Swarnavahini's next owner ?? President's friend?

Swarnavahini, One of the most populor sinhala medium channel is going to sell for 4000 million. As lankaenews reports buyer is very good friend of the president. As our source person who called Mr. Hulugalle is discussing with EAP group.

Swarnavahini telecast very populor reality programs, news programm, talk shows and many more populor programmes and resent report shows swarnavahini gaining it's status month by month.

Lanka Media Outlook toolbar - Now available

Lanka Media Outlook toolbar is now available for Firefox users and Internet explore 8. Currently we have only added ten sinhala live online radio channels and few TV channels. In our next update we'll add all the sinhala, English and Tamil radio's and all available TV's. At the moment we are trying to add "Sri FM". Sri FM stream is not available in the internet and we'll trying to add a stream.

Available features 

Google search - Without downloading Google toolbar u can search Google.


Sinhala Radio's
1. Hiru FM
2. Sirasa FM
3. Y FM
4. Nilwala Radio
5. Siyatha FM
6. Rhythem FM
7. FM Derana
8. Rangiri Sri Lanka
9.SLBC
   Sinhala Commercial Services
   Sinhala Nationala Services
10. Neth Fm

Television Channels
1. Rupavahini
2. ITN
3. Swarnavahini (working on it)
4. Siyatha TV (working on it)
5. Derana TV (working on it)
comming up more...

Live cricket score card
Recent matches, Upcoming matches and live matches

Email notifier
If u have two gmail accounts u can use this feature to check both gmail accounts at the same time. Use same method for Yahoo, Hotmail and and other mail clients.

Weather
As default Colombo weather is added to the toolbar . You can change the location.

Coming up more.....

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Airtel misses great chance to become 2nd biggest in Sri Lanka

Earlier AIRTEL was very close to buy TIGO Sri Lanka but now it seem to be TIGO will buy by Etisalat, a Middle Eastern telco, with the sale expected to be completed by October 20. TIGO owner Millicom International Cellular will sell its Sri Lanka unit for 155 million US dollars. Airtel offers maximum 135 US dollors.

This Transaction is finalized and we are not sure about TIGO new owner Etisalat would change the the TIGO brand or not.

Sri Lnaka's Online live Sinhala radio list

Here are the links that you can listen to sinhala radio's online. All working with 512kb/s connection. Pl.click on the word link only.......


1. Nilwala Radio
 Very good sound Quality. 24/7 Sinhala Online Radio Station that features Live shows 365 days with guest DJs.




2. Hiru FM - Sinhala songs, Sinhala teledrama, News









3. Sirasa FM - Sinhala songs, Drama, Talk shows, News





4. SLBC - Talk shows, Education, Drama, Songs, News
Sinhala National Service


Sinhala Commercial Services


City FM


Kandurata FM


5.Siyatha FM - Talk shows, Education, Drama, Songs, News

6.Neth FM - Talk shows, Education, Drama, Songs, News

7.Y FM - Talk shows, Education, Drama, Songs, News

8.FM Derana - Talk shows, Education, Drama, Songs, News

9. Rhythm FM - Talk shows, Education, Drama, Songs, News

10.Rangiri - Cultural radio. Broadcast "pirith"

"Rate Cutter" from Hutch

Hutch launched its “Rate Cutter” to the Sri Lankan market, from the beginning of this month which offers customers the opportunity to make outgoing calls to other networks at a low rate of Rs.1.50 a minute for a period of thirty days once purchased and activated.

SLBC goes digital

Sri Lanka Broadcasting corporation started it's digital and satellite technology on 1st of October. President Mahinda Rajapaksha transmitted his voice at auspicious time. The SLBC said it will launch a Tamil language broadcasting service from Irattaperiyakulam. 

Watch EPL on ESPN-Star

ESPN-Star recently announced they have won the exclusive right to telecast English Premier League knos as EPL. Now they have rights to telecast all the EPL matches until 2013. How much ESPN-Star paid for the rights was not disclosed.

It has the rights in India, Indonesia, East Timor, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, North and South Korea, the Philippines, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Maldives, Mongolia, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. In Malaysia and Brunei, it works in a partnership with Astro.

Mobile Money Transfers in sri lanka soon..

MoneyGram to Introduce Mobile Money Transfers in sri lanka very soon. MoneyGram International offers more control and more choices to people separated from family and friends by distance or those with limited bank relationships to meet their financial needs. A leading global payment services company, MoneyGram International helps consumers to pay bills quickly and safely send money around the world with funds arriving at available agent locations in as little as 10 minutes. Its global network is comprised of 180,000 agent locations in 190 countries and territories. MoneyGram's convenient and reliable network includes retailers, international post offices and financial institutions.

Find friends location any where in Sri Lanka

Dialog telecom's newest value added service "Friend Finder" is now active and any one can subscribe who use their network via SMS. No need complicated handsets. Most common handset are compatible with this application.


When sending text messages using this application the recipient would only receive the location from which you last sent the SMS, enabling you to experience a new dimension in text messaging.


As describe in dialog.lk


Friend Finder is based on the latest location tracking technology, which provides following cool features that you can enjoy with friends on your Dialog Mobile.

1. You can track the geographical location of your friends and loved ones wherever they are on your mobile.
2. You can look for and get to know new friends in your vicinity. All you need to do is register with the service as mentioned below & create your profile on Friend Finder. Once registered with Dialog Friend Finder, you can search for new friends, and chat with them anonymously.
3. You can send secret messages to your friends anonymously. The recipient would only receive the location from which you last sent the SMS.

Use

To register for Friend Finder - type REG & send to 779.
You can enjoy all these features via SMS, and do not need sophisticated handsets at all.

Pricing

Each SMS sent to 779 will be charged Rs. 2.00

New websites: Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority

This is about Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority's website (Government). slow to load but good one for tourist who is travelling or willing to travel Sri Lanka. They offer verity of services such as live chat, interactive srilanka map, Mobile services, Reservation and many more.

As in front page "The Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority (SLTDA) was formed as the apex body for Sri Lanka Tourism under Section 2 of the Tourism Act (No. 38 of 2005). The organization (Formally known as “Ceylon Tourist Board / Sri Lanka Tourist Board / Sri Lanka Tourism Board ”) is committed towards transforming Sri Lanka to be Asia’s foremost tourism destination. The SLTDA will strive to develop diverse, unique and quality tourism services and products that would make Sri Lanka unique destination, globally.

The SLTDA creatively uses its products, while ensuring optimization of resources to efficiently and effectively serve the industry. Some of its activities include identifying and developing tourist specific, unique products and services, formulating and implementing Tourism Development Guidelines, and facilitating and implementing the legal and administrative process for new product and service development."

Another surprise from MOBILTEL "Senehase Upahara"

State Trading (General) Corporation together with Sri Lanka Telecom Mobitel announce that all Sri Lankans who have been honoured with UPAHARA connections are now entitled to nominate 5 loved ones to receive "Senehase" UPAHARA connections and a 3.5G high speed internet connection.

Airtell buy Tigo

Sri Lanka airtell owner Bharti Airtell India is going increase their market share by buying millicom owned Tigo. Tigo is the third largest mobile operator in Sri Lanka having more than two million customers. Bharti Airtell will cost something like $100 to $135 million for the acquisition. Millicom (Tigo owner) is reportedly keen to divest other Asian operations in Cambodia and Laos.