Author: Techie.lk

New service at Bandaranaike International Airport, Hiriketiya, Ella and Arugam Bay makes self-service banking more accessible to international visitors and Sri Lankans DFCC Bank has introduced Sri Lanka’s first ATMs and Cash Recycler Machines (CRMs) offering transactions in eight languages, enabling international visitors and local customers to withdraw or deposit cash in the language most familiar to them. Now available in the arrivals area of Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA) and at DFCC Bank locations in Hiriketiya, Ella, and Arugam Bay, the service offers English, Sinhala, Tamil, French, Chinese, Russian, Hindi, and German, with a wider rollout across the bank’s countrywide network. The…

Kaspersky recently hosted KasperskySecure: Live in Sri Lanka, bringing together 80 to 90 security leaders, bankers and technology partners in Colombo for an evening built around a single question. Once a threat has been spotted, how quickly can an organisation actually respond to it. The event was held at Cinnamon Life Hotel on 16 July. The evening opened with a look at the evolving cyber threat landscape in Sri Lanka, led by Kaspersky Marketing Manager – SEA and AEC Elizabeth Shen, alongside Kaspersky, Sri Lanka Territory Channel Manager – AEC Mohnissh Manukulasuriya. Shen walked attendees through a worldwide malware landscape…

When Apple rolls out watchOS 27 in less than two months, it will introduce several new features. And yes, it’s going to change the way you use your Apple Watch. The one that has gotten the most hype is a drastically improved Siri. The voice assistant will answer more questions and take actions in some apps. Basically, it’s going to be more helpful than “Here’s what I found on the web.” Superior app navigation To date, when you’ve wanted to open an app on your Apple Watch, you’ve pressed the Digital Crown and then navigated to it via the List…

Samsung’s foldable lineup is ambitious lately, from last year’s super-slim Galaxy Z Fold 7 to the sprawling Galaxy Z TriFold. But the phone I’m most excited about using is the new passport-sized Galaxy Z Fold 8. With a 4:3 aspect ratio and a satisfyingly compact build, the Z Fold 8 feels refreshingly different from most phones sold today. Unfolded, it’s well-suited for watching horizontal videos and multitasking in landscape mode, while also giving vertically oriented apps more room to breathe in portrait orientation. The 5.5-inch cover display is comfortable for everyday tasks like texting or checking email, while the 7.6-inch inner display is more…

After Gears of War: Reloaded and Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 planted their flags in PlayStation territory, Halo remained steadfast as Xbox’s last bastion of exclusivity to cross the divide. That was until Halo: Campaign Evolved emerged late last year, a ground-up remake of Master Chief’s seminal debut primed for Sony’s home console. And, at the time, this felt like the culminating first wave of Microsoft’s multi-platform ‘Project Latitude’ strategy. The expectation was, now the walls were well and truly down, that platform exclusivity will become increasingly rare, and that Microsoft’s ‘Play Anywhere’ mantra really did mean anywhere. Fast-forward three months and Xbox’s new CEO Asha Sharma draws a…

Acendae, a Netherlands-headquartered digital engineering company, has expanded its Sri Lankan engineering operations as part of a broader strategy to strengthen its position in European markets. The company works with startups, scaleups, and digital agencies across Europe, delivering embedded engineering and design teams that function as integrated parts of client organisations. Structural transformation in software development The European software industry is experiencing a structural transformation driven by the rapid adoption of artificial intelligence in engineering workflows. Development teams are increasingly expected to deliver faster outputs while maintaining higher levels of quality and adaptability. Acendae CEO Pramuka Godakanda said this shift…

The global accounting profession is approaching a technological watershed, and professionals who fail to govern artificial intelligence with unwavering ethical standards risk systemic failures in corporate trust, warned CPA Australia President and Board Chair Prof. Dale Pinto. Delivering the keynote address at the CMA Sri Lanka National Management Accounting Conference 2026 held in Colombo this week, Prof. Pinto asserted that while automation represents the future of finance, the sustainability of the industry hinges entirely on human judgment. His remarks arrive at a precarious moment for the global financial sector, which has recently navigated high-profile corporate controversies involving audit oversights and…

The Securities and Exchange Commission of Sri Lanka (SEC), Colombo Stock Exchange (CSE), and the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka (CA Sri Lanka) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to collaborate on the implementation of eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) based reporting for companies listed on the CSE. The agreement marks a significant milestone in Sri Lanka’s efforts to modernise corporate reporting and strengthen the digital infrastructure of the capital market. The initiative aims to streamline the submission of both financial and non-financial information by listed entities, enhancing transparency, accessibility and investor confidence. The MoU formalises the partnership,…

Prime Video is adding games. Amazon is making a move to embed its Amazon Luna cloud gaming service within its Prime Video platform, enabling much easier discovery for the video game offering. Games, including titles like Hogwarts Legacy, EA Sports FC 26 and Clue will be available starting today inside Prime Video, for users with an Amazon Fire TV device. “Amazon’s been kind of ticking away at the gaming space for over a decade now, I think with varying degrees of success, but really has never established Amazon as a gaming platform, a destination where people come to play games,” says Jeff Gattis, GM of gaming…

Microsoft AI released two new in-house models into public preview on Wednesday — MAI-Image-2.5-Pro, its highest-fidelity image generator to date, and MAI-Voice-2-Flash, a speech model built for high-volume enterprise workloads — while publishing production data that amounts to the company’s most aggressive argument yet that it can power its own products without leaning on OpenAI’s frontier models. The announcement, made by Microsoft AI’s Superintelligence team, lands roughly a year after the company committed to building purpose-built models internally, and it arrives with an unusual level of specificity about where those models now run: Bing, PowerPoint, OneDrive, Dynamics 365, Excel, GitHub…