Category: Technology

Aug 28, 2008 (LBO) – Microsoft is training Sri Lankan migrant workers in information technology skills to improve their employability and keep in touch with their families at low cost, the IT giant’s Sri Lanka office said.Microsoft says its five day IT training course is also expected to become a compulsory addition to a two-week […]

Aug 28, 2008 (LBO) – Sri Lanka will build a state-sponsored 250 metre tall common broadcast tower for television, radio and telecom firms, information minister Anura Yapa said.All telecom operators would be allowed to use it for a fee. To receive instant alerts from LBO on your Dialog mobile type ‘lbo’ and send to 678 […]

Aug 21, 2008 (LBO) – Business Software Alliance (BSA) has appointed an attorney-at-law to support action against piracy in the software market in Sri Lanka, where nine out of ten programmes are unlicensed. The world wide rate for piracy is lesser at 38 percent or 47 billion dollars, Chan said. “The BSA anti piracy campaign […]

Aug 20, 2008 (LBO) – The Sri Lanka unit of Hong Kong-based Hutchison Telecom says its mobile subscribers in the island will drop after correcting an “overstatement” and tighter government registration rules in 2008. Revenue in the six months to June had risen 3.5 percent to 89 million Hong Kong dollars from 86 million dollars […]

Aug 13, 2008 (LBO) – Profits at Sri Lanka’s Dialog Telekom group, a unit of Telekom Malaysia, fell 78 percent in the June 2008 quarter to 537 million rupees, according to interim accounts filed with Colombo Stock Exchange. The unit had lost 196.4 million for the six months, down from 349 million rupees for the […]

Aug 12, 2008 (LBO) – It’s easy to miss the business strategy behind a glitzy re-launch of Sri Lanka Telecom’s wire-line services, as the island’s only copper wire networked telco kicked off a new campaign, cutting connection charges. Broadband, or fast internet access, is a high growth area for SLT together with mobile services. Mobitel, […]

Aug 04, 2008 (LBO) – A Sri Lankan firm has started selling books by local authors on the internet with soft copies available for download, the company, Z-World said in a statement. The company said copies of books were available in pdf, a popular document compression format developed by the software firm Adobe. Buyers could […]

Aug 03, 2008 (LBO) – Sri Lanka has ordered internet firms to filter pornographic content, but adults could buy unrestricted access for special fee with password protection, a media report said.The Sunday Island newspaper quoting a Telecommunications Regulatory Commission of Sri Lanka (TRCSL) statement said President Mahinda Rajapaksa has ordered filtering sexually explicit content to […]

July 23, 2008 (LBO) – Sri Lankan firms can gain more benefits by choosing software that is flexible to match the size and growth of a company and can be easily customized, a software vendor has said.Zillione Systems which launched Sage AccPac 5.5 for local customers this month, says the ERP (enterprise resource planning) accounting […]

July 22, 2008 (LBO) – Sri Lankan business news from Lanka Business Online (LBO) is now available on Dialog SMS, giving the opportunity for people on the move to be in touch with the latest breaking business news.Dialog subscribers have to type ‘act lbo’ (act-space-lbo) and send to 678 to activate the service. The first […]

July 20, 2008 (LBO) – Sri Lanka Telecom’s mobile subsidiary wants its licensing conditions relaxed so it could combine phone tariffs with its fixed line parent, its chief executive said. This will enable the firm to achieve higher scale advantages to compete in a market where new technology and increased competition are pushing down call […]

July 16, 2008 (AFP) – South Asian leaders meeting in Sri Lanka next month should agree to slash telecom tariffs in their countries to promote inter-regional trade, a policy think-tank said Wednesday.Regional policy group LIRNEasia said reducing call costs between members of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) would encourage trade and improve […]