ICT
conference and exhibition in Jaffna
this week (05.05.2010
- The Island, SL)
The
Information and Communication Technology Agency of Sri Lanka (ICTA)
has focused its attention on further improvement of the standard of
life of the people of the North. As one of the steps in this regard,
ICTA has organised a workshop and an exhibition at the the Jaffna
library this week.
ICTA said that this event will be conducted to disseminate information
on projects that will benefit especially farmers, women, children, small
scale entrepreneurs as well as differently abled persons.
The workshop will be held today (05.05.2010) and the exhibition will be
on tomorrow (06.05.2010). A special focus at this event will be creating
awareness of projects initiated by the e-Society programme of ICTA. ............................>>
Uva Wellassa
University is the first ever entrepreneurial university in Sri
Lanka. It fulfils the requirement of producing undergraduates with
entrepreneurial skills much needed for the country. Daily News Business
highlighted its importance recently.
This is the first of a series of articles based on final year student
research reports on value addition which will be useful for
industrialists as well as readers. Interested parties can contact the
Uva Welassa University.
Nalinda A.N.
Ranasinghe, a final year student, specializing in Mechatronics
under the Science and Technology Degree program did a project titled ‘Low cost optical 3-D scanner for surface
registration of simple objects’ with the objective of designing
and implementing a low cost 3-D laser scanner device that is capable of
scanning and reconstruction of 3-D models of simple objects. .............................>>
Sinhala,
Tamil language website addresses soon - by Jagdish Hathiramani (04.04.2010 - Sunday
Times, SL)
Sri Lanka's Information and Communication
Technology Agency (ICTA) announced this week that the Internet
Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has approved the use
of Sinhala and Tamil language in website addresses, a move that ICTA
said "would go a long way in making Sri Lankans, especially the rural
folk, move speedily towards the ideals of world fellowship and global
village”.
To determine the true impact of this potential paradigm shift, the
Business Times spoke to local industry opinion leaders to ascertain how
Sri Lankans and their online habits may be affected. ..............................>>
CID
carries out software piracy
raid in the corporate sector (03.04.2010 - The
Island, SL)
•Over 120 pirated software copies, valued at
Rs. 10 mn, found
The Criminal Investigations Division carried out yet another corporate
end user raid over the last two days when it raided a limited liability
company.
"The company is suspected to be infringing the intellectual property
rights of the Business Software Alliance members, namely Adobe, Autodesk
and Microsoft by using pirated and unlicensed software in the course of
running its business," the CID’s public relations agents announced. ............................>>
Sri
Lanka police raids business
over software piracy (01.04.2010 13:42
SLT - lankabusinessonline.com)
Apr 01, 2010 (LBO) : Sri
Lanka's police have raided a company suspected to be using pirated and
unlicensed software, the Business Software Alliance (BSA) which
represents software firms said.
The company is suspected to be infringing the intellectual property
rights of BSA members, Adobe, Autodesk and Microsoft, it said in a
statement.
The raids on Tuesday and Wednesday involved the seizure and examination
of over seventy computers installed with an estimated 120 copies of
pirated software valued at about 10 million rupees. .............................>>
Lanka,
Ilangai to replace Internet
domain ‘LK’ – Global
authority for domain names (30.03.2010 - The Island, SL)
Soon
it will be possible to replace the top level internet domain ‘LK’ by
lanka or ilangai respectively in Sinhala or Tamil script in the Sihala /
Tamil web-site addresses.
This is because the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
(ICANN has approved Sri Lanka’s request for the top level domains . The
approval was granted last Tuesday (23). Thus, for example, the Sinhala /
Tamil web-site address for the web-site of Sri Lanka parliament will be
web.parlimentuwa.lanka (accurately typed in Sihhala script) /
talam.paaraalumandram.ilankai (accurately typed in Tamil script). ............................>>
SLIIT,
Virtusa to implement Virtusa
Head Start Program (11.03.2010 - Daily News, SL)
The Sri
Lanka Institute of Information Technology (SLIIT) recently partnered
Virtusa Corporation to introduce a program that will boost the quality
of the software testing educational experience and maximise student
potential within the IT sector.
The program, named Virtusa Head Start, has been initiated as a means of
backward integrating into the institutes with the aim of developing a
potential talent pool for the IT Industry. ..........................>>
Tamil
application software introduced at Infotel Jaffna (06.03.2010 - The Island, SL)
As part
of the company’s Gamata IT initiative, and following the launch of its
very successful Sinhala Language Interface Pack (LIP) last year,
Microsoft Sri Lanka made an amazing impact at the Infotel Exhibition in
Jaffna with the launch of the Tamil Language Interface Pack.
The pack was also launched as part of the company’s efforts to support
the Uthuru Wasanthaya programme initiated by the Government. .......................>>
President halts cyber censorship (21.02.2010 - Sunday
Times, SL)
President Mahinda Rajapaksa has ordered the
suspension of a plan by Sri Lanka’s telecommunications regulator to
censor anti-government websites by blocking access to it with Chinese
assistance, informed sources said.
This reversal of the decision by the Telecommunication Regulatory
Commission (TRC) follows last week’s Sunday Times front page report
which referred to measures to clamp down on anti government information
disseminated via independent online media. .......................>>
INFOTEL exhibition in Jaffna (14.02.2010 - Sunday
Observer, SL)
The Mini INFOTEL Information and
Communication Technology (ICT) Exhibition under the theme of
`Re-awakening with ICT' will be held from 26th to 28th February 2010 at
the Vembady Girls High School with the objective of promoting ICT in the
northern region. ...........................>>
