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A Venezuelan delegation which visited Technopark on Tuesday has expressed interest in IT projects with cooperation between the Venezuelan Government, the State Government and the Technopark. IIITM-K director K.R.Srivathasan, Chief Minister’s IT advisor Joseph Mathew, Amarnath Raja and Sathish Babu from INAPP, Benny Mathew from Ernst & Young and Binu Shankar, CEO, G-Tech were present during the interaction with the Venezuelan delegation.

The Venezuelan Government delegation is headed by Director-General of the Standardisation and Automatisation of Public Administration Carlos Castellano.

Courtesy :- The New Indian Express

It won’t take too long for “Gods own country” to be rechristened “Hartal’s own country”. India’s most educated state, which boosts itself of near-complete literacy seems have taken special liking for hartals. 80 hartals in last 6 months in the state underlines the same fact.

But what was most frustrating to see on the hartal called on 20th Aug was how the media helped propagate “negative” news to make hartal a success. Before I tell how media did it, let me tell a small history about kerala hartals.

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 US Technologies, one of the largest companies in technopark is organizing  a ‘Wellness walk’ on 20th August 2008 in Technopark premises at 4.00 pm. This is an initiative by the HR department of the company aimed to promote good health and well being of its employees thus encouraging a healthy working environment.

 The initiative with its motto, ‘One step furthur… towards caring and sharing‘, is ofcourse an important step to watch and learn for all the techies as well as for the HR people in different IT companies. It is learnt that, among the professionals in the job sector, the rate of deterioration of health is most among the IT professionals, with the bugs and deadlines making a heavy toll on mental and physical health. The hectic time schedules keep them away from exercises too. Only less than twenty percent of technopark employees travel by their foot to reach office everyday. The much appreciated event is a preface to think about the personal health of every IT employee.

 The flag-off of the event will be done by Arun Narayanan and Barry Newton at 4.00 pm. The walk also marks the beginning of the UST foundation day celebrations.

Zyxware technologies joins hands once again with GNU/Linux Users Group Trivandrum to organize the third install fest of the year in Trivandrum. This time the event is planned on a much more massive scale than the first two install fests. The earlier events were 1 day events targeted at the general public. This time it is targeted at the IT community in technopark and it is a full week program. The program is scheduled to be conducted from Sep 1 to Sep 5 at Park Center, Technopark, Trivandrum.

One-day-install-fests have a small disadvantage in that they get over by the time people get to know about it from the media. We have decided to get over this problem by spreading the event from Sep 1, Monday to Sep 5, Friday. The event is going to be conducted in the heart of technopark - Park Center. We are hoping to get the event inaugurated by one of the Ministers of the Government of Kerala.

Free Software Seminar Series, Open Movie Show and 3D Desktop Demo

In addition to the installations we are also organizing daily Free Software seminars covering topics ranging from “Business Opportunities in Free Software” to “Enterprise Application Development in Free Software”. On Wednesday we will be showing some of the popular Open Movies like Big Buck Bunny and Elephants Dream.

During the Fest

IT professionals working in Technopark can bring in their laptops to the Park Center and drop it off to get any of the Free Software Distributions installed. They also will have the opportunity to buy T-Shirts, Stickers, CDs and DVDs at the Fest. There will be informational posters, live presentations, open movie shows around the counters. There will also be a couple of GNU/Linux Gaming PCs available for people to try out the open games.

Zyxware Planning to Launch Freedom Toaster

During this install fest, we are also planning to unveil a freedom toaster. (If you don’t know already, a freedom toaster is a Free Software Vending Kiosk that will burn and give any of your favorite Free Software at the click off a button. It would look and operates like any of the soft drink vending machines) If we are able to pull this off, this will probably become the first time that somebody has done this in India. The Freedom Toaster is expected to turn quite a few heads during the Install fest.

Our Objective

Through this event and through the Freedom Toaster, we are hoping to generate enough buzz inside Technopark to be able to bring in new Free Software users and to rope in those professionals who are already using Free Software. In addition we are also hoping that at least a few companies in Technopark would become interested in trying out the freedom offered by FLOSS.

Partners

The partners for this event in addition to Zyxware and GLUG are Kerala State IT Mission, SPACE-Kerala, Free Software Foundation of India.

BSNL - Telecommunication Sponsor

BSNL has agreed to sponsor the event as the Telecommunications Partner and they will be meeting all the telecom and internet needs. They will be providing us with complete WiFi access in the Park Center and EVDO Wireless access at the Kiosks. A BSNL representative will also be present to demonstrate the configuration of BSNL broadband and EVDO in GNU/Linux.

The Technopark at Thiruvananthapuram will host the TechTop 2008 on its premises on August 18 and 19. The theme for this year’s contest is ‘Rural technology and global warming’ and responses from tomorrow’s technopreneurs.

TechTop is an All India Engineering Students project competition jointly organized by Technopark, Thiruvananthapuram and Degree C and supported by IEEE. The event focuses on spreading the spirit of innovation and entrepreneurship.

It is organized as a part of Technopark’s efforts to locate budding ‘Technopreneurs’ with innovative ideas at a very early stage, reward them suitably, and nurture their initiative to achieve commercial results, said a press release.

The organizers have received 90 applications from different states of which 33 projects are selected for the final round, it said. Of these 33 projects, 24 projects will be on display at Technopark on August 18 and 19.

The teams are from ten states - Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Orissa, West Bengal, Maharashtra, Goa, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Kerala, the release said.

“The motto behind TechTop is to promote and reward innovative ideas amongst budding engineers and to create an investment and entrepreneurship climate in the country,” said, chief executive officer, R.K.Nair.

He said that this year’s theme has generated ideas for the ailing agriculture sector from Calcutta Institute of Engineering and Management, West Bengal, with their Precision Farming idea, areca nut de-husking machine from Bapuji Institute of Engineering and Technology Davengere, Karnataka, and Coconut de-husking machine from PSG Technology, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu.

“These contributions reflect the youngsters’ shared concern about the growing farmers suicides in the country and the remedies mooted by them to save our ailing agriculture sector,” R.K.Nair said.

The project caters not only agriculture but also cover software, health, communication, textile and other areas as well, he added.

The most innovative, socially relevant and commercially exploitable projects will get a cash award of Rs 1 lakh sponsored by Degree Controls, followed by second prize of Rs.25, 000 sponsored by the IBS Software and three third prizes Rs.10, 000 each sponsored by One View Systems, AES Solutions and SunTec Business Solutions.

TechQuiz is scheduled on August 18 for the High School and Higher Secondary Students. The first prize of TechQuiz carrries a cash prize of Rs 4000, second prize Rs 2500 and third prize Rs 1500. A consolation prize of Rs 500 will also be given away.

The Project Exhibition at TechTop will be open to public on August 18 and 19 and the project presentation to the technical committee will take place simultaneously at Technopark.

The award ceremony of TechTop 2008 would be held on August 19.

Courtesy :- http://www.ciol.com

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Kingfisher Airlines, one of the country’s leading airlines, has successfully started using Technopark-headquartered IBS’s iCargoNet thereby getting IBS its first Indian customer.

iCargoNet provides a unified, enterprise-wide solution to help manage the entire cargo business of the airline from planning, sales, operations, ground handling to cargo revenue accounting and revenue optimization functions in an integrated and cost-effective manner.

IBS hosts the iCargoNet solution from its own world class data centre here with the latest technology and support infrastructure that is managed by a 24X7 customer support centre and network managed services.

Commenting on the adoption of iCargonet, Rajesh Verma, executive vice president of the airline, said iCargoNet has been implemented as a unified software solution for seamlessly managing the cargo operations of Kingfisher Airlines.

‘As India’s leading airline with an unmatched route network, it was imperative that our solutions provider offer us a robust and reliable solution that would give us that competitive edge and be scalable in line with our aggressive expansion plans,’ said Verma.

Chairman and amp; CEO of IBS Group V.K. Mathews said their vision for the air transportation industry is to provide new-generation solutions that will be viable and inevitable migration options from the legacy systems that have shackled them for the past few decades.

‘With the successful deployment of iCargoNet, we can proudly claim to have fulfilled our vision by becoming a one-stop-shop for airline cargo solutions. We are extremely glad that Kingfisher Airlines has reposed trust in IBS and our solution,’ he added.

IBS is a leading global provider of new-generation IT solutions to the travel, transportation and logistics industry. A specialist in the domain, IBS offers a range of products and services that manage mission-critical operations of major airlines, airports, oil and gas companies, seaports, cruise lines and tour operators world-wide.

Courtesy :- http://www.indiaenews.com

IT Solutions (LITS), the information and communication technology arm of the UAE based business conglomerate S.S. Lootah Group, announced the signing of a cooperation with Technopark, Kerala based IT park located in the capital Trivandrum.

Abdullah Saeed Lootah, CEO of Lootah IT Solutions and Mr. N. Radhakrishnan Nair, CEO, Technopark inked the protocol in the presence of Eng. Yahya Lootah, Vice Chairman-CEO, S.S. Lootah Group and other Directors Mr. Rashid Lootah and Mr. Yousef Lootah.

Abdullah Saeed Lootah, CEO, Lootah IT Solutions commented, “Lootah IT Solutions has established itself as a key solutions provider in the Middle East and Africa (MEA) region and has been working with several companies operating from Technopark. As a natural progression, we are now looking to establish our permanent base in India , known for its IT stronghold and skilled manpower, which will provide us with a gateway to reach out to a larger market in the subcontinent and other parts of Asia . We are very happy to be looking   at Technopark as one of our key basis in India , with the knowledge that it is among the largest IT and Technology parks in South Asia .”

N.Radhakrishnan Nair, CEO Technopark Trivandrum said, “We are very happy to see Lootah IT Solutions setting up their operations in Technopark, in line with our vision to provide a holistic enabling environment to make knowledge industry intrinsically competitive and world class. We are confident that with rich experience in the Gulf region, one of the most active economic zones worldwide, Lootah IT Solutions will find Technopark highly conducive for investment and expansion of innovative development solutions.”

Lootah IT Solutions aims to establish a full-fledged development and operations centre at the Technopark facility to provide an advanced information infrastructure for service industries. The proposed Technopark facility of Lootah IT Solutions will involve software development including CRM solutions and also address solutions for sectors such as engineering, construction, energy and environment. Lootah IT Solutions’ proposed set-up in Technopark, Kerala will be yet another important milestone for S.S. Lootah Asia, the wholly-owned subsidiary of S.S. Lootah Group based in India . S.S. Lootah Asia has established strong footholds in the subcontinent in various sectors in the short span of time since its incorporation, with Information Technology and Knowledge Economy being among its top priorities. S.S. Lootah Asia aims to elevate the cultural and economic synergy between India and the UAE through strategic partnerships, insourcing and sourcing global business collaboration opportunities.

Courtesy :- http://www.itvarnews.net/

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Ghost! Yes you read it right. A ghost is floating around the Technopark campus and the adjacent Kerala University campus in Trivandrum. Its feet are not touched on the ground. This ghost has been featured in Malayala Manorama recently. They have traced its origin too. Obviously someone has to die before she gets to walk without her feet touching the ground. As the folklores would have it most of the ghosts were passionate lovers once upon a time; often one rich and the other one poor. The story is no different here too. The poor lover was murdered by the girl’s mighty family and the girl, Hymawati was her name,

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