“FUCK MEDIOCRITY” screams a framed print on the wall. We’re startled, and then we grin. This isn’t the sort of thing you’d expect to see in an office in Kirulapona, much less the office of Calcey Technologies, a boutique software engineering firm with an expensive Silicon Valley client list and a very tame-looking website. Nevertheless, we’re at Siebel Avenue, Kirulapona, ...
The young student entrepreneurs of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Global Startup Labs (MIT GSL) Programme received the chance to see the realization of a successful startup and receive one-on-one expert advice at the second annual Anything.lk Day. MIT GSL was founded to foster development in emerging markets by encouraging entrepreneurship through an intensive 7 week incubator programme. The entrepreneurs ...
It all comes down to the convenience of touch now, doesn’t it? Recently, (towards the end of last month) local mobile operator Dialog Axiata, local NFC payment enthusiast Orik Payment Solutions and Netherlands based NXP Semiconductors collaborated to provide contactless payments and transport ticketing to 20.6 million commuters. (That is from our present population of 20.33 million.) The system was ...
The IEEE Sri Lanka Section will be hosting the 3rd IEEE Region 10 Student, Young Professional, Women in Engineering Congress this time from the 9th to 12th July 2015 at Hotel Galadari under the theme ‘Today’s Youth for a Better Tomorrow’. This biannual congress brings together professionals representing various disciplines of Engineering, Industry giants and students and provides the opportunity ...
“It all started with Trevor and Tekla Fernando.” Suchetha Wijenayake, long-term Linux guru, FOSS advocate and founder of FOSS.lk has been working with the web for a long time – and in his work as a system administrator, trainer and web coder, he’s seen his fair share of web security flaws and exploits. Recently, while running a simple Google search for two popular ...
Happy 10th birthday http://t.co/sHC31bNFGX New #blog post: #lka #srilanka @indica @kottufeed @yudhanjaya http://t.co/T2WrS4F5jW — cerno (@cernoblog) April 5, 2015 Two days ago, Cerno, a very old-school Sri Lankan blogger, wrote a short piece congratulating Kottu for ten years of existence. I was surprised. Days and months always crawl by, but the years seem to fall swiftly, like a row ...
Informatics Institute of Technology (or just IIT for short) is a leading University in Sri Lanka offering Bachelors and Masters programmes in business and Information Technology. Each year the management of IIT along with the students combine forces to bring to life “Cutting Edge” A tech exhibition showcasing the awesome talents of IIT’s students. Participation is voluntary and students from ...
Considering the crowd we saw, chances are a lot of you already know about the Reflection of Sri Lanka exhibition, which is running parallel to CHOGM, at the Folk Arts Centre in Battaramulla that is aimed at showcasing Sri Lanka’s export portfolio at its best. Click here to view the embedded video. As the promotional video promised, there were 16 ...
I was recently going through an eBook and stumbled upon this theory called the “Reticular Formation” in Social Media. Diving deeper into the theory I understood that this theory is something that affects the way we do our social marketing. According to Wikipedia reticular formation is a region in the brainstem that is involved in multiple tasks such as ...
Some time ago, we wrote about Dawn Patrol, a professional indie game studio – if that’s the right way to describe them – working out of an office right here in Colombo. They’ve just released their newest game: Nitropia, a space-age tower defense game set in a somewhat blighted future. It’s available on iTunes and on Google Play. So for the big ...
Infotel’s happening tomorrow, on the 24th of October – and by that, we mean that Sri Lanka’s largest ICT exhibition, and perhaps the closest thing we have to an Expo, is set to kick off on tomorrow and continue until Sunday, the 26th of October. As the flagship event of FITIS, the organizing body, Infotel over the years has evolved into a meeting ...
Some time ago we came across something called Page2App by a local startup called Cinnamon Information Technologies. This literally-named product promised just one thing: it would take our Facebook page and turn it into a mobile application. And then it would pretty much run itself after launch, keeping itself up-to-date as needed. Needless to say, we searched the Google Play ...
It started off as a simple meetup but then, it exploded into a large gathering of over a 100 people. Since that fateful day, it has had the entire Sri Lankan Twitter community burning with excitement for it and now, its back this year for round 4! For those of you who aren’t on Twitter/ are new to Twitter, a ...
Last Friday, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Global Startup Labs (formerly AITI), hosted its first Alumni Day at the University of Moratuwa, reflecting upon the first two years of a unique start-up incubator, during which teams of young Sri Lankan student entrepreneurs build and launch innovative mobile software start-ups. The program’s longtime supporter Fayaz Hudah of the ICTA delivered the ...
YUDHANJAYA: Trace Expert City is a beautiful place. When we last visited it, to interview the team behind the Vega, it was mostly a concoction of mud, men and half-complete brick structures. It’s vastly improved in those few months. The paths are in place, and up close Trace looks more like a charming campus than an office space. What were ...
It’s been a busy week. In fact, it’s been a busy month. As you’ll have noticed from our front page. In less that thirty days, we’ve had three hackathons, one massive breach of national cybersecurity, one global competition by Microsoft, a Sri Lankan in the Internet Hall of Fame, our own ReadMe.maps service launch – even the birth of a ...
Gaming is bad for you. At least, that’s what most parents would have you believe. Despite the rise of competitive gaming in Sri Lanka and the existence of massive million-dollar prize pools elsewhere, gaming is still viewed with suspicion – at best, as a waste of time; at worst, as a largely underground mix of half-hidden LAN cafes where gamers ...
Organised for the 4th time by the Information and Communication Technology Agency of Sri Lanka together with FutureGov Asia Pacific magazine, FutureGov SAARC Summit 2013 showcases new developments in public sector service delivery from around the world, and provides a platform for Sri Lankan public servants to meet and interact with their international and national peers. Put together by the ...
The fine folk over at the Colombo Javascript meetup are having a hackathon!Excited already? Good. Before you get your white hats on, a clarification: this is not about cracking firewalls. CMBhack.js is a creative, 34-hour event in which Javascript enthusiasts get to pitch, develop and submit their best ideas. In those 34 hours, you get to meet a hundred enthusiasts ...
Today, on the day the new Parliament commences its duties, we found out that the website of the Presidential Secretariat has been taken down – whether by an administrative mistake, or by yet another branch of hacktivists, we’re unable to ascertain. What we can tell you is that the entire website is open wider than the your window right now. Editor’s note: or ...
