Volume 01 Issue 03 April 2009
The official web site of the skoool™ learning and teaching program was inaugurated at a ceremony which took place at the official auditorium of the Ministry of Education located at Isurupaya, Battaramulla. The web site would provide valuable tools that are set to revolutionize the level of learning....
The 28th National Information Technology Conference (NITC) organized by the Computer Society of Sri Lanka (CSSL) will be held on August 11 and 12, 2010 at Galadari Hotel Colombo. The theme for this years conference is "ICT 2.0: Empowering Sri Lanka to a New Social Order" ...
The awards were announced at a day-long seminar and evening ceremony drawing over 400 attendees.
GTS (http://gtslk.com) was able to bag the award in the ‘m-entertainment’ category for their revolutionary Sinhala mobile game ‘Colombo Ride 2.0’...
Starting as a small-scale comic book convention in 1970, Comic-Con has expanded into a juggernaut event attracting fans of fantasy movies, science-fiction TV and video games. Attracting more than 100,000 attendees each year, Comic-Con also draws dozens of Hollywood stars keen to promote their upcoming movies to eager audiences. ...
Colombo Ride 2.0 a product of GTS has grabbed the award in the entertainment category at the South Asia mBillionth awards ceremony held in New Delhi, India. There were 24 winners from 10 categories and included 4 winners from Sri Lanka...
Dialog Tradenet, an integrated mobile and internet-based trading platform, won top honours in the m-Inclusion category at the prestigious m-Billionth South Asia awards. It was held in New Delhi, India last Friday....
Colombo University and the Chamber of Young Lankan Entrepreneurs (COYLE) entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) recently as a joint initiative to inculcate and enhance entrepreneurial skills of university students in Sri Lanka. This MoU was signed by Colombo University Vice Chancellor Prof. Kshanika Hirimburegama and COYLE Chairman W.K.H. Wegapitiya....
Microsoft is warning that attackers are exploiting a critical unpatched Windows vulnerability using infected USB flash drives. Hackers have been exploiting a bug in Windows...
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The begining of the evillage replication project 'Having heard about the Mahavilachchiya eVillage project, Mr Lalith Weeratunga, the Secretary to the President was communicating with me since 2005. But it was in October 2006 he could visit Mahavilachchiya in person to see the ICT related developments in Mahavilachchiya. We invited him to be the Chief Guest of the launch of the mesh internet project in Mahavilachchiya in his capacity as the Chairman of the Telecommunication Regulatory Committee. ’...' |
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Artificial Intelligence Last time, you were able to get an idea about the philosophical and scientific aspects which are at the heart of AI based solutions. The definitions and thoughts about intelligence and how we try to mimic intelligence in the machines are some of the areas that we had a look in to. Now let’s move forward to discuss about the basics of Knowledge representation and Reasoning in AI. |
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How did Wii do it? When we got the Nintendo Wii two weeks back, I couldn’t help but notice the size of the Nintendo Wii console. I wondered whether this could simple be the smallest of them all…. and I was right, measuring just 44 mm wide, 215.4 mm deep and 157 mm tall, it is the smallest home console (to date). The Wii took a step away from other consoles and moved to the unknown, which is what got me excited.... |
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Gadgets In this edition of “diGIT” I thought of taking a different perspective in the area of gadgets. It is always nice to see what kind of new phones, laptops, mp3 players etc. are coming out in next month, next quarter or next year but it is much more interesting to speculate how our life will be in another half a decade or a decade to come... |
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Creating a website using Joomla Joomla is a complex series of PHP scripts that run on a web server. When you browse a Joomla site, these scripting are being generated on the fly and creating what you see on the pages of the site. The key words here are web server. |
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Ruby for Fun and Profit! Today I will introduce you the poster child of Ruby - Rails web framework. Rails was one of the major reasons which made Ruby popular. Most of the developers, like myself first came for Rails and then stayed for Ruby. |
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