Tvm: Yet another edition of TechTop got off to a colourful start at the Park Centre in Technopark Trivandrum with the formal inauguration by the Education Minister Shri M A Baby on July 30, 2010. TechTop is a National Innovation Competition for Engineering Students across the country. TechTop 2010 is the fifth edition of this annual competition organised by Technopark and Degree Controls Inc, in an effort to locate budding techno entrepreneurs at an early stage.

Tvm: Chief Minister Shri V S Achuthanandan launched a new website of Technopark on its 20th anniversary at a brief function held at the CM’s Conference Hall in Secretariat on July 28, 2010. The new website is a comprehensive site with lot of features and is expected to be more user friendly. The Technopark website was originally done in 1994 and was redone in 2002. Since then, this is the major revamp of the site.

Tvm: If there’s one thing Rajesh Babu is passionate about, it is, arguably, information systems security. So much so, that he’s all set to groom cyber commandos to secure India’s information networks. Rajesh, CEO of the Thiruvananthapuram based Mirox Cyber Security and Technology Pvt. Ltd., is the driving force behind the initiative to set up the Cyberforce Academy to train information security professionals for governments and corporates.

Tvm: Denmark is all set to roll out the red carpet for IT companies from Kerala planning to set shop there. A session on ‘Market Opportunities in Denmark’ was organised by the Group of Technology Companies (GTech) and Technopark in partnership with the Invest in Denmark organisation under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark at Technopark last week.

Tvm: Sookshmatech Integral Techno Solutions is the latest entrant at the Technopark Technology Business Incubator (T-TBI). The new company with Saju Balakrishnan and Pinaki as the directors signed the agreement today with Mervin Alexander, CEO, Technopark in the presence of K C Chandrashekaran, Registrar, TBI.

Tvm: According to officials in the IT Department, global IT majors IBM and Oracle are planning to set shop in Technopark. The two companies are supposed to have had the initial talks with the Technopark authorities.