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:
Russian Yandex plans to increase Mäntsälän data center 40-megawatt class in four stages.
Yandex has many data centers. Most of them are in Russia. The company also has smaller data centers in the Netherlands and the United States.
Finland has been a lively debate on the Armed Forces on network sniffing.
Source: Tietoviikko
http://www.tietoviikko.fi/uutisia/mantsalan+venalaista+datakeskusjatti+yandexia+ei+pelota+suomen+sotilasverkkotiedustelusta+quotei+olla+edes+kuultuquot/a975719
Tomi Engdahl says:
Finland has always been a country other ones. Nokia’s strong position here meant that a large part of the components purchased directly from suppliers. Distributors’ share of the market was relatively the lowest in the world.
Source: Elektroniikkalehti
http://www.elektroniikkalehti.fi/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1052:jakelu-kasvaa-euroopassa&catid=13&Itemid=101
Tomi Engdahl says:
Ilkka Paananen (Supercell) and Jussi Laakkonen (Applifier) believe in Finland: Here you can find some really good elements that are necessary for high-end product development work.
Source: Tietoviikko
http://www.tietoviikko.fi/kaikki_uutiset/applifieria+quotei+tarvinnut+myydaquot++uusi+jenkkikumppani+vauhdittaa+maailmanvalloitusta/a976197?s=u&wtm=tivi-21032014
Tomi Engdahl says:
ALSO Group: expands its cloud services and becomes a cloud enabler
http://www.also.com/ec/cms2/en/4000/content_3/press_4/media_releases/details_39552.jsp
ALSO Holding AG has concluded a purchase contract for the acquisition of Nervogrid Oy, Helsinki, Finland. The company is active in the cloud computing sector and is specialized in the development of Cloud Brokerage Enablement platforms with which the management of private, public, and hybrid cloud transactions can be automated and efficiently processed. In the future, the newly acquired company will trade under the name of ALSO Cloud Oy.
Tomi Engdahl says:
According to a recent survey, Nokia in 2011-2013 laid-off persons have been employed quite well again, but for many but wages fell.
Survey respondents felt that the soot ex-ranging new job was 57 per cent. In addition, 9 percent had set up their own business and 11 per cent were studying. Without work and study was a one in five respondents.
About half went on to the ICT sector, but about half of the people had changed the industry are they work on.
Source: Tietoviikko
http://www.tietoviikko.fi/uutisia/nokialta+irtisanotut+saivat+toita+mutta+palkka+laski++vanhemmat+tyontekijat+ongelmissa/a976114
Tomi Engdahl says:
Only 60 per cent of general practitioners in the EU use of e-health services, the EU’s new statistic reveals.
Despite the increased numbers of electronic systems continues to be used mainly for data storage and reporting.
Service penetration is 62 per cent in Finland.
In patient data electrification Finland is not in the top spots on the list.
Source: Tietoviikko
http://www.tietoviikko.fi/kaikki_uutiset/suomi+jaa+karkisijoilta+terveysitn+hyodyntamisessa/a976775
Tomi Engdahl says:
Yesterday’s news of highly skilled unemployment rate was chilling to read.
The higher education of the unemployed in the Helskinki metropolitan area grew by nearly 60 per cent in January a year ago. Unemployed in the metropolitan area, more than one in five are highly educated.
Helsinki metropolitan area, were unemployed in January, some 12 000 highly skilled and across the country more than 43 000
It seems that Finnish companies have realized the so-called “creative destruction” wrong.
Creative destruction of course causes lost jobs, but at the same time is should be creating new, more productive ones. In this situation capacity for innovation is everything, but it seems that too many Finnish companies appear to have chosen the road of destruction.
Source: Tietoviikko
http://www.tietoviikko.fi/blogit/uutiskommentti/kun+korkeasti+koulutettu+irtisanotaan/a977336
Tomi Engdahl says:
A digital signature to verify the identity of the person signing the form. So far the technology has not been generalized network services. One reason for the introduction of charges.
Two Finnish companies Kehä 4 and Suomen Onlineallekirjoitus have developed a service that has the signature of the form to take with them a lower cost.
Service tailored to the customer’s signature component to fit the form and immersed in an iframe HTML snippet of code into a web form so the customer does not need to buy separate access to each bank Tupas service and mobile-phone carrier.
Source: Tietoviikko
http://www.tietoviikko.fi/kaikki_uutiset/minne+jai+sahkoinen+allekirjoitus/a977647
Tomi Engdahl says:
Yotaphone was designed in Finland:
Russia’s Yotaphone challenges smartphone status quo
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/d6b22514-5c2e-11e3-b4f3-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2xBNBRBUK
His company, which has fewer than 30 employees at its headquarters in Moscow, set up an office in Singapore to keep in close contact with its manufacturing partner. In another office in Finland, former Nokia employees work in design.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Shocking drop in exports – the reason is Nokia
High-tech exports declined last year by Customs on Friday announced the foreign trade statistics of the one-fifth to nearly 3.5 billion.
In the longer term the drop has been more dramatic: the high-tech share of Finland’s total exports are still six per cent, while it was up to the last decade, more than 20 per cent.
Trade in high technology has turned to a deeper deficit. Last year, the Group’s balance sheet deficit amounted to almost € 2.1 billion. In the last decade a high-tech trade amounted to between two and four billion surplus.
The explanation is familiar and expected: Nokia, Nokia, Nokia.
Telephones and other communication equipment trade decline was the biggest reason for the decline in exports and imports, Customs said.
Source: Tietoviikko
http://www.tietoviikko.fi/kaikki_uutiset/jarkyttava+pudotus+viennissa++syyna+nokia/a978231
Tomi Engdahl says:
The award-winning Finnish IT company was sold again abroad
The purchase price is approximately EUR 60 million. Regenersis buy Blancco’s entire share capital. Tietoviikko chose Blancco last year, the year Tivi company. Finland Asiakastieto Blancco awarded last year as strongest company in Finland in 2013.
Blancco is the second year the company Tivi prize company, which have been sold abroad this month. In 2009, the company Tivi Napa Group was sold to a Japanese ship classification society ClassNK for the middle of the month.
Source: Tietoviikko
http://www.tietoviikko.fi/kaikki_uutiset/palkittu+suomalainen+itfirma+myytiin+taas+ulkomaille/a978448
Tomi Engdahl says:
Did you believe your data traffic was protected?
Finland are the mobile operators do not encrypt LTE networks traffic from the base station forward. The telecommunications sector standardizing organization 3GPP LTE does not require specification of traffic encryption.
The base station access to the premises is not that much of a thing, if you want to get in there. Station on the traffic passing the Ethernet cable.
Germany, for example, all operators encrypt traffic, the USA and the Russian part of the operators are turning to encryption, mainly because of the massive network of organized crime.
“In Finland, we go for encryption only when something happens to an operator. Then everything encrypt traffic, “reckons Nokia Solutions and Networks (NSN) broadband networks, security expert Ville Autere.
Source: Tietokone
http://www.tietokone.fi/artikkeli/uutiset/uskoitko_dataliikenteesi_olevan_suojassa_suomessa_4g_liikenne_kulkee_salaamattomana
Tomi Engdahl says:
Finnish banking applications as users change more slowly than the rest of the world
Things soon as the bank managed primarily on mobile devices. Ireland, for example, this has already happened.
Danske Bank to a survey by the Finns have left the change, the more slowly than the other Nordic countries. Bank of Finland forecasts for mobile banking, the most important way to the end of 2015 onwards.
September at a slower transition is partly historical: the Finns have been using online banking for a long time and are used to treat his case through the browser. Ireland and Estonia jumped this step, directly to mobile app online bank.
The rest of the Nordic mobile applications signups are about half compared to the browser-based online banking. In Finland, the use of mobile applications in January was 28.5 per cent of online banking usage volumes.
Source: Tietoviikko
http://www.tietoviikko.fi/kaikki_uutiset/suomalaiset+vaihtavat+pankkisovellusten+kayttajiksi+hitaammin+kuin+muualla/a979704
Tomi Engdahl says:
Finland needs a better quality of IT
Low quality cause excessive costs and delay the development of eating our competitiveness. Therefore, the quality must be improved in the production of ICT solutions.
Information Technology Association a couple of years ago in IT survey of the ICT industry in Finland less than half of the projects will be completed on schedule and within budget. Often, the background is quite rational explanations, such as the increase in the content of the project schedule and budget decisions after, but it is also clear division weak tradition of quality control and development.
ICT solutions for quality, let alone the entire industry quality culture can not change overnight i
Source:
http://www.teknologiateollisuus.fi/fi/uutishuone/blog/2014-4/suomi-tarvitsee-laadukkaampaa-it-tae
Tomi Engdahl says:
Region Specific: Finland – the small Nordic country that’s spreading its wings far beyond Angry Birds
http://www.edge-online.com/features/region-specific-finland-the-small-nordic-country-thats-spreading-its-wings-far-beyond-angry-birds/
This winter has been a disappointing one in Finland.
Once the ice and snow starts to melt the kids have to stay inside: there’ll be no skating on frozen lakes. As one interviewee puts it, it’s almost like Finland’s had no winter at all.
Yet the state of the weather is just about the only note of disappointment we hear during our visit. Elsewhere there is only optimism.
It’s easy to see why. This time last year the Finnish game industry comprised some 150 companies with 1,500 staff. Now, according to industry association NeoGames, there are over 200 firms with a combined headcount of around 2,400. After years of stable, if modest growth, Finland’s game industry is exploding.
The term ‘next generation’ means many different things in Finland, from the console developers working on PS4 and Xbox One to those seeking to redefine expectations of free-to-play on mobile; from the logical evolution of video capture and sharing to using games as a springboard into the cross-media stratosphere. At this rate the Finnish game industry workforce will be long past 2,500 by the time the ice melts: where, in a country of just five million, are the next 2,500 going to come from? The Finland of 2014 faces perhaps its biggest ever challenge, and it’s posed by its own success.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Helsinki High School Classrooms to Welcome 3D Printers
http://www.finnbay.com/helsinki-high-school-classrooms-to-welcome-3d-printers/
Tomi Engdahl says:
Ineffective project management contractor weakens the competitiveness of enterprises
If the contracts associated with the transport of information, as well as the main contractor, all subcontractors and suppliers seamlessly, it is necessary to make changes in general The contract, which will eventually reduce the labor income.
Contracting firms’ guidance of the expert material , the effective project and data management are the key to maintain the competitiveness of the contracting companies.
Contracts associated with the data is often scattered in different files and employee e-mails. In this case, site management is absolutely impossible to maintain real-time and comprehensive understanding of the situation of each project.
Companies woke up to the rising costs in general only at the time when the cause is no longer possible to do anything to prevent them.
Source: http://omatehokkuus.visma.fi/oma-tehokkuus/tehoton-projektinhallinta-heikentaa-urakointiyritysten-kilpailukykya
Tomi Engdahl says:
A good article on Assembly computer festival and it’s relation to Finnish game industry development:
Assembling a game development scene? Uncovering Finland’s largest demo party
http://www.gamejournal.it/3_tyni_sotamaa/#.U0VswldM0ik
The study takes look at Assembly, a large-scale LAN and demo party founded in 1992 and organized annually in Helsinki, Finland. Assembly is used as a case study to explore the relationship between computer hobbyism – including gaming, demoscene and other related activities – and professional game development.
These days the event is held at Hartwall ice hockey arena and lasts four days.
Most visitors – roughly 5000 per event – bring their own computers and
purchase a table spot with a very fast Internet/LAN connection and a power
socket. The event consists of the festival, competition categories in the field
of digital arts (demos, graphics, music, etc.), various gaming competitions,
live concerts, expert seminars, game industry recruitment desks and other
attractions.
All in all, for over twenty years Assembly has brought together gaming
hobbyists, notable programming talent and an atmosphere that fosters
competition and creativity in a unique way.
Still, gaming in particular has a history of clashing with demo building
at Assembly. Nowadays this history is mostly present when the competition
demos are screened in the main hall of the venue. As majority of the players
play their games here, only stopping for a moment to watch the competition
demos
lready in the
pre-broadband years, Assembly not only provided an opportunity to get a
lightning-fast Internet connection for one weekend but it was also a unique
chance to meet online connections and other like-minded people. These days
one could possibly compare the event to a rock festival, in which visitors first
and foremost participate for the social aspects of the event, to meet people
and especially to feel the connection to the scene.
Later on, the short development span of demo building seemed to
translate relatively well to smaller handheld games, popular in Finnish game
development especially during the early 2000s.
he mobile games companies
of the day had numerous employees with demoscene background and openly
hired old friends and demoscene contacts based only on demo resumes
Coming into this day, the most visible aspect of the game industry hiring
practices in Assembly are the game industry stands.
Our analysis has revealed a variety of functions for Assembly: a meeting
point, a billboard, a distribution channel, a training ground and a melting pot.
Tomi Engdahl says:
“Internet bad problem requires immediate action” – were found in Finland
A serious problem found in SSL encryption to protect, for example, Web services, passwords and payment transactions were found. The problem is named Heartbleed.
Kyberturvallisuuskeskus Finnish Communications Regulatory Authority has published a special warning. According to the network administrator and requires immediate action. Kyberturvallisuuskeskus calls for administrators to update the server OpenSSL libraty immediately.
An interesting detail SSL Affair is that the problem was discovered in Finland. The greatest attention was focused on the Google Security Unit Neel Mehtaan, which first reported the problem in the OpenSSL developers.
However, it also found fault Codenomicon Finnish company. Codenomicon found the problem in developing SafeGuard technology used in security problems for automated searching. The company reported ssl problem Kyberturvallisuuskeskus, which began to coordinate the fix for this issue. Ssl-hole, however, came out the other way, before this process is completed.
Source: Tietokone
http://www.tietokone.fi/artikkeli/uutiset/internetin_paha_vika_vaatii_valittomia_toimia_loydettiin_suomessa
Tomi Engdahl says:
HUS was delayed Windows XP’s death – pay Microsoft more
HUS clients upgrade project will be delayed. Medical circuit is still in use 15 000 Windows XP machines with support services necessary to purchase the next three months separately from Microsoft.
“We had to change the policies, because we still have a large number of applications that are not compatible with Windows 7,”
There’s also a very critical, such as anesthesia and intensive care related systems. The new schedule of HUS is trying to shift the majority of their systems to Windows 7 the end of June. In the meantime, XP support is purchased as an additional service from Microsoft.
Price will be HUS decided about the amount of some EUR per workstation per month, three-month installments. (around 47000 Euros for first three month period).
Mäkelä says that the track is “a few significant application” for compatibility with the timetable may be too tight. There’s also a very critical, such as anesthesia and intensive care related systems.
The original plan in accordance with reason or another, updates Outside the XP machines would be isolated from the network.
Source: Tietoviikko
http://www.tietoviikko.fi/kaikki_uutiset/hus+myohastyi+windows+xpn+kuolemasta++maksaa+microsoftille+lisaa/a981071
Tomi Engdahl says:
Local Payment cards are hitting finally through
The Finns have been at least half a million non-contact, functioning NFC payment card. Local Payment Cards in accepting the number of sales is also growing rapidly this year.
the Federation of these so-called contactless payment cards is about 8-10 percent of Finland’s eight million payment card.
The technology of interest, because it speeds up transactions at checkout.
Source: Tietoviikko
http://www.tietoviikko.fi/uutisia/lahimaksukortit+lyovat+viimein+lapi/a981448
Tomi Engdahl says:
Finnish Company to copy billion-Nestiä: save on heating costs, “by capturing the” network
The Internet of Things will now be at a rapid pace towards the wallets of consumers. Finnish mobile developer Ceruus that the fall of the market for optimizing the energy consumption of the planned service.
A web based service called Internet of Living (“Web of life”) allows for temperature control and optimization of energy, stated in the release.
According to the company the service can be used to control individual room heating so that an electrically heated house will save energy from 15 to 25 per cent. Service components resemble Nest smart thermostats.
Source: Tietoviikko
http://www.tietoviikko.fi/kaikki_uutiset/suomalaisfirma+kopioi+miljardinestia+saastaa+lammityskuluja+quotsieppaamallaquot+verkkoyhteyden/a981657
Tomi Engdahl says:
10 Finnish technology company now celebrates the top 100 European innovative technology companies by Red Herring
The media company Red Herring published a list of the hundred most innovative technology companies. It could accommodate the ranks of this year, up to ten Finnish companies. Their choice was affected by the rate of growth, technological innovation, management capability and market position.
Finnish companies in the Red Herring Top 100 rank:
AppGyver
Codership
Hibox Systems
Invesdor
Nexstim
Piceasoft
Bazooka
SN4Mobile
Tespack
Valopaa
Source: Itviikko
http://www.itviikko.fi/uutiset/2014/04/15/10-kotimaista-teknologiafirmaa-juhlii-euroopan-top-100ssa/20145364/7?rss=8
Tomi Engdahl says:
Finland’s economic output has started to increase
n January, production fell to revised data show that 0.4 per cent from last year. The production was the last in a small rise in September last year.
Compared with January, seasonally adjusted production rose by 0.2 per cent in February.
Source: Taloussanomat
http://www.taloussanomat.fi/kansantalous/2014/04/15/suomen-talouden-tuotanto-kaantyi-pitkasta-aikaa-kasvuun/20145367/12?rss=4
Tomi Engdahl says:
Elisa renew backbone network with about 30 million
Elisa is preparing for the growing amount of data the new backbone network. The company has signed a three-year contract with the French company network device network device company Alcatel-Lucent.
Alcatel-Lucent also involved in the project are Finnish companies.
The contract value is approximately EUR 30 million
New technology will be installed throughout the country. At the same time the introduction of sdn-capable software-controlled network technology platform that can perform desired by customer provisioning and other changes to the network faster.
The core network equipment generation age is about 5-10 years.
Source: Tietoviikko
http://www.tietoviikko.fi/kaikki_uutiset/elisa+uusii+runkoverkkonsa+noin+30+miljoonan+satsauksella/a982415
Tomi Engdahl says:
Teekkari appeared: the IT system does not have to cost millions – the Ministry received a free registers
Aalto University students gave last week a program for registering fund-raising.
Ville Oksanen: “In the autumn begins the course, which simulates the software engineering project. One student is the project manager and the others are architects and programmers. When the projects were discussed topics, I was reminded that this would be a timely and appropriate size project for course “, Oksanen says.
Eight students made the system in five months. The time it took an estimated 1,600 hours of work. On the basis of Oksanen system calculates the value of about 150 000. Public-sector IT systems typically cost several times over.
As a reward the students received the credit. Oksanen paid from their own pockets for the pizzas and coca cola a few times.
Is public IT projects in the price of the air?
“It varies a lot, depending on who is buying there. Some of the units have knowledgeable buyers, but unfortunately not all of them, and be able to charge. In small municipalities, in particular, often do not have the IT side of the acquisition of specialized experts. ”
“The universities would be prudent to establish beneficial projects to do. Students have to do something meaningful, which is in the correct use, “Oksanen says.
Source: Tietoviikko
http://www.tietoviikko.fi/kaikki_uutiset/teekkarit+nayttivat+itjarjestelman+ei+tarvitse+maksaa+miljoonia++ministerio+sai+ilmaisen+rekisterit/a982396
Tomi Engdahl says:
The digital business expert Solita has announced a new Think Tank group dedicated to the public the challenges of the digitalized world. The Group’s aim is to publish the final report in the autumn.
“Our experience with the first Think Tank group, were so good that we want to continue the digitization of the importance and opportunities for reflection on, but in a slightly different point of view,” Solita e-business leader Timo Honko says the release.
Source: Tietoviikko
http://www.tietoviikko.fi/cio/think+tank+2+vie+julkishallintoa+digiaikaan/a982370
Tomi Engdahl says:
The “normal” working week has become abnormal
The traditional five-day work week is starting to be a rarity in the labor market, it becomes clear to Statistics Finland survey .
Regular week: working 35-44 hours a week and he has not worked in the evenings or on weekends.
According to these criteria, the study week was a regular 26 per cent of total employment. For employees was slightly higher at 29 per cent.
Senior member of staff and workers working week for men was more likely to be regular.
Of entrepreneur men, only nine per cent of the working week was thus defined as a regular.
None of the entrepreneur women on the study had regular working week.
Source: Tietoviikko
http://www.tietoviikko.fi/uutisia/quotnormaalistaquot+tyoviikosta+on+tullut+epanormaali/a982448
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Tomi Engdahl says:
IT Training Interests: Aalto University, the applicant scramble for information technology student
Source: Tietoviikko
http://www.tietoviikko.fi/kaikki_uutiset/itkoulutus+kiinnostaa+aaltoyliopistossa+hakijaryntays+tietotekniikan+opiskelijaksi/a982565
Tomi Engdahl says:
Digits Show: Can Rovio Be the 21st Century’s Disney?
http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/04/16/digits-show-can-rovio-be-the-21st-centurys-disney/
With two billion downloads since launching in 2009, Angry Birds mobile games are already the most distributed piece of game content in the world. Now Rovio, the Finland-based creator of the game, is looking for ways to expand the brand.
Rovio is gearing up for a 3-D animated movie with its characters to be released in 2016, as well as several activity parks based on Angry Birds themes
Tomi Engdahl says:
IBM Haukkovaara: Digital Finland is ready except for the implementation
Production of information ramps constitute inseparable part of the decision-making and resource planning processes, combined with digital dimension brings with it tremendous opportunities for a country like Finland, which is a long distance away from the export of the world’s metropolises.
One of the digitization of the possibility of combining data liittyyy new and innovative way. The value of yield and even whole industries can be according to him, to look at on larger entities the traditionally.
Finland is a small country and even the EU is struggling from the world’s top performers overall.
However, what differs from the digital with the fundamental nature of the data and the movement of infinity iron rule, turns against itself very quickly. New services will be launched somewhere else, if it is made too difficult or expensive here, he writes.
Source: Tietoviikko
http://www.tietoviikko.fi/cio/ibmn+haukkovaara+digitaalinen+suomi+on+toteuttamista+vaille+valmis/a982591
Tomi Engdahl says:
Up to 44 per cent of Finnish there are too many passwords for access to the workplace, shows a Finnish security company Trusteq survey report. More than 80 percent of survey respondents logs in different systems, several times during the working day.
Seven percent of respondents log into the system up to more than 20 times.
If the company has 200 employees, each of which is used to log on for 15 minutes of working time per week, it means the company level a total of 50 hours per week. This is clearly more than one person working week, evaluate Trusteq Development Director Jukka Lauhia.
Almost half of the respondents to the survey felt that the passwords are too many. More than 30 percent of the respondents estimated that one-password would be able to save the working time from 15 to 60 minutes per week.
Source: http://www.tietoviikko.fi/kaikki_uutiset/suomalaisten+tyoaikaa+hukkautuu+salasanojen+muistelemiseen+jopa+20+kirjautumista+paivassa/a983016
Tomi Engdahl says:
A new tool innovation from Finland:
Physics-exploiting axe splits wood in record time
http://www.geek.com/news/physics-exploiting-axe-splits-wood-in-record-time-1591725/
Yes, axes have existed since time immemorial, but apparently there’s still room for improvement.
The Vipukirves does what the name implies, assuming you speak Finnish. It’s essentially acting as a lever instead of a wedge (Vipukirves translates as Leveraxe).
A single strike can open an 8 cm gap in a log, which is more than enough to separate it.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Paulig Muki is a revolutionary coffee cup that uses the heat from coffee to produce a picture on the side of the cup. You’ll find a new, surprising or moving picture on the cup’s screen every single time you fill it. You can either upload the picture from your smart phone or let your friends surprise you.
The display is wirelessly connected to the smartphone with Bluetooth 4.0 Low Energy technology. The phone can be set to images or text on the screen cup. The cup has developed a marketing agency TBWA. Paulig Cup developed by TBWA \ Pilot is a new innovation unit, which makes the brand of content and product and service innovations.
Beta Test Phase told to begin in August. The product is coming to stores early 2015.
Sources:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlAQld4kx3M
http://www.tietoviikko.fi/uutisia/paulig+esitteli+sahkopaperikupin++lataa+facebookpaivitykset+alymukiisi/a982997
http://news.tbwa.fi/post/82775825329/pauligin-uuden-kahvikuppi-innovaation-takana
http://www.paulig.fi/kampanja/muki/index.php
Watch video:
Paulig Muki
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlAQld4kx3M
Tomi Engdahl says:
Public sector ICT is not the savior but the expense
Rating agency, the rating will drop if structural reforms are not undertaken, the growth outlook remains bad and borrowing increases. Already has wondered at the Finnish public workers is insanely large proportion of the total labor force.
“Inefficiency in these arrangements is at its peak. Screams a large public sector ICT restructuring. At present, it is not the savior of the state economy, but as items of expenditure, ”
“We need to make structural reforms, but when they start to do all oppose. This is how it seems to be, ” says Minister Henna Virkkunen
Source: http://www.tietoviikko.fi/blogit/uutiskommentti/julkict+ei+ole+pelastaja+vaan+kuluera/a983423
Tomi Engdahl says:
Elisa: Consumers give up their fixed broadband connection
Elisa increased its operating profit last quarter, the shift in consumer mobile net surfing and closing fixed broadband subscriptions.
Telecom operator, says that mobile broadband is growing steadily. High-speed 4G connectivity already cover about 90 percent of the Finnish population. At the same time, fixed-line broadband subscriptions in Elisa is falling.
Mobile ARPU in January-March 15,80 Euros. For example, as recently as 2008, one subscriber brought into Elisa on more than 30 Euros.
Source: YLE
http://yle.fi/uutiset/elisa_kuluttajat_luopuvat_kiinteista_laajakaistaliittymistaan/7204228
Tomi Engdahl says:
Moves joins Facebook!
http://moves-app.com/press
Today, we’re delighted to announce that Facebook has acquired our company and the Moves app.
Moves is developed and run by ProtoGeo Oy. The company was founded in Jan 2012 in Helsinki, Finland, to develop a pioneering all-day activity diary for smartphones. Launched in Jan 2013, and called by Apple as ‘surprise hit’, Moves has been downloaded 4 million times to date for iPhone and Android phones.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Finland’s economic rise in the ecosystem
What kind of ecosystem do we have?
In Finland, we might be off the mark, when we think about what we should create an ecosystem.
The cornerstones of our ecosystem, just at the moment the recession hung over the
much more technically skilled, educated people without challenging work
very good university network
moderately developed companies, universities and research institutions,
good technical infrastructure
Weaknesses in the ecosystem are
underdeveloped venture capital funding market to which the rapid internationalization and growth can be funded when the opportunity arises
unsure of the direction of economic policy
expensive, and partly inefficient public sector, and this formed the cost burden through the employment of the high cost of
the employment of obstructing legislation, which does not encourage such businesses or retraining, or education, unemployment, strengthening the other hand,
Here are a few thoughts, which is connected to the already existing and some new.
Offered more training – priority to higher education without a job or a less challenging work for people using korkeakouluverkostoamme, companies and research institutions. Not the loss of unemployment benefits during the training period.
Let’s do a more comprehensive apprenticeship system, which also applies to already-qualified people in the profession as well as the highly educated, who would work in an apprenticeship to learn the skills in a new company or the profession that these new services, products, business models and internationalization require.
Also added to the doctrine of subsidized training. This lowers the threshold for companies to train “right-educated” people in new tasks.
Allow, in particular educated unemployed unemployment option to set up the company in such a way that the salary will be unemployment compensation.
Tekes share the moment the state money for projects that are believed to employment and the development of new business-supporting activity.
Source: http://www.tietoviikko.fi/cio/blogit/ict_standard_forum/suomen+taloudellisen+nousun+ekosysteemi/a984052
Tomi Engdahl says:
Facebook acquires health and fitness tracking app Moves
http://www.cnet.com/news/facebook-acquires-health-fitness-tracking-app-moves/
But the social network promises to keep Moves as a standalone app and not blend the data into its own service.
The news was revealed in a blog posted Thursday by ProtoGeo Oy, the company behind Moves. No details about the deal were revealed, simply that Facebook has acquired both the company and the app.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Facebook Acquires Maker of Fitness-Tracking App Moves
https://news.google.com/news/story?pz=1&cf=all&ned=us&hl=en&topic=tc&ncl=dSvTlgbTlJRg-CMJxdCD21_K0wjqM
Tomi Engdahl says:
Finland is the best country in the world again in this comparison
Finland is the world leader in network readiness for the World Economic Forum’s Global Information Technology Report .
The top three did not change from the previous year: followed by Singapore and Sweden.
Sub-area of Finland was considered ICT infrastructure first in the world and the network and impact of the second. IT environment, the assessment of Finland was third with a strong innovation culture contribution.
Sources:
http://www.tietoviikko.fi/kaikki_uutiset/suomi+on+taas+maailman+paras+maa+tassa+vertailussa/a984122
http://www.weforum.org/issues/global-information-technology
Tomi Engdahl says:
The city of Oulu is planning to use remote doctor services. Oulu is going to try them on Kiiminki wellness center the region since the beginning of September. Now the city to survey the market of the product providers and the quality and availability as well as price.
In practice, remote doctor service can help nurses to perform patient examinations and obtain medical advice from doctor at remote location. Nurses can for example send pictures for the doctors to analyze.
Source: http://www.tietoviikko.fi/kaikki_uutiset/oulussa+laakari+saattaa+kohta+tutkia+potilasta+verkon+valityksella/a984491
Tomi Engdahl says:
Some change is driven by the customer
Market Vision ‘s investigation that the community practices have become common in companies and organizations use.
A catalyst for change is the customer who requires to respond to the calls for Instagram , to be present on Facebook and Twitter , to share a virtual project work space documentation as well as providing installation and maintenance instructions in the video on a secure connection.
Half of the surveyed organizations use community-based ways to take advantage of the core business. However, only a quarter of the community is experiencing a natural part of business processes.
” It seems that the community was taken by self- use. Now, the process and the tool responsible are realizing that this too should be subject to a systematic development in some way , ”
Since the basic ideas of the community have the freedom to communicate, what I want and how I want to , it is hard to get caught up in the development of a concrete level . According to Korhonen, things just happen.
The challenge will rise again according to him, the flood of information management problems when the data burst on several channels , and there is no way to know which channel it is running the latest topic .
Many of the respondents nostaakin out of lack of knowledge and guidance , as well as the sensitivity to go try a new way of working.
” Community based approaches the true value can be found only when the communication will be real-time, two-way instead of the traditional document delivery ,”
The service provider is still an emerging field , and each will be searched to support themselves from nearby partner.
Organizations, community-based practices in utilizing activity varies greatly.
Source: http://summa.talentum.fi/article/tv/uusimmat/58118
Tomi Engdahl says:
Opening new evil in SSL encryption – the Finns found again
Finnish based information security and cloud services company developing SafetyLocked has discovered a serious vulnerability in the open source implementation of the encryption, which is commonly used in server and network systems.
Technically, the security hole is a wide range of C + + programming language, and embedded systems applications used by the poco library netssl encryption implementation.
Source: http://www.tietokone.fi/artikkeli/uutiset/uusi_paha_aukko_ssl_salauksessa_suomalaiset_loysivat_taas
Tomi Engdahl says:
Occupational health and safety alarmed IT sector – revealed significant deficiencies in
The Finnish ICT sector are significant gaps in time-records keeping and the organization of working time . This is the assessment health and safety authorities .
ICT in the field of working time accounts of the deficiencies found by Lievonen typical for areas where the working staff .
Source: http://www.tietoviikko.fi/kaikki_uutiset/tyosuojelu+huolestui+italasta++merkittavia+puutteita+paljastui/a985399
Tomi Engdahl says:
Market research company Vision strategy consulting leader Sam Cork believes that the contamination of the software as a service over the network to obtain the spreading very fast in the next couple years. The next few years the vast majority of software purchased as SaaS. Companies developing new software provided more than half of the pure cloud service providers for next year.
“The focus is no longer license delivery models, but the software is purchased more and more out of the cloud, or not at all,”
In Finland, the entire IT services market was worth last year to 3.2 billion euros. Market grew by about three per cent. Cloud services market totaled € 170 million. Growth in the previous year was around twenty per cent. About 75 percent of the market consisted of SaaS services.
“Growth is coming out of the cloud”
Source: http://www.tietoviikko.fi/kaikki_uutiset/quotostetaan+pilvesta+tai+ei+ollenkaanquot/a981052
Tomi Engdahl says:
What is the Finnish security company sold next?
Joensuu-based security company Blancco transferred to foreign ownership at the end of March: paid 60 million euros for knowledge on secure destruction of data stored on storage devices.
Finnish security industry cluster chairman Timo Kotilainen greeted by a trade with joy . He himself is a security industry veteran , who left Nixu the position of CEO after eight years in January.
“This means that we have good companies and knowledge that are of interest internationally ,” Kotilainen sees.
At the same time , he points out that it is a pity that no domestic capital, which would be able to compete in this sized companies. Blancco is the second major Finnish security company that has been sold abroad within a year. Stonesoft adopted last year as part of a U.S. McAfee Group.
Source: http://www.tietoviikko.fi/kaikki_uutiset/mika+suomalainen+turvafirma+myydaan+seuraavaksi/a981056
Tomi Engdahl says:
The software company Tekla’s business area of Tekla Infra & Energy has changed its brand to Trimble Energy & Public Administration.
Tekla became part of Trimble Navigation in July 2011.
Source: http://www.tietoviikko.fi/kaikki_uutiset/teklan+liiketoimintaalue+vaihtaa+brandia/a985783
Tomi Engdahl says:
Finland fell to the bottoms in economical growth
The Commission estimates that Finland’s GDP growth this year will be only 0.2 per cent. The forecast is the same as in February. Only three other euro countries, namely Italy, Greece and Slovenia’s growth is forecast by less than one percent .
Finland next year’s growth estimate , the Commission has dropped 1.3 per cent to 1.0 per cent . Again, this forecast is the second-weakest countries of the euro.
Finland’s growth will remain well below the euro area average. The Commission’s forecast currency area average growth this year is 1.2 per cent and 1.7 per cent next year.
According to the Commission , Finnish exports has already benefited from a recovery in the EU. Exports are expected to improve this year and next , despite weak domestic demand continues to slow down economy.
Unemployment rises in Finland this year to 8.5 per cent last year’s 8.2 per cent . Next year, however, the situation will improve growth gathers pace , and unemployment drops slightly to 8.4 percent.
Finland’s general government debt to GDP ratio , the Commission predicted to rise next year to 61.2 per cent this year to 59.9 percent . EU rules , the debt ratio should not exceed 60 per cent.
Source: http://www.taloussanomat.fi/kansantalous/2014/05/05/suomi-putosi-pohjille-taakse-jaa-vain-kypros/20146319/12