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  >>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 …

The Chief Minister Oommen Chandy after a high level meeting with meeting with senior police officers declared a reward of rupees 5000 for a picture which can help the police to solve a crime. This innovative scheme is for improving the participation of public for helping police to control the hiking crime rates. With this declaration anyone who have a …

In his article titled “Goodbye, folks. March on with values…,” in the firm’s 2010-11 annual report, Infosys Chief Mentor N R Narayana Murthy says that the company has given away Rs 50,000 crore (at current stock prices) of stock options to its employees since inception. Murthy says that he is not aware of another Indian company that has given away …

As the Indian Cricket fans are enjoying the feast of IPL, the employees of Accentia Technologies Ltd had a fun-filled month, who took some time off from their busy schedule and conducted the APL (Accentian Premier League) Season IV, which began on April 23, 2011. APL is a limited-over cricket tournament played annually by the teams within the company at …

>>Some more hours of summer remain to be dusked for the schools to get reopened.  The children now enjoying everything under the sun will be back to business.  When we look around, we see the usual busy preparations going in full swing to convert back those little devils to be obedient students again. The shops in the city are filled …

NeST, a technopark-based company, has bagged the ‘Best Paper Award’ at the STEP Auto International Conference on Software Testing held in Bangalore recently. The company won the award for a paper on ‘Test Optimization Using Adaptive Random Testing Techniques’ authored by Balamurali, Prem Sagar, Arun Kumar V, and Indumol K.S. STEP AUTO Conferences are events where test-leadership, management, and testing strategies …

>> Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy on Sunday said the UDF government’s top priority is implementing the SmartCity IT project here after sorting out issues in the agreement the previous government had with promoters, Dubai based Tecom “which are against the state’s interests.”  “There are some issues which are against the interest of the state in the agreement the LDF …

Tecom, the promoters of the SmartCity Kochi project, is in the process of pumping in more funds to take the project forward. While Emirates NBD, a leading banking group in UAE, will be main financier, support finance is being sought from the Industrial Development Bank of India (IDBI) Bank. IDBI Bank had consulted one of the director board members of …

In an effort to expedite the works of Smart City, Kochi, the Tecom has decided to appoint Baju George as the managing director of the project. It was the five-member committee headed by the supreme council of Dubai Holdings, the parent company of the Tecom, that selected Baju George as the managing director.Baju George who is currently holding the post …

Malayalam Film actor and comedian Salim Kumar wins National Award for Best Actor in 2011.  The award was given for his role in the Malayalam film ‘Adaminte Makan Abu’ [Abu, son of Adam] Best Feature Film- Aadaminte Makan Abu – Dir: Salim A (Malayalam) Best Director- Vetrimaran – Film: Aadukalam Best Actor- Salim Kumar (Aadaminte Makan Abu) & Dhanush (Aadukalam) (Individual …

It’s just after a day the election results were announced in 5 states and even before the next government swore in here comes the announcement of hike in petrol prices. Yes, petrol is now hiked Rs.5 per liter on an average across the nation. In Trivandrum, petrol now costs Rs.67.13. Nine time hikes in last nine months. Earlier the hike …

According to research firm Gartner, Indian  IT companies  collectively grew 18.9% in  2010, which is well above the market average and about seven times faster than the growth of IBM (2.6%)- the world leader in IT services. The market share of Indian vendors has increased from 4.8% (in 2009) to 5.5% last year. Worldwide end-user spending on IT services totaled …

Congress-led UDF and CPI(M)-led LDF appeared to be locked in a neck and neck race in Kerala Assembly elections for which early trends were available. By the latest result UDF has got 71 seats and LDF has got 69 seats. Chief Minister and CPI-M veteran V S Achuthanandan, Opposition leader Oomen chandi, Home minister Kodiyeri balakrishnan are the ones among …

Gigo Joseph, a veteran with 16 years of rich global market experience, assumed office on May 9, 2011 as the Chief Executive Officer for Infoparks Kerala. Prior to joining Infopark, Gigo Joseph was associated with Infosys, where he worked as Group Manager for four years. He has been instrumental in setting up Infosys operations in Trivandrum. Mr. Joseph started his …