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The Australian and New Zealand units of Indian IT giant Infosys have acquired the software solutions business of New Zealand’s Gen-i for an undisclosed sum.   In a statement, Infosys said that it will take over 110 employees and contractors from Gen-i, which would raise its New Zealand staff strength to up to 150 people. It also plans to add 15-30 …

Rail passengers can contact the helpline of the Railway Protection Force (RPF) and the Government Railway Police (GRP), which is manned round the clock, if they face any problem related to safety or security of their belongings while travelling on trains. In the Thiruvananthapuram division, the RPF Help Line number is 9995040000. The number of the Help Line in the …

As part of the launch of its e-learning (online learning) portal, Keltron will offer free basic computer training.   To register, visit Keltron’s e-learning website www.kelearn.com. Registration for the programme is open till June 10. Free training is offered only for the first 100 registrants. The training will be delivered online.   Keltron also offers professional diploma in advanced medical transcription …

ThinkPalm Technologies Pvt. Ltd., a product engineering and software services company, is the latest in the list of companies that have joined Infopark Kochi, attracted by the state-of-the-art facilities offered by the park. The company has set up shop in Infopark Kochi’s Athulya building. It began its operations from the park on May 1, 2011, in 6500 sq.ft. of rented …

Gavin Young, Consul-General and Trade Commissioner of New Zealand  visited Technopark Trivandrum on Wednesday, June 1, 2011, accompanied by V. Shreedhar, Senior Business Development Manager, New Zealand Trade and Enterprise, and Pradip Madhavji, India Beach Heads Advisory Board Member, New Zealand Trade and Enterprise. The Senior Business Development Manager of Technopark Trivandrum, M. Vasudevan, received the delegation.  He also gave …

Japan-based Ylem Infotech Pvt. Ltd.,  a Technopark-TBI incubated company, commenced its India operations from Technopark. Ylem is a business startup with web/software services forFlash animations, gaming and mobile applications. The agreement to this effect was signed by Technopark CEO Mervin Alexander and Ylem Directors Ryo Haishima and Horoyuko Chihara. Ylem Infotech has established partnership contract with Fujiyama INC and SYNCA …

Capgemini has announced its plans to hire up to 8,000 people this year for its delivery operations in India. Its hiring plans are very much in line with its publicly-stated vision of having the Indian workforce account for 50 per cent of its overall employee base in the next 2-3 years.   As of March 31, 2011, the €8.7-billion French …

It is notified that, There are some Shops near technopark where the bill amount for individual items will be increased by certain percentage ( say 3.5% ) if the customers are giving Sodexo Meal Pass. When enquired with Sodexo , they informed that we need not pay anything extra on any food item at any of Sodexo affiliated outlets. They …

  >>Trivandrum:  A Road Show is being organized under the auspicious of ‘GIST’ tomorrow (May 31st) to conscientize people about the haphazards of tobacco production and consumption with observing World No Tobacco Day. Popular cine artist Suresh Gopi will flag off the show at 9.30 a.m. in the railway station.  It follows a march, symbolizing the complete uproot of tobacco …

Technopark-Technology Business Incubator (TBI), an initiative to help technology business startups, has won recognition from World Bank and Government of Finland.  Technopark-TBI’s Chief Finance Officer and Secretary and Registrar K C Chandrashekharan Nair has been invited to participate and present a paper on the successful model of business incubation of Technopark at the 4th Global Forum on Innovation and Technology …

Technopark-based IT firm, MobME Wireless Solutions, conducting an online contest ‘CodeJAM’ to find the smartest student hackers. The contest is open to all students across India in their final year of graduation.  Candidates can code in C/PHP/Python/Ruby/Clojure.  Three winners will be identified each contest day.  The best submission among these will win Rs 1,000 and there will be a grand …

For all those who believe that India is becoming an increasingly dangerous place to live in, here are the numbers that back that belief. India’s rank has fallen seven points on the Global Peace Index (GPI) 2011, which ranks countries according to how peaceful they are. India now ranks 135 out of 153 countries. We are now amongst the 20 …

Most of the IT outsourcing customers, especially in Banking and financial service sectors are very much concerned about the involvement of the Fresh graduates in their projects. They are really afraid that, the increasing proportion of fresh graduates to experienced staff may affect quality in what they term as “critical back-office functions”. Most of the high profile outsourcing companies demanding …

The Chief Minister Oommen Chandy after a high level meeting with meeting with senior police officers declared a reward of rupees 5000 for a picture which can help the police to solve a crime. This innovative scheme is for improving the participation of public for helping police to control the hiking crime rates. With this declaration anyone who have a …

In his article titled “Goodbye, folks. March on with values…,” in the firm’s 2010-11 annual report, Infosys Chief Mentor N R Narayana Murthy says that the company has given away Rs 50,000 crore (at current stock prices) of stock options to its employees since inception. Murthy says that he is not aware of another Indian company that has given away …

As the Indian Cricket fans are enjoying the feast of IPL, the employees of Accentia Technologies Ltd had a fun-filled month, who took some time off from their busy schedule and conducted the APL (Accentian Premier League) Season IV, which began on April 23, 2011. APL is a limited-over cricket tournament played annually by the teams within the company at …

>>Some more hours of summer remain to be dusked for the schools to get reopened.  The children now enjoying everything under the sun will be back to business.  When we look around, we see the usual busy preparations going in full swing to convert back those little devils to be obedient students again. The shops in the city are filled …

NeST, a technopark-based company, has bagged the ‘Best Paper Award’ at the STEP Auto International Conference on Software Testing held in Bangalore recently. The company won the award for a paper on ‘Test Optimization Using Adaptive Random Testing Techniques’ authored by Balamurali, Prem Sagar, Arun Kumar V, and Indumol K.S. STEP AUTO Conferences are events where test-leadership, management, and testing strategies …