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Kerala govt for citizen-oriented IT policy. The Kerala government is making earnest efforts to realise the SmartCity project in Kochi, promoted as a joint venture with the Dubai-based Tecom, said Fisheries Minister S Sarma here today. Talking to mediapersons on the sidelines of India ICT Summit-2010, Sarma, who is also the chairman of SmartCity, said the government welcomed mediatory role …

The much awaited Technopark Cricket Tournament’s 2010 edition will start on December 18, 2010, at the Technopark Cricket Ground. The continuous rain has forced the organizers to postpone the tournament from November to December. The official fixture is published in Technopark’s website. Matches will be of 8 overs duration. First round will be played in the league format and the …

Technopark based DIVX Medical Equipments and Software Technologies (P) LTD, is conducting an exclusive New Year mega event – Technofest 2011 at Technopark campus (Open Air Theater) on December 31st. Fashion parade, Musical Nite of famous playback singers, rocking dances, and Western Music live band will highlight the function. According to their website, One of the famous malayalam television channel …

PMI Trivandrum, Kerala Chapter invites you to attend the Inauguration of the online collabiration platform and the academia Initiative on 17 Dec 2010 at 5:00 PM. The venue is Malabar Hall, Technopark, Park Center, Technopark, Trivandrum. Agenda 04:30 PM – 05:00 PM Registration 05:00 PM – 05:15 PM Welcome address 05:15 PM – 05:30 PM Online Collaboration Platform Inauguration & address …

India Today’s ‘State of States Study’, which closely monitors the performance of India’s 28 states and 7 union territories across a wide range of categories including agriculture, health, education, governance, investment, macro-economy, consumer markets and infrastructure, has adjudged Kerala the best in governance . Chief Minister V.S Achuthandan received the Best Big State Award in Governance from Mohammad Ansari, the …

Clicks from 15th IFFK. Week-long festival of films commenced on Friday. Here is a bouquet of some must see movies screening in the festival, just 10 among the total 207 films are listed below. Highlights 1. Sofia Coppola’s Somewhere 2. Carlos Gaviria’s Portraits in a Sea of Lies 3. Cristian Jimenez’ Optical Illusion 4. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu’s Biutiful 5. Olivier …

The 15th International Film Festival of Kerala starts today. The festival will end on the 17th. Details at http://iffk.in The theatres of Kairali, Sri, New, Sree Kumar, Sree Visakh, Sree Padmanabha, Dhanya, Ramya and Kalabhavan has been blocked for the festival.

Project Vigeye (Vigilance Eye) is a citizen-centric initiative, wherein citizens join hands with the Central Vigilance Commission in fighting corruption in India. Project Vigeye is the platform through which vigilance information flows freely through common public, the government agencies and the vigilance commission, making it possible to achieve a step jump in improving the corruption index of the nation. You …

IIIT-MK (Indian Institute of Technology and Management –Kerala) is rated A+ by TCS for their recruitment. MSc-IT students f IIIT-MK got placement offers from Tata Consultancy Services during campus interviews. From the first batch of MSc-IT, 14 students out of 20 have been offered placement by TCS. This is the first campus interview for the first batch of Msc –IT …

Santa Claus visited Technopark ! In the middle of his world tour, organized by leading video channel in South India, Asianet, Santa came to Technopark with band and entertainment in tow, to say a quick hello to all Techies! Preparations are going on in Technopark to celebrate the Xmas and New Year in a grand manner. So stay tuned for …

The five-day annual Retail Week conducted by IT services and solutions major UST Global concluded here on Friday. This year’s event was organised across multiple locations in the established and emerging IT hubs of Thiruvananthapuram, Chennai and Kochi, a company spokesperson announced here. CENTRAL THEME UST Global has a number of Fortune 500/Global 1000 companies on its client list, including …

HCL Infosystems Ltd , India’s premier hardware, services and ICT system integration company today will be the latest entrant into India’s one of the largest IT Park – TECHNOPARK.  Mr V K Bahl, Corporate General Manager, HCL Infosystems Ltd signed the land lease agreement for 2 acres of land with Mr Mervin Alexander, CEO of Technopark.   HCL Infosystems Executive Vice President …

By signing an MoU (Memorandum of Understanding) with the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), the State Bank of Travancore (SBT) has become the first bank in the State to be a registrar for the much talked about ‘Aaadhaar’ project . Under this agreement, SBT will bring a large number of customers and non-customers for the registration for  Aadhaar number. The agreement …

Wikileaks.Org domain has deleted by EveryDNS.net in United States because of mass attack. The company which provide the domain service said that they has deleted Wikileaks.org which has joined for 4 years. EveryDNS.net said that they has provide a DNS to Wikileaks.org until December 2, 2010, at 10.00 o’clock. EveryDNS.net don’t give the reasons why they deleted Wikileaks.org from their …

The government today received a reply from TECOM, the promoters of the SmartCity project. Tecom’s letter stated that they are keen in implementing the proposed project. Tecom has stated this in a press release handed over to the media. TECOM has invited government delegates along with Chief Minister VS Achuthanandan for further talks if they are interested in the project. …

Ishita Roy is appointed as the new CEO of Infopark. She is a IAS officer, also worked as the director of Kerala State IT Mission. As the CEO, her responsibilities includes the management, administration, and implementation of various projects related to Infopark Cohin, Infopark Chrthala and Infopark Ambalapuzha.

The fine arts club of Technopark, NATANA, calls for entries to the tagline contest and the theme contest. The official website of NATANA, http://www.natana.in/ invites everyone to contribute to the contest to pick the best tagline. The winner will walk home with  exiting prizes. Also, NATANA invites all to suggest a theme for the launch of NATANA on January 20th 2011. Take a …

KMUG( Kerala Microsoft User Group ) is conducting a User Group Meeting At Kochi on coming December 11th, 2010 User Group Meeting – 11th Dec 2010 – Kochi Venu: Mastermind Computer Institute, 2nd Floor, New Kochappilly Building,Near Federal Bank,Civil Line Road,Chembumukku,Cochin-682030 Agenda 09:30 – 09:40 Community updates 09:40 – 10:30 Introduction to WCF 10:30 – 11:15 Lambda – It’s uses and …