Minlo Technologies announced the launching of F-Secure, one of the ttop 5 Virus Guard and Internet Security Systems in the world, at the Hilton Colombo Residencies today. F-Secure protects consumers and businesses against computer viruses and other threats from the Internet and mobile networks. F-Secure’s award-winning solutions, which include antivirus and desktop firewall with intrusion prevention, antispam and antispyware solutions for workstations, gateways, servers and mobile phones as well as network control solutions for ISPs.

With a Vision to be the most reliable provider of internet security services in the market, F-Secure is the clear global leader in offering the ‘Security as a Service’ through Internet Service Providers and the global market leader in mobile phone protection provided through mobile operators. F-Secure stands out in it’s speed of response to computer viruses and other threats. According to independent studies, F-Secure’s response time to new threats was significantly faster than the competitors, which continues to be an important advantage to customers when dealing with new outbreaks.

CTO of Minlo Technologies, Mr. Chamara Peiris mentioned that he was convinced F-Secure would revolutionize the way users browse the web, with all the benefits and advantages F-Secure offers it’s users, compared to it’s competitors, topped off by a totally user-friendly interface. He also said he was convinced F-Secure would take it’s rightful place as the market leader in the Internet Security and Virus Guard segments in the local market before too long.

Go to Minlo Technologies website for more information with photos & videos.

All arrangements have been made to hold the 10th AGM of the JOBA at the college auditorium on 17th May 2009 at 8.00 AM.

Evening Get-together will be held on 30th May 2009 at 6.30 PM onwards at Hibiscus Hotel, Waskaduwa. The Chief Guest for the evening get-together is distinguish Old Boy, Mr. Thilak Rohitha, Director – International Operations, Sri Lanka Telecom, while the Guest of Honor is Mr. Mahinda Ileperuma, Media Director to His Excellency the President of Sri Lanka.

JOBA welcome all it’s members & well wishers!!!

Note: Evening Get-together Tickets are available with President / Jt. Secretaries / committee members – JOBA

For more information – http://www.sumangalajunioroba.net/

All arrangements have been made to hold the 87th AGM of the OBA at the school premises on 23rd May 2009 from 0830Hrs onwards.

Also arrangements have been made for the evening get-together of OBA at the Villa Ocean View Hotel, Molligoda from 1900Hrs onwards. The Chief Guest for the evening get together is Mr. Saman Waduge, Assistant Secretary to His Excellency the President of Sri Lanka, while the Guest of Honour is distinguish Old Boy, Mr. K.C. Somaratne, Chairman / Managing Director Somaratne Consultants (Pvt) Ltd.

ALL ARE WELCOME!!!

Note: Dinner Tickets for the evening get-together are available with President / Jt. Secretaries / committee members – OBA.

For more information log on to – http://www.sumangala.org.lk/

SRI SUMANGALA COLLEGE PANADURA MELBOURNE WING

Inaugural Gathering of Old Boy’s Association Melbourne Wing

Date : 9th May 2009
Time : 10.00am – 1.00pm
Venue : The Palace Hotel 893, Burke Road, Camberwell, Vic 3214 (Melway 45 J-11)

Contact : Rumesh Wijesiriwardena – 0433998666, Hasitha Hewage – 0423734251
E-mail : ssbcjoba [at] hotmail.com

Nadeeka Jayawardana Live in Concert with Kasun & Indrachapa.

“Sihinayak” Album Launch.

Date: Monday, February 23, 2009
Time: 7:00pm
Location: BMICH

Tickets at the gate.

Log on to http://www.nadeeka.lk for more information.

It is with great pride and honor to inform that Sri Sumangala College, Panadura celebrates her one hundredth anniversary this year.

Junior Old Boys’ Association of Sri Sumangala College planning to organize a “Centenary Celebrations- Felicitation Ceremony” to mark this unique occasion.

Furthermore now old boys can propose honoraries to be felicitated in this ceremony. JOBA cordially invites you to provide accurate information about a person/ persons ( In the relevant fields to be felicitated) whom you believe should be felicitated.

Don’t forget to submit your nominations before 28th February 2009.

Go to JOBA website for more information & submission form.

An Eulogy on a Centenary – Publication on the Centenary of Sri Sumangala College

The Centenary of Sri Sumangala College, our Alma Mater will be celebrated on 3rd March 2009 for several Days with selected events.

OBA too will participate in the celebration in several ways, one of them will be the publication of the History of our Alma Mater, which brings a lot of information on your Alma Mater which you may not have thought would have happened.

Titled “Siyawasaka Waruna” in Sinhala, and ‘An Eulogy on a Centenary’ an English translation of the text, as well as a section containing Distinguished Old Boys listed according to their professions.

Your name too appears on the lists, and may be mentioned in the text as well.

As this publication will be a memento on your past, we would urge you to reverse your copy of ‘An Eulogy on a Centenary’ at a pre-publication rate of Rs.1,500/-

If you want more details, please be kind enough to contract either Sarath Rodrigo on 038-2232398 or Keerthi Sri Perera on 038-2298742 after at 8.00 pm.

Please forward your cheque drawn in favour of Sumangala College, Panadura, Old Boy’s Assosoation A/c No 604665 as address it to the Hony. President, SSCOBA, 39, Grace Peiris Mawatha, Panadura, Sri Lanka.

We expect your positive response and hope to see you at the centenary celebration on March 3.

For more information log on to www.sumangala.org.lk

Sumangalians | Joy is the result of Wisdom

Annual General Meeting of the Junior Old Boys’ Association of Sri Sumangala College, Panadura will be held on Sunday, 27th April 2008 at the College main hall at 8.15 AM.

Annual Get together and Felicitation Dinner will be held on Saturday, 3rd May 2008 at Holiday Resort, Wadduwa at 6.15 PM.

SSC JOBA inviting all fellow Sumangalians to come & enjoy this evening with us.

Wish a Happy Sinhala & Tamil Year to all Sri Lankans around the world.

සුභ අලුත් අවුරුද්දක් වේවා!

Blog Marathon Day, the first public event organized by the Sinhala Bloggers Union. It was inspired from International Blogothon Day. But this has re-invented to suits for Sri Lankan Bloggers and expecting more Sri Lankan bloggers on this event. Specialty of this event is blogger has to blog using only Sinhala Unicode.

Date is 18th April 2008 & time is 8.00 pm and they called it “New Year Blog Marathon” as this event going to happen on Sinhala New year season.

What is this New Year Blog Marathon?

This is a whole day event and all bloggers have to blog in every 15 minutes.

How to join?

First you must have a blog or else you can create a new blog.

Is English allowed?

No. For this event you have to blog in Sinhala.

Any given topics?

No. You can blog what ever you want.

How to install Sinhala on my computer?

Install appropriate Sinhala package for your computer according to this guidelines. For more help goto #sinhala-bloggers channel on ICR chat or to Sinhala Bloggers Group.

What are benefits of having such an event?

• Build friendship among bloggers.
• Expand the awareness of some particular subject/topic you like.
• Popular Sinhala writing and reading on the internet.
• Spread Sinhala Unicode.

So guys let’s warp up for the marathon.

සිංහල බ්ලොග්කරුවන්ගේ සමූහය ඉදිරිපත් කරන සමාරම්භක පොදු කටයුත්ත තමයි බ්ලොග් මැරතන් දිනය. මෙයට ආරම්භක ආවේශය ලැබුණේ ජාත්‍යන්තරව පවත්වන බ්ලොගතන් ඉසවුවෙන්. නමුත් සුළු සුළු වෙනස්කම් කීපයක් සහිත ව ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ සිංහලෙන් බ්ලොග්කරණයේ යෙදෙන සහ යෙදෙන්න අපේක්ෂා කරන අයගේ සහභාගීත්වයට ගැලපෙන පරිදි සකසා ගත් මැරතන් ලිවීමේ දිනයක් තමයි මේ.

අප්‍රේල් මාසේ 18 වැනි සිකුරාදා රාත්‍රී 8 ට පැවැත්වෙන මෙය අප්‍රෙල් මාසයේ පැවැත්වෙන නිසා “අලුත් අවුරුදු බ්ලොග් මැරතන” යනුවෙන් හඳුන්වා ඇත.

මොකක්ද මේ අලුත් අවුරුදු බ්ලොග් මැරතන් කියන්නෙ?

මෙය පැය විසි හතරේ සම්පූර්ණ දිනයක් තුළ අඛණ්ඩ ව මිනිත්තු 15 න් 15 ට බ්ලොග්කරණයේ යෙදීමේ උත්සවාකාරී අවස්ථාවක්.

කොහොමද මම එකතු වෙන්නෙ?

පළමුවෙන් ඔබට බ්ලොග් එකක් තිබිය යුතුයි. බ්ලොග් අඩෙවියක් ඇරඹීම ඉතා සරල කටයුත්තක්. උපදෙස් අවශ්‍ය නම් මේ පිටුව බලන්න.

මට ඉංග්‍රීසියෙන් ලියන්න බැරි ද?

බෑ. මේ අවස්ථාවේ පළ වෙන සටහන් සිංහල බසින් වීම අත්‍යවශ්‍ය යි.

තේමාවක් තියෙනවද?

නෑ. ඔබ ලියන්නේ ඉතා කෙටි සටහනක්, කවියක්, වැකි කීපයක්, සජීවී පුවත් විචාරයක්, නැතහොත් නන්දෙඩවිල්ලක් විය හැකියි. මහා දිග ලිපියක්, ශාස්ත්‍රීය ලේඛනයක්, විචාරයක් වෙන්නත් පුළුවන්. වැදගත් වෙන්නේ බ්ලොග් සටහන් පළ කිරීම මගින් අඛණ්ඩ ව පැය විසි හතර පුරා සහභාගී වීම යි.

මට සිංහලෙන් පරිගණකයේ ලියන්න සකස් කරගන්නෙ කොහොමද?

මෙන්න මේ උපදෙස් අනුව ඔබේ පරිගණකයට ගැලපෙන සිංහල පැකේජය ස්ථාපනය කරගන්න. ගැටලු මතු වෙනවා නම් #sinhala-bloggers යන ස්ථානයේ පිහිටි IRC පිළිසඳර කුටියට (chat room) පිවිස අපේ සාමාජිකයින්ගෙන් උදව් ලබා ගන්න. එසේ නැති නම් සිංහල බ්ලොග්කරුවන්ගේ ගූගල් සමූහයෙන් උදව් ගන්න.

ඉතින් දිවා රෑ නැතුව මේ ලිවීමෙන් ලැබෙන පලප්‍රයෝජනය මොකක්ද?

• බ්ලොග්කරුවන් අතර සුහදත්වය දියුණු කරන විනෝදාත්මක සංස්කෘතික ඉසවුවක්.
• කිසියම් වැදගත් සමාජීය අංශයක් පිලිබඳ, තේමාවක් පිලිබඳ දැනුවත්භාවය
  (awareness) පුලුල් කිරීමට දවසක්.
• සිංහල බසින් බ්ලොග් ලිවීම හා කියවීම ප්‍රචලිත කිරීමේ අවස්ථාවක්.

එහෙනන් මැරතන් එක දුවන්න ලෑස්තිවෙමු!