Category: Technology

SAN FRANCISCO, October 31, 2013 (AFP) – Google on Thursday unveiled its Nexus 5 smartphone, putting its premium brand on a device intended to champion the latest version of its Android operating system.The hotly anticipated addition to Google’s Nexus line is powered by a new “KitKat” version of Android, which was redesigned to work across […]

Oct 30, 2013 (LBO) – Smartphone sales are taking off showing fast growth, Singer Sri Lanka, a top consumer durables retailer which launched a slim phone targeting domestic and tourist markets said.Smartphones have an operating system which can run many applications, similar to a small computer, while remaining connected to the internet compared to so-called […]

Oct 30, 2013 (LBO) – Smartphone sales are taking off showing fast growth, Singer Sri Lanka, a top consumer durables retailer which launched a slim phone targeting domestic and tourist markets said. Smartphones have an operating system which can run many applications, similar to a small computer, while remaining connected to the internet compared to […]

Oct 28, 2013 (LBO) – Sri Lanka has been named the ‘Outsourcing Destination of the Year’ by UK’s National Outsourcing Association (NOA), Sri Lanka’s business chamber for information technology businesses said.Sri Lanka has been ranked top 25 among global outsourcing destinations by AT Kearney, a consultancy. Gartner another consultancy had put the country among the […]

Oct 28, 2013 (LBO) – MillenniumIT, a Sri Lanka based unit of London Stock Exchange group has expanded its technology campus opening a new building, which the firm says is built to promote innovation.It uses natural light which is filtered to reduce the glare, as tropical sunlight makes it difficult to read computer screens easily. […]

Oct 24, 2013 (LBO) – Sri Lanka Telecom said it has been chosen to be the information communications technology provider to Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) to be held in November.SLT will serve the needs of government delegations, businessmen and journalists. SLT said it will connect multiple locations through its ‘SLT Intelligent Solutions’ integrated […]

SAN FRANCISCO, October 18, 2013 (AFP) – Google shares surged to a record high, close to $1,000, after quarterly earnings figures showed the Internet giant’s profits are climbing despite a trend toward cheaper advertising on smartphones and tablets. The company on Thursday reported net income of $2.97 billion on revenue that rose to $14.89 billion […]

Oct 08, 2013 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s information technology and outsourcing industry chamber said it is holding a forum on human resources to help over challenges faced by the sector. Among the panellists are, chief executive ACCA, Ajantha Dharmasiri, senior faculty member, Postgraduate Institute of Management, Niroshan Silva, managing director Training Consortium and Dananjaya Hettiarachchi, […]

Oct 07, 2013 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s Sinhala speakers would soon be able to use Google translate, a tool that allows readers to translation languages into one another, an official said.“The development is being done as we speak,” Rohan Jayaweera, country consultant for US-based Google Inc told an LBR-LBO Summit forum. “I am sitting in […]

Sept 19, 2013 (LBO) – Broadband customers of Sri Lanka Telecom, the islands sole wireline operator, topped 350,000 by June 2013, the firm said amid an expansion of its fibre optic network capacity. Sri Lanka Telecom offers ‘triple play’ with voice, data and television through its PEOTv service. Sri Lanka Telecom has been boosting its […]

BRUSSELS, September 10, 2013 (AFP) – The EU presents a radical shake-up of the telecoms sector Wednesday, aiming to enforce a single telecoms market and remove unpopular mobile phone roaming charges it claims are unjustified.Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso will unveil the plans to the European Parliament in his last annual ‘State of the Union’ […]

Sept 05, 2013 (LBO) – Content owners are now choosing to allow unauthorized posting of their material when given a chance to earn advertising revenues, a regional Google official said at a forum in Sri Lanka. Ann Lavin, head of government policy for Asia and Greater China at Google said, there were over 100,000 owners […]