Sri Lanka will hold its annual Cyber Security Week (CSW) beginning this week, the Sri Lanka Computer Emergency Readiness Team (SLCERT) announced.
Cyber Security Week 2011 programme features, a one-day conference on 19 October and two technical workshops on 20 and 21 October.
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Dialog customers now can stop at over 350 Singer Sri Lanka outlets, the Islands largest retailer in home durables to pay mobile, fixed telephone, broadband and DTV (Dialog Television) bill payments giving subscribers a wider reach to settle their dues.
All payments made will be updated online at real time when subscribers make bill payments.
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Reuters: Canada’s Research In Motion said it would offer free premium apps worth more than $ 100, in a bid to appease its customers following BlackBerry service disruption last week.
Research In Motion said the complete selection of premium apps would become available to download at BlackBerry App World for four weeks beginning 19 October.
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HONG KONG: Lenovo Group Ltd. is confident of closing the PC market share gap with leader Hewlett-Packard Co through acquisitions and a strong product mix after claiming the global number two spot, its Chief Executive Yang Yuanqing, said recently
Despite the confidence, analysts say Lenovo has some way to go before it can take the top spot because the Chinese PC maker would need to make key acquisitions and more aggressive sales in the tablet market.
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LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com): The world has lost another computer pioneer. Dennis Ritchie, the computer scientist who invented the C programming language and co-developed the Unix operating system, has died at the age of 70.
The New York Times reports that Ritchie’s body was found in his New Jersey home.
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Eight new products launched and more to come in the pipelineBy Cheranka Mendis
A leading player in the local smartphone industry, Sony Ericsson yesterday launched eight new phones to the Sri Lankan market hoping to establish itself as the leader in android segment in the country within the next few years.
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For the third year running, hSenid participated at The GITEX Technology week in Dubai, showcasing its cutting edge HRM & Mobile software solutions.
Featuring more than 3,500 companies from 57 countries, connecting more than 130,000 ICT professionals, GITEX has gone onto to become one of the most influential and high-profile events in the global ICT event calendar and the leading “finger on the pulse” technology event in the region of MEASA (Middle East, Africa and South Asia).
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Four students honoured for work on project that simulates rebuilding village in post-conflict scenarioFour high school students who attend Nalanda College in Colombo were honoured at a reception at the residence of Sri Lankan Ambassador Jaliya Wickramasuriya last week after they received a first prize in an international competition sponsored by Oracle, the giant American computer company.
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Noratel International (Pvt) Ltd. became one of the first local companies to successfully deploy a fully fledges unified communication solution powered by Microsoft Lync, along with an integrated communication and collaboration system into their communications network.
Almost a year since its introduction, Microsoft Lync has revolutionised the company’s communications experience and helped dramatically cut down costs with its ability to create real-time, face-to-face meetings regardless of geographical boundaries.
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TheGerman Development Cooperation (GIZ) launched a mobile computer training unit targeting Eastern youth. It is part of the larger Peace-Building through Vocational Training programme run by the GIZ in collaboration with the Chamber of Construction Industry Sri Lanka, which delivers construction industry related vocational training courses.
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