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>>The e-Governance system in Kerala is set to receive a big boost after the coming of a second State Data Centre (SDC) at the Technopark. The SDC was inaugurated by P K Kunhalikutty, Minister for IT & Industries,  at a function held at the Technopark. “The new Data Centre will help in faster and more secure roll out of e-governance …

Applexus, a leading IT services and solutions organization based in Seattle, and offshore centre in Technopark, Trivandrum  has announced its services in SAP HANA platform which empower organizations to hasten best business decisions based on real-time data access. SAP HANA is an appliance that combines SAP in-memory technology with hardware, empowering organizations to gain instant insight into their business operations, …

Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) in association with Central Public Sector Enterprises has empanelled Technopark’s Technology Business Incubator (T-TBI)  as one of its Corporate Social Responsibility partner, to promote the initiative in Kerala. The empanelment will make the T-TBI eligible for projects under the CSR Hub and also with the CPSEs that have signed MoUs with the hub.  The …

The Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) have launched a new mobile website for train ticket reservations from Mobile Phone.   Passengers can now log on to http://www.irctc.co.in/mobile to book and cancel train tickets through mobile phone.   In addition to this, IRCTC and PayMate launch Search, Book, and Pay service for Indian Railway tickets on PayMate’s mobile payments …

Malayalam Wikipedia is gaining popularity all over the world. With as many as 5,755 new articles added in 2011 to it, the Malayalam “Wiki” now has a total of 21,873 articles. Also, last year alone saw the addition of 8,744 new members. Its popularity is the result of the concerted effort of the Wikimedians who introduced a number of activities …

TechnoparkToday.com >> This year seem to be brining some bad news to the Indian IT busienss as such. Many medium to large enterprises in IT/ITeS sector from Bangalore,Hyderabad, chennai and even from kerala are shifting their business to Philippines. It is reported that high costs of running business, availability of skilled labour and poor infrastructure are the reasons behind this …

TechnoparkToday.com >> P.N Govind, a software engineer working in Technopark won the national level music competition conducted by All India Radio (AIR). The preliminary competition were held at the station level, while the final competition at the national level. The competition included Vocal Music (classical, light music & folk music – Hindustani and Carnatic music); Instrumental music (classical, light music, …

>>Paris-based Capgemini, one of the leading management consulting, outsourcing, and professional services companies in the world, will soon have a software centre in Technopark Trivandrum. According to M. Vasudevan, senior business development manager at Technopark, the company has taken up space at the Leela Infopark campus. The office is expected to be ready in less than two months and would …

The Confederation of Indian Industry, Kerala, is organizing the third edition of India IT Summit on the 19th and 20th of January 2012 at Vivanta by Taj, Trivandrum. The annual India IT Summit is one of CII’s premium conferences on Information Technology and the foremost IT event held in Kerala.  The 2012 edition of the event will have over 20 …

>>Technopark-based Accentia Technologies launched their most technologically advanced, US Certified Electronic Medical Records (EMR) software, Instakare during the FCA Convention held at Orlando, Florida, USA. Accentia was one of the sponsors for the event and provided many promotional offers on the products and services for on-the-spot sign ups. This generated a lot of interest through which a large number of …

Confianz Information Technologies (CIT), a Technopark-based company specializing in IT services and solutions, has become MailGuard’s first Enterprise Channel Partner in India. MailGuard, Australia’s leading independent Cloud security provider, offers email and web based security solutions to businesses across 21 countries. The new partnership will significantly boost MailGuard’s presence in the Indian marketplace. “We are excited to have CIT coming …

TechnoparkToday.com >> Many of the retail store chains and other shops have stopped accepting the sodexho coupons, or informed their customers that they are going to stop accepting the sodexo coupons soon.Most of the companies are giving sodexho coupons to their employees as part of their compensation packages, and techies are really worried, since these coupons would be invalid as …

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 pack for RBI using its …

It seems that the Cyber Police in the State will not have to wait longer for an office of its own! The work on the Cyber Crime Police Station at Thycaud is progressing. It is expected to be completed within two to three months. At present, the Cyber Crime Police Station functions from a single room of the State Crime …

Jingo Joooz at Leela Food Court had conducted a Mega Lucky Draw as a new year gift to techies. Mr. Sreejith Jayathilak of RMESI won the draw and has become lucky to enjoy one Jingo product a day for this whole New Year Week.

TechnoparkToday.com team wishes all of our readers a happy & wonderful 2012!  

The recently-inaugurated Technopark Kollam is a SEZ. A company opening office here needs to register as a Unit with the Development Commissioner, Special Economic Zone, Kochi, via online registration. For booking SBC space at Technopark Kollam,  email your company details with  SBC Module  preference to [email protected]. For more details about SEZ, fiscal benefits,  SEZ unit  approval, online  registration, etc., please …

Trivandrum is getting ready to host the eventful new year eve 2012 parties, almost every places including the hotels, beach resorts, eating  joints, clubs & residential associations are hosting the new year parties,and among them the places of interest are: Vivanta By Taj : Grand Gala dinner with wine, DJ Party, Dancers from sreelanka, couple entry : Rs. 4340, single …