February 14th, 2007
Torque is startup company operating out of Technopark, Trivandrum. It is small company started by 4 students of College of Engineering, Trivandrum. From Torque site,
Torque is a 360 degree wireless solution and service provider, leveraging a blend of rapid information delivery and communication streams.
Torque specializes in providing wireless messaging solutions which empower you to [...]
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February 12th, 2007
Thank god. Finally Kerala court came to the rescue of thousands of CD shop owners. Today in its judgement court has said that shops can continue to lend the CDs. The case will be reconsidered in full detail by court again.
Court also said that during any raids all the legal proceedings must be adhered (For [...]
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February 11th, 2007
Reliance retail which started operation sometime back is coming in a big way to Kerala. They have already taken over various small operators and is hiring people at managerial level. They are also offering good salaries.
Reliance has already started procuring agricultural products directly from Kerala farmers. This means that farmers will good price for their [...]
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February 11th, 2007
This week Malayalam movie awards were announced.
Best film - Drishtantham
Best director - Lenin Rajendran(Rathri Mazha)
Best actor - Prithviraj (Vasthavam)
Best actress - Urvasi (Madhuchandralekha)
Immediately after the announcement, the jury started getting abusive and threatening calls. The problem is simple, everyone was expecting an award or was expecting an award for his/her favorite actor [...]
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February 10th, 2007
Rishiraj singh declares that all CD and DVD rental shops are illegal and sends a circular to all the police stations. It is really funny since even in US where copyright is supposed to be one of the 10 commandments, you can rent a CD or a DVD (blockbuster, netflix for example). Manorama reports that [...]
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January 27th, 2007
Yesterday I wrote a post on the kerala sabdam article on ‘exploitation in IT companies in Technopark’. After writing this post, I happened to talk to a friend who works in Technopark. He had some interesting things to share,
Technopark is run by Kerala government. So like any government department, corruption is part of it. There [...]
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January 26th, 2007
I am a regular reader of Kerala Sabdam malayalam weekly. In this week’s issue, kerala shabdam has an interesting article titled “slavery and exploitation in Kerala IT industry!”.
The author/article is highly biased (kerala sabdam claims to be neutral, but in general leans to left) against IT companies. He says that there is widespread exploitation of [...]
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