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Technopark - The first IT park In India seemingly perfect from the outside, the Technopark suffers from a slew of shortcomings

How come a software engineer like her found interest in an ancient art form? And where did she get the time to learn it all? Let’s meet Gowri, a software engineer who has been working with the UST Global in Technopark for over two years gave her debut Nangiarkoothu performance just a week back, her friends were taken by surprise. …

Technopark based IBS Software launched iFly at Low Cost Airline Congress at Singapore on Wednesday.iFly is a Mission-critical solutions major for the travel, transportation and logistics sector Chairman and CEO of the IBS group, V K Mathews said iFly was the next generation solution suite that addressed the entire gamut of airline-related services from passenger reservations to airport departure control. …

A year ago, tech companies around the world took pride in their bench strength, trusting that an ever-ready bench would be the ideal insurance to seize projects that came at short notice. Fast forward to 2009, and benches are on unwinding mode. As compensation costs are becoming decisive factors in technology companies’ performance, a roll-back of salaries are on the …

Thank you for the overwhelming response for TechnoparkToday’s Valentine’s Day Story contest – 2009. we have got total 12 stories, and out of that our panel selected the winner – Gift Of Love. The winning story is submitted  by Arun. Gift Of Love Love is one of the best things that can happen to any living being. Apart from being …

UST Global Technopark, The leading IT solution provider based on California, has appointed Stephanie Moore, former Vice President and principal analyst of the research firm Forrester Research, as its Chief Marketing Officer (CMO). During her 13-year tenure at Forrester, Stephanie was an advisor to CIOs as well as sourcing and vendor management executives, on matters regarding application and infrastructure outsourcing …

Two Technopark incubated companies won the prestigious awards for technology and innovation from NASSCOM. MobMe won the NASSCOM Innovation Awards 2008 for the most Innovative Startup and the Indian Science and Technology Entrepreneurs Parks and Business Incubators Association (ISBA) 2009 Award for the Best Startup ICT Company of 2008. Light Logics Holography and Optics Pvt Ltd won the ISBA Award …

The Kerala government has decided to put to full effect the state’s striking natural beauty while establishing its newest IT park at Ambalappuzha in Alappuzha district, designing the park to resemble what could be termed the first water theme park of the IT industry. The IT park at Ambalappuzha is part of the state government’s decision to have the IT …

Technopark is all set to adopt a healthy lifestyle. This was reflected at the session on `Healthy Lifestyle at IT Workplaces’ organised by the Group of Technopark Companies (GTECH) in association with Kerala State IT Mission and Technopark on last Thursday. There were discussions and presentations on the foundation of creating a healthy workforce, on prevention of lifestyle diseases, on …

In the first week of November, Gireesh N, working for IBS Software System Pvt Ltd in Infopark, was given the pink slip by his HR manager. He was given only half an hour’s time to resign. “I was really shocked because it was only a few months ago that I was offered a pay hike by the management. In fact, …

Dear Beautiful Ladies & Handsome Gents, One more valentine’s day is coming, the day of lovers, the day of celebrations and romance. As one of the places where the most young and dynamic people are working – Technopark is also not an exception for the fun and frolics of Valentine’s day. TechnoparkToday is conducting a contest this time, the Valentine’s …

The Souk, Kochi, with 5,00,000 square feet of retail space is the discerning shoppers ultimate getaway. Being the first and largest mall in the commercial capital of Kerala, it has been exclusively zoned to provide a state-of-the-art shopping experience to Keralites, shoppers from neighbouring cities and the large NRI population. The Souk, Kochi has been designed by W.S. Atkins, the …

CEOs of Technopark IT companies have warned that the tremors of meltdown are finally hitting the state and they might be forced to take some drastic steps including job cuts and salary cuts. Group of Technopark Companies (G Tech) office-bearers told a press conference here that IT companies had started feeling the pinch and the real impact would be known …

Transversal e Networks, A Technopark Based company providing state of the art e-learning solutions achieved two marvelous orders in last 2 months. They have bagged the orders from ICAI and Godrej for their e-learning software TeN iLMS. The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) is a statutory body established under the Chartered Accountants Act, 1949  for the regulation of …

BMI, Britain’s second largest airline and a Star Alliance member, has opted for Tehcnopark-headquartered IBS Software’s new generation IT solution for managing loyalty programmes for its passengers, it was announced on Tuesday. The iFly Loyalty software will help the airline to administer its frequent flier programme (FFP) and customer relationship management (CRM) functionalities like campaign management, feedback management and even …

Faith Infotech, a Technopark-based company, has launched `Propel’, a four-month-long full-time programme for engineering graduates who aspire for an IT career. On completion of training, candidates would also have opportunity to get international certification by Microsoft/Sun Microsystems. Engineering graduates in any discipline with 60 percent marks are eligible to apply. A selection test for the programme will be conducted on …

It is learnt that Infosys, the country’s second-largest information technology services provider, has told its senior managers (project managers, senior and group project managers, delivery managers) to give the lowest performance rating (4 on a scale of 1-4) to the ‘underperforming’ 5 per cent as a part of the company’s consolidated relative ranking (CRR). Though rock-bottom rankings are not unknown …

An Extention of Technopark coming up in this Kerala town is expected to provide employment opportunities to 5,000 people, state Revenue Minister K.P. Rajendran said here on Thursday, while handing over possession of the land to the IT department. he 42 acres at the Koratty neighbourhood were handed over to Secretary (IT) Ajay Kumar, who said that Infopark Trissur would …