Category: Technology

BANGALORE, India, June 25, 2006 (AFP) – Soaring salaries and poor quality of manpower are prompting foreign firms to shut their outsourcing operations in India although there is no cause for alarm yet, officials and analysts say.US-based Apple Computer and software maker Pervasive have been joined by Powergen, a British subsidiary of German energy supplier […]

June 23, 2006 (LBO) – Over a dozens firms have responded to the telecom watchdog’s call to take up a WiMAX license and offer services islandwide, the regulator said Friday. WiMAX or Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access uses the 3.5 gigahertz frequency band to provide cost effective broadband technologies. The telecom regulator will initially set […]

June 22, 2006 (LBO) – Sri Lanka Thursday said it will begin registering and regulating all broadcast satellite services, amidst the recent controversial shut down of three operators. œUnder a directive from the President, we will take measures to register satellite service providers and promulgate rules to regulate the services provided by satellite service providers, […]

SAN FRANCISCO, June 20, 2006 (AFP) – Fresh from a fight with US officials over the sanctity of online search information, Google on Tuesday joined an alliance of technology firms calling for federal legislation protecting consumer privacy.“Today we live in a digital economy where both beneficial and potentially harmful uses of personal information are multiplying,” […]

SINGAPORE, June 20, 2006 (AFP) – Future expansion in the mobile telephone business will come from developing economies whose less than affluent consumers cannot be overlooked while overall growth slows, experts said Tuesday.Income levels of consumers in the world’s poorer nations may not come anywhere near their wealthy counterparts but they offer far better growth […]

June 20, 2006 (LBO) – Sri Lanka Telecom, the island’s biggest fixed line operator, plans to rollout a 200 million rupee project next month to support high end data, voice, video and internet services, officials said Tuesday. Profits for the quarter were mainly driven by its CDMA (code division multiple access) operations, with SLT expecting […]

FRANKFURT, June 19, 2006 (AFP) – Finnish telecommunications giant Nokia and German rival Siemens said Monday they would merge their telecoms equipment and network activities in an attempt to close the gap on market leader Ericsson. Nokia and Siemens said in a joint statement they planned to set up a 50-50 joint venture, to be […]

June 19 (LBO) – Intel Corp together with Sri Lanka’s ICT Agency will soon pilot a rugged alternative to the conventional PC for rural areas, running on a car battery if electricity goes out. The dust resistant, low power demand Intel model called a ˜Community PC’, developed and just rolled out in India, could find […]

June 9, 2006 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s CBNSat a local cable television operator — is appealing to customers to be patient while they engage in a court battle aimed at re-starting operations. Sleuths from the criminal investigation department switched off the equipment at CBNSat’s affiliate company SonicNet technology, bringing its activities to a halt. The […]

June 7, 2006 (LBO) – Private fixed line operators are among the few trying to lay their hands on the fifth mobile phone license which has come up for grabs in Sri Lanka, industry sources said. Sri Lanka’s Telecommunications Regulatory Commission (TRC) Monday invited local and foreign companies with experience in third generation technology to […]

June 07 (LBO) – Authorities in Sri Lanka shut down pay television channel CBNSat which was using satellite communications technology without proper approval, police said Wednesday. -LBO Newsdesk- CBNSat which rebroadcast a number of local and foreign television channels was scheduled to have a formal launch of its services shortly, with packages priced between 500 […]

BANGALORE, India, June 6, 2006 (AFP) – US technology giant IBM said Tuesday it will triple its investments in India to six billion dollars over the next three years, recognising India’s dominance in the global outsourcing industry. “In the next three years, we will triple our investments in India from two billion dollars over the […]