Category: Technology

May 14, 2008 (LBO) – The Sri Lanka unit of India’s Tata Communications is looking to expand in to new areas after getting 30 percent of the outgoing voice traffic of the country, officials said. . “We are looking for new licenses to expand into areas demanded by our customers,” Tata Communications group chief N […]

SINGAPORE, May 14, 2008 (AFP) – Software piracy increased last year in the Asia-Pacific region, boosted by China’s growing use of personal computers, an industry group said on Wednesday.The Asia-Pacific’s average PC software piracy rate in 2007 increased to 59 percent of the software in use in the region from 55 percent the previous year, […]

May 12, 2008 (LBO) – Sri Lanka Dialog Telekom says it is offering a new voice and broadband bundled service that can slash charges and reduce hardware costs, the company said in a statement. The ‘Box Office’ package by Dialog Broadband Networks subsidiary will combine voice telephony with private branch exchange facilities, WiMax services to […]

May 07, 2008 (LBO) – Dialog Telekom, Sri Lanka’s top celco has been named the most valuable brand in Sri Lanka in a ranking by Brand Finance, the company said Wednesday. The Dialog brand has been valued at 12.4 billion Sri Lanka rupees, retaining its place from last year. The ranking uses publicly available data […]

April 24, 2008 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s Tigo, a unit of Millicom International Cellular has started short message service (SMS) alerts in Sinhala and Tamil languages, linking up with text news pioneer JNW, officials said. The service runs with content from JNW News (www.jnw.lk) and software developed by Microimage Mobile Media , a Sri Lanka-based […]

April 22, 2008 (LBO) – Sri Lankan technology outsourcing company Eureka is to set up an office in Dubai and also expand its information security, disaster recovery management and remote infrastructure management services (RIM), officials say. “We know the market, carefully researched, we know the problems, problems of development, energy so on, we know the […]

April 19, 2008 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s Electroteks, a communications firm, says it will launch a wireless broadband service in May which will have voice telephony services at half the existing tariffs. Electroteks chief B A C Abeywardene says the service will use CDMA (code division multiple access) based technology to provide up to 1Mbps […]

April 12, 2008 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s Electroteks which is to operate the island’s sixth mobile telephony firm with India’s Reliance says it will be offering stiff price competition to existing players. Updated Electroteks is to tie up with India’s Reliance Communications (RCom) to start mobile services. Electroteks chief B A C Abeywardene says the […]

April 11, 2008 (LBO) – Three channels of the ABC radio network would be on air from on April 15, a top official said. The Sinhalese ‘Hiru’, English ‘Gold’ and Tamil ‘Sooryan’ which is starting on next Tueday is part of a network of five radio stations that were closed by the government last year. […]

April 10, 2008 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s long-delayed effort to automate cargo clearance is making some progress with import manifests being filed electronically along with tea export documentation, trade officials said. A trial run involving Sri Lanka customs and the Sri Lanka Ports Authority (SLPA) has been completed with shipping lines now filing import manifests […]

April 10, 2008 (LBO) – The open and distance education model adopted by Sri Lanka’s IT services company, Virtusa, will help students gain employable skills while conducting higher studies, company officials say. The Virtusa Placement Engineer Scholarship program supports students’ work-study approach to obtain a degree in Information Technology. The program provides eligible students with […]

April 09, 2008 (LBO) – Eureka Technology partners says it has become the first Sri Lankan firm to receive ISO 20000 certification.Eureka is an IT services firm providing information technology services to firms. The company says even India has only a handful of certified providers despite having a large number of IT service providers based […]