Sunday Times

SLIIT hosted the National Conference on Technology and Management (NCTM) on the 27th January at the institutes Malabe Campus. The event, considered to be the successor to the SLIIT Research Symposium which was held for the last six years consecutively, ventured into the spheres of Management and Technology, thus broadening the breadth and depth of research areas covered by this event.

More than 300 complaints against the posting of obscene and personal pictures of persons on Facebook – the social networking service - have been made to the Criminal Investigations Department.

The EDEX Expo 2012, Sri Lanka's largest Education and Career Exhibition held at the BMICH last weekend was filled mostly by Advanced Level students and busloads of students from various schools.

Higher education is the cornerstone of development of a nation. It provides the knowledge needed to generate new concepts, ideas, technology, innovations, skills and also, how to think logically to arrive at fruitful unbiased conclusions based on facts and figures. The learning process begins from the time of birth, the first teacher being the mother of the child.

A versatile Institution ably nurturing minds to conform to Industry expectations, IIT has been able to consistently maintain a record of achieving top standards both in the education and the Industry for which the Institution grooms its students. The greatest testimonials of this achievement are the success stories of IIT’s past pupils who have gone on to prove their mettle in the real working world beyond the University.

A book opened and read is worth more than sitting pretty on your shelf. A campaign to provide new or reusable useful books to deserving and needy students from rural and urban areas will be launched on 20th January 2012 coinciding with EDEX Expo 2012.

PC House PLC, the leader in ICT in Sri Lanka, has taken stock of the strategic changes and developments that took place within the company last year and is forecasting the strategies in business operations, distribution and retail that will be seen in 2012.

Sri Lanka’s Exetel (Pvt) Ltd this week signed a contract for the supply of sales and support services to a major Australian telecommunications company and is aiming to pay over Rs 200,000 per month for skilled personal required for the job.

CIMA knowledge fast forward is a knowledge sharing initiative which strives to improve the conceptual clarity of the business community with regard to a core management/financial accounting knowledge area, describing the concept, and explaining how it applies in practice.

By Bandula Sirimanna

The ICT/BPO (Business Process Outsourcing) industry posted revenues of US$ 310 million in 2010/2011 becoming Sri Lanka’s 6th largest export earner.

The new accounting standard "International Financial Reporting Standards" (IFRS) scheduled to be introduced to the formal banking and finance sector by 31st December 2011, has become a focal point to both the industry, regulators and auditors, a private finance company said.

Mobitel has partnered with T-Navi (Private) Ltd to offer the latest traffic navigation solution to travellers making their lives easier, less stressful and more productive. The T-Navi solution is available in three formats – as a Mobile Phone Application for Smartphones, a Personal Navigation Device (PND) to be fitted in motor vehicles and as a Software SD Card for 2DIN Devices, according to a Mobitel statement.

One of the key announcements at Microsoft's AAP 2011 in Singapore was the launch of Kavakatu, a web-based application for monitoring and evaluating civil society projects. This application which is set to be deployed in the next few weeks as a free Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offering, for its basic functionality and at a minimal fee for a version more customised to client needs, has the added distinction of being from Sri Lanka.

By Jagdish Hathiramani
KUALA LUMPUR - Technology can help governments re-launch industries worldwide in the wake of a global financial slowdown, according to Dato' Noharuddin Nordin, the Chief Executive of the Malaysian Investment Development Authority.

The local market has "huge" potential for Facebook mobile applications (apps) because of this platform's mass market appeal and wide penetration, according to Gehan Dias, a founder of Appwolf, a two-and-a-half year-old Sri Lanka-based mobile app developer which earns its revenues primarily from creating apps for international companies in the iOS (Apple) mobile platform space. Facebook currently has close to a billion users worldwide and over a million users in Sri Lanka.

In a bid to make education facilities more accessible to South Asian students, SLIIT offers scholarships in a range of disciplines in the streams of Information Technology, Business Administration and Electronic Engineering.

OpenArc School of Business and Technology is enrolling new students for the Bachelor of Information Technology external degree (BIT) of the Colombo University, especially targeting at those who sat for GCE (A/L) this year. OpenArc, an institution that had been conducting classes for the Colombo University BIT degree for a period of ten years since the inception of the programme has made arrangements to give special discounts for students registering for the new batch.

The value of an academical qualification is almost immeasurable in today’s vastly competitive world, leading to the introduction of several higher educational institutions; however the Pioneer Institute of Business & Technology (PIBT) has managed to stand out amidst the growth of several higher educational institutions due to a very impressive track record that they have maintained.

SLIIT hosted a workshop on the 29th November on Interactive Multimedia Design Technology, with special guest speaker Professor Klaus Nicholas Schmidt – Visiting Professor, College of Applied Technology, Illinois State University - USA.

SLIIT, the pioneer in the field of Information Technology in Sri Lanka, also offers degrees in Business Management and Electronic Engineering, and has devised unique scholarship schemes designed to maximise students’ potential while providing a valuable boost for their academic progress and development.

The Friday Forum, representing a group of concerned citizens, last week appealed to all academics in Sri Lanka’s university system to seriously reflect on what is happening within their institutions and to exercise the legitimate powers, rights, and responsibilities given to them under the Universities Act.

Of the 1,600 Facebook related complaints that have been received by the Sri Lanka Computer Emergency Response Team (SL CERT) since the beginning of 2011, the majority of these incidents pertain to the opening of accounts, later reported as false, using the identity of mostly real life Sri Lankan females; according to Kanishka Yapa, Information Security Engineer at SL CERT, the Information and Communication Technology Agency-subsidiary that has been tasked with national cyber security protection. These fake accounts, once created, are later used to carry out various abusive activities.

Sri Lanka's first ever event centred around the Android mobile operating system, the Etisalat Android Forum 2011, was held this week, attracting a whopping 2,000 registrants, a number later cut down to 1,000 attendees because of seating restrictions. Orgnised by the local unit of UAE-based mobile operator Etisalat, the event featured presentations by Samsung, Huawei, Top Most Line, Fine Tech as well as the Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology (SLIIT).

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