Staring at a small piece of blue plastic inside a blue box… I take out the latest of the ‘Ultra Low-Cost’ handsets introduced to the Sri Lankan market – The Nokia Lum… What?! Sorry… a Nokia 105. At a price of Rs.2990, and backed by a powerful Nokia brand, this petite little piece of communication device is aimed point blank at ...
I’m sure most of you know the story by now. Kapruka, an established transport services company, recently turned the retail business on its head. They set up an office where you could walk in, order anything off Amazon, Ebay, Newegg and get it delivered right to their doorstep. Dollar price plus a 5% charge for shipping and handling. This applies ...
We like free Wi-Fi: don’t you? Unfortunately, free WiFi isn’t all that easy to come find in Colombo. The weird thing is that a lot of WiFi networks exist: it’s just that most of them are closed, or slow, or completely forgotten. Which is why, for the past few months, we’ve been hard at work behind a new project: ReadMe Maps. ...
Mywish.lk may be a tad misleading: no, it doesn’t do fast cars, glamorous women or supercomputers. What it does do, brilliantly, is help get your personal events up and online. Essentially, MyWish is a site that offers a set of integrated services. [...]
Social media as we all know today is a giant part of the internet. Exactly how gigantic is it you ask? Well according to nextweb.com, it’s now the most common thing we do online! But what exactly do we Sri Lankans do with social media? An interesting question indeed, which is why we partnered with Loops Solutions a few months ...
It began, as many good things do, with a simple thought. In our case, we thought: we can do better. Now let’s not be too melodramatic: we started the #AlternateBestweb as a biting parody. A harsh criticism of what many felt to be skewed practices, bad taste and unprofessional self-congratulatory practices. I’d like to think we stuck to our ...
So it’s 10 AM, one humid and mercifully cloudy morning in Colombo, and we’re inching into the University of Colombo’s New Arts Theater, a large cavern decked out in yellow and black. This is the annual Colombo Research Symposium, where graduating students present their papers. There’re a few more banners up here compared to last time – for starters, there’s ...
Looking for a pair of headphones? We covered this topic in an article done previously and we preached at length about earphones not too long ago: now we’ve completed our rounds and have brought you…this. Our recommendations are not based on brand rather on overall build quality, music and sound quality and additional features. For testing audio quality, we ...
Writing about a company is never easy, especially if you’re not on their PR payroll. There is the inevitable urge to list all products and personnel, balanced against the need to be concise and critical. So let us put this to you in the same way it was put to us – as a walkthrough of sorts. Sometime back, ...
Not too long ago, I was at loggerheads with SLT. I had paid for an 8mbps line and I was getting just half of what I paid for. Most of my friends and day-to-day associates were in similar situations. SLT’s [...]
The biggest inter-university talent show organized by the Student Activity Club of APIIT unwrapped its 6th consecutive year in a grander scale than ever before. This year too Readme proudly takes the backseat as a Strategic Partner to witness the talents of a new era of performers. There were over 150 applicants from leading state universities and private ...
It’s evening as we – and by we, I mean four of the Readme crew – rumble into Col. TG Jayawardena Mawatha, a small road wedged firmly between Flower Road and Duplication. A row of houses greet us there: we put-put-put our way down the path, scanning the neighborhood for number 30/3: a two-storey house with no decoration save for ...
While gamers in Europe and North America are now playing with Sony’s new PlayStation 4, the official Asian regions such as: Singapore and Hong Kong have to wait till December, to do the same. Thankfully, Sri Lanka is not an official region, which is why we now have PS4’s here in Sri Lanka! Yes folks, you read that right, the ...
On the 20th March 2013, the Google Summer of Code winners (which included 1-APIIT, 1-SLIIT, 1-UCSC, 4-UoP, 28-UoM) were awarded souvenirs from higher education minister S.B. Dissanayake who was the chief guest. Some key participants were Julian Persuad, Managing Director of [...]
“What do I study?” and “Where should I study?”, these are a few, tough and common questions that plague students who finish A/L’s and are about to head off to university, since there are so many options available these days. With so many options how does one know what’s the best option? That’s what SL2College tried to answer at SL2College ...
hSenid Mobile kicked off the first of the pre-TADHack sessions yesterday at the Dialog Future World Auditorium. Now, we’ve spoken about the upcoming TADHack here, so let’s not beat around the bush: these sessions, leading up to the actual event, are intended to familiarize participants with what exactly they need to be doing. hSenid Mobile and the Ideamart crew have ...
Starting another chapter in the Sri Lankan Social Media community gathering history, quite a number of Sri Lankan tweeps gathered today at the Sasakawa Hall in Colombo 3 for the first ever #TweepsIftar. Although 6 tweeps met last year during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan for a small #TweepsIftar, the event this year was the proper first event. The ...
In our industry – in interviews, in all the events that we attend, in all the news that we hear – we invariably speak a lot about a lot of men. The simple fact is that there are far more men than women in the tech industry; and thus, when we hear great things – electric supercars, billion-dollar startups – ...
With constant talk and less action on cloud computing, the University of Colombo School of Computing (UCSC) became the first governmental academic institute to own a Software Defined Data Center powered by Vmware vCloud suite. Click here to view the embedded video. In other words, UCSC not only has its own private cloud infrastructure but it also consists of Cloud ...
