Category: Technology

Feb 25, 2010 (LBO) – Etisalat’s new Sri Lankan mobile subsidiary said it plans to expand coverage to cover the entire island, offer high speed links and use its international group network to give preferential rates to win customers. “We’re here to stay in Sri Lanka,” Etisalat group chief marketing officer Essa Al Haddad told […]

Feb 17, 2010 (LBO) – Software piracy by private sector companies in Sri Lanka is the main problem facing software developers, the Business Software Alliance (BSA), an industry body said. The organization, which represents the commercial software industry and its hardware partners, said in a statement it has taken legal action against companies using pirated […]

February 17, 2010 (LBO) – Sri Lankan computer hardware distributor eSys Technologies has launched a range of high capacity, eco-friendly network storage devices. The products include Universal Tech’s NoTouchâ„¢ Elite 2800 External Storage and MyXerverâ„¢ MX3600 Network Storage devices, eSys said in a statement. Universal Tech is an Asian brand for external storage devices, offering […]

Feb 16, 2010 (LBO) – The World Bank said money given for Sri Lanka’s telecom regulator cannot be used for net censorship activities following reports that Chinese expertise would be hired to clamp down on web news portals. World Bank said it has giving a grant from its Institutional Development Fund for the Telecommunications Regulatory […]

BARCELONA, February 15, 2010 (AFP) – The mobile phone industry’s biggest event opens Monday as it begins to emerge from the global economic crisis with the promise of new devices that will revolutionise the way people communicate. Global shipments of handsets had been falling every quarter since the third quarter of 2008, when the global […]

Feb 15, 2009 (LBO) – Sri Lanka Dialog Telecom lost 2.2 billion rupees in the December 2009 quarter down from a 3.9 billion rupees loss a year earlier, while full year losses hit 12.2 billion rupees as the firm took large write offs during the period. Revenues had grown 12 percent from a quarter earlier […]

Feb 14, 2010 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s telecom regulatory authority has not received orders to devise a law to control internet news websites, though monitoring cannot be ruled out in the future, a top official said. “There is nothing in the cards,” Anusha Pelpita, director general the Telecom Regulatory Commission of Sri Lanka (TRC) said. […]

Feb 10, 2010 (LBO) – An accounting control software which only needs a web browser to access and operate an organization’s financial system has been developed jointly by UK-based Proteus Software and Kingslake of Sri Lanka. Kingslake Sri Lanka in partnership with IBM and a leading local telecommunications company would provide the software for a […]

SAN FRANCISCO, February 9, 2010 (AFP) – US technology titans IBM and Intel on Monday rolled out powerful new computer chips designed for businesses continually demanding more from networks and data centers. Intel introduced an Itanium processor 9300 series developed under the code name “Tukwila” that it touts as delivering twice the performance of prior […]

Feb 07, 2010 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s information communications technology industry wants to promote ICT business and skills in northern Jaffna to generate employment in the former war zone, officials said. The Federation of IT Industry Sri Lanka (FITIS) said it will hold an exhibition later this month in the Jaffna peninsula to create awareness […]

Feb 05, 2010 (LBO) – Anusha Palpita, head of the government’s information office has been appointed Sri Lanka’s telecom regulator, minister Anura Yapa said. Palpita will be the director general of Sri Lanka Telecom Regulatory Commission in addition to his duties as director of information. Priyantha Kariyapperuma, the previous regulator, resigned on Tuesday

Feb 05, 2010 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s Airtel said appointments with doctors could be made through its network following a tie-up with the e-channelling. com, a web based medical channelling service. Doctors could be channelled by both post paid and pre-paid customers by dialling 225. Chief Executive of Bharti Airtel Lanka, Amali Nayakkara said in […]