“Encourage physical play in children and make screen time more meaningful.” Known for successfully playing around with the concept of next generation of toys, local tech start-up Kreyonic unveiled its new project, Qboo – an interactive educational tablet application. A crowdfunding campaign began recently for this “next year’s hottest Christmas toy”. Kreyonic traveled more than 15-thousand kilometres from Sri Lanka to ...
Social Media engagement is rapidly growing in Sri Lanka with the outburst of improving internet, Social Media literacy and those cheaper devices coming out in numbers. But how much do we know about the usage behaviour, preferences and statistics of Social Media in Sri Lanka? This survey ideally aims to extract that information. It will be almost impossible within ...
When we first heard tell of a social network being built in Sri Lanka, we were skeptical. Naturally. “Machang, I’m going to build the next Facebook” is easier said that done. However, once we got in touch the team behind this project, we were intrigued. Not only is the landing page (www.soosci.com) ridiculously professional, but the team were very much ...
With the recently concluded first study of great workplaces by Great Place to Work Institute Sri Lanka, commissioned by the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce and LMD, 99X Technology was ranked as one of the best companies to work for among the top 15. A legacy that began back in 1981, today the Great Place to Work Institute yearly works with ...
Sri Lanka Telecom officially announced the launch of a new generation of high-speed national backbone network, a 20,000 km fiber optic sprawl that (according to the official SLT page) is the country’s first nation-wide DWDM fiber optic backbone. The acronym stands for Dense Wave Division Multiplexing, a technology that can pool multiple data signals on different light wavelengths into one ...
Organized with a gala luncheon at Excel World a few hours ago, 36 new students from Universities and Higher Education institutes in Sri Lanka were appointed as Microsoft Student Partners / Microsoft Student Ambassadors at the annual MSP Sri Lanka team meeting (14th July 2013). These MSPs were earlier selected as “Buddies” by the existing MSP/MSA’s and have been monitored ...
Photo credits: Uber In 2009, Garret Camp and Travis Kalanick built a startup that was worth $200,000. Little did they know that by 2015, their little startup would be worth $50bn and operate in 60 countries across the world. This is the story of Uber. The startup that became the world’s largest taxi company in just 4 short years, without ...
Apps developed by local companies and individuals really spark my curiosity. Having studied software development and dabbling in mobile app development, I know it’s no easy task to build this stuff. I recently had to do a review of apps for the local populace (see the apps for Aunties guide). A couple of hours perusing through the Google Play store ...
The recent Presidential election spawned a singularly phenomenal amount of activity on Sri Lankan social media. While most of us bickered and clicked through various notifications on Facebook, it was Twitter, with its noisy and instantaneous nature, that emerged as the best way of tracking the ceaseless flow news, opinion, predictions and political gossip. While Facebook seems to have quieted ...
It’s fair to say that we get into a lot of tech events. By and large, if there’s a public event in the Lankan IT industry, you can be sure of spotting someone from Readme at the back tapping away on a laptop. But when it comes to tech companies, we find that there’s just a few names that we ...
After much hype and buzz, the first UX meetup in Colombo unwrapped to a tight zipped room of 80+ enthusiasts at 99X Technology, who were kind enough to offer a space for the meetup and also feed the gathering in abundance, courtesy of Sponge. This time with a breath of fresh air among the local meetup scene we had a ...
The news has been going around for a while and as shocking as it may seem to some of you, yesterday evening at a press conference it was officially confirmed: Etisalat has teamed up with Dialog to bring eZ Cash to its subscribers. It’s a partnership that’s been tentatively in the works since last year – but it’s only now ...
Customers of Dialog Axiata are rather used to receiving spam SMS. Dialog (and other fine upstanding Sri Lankan telecommunication companies) regularly flood inboxes with everything from unsolicited messages from the President to the offer of the day – Lord of the Reload, Dialog TV offers, Accident cover, you name it – and all 102,000,000,000 gods* help you if you make the ...
Yesterday was a sad day for us who live and earn by the written word. Or, for that matter, anyone who’s ever read an article on technology. Why? Because Ceylon Today, in their infinite wisdom, published a tech article. This article, titled “How important the VGA to the performances of your computer?“, talks about the importance of graphics cards to a ...
The topic of Print Vs. eBook is always an interesting debate. However, foreseeing a gradual shift in tastes and preferences, M.D Gunasena, a renowned local publisher, printer and bookseller takes a firm step teaming up with Microimage and Etisalat to launch “Book Hub [...]
Out with it: our internet has been rather unhealthy this month. We’ve seen and heard everything from cries of constant drops to high pings (that’s from the gamers) to suddenly-halved download speeds. There’s a very simple reason for all of this: one of the undersea cables connecting Sri Lanka to the rest of the world has been damaged. The cable ...
SLASSCOM was recently admitted to membership of the National Outsourcing Association (NOA) in the UK. The NOA celebrated its 25th Anniversary in 2012. In those 25 years, the association has grown from a spark of an idea to being the pre-eminent promoter of outsourcing. Jeevan Gnanam, Head of SLASSCOM’s Marketing Forum stated “We are very happy to be engaging with NOA ...
It is a leading provider of HR systems and it provides the software that powers the radio stations and Dialog TV. This is Microimage, Sri Lanka’s most successful college startup that competes with established companies in developed countries. Recently, Microimage celebrated it’s 20th anniversary. It’s an important milestone for any company. So how did Microimage achieve this goal? To answer ...
Bhasha, the local outfit behind Helakuru, SETT and others, has bagged yet another award at mBillionth Awards 2014, held on the 18th of July at the India Habitat Center, New Delhi. The award was for Helakuru, a phonetic Sinhala input keyboard that also learns users’ word usage and predicts accordingly. Since its introduction a few years ago, Halakuru has risen to ...
