Category: Technology

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 […]

June 19, 2007 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s young software developers lack resources but not dedication or talent, says former winners of a students technology competition promoted by the software giant, Microsoft. The Imagine Cup encourages young people to apply their imagination, passion and creativity to develop technological solutions to real world issues, say its organizers. […]

WASHINGTON, June 15, 2007 (AFP) – The FBI is in the process of locating and notifying the users of one million computers controlled by hackers through automated crime networks or “botnets,” officials said Friday.The FBI warned computer users that it would not contact victims online, and said any e-mails suggesting this should be viewed with […]

June 14, 2007 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s biggest mobile phone company, Dialog Telekom, said Thursday its 15.5 billion rupee cash call had been fully subscribed. . Corrected: Dialog’s parent Telekom Malaysia had bought in full its entitlement under the rights issue, spending 13 billion rupees, a company statement said. The inward foreign currency remittances for […]

June 09, 2007 (LBO) – Sri Lanka would soon be sounding out operators on making mobile telephone numbers portable, telecom minister Rauf Hakeem said. “In Andra Pradesh, base stations for which approvals are not given in a fixed time, or not objected to, are considered given,” Hakeem said. “We need to be pro-active in reform, […]

June 8, 2007 (LBO) – The first of a series of ‘cyber-centers’ that will link rural business in Sri Lanka with the internet has been opened in the central hill town of Matale, the United States embassy said.The public private partnership where Qualcomm, Microsoft, and Sri Lanka’s Dialog Telekom InfoShare, National Development Bank, and Lanka […]

June 08, 2007 (LBO) – Dialog Telekom signed up with Board of Investment to invest 33 billion rupees (300 million dollars) to expand existing services and set up broadband fibre optic and microwave transmission networks across the island. As an internal conflict intensifies, telecoms remain one of few remaining growth sectors. The investment to be […]

June 07, 2007 (LBO) – A pioneer of Sri Lanka’s information technology sector, who headed two government agencies dealing with ICT and also founded a computer faculty in Sri Lanka has passed away. . Professor V. K. Samaranayake, 68, had died in Sweden, Wednesday, a spokesperson for Sri Lanka’s ICT Agency of which he was […]