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Building a Computer-literate Culture with the e-Sri Lanka PC

To boost computer literacy among its citizenry, the island nation of Sri Lanka has initiated an innovative campaign called "e-Sri Lanka." The primary objective of e-Sri Lanka is to increase the number of households that are equipped with PCs and to improve Internet penetration throughout the country. Toward that end,...

Tags: Red Hat Inc., Sri Lanka, Open Source, Business Structures, Finance

Case studies 2006-02-01

Information and Communications Technology Agency of Sri Lanka (ICTA)-Aided PC Ownership Solution

The e-Sri Lanka vision, championed by the Information and Communication Technology Agency of Sri Lanka ICTA, aims to harness information and communications technology ICT as a lever for economic and social advancement by taking the dividends of ICT to every village, to every citizen and to every business, and re-engineering...

Tags: PC, Agency, Information And Communication Technology, Sri Lanka, Strategy, Management

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Challenging Silicon Valley to put poverty into a museum . . .

I'm not washing my right hand for a while because I used it to shake the hand of Muhammad Yunus, 2006 Nobel Peace Prize recipient and a person that I've held in the highest regard for many years. Mr Yunus gave the keynote speech at the Tech Museum's Tech...

Tags: Silicon Valley, Poverty, Bangladesh, Mr., Muhammad Yunus, Grameen Bank, Grameen Loan, Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Strategy, Management, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2008-11-13

Stealth Company decloaks... as Siri

Silicon Valley stealth-mode startup, Stealth Company, revealed a little more about itself overnight and rebranded as Siri. Stealth Company's website has proved vague at best over the past few months, for example tantalising with allusions to underpinning technology; "We are not building...

Tags: Software, SRI International, Siri, CALO, Tools & Techniques, Management, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2008-10-13

Comcast undecided on network management scheme

Comcast undecided on network management schemeSo rather than upgrade their outdated networkthey are spending time and money on figuring out how to piss off the customers most likely to jump to FIOS once it comes to their neighborhood. Shrewd.RE: Comcast undecided on network management schemeI have Comcast. I'm one...

Tags: Network administration, NETWORKING, Comcast Corp., bandwidth, network management, network

Discussion threads 2008-08-21

Visa, banks to test real-time fraud alerts

Visa, banks to test real-time fraud alertsVISA, banks to test real-time fraud alertsSt.George Bank in Australia (stgeorge.com.au)has been offering this service for some 4 years now. Customers set their own trigger points and receive an SMS and/or email. SMS messages are delievered before cash is delivered from an...

Tags: Financial services, SMS Message, Real-Time Alerts, real-time fraud alert, VISA bank, Visa Inc., bank, fraud alert

Discussion threads 2008-08-20

Do 4 in 5 of us want real health care reform?

Do 4 in 5 of us want real health care reform?Universal not a good idea . . .Universal health care is not that good of an idea - the taxes can really kill an economy, and there's no guarantee the quality will be any better.We simply need a better idea.Remember...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Universal Health Care, health care, insurance

Discussion threads 2008-08-08

Researchers borrow from Google PageRank for network defense service

Using a link analysis algorithm similar to Google PageRank, researchers at the SANS Institute and SRI International have created a new Internet network defense service that completely revamps the way network blacklists are formulated and distributed. The service, called Highly Predictive Blacklisting (.pdf), will be unveiled next...

Tags: Google PageRank, Attacker, Network, DShield, Highly Predictive Blacklist, Internet, Networking, Security, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-07-23

WSO2 adds data services and security features in Mashup Server 1.5

The latest version from the Mountain View, Calif., and Sri Lanka company adds WSO2 Data Services and security features for enterprise-class service composition. Mashup Server 1.5 is built on the WSO2 Web Services Application Server based on Apache/Axis 2. It can be used as an individual service development and deployment...

Tags: Data Service, Security, Mashup, WSO2, Mashup Server 1.5, eBizQ, Collaboration, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2008-07-18

Yahoo board of director resigns; Shareholder meeting delayed

Yahoo said Thursday that Edward Kozel resigned from its board of directors. The company will reduce the size of its board from 10 directors to nine and delayed its shareholder meeting from July 3 to "around the end of July 2008." Investor Carl Icahn has proposed an...

Tags: Shareholder, Board, Yahoo! Inc., Mr., Director, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-05-22

If hackers don't get you, maybe Google will

Two weeks ago my personal blog StorageMojo was hacked. Turns out that Google can be a bigger problem than the hackers. Here's how it works and tips on protecting yourself. "Don't be evil" is a pretty low bar There's been a lot of blog hacking going...

Tags: Google Inc., Site, Hosting Company, Hacker, StorageMojo, Blogging, Security, Internet, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2008-05-18

SaaS is the secret sauce for OpenProj

Projity CEO Marc O'Brien called with his first update in a few months on OpenProj, the open source project management tool his company is pushing. The top line number is 1 million. That's how many OpenProj downloads he expects, just from Sourceforge, just this calendar year. ...

Tags: Software, Software-as-a-service, Open Source, OpenProj, Line Number, Software As A Service (SaaS), Tools & Techniques, Project Management, Emerging Technologies, Management, It Operations, It service Management, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-04-21

17.2 bln Yellow Pages searches in 2007

The Yellow Pages Association announced that 2007 Yellow Pages usage grew to 17.2 bln searches in 2007, up from 16.7 bln in 2006. Print usage remained stable with 13.4 bln print Yellow Pages references, unchanged from 2006, according to the 2007 Knowledge Networks/SRI (KN/SRI) Industry Usage Study, while comScore reports...

Tags: Internet, AM

Blog posts 2008-04-15

Keells Super Uses Motorola for Real-Time Inventory of Goods

Keells Super is one of the largest super market chains in Sri Lanka. It is a subsidiary of John Keells Holdings PLC, a Sri Lankan blue chip conglomerate. In a single Keells Super store, there are between 12,000 - 15,000 individual items for sale. The IT team wanted to improve...

Tags: Mobile, Stock, Motorola Inc., Keells Super, Investment, Advertising & Promotion, Wireless, Finance, Marketing

Case studies 2008-04-09

WSO2 launches Web Services Framework for Spring 1.0

"Contract first" or "code first?" Spring developers now have a choice with WSO2's release of Web Services Framework WSF for Spring 1.0. The new WSF/Spring 1.0 integrates the Apache Axis2 /Java Web services engine into the Spring Framework, giving Spring users full control from within the Spring configuration model. ...

Tags: Web, Web Service, WSO2, WSF/Spring 1.0, WSF/Spring, Axis2, Web Services, Channel Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2008-03-31

Asia telecommunications market will grow 36% in 2007-2011

Telecommunications market of Asian countries (defined as Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Vietnam) will grow at a compound annual growth rate CAGR of 36% from 2007-2011, according to IDC. The data segment, which includes mobile data services, fixed line corporate data and Internet access services, grew strongly at 258% year-on-year...

Tags: Data Service, Mobile, Compound Annual Growth Rate, Investment, Telephony, Telecommunications, Finance, Networking, NB

Blog posts 2008-03-28

Arthur C. Clarke: All These Worlds Are Yours

Arthur C. Clarke: All These Worlds Are YoursArthur C. Clarke : The beacon to the human race is no moreLike the rest of the world I was also very saddened by his death. He lived a full life and was the same shining personality till the end.As a kid whose...

Tags: Robots, Arthur C. Clarke, HAL

Discussion threads 2008-03-19

IBM on Corporate Social Responsibility: Collaboration, Integration and NGO Foot Soldiers

Corporate responsibility at IBM is a class act so high expectations then when the IBM Institute for Business Value this week came out with a piece on CSR: Attaining sustainable growth through corporate social responsibility. Dazzling stuff but one or two clangers as well. IBM...

Tags: Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Collaboration, Revolution, Business, IBM Corp., Integration, NGO, Corporate Social Responsibility, Business Ethics, Corporate Law, Leadership, Management, Business Operations, James Farrar

Blog posts 2008-02-16

Sri Lanka Box Toolbar (exe)

With this toolbar, you can get unlimited access to Sri Lanka Box Web site network. And you can also get access to your mail account by using this software. You also listen to Sri Lanka Radio Stations by using this Add-On. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.

Tags: Toolbar, V Network Solutions

Software downloads 2008-02-15

Suduputha.Com Radio Player (exe)

With Suduputha.Com Radio Player now you can listen to most of Sri Lankan Radio stations via Internet without going to Web pages. In our next edition you can listen to Sri Lankan Internet radio stations also. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.

Tags: Station, Internet, Channel Management, Marketing

Software downloads 2008-02-07