Category: Technology

August 02, 2007 (LBO) – Sri Lanka should unilaterally liberalise its telecommunications sector even further and update outdated regulations to avoid falling behind the rest of south Asia, a telecom expert has said. The country was also not living up to its commitments made in international trade negotiations and its telecom sector was losing momentum, […]

July 31, 2007 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s government ICT Agency has expanded its telecentre network to 400 points all over the island to help communities improve their knowledge and access global information. The 400th telecentre or Nenasala was set up Tuesday at the Colombo District Secretariat to provide the public access to internet, phone and […]

July 26, 2007 (LBO) – Dialog Telekom, Sri Lanka’s largest celco saw consolidated net profits dip by a marginal 3 percent in the June quarter as start-up costs of a new pay TV division dragged the group bottom line down. “DBN will expand its fixed wireless operation into four more districts including Colombo, during the […]

July 13, 2007 (LBO) – The open source middleware technology company WSO2 says its products generated wide interest at the SOA World software conference in the United States. The SOA World Conference and Expo held in New York City, USA is the largest independent Service Oriented Architecture and Web Services event in the world, WSO2 […]

July 13, 2007 (LBO) – India has pledged 13 million rupees to set up 20 computer education outlets called ‘Nenasalas’ in villages in Sri Lanka. Nenasalas, a localized model of telecentres being set up by the Information and Communication Technology Agency of Sri Lanka (ICTA), act as resource centres to spread knowledge and information through […]

July 10, 2007 (LBO) – Sri Lanka Telecom has said it plans to switch to a time-based tariff structure from a unit-based one as part of a court settlement in which it will cut call charges. The case will be called again on August 27. In a telecom operator revenues are usually made up of […]

July 9, 2007 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s telecom regulator has proposed slashing home rentals by 24 percent and call charges by over 8 percent, in a consumer interest case against the island’s largest fixed access provider, a court official said. The Telecommunications Regulatory Commission of Sri Lanka has suggested in court Monday that monthly domestic […]

July 06, 2007 (LBO) – A delegation from Sri Lanka’s information technology companies will attend the IT and business process outsourcing (BPO) summit in India to gain insights on developing the trade, Sri Lanka’s ICT Agency said. ICTA – a state agency – plans to lead the delegation to the NASSCOM IT-BPO Strategy Summit 2007 […]

July 3, 2007 (LBO) – Dialog Telecom is offering free breaking news for its customers days after competitor Mobitel launched trials for a text news alert. “We are launching this service with a view to providing information and creating a sense of security for customers,” Nushad Perera, head of sales at Dialog Telekom said in […]

NEW YORK, June 29, 2007 (AFP) – Apple’s iPhone, one of the most eagerly awaited devices in years, went on sale Friday with technology fashionistas queued up country wide to shell out at least 500 dollars for the cell phone-music/video player. Lines up to 400 people deep snaked from the doors of Apple and AT&T […]

June 29 (LBO) – The Sri Lankan distributor of the latest Toshiba notebook computer is relying on good after sales service and the strength of well-known distributors to maintain an edge over competition. Analysts say that the personal computer market has been improving and they predict that in time to come laptops are bound to […]

June 21, 2007 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s open source software community is promoting free programs that can be used on operating systems like Microsoft Windows, without breaking anyone’s copyright. . Related Link: Foss Community Website . . The Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) advocacy community says, individuals or small companies that cannot afford proprietary […]