ICT

Panora enters consumer electronics market

A subsidiary of PCH Holdings, Panora Corporation has further extended their market scope with the expansion of Panora product portfolio into consumer electronics market, by introducing "Panora Televisions" through its potent channel partners.

Initially Kandy being the privileged city, the operation will extend island wide during the first two quarters of 2008.

Panora Televisions and other electrical products are purely manufactured under the expertise and technology of Panora Taiwan, which is the international carrier of the locally celebrated Panora brand of desktop computers, Laptops, UPS Systems, Servers and related accessories.

General Manager of Panora Corporation Rizwan Anise, stated, "In 2007, Panora diversified its business, by penetrating into consumer electronics market with the introduction of Panora Colour Televisions.

Even though this is a highly competitive and fast growing product category, we are confident of securing a healthy market position because of the high reputation 'Panora brand' has in the local IT market and the price-quality platform it competes on.

The position that Panora has solicited today is by no means a fluke or a matter left to chance. With our locally innovative brand Panora, we believe we could attain a similar position in this market in the near future," he said.

With the launch of Panora Televisions, an improvement of their product line, the end user could experience the same after sales service, technical expertise and reliability. The newly introduced Panora 21F11 system features PAL BGDK, NTSC Playback, FS Tuner and RC rack, AV Stereo, on screen display, full function remote control and standard spare parts.

Chairman Panora Corporation S.H.M. Rishan said, "We have observed that the lifestyles of Sri Lankans have changed rapidly and they are seeking more white goods in order to lead comfortable lifestyles.

We respond quickly to shifts in social attitudes and new technology. Hence we consider this endeavor as an "affordable" solution to a "created" need".

Ericsson roadshow concludes

Dharma Sri Abeyratne

Ericsson Sri Lanka concluded the four day road show recently presenting its industry leading portfolio of innovative telecommunication solutions with a view to increase the awareness of the local operates about vast and comprehensive portfolio of cutting edge products, services and solutions along with the key strategies it offers.

Ericsson is a company which provides a complete spectrum of end-to-end products for mobile and fixed line operates in Sri Lanka. "The primary objective of the event was to showcase extensive product and service portfolio including mobile systems, wireless systems, broad band and multimedia to our customers which help them achieve a competitive edge on their total cost of ownership", the Chief Technical Officer of Ericsson Lanka Ltd, Hasse Olausson said.

Further he said that the roadshow aimed to leverage its inputs into the future development and strategy of Ericsson.

Ericsson uses the novel concept of energy-efficient and environmental friendly techniques while communicating Ericsson's long term commitment to environment friendly, green site solutions and its prime leadership on developing next generation mobile technologies.

The roadshow helped our engineering team get a first hand experience of the latest advancements in mobile an broadband telecommunication technology while enabling us to progress towards upgrading our services" Senior Vice President of Dialog Telecom Shayam Majeed said.

'Security 360 Degrees' from Singapore Informatics launched

Singapore Informatics the pioneers in introducing IT / Network Security education to Sri Lanka, are proud to announce the launching of the Security 360 degrees - the 'ultimate' network security programme, in Sri Lanka.

An information Security Specialist must know how to use the tools, tricks and techniques to implement a network defence. Only with this knowledge we can honestly expect someone to be able to properly defend the system and network against hackers and also to detect if an intrusion has occurred, a press release states.

Intrusion and Network Forensic employ the same rigorous standards and procedures as computer forensics. Both disciplines seek to facilitate the recovery, analysis, and presentation of computers, computer system, and networks suspected of having been compromised or accessed in unauthorised fashion by internal or external intruders.

Such unauthorised entrance into the network environment violates the integrity, confidentiality, and availability of the system and jeopardises the ability of the business or public agency to function.

Design to compliment Incidence Response (which is focused on how to protect the system from future possible damage), Intrusion and network Forensic Focused on identifying the circumstances and agents behind the unauthorised access, in some cases leading to criminal or civil prosecution, the release states.

The purpose of this workshop is to give end users hands on training on how to access their own security posture for their organization. This workshop will also identify weaknesses of current security products and software's ranging from Microsoft platforms and also other operating system.

There would be also a forensic investigation training included in this workshop. the tools that would be explained are exploit codes from major hacker community and the vulnerabilities that are current and latest threats it further states.