …

Technopark based satmetrix is looking for experienced Linux system administrators. Job Description: • Daily monitoring and maintenance of servers • Perform back up, file replications and script management for servers • Test and apply new software and maintenance patches, including patch management services • Complete security audits on a routine basis • Administrative scripting with Perl and Shell • Perform …

The two-day India IT Summit jointly organised by the Confederation for Indian Industry and IT Kerala at The Leela Kempinski, Kovalam concluded on Friday. A glittering array of techno-CXOs, politicians, thought leaders, and trade associations participated in the event  which received praise on its first outing. In a keynote address delivered by Union Minister of State for External Affairs, Dr. …

Trivandrum will host the Indian Science Congress in 2010. This is the first time the city hosts the Science congress and the second time in the history of Kerala. The venue for the 97th Indian Science Congress, to be held from January 3 to 7, 2010 would be the Kariavattom campus of the University of Kerala. Indian Space Research Organisation …

A Special Economic Zone (SEZ) is a geographical region that has economic laws that are more liberal than a country’s typical economic laws. The category ‘SEZ’ covers a broad range of more specific zone types, including Free Trade Zones (FTZ), Export Processing Zones (EPZ), Free Zones (FZ), Industrial Estates (IE), Free Ports, Urban Enterprise Zones and others. Usually the goal …

The first Kerala State e-Governance Awards 2009 announced.Trissur Collectorate won the best award for Online Service and e-filling while Palakkad Collectorate won the award under the Digital File Flow category. The m-governance award went to Kozhikode Collectorate and the Best Website winner award went to Kerala Tourism. The Service and Payroll Administrative Repository for Kerala (SPARK) implementation award was given …

Kerala Chief Minister V.S Achuthanandan will present the Kerala State e-Governance awards for the year 2008 on December 8, 2009. Twelve government departments and institutions have been shortlisted for the awards for the best e-governance initiative in various categories. The 12 finalists were shortlisted by an award committee comprising the former Chief Secretary Mr. V Ramachandran IAS; Mr. Upendra Verma …

The new power tariff will in all probability come into effect in the State only by December this year. The Kerala State Electricity Regulatory Commission has completed the formalities needed for revising the tariff, including the conduct of three separate public hearings in Trivandrum, Kochi and Kozhikode. The Kerala State Electricity Board (KSEB) had submitted the clarifications sought by the …

Chief minister VS Achuthanandan will inaugurate Koratty Infopark, the first spoke model under Kochi Infopark, on October 10, Thirteen companies have been allotted space (40,000 sft) at the park under Phase I, which was launched in January this year. These companies would employ about 500 professionals and include Bluelabs Technology Solutions, Braddock Infotech, Cent Technologies, Infoprism Solutions, Advaya Infotech, Scienetic …

A vision document prepared by the Kerala government for the IT sector has envisaged a direct investment of Rs 2,000 crores in next few years and generation of about two lakh jobs in the state. A major initiative would be in e-goverance and an amount of Rs 2000 crores would be set apart for the same in next few years, …

Even as software giants like Infosys are not too sure when the US economy would start recovering, the tiny southern State of Kerala is exuding confidence that things have already started looking up and in three to five years, and the sector would be back on gravy train “This time last year, situation was very gloomy. But now, it is …

This is where you find the roots of IT in Kerala. Nestled away from the hustle and bustle of the state capital, Thiruvananthapuram’s Technopark boasts to be the only tech park in the country with maximum green cover  surrounding the 177 odd companies spread across the various buildings in the campus. Technopark claims to have many unique propositions for investors, …

It seems the  much hyped Smart City project is moving towards uncertainty. But IT companies are not bothered about its future and are busy designing and implementing new projects.Beating the recession wave 11 companies have set their foot in Infopark, Kochi, last year. It is a great achievement especially in this tough economic conditions. According to Mr.Kurien, senior technical advisor, …

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 …

Technopark-Trivandrum and Infopark-Kochi have approved annual expansion plans envisaging budgets of Rs 650 crore and Rs 250 crore respectively for 2009-10. This was decided at general body meetings of the State’s two principal technology parks, the Chief Minister, Mr V. S. Achuthanandan.Briefing newspersons on the decisions taken at the meetings, he said the Technopark would immediately start construction activities that …