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Repository of plaudits, LGN to extend to North and East soon

With 476 Government organisations already connected, the successful Lanka Government Network project (LGN) is now making headway to connect 75 Government organisations in the North and East. This phase of the project will be completed this year. When this happens LGN that has been at the root of many a comfort brought to the public, [...]

Local, overseas Degree programmes from ESOFT Metro Campus For post-O/L students

The ESOFT Metro Campus has provided the opportunity of following the following local and overseas degrees such as Bachelor of Information Technology (BIT) degree course of the University of Colombo, the Professional Graduate Diploma in IT Course of the British Computer Institute (BCS), the BA (Hons) Degree of Business and Finance of the Bucks New [...]

Apple’s weak results spark fresh round of price target cuts

Jan 24 (Reuters) – Weaker-than-expected holiday sales of Apple Inc’s iPhone reinforced fears that it is losing its dominance in smartphones, driving down its shares and drawing another round of stock price target cuts early on Thursday. Shares of the company, which reported lower-than-expected revenue for the third straight quarter on Wednesday, were set to open [...]

Along with birthdays, names of pets and ascending number sequences, add one more thing to the list of password no-nos: Good grammar

Along with birthdays, names of pets and ascending number sequences, add one more thing to the list of password  no-nos: Good grammar

An algorithm developed by Ashwini Rao and colleagues at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, makes light work of cracking long passwords which make grammatical sense as a whole phrase, even if they are interspersed with numbers and symbols. Rao’s algorithm makes guesses by combining words and phrases from password-cracking databases into grammatically correct phrases. [...]

UCSC wins Awards at e-Swabhimani-2012

UCSC wins Awards at e-Swabhimani-2012

UCSC won four awards at the 4th National Best e-Content Award e-Swabhimani 2012 organized by the Information and Communication Technology Agency of Sri Lanka. The awards ceremony was held at Cinnamon Grand Hotel on recently. Facial Muscle Anatomy based approach for Forensic Facial Reconstruction in Sri Lanka a standard alone system in English produced by [...]

‘2013, year of excellent public service’ President’s Secy explains way to meet challenge

Kicking off recently a project that can make State land management unimaginably easy, Presidential Secretary Lalith Weeratunga showed the way to make 2013 the excellent public service year. The State Land Information Management System (e-SLIMS) is a project initiated by the ICT Agency of Sri Lanka (ICTA). With this launch e-SLIMS is immediately implemented in [...]

Failure not an option for ICTA

Failure not an option for ICTA

The ICT Agency of Sri Lanka (ICTA) has worked hard to achieve its ambitious national e-Development Programme since 2005, ICTA Chairman Professor P. W. Epasinghe says. Within seven years ICTA managed to reach its destination in e-Sri Lanka in various fields. “Failure was not an option for ICTA during these years”, Professor Epasinghe pointed out [...]

ICTA’s ‘mobile portal’, top e-Governance winner at Indian Manthan award 2012

ICTA’s ‘mobile portal’, top e-Governance winner at Indian Manthan award 2012

The ‘mobile portal’, the ICT Agency of Sri Lanka (ICTA) presented at the Manthan Award 2012, stood tall among the winners under the e-Governance category. Unique features of ICTA Mobile Portal The Sri Lankan e-Governance Manthan 2012 winner, ICTA Mobile Portal, shows to the citizens the mobile services offered by all Government departments and the [...]

Third WSO2Con Event Examines Cloud, API Management, SOA, and Mobile Technology Best Practices

Third WSO2Con Event Examines Cloud, API Management, SOA, and Mobile Technology Best Practices

This year, WSO2 – the enterprise middleware company, takes its annual user conference to London, where 16 guest speakers will present case studies and technical overviews on cloud, open source, API management, SOA, and mobile technology best practices. The presenters include customers, researchers, systems integrators, and other third-party solution providers. Collectively, they will explore IT [...]

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