Tietoviikko reports that Finland (my home country) is the world’s best IT country according to World Economic Forum study The Global Information Technology Report 2013. According to the study, Finland is the world’s number one country when it comes to the economy’s ability to use information technology to competitiveness and prosperity. Finland has toppled Sweden from the top spot in a ranking of economies that are best placed to benefit from new information and communication technologies (ICTs). The question still remains how this result was got because there are many things in Finland ICT that are are far from very good, so are other countries just much lousier on those aspects?
At the core of the report, the Networked Readiness Index (NRI) measures the preparedness of an economy to use ICT to boost competitiveness and well-being. In this edition, Finland (1st), Singapore (2nd) and Sweden (3rd) continue to lead the NRI, with the Netherlands (4th), Norway (5th), Switzerland (6th), the United Kingdom (7th), Denmark (8th), the United States (9th) and Taiwan, China (10th) completing the top 10.
Global Information Technology Report 2013 has a nice map that visualizes the network readiness of different countries.
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Tomi Engdahl says:
Fear has been used too much on security marketing
Security thread does not matter, if it does not pose a risk. Petri Mr Kairis from Nixu: we the need to talk about what the value does security have for business.
“F-Secure is the product of the company and left to grow internationally. Finland market size is of course limited, and the vast majority of security companies are consulting companies. It’s too bad that the internationalized product companies not born any more. But the industry has woken up and established the security cluster. Click here now want to go abroad.”
Source: http://summa.talentum.fi/article/tv/8-2014/82766
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Why on earth? Yle accelerates electronic identification
So far, Yle do not have any kind of service, which would require strong authentication.
“All of the most popular services, so watch News, Arena as children’s services, would improve usability if the service knows who uses them. We design tuovamme the personalization of these services, among other things, so that the Arena would know how far you’ve found a program, you could continue watching on another device, or we could recommend users of other suitable programs, ”
Corresponding features work such as Netflix without electronic authentication alone a username / password pair.
Outside Finland permanently or temporarily staying in did not have access to the Areena ad libitum, but this is not the authentication is not currently in agreement models would bring improvement. The broadcasting rights are sold and bought as geographic areas, is not based on nationality.
Source: http://www.tivi.fi/kaikki_uutiset/miksi+ihmeessa+yle+vauhdittaa+sahkoista+tunnistautumista/a1007640
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Finland’s Nuclear Plant Start Delayed Again
http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/14/09/01/1724253/finlands-nuclear-plant-start-delayed-again
“Areva-Siemens, the consortium building Finland’s biggest nuclear reactor, said on Monday the start date of the much delayed project will be pushed back to late 2018 — almost a decade later than originally planned. Areva-Siemens blamed disagreements with its client Teollisuuden Voima (TVO) over the plant’s automation system”
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Do you remember the Nokia worm game? (Started in Nokia 6110- and 5110 phones, was in up to a total of more than 400 million phones)
The original developer Taneli Armanto made a comeback in the game industry with a new generation of worm game.
Snake Rewind the application will be in stores in autumn 2014 Free Application will be available to all mobile platforms.
SNAKE REWIND COMING 2014
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Source: http://www.tivi.fi/kaikki_uutiset/muistatko+nokian+legendaarisen+matopelin+saat+sen+pian+alypuhelimeesi/a1008528
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Finnish overclocked world record
AMD says that its 8 core FX-8370 processor has been overclocked to a new world record: The Stilt” accelerated processor clock frequency to 8722.78 MHz. The chip was manufactured in 32-nanometer process and designed for 4 GHz operation.
Source: http://etn.fi/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1731:suomalainen-ylikellotti-maailmanennatyksen&catid=13&Itemid=101
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In Finland, the development of new patient information systems.
In Finland, the most important ongoing change is the fact that all hospitals will be gradually transferred Kela total stock carried out by service users. Each service for more than 18-year-old citizen can see their own medical records.
One of the most important services is the total stock-easy opportunity to give consent to the transfer of patient data, or on the other hand to limit its disclosure. Document filing service a citizen can not be prevented, so that in the future all Finnish health information can be found concentrated in the same place, which is also a link to the open Internet.
Total stock log in to the bank identifier codes. Most likely, problems will emerge when people look at their data from public computers. If the user does not know how to log out and clear the machine’s memory, leaving the session open, and the next reach of the user.
Source: fi/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1728:terveydenhuollon-jarjestelmat-vuotavat&catid=13&Itemid=101
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Finnish Charger is aiming high
Muurame inventor Harri Tiainen wants with a new mobile device charger to concept revolutionize the world. BrightCharger cut the charger energy consumption to zero when the charge runs out. At other times, the charger works as night light. The solution is, of course, been patented.
BrightChargerin idea is quite simple. The charger supplies power device to be charged only for a certain time. After the power supply is interrupted. Power consumption ends here.
- BrightCharger could save energy
But is not the current smart phones have automatic charging? – Yes and no. When the battery is fully charged, the charger will recognize this. But 1-2 minutes booking drops so that the charger is fed into a stream fifteen minutes. I would estimate that 95-96 percent of the time the device is charging. Such a practice, continuous loading consumes battery power. The battery hold a charge less, and it must be loaded continuously.
Global competition in consumer electronics is insanely hard, so good either – a simple all – the idea is really hard to hit through. But the world always needs good ideas.
Source: http://etn.fi/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1725:suomalaislaturi-tavoittelee-suuria&catid=13&Itemid=101
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Elisa and Nixu have signed a cooperation agreement for the development and supply of cyber security services. The new security package, the companies and organizations can obtain cyber security solutions outsourcing service from one supplier.
In practice, cooperation means Elisa cyber security solutions sold by Nixu through.
Elisa’s Business Director Pasi Korhonen, the client can outsource to the company, among other things, denial of service attacks supervision.
Source: http://www.tivi.fi/kaikki_uutiset/elisa+ja+nixu+kyberkimppaan/a1008506
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Microsoft set up a secret data center to Finland
Microsoft has set up promised a large data center in Finland. The center is located in Uusimaa, but the exact location of the company refuses to tell.
Investing in the data center, servers and networks, according to a company worth several hundreds of millions of dollars.
The data center is now the company’s communications director Camilla According to Lindfors, fully equipped and connected to the network. The data center will be to maintain services and European customers can take advantage of Microsoft’s cloud services in Northern Europe and Western Europe.
Oulu and Kajaani have a chance in the past to tell the public to compete with Microsoft’s data center of the slot, but it was finally built somewhere in Uusimaa.
Source: http://www.kauppalehti.fi/etusivu/microsoft+perusti+salaisen+datakeskuksen/201409696848
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Tekes has launched a Space Finland site that offers space-related businesses, research institutes, experts and all interested in the subject-to-date information on how the space can be utilized for business, study and daily life.
Source: http://etn.fi/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1733:tekes-avasi-avaruussivuston&catid=13&Itemid=101
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Space Finland
http://spacefinland.fi/
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Did you code a bug, did you loose reputation? Cyber insurance may replace some if it
Insurance Aon offers companies a “cyber insurance”. Aon makes cyber risk evaluation of co-operation with IT services company CGI.
Cyber insurance deductible and the insurance cost will depend on the assessment. The risk assessment has highlighted security problems can also be corrected when the premiums go down.
Insurance is typically for the critical control system, in which the impact produced would cause financial and information losses and reputation smearing. Insurance may cover the agreement, including human errors, and programming errors.
Source: http://www.tivi.fi/kaikki_uutiset/tuliko+koodiin+kammi+meniko+maine+kybervakuutus+voi+korvata/a1008861
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What the best education systems are doing right
http://ideas.ted.com/2014/09/04/what-the-best-education-systems-are-doing-right/
In South Korea and Finland, it’s not about finding the “right” school.
The Koreans have achieved a remarkable feat: the country is 100 percent literate. But success comes with a price.
The Finnish model: Extracurricular choice, intrinsic motivation.
In Finland, on the other hand, students are learning the benefits of both rigor and flexibility. The Finnish model, say educators, is utopia.
Finland has a short school day rich with school-sponsored extracurriculars, because Finns believe important learning happens outside the classroom.
In Finland, school is the center of the community, notes Schleicher. School provides not just educational services, but social services. Education is about creating identity.
A third of the classes that students take in high school are electives, and they can even choose which matriculation exams they are going to take. It’s a low-stress culture, and it values a wide variety of learning experiences.
But that does not except it from academic rigor, motivated by the country’s history trapped between European superpowers
Teachers in Finland teach 600 hours a year, spending the rest of time in professional development. In the U.S., teachers are in the classroom 1,100 hours a year, with little time for feedback.
“A key to that is education. Finns do not really exist outside of Finland,” says Sahlberg. “This drives people to take education more seriously. For example, nobody speaks this funny language that we do. Finland is bilingual, and every student learns both Finnish and Swedish. And every Finn who wants to be successful has to master at least one other language, often English, but she also typically learns German, French, Russian and many others. Even the smallest children understand that nobody else speaks Finnish, and if they want to do anything else in life, they need to learn languages.”
Finns share one thing with South Koreans: a deep respect for teachers and their academic accomplishments. In Finland, only one in ten applicants to teaching programs is admitted. After a mass closure of 80 percent of teacher colleges in the 1970s, only the best university training programs remained, elevating the status of educators in the country.
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HS: Finnish Bedditin gold mine – are growing a hundred-fold
Sleeping sensors developing Finnish Beddit has been especially American consumers excited about the quality of sleep monitoring, reported on the Helsingin Sanomat.
Last year, Bedditin net sales were EUR 60 000, but this year the sales of smartphone operating sleep sensor sales have increased by up to a hundred times this year. The company’s net sales 95 percent are from the United States.
It was only in 2013 found a recipe for success. Beddit opened a number of financial service Indiegogo a consumer sleep sensor campaign, which received almost EUR 400 000 pre-orders.
Beddit sleep sensor monitors, among other things, sleep-movements and heart rate. The smartphone microphone, in turn, listening to snoring. Data is transferred from the sensor the smart phone application that can wake the sleeping at optimal time in half-on-hour time frame.
Source: http://www.tivi.fi/kaikki_uutiset/hs+suomalaisen+bedditin+kultakaivos++myynti+kasvaa+satakertaiseksi/a1009157
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Helsinki is seeking more than a thousand Startup year
More than 12 percent of the unemployment rate and, in particular highly skilled prolonged unemployment are a heavy burden, capital of Finland. Helsinki city hopes to improvement of start-ups focusing on employment services under the same roof.
Helsinki Mayor Jussi Pajunen said the situation was serious, when the city’s unemployment is 12 percent, which is the metropolitan area’s largest.
New jobs are not open at the same pace as jobs have been lost, so high hopes are set on entrepreneurship.
- We want to be a Finnish company with positive city in 2016, said Pajunen.
Pajuisen according to the city’s business advisory support has been established for over 15 000 companies, of which about a thousand of the current activities in the form. Of these, more than 90 per cent are still in operation after two years, and four out of five is still spinning after five years. Particularly concerned about the city being highly skilled long-term growth.
The problem is that the majority of births of enterprises employ only the entrepreneur himself, and only about five per cent is really a growth-oriented.
An important second goal is to increase the number of growth-seeking companies.
- It seems that the need of foreign entrepreneurs objective, because the Finnish entrepreneurs are often limited single company, Timo Onnela.
Source: http://www.tivi.fi/uutisia/helsinki+tavoittelee+yli+tuhatta+startupia+vuodessa/a1009107
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Earlier this year, Finland’s Minister of Education and Science, Krista Kiuru announced that programming will be introduced to the national primary school curriculum beginning in the fall of 2016. First and second grade students will not be taught a coding language, but instead will learn how to give precise, unambiguous commands to another person, much like programming requires. Students in grades 3 through 6 will learn how work with a visual programming language, such as Scratch. Finally, students in grades 7 through 9 will learn a real programming language (still to be determined).
Source: http://www.itworld.com/slideshow/161754/reading-writing-and-refactoring-how-7-forward-thinking-countries-are-teaching-kids-code-431500#slide4
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Finnish data center boom attracted the big boys
VCE (Virtual Computing Environment) is a three-IT giant, EMC, Cisco and VMware, the joint venture. It is the power factor in corporate data centers aimed at the integrated infrastructure solutions. VCE will now begin the conquest of the market in Finland.
“Now is the right time to invest in domestic data center market and offer solutions that promote the creation of new innovations. In this exceptional collaboration, we have combined market leaders in their field the best techniques – Cisco network and server technologies, EMC storage and security expertise, as well as VMware’s virtualization platform – into one package, “Finnish EMC’s country manager Oula Maijala to explain the data sheet.
Source: http://www.tivi.fi/kaikki_uutiset/suomen+datakeskusbuumi+houkutteli+isot+pojat+mukaan/a1009734
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Scots, What the Heck?
Well, I have a message for the Scots: Be afraid, be very afraid. The risks of going it alone are huge. You may think that Scotland can become another Canada, but it’s all too likely that it would end up becoming Spain without the sunshine.
And it wasn’t just Spain, it was all of southern Europe and more. Even euro-area countries with sound finances, like Finland and the Netherlands, have suffered deep and prolonged slumps.
Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/08/opinion/paul-krugman-scots-what-the-heck.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&_r=1
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Pro Malinen: Will there be Microsoft jobs in Finland?
The Oulu region is the recent and now the future staff reductions as a result as soon as about 1500 unemployed IT experts. Employer-employee negotiations in Finland since the fall of Microsoft’s jobs are also at risk of disappearing.
Mobile Finland, Microsoft employs about 4,000 before deductions taken now.
– Unfortunately, the bad news does not necessarily end there. Finland 3 000 post-Microsoft jobs are in danger of disappearing. The staff is now a strong perception that the following co-determination negotiations will start in October, says trade union Pro, Chairman Jorma Malinen.
- For scarce jobs in the sector is highly competitive, which employers use shame, good. Available jobs are roughly underpaid. Seniorikoodaajille, which requires about eight years of work experience, offered EUR 1 900 per month, or IT project managers around 2000 Euros per month, says Malinen.
The available jobs are in some cases so poorly paid that they receive the employee unprofitable. The employee currently receive income-related allowance may be equal to or even better.
Source: https://www.sttinfo.fi/release?releaseId=17380605
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The Finnish company launched the usual wristwatch-packed security phone
Navigil has announced the S1-safety wrist watch and its use within the meaning of Rafael-network services. The device is targeted at elderly care clients as well as working alone, who may be a need to call for help.
Regular wristwatch looking device can receive and make call (make emergency calls with the push of a button). The clock can also be used to alert authorities or health care staff (for example if patient leaves designated area). The device has support for GSM / GPRS / 2g-mobile communications, GPS / GLONASS positioning and Bluetooth communication link.
The manufacturer shall supply a full 500 mAh battery device in the standby period of one week.
Source: http://www.tivi.fi/kaikki_uutiset/suomalaisyritys+lanseerasi+tavalliseen+rannekelloon+pakatun+turvapuhelimen/a1010345
Tomi Engdahl says:
An interesting ApplePayn makes the possibility of on-line payment.
As such, in near payments Apple is not in the forefront. America is already quite widely used in MasterCard’s PayPass system are, and whether Google’s own Google Wallet (which, however, is essentially a PayPass-implementation).
In Finland, the corresponding payment is related, among other things, Elisa (Elisa Wallet) and DNA (DNA Täpäkkä), and Aktia, Osuuspankki, Danske Band and Nordea. However, implementation varies wildly. Elisa’s wallet is a demanding pre-charging debit account, the DNA while the user interface using credit card. Nordea new cards contactless payment feature is only debit bank cards. The combination of cards that are not supplied. Danske Bank puts the feature in a combination cars. Aktia cards while payment always goes to the credit side. In no case contactless payment feature is not implemented in the mobile phone, and this just becomes Apple’s opportunity.
As a big supplier of telephone and business side of the industry to bulldoze Apple has realistic chances of getting push to the payment terminal suppliers to accept the work of a smartphone NFC payment card data provider. This would have the advantage of all, because Apple’s solution is generated virtual credit card or transaction ID (details yet unclear) for each buying transaction separately.
Source: http://www.tivi.fi/blogit/uutiskommentti/apple+palasi+innovaattoriksi/a1010263
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The software sector’s top events in Helsinki
Devops is the software industry’s hottest hot right, the hype and the mega-trend. In November, devops-drug arrives in Helsinki, which hosts the first Finnish Devopsdays event.
Ttwo-day Devopsdays 10 to 11. November is organized in Helsinki.
Website at devopsdays.fi opens today, and to register the event begins on October 1.
Helsinki event is designed to speak to the people not only software in the IT leaders. Among the speakers have already committed to participate in a number of Finnish-sized enterprises.
“The goal is to bring the message Finnish IT organizations about what devops is and what it has achieved,”
Source: http://summa.talentum.fi/article/tv/89309
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Stubb: Open data creates jobs and growth
Prime Minister’s Office to organize together with its partners on 15 and 16 September of knowledge open to the exploitation of a major event focusing on Finnish Open 2014 event, the opening of Prime Minister Alexander Stubb to keep an open information and its utilization as an important trump card for Finland.
“Sustainable growth and employment creation require an open knowledge-based business. The number of public databases aware of the opening to promote open science, and creates opportunities for new types of entrepreneurship and innovation. Digitalisation is a central opportunity to increase productivity and opening up new opportunities for civil society. Finland needed a change requires an agile and open to ideas of pilot activities, “Prime Minister Stubb says.
Source: http://www.tivi.fi/kaikki_uutiset/stubb+avoin+data+luo+tyollisyytta+ja+kasvua/a1011497
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All government open data now from a single source
Announced today Avoindata.fi portal is a public open data-sharing portal, the content of which is freely accessible. It allows explaining the various open data include the services are available, how they can be machine-readable data out and what kind of information they can get.
The portal is aimed at anyone who wants to take advantage of its own public administration electronic services provided by open data. Open data is public data that anyone can use freely for different purposes.
Source: http://www.tivi.fi/kaikki_uutiset/kaikki+valtion+avoin+data+nyt+yhdelta+luukulta/a1011519
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Held in Helsinki on business growth and technology event Slush ( http://www.slush.org/ ) has today reported information be held in November this year’s gathering. Slush is now moving to Helsinki Fair Centre, because it no longer fit in the Cable Factory shelters.
Slushiin expected at this time of more than 10 000 visitors from over 70 countries. It has been seven years grown to 150 people from the local gathering of the world’s leading technology events among states release.
Slush five stage will this year have more than 200 international markets entrepreneurs, business leaders and investors from all over Europe, USA and Asia.
“Finland is needed now more than ever, new growth companies. They are not, however, still does not occur fast enough. Slush aim here is to create an international business culture and practices, as well as all possible means to improve from here continuations chance of success “,
Source: http://www.tivi.fi/kaikki_uutiset/slush+kasvoi+euroviisuja+suuremmaksi/a1011561
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Mobile ERP is still a strange thing to Finnish
Global survey says: the ERP system, we use a smart phone is the rarest of the comparison countries.
“For us it was the biggest surprise is how little is used in Finland erppiä smart phone and tablet. This may be due to the fact that the Finnish users of existing systems possible at all to use on mobile devices, or they might require costly upgrades for the mobile user to be successful, evaluated Epicor Finland Regional Director Matti Bun.
Some tools will control the operation of
The survey revealed significant differences in the comparison between the two countries, when looked at use of social media to exercise operational control. Active some-utilizers were found in China. Chinese respondents, 26 per cent believed they use the ERP system to be able to take advantage of social media well or very well. In Finland, this was the opinion of only one percent of the respondents.
“Some-erpissä features are relatively new, but they work quite well. In particular, in exceptional circumstances some-environment is emphasized, things can quickly share, and problems may be found in the solution very quickly, ”
Finnish erp 44 percent of users said they would like in the future make more use of the ERP system is to improve communication with customers and business partners, to enhance the organization’s internal information sharing and to build virtual communities from these target groups.
ERP users have a lot of development aspirations. Finnish respondents called for better usability, as well as remote and mobile working to promote. Important to them was also just the right kind of information in real time, easy to find from inside the system.
35 per cent of the respondents estimated that there are currently obtaining information from the ERP system will take a very long time.
Source: http://summa.talentum.fi/article/tv/bisnes/90455
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More and more Finnish reads magazines in digital format
Reading newspapers has increased, says the National Readership Surve
Reachability is included, as well as the average numbers of printed newspapers readership of the newspaper in various digital formats weekly readership numbers.
Computer, mobile phone and tablet weekly newspapers are read by 70 per cent of the Finnish population. The number increased by almost 13 per cent.
The printed version remains the most popular, although its reading has decreased. 89 per cent of Finnish reads something like print magazines on a weekly basis. The computer reads the newspapers on a weekly basis of 62 per cent, 35 per cent of mobile phone and tablet with 21 per cent of the Finnish population.
Source: http://www.iltalehti.fi/uutiset/2014091618666462_uu.shtml
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Mobile phones in poor audibility in new houses or passive houses have not yet found anything definite solution. Builders, the coverage will not be a problem, if it is taken into account at the design stage.
“The premise is that the operators strengthen and re-orient their base stations”
“Our aim is that towards the base station is not only a stone wall, but also a signal-permeable parts.”
“We are telecom operators, we established that passive houses would be left gaps in radio waves. We also made a concrete proposal that the building regulations to the specific RF-reading”, Lamminluoto says.
The RF section of the building walls tell of attenuation. It will be defined by calculation on the basis of building materials.
“Construction in the regulation of energy efficiency should also take into account the use of the building. After all, it is remarkable, if the houses can not use modern technology”, Lamminluoto says.
Lamminluoto not hold cell phones coverage problem so far very evil. At least the feedback from passive reception problems should be rare.
“The working group was first set up in anticipation for the worst, but apparently the structures is, however, remained the RF signal permeable parts.”
The situation could deteriorate when the renovation of buildings pace is accelerating. The worst problem is just the old buildings, which may be a window renovations will come too close to radio waves.
Houses could also build property-base stations, but expensive solution is ill-suited to normal residential block of flats. Another possible solution would be to store the tasks indoor antenna networks.
“It may become necessary when the passive houses is increasing,”
Finnish Lammi Window has developed a special antenna window, which takes into account of selective degradation caused by radio signals.
“At best, we get our window three times higher field strength than the normal window.”
If the field is low, a triple amplification is not necessarily sufficient.
Insulation manufacturer SPU has an insulation product where the aluminum film on it’s surface is converted into the plastic. It attenuates much less the radio signals. “Some of the walls can be insulated using this, or all”. The aluminum film removal solves only the insulation problem, which is, for example, made of stone, the house is not the main cause of poor reception.
Source: http://www.tivi.fi/uutisia/quotlyijytalotquot+edelleen+ongelma++kannykoiden+kuuluvuushairiot+voidaan+estaa+vain+varhaisella+suunnittelulla/a1011756
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Get rid of the dinosaurs
Conference Room in the armchair in Ruoholahti speaks frustrated man. Estonian IT sector doctor specializing in Madis Tiik came a couple of years ago to work in Sitra older counselor. The biggest surprise for him was how slowly decisions are made in Finland.
“I’m used to it, that even if the wrong decisions are made, even that is better than that of being undecided,” Tiik says.
Projects not progressing in Finland, because no one will take responsibility for the termination. On the other hand the responsibility is decentralized so effectively that no one knows who should make the decision. Energy is consumed in futile ping-pong.
In Estonia, decisions are made quickly, and they also will be implemented immediately. This is the success of the boundary condition.
“If the project is prolonged or system construction will last for more than ten years, no one will believe it. Things must be implemented in a small scale quickly. If all does not go entirely to the pin, needs to be repaired. This is a different way of thinking, “Tiik stresses.
He reminds us that life goes in accordance with the laws of nature all the time in the direction of chaos: “In order to be able to maintain order, must be constantly on the move and develop. Indecision means that there is no development. ”
The bus is designed to fix Finnish public administration information systems besetting sin: they do not speak with each other. The state got the source code for free bus service from Estonia, where the solution has been in use since 2001. The service bus importer Madis Tiikiä Finland annoying slowness of the service bus deployment.
The Government admitted last year to 120 million euros in funding for the project, which is implemented as part of the bus. Schedule, the bus service should be in production use by the end of this year. The first bus service making use of the services should be completed next year.
“A little bad look,” says Tiik.
“When ministers are changed, the project has stood for many months. I’m annoyed”
Service Bus also interested in the rest of the world. In Norway, the UK, Denmark and New Zealand, has been erected in the corresponding development environments than in Finland. They have, however, progressed according to Teak faster, even though Estonia Finland offered a bus service a year earlier.
Many have understood the Estonian model of the service bus technology right. It is thought to be the type of Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) solution, which is also often called service bus.
“They are completely different things. Enterprise service bus is one of the place through which all messages pass through. The bus is a distributed solution, in which there is no single-failure “, Tiik stress, and continues:” It’s like comparing cherries and apples. ”
Source: http://summa.talentum.fi/article/tv/8-2014/82745
Tomi Engdahl says:
Helsinki opened lots of data (800 systems):
http://www.tivi.fi/kaikki_uutiset/helsinki+avasi+yli+800+jarjestelman+tiedot++kiinnostaisivatko+korkeasaaren+elainten+sukupuut/a1011821
http://www.hri.fi/fi/dataset/helsingin-kaupungin-tietojarjestelmaluettelo
http://www.hel.fi/www/uutiset/fi/helsinki/helsinki-avasi-ikkunan-tietojarjestelmiinsa
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Solita Think Tank Group brought together 12 of the renovation list to digitize public
We need a strong figurehead policy from the top to lead the digitalization of our society. Now, this does not exist.
Digitalisation of public services requires the party politics above the cab. Policies are guided by strong political parties and a variety of views on the dividing lines, which should get broken.
Government needs to change leaders who have genuine power and the mandate to make decisions.
Private and public sector cooperation must be intensified. Government is not the future can not reply to all service production, but some of the services produced by the private sector.
Social structures must be updated for modern life. Old structures do not support or any digital functions.
The future must be directed to society’s terms. The cottage grandma can not be a benchmark for future operations. Those who can not access digital services, served otherwise.
Our society needs a change of attitude – fear and distorted values will result in digitalisation and electronic functions to resist.
Public administration processes and functions must digitalization in a controlled manner. It allows for electronic transactions, as well as cost-efficient and effective delivery of services.
We need co-ordination of joint systems acquisition and development. Overlapping functions is to get rid of. We need to create a national infrastructure and systems that can be duplicated for different actors in different sectors.
Service Chains digital age, but not all the facilities the future in favor of electrifying. Electronic services needed for a sufficiently large user mass. Public service culture in need of change. Electronic services must be easy to use and easily accessible. They have been developed primarily users, ie citizens’ needs.
Citizens electronic identity and authentication solutions require in order to take advantage of digital services can be seamlessly through the whole of society.
A set from a kind of brings new opportunities for public service development.
Source: http://www.solita.fi/think-tank/
Tomi Engdahl says:
Information systems are developed in isolation from the life – pen and paper faster
When the jobs will be acquired software, often focus only on technical refinements of the software and attention to detail, says computer science dissertation FM Marika Pentikainen.
After installing the software may be noted that the workflow is different than the software before purchasing. Workers then adapt the way they work the software requirements of each as they see fit. Even the useful features of the software may remain unused. This happens because of the work activity changes are not designed for software acquisition, Pentikainen says.
He is a dissertation examined three healthcare information system projects in recent years.
When you work and it needed to be examined and an information system is modeled at the same time in the same graph, work, and information system development needs it is possible to see at the same time. Modelling is done so that the charts will be able to comment on both the employee and the software developer, in the best case in co-operation.
Otherwise there is a risk that work, for example, the traditional patient folder browsing is faster than to facilitate the technology.
Source: http://www.tivi.fi/kaikki_uutiset/tietojarjestelmia+kehitetaan+elamasta+irrallaan++kyna+ja+paperi+nopeampia/a1012505
Tomi Engdahl says:
The Information Society Programme memories
The end of 2006 published by the Prime Minister’s National Information Society Strategy 2007-2015.
Information and communication technology seamless integration into Finnish society was seen as a key factor of production in the future.
The service and the digital services of the importance of the current larger change as a factor – although the vision deadline of 2015 is still ahead of us.
Information society development of the innovation development was seen to pick up and, consequently, generating new products and services. Again, in the normal way overestimated in the short run, the speed of change, but hopefully in the long run it will be underestimated
Innovation funding, despite at least in the information sector, new initiatives in the gaming industry extraordinary – but spectacular – with the exception of the success stories have emerged relatively little.
Skills, learning units and workplaces significance was evaluated growing.
The digital basic infrastructure – in particular, of sufficient capacity telecommunications networks significance were identified.
What, then, did not anticipate?
Turbulence in the global economy, the business world in general, and in particular the activities of Finnish companies to changes in global power politics, terrorism and other factors of change effect – large, partly unforeseen developments that like Finland’s export-led economy has fluctuated with respect to predictions across the board
Cyber-threats have materialized curiosities serious information society wielding factors. Speaking of security is no longer the spam protection and prevention of a random hacker activity against, but something completely different.
Source: http://www.tivi.fi/cio/blogit/CIO_100_blogi/tietoyhteiskuntaohjelma+muistoissani/a1012225
Tomi Engdahl says:
The fiber optic home for free? The new model developed
Broadband for all 2015 project aims to extend the fiber optic network by next year, no more than two kilometers from homes and businesses. This far is enough public support, but the last stage must be found for the money from the customer.
Pirkanmaa developed a model in which the customer avoids the large one time fee. One option is to model the life cycle in accordance with the overall service. Life-cycle model space subscriber Next Generation Network-Network (NGN), a turnkey package.
“Life-cycle model, for example, commissioned by the municipality, the municipal company owned or different factions. The producer capacity can be a project company, operator, or municipal energy network company. Producer will charge status by the rent, the amount of which dictated completed according to the network. This way you avoid the subscriber from the large investments and minimize the risks, ”
Although the bulletin talk about a free consumer fiber interface, there is no free lunch. Thus, the rental to be paid – which is smaller threshold than the one-time investment.
Source: http://www.tivi.fi/kaikki_uutiset/valokuitu+kotiin+ilmaiseksi+uusi+malli+kehitteilla/a1012534
Tomi Engdahl says:
“The mind pictures do not give succeed”
Finnish supply industry will meet this week in Tampere Subcontracting Fair. The event yesterday promised the Family Business Association President and CEO Matti Vanhanen pointed out that success in the international market be achieved simply by mental images.
Vanhanen says Tampere Trade Fairs Web magazine, that we may exaggerate the Finnish know-how in the world appreciation. – I believe that internationally Finland is connected to positive images about in general, but trading will eventually determine precisely the products of the company in question, as well as experience gained in quality and reliability, Vanhanen emphasizes.
Former Prime Minister muistuttaam that we have lost our global trade. – Exports are at a lower level than in 2008, we really do not get complacent, that Finnish would sell itself. Each race must be won at the enterprise level.
- If the evaluation criteria used for the quality, price competitiveness, stretching from the production of which, and after-care, so I think that it is the quality and after sales service, we have good, says Vanhanen.
According to him, the cost competitiveness of our country has problems, and our ability to be flexible in working hours, for example, is weak.
Vanhanen calls for flexibility in the labor market.
Source: http://etn.fi/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1790:mielikuvilla-ei-menestyta&catid=13&Itemid=101
Tomi Engdahl says:
This is from 2011 but still based on later news seems to hold…
The National Audit Office to question the skills of the Finnish IT houses
The National Audit Office, the IT sector, system vendors have caused the taxpayers hundreds of millions of euros in losses.
On the public side of all the big information system projects have ended in recent times of chaos deployment phase. It is not a subscriber failure. It is a system suppliers incompetence.
VR’s ticketing system-related fiasco is just the latest demonstration of the IT houses errors. Similar has been, inter alia, the enforcement system, tax information and vehicle registration system reforms.
Electronic voting experiment became a disaster. There is some already in the late 1980s launched e-prescriptions in information system project.
- All of these projects have been suppliers of same big firms, but they do not take any lessons from, and the customer always pays the errors.
In Finland, large public sector information providers, including Accenture, Logica, Data and Fujitsu. Voutilainen believes that the IT industry in the structure is problems when public projects focus on a few large the organization.
- These same companies pass through the failure of another, but despite that they are suppliers for the following projects
In the IT field there are too few companies who are able to cope with the large public projects.
- Things are not any more better anywhere else
Source: http://www.ts.fi/uutiset/kotimaa/259794/Tarkastusvirasto+kyseenalaistaa+Suomen+ITtalojen+ammattitaidon
Tomi Engdahl says:
The chip alone does not protect against credit card hacks
When the United States to pay by credit card, always gets nervous, cyber criminals hijack card information immediately to trade the system. Why Finland does not become a public card data theft?
“We have smart cards, in the States does.” This in Finland it is customary to say, when the news that the United States, criminals have again been hijacked millions of payment cards with information on the systems.
Source of the United States: There debit card information has reached the large numbers of criminals. Attacks, cybercriminals are ujuttaneet malicious transactions in payment systems. Target and Home Depot, the systems have been found Blackpose malware variants.
Could something similar happen sometime in Finland?
“In many cases in Finland reaction is that there could be, because we are used to chip cards. I think it is still possible that in Finland We’ll start our sales terminals,” the security company Trend Micro, Finland and the Baltic Kimmo Vesajoki says Tiville.
“EMV chip cards or debit cards will not be able to prevent the payment terminals occurring in the so-called ram-mopping-based attacks,” Trend Micro’s report says.
The United States and many other countries in payment systems is a serious weakness: Card Data processing ram memory merchant’s computer or on a server.
At that moment, when the user enters a debit card trade card reader, the data is transmitted to the merchant’s own cashier or merchant’s server to your computer. Central memory card data are vanishingly small moment in an unencrypted format before they are encrypted. If a terminal is malware, it will automatically detect when the main memory should be specifically credit card information and collect them in a lightning recovery.
“Card payments pci dss -tietoturvastandardi requires that the card data must be encrypted if they are saved or transmitted by the network. Therefore, the data collected from the main memory before they are encrypted”
Trend Micro said already the end of August before the Home Depot-news that it has detected a Blackpose-new versions of the malware. They pretend to McAfee’s security agents of the program and hit the main memory.
Card readers in the United States are almost everywhere in the magnetic lines of the readers. Would the chip card and smart card reader ram attack the use of?
“The chip card has no additional security if the theft takes place in the main memory. The chip card primarily to prevent physical copy, but not the card information in the online store, ”
“The chip card technology alone does not preclude the central memory of attacks, which is accentuated by the news of recent break-ins. Protection needed for other methods,” says Electronic payment International Organization for Standardization PCI’s director Bob Russo.
Ram attack is successful in spite of the chip, if the data are exported to the merchant’s computer in the same way as magnetic stripe reading.
The chip can be read from the card holder’s name, card number and expiration date. Just these data without cvv2 code is sufficient in some online shopping, so they are valid for criminals. Information is also collected successfully. It hints at the fact that the UK has moved to chip cards, but according to Trend Micro will become more common card payment fraud involving the use of the card data without a physical card, ie online.
Card payment company Nets risk management expert Pekka Vermasvuo, however, says that the memory read malware in Finland do not get a card access to information. The reason for this is that here in the card payment transaction processing as a whole is done safely chip payment terminal and card information transmitted unencrypted kassatyöasemalle.
“We estimate that in Finland all the available modern chip card terminal systems operate according to this principle and are not susceptible to such attacks,”
“Among them, the card information is never go to the dealer in your system and data running on the merchant’s online all unencrypted. In the States a card reader transmits the information to Checkout that is running Windows XP or Linux workstation, while in Finland the data do not go to the workstation,”
In segregated system, the card reader is not just a dumb terminal, such as the United States. The chip payment terminal is the small computer, which encrypts card data the same way own their shells within. It’s talking directly to the card issuer’s systems. Cashier must only provide knowledge of the total price to be paid.
Encryption solution uses the term end to end encryption, p2pe.
Transaction recipient to decrypt, verify card authenticity, validity and accuracy of the pin-code and makes charge reservation. Retail System does not get any sensitive any card data, only the acknowledgment made the payment and the same identity that appear on the customer’s receipt.
“Implementation is a common practice in Finland, and it is used by, for example, the largest grocery chains. It can be estimated that almost all of Finland’s card payments are transmitted to this day from end to end encrypted,”
“Even the trader himself is not able to break into the card information, or listen to the traffic,”
“The States the payment process is a POS system, when we have it is differentiated and it only transmits an acknowledgment to the POS system. Risks are of course not zero, but they are clearly lower. In the United States have woken up to the payment security very late, but I know that the situation is going to change quite a lot, ”
Finland is still weak systems for small businesses (cafes, restaurants and shops), which have not been updated for some years. They card information may be further addressed, and to collect locally. A particularly clear warning sign is the fact that there is only a magnetic stripe reader.
Finland Visa and MasterCard payment card company representative says the Nets Tiville that even small merchants do not have to worry about. Chip Card environments have moved broadly, that is, the card information goes only to the card transaction to the recipient.
“In addition, p2pe implementation is also widely used for small traders. It represents a significant part of the New installations both large and small retailers, ”
The Nordic countries, from end to end encryption and separate systems are widely used. The situation in other parts of the world, Niki Klaus does not know exactly, but in any case, the situation is considerably more diverse.
Even the chip card does not give certainty. It only guarantees the payment entity. Many of the world sold the chip card readers do not support end to end encryption.
If you travel, credit card transactions worth a go through carefully and regularly. Especially for small purchases should be checked because of this reason: Criminals do with stolen credit card information initially only small less than $ 10 test purchases to check whether they can be utilized. If the transaction is successful, it will raise the black market card information to a higher price point….
Source: http://summa.talentum.fi/article/tv/uutiset/91615
Tomi Engdahl says:
Finnish delight the tablet itself, a Swedish for family
Samsung has commissioned a study in the Nordic countries the acquisition of technology products.
It became clear that 31 per cent of Swedes said it had acquired a tablet to enjoy it with his family. Finland mentioned the reason for this, only 19 per cent of the respondents. The Finns do not want to delight in the tablet nor the employer, since less than 10 per cent said it had acquired the work, too.
The purchase of a new mobile phone in Finland is one reason above all others: the old is broken. This explained the acquisition of 81 per cent. Other reasons: new device better performance and new features.
Source: http://www.tivi.fi/kaikki_uutiset/suomalainen+ilahduttaa+tabletilla+itseaan+ruotsalainen+perhettaan/a1013759
Tomi Engdahl says:
The reactor developer event this week: hackers and designers gather in Helsinki
IT company Reaktor gather this week in design and technology circles the toughest names in the Helsinki shipyard. On Thursday and Friday held two events, Dev Day and the Design Day.
Last year, the first time the Design Day’s goal is to bring domestic design circuits and inspirational speakers from around the world under one roof.
Reaktor Dev Day, in turn, brings together the entire Finnish programming community and bring in Helsinki, as well as hard prestigious domestic and international speakers. The event will be held this year for the fourth time.
Source: http://www.tivi.fi/kaikki_uutiset/reaktorin+kehittajatapahtuma+talla+viikolla+hakkerit+ja+muotoilijat+kokoontuvat+helsingissa/a1013671
Tomi Engdahl says:
Coconut oil or peach – strategic choices
Support: Information management should be able to support all IT equipment and services that are used by employees of the company. Typically, the issue has been resolved in accordance with standardized workstation models and the mounting. This is usually obtained about 80 percent of users quite happy. After all, with a continuous debate about how much the standard can be flexible.
Security: If the network (or even an individual workstation) that is installed you just will not take long, when the company has a virus or malware. Was to blame anyone, IT is still responsible for the damage, and, ultimately, to blame too loose security policy. The losses may, moreover, be quite extensive.
The easiest way is to prevent users of any changes to client configurations and close the unknown devices from the internal network. All traffic out of the house treated with strict firewalls and spam filters through. This model, in which we are behind firewalls hermetically isolated it-the promised land, could be called Coconuts. Last 20 years, IT organizations are derived from coconut in mind.
In recent years, there has arisen, however, the forces of change that threaten the coconut position of the IT architecture, Holy Grail. Many of the company’s business processes is rotated in non-cloud
services. Internal matters of some debate in public services. BYOD phenomenon is pushing companies form or another. It’s getting increasingly difficult to restrict the users life a nut inside. At the same time data management is becoming increasingly difficult to take responsibility for the company’s entire computing environment, when large parts of it are starting to be outside of your control. What to do?
Future IT can be modeled even if the peaches. Peaches have a hard stone, but it is inside the fruit (the so-called value-added). Although the outer surface dents should not suffer from stone inside. Peach hard and strongly protected form the core of the company’s core data and processes; those who are indispensable to the survival. There is still a need firewalls and strong authentication. All other systems are useful, but not essential. They are a real peach fruit, the food, the people who work and communication can be enhanced, and where people can enjoy their work. If outside the core in the system error occurs or a security breach, it can of course be problems, but does not jeopardize the company’s business.
Source: http://www.tivi.fi/cio/blogit/ict_standard_forum/kookospahkina+vai+persikka+ndash+strategisia+valintoja/a1013288
Tomi Engdahl says:
Fingrid was awarded on transparency in security matters
Communications Regulatory Authority has issued the electronic communications facilitator tribute to Fingrid, which corresponds to the electricity transmission grid.
The jury found that the company takes care of the safety of operations in an exemplary manner, which allows for security incidents detected in the open exchange of information processing in groups, and the public.
“Fingrid actions have improved the national information security by adding security threats related to the exchange of information and enabled to contribute and real-time snapshot of the formation. In addition, Fingrid activity has contributed to the Finnish Communications Regulatory Authority cash and cash equivalents-detection system, the introduction of the new organizations, “the explanatory memorandum lists.
Source: http://www.tivi.fi/kaikki_uutiset/fingrid+palkittiin+avoimuudesta+tietoturvaasioissa/a1014167
Tomi Engdahl says:
Artists singing the copyright of the old tango sheet music
Creators and entrepreneurs organization Lyhty is prepared in cooperation with 15 member organizations with the objective of the program, addressing issues such as intellectual property rights and piracy.
The payment of the compensation, ie the old “cassette tax” is a twisted every autumn. The target program requires that its collapse needs to be corrected. The program says that the copy has not been reduced, but the sum of money brought about it as income to copyright organizations has dropped: It is seen that a large part of the copying is done to recording media, which no fee will be charged. So they want payments to be extended to computers and mobile phones.
Piracy states still a significant problem, to which efficient and effective medicines are needed. Lyhty hopes the legislation means to make more effective inhibitions to use of the pirated services. Lyhty says that although the legal supply shortages should no longer force anyone to piracy, it is still rampant.
Source: http://www.tivi.fi/kaikki_uutiset/artistit+laulavat+tekijanoikeustangoa+vanhoista+nuoteista/a1014135
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Tomi Engdahl says:
Finnish IoT-related research and development is the world’s leading away, and the Finnish know-how of interest to the world. VTT, Tekes and the Finnish universities is ongoing related research and development programs.
“You have to remember, however, that the Internet of Things with technology is developed very active not only in Finland,”
The Internet of Things progressed considered to solve many security issues.
“Security is a big challenge.”
Source: http://summa.talentum.fi/article/tv/teknologia/93799
Tomi Engdahl says:
One in five Finnish is over 65 years old
According to Statistics Finland at the end of last year, more than 65 years of age was about 1.05 million.
At European level in Finland is among the oldest old in the head, but not right on the tip.
Finland’s total population, the average age was last year at the end of 41.4 years.
Source: http://www.ts.fi/uutiset/kotimaa/680969/Jo+joka+viides+suomalainen+on+yli+65vuotias
Tomi Engdahl says:
Finnish identity of the firm was sold – GlobalSign to set up a center of excellence in Helsinki
The Japanese GMO Internet Group, part of the security company to buy GMO GlobalSign Finnish Ubisecure Solutions.
Ubisecure provides software solutions for access control, single sign-on (SSO, Single Sign-On), FEDERATION, authorization, and user identity management.
GlobalSign seeks to industrial internet market. Secured connections of people, processes, information and objects between require from all of them certified identity, and this expertise to company searching for Ubisecure, sheet sets.
Ubisecure customers there is a public actors, financial institutions and companies in Europe. Deployment in support of strategic partners include, among others, CapGemini and CGI.
Source: http://www.tivi.fi/kaikki_uutiset/suomalainen+identiteettipalveluyritys+myytiin++globalsign+perustaa+helsinkiin+osaamiskeskuksen/a1015645
Tomi Engdahl says:
These three products approved for the Finnish data protection
Finnish Communications Regulatory Authority Kyberturvallisuuskeskus to promote product safety by evaluating digital products, security. It tells the acceptance of three products for the protection of classified national authority against unlawful disclosure of information.
The national approval process for this year are passed Deltagon Sec@GW, Blancco 5 and Samsung Knox. They can be used in official communications in the future under certain conditions.
Deltagon Sec @ GW e-mail solution can be used for e-mail encryption protection level IV.
Blancco 5 data erasing is valid to security levels I-IV (ST I to IV).
Samsung Android 4.4.2 Knox-extension is suitable for protection level IV (ST IV).
Source: http://www.tivi.fi/kaikki_uutiset/nama+kolme+tuotetta+hyvaksyttiin+suomalaistietojen+suojaksi/a1015747
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Tomi Engdahl says:
Technical design services increased in 2013, says Statistics.
Most services used in industrial and manufacturing projects.
Information Systems displayed a significant increase in the gaming industry. Information technology services revenue 72 percent were domestic and 28 per cent from abroad.
Source: http://www.tivi.fi/uutisia/peleilla+ja+suunnittelulla+tehdaan+rahaa/a1016091
Tomi Engdahl says:
Little service firms successful thanks to fragile smartphones
Asphalt fallen smartphones are a familiar sight in the new mobile phone fast-fit chains. Although the situation seems bad, the phone can be easily and quickly switch between the new glass and the screen. Also, the battery can be replaced.
Small private cell phone outages have become far more common over the last couple years. They pääbisnes is to change the new glasses, and display pudonneisiin the ground and shattered smartphones.
Quick outages will also change, tired of the new batteries to replace, even though many think that it can not make the current phones.
“The authorized overhaul can go up to two weeks., It is the consumer’s real hard to understand,” last April Itäkeskus Mobile Clinic – services firm founded by Daniel Frank says.
“Two weeks without a phone is a very long time in the modern world.”
“(Iphone) 4 or 5 glass change is going in the best case, while you wait. Fact, the work process is not very long. IPads and other tablets will take more time, an hour or two,” says Durckman.
Mobile phone service for small business is such a young field that just anyone is not about information. Entrepreneurs are largely unorganized.
The demand for low-maintenance services has created not only to dissatisfaction with the warranty servicing the slowness and expensiveness, it also means that they will be broken by a surprisingly wide.
At large phone manufacturers have different rules with respect to maintenance. Apple will provide genuine parts only to authorized SERVICE. It makes the iPhone servicing small-industry companies other cheaper, because the replacement parts are used for repairs.
All admit that the mostly manufactured in China supplies the parts of varying quality.
“Many of the parts are manufactured in the same factories, however, as the original”,
Apple’s policy: “If the phone is mounted on a small maintenance equipment parts, authorized service provider will not take it any longer: Telephone is unserviceable. Terribly lots of companies in China manufacturing these parts and tolerances are extremely small.”
Source: http://www.hs.fi/tekniikka/a1305880518751