>>Athirup’s bicycle club (ABC), first cross city bicycle club in the state, is becoming popular.   ABC’s cycle racks in major places like Kowdiar, Vellayambalam, Vazhuthacaud, Museum, Sasthamangalam, Bakery Junction, Thampanoor, Pazhavangadi and Kesavadasapuram is the hot favourite of bicycle lovers in the city.  An average of five cycles will be seen at each of these spots. ABC has various …

“GIST”, a campaign organized by Vibezon Concepts from May 5, 2011 to June 5, 2011 is to draw public attention to the widespread prevalence of use of tobacco and to negative health effects, which leads to slow death. On June 5th, they are organizing an event in Trivandrum which includes an exhibition of posters, screening of the anti-tobacco ad films, …

K-MUG, The Kerala Microsoft Users Group is organizing ‘Tech-Ed on the road’ on May 14, 2011 at the Park Centre in Technopark. Participation in K-MUG is an excellent, inexpensive way to receive technical content, education and to meet with peers to get more out of the Microsoft platforms, products, technologies, and resources. For registration, follow these links: http://communitytechdays.com/ http://k-mug.org/content/ctd11.aspx

The Indian Green Building Council (IGBC) has pre-certified the Technopark Phase-III Building as GOLD under the LEED India rating System. This is for the first time that a facility of Technopark is being awarded a Green Building Certificate. The construction activities of this structure with a built up area of 10 Lakh Sq. Ft. is progressing very fast. This is …

Friday’s hartal was for a good cause – to ban Endosulfan, but end does not always justify means.  The rude behaviour of pro-hartal activists has taken the spirit out of the cause.  A group, in the name of hartal, has targeted Technopark on Friday.  In the morning, they blocked the Technopark convoy.  Though escorted by police, the employees had to …

Technopark based NeST, a provider of electronics hardware and software services, has become an associate member of GENIVI (www.genivi.org), an automobile industry association to streamline development and support of in-vehicle infotainment products and services. GENIVI’s mission is to drive broad adoption of an open source development platform by aligning automotive original equipment manufacture requirements and delivering specifications, reference implementations and …

Google, which fooled the world on April 1 by introducing Google Motion, has its own way of fooling itself. Organizers of BarCamp Kerala met with this hilarious incident recently.  BarCamp Kerala is an ad-hoc gathering rooted in the desire to share and learn in an open and friendly environment. One of its organizers created an advertisement for the event BarCamp …

Shangri-lla Art Gallery in the city is arranging a special treat for both artists and art lovers every weekend.  The ‘Weekend Art Mart’ being held at footpath near the Police Ground at Thycaud is witnessing a rush of artists and buyers. Started in March end by director of Shangri-lla, Sasikumar, the Weekend Art Mart attempts to make art a thing …

A bad news for boozers and good news for their spouses.  Beverages corporation outlets and Bars will remain closed for three days from now in view of the Assembly elections.  Boozers who anticipated the trouble might have made necessary arrangements in advance.  For others, enjoy some non-alcoholic times and be the king of good times.

Finally, The Dreams of thousands of Techies in Technopark became True. The Mega launch of the greatest platform for  the arts in Technopark happened yesterday evening, inaugurated by the youth icon Prithviraj. In the colorful occasion with Dances, Skits, Fashion Shows and enthralled audience, The launch of NATANA was the biggest event ever happened in the history of Technopark! The Attraction of the event …

The entire Technopark is in a festival mood.  Banners and posters are seen everywhere.  The ambience of Technopark is going to change with the launch of Natana, Technopark’s first fine arts club. All roads inside Technopark lead to the Amphitheatre.  All who believe in their talent will throng there at 7 p.m. today. Actor Prithviraj will flag off Natana today …

On the dusk of 7th of April, 2011 @ the Amphitheatre, Natana, the fine arts club of, for & by technoparkians will be flagged off by the well-liked star actor of south indian movie industry Prithviraj himself ! The inaugural ceremony will be followed by a breath taking variety show by the technopark community.  Drama, dance, stunt, fashion, music and …

Urumi is set in the backdrop of the fierce warrior clans of Northern Kerala in the sixteenth century and focuses on the cult of a hero Chirakkal Kelu Nayanar  (Prithviraj) – a man with an epic mission. His target and mission is Dom Vasco da Gama, the Viceroy of Portuguese Empire in India. The film is spread between the second and …

The results of the exclusive survey “Will You Vote” promoted by TechnoparkToday through Technopark-related discussion forums and e-mail forwards, is finally out.  The survey was intended to know the views of Technopark employees about the current politics and upcoming assembly election. Only 63 percent said they will vote this election. When 20 percent said they won’t vote this time, 17 …

Traffic congestion, parking problems, fuel price rise, global warming and health issues. Wish to do something on your part to solve these problems?  Then, here is a solution. City-based engineer M S Athirup is all set with a mission – a social network of bicycles. Join Athi’s Bicycle Club (abc), the State’s first cross-city bicycle club, and you can enjoy …

>> The call centre of the state Election Commission (EC) has been successfully functioning at the city’s IT hub Technopark much ahead of the declaration of elections.  Call 0471-3912344, all  your queries regarding the upcoming Assembly polls will be answered.   A toll-free number 1965 also started functioning from March 5. The call centre works every day from 8 am to 12 …

The world’s largest search engine Google, which has so far not tasted success in the social networking domain, plans to launch Google Circles, which is expected to give head on competition to sites such as Facebook. If reports are to be believed, Google will launch its new social networking site Google Circles by May 2011. The site, which has already …

>>Some new uniformed men taking charge at the gates of Technopark might have caught everybody’s attention and a few might have wondered where the “veterans” had disappeared and why. From Group 4 to Private eye. Does it make a sea change in our security system? The answer is a big No. Technopark and its premises should be well protected not …