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A bit of a Nordic rivalry is heating up between Sweden and Finland, but a type of rivalry anyone can get behind of. Just a couple of weeks after Finland announced its plans to make broadband connections a legal right, Sweden is following suit with plans of its own. Regardless of whether it's national pride or a ... |
4 November 2009
07:17 GMT |
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The Internet in Sweden broke down on Monday for at least one hour because of an error introduced during a routine maintenance update of the .se zone. Internet service providers had to manually flush the cache of their DNS servers in order to restore proper functionality.Around 21:45 on Monday, Internet users from acr... |
14 October 2009
06:15 GMT |
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Last night all of the .se websites disappeared from the Internet for more than an hour in some cases and none of the websites using that particular top level domain were accessible during this period. The problem popped up at around 22:00 local time and was caused by a faulty script that was used to update the .se zo... |
13 October 2009
10:08 GMT |
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Spotify has been somewhat spoiled by the media lately, especially in the US where, ironically, it hasn't even been launched yet. Still, the company has proved rather successful in the European countries it is available in and especially in Sweden, its country of origin. Now Spotify is launching some sort of TV s... |
8 October 2009
11:48 GMT |
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Worldwide leading provider of telecommunications equipment ZTE Corporation announced recently that its mobile phones would become available in the UK, Ireland and Sweden on the airwaves of wireless service provider 3. At the same time, the company also stated that its agreement with 3 Scandinavia enabled it for the f... |
5 October 2009
02:58 GMT |
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If there was even a small chance that the Pirate Bay sale would go through, it's now looking even less likely than the last time it looked "even less likely.” As August 27, the date when the transaction was supposed to be finalized, came and went, GGF CEO Hans Pandeya was as confident as ever, despite a pe... |
10 September 2009
05:25 GMT |
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Spotify has been getting a lot of hype lately and it's starting to look like it may be well deserved. The music streaming service has been very popular in the European countries where it has been launched so far and, according to a Universal Music exec in Sweden, the service's country of origin, the site is... |
26 August 2009
06:25 GMT |
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The Pirate Bay is once again hit by rough waters and this time it may be the biggest move to take down the site yet. Swedish authorities have ordered that it be taken offline, threatening its bandwidth suppliers with heavy fines. Following the decision, Black Internet, the site's main ISP, has complied and has s... |
25 August 2009
05:34 GMT |
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The European Union's Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement Directive (IPRED) has been the main basis of Sweden's new Local IPRED Law, which states that ISPs can be forced to give copyright holders the personal data of their clients. On April 2nd, when the measure officially came into effect, monitoring s... |
3 April 2009
04:50 GMT |
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The goal of establishing a permanent presence on the Moon has been with the world's space agencies ever since before the first manned spaceflight. NASA, ESA, JAXA, RosCosmos, as well as the Indian and Chinese agencies, all have plans of at least getting there. However, while the Americans are working on their ow... |
2 April 2009
03:58 GMT |
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Researchers from Sweden have recently published a new scientific and psychological study that again emphasizes the importance of teachers and small children getting along well, and not necessarily as individuals. Rather, the research says that kids and their instructors need to find a common language, one that would ... |
11 March 2009
06:45 GMT |
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Every single kid wants to have his or her tree house, complete with kitchen, lobby, and, if possible, more than one room. Most parents only get to come with a basic structure, but, at a young age, that's better than nothing. Now, constructors in Sweden are building tree houses for mothers and fathers, which are ... |
6 February 2009
07:13 GMT |
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Though Sweden has a population of only about 9 million people, a new statistic says that 700,000 citizens often used illegal peer-to-peer transfers in the first three months of 2008, amassing a total of more than 605,100 files. The report was prompted by recent allegations against the country, which was accused of be... |
18 December 2008
06:51 GMT |
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During December 5-11, Nobel Prize laureates participate in extensive manifestations in Stockholm and Oslo, as the Nobel Week takes its regular course. This year, the winners in each category were offered the prestigious awards for remarkable contributions to their fields of research. As always, there were six Prizes ... |
11 December 2008
03:59 GMT |
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Neonode N2, the touchscreen handset produced by the Sweden-based company Neonode, is now available in a new version, called Backyard Babies Limited Edition Neonode N2. Obviously, this is an edition offered to customers in collaboration with Backyard Babies, the Swedish punk rock band formed back in 1987.The BYB Neono... |
29 September 2008
03:35 GMT |
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Pirate Bay is a torrent tracker from Sweden that is very much concerned with the issues of security and privacy. They should be, since in Sweden the Government can at any time access all international e-mail messages, telephone calls and Internet traffic. Fredrick Neij, co-founder of Pirate Bay, is proposing the impl... |
10 July 2008
03:16 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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Nokia announced a few hours ago the launch of its Swedish Music Store, the latest from the company's portfolio of online music portals. This is the tenth Music Store released by Nokia globally, coming after the ones from Finland, the UK, Germany, the Netherlands, France, Ireland, Australia and Singapore. As ... |
20 May 2008
09:13 GMT |
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Why would the British, Swedish, German and Norwegian Apple stores be down? Wait, let me rephrase that: why would "only" the British, Swedish, German and Norwegian Apple stores be down? After all, if Apple is prepping something big for Mac/iPhone/iPod users, everyone on the globe deserves it. Looks like the Cupertino ... |
14 March 2008
04:23 GMT |
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The action the world renowned peer-to-peer torrent tracker The Pirate Bay is trying to undertake is distracting the Police's attention from the matter at hand, namely it being charged for assisting copyright infringement, and brought to attention on the blog it has been keeping that it tried to cooperate with th... |
7 February 2008
07:36 GMT |
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A Swedish 19-year-old boy was convicted on Monday for breaking into three university computers, The Associated Press reported today. Due to the Swedish laws, the name of the hacker could not be disclosed but he was found guilty for "breaching the systems of the universities in Linkoping, Umea and Uppsala in 2004." Th... |
22 November 2007
09:07 GMT |
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Following AOL's recent efforts to increase its European presence, the company launched a new version of its portal, especially addressed to Swedish users. As usual, the new web portal comes with lots of features including an instant messaging client, news, video sharing service and what seems to be the most attr... |
30 October 2007
16:06 GMT |
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Yesterday, a PDF document containing a bunch of outlined features for Battlefield 3 appeared on the Internet. Guys over at digitalbattle.com said that the three page document looked like something that investors should receive by December, detailing basic features of the respective game. After numerous clarification ... |
12 October 2007
06:08 GMT |
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Apoteket, the Swedish State Pharmacy, migrated from its in-house developed ERP-system ATS, SPARC-based Solaris servers to fresh Intel hardware that runs Red Hat Enterprise Linux.Apoteket is the largest state-owned pharmacy chain in Sweden, and recently chose to replace all its servers from almost 900 pharmacies with ... |
19 September 2007
09:48 GMT |
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2007's summer found the Swedish people with a greater desire to work outside the office than ever. TeliaSonera, a leading mobile network operator in Sweden and Finland, recently conducted a survey that shows the Swedes are about to set a new record when it comes to working outside the office. From 1,710 Swedes t... |
28 June 2007
10:24 GMT |
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Justin Timberlake is trying to take Europe by storm with his "FutureLoveSexSounds" tour. It seems, however, that the hectic program is taking its toll on poor Justin, as he has already lost it a bit in the Swedish city of Gothenburg, where he is to perform tonight.I won't keep the suspense any longer, here'... |
25 June 2007
10:05 GMT |
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The web-based mapping tool powered by the Mountain View company receives one more hot update after the two solutions owned by Google have recently been often improved. It all started when the parent company quietly released a beta version of Google Earth that offered a lot of new functions for the fans of the program... |
13 June 2007
03:27 GMT |
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The Swedish authorities are demanding the Mountain View company private information although they are still trying to promote a special legislation to obtain the details. However, Google refused to provide the information, sustaining that this requirement is incompatible with the "western democracy", as The Local rep... |
30 May 2007
08:49 GMT |
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