Category: Technology

July 09, 2010 (LBO) – Mobile broadband quality of the two largest players in Sri Lanka’s western province, where the capital Colombo is located, is satisfactory when compared to promised and international benchmarks, researchers have found. But Dialog, a unit of Axiata of Malaysia has wide mobile broadband coverage as well as Mobitel, a unit […]

July 06, 2010 (LBO) – Dialog Telekom has inked an Inter-Carrier-Interconnection (ICI) deal with Hong Kong based HKT group which enable users to maintain a network similar to a local area network (LAN) with international branch offices. The network upgrade will allow users to interconnect voice, data and video applications with overseas branch network similar […]

July 05, 2010 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s PC House has got approval from the investment promotion agency to set up a subsidiary with an investment of three million dollars to do internet data centre operations, a statement said. The Board of Investment said IDC and information technology outsourcing were seen as businesses with growth potential. […]

June 16, 2010 (AFP) – At least 15 people using their mobile telephones while walking on railway tracks have been killed by trains in Sri Lanka this year, a railways official said Wednesday. There are about 14 million mobile phone users in Sri Lanka, which has a population of 20 million people. Accidents have increased […]

June 15, 2010 (LBO) – Mobile phone payment and music are among applications likely to be popular in south Asian countries like Sri Lanka where local-language content and catering to rural consumers are also important, an industry analyst said. “Designing for mobile consumers is the key rather than designing for mobile technology,” said Dileeka Dias, […]

June 14, 2010 (LBO) – Etisalat’s Sri Lanka unit has invited developers to create mobile applications and is offering to share 70 percent of revenue from sales, an official said. Dumindra Ratnayaka, chief executive of Etisalat Sri Lanka said the firm, which was taken over by Etisalat Telecommunication Corporation in the UAE in February 2010, […]

June 11, 2010 (LBO) – Mobile phone applications have the potential to reduce the gap between rich and poor in developing countries like Sri Lanka, the island’s minister of technology and research said. The mobile phone is joining the personal computer and television in empowering people and giving them access to information to make their […]

SINGAPORE, May 30, 2010 (AFP) – Entrepreneur Binod Hariharan has big plans for his southern Indian firm, which develops astrology-based computer software to help users find a suitable spouse or plot their career paths. Similarly ambitious is Somporn Maneeratanakul, managing director of Thai Software Enterprises, and Nguyen Minh Duc, director of BKIS Security, a Vietnamese […]

May 28, 2010 (LBO) – An information technology firm has set up a software development centre in Sri Lanka’s former war-torn eastern region with support from the United States, its embassy in Colombo said. Kingslake Engineering Systems had set up development centre in Akkaraipatti in the Ampara district with financial support from the US Agency […]

PARIS, May 28, 2010 (AFP) – Thousands of die-hard Apple fans mobbed shops in parts of Europe and Asia on Friday after the iPad, touted as a revolution in personal computing, began its global launch. Long queues of customers snaked outside Apple shops in Australia and Japan hours before the opening and similar huddled masses […]

May 17, 2010 (LBO) – Massachusetts-based Virtusa Corp., an IT services firm with operations in Sri Lanka, said net profit for the March 2010 quarter stayed flat at 3.6 million US dollars from the previous year. A company statement said the March quarter result was an improvement on the 2.9 million dollar profit earned in […]

May 12, 2010 (LBO) – An Indian business process outsourcing firm that is setting up a unit to start off-site engineering services says Sri Lanka’s evolving tertiary education system is providing it with a talent pool and costs are manageable. India’s MphasiS is planning to invest 3.5 million dollars in a Sri Lankan operation and […]