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National airline of the Maldives, Maldivian has gone live with the newew-generation passenger service system developed and marketed by IBS. Accrodign to IBS Group the product named ‘aiRES’, will assist the maldivian airline to effectively and efficiently manage reservation of passengers, control of fares, ticketing and departure control functions. As per Maldivian Airlines, they has selected the solution provided by IBS for its cost-effectiveness, right results, low implementation time and moreover the flexible features offered. The IBS solutions has it head quarters at the Technopark, Trivandrum and is a leading developers of new-generation Information Technology solutions. The Maldivian airlines is the latest addition to the list of airlines using solutions developed by IBS.

With many companies opening units in Kerala, the IT sector of the state has been on a growth trajectory, Chief Minister V S Achuthanandan informed the state assembly on Monday.

The boom in the IT sector has enhanced job availability and has boosted software exports in the last two years, the Chief minister said.

To expand the IT infrastructure in the state, the government has embarked upon a project to create IT parks in all districts, besides strengthening facilities at Technopark near the state capital and Infopark in Kochi, Achuthanandan said in a reply furnished in the house.

These projects would add 88 lakh square feet to the existing IT base, he said.

In the state-managed Technopark and Infopark, 71 new companies had been set up during last two years, creating 22,517 direct employment and at least three times more indirect jobs, he said.

The state exported software products worth valued at Rs 1,568 crore in 2007-08.

Work is going on in the technocity near Thiruvananthapuram as well as cyber park in Kozhikode and district IT parks in Kollam Alappuzha, Kasargode, Thrissur and Kannur, he said.

Courtesy :-Economic Times

 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 online karela ‘, 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. quitting smoking with zyban

 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.

Company to finalise a few deals in the next 90 days.

UST Global, an IT services and solutions provider for the Global 2000 market, has zeroed in on a handful of technology players for acquisitions this year.

According to Sajan Pillai, CEO, UST Global, “We have zeroed in on certain companies, and will finalise a few deals in the next 90 days. The new acquisitions are in a bid to expand UST Global’s portfolio and achieve its billion-dollar revenue target.”

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Kerala chief minister VS Achuthanandan has denied state Cabinet nod to 21 special economic zone (SEZ) proposals from China. The state had been counting on picking Rs 25,000 crore ($5.8 billion) investment from the proposals.

Looks like the government wants all of us to be farmers. Read the entire story here.

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

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

Dear friends, I am working in Blore Software City …

I wanted to share an incident of my life with you, hoping that it may be an eye opener to you so that you can live more years.

On 27 ^th October afternoon I had severe heart attack symptom and I was rushed to the hospital.

After reaching to the hospital the doctors prescribed a test called angiogram. This test is basically to identify blood flow of heart arteries. When they finished the test they found a 94% block in the main artery, please see the image below with red circle.

At this point I wanted to share my living style which has caused this block in my heart arteries. Please see the below points of my life style, if any of these points are part of your life style then you are at risk, please change yourselves.

1.         I was not doing any physical exercise for more than 10 years, not even walking 30 minutes a day for years.
2.         My food timings are 11:00 AM Breakfast or no Breakfast, 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM Lunch and dinner at 11:00 PM to 12:00 AM.
3.         Sleeping in very odd timings, going to bed between 12:00 AM and 3:00 AM. Waking up at between 9:00 AM and 10:30 AM … Some times spending sleepless nights.
4.         I used to eat heavily because of long gaps between lunch and dinner and I used to make sure that Non-Veg is available most of the time, there were times when I did survey on city hotels to find delicious Non-Veg dishes. I was never interested in vegetable and healthier food.
5.         Above all I was chain smoker form years.
6.         My father passed away due to heart problems, and the doctors say the heart problems are usually genetic.

Once they identified the major block they have done immediately a procedure called angioplasty along with 2 Stents, mean they will insert a foreign body into the heart arteries and open the blocked area of arteries. Please see the below image after the procedure.

I learnt form the doctors that 60% people will die before reaching the hospital, 20% people will die in the process of recovering form heart attack and only 20% will survive. In my case I was very lucky to be part of the last 20%.

Doctors instructions:

1.         Need to have physical exercise for minimum of 45 minutes daily.
2. Eat your food at perfect timings, like how you eat during your school days. Eat in small quantities more times and have lot of vegetables and boiled food, try to avoid fry items and oily food. Fish is good than other non-vegetarian food.
3.         Sleep for 8 hours a day, this count should complete before sun rising .
4.         Stop smoking.
5.         Genetic problems, we can not avoid but we can get away from it by having regular checkups.
6.         Find a way to get relived from the stress (Yoga, Meditation etc).

So I urge you all to please avoid getting into this situation, it is in your hands to turn the situation up side down, by just planning / changing your life style, by following simple  points above. Because life is wealth and GOD gives you life only once. I pray to GOD that no one should face this situation. If you find it’s useful you can forward this mail to your friends and loved ones…..

The restaurant Buraq is one of the two main restaurants situated in the top floor of Bhavani building in Technopark. The building equips around 3000 techies in it, the majority relying on these restaurants to satisfy their bellies. No doubt they supply junk food, which the busy techies don’t complain against or are worried about, but sometimes they try inedible integredents too.

Its the second appearence of Buraq on the primer in last 2 months. Unfortunately its the same notorious issue again,’Food adulteration’, but this time with a new ‘recipe’. This time its an iron nail that they gave to test the digestive power of our belly. Luckily the guy who bought the dish noted the nail in his food, to extend his healthy days of his life. I don’t think i’d have to explain the ‘wonders’ that can occur by the consumption of a rusty iron piece.

Sometimes it feels like we could’ve compared the food consumption from these restaurants to some adventure reality shows on TV. Our ‘hunger-execution’ lies in our luck of getting neat food. Sometimes ’someting more than food’ might kill our hunger, as like in this case. Hope some day the AXN crew would vist them to telecast these in their ‘Guinness world record show’, if this goes on un-noticed by the authorities. Lets hope they blacklist these restaurants before that.

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