Category: Technology

Oct 29, 2008 (LBO) – Sri Lankan fixed access provider Lanka Bell said it would pay subscribers that receive overseas calls 50 cents a minute, setting the stage for competition in the incoming call business. Corporate users would also benefit substantially by making Lanka Bell their choice for incoming IDD calls, Samarasinghe said. Under an […]

Oct 25, 2008 (LBO) – The global economic crisis may reduce information technology outsource work for companies in Sri Lanka but at the same time generate new business opportunities, a top Sri Lankan software firm said.“So in the last two years the volumes increased 20 fold.” He said this massive rise in stock market activity […]

Oct 17, 2008 (LBO) – Advances in ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) could help companies, especially mid-sized ones, to improve and gain competitive advantage, Sri Lankan experts say. HP said it hopes to do more such projects to help deploy ICT effectively and efficiently in medium sized organizations. The University of Colombo School of Computing […]

Oct 15, 2008 (LBO) – South Asian telecommunications regulators meeting for a regional conference in New Delhi, India will today discuss lowering roaming tariffs, officials said. Tariffs on calls made between the member countries of the South Asian Association for Regional Co-operation are much higher than calls made to distant countries like the UK and […]

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 […]