Category: Technology

Dec 27, 2010 (LBO) – Fixed broadband service providers in Sri Lanka have been providing download speeds far below advertised rates at peak times especially from international domains, the telecommunications regulator has said. The TRC also said most commercial institutions in Sri Lanka prefer to use broadband services for commercial activities instead of using internet […]

Dec 27, 2010 (LBO) – Sri Lankan broadband users will soon be able to test their download speeds with the proposed introduction of a testing facility, the Telecommunications Regulatory Commission said in a statement. The TRC has just published the results of tests on fixed broadband download speeds that found speeds were far below those […]

Dec 14, 2010 (LBO) – Sri Lanka Telecom (SLT), the island’s biggest fixed line operator, has increased broadband speeds for customers after upgrading its international internet capacity and improving links with service providers, a statement said. SLT added more than 80,000 new broadband (ADSL) customers during this year, connecting people from all parts of the […]

NEW YORK, December 13, 2010 (AFP) – Facebook is challenging Google’s supremacy on the Internet with a radically different approach to how people live, work, play and search online. While Google delivers search results selected by algorithms that take into account a user’s Web history, Facebook boasts a richer level of personalisation based on one’s […]

Dec 13, 2010 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s investment professionals body has tied up with the island’s software trade group to promote finance business process outsourcing, a statement said. SLASSCOM wants to help the IT-BPO industry increase export revenues. The deal aims to exploit growing demand for Sri Lankan financial professionals from BPO and information technology […]

Dec 10, 2010 (LBO) – Dialog Axiata, Sri Lankan’s largest mobile firm, said a service which provides a virtual marketplace and delivers prices from key produce markets in the island has won a global award for mobile commerce. ‘Dialog Tradenet’ uses mobile text, voice and internet to deliver price information which is useful especially for […]

Dec 09, 2010 (LBO) – The removal of a tariff floor by Sri Lanka’s telecommunications regulator could see the resumption of a price war that led to loss among mobile phone operators, Fitch Ratings has warned in a report. “Dialog also benefited from reduced tariff pressure within the mobile industry and its strong market share […]

SAN FRANCISCO, December 8, 2010 (AFP) – Amazon will make its Kindle electronic books available for reading on Web browsers beginning early next year, with people’s digital collections saved in the Internet “cloud.” Amazon executives on Tuesday showed off “Kindle for the Web” at a Google press event introducing a new, swifter version of the […]

Dec 06, 2010 (LBO) – Sri Lankan police found pirated software worth 7.5 million rupees in raids on an ‘international group of companies’ as part of a crackdown on software piracy, a statement said. Shalini Ratwatte, consultant, Business Software Alliance, said intellectual property protection “is vital for building investor confidence and supporting the growth of […]

Dec 06, 2010 (LBO) – Sri Lanka Telecom has reduced call charges and phone rentals and offered reductions for customers who chose packages with broadband and IPTV bundled together with voice services, a statement said. Those with broadband and IPTV services bundled into their packages are offered lower rates, the SLT statement said. SLT, the […]

Dec 01, 2010 (LBO) – Computer students from Sri Lanka’s northern Jaffna University an area that was caught up in a three decade war has visited software and outsourcing firms in the island’s capital, for the first time in 20 years. Two lecturers had also accompanied the students. One lecturer had said that it was […]

Nov 29, 2010 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s mobile subscribers grew 24.3 percent in the third quarter of 2010 from a year earlier, while fixed access sector grew at a much slower 3. 4 percent, official data show. During the past 12 months 3.2 million mobile users have been added according to data released by the […]