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Troll marketing: the broadband wars

If you’ve been paying attention to the scenery in Colombo, you’ll have seen Etisalat adverts ALL over the place, promising this:                                 A quick glance at http://etisal...
by miuru

 
 
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AIRTEL Broadband: Not-so-fast internet?

Almost every internet provider claims to be the fastest in the island. We’ve seen it before – phamphlets, billboards in Nugegoda, the lot. It seems Airtel has taken a step ahead, involving the TRCSL, a government entity, in...
by miuru

 

 
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Takas.lk: a shopper’s point of view.

Personally, I’m a bit wary of e-commerce sites. There’s usually good stuff hidden by layers and layers or troll ads, and one can only take so many terribly worded, overpriced ads along the lines “Saling Core2Duo latest G4...
by Yudhanjaya Wijeratne

 
 
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Dialog i35 running Android 2.3 for rupees 10,000?

Dialog i35: The Comprehensive Review – Click here That’s the question everyone’s pondering – and today, we’re going to answer it.  For the uninitiated, Dialog Sri Lanka recently launched two budget Android smartp...
by Yudhanjaya Wijeratne

 
 
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Laptop buying experience at Unity Plaza

Laptop.lk shop So, finally our friend Dharshan decides to buy a new laptop and we go notebook hunting around Unity Plaza with a budget of Rs. 80,000 in our pockets. We walked into a store right behind TechZone, and the [...]
by miuru

 

 
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iPhone5 vs Galaxy S3: A comparison

Android fans are on the warpath. The reason? Benchmarks are flowing in, and this is what (most) of them say: the iPhone 5 is faster and more powerful than the Samsung S3, the world’s unofficial Android champion. Apple fans ar...
by Yudhanjaya Wijeratne

 
 
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Pick your poison: choosing a programming language

The first thing a lot of students do as they finish their exams is wonder: How do I program? This question, as it did for me, eventually leads to the discovery of programming languages and, eventually, to more choices. One of...
by Yudhanjaya Wijeratne

 
 
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Raspberry Pi: The credit card sized computer

Over the past few years computers have become much smaller and cheaper. The machine which was placed in a huge room few decades ago now softly resting on your lap. Still, computers aren’t cheap enough that you spontaneo...
by Haritha Thilakarathne

 

 
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The Samsung Galaxy S4: First impressions

The Galaxy S4, to judge by fan comments, not just wipes the floor with the competition but turns it into shish kebab and eats it for breakfast. On paper, it looks like it’s got all it needs to be the NEXT [...]
by Yudhanjaya Wijeratne

 
 
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Things you can do with a TechDuino

  Wondering what that is? I did the same when I first saw. It’s actually the local version (clone) of the most popular and fairly easy to program microcontroller – Arduino. But If you are not even sure what a [...
by Shazly Makeen

 
 
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ඩයලෝග් + ගූගල් = අන්තර්ජාල සේවා නොමිලේ

  In a rather welcoming change in the mobile data market, Dialog – and Google – have made 3 core Google services entirely exempt of data charges. As freezone.dialog.lk points out, Google+, Gmail, and Google Search is...
by README