The innovative drive of Sri Lanka telecommunications has once again been exemplified by SLT-Mobitel, the nation’s leading telecom provider, with the announcement of their ‘Fibre Elite Rewards’ winner for January. In a display of generosity and appreciation for customer loyalty, SLT-Mobitel presents a notable Rs. 1m prize to C.K. Abeynayake, the winner of the campaign,…
Nearly 150 people are still wanted following the landslides in Sri Lanka. The toll continues to grow after the torrential rains that have hit the country for three days. Seventeen bodies were found on Wednesday, bringing the death toll to 37. The Red Cross said it fears that there are several hundred villagers missing. What…
With the new iOS and iPadOS 15 operating systems, Apple is relying on a gender-neutral language. With colons, people in the apps are to be treated gender-neutral in the future. Stuttgart – In the future, Apple will use a gender-neutral language for texts on iPhone s and iPads: With the new iOS and iPadOS operating…
The US is striking out against the tech companies with several legislative initiatives. There are also efforts in Europe for stricter regulation. Berlin in Germany, the debate about stricter regulation of large internet companies is gaining momentum. The reason for this is the efforts in the USA to enable the unbundling of dominant companies, as…
BredaRelatively many successful Dutch YouTubers are highly educated. Four in ten YouTube stars have completed an HBO or WO education, while this share is more than 10 percent lower for all Dutch people. This is apparent from research by CVSter.nl into the training courses of Dutch YouTubers with more than 100,000 subscribers. Gamers often highly…
WhatsApp executives announced the upcoming arrival of new features on their messaging application during an update. Inspired by Snapchat, an option will allow you to delete messages for all the recipients of the same conversation. The WhatsApp messaging platform will soon add a new feature to its mobile application, offering to delete messages for all…
The partnership that makes a community of 1 billion global users available to the e-commerce platform expands in Europe. “We help companies to grow and restart”. Here’s how the new service works Full speed ahead on social commerce, the sale of products and services through digital platforms and social media. In fact, the alliance between…
The profile is deleted in case of prolonged inactivity The account on WhatsApp can be deleted from the application. Deleting a user’s profile can occur in the event of inactivity. The WaBetaInfo blog, always informed about news and everything related to the messaging app, highlights that there are different situations. WhatsApp will “surely” delete the…
Thousands of people gathered in the city of Kandy, Sri Lanka, to witness a colorful elephant parade during a festival. Dancers, acrobats and musicians joined in the fun.
Tams tams and applause fed to the proclamation of the results of the legislative elections in Sri Lanka. The United National Party, in power since January, won the legislative ballot with 106 seats, only seven seats away from the absolute majority. Outgoing Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe is therefore almost guaranteed to stay in his post….
At least 13 prisoners have been killed in Sri Lanka’s largest prison in Colombo, the capital. To the chagrin of the police, detainees managed to take control of part of the penitentiary center and to take staff members hostage. Some prisoners were armed. The soldiers were called in as reinforcements.
Sri Lanka is now banning veils that hide the face, and therefore, without naming them, the niqab or the burqa, eight days after the attacks claimed by the Islamic State group which have plagued the country. Measures taken to strengthen national security, according to the presidency, but which do not fail to react. According to…
First phone call between the new president Joe Biden and Xi Jinping: the measures on Asian tech companies are also being examined. It is difficult to review the decisions, but in the meantime the US administration takes time on the operation of selling the Chinese app to Oracle and Walmart Relations between the US and…
At least 60 people died in the explosion of a truck carrying ammunition near the port of Batticaloa in eastern Sri Lanka. It is an accident. The explosion took place inside a police station and most of the victims are police officers. According to local media, two Chinese entrepreneurs were also among those killed. The…
The electoral campaign was peppered with violence. At the end of July, the attack on a meeting of the National Union Party, a member of the government coalition, left two dead and 12 injured. 63,000 police officers were therefore mobilized on Monday for these legislative elections which oppose two major political figures of the country….
For over a decade, Kilinochchi served as the capital for the Liberation Tigers movement from Tamil Islam. But in November 2008, the Sri Lankan army launched attacks on the city from three different locations. The fighting raged in particular on the A9 motorway, the main axis connecting Colombo with the Tamil areas in the north…
In an impressive feat demonstrating the vitality of Sri Lankan entrepreneurial talent abroad, the Melbourne-based Groovy Graphics and Signs, a vibrant Sri Lankan-owned business, has carved its name as a finalist in the Australian Small Business Champion Awards 2024. The brainchild of Sri Lankan entrepreneur in Australia, Lalantha De Silva, this renowned enterprise has consistently…
CEO Jamie Iannone continues his diet for Ebay. However, the competition rushes ahead in Corona times. It remains to be seen whether the strategy will work. San Jose – The online trading platform Ebay is continuing its streamlining course: The group is separating from the majority of its Korean business and wants to sell its…
At least 17 people were found dead in Sri Lanka on Wednesday while more than 200 families are missing in the mudslides that affected 3 villages in the center of the country, about 70 kilometers north of the capital, Colombo. This new report brings to at least 37 the number of dead since the start…
Facebook Inc. decided to remove the “Like” button from the public pages of artists, personalities and brands, the representatives of the company that manages this social network announced on Wednesday, informs Reuters, quoted by Agerpres. Facebook pages will only display their followers and will include a dedicated News Feed, in which the administrators of these…