Ayubowan, welcome to the September issue in the second volume of the online IT magazine diGIT.

The month of September has dawned and I am sure you are all looking forward to the international book exhibition that will take place at BMICH from the 18th of this month. There is sure to be a great number of titles available at a bargain.

SLASSCOM organized a major event focusing on quality as a differentiator on the 18th of August. Quality Summit 2010 was attended by a large gathering of over 250 quality practitioners from over 80 IT/BPO companies. It heartening such events being organized and lets look forward to many more IT events in Sri Lanka.

26th of August was a day that many twitter users of Sri Lanka cherished. It was the day when the first ever Tweetup happened. With the participation of over 80 twitter users in close proximity to Colombo and a few more coming from afar it was an entertaining time meeting up in real life. Do check the article and the exclusive video that diGIT was able to cover during the event.

We have a few more ’10 minute’ episodes as well. Currently you can see an interview with the CEO of MIT Tony Weerasinghe. We have a few more lined up including an interview with CEO of Ridgecrest Sanath Fernando and Sanjaya Karunasena who is the CTO of ICTA. Hope you are checking for updates as we release them.

Let’s highlight a few articles from the numerous articles we have for this month.

Sampath Dassanayake gives a comprehensive review of 2 new phones that have just been released to the Sri Lankan market and the world. See if you have an interest in buying these 2 smartphones introduced by Samsung. Is it worth the money? Check the review and decide.

Buddhika Siddhisena has really opened up things for Linux users with his article on playing Windows games on Linux. Check his article to see which game enabling applications he has found that really makes this possible.

2600 is a magazine started in 1984 by Eric Corley, more commonly known by ‘Emmanuel Goldstein’ the fictional character from the book 1984 by George Orwell. Recently two books were published by Wiley and we have an interesting review of the 2nd title ‘Dear hackers’. Check the review by Chanuke Senevirathne and see if you have an interest in hacking and what hacking is really all about.

Do check out these articles and many more presented in the September issue of diGIT.

Let me end this month’s editorial with a quotation by Will Durant who once said

‘Education is a progressive discovery of our ignorance.’

Happy reading!

W.G.T.Fernando