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Nokia Lumia 800 Already Selling Out in Finland

Nokia’s Lumia 800 smartphone is reportedly selling very fast on the market in the company’s homeland country, Finland. The handset was made available for purchase in the country only two days ago, but stock is already selling out at some locations, retailers confirm. According to a recent article on ...

3 February 2012
04:08 GMT

F-Secure Appoints Christian Fredrikson as President and CEO

Christian Fredrikson started taking his role seriously on January 16, even though he was officially named president and CEO of F-Secure Corporation since November 2011. Aged 47, Fredrikson is a Finnish citizen, married and the father of two children. He holds a master’s degree in engineering from Åbo Aka...

17 January 2012
15:21 GMT

Anonymous Accused of Sending Bomb Threats to Finnish Anti-Piracy Firm

Finland’s Copyright, Information and Anti-Piracy Centre (CIAPC), the organization whose website was taken down the other day by Anonymous Finland for ordering one of the country’s largest ISPs Elisa to block its account holders from accessing The Pirate Bay (TPB), claims they received a bomb threat from A...

11 January 2012
09:09 GMT

Anonymous Attacks Finland Anti-Piracy Outfits for Ordering TPB Blockade

Anonymous Finland took down the official website of the Copyright Information and Anti-Piracy Centre (antipiracy.fi) and the one belonging to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (ifpi.fi) after the former organization obtained a court order that forced one of the country’s biggest IPSs to ...

10 January 2012
09:48 GMT

White Nokia N9 Now Up for Sale in Finland

Nokia did confirm a few months ago a white flavor of its MeeGo-based Nokia N9 smartphone will arrive on shelves soon, and it seems that that time is already here. The pale flavor of Nokia’s MeeGo-based N9 smartphone was just spotted in Finland at online retailer Verkkokauppa, and should make an official appea...

9 December 2011
02:37 GMT

Banking Trojan Gang Dismantled in Finland

A gang that used a computer trojan to break into online banking accounts and steal money was dismantled by the Finnish police who arrested seventeen suspects.According to Mikko Hypponen, chief research officer at Finnish antivirus vendor F-Secure, the attacks occurred in early 2010 and targeted customers of Nordea Fi...

10 May 2011
14:22 GMT

Nokia E7 Available for Pre-Order in Finland

Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia is nearing the official availability of its Nokia E7, the high-end Symbian^3 mobile phone that became official in September last year, and got pushed back from the initial expected launch window of December 2010. Although it delayed the Nokia E7, the handset vendor did not offer spec...

18 January 2011
10:48 GMT

Apple Launches iPad in 10 More Countries

Apple is launching the iPad in new territories this week. Reports have confirmed ten of them, so far: Taiwan, Denmark, Portugal, South Korea, Czech Republic, Sweden, Norway, Poland, Hungary and Finland.Taiwan is known to have already started selling the tablet, while Finland has just posted the pricing scheme (courte...

30 November 2010
07:02 GMT

Apple Ships Unlocked iPhone 4 Units to Finland

Finland residents looking to get their hands on Apple’s latest iPhone can make their purchase without having to tie it to a wireless contract. Admittedly, the phone is more expensive this way, but customers won’t have to deal with the hassle of paying increments each month in a two year plan.A report by Y...

29 September 2010
05:06 GMT

Counting Large Carnivores May Become Easier

Carnivores are usually at the top of the food chain in the world's ecosystems, but counting them can be difficult at times. Censuses need to be carried out nonetheless, in order for conservation experts to be able to draw meaningful conclusions about the health of particular species. This is important in the cas...

31 May 2010
05:57 GMT

Nokia Holds 90% of the Finnish Phone Market

Espoo, Finland-based mobile phone maker Nokia reportedly accounts for 90 percent of the mobile handset market in its homeland, a recent report unveils. The Helsinki University of Technology published a market research covering the 2005-2009 time frame, showing that most of the Finns use devices produced by Nokia, an...

11 May 2010
05:11 GMT

Closed-Circuit Nuclear Reactors Now Possible

Physicists have been looking for a way to reduce the amount of nuclear waste produced by power plants for a long time, but they couldn't manage any breakthroughs because the technology they have used has not been advanced enough. Now, recent innovations make it possible to consider the idea of closed-circuit rea...

21 December 2009
08:33 GMT

Sweden Promises 100 Mb Connections to All by 2020

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

Broadband Access Declared a Legal Right in Finland

The Internet is now an integral part of life in many countries and we rely on the web for anything from the banking system to entertainment. Despite this there are a great number of people who don't have access to the Internet even in the most developed countries. There are of course those who don't really ...

15 October 2009
05:49 GMT

Sharing 768 MB of Music Equals a €3,000 Fine in Finland

While US officials are bent on taking a hard stance against illegal file sharing, with courts awarding millions in damages left and right for a handful of shared songs, other countries are more lenient and have more proportionate penalty systems. As such, a man in Finland found guilty of sharing music online was orde...

19 August 2009
06:57 GMT

DNA Enables 21Mbps Download Speeds in Finland

Finnish mobile network operator DNA announced recently that it planned to enhance the performance levels of its 3G network so as to be able to offer users a maximum speed of 21 Mbps. According to the company, it will be conducting technical testing over the summer, to prepare for the commercial launch, which should t...

16 June 2009
06:19 GMT

Nokia Messaging Available Now for S60 5th Edition

As promised earlier this year, Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia has released into the wild the Nokia Messaging for the Symbian S60 5th Edition operating system. The application has been announced a few weeks ago in a beta state, and now it has been finally released for the users of a Nokia 5800 XpressMusic phone, tho...

1 June 2009
06:37 GMT

Nokia Rumored to Have Threatened to Leave Finland

Nokia is said to have threatened to leave its homeland Finland if the law that prevented companies from monitoring employee emails was not changed, as reported by a Finnish newspaper on Monday. According to the Nokia spokeswoman Arja Suominen, the company “has in no way threatened to move,” and the articl...

2 February 2009
03:58 GMT

Coffee and Tea Decrease the Risk of Dementia

People at midlife who drink coffee and tea responsibly may be at a lower risk of developing dementia in their senior years, a new prolonged scientific study, conducted in Finland, showed. Some of the test subjects in the new research had been under survey for more than 37 years, starting 1972, so experts from the Uni...

15 January 2009
10:02 GMT

Censoring Anti-censorship Site - World Premiere?

Finland has a very strict non-child pornography rule that makes all the sense in the world. At least their heart's in the right place, because their mind seems to be wondering about. Over 1,700 legal websites are being censored by the authorities, and among them lapsiporno.info, a site who was used by its owner ...

19 February 2008
13:06 GMT

Finland Target to Copy-Cat School Threat

Finland is still in shock after Wednesday's slaughter at Tuusula and on this shaky ground threats found the perfect soil for seeding even more panic. Another video was posted on YouTube about a similar shooting that was supposed to take place in a town just 70 km from the original assault site.Uploaded by a user...

9 November 2007
10:36 GMT

YouTube User Pointed Finger at Finland Shooter 6 Months Ago

June was the month when "TheAmazingAtheist", by his username, made a video rant in his garage entitled "Columbine Killers, Mental Midgets & Social Darwinism" that pointed to Pekka-Eric Auvinen, the Finnish High-School shooter as being a social threat and suggested that somebody report him to the authorities.Although ...

9 November 2007
06:20 GMT

YouTubed Massacre in Finland

Tuusula, Finland was the place of a tragic happening yesterday morning that made the whole world bow in woe. The results of it all were seven dead children and the head teacher of the school where the shooting took place. An 18-year old coming gun in hand towards you is a scary sight and that is exactly what 8th grad...

8 November 2007
08:38 GMT

YouTube Gets Finnish Teens Into Trouble

The online video sharing service YouTube caused some serious problems for a 15-year-old teenager after he posted a video showing his teacher on the official page of the service. According to the Washington Post, Toni Vesikko has to pay $120 for defamation, $1000 for harm and suffering as well as $3000 for court'...

27 August 2007
10:10 GMT

Pamela Anderson Wants to Learn to Speak The Finnish Language. Oh, and to Open a Chain of Strip Clubs

I'm not sure how many of you knew that the sultry Pamela Anderson has a Finnish heritage. Yes she does. In fact, her grandfather is Finnish and he taught Pamela to speak his native tongue before she was 10 years old. It seems that Pamela can still speak a bit of Finnish, and she has proved that while visiting Fi...

28 June 2007
13:05 GMT

Nokia E90 Communicator Hits the Stores

It is no longer a rumor. Nokia E90 Communicator mobile phone is from now on available for purchase in some stores in Finland. This is only the beginning, as this smartphone is expected to reach other European countries in no time.The Nokia E90 business device is currently available in the electrical chain Gigantti an...

13 June 2007
09:08 GMT


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