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SLT Fibre creates smart lifestyles for residents of Unitown Residencies

A unique smart home solution to complement Unitown residents’ unique lifestyles Sri Lanka Telecom (SLT), the leading ICT and digital solutions provider in the country recently entered into an agreement with Asian Silk Route Private Limited, a company specializing in condominium development and construction, to facilitate Unitown Residencies with a unique Smart Home Solution powered…

(0)Comments | November 4, 2020 1:46 pm

Fairfirst Insurance settling claims in record time: over 1,100 motor claims within one hour, every month

The notion of lengthy claim settlement processes after an accident is a time consuming and strenuous situation for a customer. With this understanding, Fairfirst introduced a revolutionary virtual assessment technology known as Click2Claim (C2C), where a policyholder is able to conduct a self-inspection of the damage virtually – by converting their phone camera into video…

(0)Comments | November 4, 2020 11:40 am

VMware Empowers Customers to Build their Multi-Cloud Future

VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW) announced new innovations to help customers build, run, manage, connect, and protect any app on any cloud. Today, more than 15 million enterprise workloads run on VMware in the cloud, and more than 4,300 partners offer VMware-based cloud services. With these new and updated offerings, customers and partners can unlock multi-cloud’s…

(0)Comments | November 4, 2020 11:36 am

Allianz Life Insurance joins hands with Mobitel to provide exclusive Life Insurance Cover to its customers

Allianz Life Insurance, one of Sri Lanka’s leading life insurance companies, announced that it has entered into an agreement with Mobitel, Sri Lanka’s National Mobile Service Provider, to offer ‘Araksha 365,’ an exclusive life insurance cover to all its customers. Designed to provide maximum benefit, the ‘Araksha 365’ cover will be offered in 2 different…

(0)Comments | November 4, 2020 11:25 am

HUAWEI CLOUD Releases Device-Cloud Synergy Meeting Solution in APAC

Huawei launched HUAWEI CLOUD Meeting, its full-scenario, secure and reliable global video conferencing solution in Asia Pacific on Monday. The award-winning device-cloud synergy solution enables effective internal and external meetings for up to 1,000 concurrent participants — anytime, anywhere, over the Internet, from any terminal or device. The pandemic has accelerated the need to stay…

(0)Comments | November 4, 2020 11:10 am

HNB offers Cashback to Credit Cardholders for orders on Uber Eats

Sri Lanka’s leading private sector bank HNB PLC will offer its growing base of credit cardholders an attractive cashback of Rs. 200 for each order Uber Eats. HNB credit cardholders can make use of the promotion on the Uber Eats app from October 15 to January 15, 2021, the promotion can be considered another initiative…

(0)Comments | November 4, 2020 11:08 am

Airtel Lanka becomes sole mobile telco ranked among the Top 40 Best Work Places 2020

Sri Lanka’s most popular youth-telco brand, Airtel Lanka was once again ranked among the Top 40 Best Workplaces for a fourth time by the Great Place to Work Institute. Commenting on this recognition, Airtel Lanka’s CEO & Managing Director, Ashish Chandra said, “Ultimately, it is people that give life to culture, and culture that gives…

(0)Comments | November 4, 2020 10:59 am

INSEE Cement reaches another milestone promoting circular economy based sustainable recycling solutions with Ministry of Environment

INSEE Cement Sri Lanka, the leading provider of cement in the country, has inked two vital memorandums of understanding (MoUs) with the Ministry of Environment and the Central Environmental Authority to support the government’s sustainability agenda particularly towards the national crisis on waste management recently. INSEE Cement, under the patronage of Hon. Mahinda Amaraweera, Minister…

(0)Comments | November 4, 2020 10:57 am

Recipe for reform: Smallholders hold the key to productivity in Sri Lanka’s tea industry

By K.L Gunaratne (Chairman, Sri Lanka Federation of Tea Smallholders) With nearly 500,000 smallholders in total, the tea smallholder sector is a significant contributor to the production and output of Ceylon Tea in Sri Lanka, and across the globe. We are often called the ‘backbone’ of our tea industry, and with good reason. 16% of…

(0)Comments | November 4, 2020 10:42 am

5GDNA Joins the 3GPP Family

3GPP recently announced that the 5G Deterministic Networking Alliance (5GDNA) has become its Market Representation Partner (MRP), making it the third organization member from 5G vertical industry after 5G Automotive Association (5GAA) and 5G Alliance for Connected Industries and Automation (5G-ACIA). This partnership shows the rise of 5GDNA’s influence in 5G standards and 5G B2B…

(0)Comments | November 3, 2020 11:39 am