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>>It is a fact that Kazhakottam-Kariavattom stretch is becoming a dumping yard.  Household waste, food waste from hotels, and plastic wastes are being dumped there.  Residents of the area do believe major chunk of wastes are dumped by techies.   Recently a major news daily too put the onus on the techies for the menace.  Though the areas display board warning …

TechoparkToday.com>>Any eatery we go, we see pyramids of Parotta being made and sold, and we consume those without understanding  their devastating side effects on our health. It is prepared with Maida and Oil/Ghee by beating the mixture into thin layers and later forming round bread with the thin layers.  The villain here is Maida.  Maida or in English known as …

Partnership leverages Zebra’s real-time location solution to improve speed and accuracy of mustering or evacuation events Sep 15, 2011 – Zebra Technologies Corporation ZBRA -1.71% , a recognized global leader in solutions that extend visibility into operations and give a digital voice to physical assets, and IBS, a leading global provider of new generation IT solutions, today announced a partnership …

A good news for those whose who aspire to learn martial arts in capital city. So far our options were limited to Karate and Kung-fu. But now, for the first time, another spectacular martial art form – Taichi is coming to Trivandrum. Taichi classess in trivandrum is conducted at Parottukonam by Mr K M Iqbal – A Taichi expert and …

The Archives Department is planning to create a  Signature Museum at Trivandrum.  The Archives Department has an excellent collection of signatures in its archive and is busy collecting signatures of living personalities.  The Museum of Signatures will be up  in an year’s time.  The location of the museum will be inside Vyloppilli Samskriti Bhavan. The State Government agreed to the …

Technopark Trivandrum played host to Marijke A Van Drunnen Littel—the Consul General of the Kingdom of Netherlands at Mumbai. Mervin Alexander, the Chief Executive Officer of Technopark and M. Vasudevan, Senior Business Development Manager made a presentation to the Consul General and her team explaining the profile of IT firms in the park and the future plans for Kerala IT. …

>>Hyderabad:  The number of techies being caught for using fake experience certificate for placements are on a rise in IT hubs such as Hyderabad and Banglore.  Some major IT firms have filed complaints after finding that the experience certificates submitted by some of their employees were fake.   Cases of using fake experience certificates were reported in the past, but …

The leading textile retailer Pothys silks is coming to Trivandrum. “POTHYS” opening their in Trivandrum showroom within next couple of weeks .This is their first ever showroom outside Tamilnadu.Pothys is known as the ultimate destination for silks and silk sarees, perfect for weddings and other festive occasions. Pothys had its own brand in silk – Samudrika, Parampara and Vastrakala. They give  the …

TechnoparkToday wishes all of our readers a Happy Onam. Happy Holidays.   Links: All About Onam Onasadya  

Spreading the spirit of unity and tradition, Accentia Technologies celebrated Onam at Al Saj auditorium on Monday.  The function was made colorful with the presence of icons associated with Onam such as Maveli, chendamelam, pulikali, thiruvatira etc. Employees, who served the company for more than ten years, were felicitated at the function. Director C. K. Suraj distributed mementos to the …

>>Following the success of the first Dev2Dev Workshop on Hadoop, Flytxt, the Technopark based technology leader in mobile marketing and advertising, has announced the second edition of the Developer to Developer Big Data Workshop on ‘Harnessing Hadoop for Big Data’ on September 13, 2011 at the Park Centre in Technopark, Trivandrum from 9.30 am to 1 pm. The first of …

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Now people from anywhere from the world can lodge their complaints directly to the Chief Minister of Kerala. The 24 hour Public Grievance Redressal Cell call centre was inaugurated by the CM at his office today in the presence of his ministerial colleagues, Members of Legislative Assembly and senior officials as part of the 100 day programme. CM said that …

UST Global is conducting GOAL 2011 – Technopark’s premier football tournament from September 18 to October 15, 2011 at LNCPE Grounds, Kariyavattom. This year, the Technopark football community can look forward to more action, as the football stars of Technopark give it their best. Here are the essential details of Technopark’s biggest football event: Registration As the number of teams …

August-29-2011: A high-level meeting of the Dubai Government Project Monitoring Committee that took place on August 21, 2011, has decided to begin the work on SmartCity on September 29, 2011. At the meeting, the Committee also allocated sufficient funds for the first year’s construction work. The work on a ‘SmartCity Pavilion’ would begin on September 29 while the construction of …

Thovalai, the village situated 12 km from Nagercoil  on the way to Tirunelveli, is one of the largest flower markets of South India.   A large variety of flowers of all colors and types are cultivated and marketed here. Windmill farms for power generation add beauty to the floral plantations. The flower market usually begins at 9 a..m in the …

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 Department of Statistics, University of …

Technopark Against Corruption – Technopark chapter of The India Against Corruption conducted a very unique silent Hundreds of techies joined voluntarily in the rally today, and it was one of the biggest rally conducted in technopark so far for a social cause. The rally started by 12.30 PM from Technopark Park center,and ended in front of the Technopark main gate. Techies came with the slogans …