Category: Technology

Oct 15, 2008 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s celcos are looking at ways to sell broadband services in small chunks, to reach cost-conscious customers, who do not need long hours of continuous connectivity, officials said. Sri Lanka’s mobile penetration is now 44 percent and the island’s telecom regulator says the country would hit 50 percent by […]

Oct 14, 2008 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s first-ever reality television game show, Path Breakers, is to modify its format and concept this year to accommodate 50 school goers to hone their corporate skills for the future. The show has loosened the entry criteria, dropping the minimum age of entry to 15 years to give the […]

Oct 08, 2008 (LBO) – Midware Technologies, a Sri Lanka IT firm has been appointed a distributor of IBM Software group to drum up business in Sri Lanka and the Maldives, the company said. Midware Technologies will distribute Lotus, Tivoli, Information Management, Rational and WebSphere, brands from IBM. “The company will actively engage in brand […]

Oct 04, 2008 (LBO) – Sri Lanka is to issue electronic identity cards with transponders which authorities can use to identify fishermen at sea and also develop a database of fisher-folk, a senior minister said.The ministry of fisheries has received the nod from Sri Lanka’s cabinet of ministers to pursue and unsolicited offer from Enterprise […]

Oct 01, 2008 (LBO) – E-Wis, a Sri Lankan information technology firm which has been picked to automate a pension fund of a state-managed private sector workers’ fund, says the new system will trim frauds and delays in processing member information. To receive instant alerts from LBO on your Dialog mobile type ‘lbo’ and send […]

Sept 30, 2008 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s Dialog Telekom, a unit of Telekom Malaysia said it had bagged five million subscribers, started per second billing and cut tariffs for calls within the network. A new post-paid package give 1,000 free minutes withing the network and per-second billing. Prepaid customers would also get per-second billing and […]

Sept 24, 2008 (LBO) – The Sri Lanka unit of Toroid, a Scandinavian transformer maker has licensed Microsoft software for its factories in an export processing zone in the island, Microsoft said.The software firm said its ‘Microsoft Enterprise Agreement’, which is tailored for use by firms that have more than 250 workstations, could bring savings […]

Sept 23, 2008 (LBO) – Sri Lanka Telecom (SLT), the island’s largest fixed access provider, has launched Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) with a target of reaching 7,000 customers by year end, officials said. Weerasuriya is also talking with education organizations who want to conduct virtual or online classrooms through IPTV with interactive capabilities, which would […]

Sept 23, 2008 (LBO) – Sri Lanka is to award a contract to provide broadband links to 500 rural schools by end 2008, expanding a network in which 1,100 public schools are already connected, officials said. To receive instant alerts from LBO on your Dialog mobile type ‘lbo’ and send to 678 Anura Dissanayake, director […]

Sept 18, 2008 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s Mobitel, a unit of fixed access operator Sri Lanka Telecom says its customers would increase by 300,000 to 2.4 million by year-end with a package aimed at state-workers selling rapidly.Mobitel chief executive Suren Amarasekera says the firm is issuing over 10,000 connections a day following the launch of […]

Sept 12, 2008 (LBO) – Sri Lanka is starting post-graduate university courses using broadband mobile links provided by Mobitel, a celco, to remotely lecture students, officials said.The mobile learning of ‘mlearning’ system was developed by the University of Colombo, Mobitel and the IT firm Microsoft. “This is a hybrid system of learning, which includes traditional […]

Sept 09, 2008 (LBO) – Sri Lanka top celcos firms said they will connect more people by finding ways to lower costs, despite rising inflation and taxes on mobile calls hitting the pockets of poorer sections of society. Anoja Obeysekere, from Sri Lanka’s Dialog Telekom, who is the chairperson of the Asia Pacific GSM Association, […]