Category: Technology

July 16, 2013 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s car owners will be able to renew and pay for annual revenue licenses through their mobile phones, an official said as part of efforts to boost government service delivery, officials said. Sri Lanka’s Information and Communication Technology Agency (ICTA) said car owners in the Western Province would be […]

SAN FRANCISCO, June 29, 2013 (AFP) – The agency in charge of website addresses passed a major milestone Friday on the path to broadening the world of domain names by the end of this year.The first new website address endings should be available in the final quarter of this year, according to Namazi. The revamped […]

June 28, 2013 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s mobile subscriber base has started to shrink, falling by almost a million subscribers in the first quarter of 2013, the first time since the industry began its explosive growth in 1992, data from the regulator showed.Total mobile subscribers fell 988,337 to 19,335,733 in the March 2013 quarter from […]

WASHINGTON, June 22, 2013 (AFP) – Internet users are taking a fresh look at “privacy” search engines that do not store data or track online activity, in light of the flap over US government surveillance.While Google’s market share has not seen a noticeable dent, privacy search engines like US-based DuckDuckGo and European-based Ixquick have seen […]

WASHINGTON, June 12, 2013 (AFP) – A fierce debate about Internet privacy and the limits of US executive power erupted on Tuesday, in a victory for the young intelligence technician at the center of a global leak storm. While Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein, the head of the Senate intelligence committee, branded the leak an “act […]

HONG KONG, June 11, 2013 (AFP) – Whistleblower Edward Snowden was acclaimed Tuesday by WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange as a “hero” defending personal liberty, but US lawmakers clamoured for the NSA contractor’s immediate expulsion from his Hong Kong hideout to face justice at home.Snowden, a 29-year-old technology expert working for a private firm subcontracted to […]

June 10, 2013 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s small and medium enterprises could use e-commerce “to grow exponentially,” software and outsourcing chamber official said welcoming plans by authorities to liberalize Paypal inward payments.Central Bank Governor Nivard Cabraal said last month, that the regulator was “seriously” looking at liberalizing Paypal inward remittances, which had been blocked in […]

NEW YORK, June 3, 2013 (AFP) – A US government lawyer accused Apple Monday of concocting a deliberate scheme to fix prices of electronic books as the antitrust trial against the tech giant got underway. “Apple knowingly and intentionally committed to a common scheme of publishers to raise prices,” Justice Department attorney Lawrence Buterman told […]

June 04, 2013 (LBO) – Sri Lanka Telecom, the island’s sole wireline operator which also has mobile and video services, said it had been formally licensed to operate a national backbone with its fibre-optic network. Other operators are also given access to the National Backbone Network (NBN). “SLT’s network is ready with the necessary flexibility, […]

June 3, 2013 (LBO) – Mobitel, a unit of Sri Lanka Telecom, said mobile fourth generation (4G) broad band services had gone live in Colombo, Galle, Hambantota, Jaffna, Kalutara, Kandy, and Matara.Enterprises can benefit from the service as it is reliable and has higher average speeds of Mobitel’s mobile 4G-LTE service which is backed by […]

SINGAPORE, June 01, 2013 (AFP) – US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel on Saturday accused Beijing of involvement in cyber espionage against Washington in a speech at a Singapore security forum attended by Chinese military officials.China kept up a steady campaign of hacking in 2012 that included attempts to target US government computer networks, which could […]

SAN FRANCISCO, May 30, 2013 (AFP) – Google revealed Thursday that it has two new sophisticated Android smartphones in the works, one of which will have the unprecedented distinction of being made in the United States. An HTC One smartphone customized to be “Google’s take on Android” will make its US debut on June 26 […]