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After realizing that in many cases some social engineering can be far more efficient than a piece of malware that looks for zero-day vulnerabilities or unpatched weaknesses, cybercriminals began making phone calls to unsuspecting individuals, warning them of false threats and urging them to install specially crafted ... |
10 January 2012
05:35 GMT |
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File-sharing is now recognized as an official religion in Sweden. The Church of Kopimism has been approved by authorities after several attempts to do so.A group of pirates in Sweden have been trying to get official status in the hope that it will make copying, as in distributing, modifying and sharing content freely... |
5 January 2012
15:41 GMT |
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Two new studies coming from researchers in the United States and in Sweden suggest that there is no causal link between the exposure to violent video games and changes in behavior in the real world.Professor Christopher Ferguson and a team of researchers at the Texas A&M International University have published a new ... |
4 January 2012
22:01 GMT |
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Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia is set to make its first Windows Phone devices available for purchase for as many users as possible.
Thus, the company has decided to push the Nokia Lumia 800 smartphone to all wireless carriers in Sweden, and is expected to make this move before the end of this month.
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3 January 2012
02:53 GMT |
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Beowulf Mining, a British company operating in Jokkmokk, Northern Sweden has been widely criticized for illegal drilling. A new Sapmi report reveals that the enterprise has been carrying on with its work even hough it did not have a valid work plan. The Swedish Sami Association was alerted on this and compelled the... |
15 December 2011
05:16 GMT |
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South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung Electronics is gearing up for the release of new devices on the European market, so as to offer users on the old continent the possibility to take advantage of LTE connectivity capabilities. Moreover, it appears that Sweden is the first country in Europe to get a taste of thes... |
26 November 2011
11:21 GMT |
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Video game publisher Electronic Arts has announced that it is launching a Battlefield 3 “Says Thanks” Sweepstakes for all loyal fans of the first person shooter, with the ultimate prize being a trip to the Swedish headquarters of the developer DICE.The sweepstakes begins on Friday, November 11 at 12:01 AM... |
8 November 2011
10:31 GMT |
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Facebook is building a huge data center site in northern Sweden, very close to the Arctic circle. The data center will be the company's first outside of the US and will be massive.Facebook is taking advantage of the cold climate of the area to keep the thousands of servers cool without wasting too much energy. T... |
27 October 2011
07:56 GMT |
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Tommy Ljunggren, senior vice president of wireless operator TeliaSonera, has shared some interesting thoughts with the people at Telecoms.com about Apple’s upcoming iPhone 5, mainly about the 4G/LTE wireless standard that Cupertino hasn’t embraced yet.The Swedish executive told the publication “If y... |
20 October 2011
09:58 GMT |
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Video game developer Starbreeze Studio, which has recently made the news because of their work on the Syndicate remake, has announced that it is also working with a Swedish film director to create and launch an entirely new intellectual property.Josef Fares, who is a movie director best known for creating the award w... |
20 September 2011
16:31 GMT |
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A Swedish man was arrested by police after calling authorities to ask if he was breaking any laws by constructing a nuclear reactor in his own kitchen. The man had posted videos on the Internet about his endeavor, but authorities only became involved after he called them directly.According to The Local newspaper, the... |
3 August 2011
07:49 GMT |
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Earlier this week, mobile phone maker Nokia announced the release of a new high-end smartphone, the Nokia N9, their first device to run under the MeeGo operating system, and some info on when might the handset land on shelves has just emerged. Apparently, the company would aim at having the new Nokia N9 put on shelv... |
23 June 2011
05:38 GMT |
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Swedish company freephoo has recently launched a free iPad application with the same name allowing iPad users to place and receive calls for free as long as everyone stays in the freephoo circle. The app can also call cell and landlines for a fee.
Whether or not the developers have heard there’s Skype, Fring a... |
26 May 2011
12:21 GMT |
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South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung has just announced the availability of its latest flagship Android device, the Samsung Galaxy S II, on the market in Sweden. Starting this week, mobile phone users in the country would be able to purchase the new device for around SEK5,490 (USD881), the company unveiled. The m... |
9 May 2011
05:23 GMT |
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Bahnhof, a large Swedish ISP, plans to offer its customers a way around the upcoming data retention law by routing all of the traffic through an encrypted VPN service.Bahnhof has been in the media spotlight before when it built an impressive datacenter inside the former Pionen nuclear defence center in Stockholm.Wiki... |
31 January 2011
01:02 GMT |
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Apple has already set up iPad webpages for four Nordic countries as it prepares to release the tablet computer in these territories either this month, or in December.Reports indicate that Apple is not far from launching its “magical” slate-shaped device in four new territories rather soon, with the compan... |
22 November 2010
05:00 GMT |
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Swedish energy company Vattenfall, has partnered with Germany's largest municipal utility to build a huge offshore wing farm in the North Sea, of a value of over 1 billion euros, by 2014.The wind farm is called DanTysk and it will contain 80 giant wind turbines supplied by Siemens, spaced out over an area of nea... |
22 October 2010
10:26 GMT |
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A Swedish professor had a very unusual experience with a thief, who stole his laptop and then mailed an USB stick with the data back to him.
According to the local media, the victim, who wished to remain anonymous, is a professor at Umeå University in Sweden and a reputed expert in his field.
His backpack was... |
18 October 2010
11:38 GMT |
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A new scientific investigation conducted in Sweden has revealed that the main difference between native speakers and those who use Swedish as their second language is the amount of “special” word combinations they use. The concept refers to expressions made of plain words, but which mean entire different ... |
12 October 2010
11:21 GMT |
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Android phone fans will certainly rejoice learning that wireless carrier Telenor has just announced that customers in Sweden can get the new Samsung Galaxy Tab slate for free on a contract agreement. Although only one carrier made the move, chances are that others would follow suit, especially in Europe, where many ... |
2 October 2010
06:06 GMT |
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The Swedish police, which has taken a hardline against online piracy, is now accused of copyright infringement for copying and using thousands of images from the Internet without permission.In the past Sweden has been viewed as a safe haven for online pirates, mainly because it is home to The Pirate Bay, the largest ... |
10 September 2010
09:13 GMT |
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Around the world, authorities are beginning to take steps towards reducing the amount of carbon dioxide vehicles circulating on public roads put out, but their efforts are being hampered by large vehicles. The conclusion belongs to a new study, which shows that CO2 emissions increase with car and engine size, AlphaGa... |
9 September 2010
11:29 GMT |
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Police have raided sites in as many as 14 European countries in a file-sharing investigation. The operation is the culmination of several years of investigation. Several individuals were arrested and computers seized.One of the inadvertent victims of the raid may have been the Pirate Bay which is currently unavailabl... |
7 September 2010
13:39 GMT |
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The Swedish Pirate Party has agreed to host some servers for Wikileaks. The two parties have already signed an agreement and said the Pirate Party will be dedicating several servers at an undisclosed location in Sweden as well as provide free bandwidth to the whistleblower site. A few weeks ago, the Pirate Party said... |
18 August 2010
10:58 GMT |
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The Pirate Party has been taking a very hand on approach so far. Having secured a few seats in the Swedish Parliament and even in the European Parliament, it’s not waiting around and, until it can achieve its objectives through political means, it’s looking at more practical approaches. The Party made the... |
20 July 2010
08:55 GMT |
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The Pirate Bay remains one of the most notorious websites online and the symbol of Internet piracy everywhere. This, despite the four people associated with the site being sentenced to serve one year in prison and ordered to pay damages that now amount to approximately $6 million. The big media companies that won the... |
31 May 2010
09:54 GMT |
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Sweden is now considered the most networked country in the world, according to the latest Global Information Technology Report from The World Economic Forum. The report doesn't rank countries by their information and communication technology capabilities alone, though that certainly plays an indirect role, but l... |
26 March 2010
08:38 GMT |
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Spotify CEO Daniel Ek was on stage at SXSW for the final keynote interview. Everyone was expecting the announcement of a US launch or at least some indication of when it might be coming. There was none to be had, unfortunately, however the CEO had some other tidbits, like an updated subscriber number and a very inter... |
17 March 2010
04:36 GMT |
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Sweden has been one of the leading countries when it comes to anything having to do with the Internet. It is one of the countries with best broadband deployment in the world and its citizens as well as the authorities have had quite a progressive view on how to handle the inherent changes brought by the web. Last ye... |
19 January 2010
07:01 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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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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