At the National HR Excellence Awards held this year, Damith Hettihewa was recognized as the People’s Leader under the Information Technology category. The People Leaders’ category recognizes non HR professionals who have provided visionary leadership to gain maximum use of an organization’s human capital, thereby significantly boosting the organizational performance. Damith, CEO of Informatics Pvt Ltd and Secretary of Computer Society ...
Huawei Consumer Business Group (CBG) was recently recognized by the European Image and Sound Association (EISA) for two products; the Huawei P10 smartphone and the Huawei Watch 2. The Huawei P10 was recognized and named ‘EISA Smartphone Camera 2017-2018’, making it Huawei’s fifth consecutive EISA Award win for their P series lineup of smartphones. Image Credits: The Verge In addition, ...
A problem I have encountered every time I use a USB drive as a Startup Disk, is that their block size get changed, and even gparted reports that it can’t fix the that. The following command will fix that. sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdX bs=2048 count=32 Be sure to replace sdX with the drive identified (Eg: sda, sdb, sdc, etc.). And ...
Located at No. 409, R. A. De Mel Mawatha (almost opposite Edulink International Campus), Mobitel’s X Station was opened on the 15th of August 2017 and we got a chance to see exactly what the hype was about. In case you were wondering, Mobitel’s X Station is the first hi-tech Internet of Things (IoT) concept store of its kind in the ...
Polythene bags, regiform boxes and especially lunch sheets used to wrap food are to be banned in Sri Lanka from September, 2017. As we all know, all the above make an immense effect on the environment .Some of the polythene will almost never degrade while getting deposited into the soil reducing the soil quality thereby reducing the agricultural harvest from ...
At a recently held gathering of renowned practitioners in data analytics, Dr. Dr. Zeeshan-Ul-Hassan Usmani explained that the sheer scale and mixture of Sri Lanka’s economy makes it the perfect hub to deploy advanced data analytics. Dr Zeeshan, who is a world renowned data scientist and newly appointed Director at SAKS Analytics addressed said gathering under the theme of “Data ...
Establishing communication following a disasters is definitely a challenge. You have no idea of who needs what at which point so coordinating that is a whole new level of tough. Even with high speed internet, there can be issues such as damaged networks and loss of electricity. But what if there was a way to send and receive large amounts ...
CHEC Port City Colombo has signed up with MTI’s idea2fund, thus demonstrating their commitment to Sri Lanka by helping to identify and groom emerging Sri Lankan entrepreneurs. L_R: Ms. Malithi Herath (MTI Project Manager for idea2fund), Hilmy Cader (CEO MTI Consulting),Liang Thow Ming (Chief Sales and Marketing Officer, CHEC Port City Colombo) and Kassapa Senarath (Head of Public Relations, CHEC ...
Not many people remember Google these days. Most need to look it up. A sad irony for a company whose name was once a verb for that very act. Now it is a historical foot note. An academic short hand for dominance killed by ecological shifts. At its peak, Google’s algorithms defined human knowledge in … Continue reading Remember Google? →
Naveed Haq, with ISOC Development “Panic and chaos are inherent in crises. During the critical golden 72 hours the public need ICTs to mitigate the panic but we are still ten years behind and have forgotten history” – says Mr. Naveed Haq. Progress towards resilient ICTs for emergency communication and crisis response remains poor in Asia and the Pacific. The ...
The first ever heart transplant in Sri Lankan history was successfully conducted in Kandy general hospital from a brain-dead patient to a patient whose heart function has decreased down to a 12 %. The harvested heart was from a 24 year old boy who faced a heavy head injury during a road accident on his bike, while riding without his ...
Have you ever seen how small infants keep on crying till their mother lifts them up or pays them attention? Have you ever wondered why it happens? Not only humans, animals: especially dogs learn not to do certain tasks if you punish them. This type of behavior was explained by the psychologists, John Watson and B.F.Skinner as operant conditioning. They ...
Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS), a global high-tech leader enabling companies to innovate from Silicon to Software™, today announced it is investing in R&D capabilities in its Sri Lanka operations. To extend its local R&D capabilities, Synopsys is working with the University of Moratuwa, the University of Peradeniya and the University of Ruhuna to build very-large-scale integration (VLSI) and electronic design ...
One Verge Holdings (Pvt) Ltd, one of Sri Lanka’s second generation digital companies recently renewed its’ partnership with pioneers of mobile video streaming and Over-The-Top media specialists, Apalya Technologies (Pvt) Ltd. To date, Apalya Technologies (Pvt) Ltd has presence in over 11 countries across South & South-East Asia, Middle East & Africa. One Verge is a streaming specialist with half ...
