Category: Technology

July 16, 2008 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s Tigo, a unit of Millicom International Cellular is issuing plastic-card ownership certificate in response to anti-terror rules, which can be piggy-backed to give additional benefits to customers, an official said. The new regulations introduced by the Telecommunications Regulatory Commission of Sri Lanka require mobile customers to give on […]

July 16, 2008 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s Dialog Telekom, a unit of Telekom Malaysia, said it had launched third generation (3G) mobile services allowing video calling in the island’s northern Jaffna peninsular. Dialog’s video calling comes with a conferencing facility that allows users in six different locations to talk. Dialog says is 3G network now […]

July 10, 2008 (LBO) – India’s Reliance Communications has joined with Sri Lanka’s PC House (PCH) and its subsidiary Greenwich Lanka to maintain and develop off-shore internet data centers (IDCs).Reliance hopes to use the island as a hub for its marketing activities and as an overseas development center, the companies said in a statement. The […]

July 9, 2008 (LBO) – Sri Lanka Telecom, the island’s largest fixed access operator, has established a separate unit for director publishing information-based businesses, officials said. Although a non-core business activity, SLT Publications was formed as a separate entity to gain operational advantages and productivity gains, Leisha de Silva Chandrasena, chairperson of SLT told reporters. […]

July 7, 2008 (LBO) – The Sri Lanka unit of India’s Bharti Airtel hopes to launch its services in the island by the end of the year, a media report said. Margins and profits of mobile operators have been coming down in recent years, with intense competition among the island’s operators. In addition to Dialog, […]

July 06, 2008 (LBO) – A team that was placed second in Australia’s Melbourne Business School’s entrepreneurship competition, led by a Sri Lankan, chose Colombo as the research location since the island has untapped potential, an official said. The team led by Chandika Jayasundara, chief executive officer of Cinergix was placed second in Australia’s entrepreneurship […]

June 20, 2008 (LBO) – An environmental short film by a team from Sri Lanka made it to the top six in Microsoft’s Imagine Cup competition finals, which would be held in July in Paris this year, the firm’s local office said. Sri Lanka’s ˜Team Gènès|pictures’was able to qualify for the finals of the Microsoft […]

June 19, 2008 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s largest information technology exhibition to be held during a nationally declared ICT week in October will showcase the software hardware and the opportunities for IT enabled services, organizers said.The ninth Infotel Lanka Exhibition is part of the Information Communication Technology (ICT) week which will commence on 27 October. […]

June 18, 2008 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s national cricket team captain Mahela Jayawardena has gone online with information technology company Cryptodyne to communicate with the island’s youth and raise funds for a cancer hospital project. “The most important thing for me was to communicate with younger kids,” Jayawardena told LBO at the inauguration of his […]

June 12, 2008 (LBO) – Lanka Bell, a Sri Lankan wireless fixed access firm, said its link to a high speed private undersea fibre optic cable operated by India’s Reliance group had gone live, enabling it to offer unrestricted broadband services. The company said in a statement it had already set up the infrastructure for […]

June 9, 2008 (LBO) – Sri Lanka Telecom (SLT), the island’s top fixed access telco said its Malaysian shareholder had appointed new directors after NTT Communications sold out and its representative resigned from the board. NTT with its 35 percent stake was allowed by majority shareholder Sri Lanka government to appoint the chief executive. Sri […]

June 09, 2008 (LBO) – Sri Lankan Airlines is buying database services from IBM World Trade Corporation and is looking to outsource more information technology services, the company said. “¦SriLankan Airlines is exploring the opportunities available for outsourcing certain IT functions, creating further opportunities for players in Sri Lanka’s IT industry¦” the airline’s head of […]