Chinese delegation in Kerala to study Indian IT sector & pick tips on software outsourcing

September 10th, 2009 THIRUVANANTHAPURAM - Kerala's IT sector will generate as many as 200,000 jobs in the next five years, state Chief Secretary Neela Gangadharan said Thursday. Inaugurating a conference on IT in Kerala - Challenges and Opportunities, organised by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) here, she said over 200 rural IT Parks (Techno Lodges) are expected to come up in the state in the next two to three years.

October 10th, 2009 THRISSUR - Kerala Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan Saturday inaugurated the third IT park in the state - Phase 1 of Infopark Koratty - and said that nearly 200,000 jobs in information technology sector would be created in the next two years.

June 15th, 2009 THIRUVANANTHAPURAM - Cooperation in the IT sector between Singapore and industry majors in Kerala has received a major boost after a delegation from the Group of Technopark Companies (GTech) visited the city-state for talks with senior government officials and business lobbies. GTech represents the heads of all major IT companies in Technopark, which is home to more than 120 companies and employ close to 18,000 people.

September 24th, 2009 THIRUVANANTHAPURAM - City-based information technology park Technopark has signed a cooperation agreement with China's Dalian Hi-tech Zone, it was announced here Thursday. Dalian Hi-tech is a mixed industry zone in China's Dalian city, where pharmaceutical and IT services majors have units.

December 27th, 2008 NEW DELHI - Financial services, information technology, consumer goods, retail and real estate sectors have witnessed the maximum decline in the creation of new jobs because of the economic slowdown, a leading business chamber has said. The Assocham Research Bureau, which tracked job vacancy data in 30 sectors to analyse the creation of new jobs in the economy, found that the 'employment outlook of India has come under severe strain'.

March 27th, 2009 THIRUVANANTHAPURAM - While India's overall software exports have slowed down on account of the global slowdown, those from Kerala grew 43.41 percent till February-end, fetching a revenue of Rs.2,300 crore. 'While the STPI (Software Technology Parks India) figures for the country show a growth of 17.62 percent till February-end this fiscal, software exports from Kerala have grown at 43.41 percent,' said an IT department official who did not wish to be identified.

June 23rd, 2009 MUMBAI - Telecom major Idea Cellular Tuesday signed a Rs.145-crore agreement with Firstsource Solutions, a business process outsourcing (BPO) service provider. As part of the agreement, Firstsource will provide for five years a suite of customer management interaction services, including customer service, billing, new product information and plan details to Idea from its centre in Coimbatore, the companies said in a statement.

July 27th, 2009 CHENNAI - The second phase of softyware park Infopark in Kochi, which may be developed under a public-private partnership (PPP) model, will come up over 160 acres, said a top company official here Monday. "We are getting into the second phase of Infopark's expansion.

August 14th, 2009 KANNUR - The cyber cell of the Kerala Police has traced down an e-mail threat from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) warning of serial bomb blasts in the state, if a separate Muslim state, comprising districts of north Kerala, is not created. Inspector General of Police Tomin Thachenkery said on Friday that a few media offices in the state had received the e-mail threat on Thursday.

September 8th, 2009 THIRUVANANTHAPURAM - Kerala Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan Tuesday told the Kerala assembly that talks would begin with Smart City Dubai Wednesday to take forward the proposed Smart City Kochi software township project.

September 16th, 2009 NEW DELHI - State-owned firms spent $3.1 billion on information technology in India during 2008 and the amount is expected to top $5 billion by 2011 at an annual growth of 19 percent between 2007-2011, says a new study by Springboard Research. More than two-thirds of the total spending will be led by the federal government, with states accounting for 22 percent and local governments for another 11 percent says the study on public sector IT opportunities in India by the market research firm.

May 14th, 2009 THIRUVANANTHAPURAM - Companies based in the Technopark IT industrial park here will join hands with the Kerala government to strengthen the AIDS awareness campaign in the state, an industry official said here Thursday. The Group of Technopark Companies (GTECH), a body representing the chief executives of the Technopark firms, has adopted a corporate policy on HIV/AIDS that calls for strengthening the awareness campaign among among the member companies and employees, the group secretary, Satish Babu, said.

January 10th, 2009 THIRUVANANTHAPURAM - It is advantage time for IT companies in Kerala. With Satyam under a cloud, the software companies in the state are busy trying to win over clients of the tainted IT bellwether even as they are flooded with job applications from Satyam employees.

April 10th, 2009 THIRUVANANTHAPURAM - Later this year, Air New Zealand and Austrian Airlines will start using iCargo CRA, a revenue accounting solution for cargo carrying airlines developed by the city-based IBS Software Services. 'iCargo CRA is built on proven new-generation technology and application architecture.

September 30th, 2009 NEW DELHI - More business process outsourcing (BPO) service providers in India will exit the market in coming years, as it is difficult for them to stay afloat in the current form due to the slowdown, according to a study released here Wednesday. "One-quarter of the top business process outsourcing (BPO) service providers will not exist as separate entities by 2012," said the study by IT research and advisory firm Gartner.