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InApp, a leading software services company in the Technopark, Trivandrum, jointly with the US-based Rogers Software Development Inc (RSDI), is bringing SuperSalon, the world’s leading Salon Management Suite, to Indian Markets. SuperSalon is the global market leader of salon software, with over 11,000 national, regional and independent salons licensed in the North America and Europe, making it the most widely …

Bangalore, January 04, 2010: Moore’s law has finally hit the wall and CPU speeds have actually decreased in the last few years. The industry is reacting with hardware with more cores and software that can leverage “grids” of distributed computing resources. Hadoop is a suite of Open Source APIs at the forefront of this revolution and is considered the gold …

SmartCity in Dubai is set to lose its executive director for corporate finance Teddy Maroun. Mr Maroun has held the position for a year but his contract is not being renewed for 2010. SmartCity Dubai said Mr Maroun left the company in a voluntary and planned manner and has been succeeded by a new executive director as planned. It has …

Even as Smart City Dubai last week served an ultimatum to the Kerala government saying the proposed Rs.1,500-crore Smart City Kochi IT project cannot be kept hanging ‘endlessly’, a board meeting ended Wednesday with differences of opinion continuing between the two partners. Emerging from the hour-long meeting, Smart City Kochi chairman and State Fisheries Minister S. Sarma told reporters that …

The director board convened today was not able to solve the dispute between the state government and TECOM in connection with the establishment of the Smart City project. TECOM was firm in their stand of having 12% independent rights. Smart City chairman S Sarma informed them that they cannot accept their demand. So, the government said that they will inform …

UST Global , one of the biggest employers among software development companies in Kerala, has been accorded the Co-Developer status for setting up its own Private IT campus near Technopark Trivandrum.  The approval is given by the Board of Approval of the Ministry of Commerce. By becoming the co-developer of Technopark, UST Global would be eligible to claim all the …

International Conference On Advances In Computing, Control, And Telecommunication Technologies will be held at Mascot Hotel on 28-Dec-2009 International Conference on Advances in Computing, Control, and Telecommunication Technologies provides an outstanding forum for the discussion and presentation of theory, practices, and applications of computational engineering. ACT 2009, organized by the Association of Computer Electronics and Electrical Engineers (ACEEE), will assemble …

Kerala's second "Technolodge" was inaugurated at Perinad ( Kollam ) last week by Sri Paloli Mohammad Kutty, Hon' Minister for Local Self Government. This newly inaugurated Technolodge has been fully taken up by Technopark-based Accentia Technologies Ltd., a Business Process Management company.

Reviving the proposed SmartCity Kochi project that has been in a limbo for sometime now, a meeting of the board of directors of the company has been scheduled at Kovalam on Wednesday at 6.30 p.m.

The Kerala government Wednesday said it is ready to talk with Dubai-based promoters over the Rs 1,500-crore Kochi SmartCity IT project, which has been delayed by over a year due to land acquisition problems.

Mr.Radhakrishnan Nair N has been appointed as the President of Toonz Academy, He was the former CEO of Technopark, Trivandrum. Toonz Academy is the training division of the Technopark based animation studio, Toonz Animation India Pvt Ltd.Toonz, a major provider of animation to top US and European producers, is South Asia’s biggest and most admired animation studio. Founded in 1999, …

In another signal that the recession-hit IT industry is back on its feet. Technopark based UST Global has hired about 1500 professionals this financial year. The company has on an average recruited about 200 resources every month since last April.

“Intelligent Trivandrum“ - a promotional campaign, consisting of a brochure and video presentation, to showcase Trivandrum as a top IT/ITES destination was released during the India IT Summit 2009 . The campaign was launched by the Trivandrum Development Front (TDF) - a not-for-profit organisation, composed of young professionals and entrepreneurs, that works to promote development in and around Trivandrum.

The Google Internet Bus is in Kerala! The Internet Bus Project is an initiative by Google to educate people about what the Internet is, and how it may be beneficial to their lives, by taking the Internet experience to them through a customised Internet enabled bus, which travels to several towns and cities across India. The bus is focusing on …

The Kerala government said on Wednesday it is ready to talk with Dubai-based promoters over the Rs 1,500-crore (Rs 15-billion) Kochi SmartCity IT project, which has been delayed by over a year due to land acquisition problems. The government has informed the Dubai-based Tecom authorities about the steps taken so far in this regard and that it was prepared to …

Smart City Dubai Monday served an ultimatum to the Kerala government, saying the Rs.1,500 crore Smart City Kochi project cannot be kept hanging in the balance “endlessly”. In a statement issued here, Smart City Dubai said “we have to rethink about the future of the project”. “But as mentioned earlier decisions can be taken within minutes and there is no …

The two-day India IT Summit jointly organised by the Confederation for Indian Industry and IT Kerala at The Leela Kempinski, Kovalam concluded on Friday. A glittering array of techno-CXOs, politicians, thought leaders, and trade associations participated in the event  which received praise on its first outing. In a keynote address delivered by Union Minister of State for External Affairs, Dr. …

Small scale IT companies, who look to set up shop in Kerala, but are unable to develop their own campuses would be provided with close to 2 million sq ft of built up Special Economic Zone (SEZ) space by the Kerala government. Inaugurating the India IT Summit that got underway at Kovalam today, Kerala Chief Minister V S Achuthanandan said …