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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

Indian IT giant Wipro has announced a salary hike of 12-15 percent for its Indian employees and 2-4 percent for its overseas employees, effective from June 1. The announcement regarding pay hikes came by as Wipro reported a 14 percent year-on-year rise in net profit for the January-March quarter in line with the market trends. The company reported a net …

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 …

A study by global consulting and research firm Everest Group, titled “Role of Global Sourcing in Financial Services,” says that India will play a key role in global Business Process Outsourcing in the financial services sector, which has the potential to reach a market size of $250 billion. The financial services BPO (FS BPO) sector, is a $16-18 billion market …

Humais Al Tayer, Member of Supreme Committee for Dubai World Group and Dubai Holding Group, has informed Kerala Chief Minister V S Achuthanandan that the planning, recruitment, and tendering process for various works related to the Smart City Kochi project are progressing, and that it would only be a matter of weeks before the resources are mobilised toward the work …

Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden killed in a commando operation by US force in Pakistan. US officials said the operation that killed bin Laden lasted less than 40 minutes and also left three other men and a woman dead, including a son of the Al Qaeda chief. Two of the men worked as couriers for bin Laden and the …

In a major top-level management restructuring, India’s large software firm Infosys named veteran banker K V Kamath as the new chairman to succeed founder N R Narayana Murthy , who retires in August. Infosys Technologies has also appointed current CEO S Gopalakrishnan as the Executive co-Chairman and promoted COO S D Shibulal as CEO and MD.   Murthy, who turns …

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 …

Taking its campaign for a countrywide ban on endosulfan a step further, the ruling LDF in Kerala today called for a hartal on Friday, April 28. The state committee of LDF announced the plan for hartal on April 29 to coincide with the concluding day of the International Convention on Persistent Organic pollutants being held in Geneva. Technopark and other …

Indian telecom giant BSNL is all set to introduce a facility to make bill payments through ATMs of all banks in Thiruvananthapuram on a pilot basis. Customers will be able to pay bills of all BSNL services, including post-paid mobile phone, land phone, and broadband internet service, through the proposed ATM-payment system. It will be the first such facility of BSNL …

endosulfan – a dangerous insecticide, causing a major public health disaster in some parts of Kerala and Karnataka for the last 30 years. It is a 50 year old organochlorine pesticide used to control insects on food and non-food crops. Endosulfan is a highly toxic and relatively cheaper pesticide used currently in India, China, Brazil and a few other developing …

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 …

Trivandrum-based Malayalam film star Prithviraj married Supriya Menon in a very low – key ceremony in Palakkad Yesterday. The ceremony was attended by close relatives and friends. A reception for the film fraternity and friends is being organised at a leading hotel in Cochin on May 1. Supriya works for a leading news broadcaster based out of Mumbai.Supriya and Prithviraj …

One of the Seven Wonders of the World, the Taj Mahal, located in Agra, India, is the epitome of the Mughal architecture which involves Islamic, Persian and Indian art styles. Today, it is a world’s heritage site under UNESCO. It was built in the 1600s by the then Emperor Shah Jahan (a Mughal) for his third wife by the name …

Indian IT companies will give 12-14% wage hike this year. Tata Consultancy Services will give wage hikes of 12-14 per cent to its India-based staff this year, according to the company sources.Salary hikes for employees in its major offshore markets – the US, the UK and Europe – would be in the range of 2-4 per cent. In emerging markets …

The Hi-Tech Cell of Kerala Police has served notices on eight online piracy sites that offer new Malayalam films, and inquiry is on to find out the IP addresses of the culprits.  While most of these sites have removed the links of new films such as “Urumi,” “Christian Brothers,” and “August 15,” these films are still available on Torrentz.  Most …

Technopark-based Artin Dynamics has emerged winner in the InfoDev Top 50 Innovative SMEs. InfoDev is a technology and innovation-led development finance programme of the World Bank and Internati onal Financial Corporation. It supports SMEs active in the three priority areas of mobile and Information and Communication Technologies, agribusiness, climate technologies and agribusiness. Artin Dynamics has been invited to participate in …

The media is awash with allegations that discredit civil society Committee members of the Jan Lokpal Bill. The sources are spurious and the accusations are being fueled by the same Ministers who have most to lose if a strong Jan Lokpal Bill is passed. Corrupt politicians will do anything to stop this unique chance to tackle corruption Days ago millions across …