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A couple of teenagers from Norway have been arrested as part of a police investigation into a number of distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks, including the one on the site of UK’s Serious Organized Crime Agency (SOCA).
Aged 18 and 19, the suspects were apprehended by the country’s National Crimin... |
10 May 2012
10:26 GMT |
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Due to an error, all the individuals who tried to access the Norwegian tax portal Altinn at around 6:17 PM on Tuesday found themselves logged in as a 36-year-old man from Oslo named Kenneth.
Visitors would be able to see not only his financial information, but also his wife’s and the details of the company he worked... |
21 March 2012
08:27 GMT |
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Napsterakos, a hacker that claims to be part of the Greek Hacking Scene (GHS) managed to find a vulnerability in Coca Cola Norway’s official website, defacing it to show his powers and to protest against the corruption acts that take place. “When futere is based on lies, everyone is corrupted,” rea... |
8 December 2011
03:06 GMT |
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Any time now, smart buildings will abandon movie sets and redefine themselves as a part of our lives. The researchers from the Inspiria Science Center try to raise the level of awareness of its public by combining the benefits of education, science and and an eco-conscious attitude in a jaw-dropping futuristic facili... |
9 November 2011
03:17 GMT |
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If you live in Norway and you were keen on learning when the new Windows Phone Mango mobile platform from Microsoft might be released on shelves in the country, you will certainly be happy to learn that this might happen in about one month from now.
Dubbed Windows Phone 7.5, Mango is expected to make its officia... |
29 August 2011
10:32 GMT |
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The Twitter account of Anders Breivik, the man who confessed to the attacks earlier this month in Norway, has been hijacked by hackers associated with the Anonymous collective.The attackers originally impersonated Breivik, making it look as if he was using his Twitter account himself, an unlikely possibility since he... |
2 August 2011
13:01 GMT |
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Scammers have already started exploiting people's interest into yesterday's deadly attacks in Norway's capital, Oslo, and the island of Utøya.Events that get international coverage, whether natural disasters, tragic accidents, terrorist attacks, etc., are favorite topics for scammers as they pro... |
23 July 2011
05:54 GMT |
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In a demonstration carried out recently, the European Space Agency (ESA) demonstrated that it is possible to use satellites to monitor for avalanches occurring in remote, mountain areas, especially at high and very high latitudes.Norway is a very good example of such a place. Much of its national territory is extreme... |
29 June 2011
10:23 GMT |
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A Norwegian woman using her iPhone in sub-zero conditions allegedly picked up the handset to find that it had exploded in the cold.As reported by the Swedish blog ‘Feber’ citing di.se, the Norwegian woman was using her iPhone 4 in her car at the time.She was reportedly playing music when, all of the sudde... |
14 January 2011
06:44 GMT |
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Telio Holding ASA, a fixed, video and mobile internet communications provider, has announced plans to start shipping its Teliophone product bundled with Apple’s iPad, providing a new method of distributing Telio’s access independent telephony services.According to a report that just hit the wires, the bun... |
30 November 2010
09:40 GMT |
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Arsenic is one of the most commonly occurring natural poisons that appear inside plants around the world, and a team of experts believes that it may have just discovered two genes that are responsible for allowing for this to happen. Food-based arsenic is a major public health concern in numerous countries, and is no... |
13 September 2010
09:19 GMT |
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A team of experts has recently established a new organization meant to promote research, development and innovation in the field of prospecting for, and extracting oil and natural gas. The international Center for Drilling and Wells for Improved Recovery is supported by a number of organizations and universities in N... |
30 August 2010
10:01 GMT |
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An U.S. official claims that three al-Qaeda suspects arrested by Norwegian authorities yesterday were identified thanks to a lead generated by the Terrorism Finance Tracking Program. This automated system scans through SWIFT transaction data in order to detect signs of terrorist activity financing.On Thursday Norwegi... |
9 July 2010
09:21 GMT |
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The fight against illegal file-sharing is relentless, though surprisingly pointless at the same time. In another win for common sense, a Norwegian appeal court is standing by an earlier decision and has ruled that ISPs can't be forced to block sites, the Pirate Bay in this case, based on the wishes of private g... |
11 February 2010
06:41 GMT |
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A Norwegian Apple reseller, Eplehuset (translated Apple House), has issued a note to clients informing them that the shop is already expecting a shortage of iPads, after looking at the sheer number of pre-orders registered so far. The shop claims demand has gone through the roof, even though Norway’s prices for... |
10 February 2010
04:05 GMT |
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The first 4G networks in the world based on the LTE (Long Term Evolution) technology have been fired up in Stockholm, Sweden and Oslo, Norway. Both networks have been deployed by wireless carrier TeliaSonera, which thus becomes the first LTE operator around the globe. According to the company, the launch of it... |
15 December 2009
04:28 GMT |
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Merely two days ago, the citizens in the northern parts of Norway could see a very peculiar, spiral-like formation glowing on the night sky. Viewed from a lot of angles, it immediately began to raise suspicions that it was a UFO, and many conspiracy theorists began to hypothesize as to its origins and purpose there. ... |
11 December 2009
02:04 GMT |
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The Scandinavian nation of Norway incited international outrage recently, when it announced that it would increase its maximum whale-hunting quota by more than 45 percent, as opposed to the 2009 level. The move was sparked by nothing more than political interests that this country and Japan had in preserving the usel... |
9 December 2009
16:01 GMT |
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Renewable energy comes in all shapes and sizes, from the radiation of the Sun to the air flows that winds generate and the heat emanating from deep within our planet's core. But researchers thinking outside the box also discovered that harnessing pressure differences could also produce energy. This is the main o... |
27 November 2009
16:01 GMT |
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The war between the music industry and anyone it perceives as standing in its way of making money the good, old-fashioned way, by selling CDs, is still raging, but, for once, common sense and this little thing called the law prevailed in the face of scare tactics and misguided legal threats. Earlier this year, the No... |
9 November 2009
11:25 GMT |
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Norwegian researchers have recently just finished their long-term, cross-sectional study focused on the effects of caffeine on migraines, and results are mixed. Though the investigation was conducted on more than 50,000 people, a clear conclusion could not be drawn. The experts reveal that caffeine has the interestin... |
17 August 2009
01:30 GMT |
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In their most recent study, Norwegian researchers have found that morphine patches, which were at first created to reduce and control painkiller consumption, actually create addiction in the very people who were trying to quit the drugs. One of the main reasons for this, experts at the Norwegian University of Science... |
18 May 2009
05:00 GMT |
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Much can be said about extreme artist Eskil Ronningsbakken, but not that he cares for his life. The daredevil performs some of the most impressive and dangerous stunts in the world, such as dangling on a bicycle running a thin wire stretched between two cliffs, some 1,000 meters (3,300 feet) in the air. The DailyMail... |
17 April 2009
06:55 GMT |
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On Thursday, all of the five nations surrounding the Arctic have expressed deep concern about the state of the entire region, and especially about the well-being of the polar bears as a species. The beasts face drastic habitat losses, as global warming starts prompting the melting of an increasing number of glaciers.... |
20 March 2009
13:21 GMT |
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Along with the nitrous oxide and carbon dioxide, methane is one of the three gases that has been directly linked to the intensification of the global warming and climate change phenomena throughout the world. And while, sadly, CO2 levels continue to climb on account of all the fossil fuel that is being burnt at this ... |
11 March 2009
05:51 GMT |
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Trigcom and Research In Motion announced the launch of the BlackBerry Curve 8900 in Norway. The smartphone brings email, messaging, organizer, web browser and multimedia applications, as well as global connectivity support, built-in GPS, Wi-Fi, a high-resolution display and a next-generation 512Mhz processor. &ldquo... |
3 February 2009
05:11 GMT |
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Norway has been chosen for the “test case” that consumer ombudsman Erik Thon has filed against Apple two years ago. France, Germany, Finland and Denmark jumped in as well, to get Apple to change its DRM-locked content system used with the iTunes Store."It's a consumer's right to transfer and pla... |
30 September 2008
08:28 GMT |
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TeliaSonera, a leading mobile operator based in Stockholm, Sweden, unveiled today the upcoming release of Apple's iPhone in no less than seven new markets: Sweden, Finland, Norway, Denmark, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Although the Nordic carrier doesn't give exact details about when its customers from th... |
27 May 2008
07:52 GMT |
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A few days ago, Simonsen Advokatfirma, a law firm asked the Norwegian ISPs to ban the local file-sharing users, as a move to fight against piracy and illegal software distribution. The request sounded unacceptable but, in the letter they had sent to the ISPs, the lawyers explained that the providers have the obligati... |
11 April 2008
06:41 GMT |
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File sharing is once again causing important disputes around the world as Simonsen, a Norwegian law firm, wants to reduce the amount of copyrighted material circulating on the web by asking users to stop sharing files that may infringe copyrights, bit-tech.net informs. According to the report, Advokatfirma DA started... |
4 April 2008
06:25 GMT |
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Nokia Siemens Networks will improve Telenor's 3G network with HSDPA technology. This means that Norway should soon benefit from the highest data transfer rates of up to 14 megabits per second. The initial upgrade at Telenor will be capable of supporting up to 3.6 Mbps, a rate high enough to make it possible to d... |
12 November 2007
09:38 GMT |
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