Archive | February, 2010

Tech Fest 2010-techKshetra @RSET kochi-cochin

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This Year’s Biggest College Event, right at Rajagiri School of Engineering and Technology, Kakkanad, in partnership with NOKIA, presents Techkshetra. Be prepared to be blown away!

Good news for students, an event you don’t want to miss. Hosted at one of the best colleges in Kerala. An event for the best of the best. March 12th 2010 will have a new meaning to students all over Kerala.

From events galore and not just the tech-related stuff, fun and random events, online games and many more. Presentations, Seminars and Project presentations, there is just about everything to keep you on your toes. With exciting and surprise events poised to be held any moment, you just can’t keep away from anything. Gifts, vouchers, cash prizes, fun and everything great that makes a Tech-Fest awesome!

From tech events like C Decoding(hash_include), Electronic Junkyard, etc and non-tech like gaming, Best manager contest(the one), you have so much to choose from. Challenge yourself and let the adrenaline rush through you.

And to top it off, expect NOKIA to come up with some exciting stuff. Surprise Surprise…So hang onto to the edge of your seats or well your pants or anything you can get your hands on. If Tech Fests could get fun and exciting this is as fun as they can get.

Like they say, be there or be square!

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Pani Puri & Bird Watching At Panampilly Nagar ;)

This is a short story that one of our readers, Sanyo John sent us. We read it and we could not resist but publishing it here. Its a story we all can relate to.. ;)

Clear skies, tranquil climate, perfect for bird watching were my thoughts at the end of another boring day in office. I don’t know whether I was saying it aloud, but somehow my friend JT had the same idea. I have found mysterious the ways of nature, on how guys can always synch their thoughts when it is to do with chics. The next thing to do was to decide upon which area of the city to cover. Pubs and Coffee joints were automatically discarded, as we both were barely scraping through the last remains of our salary. ”Hey Anil, how about Oberon mall man, Lotta chicas there when we last paid visit na”, JT asked me with an evil glint in his eye. “No way Man, I don’t want to be seen as a mall stroller, it’s too degrading for our image bro”, I replied like an expert. I really don’t know why, but JT always considered me as an expert in the field of chic-science. Maybe it’s to do with my constant brag on my numerous scoring with chics (the characters were real, but the experiences were mildly (not so) exaggerated). Being the genius of the two, I suggested that we go to panampilly nagar (or so called chic paradiso) and have “the eternal pani puri” -cheapest junk food on planet earth.

panampilly-nagar-kochi-cochinWe parked our vehicle a few meters away from ‘Yaadav Chaat Shop’ (A Chaat Franchisee). Getting out of the car, I looked at the skies; the clouds had started to group up now like some bullies threatening to spoil my day. I appealed to them telepathically to move apart, the clouds stubbornly but slowly seemed to listen to me and started to disintegrate. Yes, I had conquered the clouds; this is my day, now any chick would be piece of cake. As I strolled on, my left eye caught three senoritas standing by the side walk eating ‘Bhel Puri’ rather briskly. I didn’t pay much attention to them, since bhel puri according to me is a low grade Chaat (too much gas, I tell ya). “Chic’s who can eat full plates of ‘bhel puri’ can eat almost anything, even your pockets, so better stay away” said my accumulated knowledge from previous experiences. The king of Chaat is the one and only Pani Puri, and my dream girl is the one who asks me for Pani Puri every single day rather than gold, diamond or cars (Yes, a rare kind). The rain clouds had started to gather again, and only a few talkative school kids were there in the chaat stall, I cursed my luck and ordered a plate each for me and JT. Waiting for the order, I dropped into a late evening reminiscence of all the chicas I had Pani Puri with. My strategy was simple, when the pockets are tight, always give elaborate speeches on how the American culture and food are corrupting the minds and health of our people, and how I wish we could go back to the good old days, suggesting at the end of the (inspiring) speech to try out some good ol Indian Pani puri (which ain’t that great for health, but very easy on the purse). I can still remember the day when me and Sheetal were in this stall, I was standing exactly in the same place where I stood now, we were going strong back then (or so I thought) and my immature brain had thought that she was the one. I had, with great convincing power (and a hundred rupee note) asked the pani puri wala to slip in a ring (45% gold) into the pani puri. Luckily before she consumed it, I stood on my knees and proposed. It took less than 1/4th of a second for her to decide, she gave the ring back to me and said “I don’t think I deserve you Anil, You are too special” (WTF woman, if I am so special why can’t you be mine), she then walked away and that was the end of it (Adding salt to my injury, she later married my boss).
I was brought back to present tense by JT, who nudged me to mark the arrival of two Punjabi kudis into the stall. One was wearing a red salwar kameez and the other had tank tops and jeans on her. Now JT was this true blood Mallu who considered it disgusting to even hook up with a manglish speaking chic, dating a northie would be thus a terrible sin. Only a puritan Mallu bird will do for him. I was of a much different kind; I liked birds of any flock. No racial, regional or even rational barriers ever proved any hindrance to me. The Punjabi kudis would do just fine, especially the one in the red salwar. Any moment now, she would order a pani puri, we would start talking and then later go dancing around trees (Ok, I wasn’t imagining the last part). With bated breath, I awaited her order, the words came slowly, but it registered in my heart. “Do paani puri dena bhai saab, aur ek pack kar dijiye”. I started moving towards my prey; she turned to her friend and said “You know what; my kid really digs paani puri”.
I stood still, it started to rain.

- Sanyo John

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Tiger Airways Soon To Fly In Kochi

Low cost carrier from Singapore, Tiger Airways is setting itself up to fly in Kochi. Currently Tiger Airways already operates at Chennai and Bangalore with a total of 16 flights a week. Apart from Kochi, the airlines is also expanding its services to Trivandrum and Trichy.

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With the introduction of Tiger Airways, Kochi is going to be more well connected to other Asian countries and travel is going to be cheaper.

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Kochi Only District Not To Have 3G Technology

BSNL started rolling out the much awaited 3G technology in the state on January 4th. Today BSNL is launching 3G in Trivandrum. The funny part is, as of now, Kochi is the only district that has been held back from 3G.The technology that lets us use various services such as video call, high speed broadband internet connectivity, mobile television etc is yet to be launched. We just hope BSNL is gearing up for what is probably the biggest market in Kerala and pull up their socks quick and give us access to 3G!

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Sandunes 2nd Anniversary

This Feb 28th Sandunes is celebrating its 2nd anniversary. And they are throwing a party to mark this milestone.

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Innoz – Entrepreneurs From Kerala Scaling New Heights

INNOZ:  A rare breed of young minds addicted to innovation.

Ever came across this word in Oxford Dictionary? Don’t worry. The young and innovative bunch of young entrepreneurs behind Innoz who have dreamt this dream of getting their name in the Oxford Dictionary are growing stupendously to make it a reality.

Most of the students take a routine life style.Complete schooling, get some degree, and get into some company.Work there until “the boss” fires you or you quit.
But when Deepak,Abhinav,Ashwin and Hisam from L.B.S College of Engineering,Kasaragod did things differently, they are no longer the guy-next door.
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The founders behind this venture are already feeling tremendous responsibility on their young but strong shoulders and are happy that all four played each of their roles very well in these hard but fun filled startup days.
Innoz technologies, a very unique and successful student start up company in Technopark developed a new innovative solution named Tranz-File for mobile devices, for file sharing among mobile networks.

Tranz enables you to share photos,videos & music with your friends and family – right from your GPRS/3G mobile phone.

Tranz is a file sharing and networking application that enriches your mobile Internet experience. Using Tranz you can stay connected with your closest buddy list i.e. your phonebook! Sharing files could never have been so easy. Tranz lets you share any kind of files on your mobile with your phonebook network. Tranz also lets you do a lot more with mobile Internet. Shout about what you are doing and share your thoughts with your friends and send unlimited messages!

Tranz is a social tool for the your strongest social network. Sharing pictures, videos and your thoughts has just got simplified. With just a first time login screen, Tranz is easy to use and easy to download app.

The application is launched in India & soon we will be launching world wide.
Right now TRANZ supports all JAVA enabled handsets, but soon we are launching native applications for Symbian,iphone & android.

Download the application from PC: http://www.gotranz.com Tranz
From Mobile: http://www.m.gotranz.com

It was in November 2008 team Innoz, while still students at an engineering college in the state, launched an innovative text messaging interface for any definition by sending an SMS from their mobile phones-SMSGYAN.

Representing India among the 16 finalists for the DFJ-CISCO Global Business Comp’2009, being the Finalist at Economic Times-Power of Ideas’2009,Getting Funded & Incubated by iAccelerator IIM-Ahmedabad and being a Top Ranker in TATA-NEN Hottest Startups’2008, these are few achievements of this very new and enterprising firm in India, achievements which even oldest companies would vie for.

“Dream big and do whatever it takes to realize your dreams’ is what motivates the Innoz team. They say “The days are gone when u only reach the sky. We the young entrepreneurs at Innoz dare to dream big and are anything but satisfied with just reaching the sky. We aim for the stars and dare to reach there.”  With dreams aiming stars, the current focus of Innoz is on Mobile, web and New Media.

The team is very humble to recognize they are very young to be giving advices but then wisdom doesn’t come with age so here they share few words …

“Entrepreneurship is a rising phenomenon in India and requires players to take advantage of it. Never wait for the right time because so much is happening in the world. The most important factor is your dream which will always be your biggest inspiration. It is not easy to mix student life and business but it is definitely not impossible. Always have the desire to learn because whether you fail or succeed the learning process never ends.”

Recently Innoz bagged Bloomberg-UTVi Idea League Challenge’09 & Star Entrepreneurship Award’09 for their excellence in innovation.

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Fashion Carpet – Teaser video

Kochi’s biggest Fashion event is happening in March. Prepare yourself  for the Vegas  experience!.

Note:

This is an invite only event. If you want invites for this event tell us in comments “Why you need to get invited for this event?”

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AIESEC Kochi Recruitment Drive – Join Now

AIESEC is a youth driven organization for impactful experiences that help individuals realize their potential. AIESEC offers international internships and networking opportunities that help you form valuable skills that can have a positive impact on society. All this, while developing the leader in you and connecting you with young people across cultures.

With a presence in over a 110 countries and having about 50000 members globally, AIESEC has more than 8500 internships opportunities and 7700 leadership opportunities for you.

Our global partners include prestigious firms like the Price Water House Coopers, DHL , Microsoft, Alcatel Lucent to name a few.

Nationally, we are partnered with TCS, Coco Cola, HDFC , HSBC , ABN Amro , Godrej industries and many more.

We have eminent personalities like Mr. Adi Godrej and Mr. Ratan Tata on our National board  of Advisors.

AIESEC in India has 20 Local chapters and Kochi is one of them.

So what are you waiting for?? Fill up the form below and we will get back to you ASAP! Be a part of the World’s largest corporate youth leadership factory!!

JOIN AIESEC

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EPLFC will screen ‘Persona’ on 18th February, 6 PM

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EPLFC will be screening Ingmar Bergman’s Persona on 18th February, 2010(Thursday) at 6 PM. The screening will be at the Ernakulam Public Library.

Plot: A nurse is put in charge of an actress who can’t talk and finds that the actress’s persona is melding with hers.

Details

  • Title: Persona
  • Director: Ingmar Bergman
  • Year: 1966
  • Genre: Drama
  • Time: 85 mins
  • Color: Black and White

EPLFC(Ernakulam Public Library Film Club) Announcement

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Salsa Night – Salsa Competition – 13 Feb – Oberon Mall, Cochin

Club FM and Uninor together are conduction a salsa competition at Oberon Mall, Kochi on 13th Feb. Time is 6:00 P.M to 9:00 P.M. Contact RJ Rakesh for more details. (9946666943).

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First Prize is R.s 10,000 and so on.

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