Startup Village Kochi | India's first PPP Telecom Incubator Zone

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Open Coffee Kerala June 2012

“Share, Network and Grow” – that’s a relaxing way of building your business. This month’s Open Coffee Kerala will be held at The Woods Manor, Kochi on June 6th from 6 to 9pm.

Talk by Sijo Kuruvilla George (CEO of Startup Village ) on “Startup Village” and “The MobME Story” – by Sanjay Vijayakumar (CEO & Co-Founder of MobME ) will be the main highlights this time.



Open Coffee is an informal meeting where everyone who is “online” can meet offline to discuss ideas, do brainstorming and getting new business contacts. Meet people, find out what’s going on nearby you and then go and take part. It is started to encourage entrepreneurs, developers and investors to organize real-world informal meetups to chat, network and grow.

Location : The Woods Manor, M.G.Road, Ernakulam

The event is free and allows only 50 registrations. Check facebook event page for registration related info or Contact 9947777147 .

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Biggest news for Startup Village till date!

BlackBerry makers to set up innovation zone in Kochi

The manufacturers of BlackBerry, Research in Motion (RIM), will Thursday open an innovation zone for BlackBerry technologies with a view to motivating young Indian entrepreneurs.

'Rubus Labs' will be opened at Startup Village here in the presence of senior officials of BlackBerry, including its global vice-president Alec Saunders and India managing director Sunil Dutt.

It is for the first time that RIM is setting up such an innovation zone in the Asia-Pacific region and Kerala has been selected to be part of this momentous collaboration that would ignite the imagination of students, potential entrepreneurs and tech-savvy people.

Sijo Kuruvilla George, CEO of Startup Village, said the village would be the powerhouse of the future telecom technology revolution in the country by incubating over 1,000 startups over the next decade and transform Kerala into 'Silicon Coast'.

"RIM, the global game-changer in the mobile industry, will give pre-launch access to its latest devices and operating systems, apart from technological assistance. Rubus Labs will host regular activities like BlackBerry Hackathons and Bar Camps, besides training sessions for student entrepreneurs. The lab will also be open to school students to expose them to innovative technologies," said George.

As an alliance partner, Startup Village would get stock devices of the BlackBerry family, including handsets and playbooks, from RIM. The partnership will also facilitate Startup Village to work with BlackBerry partner funds to co-invest in the startup firms.

Startup Village was set up jointly by the National Science and Technology Entrepreneurship Development Board (NSTEDB) under the Department of Science and Technology (DST) of the central government and the Kerala government-run Technopark, in collaboration with MobME Wireless.

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[KMC]

Excellent news indeed..

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Rubus - Blackberry Innovation Zone in Kochi

First Innovation center of Blackberry in the Asia-Pacific region.


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RIM Zone at startup Village to be opened today

Startup Village, the country’s first telecom incubator at KINFRA Hi-Tech Park, Kalamassery, is entering into a tie-up with Research in Motion (RIM), the manufacturers of BlackBerry. RIM is setting up an innovation zone, Rubus Labs, to introduce BlackBerry technologies and innovations to young entrepreneurs.

The zone will be formally opened at the Startup Village on Thursday in the presence of senior officials of BlackBerry, including its global vice-president Alec Saunders and India managing director Sunil Dutt.RIM is setting up such an innovation zone in the Asia-Pacific region for the first time and Kerala has been selected to be part of the collaboration.

RIM, the global game-changer in the mobile industry, will give pre-launch access to its latest devices and operating systems, apart from technological assistance. Rubus Labs will host regular activities like BlackBerry Hackathons and Bar Camps, besides conducting training sessions for student entrepreneurs. The lab will also be open to school students.

As an alliance partner, Startup Village will get stock devices of the BlackBerry family, including handsets and playbooks, from RIM. The partnership will also facilitate Startup Village to work with BlackBerry partner funds to co-invest in the startup firms.

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All the medias reported this news.

BlackBerry's first Innovation Zone in Asia Pacific in Kerala

Kochi: Smartphone maker Research In Motion (RIM) on Thursday announced setting up of Blackberry's Innovation Zone -- the first in the Asia Pacific region -- here in Kerala.

RIM would set up two innovation zones in India this year, including the one at Kochi, RIM Vice President Developer Relations and Ecosystems Development Alec Saunders told reporters here.

The location of the second innovation zone is yet to be finalised, he said.

Located at Rubus Labs in the Startup Village, the innovation zone will showcase latest technologies from BlackBerry to inspire future entrepreneurs, he said.

On investment, RIM India Managing Director Sunil Dutt said it is ongoing and at this point, RIM's participation is in terms of innovative technology and devices.

When it was pointed out that Kerala was known as the land of 'hartals', Dutt said the state was also known for its literacy and entrepreneurship.

Harkesh Mittal, Union Secretary, Technology Development Board, Department of Science and Technology and Head of Union Government's Incubation programme, said lots of innovations are happening in the country and Kerala is leading them. A large number of proposals come from individual innovators in Kerala, he said.

The labs would host regular developer activities such as 'BlackBerry Hackathons and 'Bar Camps'.

Training sessions would be conducted across the 126 Engineering colleges in Kerala under the BlackBerry BASE (BlackBerry Apps by Student Entrepreneurs) programme by leveraging the campus outreach network of Startup Village, Sanjay Vijaykumar, Chairman (Board of Governors), Startup Village, said.

The objective of the partnership is to motivate young minds by giving access to RIM's mobile technology and imparting experiences and training from Blackberry experts.

Rubus Labs will also serve as experiential zone for school children to introduce them to the world of smartphones and experience the limitless possibilities of mobile technology, Sijo Kuruvilla George, CEO Startup village said.

The Startup village is being projected by both DST and the state government as the largest national attempt to scale up innovation in India through incubators in collaboration with the private sector, tap huge potential unfolding in the telecom sector and transform students as successful job creators instead of job seekers.

Equipped with full 4 G network, telecom labs, innovation zones, legal and intellectual property services, fully furnished offices and video conference rooms, the Startup Village will give a slew of incentives such as three-year service tax holiday and funding opportuntities for tech startups in its search for a billion dollar campus startup from India.

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RIM’s innovation zone in Kerala

RIM VP Alec Saunders and MD (India) Sunil Dutt at the launch of the innovation zone
at Kinfra Hi-Tech Park in Kalamassery near Kochi on Thursday

KOCHI: BlackBerry manufacturer Research In Motion (RIM) is to set up its innovation zone here, the first in the Asia Pacific region.

RIM vice-president Alec Saunders told mediapersons here on Thursday that the BlackBerry zone at the Rubus Labs in the Startup Village at Kalamassery, near here, would be followed with two others in the country this year.

The zone would showcase the latest technologies from BlackBerry which would be inspiration for future entrepreneurs. Those at the zone would get the new versions of the smartphone much in advance and get trained to develop new technologies, he said.

The zone would host regular developer activities such as ‘BlackBerry Hackathons and ‘Bar Camps’ and training would be imparted in the 126 engineering colleges in the state through the BlackBerry apps by student entrepreneurs programme, said RIM India managing director Sunil Dutt. He refused to get into details of investment and only said it was an ongoing process.

Union technology development board secretary Harkesh Mittal said that the state was leading in innovations in the country.

The incubation centre at Technopark was one successful venture pointing to the large number of innovators coming from the state. “For every rupee invested, the return was thrice that in three years,” he added.

The Startup village promoted by the union and state governments has a slew of incentives such as three-year service tax holiday and funding opportunities for tech startups, according to Village chairman Sanjay Vijaykumar.

[Prasanth_KCV]

BlackBerry started there Innovation Zone in Kochi without much fanfare. Hope we will get more surprise from Startup Village in future.

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Education Tablet KloudPad launched in India

UK-based startup KloudPad has launched a new education Tablet in India. The Tablet is also christened KloudPad and runs on the Android 4.0 operating system. It is priced at Rs 9,999 and available on Slatestore.in.

The company has tied up with Attano, a digital education marketplace, to provide relevant content for CBSE and ICSE courses. The Tablet also comes pre-loaded with apps like the Edu TV and Attano eBook (it offers reference materials). Additionally, the company has opted for local tie-ups for service and support. Currently, it has support centres in Kochi and Kozhikode while a centre in Thiruvananthapuram will be launched next month.

The startup was founded by Abbishek Jayaraj Shikky and his brother Aromal in 2010 and it was incubated by the Kent Chamber of Commerce. The company is now looking at the Startup Village in Kochi to start their R&D centre in the country.

“We will soon come out with customised solutions for the medical, legal and hospitality sectors,” said Aromal Jayaraj Shikky, co-founder and director of KloudPad.

What it offers

This one has a 7 inch capacitive touchscreen display (800×480 pixel resolution) and runs on the Android Ice Cream Sandwich OS (out of the box). It is powered by a 1.2 GHz Cortex-A8 processor and has 512 MB of RAM. The internal memory of the device is 4 GB, which can be expanded up to 32 GB with the help of a microSD card.

The device also features dual cameras (rear and front-facing) but the company hasn’t disclosed further details (in terms of mega pixels). It also has built-in 3G, which essentially means you can insert a SIM card for calling.

On the connectivity front, the Tablet is Wi-Fi and 3G compatible, and it comes with a USB port, a microSD card slot and an HDMI port. This one has a 4,000 mAh battery, which provides six hours of battery life (or so the company claims). The dimensions are not known yet but it weighs 380 gm.

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Blackberry Innovation Zone at Startup Village, Kochi

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Startup Village huge success: More than 100 applications in less than 2 months


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Direction to Startup Village

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Full page article in today's Mathrubhumi

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Blackberry Rubus - Innovation Zone Inauguration





That's a cake

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IBM invites you to a webinar scheduled on 13th June 2012 to discuss how a mobile enterprise application platform can help you build, manage and integrate mobile and legacy environments more easily. When you mobilize multiple enterprise applications using a single application platform, you benefit from centralized control.....!

Start-ups & Mobility – Catalyst for Future Growth
Event Date: Jun 13, 2012
Event Time: 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM (India Standard Time)
Hosted By: Ajit Yohannan (IBM)
Presented By: Shashwati Rakshit (IBM), LOGESH VINCENT (IBM)

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US Consul general visits Startup Village


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[Prasanth_KCV]

Wonderful pics sree that too your 100th post, kindly post the same in Cochin cityscapes under Indian cityscapes thread.

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Originally Posted by Prasanth_KCV

Wonderful pics sree that too your 100th post, kindly post the same in Cochin cityscapes under Indian cityscapes thread.

Thanks and done