Category: Technology

February 20 (LBO) – Microsoft’s new Vista operating system, which comes with built in Sinhala language capability would open a high technology window for rural Sri Lankans, officials said. “The main objective of having Sinhala language in our own operating system is to enable people to interact with the computer,” says Imran Vilcassim, a Microsoft […]

COLOMBO, Feb 20, 2007 (AFP) – Sri Lanka’s telecom sector soared in 2006 to 7.3 million users, led by a 59 percent jump in new mobile phone connections on competition and falling call rates, the telecom watchdog said Tuesday. Despite a waiting list of around 366,000 for fixed-line phone services, the Sri Lanka Telecommunications Regulatory […]

Feb 20 (LBO) – Sri Lanka Telecom tied up with the Peradeniya University recently to support information technology research and development for application in sociology, agriculture and medicine. œThis will create a platform for researchers from various disciplines to come together and take part in research and development activities, Shoji Takahashi, Chief Executive Officer of […]

February 19, 2006 (LBO) – Dialog Telekom, Sri Lanka’s largest cellular phone operator, Monday posted a 44 percent rise in net profits for the 12 months to December, and said it plans to cover 100 percent of the island by end 2007. A unit of Telekom Malaysia, Dialog Telekom, reported a 10.12 billion rupee group […]

BARCELONA, Spain, Feb 16, 2007 (AFP) – It could be the answer to grandma’s prayers: a mobile phone designed specifically for the over-65s that aims to take the fear out of technology and get the elderly connected.A small Austrian company shrugged off the buzz of innovation and youth-oriented marketing at the 3GSM mobile phone trade […]

Feb 15, 2007 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s software developers will get cash incentives to develop software that can make small enterprises more efficient, or modernize export industries and tourism, officials said. œThe initial boost provided through these innovation grants will be just the beginning of a much wider involvement both from the government and the […]

BARCELONA, Spain, Feb 15, 2007 (AFP) – With mobile phone markets nearly saturated in the developed world, network operators and handset manufacturers are turning their attention to the fertile ground of emerging countries. Making affordable phones and targeting consumers with smaller budgets have now become priorities for the largest companies in the sector who were […]

SINGAPORE, Feb 13, 2007 (AFP) – Email spammers will face new controls on their unsolicited advertising under proposed legislation introduced by Singapore. The draft Spam Control Act aims to control the electronic commercial messages sent in bulk by email or to mobile phones, according to the bill seen on Tuesday. It was introduced to parliament […]

HONG KONG, Feb 12, 2007 (AFP) – Microsoft announced Monday its new version of its Windows operating systems for mobile devices and said it won new Asian partners hoping to gain more market share from competitors, Symbian and Nokia. The US computer giant said Windows Mobile 6 has been added new features previously only available […]

BARCELONA, Spain, Feb 12, 2007 (AFP) – Leaders in the mobile phone industry gathered in Barcelona on Monday promising faster connections, more fun and cheaper calls at the start of one of the biggest trade shows for the sector. The 3GSM event is expected to draw 60,000 people over the next four days with 1,300 […]

February 09 (LBO) – Sri Lanka Telecom’s profits surged in the last quarter by 160 percent driven by strong revenue growth taking annual profits up by 76 percent, results released Friday showed. SLT’s group revenue with mobile services rose 25 percent to 40 billion rupees in the year to December, while profits after-tax grew to […]

Feb 08, 2007 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s largest mobile operator, Dialog Telekom which helped make mobile phones a ubiquitous device in the country, says it wants to do the same to the digital pay TV industry. “If I were to trace back ten years, we took that device that was considered a luxury – a […]