Category: Technology

NEW DELHI, February 3, 2009 (AFP) – India has unveiled plans to produce a laptop computer costing just 10 dollars in a bid to improve the skills of millions of students across the country. New Delhi rebuffed a previous attempt to bring cheap laptops to India, led by MIT computer scientist Nicholas Negroponte’s One Laptop […]

Feb 02, 2009 (LBO) – Massachusetts-based Virtusa Corp., an IT services firm with operations in Sri Lanka, said net profit for the December quarter rose 18.9 percent to 6.3 million dollars from a year ago. Virtusa has offices in the United States and the United Kingdom and global delivery centres in Hyderabad and Chennai, India […]

Jan 30, 2009 (LBO) – Sri Lanka has launched a disaster warning system based on mobile phones that can deliver a an alert to millions of mobile phones users within minutes of an event taking place anywhere in the world, an officials said. “As a result of the international linkages we have built, I received […]

Jan 29, 2009 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s computer crime fighting has failed with more than three quarters of cases ending without convictions or not being investigated, despite new laws being devised, Chief Justice Sarath Silva said. In 2007, there had been 17 cyber crimes but only 76 percent had been investigated. “Now the alarm signs […]

WASHINGTON, January 23, 2009 (AFP) – Barack Obama celebrated the first triumph of his presidency on Thursday, revealing he will get to keep his beloved BlackBerry.“I have won the fight but I don’t think it is up and running yet,” Obama said, during an impromptu visit to the White House briefing room. At a time […]

NEW DELHI, January 22, 2009 (AFP) – Top Indian mobile phone firm Bharti Airtel reported a third-quarter net profit rise of 25 percent Thursday after signing a record number of users in the world’s fastest-growing cellular market. Net profit in the three months to December-end jumped to 21.59 billion rupees (434 million US dollars) from […]

Jan 12, 2008 (LBO) – India’s Bharti Airtel launched services in Sri Lanka with simplified tariff plans in an extremely competitive market of four existing players that has seen steep falls in prices ahead of the fifth celco’s entry. To receive instant alerts from LBO on your Dialog mobile type ‘lbo’ and send to 678 […]

LAS VEGAS, January 12, 2009 (AFP) – German audio equipment maker Blaupunkt and Australia’s miRoamer have teamed up to produce the first Internet car radio, giving drivers access to tens of thousands of Web radio stations.“As for in-car installs, we’ve been inundated with a lot of companies who are interested in this,” he said, declining […]

Jan 12, 2009 (LBO) – Sri Lankan mobile operator Tigo, a unit of Millicom International Cellular, said it had reached two million subscribers in 2008 after heavy investments to expand its network coverage. The rapid growth in the island’s mobile market has slowed in recent years and increased competition saw all operators lowering prices and […]

Jan 05, 2009 (LBO) – The Sri Lanka unit of Bharti Airtel would launch its operations on January 12, the company said, kicking off a media campaign Monday and taking full page advertisements in local newspapers. BOI said the firm has been approved by the Telecommunications Regulatory Commission and planned to start operations by December […]

BANGALORE, December 29, 2008 (AFP) – Three directors of Indian software firm Satyam have resigned, the company announced Monday as it sought to restore investor confidence in the wake of an aborted 1.6 billion dollar acquisition. Satyam Computer Services Ltd is a leading software consultancy, system integration and outsourcing firm with clients across 65 countries.Krishna […]

PARIS, December 21, 2008 (AFP) – France Telecom said Sunday that repair work has begun on damage to Mediterranean undersea cables that badly disrupted Internet and telephone communications between Europe, the Middle East and Asia.A 64-crew maintenance boat arrived on site, off the coast of Sicily, at 1400 GMT on Sunday following a two-day journey […]