The Eighth edition edition of the BarCamp Kerala (BCK) concluded at Thiruvalla. This time the Barcamp was held at the Mar Athanasios College for Advanced Studies (MACFAST). Barcamp kerala 8th edition started with a session on Statistical Machine Translation Basics by Deepak P. This was followed by a presentation on Mobile Web by Shwetank Dixit from Opera. A session by …
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Kerala doesn’t have the authority to issue deadlines on the Smart City Kochi: Smart City CEO
Freehold land not charity, but a right: Smart City CEOThe government of Kerala doesn’t have the authority to issue deadlines on the Smart City project, Dubai Internet City CEO Fareed Abdul Rahman said Thursday. The government should first fulfill its responsibility by meeting the conditions in the agreement. If that is met, the Smart City is ready to go ahead …
Read More »SmartCity Kochi Crucial Board Meeting on March 29
A crucial Board meeting of the SmartCity Kochi project will be held on March 29, 2010 in Kochi. The meeting of the SmartCity Board will have representatives from Tecom, the promoters of the SmartCity Kochi project and the Kerala Government. Fareed Abdulrahman, CEO of SmartCity, is also expected to attend the Board Meeting. The meeting is being held in Kochi …
Read More »InApp expands operations to Japan
Building on the company’s decade-long operations in the US and India, Technopark based InApp hopes to increase their presence in the Asia-Pacific region through the new company. The new Japan base at Misuzugaoka Aobaku near Yokohama and Tokyo will offer software services such as software development, testing, migration, porting, maintenance, multimedia, smartphone solutions and others to SMEs in Japan. Incorporation …
Read More »Smart City Kochi:Board of directors meeting on March 29 will decide the Fate of the project
The fate of the proposed Rs.1,500 crore IT park in Kochi to be built by Dubai-based developer Smart City Dubai will be decided at a board of directors meeting later this month. The Kerala government is adamant that no freehold rights over the project would be given to the builder as such a clause does not exist in the original …
Read More »Smartcity Kochi:50 families relocated for the project are on the warpath
Even as Finance Minister Thomas Isaac reiterated the State government’s commitment to execute the proposed SmartCity Kochi project during his budget presentation, more than 50 families relocated for the project at Edachira are on the warpath alleging apathy on the part of authorities in providing the promised basic amenities on the land allotted for their rehabilitation. “We were moved out …
Read More »Smart City Kochi project would be implemented in two stages:Kerala FM. Thomas Issac
Kerala Finance Minister T M Thomas Issac on Friday announced that the government would take measures to create one lakh (100,000) job opportunities for the IT sector in the state. He also said that the Smart City project would be implemented in two stages at the Infopark and an amount of Rs 50 crore (Rs 500 million) has been sanctioned …
Read More »IT sector in the state is safe even without the Smartcity project: Kerala CM
Chief Minister VS Achuthanandan today all most scripted the future of Smart City stating that IT sector in the state is safe even without the project. The CM took on the opposition for trying to give a picture that Smart City is everything regarding IT in the state. Achuthanandan continued his prior stand that his government has taken corrective measures …
Read More »Kerala Govt. mulls handing over Smartcity Kochi to Infopark
The government has been contemplating to handover the prestigious Smartcity project to Inforpark as the former is in a state of limbo for past two years and consecutive talks with Smartcity Tecom officials have proved futile, informed Thomas Isaac, state Finance Minister. The project, the foundation stone of which was laid in November 2007, is yet to take off due …
Read More »TechnoCity is expected to generate 50,000 IT jobs
The fourth phase of the Technopark here, branded TechnoCity, is expected to generate 50,000 direct jobs and provide indirect employment to 2 lakh, according to officials of the Kerala IT department. The state IT department has announced completion of all formalities pertaining to acquisition of the 451 acres required for TechnoCity. In addition to 205.11 acres of land acquired by …
Read More »Innoz Launches TRANZ-file sharing application for mobile devices
Innoz technologies, a very unique and successful student start up company in Technopark developed a new innovative solution named Tranz-File for mobile devices, for file sharing among mobile networks. Tranz enables you to share photos,videos & music with your friends and family – right from your GPRS/3G mobile phone. Tranz is a file sharing and networking application that enriches your …
Read More »UST Global becomes new Virgin Formula One Racing sponsor
Virgin Racing and UST Global intend to develop a strong operational partnership and over the course of the relationship, UST Global will collaborate with the team on a number of high-level technical projects. For 2010 UST Global is developing a bespoke race management tool that will provide the race engineers a 360 degree trackside perspective as each Grand Prix unfolds. …
Read More »Light Logics inks Co-operation with STX Aprilis, USA
Light Logics Holography and Optics, Technopark and STX Aprilis, USA have inked agreement of co-operation on next generation holographic materials and devices. STX Aprilis is the global leader in holographic high density data storage and holographic photo polymer material, popularly known as the silicon of photonics. Aprilis is now based in the same building where the historic American company Digital …
Read More »Innoz, Technopark wins Star Entrepreneurship Award
Technopark based Innoz Technologies has won the `Stat Entrepreneurship Award’ in the third International India Innovation Summit held in Mumbai. The International India Innovation Summit was aimed at developing an insight into creating a mindset for Innovation. Innoz is a startup company in Technopark Stared by a group of engineering students from LBS College of Engineering,Kerala. Innoz is working in …
Read More »HDIL Cybercity project at Kalamassery, Kochi gets SEZ status
The Union government has Thursday accorded SEZ status to the prestigious Cybercity project at Kochi, became a major boost to Kerala IT industry.The propsed project is 100 per cent subsidiary, and the Blue Star Raltors Pvt Ltd proposes to set up a state-of-the-art Rs 400 crore cyber city in 70 acres of land. HDIL Cybercity will be Kerala’s first integrated …
Read More »Smart City Kochi: Decision within a month
A decision on whether TECOM should be called in for completing the proposed Smart City project in Kochi would be taken in a month’s time, said Minister S Sarma, who is also the project chairman of Smart City. He said the government hitherto waited for TECOM. This will not work again. It is high time the government waited for TECOM. …
Read More »2010 vis-Ã -vis the IT/ITES sector
The worldwide economic meltdown and the strengthening dollar pulled down the Indian IT sector last year. The sector, which had been a major contributor to India’s GDP, rebounded solidly from the global predicament by diversifying itself into diverse industry verticals and new geographies. The worst hit by the meltdown was the business process outscoring or BPO industry. And with US …
Read More »Kerala Government condoning failure on SmartCity Kochi: IUML
Indian Union Muslim League State general secretary P.K. Kunhalikutty has described baseless Chief Minister Achuthanandan’s statement blaming the United Democratic Front (UDF) for the failure of the SmartCity project. Talking to reporters at Manjeri near here on Monday, Mr. Kunhalikutty said that it was the UDF that brought the SmartCity project, and that the Chief Minister was trying to condone …
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