Category: Technology

June 14, 2012 (LBO) – South Asians continue to pay more for their international roaming call charges when they travel within the region, despite a pledge in 2008 by regional heads to trim costs, a think-tank said. A Maldivian roaming in Bangladesh will pay 345 times more for a local call, the study showed. Sri […]

June 13, 2012 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s Dialog Axiata had launched a mobile payment service through which its 7.5 million customers can send and receive money through a ‘virtual wallet’, officials said. The mobile payment service can be used to pay utility bills or to payments at thousands of shops across the island, Fariq Cader, […]

June 07, 2012 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s mobile subscribers grew in single digits in the first quarter of 2012 from a year earlier and wireless fixed access users dropped from a quarter earlier, two years after telephones in use first exceeded the population. Wireline use picked up after Sri Lanka Telecom started to promote broadband. […]

June 05, 2012 (LBO) – Mobile phone makers have shipped over two million units to Sri Lanka with a market value of 22. 4 billion rupees in 2011 with Nokia having a 46 percent share, a market research firm based in India has said. CyberMedia Research (CMR), a computer and electronic market research firm said […]

June 02, 2012 (LBO) – Sri Lanka Financial Services Bureau, an interbank connectivity service provider, is scouting for telecommunication opportunities in South Asian banks, a company official said. “We did a testing to provide offshore connectivity with a local bank branch in Bangladesh and it was successful,” Rajaratne said. “Sri Lanka has some of the […]

May 29, 2012 (LBO) –Sri Lanka’s e-Channelling Plc, which runs a booking engine for doctors, said its profits rose nine-fold to 73.88 million rupees in the year to March 2012 from a year earlier, on the back of higher revenues. The firm reported earnings of 60-cents per share 2012. The stock closed down 10-cents to […]

May 27, 2012 (LBO) – Adopting ‘cloud’ technology where computers are knitted together to process and deliver services as demand fluctuates, can help Sri Lankan business and the state to serve customers faster and more cheaply, officials said. Sri Lanka’s government is also pushing the use of information communications technology to provide services to the […]

May 15, 2012 (LBO) –Sri Lanka’s fledgling outsourcing business, has scored well in a recent A T Kearney study, which gave high marks for the island’s skilled talent pool and a strong business environment at competitive costs. Infrastructure Sri Lanka’s infrastructure is generally far superior to that found in other low-cost countries. Being a relatively […]

May 15, 2012 (LBO) – Profits at Sri Lanka Telecom, the island’s largest telco, fell 72 percent to 365 million rupees in the March 2012 quarter hit by exchange losses, though operating profits improved interim accounts showed. The group reported earnings of 20 cents per share for the quarter. The stock traded 38.90 up 80 […]

May 14, 2012 (LBO) – The British High Commission in Sri Lanka on Monday launched an online competition to give people a chance to attend Britain’s Queen Elizabeth’s jubilee party in Colombo. Local fans of the British Royal family have to visit the High Commission’s Facebook page (www.facebook.com/bhccolombo) and write 60 words on its wall […]

May 10, 2012 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s Dialog Axiata, the island’s largest mobile operator which also sells fixed access services said it lost 530 million rupees in the March 2012 quarter, hit a 2. 1 billion rupee forex loss on foreign loans. The firm said it lost 27 cents per share, down from a 14 […]

Apr 16, 2012 (LBO) – An Indian computer student has developed an application that enables the blind and deaf to send and receive SMS on mobile phones by converting them into Morse code vibrations, a news report said. œBraille devices can be expensive,” said Mehta. “The idea of PocketSMS takes advantage of the old Morse […]