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KSEB is to launch a new SMS facility to report the complaints when the power failure occurs. A unique number will be finalized by the coming week and announced for the convenience of the customers. This project will be executed by the IT division of KSEB. the messages will be delivered to their monitoring server placed in trivandrum, when the complaint registered, a …

Testhouse, a leading London-headquartered software testing and QA service provider, is shifting its Indian facility to the Technopark campus, Trivandrum. The office of Testhouse in Technopark will be inaugurated by Mr Mike Nithavrianakis, Deputy High Commissioner at the British Deputy High Commission. The new facility will serve as the offshore arm for the global operations of Testhouse, which has operations …

A few things that we observed for so long to whom-so-ever concerned India houses it’s largest and Asia’s greenest IT park in GOD’s own country – Technopark. A very hectic world of over 30,000 working professionals; a campus having trendy cars, stylish bikes, latest gadgets; gives the impression to the public as “An arena of lush living people!” Changing governments are …

In what is definitely very good news for many, IT companies like TCS, Cognizant,ITC Infotech, and HCL have their doors open to non-engineers. Wipro, the first to hire non-engineers about five years ago, is also increasing its intake of non-engineers. Many companies have now started differentiating the job of a software engineer into several roles like testing, technical support, and even coding and programming …

Indian IT major Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has plans to hire as many as 20,000 people this quarter, according to its CEO, N Chandrasekharan. TCS also expects an improvement in its profit margins, as western clients look to increase spending on information technology to cut costs and boost efficiency. The company is chasing 12 large deals in the United States, …

“Oh! My Good God, let there not be a traffic block at least for the day”, prays every routine traveler who passes Sreekaryam road.  Prayers increase if he owns a vehicle.   Every heart will break for burning the fuel, which can be used to run kilometers, to cover a short distance in this hike.  The traffic -jam in the Ulloor-Sreekayam …

NATANA joining hands with Kerala Club (Detroit) and Mukesh Foundation to launch one of the biggest corporate social responsibility initiatives that Kerala has ever witnessed, the inauguration of Cancer Awareness Foundation, on July 20, 2011, at 7 p.m. @ Travancore hall, Parkcenter, Technopark.   The Kerala Club is a non-profit, non-political, and non-religious organization with a mission to practice and …

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 was launched in June and …

The GITEX Technology Week, held at the Dubai International Convention and Exhibition Centre (DICEC) every year, is considered the gateway to one of the world’s fastest emerging and investment-ready information and communication technology (ICT) markets–the Middle East. This year, the GITEX Technology Week will be held from October 9, 2011, to October 13, 2011. Kerala IT has invited applications from …

Chennai based software and media services company, AccelTransmatic, a part of Rs 500 crore Accel group, has opened its new software development centre in the L&T SEZ at Infopark, Kochi. The new development centre will augment its existing facility at The Technopark, Trivandrum. Creating the new facility is part of Accel’s initiative to expand foot print geographically; to attract talent …

“Facebook and Gmail keep a spying eye on you every time you log on, so that maximum personal data of the user can be extracted.  Despite the dissent and protest by several million users of FB and G mail, they are continuing with the information extraction as this info can be for attracting advertisers”, said Prof. Sree Sreenivasan,  digital media …

Oracle has been the center of innovation for business software—birthplace of the first commercially available relational database, the first suite of internet-based applications, and the next-generation enterprise-computing platform, Oracle Fusion. Today, Oracle provides the world’s most complete, open, and integrated business software and hardware systems, with more than 370,000 customers—including 100 of the Fortune 100—representing a variety of sizes and …

Technopark based GES Infotek celebrating its 6th year in technopark. GES Infotek is a subsidiary of Global Equipment Services (GES Inc.) a San Jose, US based company working in Design engineering, Contract manufacturing, Field service Engineering. The company formerly known as Wins Infotek Pvt Ltd was started in Technology Park, Trivandrum, India in the year 2005. The company has an …

Aptara Inc., the 4,600 person digital content solutions pioneer, headquartered in the US with primary operations in New Delhi, announces a significant expansion of its eLearning operations across India. Based in Pune since 2000, Aptara’s eLearning Center of Excellence designs and builds online training courses, modules, and portals for Fortune 500 companies worldwide. With plans to grow by fifty percent …

Karthick R of NIT, Kozhikode wins MobMe’s CodeJAM Contest Finals. Karthik Bags The Price Money of Rs. One Lakh Karthick R, final year student of Computer Science and Engineering from National Institute of Technology (NIT), Kozhikode won the finals of the MobME CodeJam Contest and bagged the prize money of Rs. one lakh. Sony Joy, Co-Founder of MobME gave away …

Kerala State IT Mission (KSITM) received this year’s ComputerWorld Honors Program Laureate awards for two of its projects in the award categories viz. Economic Opportunity and Health. The award recognizes men, women, organizations and institutions around the world whose visionary applications of information technology promote positive social, economic and educational change. The Awards are instituted by International Data Group (IDG), …

>>Ladies with mops to wash the car is a common sight in almost all the petrol bunks in Trivandrum city.  I had a traumatic experience at one of the pumps last week. When I reached the bunk, I asked the lady on duty to fill the petrol for Rs.300 and gave the amount. Meantime, another lady coming through the front …

According to Kaspersky Labs, a monstrous piece of malware called TDL-4, claimed 4.5 million computers in the first three months of 2011, and it’s still growing. TDL-4 infects computer and copies itself to another over the internet. This network of compromised computers is called a “botnet,” and cybercriminals end up gaining control of the infected computers. Experts say that this one is …