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A high level delegation from the Department of Information Technology and Communication, Government of Nagaland, visited Technopark Trivandrum on June 15-16, 2011, with the objectives of replicating the “Kerala Model” of IT development by establishing IT Parks in Nagaland and exploring possible ways of association with Technopark and the T-TBI. This North-Eastern state has plans to establish a Technology Business …

Oracle – One of the IT Giants in the world, has started operations at Technopark. Oracle has leased 40,000 sq.ft of space at Leela Infopark inside the Technpark campus, the operations began from a temporary office. At this time, 50 engineers recruited through campus interviews have joined the office for training. Oracle, which currently employs about 28,000 IT professionals in …

State Horticulture Mission-Kerala and the Mango Growers’ Association are jointly organizing a national mango festival on the Kanakakkunnu grounds from June 16 to 26. It will bring together mango varieties from across the country . Several varieties of mangoes, such as Neelam, Varikka, Kalapady, Sindooram, and Chandrakaran, and those grown in other parts of the country, such as Jahangir, Daseri, …

Kingfisher Airlines has announced the start of a new service from Trivandrum to Mumbai. The service will be available on Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday. The flight from Mumbai will leave at 12:15 PM and arrive in Trivandrum at 2:15PM. The return journey will start at 2:45 PM and reach Mumbai at 4:45 PM. The full press release is available here.

The arts club of Technopark – Natana proudly presents the KalyanaSougandhikam Kathakali At Technopark amphitheater. KalyanaSougandhikam Kathakali is a classical Indian dance-drama which tells the story of the Bheema (Bhima) – one of the Pandava brothers in Mahabharatha – going in search of the Kalyanasougandhikam flower in the forest for his wife Panchali. The story also portrait the scene of …

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 …