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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Designs revealed for Helsinki Guggenheim
http://www.gizmag.com/guggenheim-helsinki-design-competition-finalists-unveiled/35026/
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation’s 11-member jury announced its shortlisted designs for Helsinki’s proposed Guggenheim museum this morning.
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Internet of Things is working days, not a bunch of visions
Pöyry’s CEO Pasi Tolppanen looks at the technology industry CEO blog, industrial Internet and downloaded to the expectations of Finnish savior.
He wants to bring out the engineering point of view: industrial internet has long been the norm, and it develops step by step in all sectors.
“Engineers may be painful to see the industry in innovation to be treated as public figures: first, the Exalted from earth to heaven, and then pulled down the pedestals. Industrial activity is long-term and everyday. At times insights, most of the time they are carried out, “he writes on the blog.
Tolppanen raises two key issues that govern success in the future:
1. Solve real problems
We need to be very open to different ideas, to be able to test them as quickly as possible and to start implementing the best.
2. Keeping in mind the safety
No one knows how to secure all connected equipment. This requires the active preparation and anticipation of problems.
Although the speech on the Internet related to the industrial Tolppa- according to the hype, in his opinion, Finland can really rise if we can break through the limits of industrial sectors and security described in, for example, allows connections to more resource efficiency, energy, forestry, chemistry, software, and technology industry cooperation.
“We already have the technology and talent to new large entities”
Source: http://summa.talentum.fi/article/tv/uutiset/115276
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Now it became clear who is funded by the Finnish submarine cable project
Finland to Central Europe passing high-speed data network funding is now clear.
European connection, construction is expected to cost approximately EUR 100 million.
Cinia received a contract offer from Helsinki to northern Germany from the pull-sea cable from five international players. Among the submarine cable supplier and partner is now selected Alcatel-Lucent Submarine Networks.
Finland’s digital economy growth requires more communication capacity as well as faster and more alternative links to Central Europe.
“The construction of the submarine cable Finland’s rise to the data center investments are among the top”
Source: http://www.tivi.fi/kaikki_uutiset/nyt+selvisi+ketka+rahoittavat+suomen+merikaapelihanketta/a1033816
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Harvesting Energy for Medical Implants
http://www.medicaldesignbriefs.com/component/content/article/1104-mdb/news/21085
Scientists at the VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland have demonstrated a new technique for harvesting energy from mechanical vibrations of the environment and converting it into electricity. They explain that energy harvesters are needed, for example, in wireless self-powered sensors and medical implants, such as pacemakers, where they could ultimately replace batteries.
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More than 300 applicants to work in Yandex Mäntsälä, 18 received on the work
Some of the search engine company’s first 10-megawatt data center will be introduced yet in December.
Russian search engine Yandex company data center construction progress at Mäntsälä.
Up phase, the necessary staff began work for a couple of months ago. Yandex payroll Mäntsälä is now working with 18 people: suitable mix of IT, electrical, automation, refrigeration and logistics experts
At the moment, the staff will test and test systems as well as preparing for the h time.
When the first part of the data center will start operating at full capacity, Mäntsälän Electric start taking advantage of the waste heat. Machine hall with waste heat can be heated up to a thousand detached houses in Mäntsälä.
Yandex is the building of the opportunity to build Mäntsälän tontilleen a total of four 10 MW data center.
Source: http://summa.talentum.fi/article/tv/ict-hankkeet/115411
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HS: Patient information systems, the school grade of 6.5 – absorb half of the visit to the doctor of the time
Hospitals and health information systems are letting doctors. Helsingin Sanomat says 3500 Finnish doctor issuing the survey, the school mark for systems 6.5. (scale 4-10)
Medical Association, Aalto University and the Health and Welfare study focused on 12 of the most common system.
Systems is considered to be a cumbersome, slow and sometimes they do not work correctly. 20 minute visit to the doctor during the HS explains half of the time to go with information technology. E-recipe, ie the implementation of the electronic prescription were satisfied with only 39 percent of respondents.
Source: http://www.tivi.fi/kaikki_uutiset/hs+potilastietojarjestelmille+kouluarvosanaksi+65+ndash+imevat+puolet+laakarikaynnin+ajasta/a1034385
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Ten years of IT project requires patience: “Uptime is the change in attitude”
Kela’s Ark Project is a gigantic project, which aims to reduce the existing well over one hundred system with only a few basic system. The whole project duration of up to ten years.
Sheet responsible for the project, project manager, Marjukka Turunen says that in the long project motivation of employees play an important role. Turunen, the solution lies in discipline, subject to the practices that are developed and monitored.
“Changes in legislation but must be taken into account in projects and noted that the increase in the tasks and the schedule may change.”
Source: http://www.tivi.fi/kaikki_uutiset/kymmenen+vuoden+itprojekti+vaatii+karsivallisyytta+quotpaalla+on+muutoksen+asennequot/a1034229
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Billions of IT investments will only give negligible benefits in Finland
Sofigate has taken the municipalities of information management maturity analysis which seems to be a lot of improvement.
Municipalities, for example, used the money information management significantly less than in companies. Information management of municipal budget is only 0.7 to 2.1 per cent, while the best international companies invest in the development of 10 per cent of sales.
Despite this, in terms of euros municipalities spend annually on information technology and IT-projects of billions of euros, but the benefits are small.
The analysis, the overall architecture of the management of structural change in municipalities at a low level. This creates a risk of overlapping.
One problem is that information management is often not a natural part of everyday life sectors.
It was also found that IT projects do not achieve the desired benefits, because they are not sufficiently precise to define the planning stage.
The situation is not hopeless, and signs of improvement can be seen.
” If, before the municipalities have tried to force to work together, it is now waking up to the will of voluntary co-operation, when all the money is tight, ”
Source: http://www.tivi.fi/kaikki_uutiset/miljardien+itinvestoinneilla+saadaan+vain+mitattomia+hyotyja+suomessa/a1034466
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Finnish companies they use to pay cloud services, as Statistics Finland, a recent report .
51 percent of companies use paid cloud services. Large corporations have found the cloud faster than the smallest companies. 10-19 employees only 45 percent of companies use them, and with more than 100 companies as much as 63 per cent.
The statistics do not include free on-line. In smaller companies may be used free of charge to consumers within the meaning of services.
Public cloud spent 40 and a private cloud 14 percent of the respondents. Most private cloud used the IT and communications companies.
Source: http://www.tivi.fi/kaikki_uutiset/jo+joka+toinen+maksaa+pilvipalveluista/a1034510
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F-Secure decided yt: t: 30 get fired
Security company F-Secure has received the beginning of November started co-determination negotiations concluded. The negotiations resulted in the company terminates a total of 30 employees. Originally, the company had estimated decrease enough for up to 40 people.
The redundancies will take place in Finland from operator development team, and storage business, excluding the hosting team workers.
Cloud storage business deductions related to F-Secure’s old storage service run-down. The newer Younited service development will continue, but now the job done with fewer resources, Fredriksson explained. F-Secure will move to sell Younited more and more through the operators.
Source: http://www.tivi.fi/kaikki_uutiset/fsecure+paatti+ytt+30+saa+potkut/a1034912
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Sisu: How to Develop Mental Toughness in the Face of Adversity
http://jamesclear.com/sisu-mental-toughness
Sisu
Emilia Lahti, a PhD candidate at Aalto University in Helsinki and former student of Angela Duckworth at University of Pennsylvania, studies the concept of Sisu and how it applies to our lives. According to Lahti, “Sisu is the concept of taking action in the face of significant adversity or challenge. It is not so much about achievement as it is about facing your challenges with valor and determination.” She goes on to say, “Sisu provides the final empowering push, when we would otherwise hesitate to act.” [3]
In many ways, Sisu is similar to grit, which has been shown to be one of the best predictors of success in the real world.
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It-world method solves everyday problems in the work
As an aid, they were originally developed by Toyota, the car manufacturer Toyota Kata – the continuous development and systematic problem-solving and leadership model.
“The idea is that the solution always follows the same basic pattern, rather than a traditional Finnish jump to fire brigade philosophy directly to extinguish the fires,”
“Challenges can be overcome only by improving their own performance in the long term and permanent. The situation is the same as the top athlete preparing for the performance. Each performance is measured, and regular exercise will help to improve the result, ”
“Shortcut to happiness does not exist,”
“Model to teach the continuous improvement of the thread, which is formed on improving the way,”
“Kata means of regular training, which will be gradually improved. Kata makes exercise routine, routines and training goes beyond the self, ”
Nitor Delta also wants to challenge the IT sector companies Contributing welfare on behalf of Finland and Finnish companies to improve their competitiveness by improving problem-solving skills.
“Well-being, Finland has a little section in a similar death in the valley of the Toyota once. It is forced to change, to develop and learn new ways of doing things, “says Toivonen.
He says that Toyota transferred once a completely new kind of mentoring employees and created a company agile development innovations utilizing problem-solving culture. For it survived and became the industry leader.
“Quick Wins are rarely available in the business world at all, but to get to the top requires hard work and their own performance improvement,”
For example, an industrial company can according to him, to locate the processes of errors, and improve performance by making lures to prevent the routine, or by designing a process in place to prevent such errors in the previous.
“In programming, the corresponding practice is that whenever an error is found, adds a new, automatic test, so that kind of error situation never reoccur,”
Source: http://summa.talentum.fi/article/tv/uutiset/116510
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Yet another Finnish tablet: Eve T1 only 159 EUR
During the autumn, Finland has already launched two tablets, both of which have strong Nokia roots.
The first is funding developed a tablet, and the second is a Nokia N1 surprise.
Now is joining the ranks of smaller Finnish author Eve-Tech. A small growth company, has today made available ovam Eve T1 tablet. Competitive features of the device, despite the price is only 159 euros.
Eve T1 is based on the Windows 8.1 operating system. Its screen size is eight inches and a resolution 800 x 1280 pixels.
Source: http://www.tivi.fi/kaikki_uutiset/taas+uusi+suomitabletti+eve+t1+vain+159+euroa/a1034940
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Failure to increase the credibility of the leader
Many Finnish IT company dreams of a breakthrough in the US market. What are the keys of success are worth pursuing?
This advises the GAP internationalization drive yhdysvaltainen Professor Bob Foster UCLA Anderson -bisneskoulusta: Everything is based on a business idea. What’s more original it is, the better are the chances of success.
“If you have a business idea, stick to it. Do not analyze it to death. Please be realistic, your idea is probably not the most amazing thing in the world, “Foster guide.
The unusual idea alone is not enough, but also need skilled people: “When you set up a business, to surround yourself with Able employees and associates. Share ownership to them ”
“If I were an angel investor and chosen by the two investment object is more likely to be putting a technology company, a leader in a previous attempt failed, as the company to which the leader has just started as an entrepreneur. Failures to learn, “Foster estimates.
Source: http://summa.talentum.fi/article/tv/11-2014/108685
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EU innovation concentration at one site in Espoo
Otaniemi, Espoo establishment of a European innovation in the field of mineral concentration of business.
Other offices are located in Sweden, Belgium, Poland, France, Italy and Germany.
The merger is tackling information technology, transport, energy sector, as well as equipment and machines for the manufacture of the raw material needs.
- The Centre supports perfect for Finnish cleantech sector mineral industry and business in Finland
Source: http://www.ts.fi/uutiset/talous/710572/EUn+innovaatiokeskittyman+yksi+toimipaikka+Espooseen
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Kari Liuska from Espotel is estimated that Finland can be found in all the Internet of Things solutions based on the creation of the necessary know-how – thanks to Nokia’s also a radio technology and embedded systems expertise.
“All over the world the required expertise is not. Finland is yes possibilities here. All you need is the courage and capital, ”
Source: http://summa.talentum.fi/article/tv/uutiset/117381
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He raises one of the Internet of Things, for example, utilizes the start-up company Enevo, which has collected millions of private equity. The company develops technologies, which, for example, waste bins fill levels can be measured and sell this information to responsible for waste management.
Source: http://summa.talentum.fi/article/tv/uutiset/117381
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Rector tried programming: “Civics where many other”
Microsoft and the Young Entrepreneur Association organized #OpeCode was part of the international # HourOfCode campaign, which encourages all to try their wings in programming.
Keilaniemi Microsoft went to the house on Wednesday hard bustle, when a group of Finnish teachers came to baptize their toes in the waters of the encoding # OpeCode event.
The programming, is becoming a part of 2016, published in the new basic education core curriculum.
Microsoft and the Young Entrepreneur Association organized #OpeCode was part of the international # HourOfCode campaign, which encourages all to try their wings in programming. The week-long campaign goal is to get 100 million people for the first time the code lathe edge.
Spot #OpeCodessa were 13 teachers from different educational levels and different subjects. Each teacher had previously been paired with technology student, with whom the teachers discussed even before the possible application ideas.
During the day, 13 of the application
Couples had one working day time to prepare your application. End of the day took place in the sales talks with other teachers had to convince its own application need.
Young Entrepreneur Association Virpi Utriaisen of this year #opecode was only the beginning. “We are now looking model #OpeCodelle. We desire that as many teachers have the opportunity to try programming, “Utriainen says.
He points out that the vast majority of start-up companies are valued programming skills. And school children are the future of the workers and entrepreneurs.
Source: http://summa.talentum.fi/article/tv/uutiset/117863
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WWW: Finnish internet is the world’s freest
Finnish web may be the second best score in the World Wide Web Foundation’s annual report. In Finland is regarded as the world’s freest Internet and most transparent.
Source: http://www.digitoday.fi/yhteiskunta/2014/12/12/www-suomen-internet-on-maailman-vapain/201417129/66?rss=6
MEASURING THE WEB’S GLOBAL IMPACT
http://thewebindex.org/
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Nationally, dumbfounded telephone connections – “this time was not caused by the excavator”
Country-wide outage of Sonera’s mobile network due to system malfunction.
Timo Saxén Sonera’s communications Tiville says that the fault analysis is still far between. It is known that the problem was not due to cable failure, such as Elisa’s network problems about three weeks ago, when the excavator cut off the mains cable.
“It was not a hardware or cable fault,” Saxén says.
2G and 3G networks, the failure to mute the phone at ten o’clock in the morning after. Contacts began to gradually half after twelve.
The failure occurred, so that the customers of Sonera phone seemed to be online, but phone calls or text messages are gone.
4g wrong connections not shown, but they would also not pass calls.
Source: http://www.tivi.fi/kaikki_uutiset/valtakunnallisesti+mykistyneet+puhelinyhteydet+ndash++quottalla+kertaa+syyna+ei+ollut+kaivinkonequot/a1037122
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The European Union funded project to create Ecosia technical means of protection of critical infrastructure threat of cyber attacks to stop. Security Items such as the electricity grid, heat, water supply, waste water treatment and financial activities.
VTT has participated in the development of the project cyber alarm system prototype. Its mission is to, for example, to monitor and alert operators to the production network detected malware and launch cyber-attacks refers to only the data traffic.
Ecosia project started in June and ends in late May 2017. The project involves 19 partners from nine different countries. The project has a total budget of EUR 13 million.
Source: http://www.etn.fi/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2213:eurooppaan-kehitetaan-kybervaroitusjarjestelmaa&catid=13&Itemid=101
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Finnish Communications Regulatory Authority is investigating the break: infringed the Sonera safety?
Finnish Communications Regulatory Authority has requested clarification from Sonera mobile network nationwide failure Tuesday. The Agency shall examine the report on the basis of whether the operator failed to fulfill or comply with its obligations and guidelines should be changed, or to punish the company.
2G and 3G networks for started at ten o’clock in the morning and lasted about two hours. users Phones seemed to be online, but the messages and phone calls do not come. Also, emergency calls are not successful.
Source: http://www.tivi.fi/kaikki_uutiset/viestintavirasto+tutkii+verkkokatkoa+laiminloiko+sonera+turvallisuusmaarayksia/a1037847
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YLE: Guests States of spying in Finland, Sweden and Norway, mobile phones
YLE interview with the Security Police, according to Finland, it has been found to mobile phones against a government espionage, which is implemented using a fake base stations.
Related espionage cases in the past uncovered in Sweden and Norway.
Aftonposten followed by a spy base stations in Norway for a few months with the assistance of technology companies. According to the newspaper they can listen in on phone calls, collect the data from them and see who moves in the region. Coverage of the 12th of December in Norway launched a police investigation on the matter.
Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter reported this after finding mobile traffic espionage in center of Stockholm (administration blocks in the area).
Source: http://www.tivi.fi/kaikki_uutiset/yle+vieraat+valtiot+vakoilleet+suomessa+ruotsissa+ja+norjassa+matkapuhelimia/a1038072
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While Finland is the world’s most stable state
American Fund for Peace put the world’s countries ranked in the annual Failed States Index.
Comparison, searching for the world’s weakest and failed states. Finland is the 2014 listing of the last, ie the most stable and least failed – for the fourth time in a row.
Source: http://www.iltalehti.fi/ulkomaat/2014122718954663_ul.shtml
Tomi Engdahl says:
“Despite good buzz the right things are done only a little bit”
Source: http://www.tivi.fi/kaikki_uutiset/itsuomi+laittaa+toivonsa+uuteen+vuoteen+quothyvasta+pohinasta+huolimatta+oikeita+asioita+tehdaan+viela+vahanquot/a1039087
Tomi Engdahl says:
Nobody is diginative
Finland live in the belief that in the 1990s and 2000s, resulting know how to use information technology naturally. Internet and cell phones in the middle in increased they are diginatives for which all parents a difficult technique is easy.
The belief is wrong. Young people learn about it, and only it, which are dealing with. Instant messaging application WhatsApp use your smartphone learns the messages sent. Angry Birds learn by playing. But even the use of Excel or text editing are not all in the same way in front. Or sending files as e-mail attachments.
If IT is reflected in adolescents’ lives only in the role of entertainment, they learn yes entertainment technology, but not the skills to work and study is needed. They need to be taught and to teach, we have the school system, which not only have not yet woken up to this.
Finns IT skills were the EU average level of statistical agency Eurostat recent study.
Other Nordic countries will go far ahead.
Source: http://summa.talentum.fi/article/tv/12-2014/117446
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Finnish consumer purchased digital products Finnish VAT included – applications price is likely to rise
Online shopping for digital products prices could rise by year-end after the electronic services of value added tax changes in Europe.
So far, Finnish consumer has paid, for example, Apple’s application store products, 15 per cent of value added tax, because of Apple’s sales in Europe is handled via Luxembourg.
At the turn of the tax determined by the customer’s destination. In Finland, the electronic services of value added tax is generally 24 per cent.
For Finnish companies change may be beneficial, as in many European countries, VAT is lower than in Finland (in Germany the tax is 19 per cent).
There will be some administrative burden on companies. The taxman has built a special system that allows the Finnish company can deal with a domestic tax authorities.
Source: http://www.tivi.fi/uutisia/suomalaiskuluttajan+ostamat+digituotteet+suomen+alvn+piiriin++sovellusten+hinta+noussee/a1039203
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Three things that we should be satisfied with:
1. Finnish is still regarded as a safe country with a pure natural addition to pure communication networks and workstations, as well as provide a secure data centers of the soil in many ways.
2. The cyber criminals have not struck our bank or payment systems in the same way in Finland, especially compared to the United States! Sure, the news must regularly read a variety of accessories for both banking and payment machines are abused and scam campaigns for on-line banking user information, and other information point, but we have learned in this regard to work safely.
3. Mobile World staying fairly clean. Although the Android ecosystem, especially the rampant number of malware families, the mobile terminal has been able to maintain a moderately reliable.
Source: http://www.tivi.fi/blogit/turvasatama/tietoturvakatsaus+2014++huonolta+nayttaa/a1038564
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IS: State Police cheaper than software licenses
Ilta-Sanomat write state government IT costs compiled report by the Minister of Finance Antti Rinne (SDP) has been requested. Rinne comments on newspaper report stating that there is a lot more efficient.
For example, software usage fees shall be paid annually 750 million. For comparison, mentions that in the same time the police operation is rotated at lower prices, 730 million.
Even more money immersed in IT projects that attempt to promote, inter alia, electronic services. Similar projects are underway in various ministries.
There is a lot to do to make project more efficient, which do not suffer as much to other projects cashing firms.
Source: http://www.tivi.fi/kaikki_uutiset/is+poliisi+halvempi+valtiolle+kuin+ohjelmistolisenssit/a1040014
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This year, news headlines and it has been possible to read the banks’ operations hardship flood attack. At least the OP Bank and Nordea have told us that he had been a denial of service attacks on the subject. Furthermore, Danske Bank log-in had problems
So far, the attackers have not resulted in any damage which the bank managed to cause yourself.
Cyber security reason to talk about a lot. Electronic element is an integral part of our lives. Often, services are so integral to our lives that their role appears to be only when they do not work.
Successful cyber attack against the bank, causing serious problems. Companies, and especially financial institutions use a lot of resources and energy hedging, but the man-made systems audits and careful testing, despite always have the option slots. Without these services may be obtained by denial of service attacks are so clogged that the inhibition of the function, at least temporarily.
Cyber security point of view, a lot of talk about the attack, but the preparations for the problems have not seen big headlines. At least a temporary problem with the bank to a very simple preparing actions: a suitable amount of cash transactions also allows for a situation in which your bank card does not work as expected.
A small amount of cash at home to give a little leeway is also likely for the crisis: it works as a small reserve to meet unexpected expenses.
Source: http://www.tivi.fi/blogit/uutiskommentti/kybervarautuminen+on+kyberturvallisuutta/a1040288
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Finnish Communications Regulatory Authority: Tapped used fake base stations has not yet been found
The Office began an investigation in conjunction with telecommunications operators last month.
Finnish Communications Regulatory Authority has so far not detected espionage used fake base stations.
Fake stations identification is difficult, but possible. Agency kyberturvallisuuskeskuksen Director Kirsti Karlamaa notes that the cast base stations is difficult to detect. Finding them require extensive control, which can not be done continuously. Network scanning does not reveal everything, but it can be found in the difference could be due to, for example, the text of the base stations. Network scanning emerging deviations may be due to the test base stations
Sources:
http://www.tivi.fi/kaikki_uutiset/yle+valetukiasemia+ei+loydetty+suomesta/a1040934
http://yle.fi/uutiset/viestintavirasto_salakuunteluun_kaytettavia_valetukiasemia_ei_ole_toistaiseksi_havaittu/7726986
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Tieto YT-Bomb: up to 500 out of Finland
The year 2015 did not have time to grow old long before the information announced in the first employer-employee negotiations.
Now, the start of negotiations affect not more than 500 people in Finland and a maximum of 340 persons in other countries, above all in Sweden and the Czech Republic.
he planned staff reductions affect Continuing services- and Consulting and Integration Services service area
Source: http://www.tivi.fi/kaikki_uutiset/tiedolta+ytpommi+jopa+500+ulos+suomesta/a1041689
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Nokia sells 20,000 N1 tablets in four minutes
http://www.goodnewsfinland.com/archive/news/nokia-sells-20-000-n1-tablets-in-four-minutes/
Nokia’s N1 tablet appears to have got off to a strong start in China, racking up sales of 20,000 units in four minutes and two seconds.
The N1 went on sale in China on January 8 through local partners, which are selling the device for 1599 renminbi (217 euros).
Nokia announced the sales figures on Chinese social network Weibo. According to the post, 566,438 other buyers are lining up to purchase an N1 tablet.
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Do not external – at least in e-commerce
Right kind of resources for the development of e-commerce. He stresses that knowledge is constructed so that it is not in the hands of consultants, but they themselves in their own house.
“As I have discussed, for example, British or Dutch online merchants, all of them have told us that they have the hackers, inside the house. It is, after according to them, the entire core business, “Malinen says.
In his opinion, the fact that your house is how to code, hard analytics knowledge, as well as the psychology of understanding, lies in the staggering force. And, in his opinion, it should be strictly in-house
Certain types of companies are growing more and more of its own e-commerce expertise and buying in fewer consultants.
“The fact that, in principle, be outsourced all, is not always a smart thing. You may be better to help in other ways, ”
What is needed is a multi-skilled
“Through the testing found really matters affecting sales, and focused on making it. In business, analytics and IT side will be very close to each other. There are also such wonders, that they are in the same package, ”
This is going to be difficult to place in the labor market, the need to find a really good analysts with sufficient technical skills.
“Mathematicians and statisticians can be found. A big gap arises when they should be in the digital competence. And that is also generated when the coder should understood statistical science. Math and economy people often lack network development layer ”
In analytics there is already seen a shortage of labor.
“Finland’s small labor market, such a talent is not terribly easy to find,”
Source: http://summa.talentum.fi/article/tv/12-2014/124314
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For Finland to attract new investment and new businesses we need excellence, competitive operating environment and concrete results.
At the same time, the existing research money to decrease. It makes innovation more difficult.
Finland is still in the public R & D funding in terms of the world’s top nations, but at the same time be divided into the cake is reduced.
In 2013, Finland invested in research and product development 6.68 billion euros. Of particular concern is the fact that corporate investments in melted at 148 million euros. Electronics companies accounted for well over a hundred million.
Last year, R & D investment was 6.38 billion or EUR 300 million less than last year. We now show that Tekes’ powers are not, at least not growing and incorporated VTT Ltd not gaining any huge amount of additional funding.
VTT Leppävuori pointed out that money is not the only measure. – More important is to do the right things. When the future industrial internet to produce massive amounts of data can be stable in Finland as a country rise to this significant role.
Source: http://www.etn.fi/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2281:tutkimukseen-yha-vahemman-rahaa&catid=13&Itemid=101
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Tomi Engdahl says:
Finnish invention revealed the murderer
Sports Tracker tracking information were the key evidence in a murder story in the United States.
The police found that the phone’s memory found in Sports Tracker application training file with a timestamp matched with the spirit of the crime at the time. Incredibly, the girl’s Sports Tracker application had been on the whole the murder of the event, and for a long time after that.
The problem was that the FBI, the authorities did not know how to extract appliques encryption, and are thus able to interpret the data deposited by the application. So after a few weeks of trying too authorities made letters rogatory Finnish police through the Sports Tracker for last September.
- Our specialists received the “decrypted” file in five minutes, says Sports Tracking Technologies Ltd’s CEO and founder Jussi Kaasinen.
At this point, the Finnish firm did not know what kind of a case related to the request, and the FBI refused to investigative reasons explain the case in detail. When the firm was demolished application information and placed the phone’s movements on the map, the reality was the first Google search result very obvious.
- Senseless thing. It is seen that each of us in your pocket every day passing technology enables all kinds, sometimes very unexpected way, Kaasinen says.
Source: http://www.iltalehti.fi/uutiset/2015011519026746_uu.shtml
Tomi Engdahl says:
Finland is the leading country in the number of mobile subscriptions in proportion to the number of inhabitants. This phenomenon is not explained by Nokia or Finnish teknologiauskollisuudella the rest of Europe, but the domestic deviating contractual practices. – almost two mobile connections per person
The Finns have acquired the most mobile subscriptions throughout the European per capita basis. Finnish Communications Regulatory Authority statistics, Finland is almost two mobile phone subscriptions per person, or 170 mobile subscriptions per 100 inhabitants. In the middle of 2014, Finland had gained about 9, 37 million mobile subscribers.
Not all connections are clean mobile phone subscriptions, but also calculated according to data connections, for example, tablets, or computers.
The number has a per capita basis the highest in Europe, even if other parts of the European continent, the number of subscriptions is many times greater.
Compared to France, for example, the number is significant. GSMA Intelligence data, for example, in 2013, France had 63.6 million mobile subscribers. The amount does not even cover all of the French population (64.5 inhabitants).
Communications Agency, it is believed that one reason for the phenomenon is due to the fact that the data very rapidly became widely used in Finland in the 2000s.
- Data Usage is brought to overlapping subscriptions. The reason for this is that Finland started in 2007 at the end of the year to sell the current, such as mobile broadband. They have been unlimited and operating costs have been very predictable.
Subscriptions are also explained by the fact that one person may have a different telephone connection at work and at home.
- This is a European scale, exceptional.
Finland subscription market are saturated and subscription growth has slowed down considerably in recent years. Therefore, the Communications Regulatory Authority estimated that ten million subscriber mark does not necessarily go out, even if the transfer is constantly increasing in Finland.
- The objective in the EU is that in Europe, these connection fees could be more affordable in the same way as we do in Finland, Orkola says.
Source: http://yle.fi/uutiset/suomi_mobiililisuosiossa_euroopan_ykkonen__lahes_kaksi_liittymaa_henkilolla/7693487
Tomi Engdahl says:
VTT established cyber laboratory
VTT to improve Finnish companies and organizations to be prepared to meet the growing cyber threats. VTT has set up a newly particularly Cyber War Room Laboratory, where cyber security testing can be done in a controlled manner, reliably and confidentially.
Cyber War Room example, to use fully all the rest of the data traffic mini-internet isolated environment in which the tested hardware or software to be made manageable and realistic enough to launch cyber-attacks. Since the laboratory is fully insulated, there can be utilized in a broad attack on the palette and test the different systems advocacy.
Cyber War Room succeed, for example, the systems aim to take possession of the attacks, the toolbox is based on the typical hacker attacks and botnet attacks. Effective monitoring of attacks and a snapshot of the development of tools is also an important role in Cyber War Room.
VTT cyber security team is the largest independent Finnish research in the field, the offensive and defensive skills to develop and deepen strategically.
Source: http://www.etn.fi/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2319:vtt-perusti-kyberlaboratorion&catid=13&Itemid=101
Tomi Engdahl says:
The Finns developed the Microsoft smart glasses – “HoloLens is a wonderful”
Microsoft introduced last week a new Windows 10 operating system. At the same time in the limelight in the company’s new HoloLens technology, which received an exceptionally enthusiastic response from the press.
“HoloLens is marvelous,” enthused, for example, the New York Times reporter.
The Finnish perspective, the most interesting thing is that these glasses found behind the domestic skills. The glass optical design lead at Microsoft Pasi Saarikko . Linkedin profiles according to Saarikko is leading the designer, whose responsibility is just HoloLens project.
According to Microsoft, many of the company’s engineers all over the world cooperate HoloLens-development.
“This moment is very inspiring tiimeillemme globally as guaranteed here in Finland. Microsoft will tell you more about the details of HoloLens project in the coming months,” the company communicated.
Source: http://www.talouselama.fi/uutiset/suomalaiset+kehittivat+microsoftille+alylasit++hololens+on+ihmeellinen/a2289077?b=u_tivi
Tomi Engdahl says:
The weak economic situation will cut development projects with heavy-handed. Often, only the additional sales and customer encounters and projects aimed at can move. They, too, are under the magnifying glass, and failures can not afford. So how do we make sure that Internet shop project succeed?
E-commerce development is a journey – not a project.
We interviewed the fall of 2014 about one hundred domestic corporate decision-makers in their own e-commerce development needs. The responses clearly shows that the development of e-commerce waves reflect well on the organization’s online business maturity that the network channel with the increasing significance.
Developing Wave 1: Prove that this is a business opportunity
When an organization is planning the first online store, an essential sight is a sales and ordering process optimization and automation where possible, also.
Throughout the development wave of business basis, of:
• Cost savings,
• order-to-delivery process efficiency,
• accuracy and
• transparency.
Developing Wave 2: Passive subscription channel to proactive sales engine
E-commerce to the actual potential is expected only after the first development phase is successful.
Our study showed that the development needs of the doubled compared to the first phase of the requirements.
Unmatched spearhead requirement is the second wave of real-time and high-quality product information.
Online, the present range of products designed to provide customers exactly the same as the company’s entire product range. All products must be displayed to the network, even if the products would not be able to order through the network. Otherwise, you teach your clients to buy elsewhere.
Companies want to understand:
• how customers behave,
• where customers go and
• how they end up buying products.
Developing Wave 3: Your customer is more important than your organization
The third wave of development as a key theme of the customer’s terms of action.
Coordination of the various technologies is becoming increasingly important. The customer must be able to use the service they prefer mobile device. On the other hand the client can not bounce a number of different systems. All transactions and information channels you want to merge into the Dealing whole.
Source: http://www.talouselama.fi/kumppaniblogit/nain+navigoit+perille+verkkokaupan+kehitysaallokossa/a2288492
Tomi Engdahl says:
The rugged result of Finnish IT bosses and consultants: only 1 per cent of the required know-how
Finnish ICT expertise in Europe will in the legs, indicating a recent European Commission report .
European ICT sector workers, only 23 percent had the necessary skills to work. In Finland, the situation was slightly worse, as 22 per cent had the necessary expertise to their work.
Finland did not remain in all areas of the other legs. Digital media professionals were among the top European level.
Finnish ICT consultants and CIOs on the other hand do not shine out: Among them, only affliction per cent of the work necessary skills
“It should be noted that the study is mainly based on self-assessment, so the Finnish IT professionals innate modesty may have affected the results,”
The problem is that the labor force skills and the needs of employers do not meet. Your employees need retraining.
The report predicts that Europe may be up to 900 000 vacant jobs in the ICT sector in 2020.
Source: http://www.tivi.fi/kaikki_uutiset/karu+tulos+suomalaisista+itpomoista+ja+konsulteista+vain+1+prosentilla+tarvittava+osaaminen/a1045476
CEPIS e-Competence Benchmark 2014
http://tivia.fi/julkaisut/tutkimukset/professional-e-competence-in-europe
Tomi Engdahl says:
Finnish companies do not survive the big data
Although the majority of companies will promote big data project, 49 percent of respondents in Nordic countries, says that their company data center infrastructure is not ready to handle the new data volume and complexity. The reading of Finnish companies was as high as 63 per cent.
You can see this SAS Institute, in December, the survey, which asked about the 300 largest companies in the big plans of the data. The survey found that 80 percent of large companies on key personnel can see that companies need to collect and analyze data is increasing.
As many as 92 percent of survey respondents believe that their companies a competitive advantage in the future may be a new type of data collection and analytics. SAS Institute, this shows that Nordic companies have internalized the importance of big data and understand the impact of better data collection and analytics can be a company’s productivity and competitiveness.
Two-thirds of companies plan to upgrade or buy a new data collection infrastructure that supports. The survey shows that companies However, there is uncertainty about the right technology choices and how to get started with making new investments.
As many as 95 percent of the respondents of the Finnish companies will tell you that they have a growing need for analytics.
Gartner recently estimated that half of the world’s knowledge will be within five years of record Hadoop technology. Currently, about 15 per cent of Finnish respondents reported using or being introduced to establish a Hadoop technology.
Hadoop technology was launched as an open source tend to store, organize and analyze large amounts of data.
Source: http://www.etn.fi/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2346:suomalaisyritykset-eivat-selvia-big-datasta&catid=13&Itemid=101
Tomi Engdahl says:
Not like this: public authorities retain the information illegally
The authorities are not allowed to store the data at random. The Personal Data Act requires that the controller presence of any person in the registry is destroyed, unless the data stored has been specified for storage or if the register is transferred to the archives.
The National Archives and the Supervisor Office survey conducted by the organizations that responded half had not cleaned out any data from information systems.
The majority of organizations has not applied for archival institution’s decision as to which information is so valuable that they should be retained permanently. The survey also showed that organizations do not comply with electronic data records management plans defined retention periods.
Personal Data Act, in addition to a breach of the Archives Act. It requires organizations to maintain records schedule, which defines the tasks related to document retention periods and methods.
The majority of the respondents after all, information systems and register descriptions were up to date.
Source: http://www.tivi.fi/kaikki_uutiset/ei+nain+viranomaiset+sailyttavat+tietojasi+laittomasti/a1045770
Tomi Engdahl says:
Danish Secunia publishes regular reports from different countries PC users in the contents of the machine. Finnish Microwave in good is that information security is at the same level as elsewhere. The bad is that the security is really in a bad way.
On average, the Finnish PC user has on their computer 70 programs, of which 41 per cent comes from Microsoft. 7.9 percent of users websurf with machine, and the operating system is not made to critical security updates.
Micros-threatening hazards, almost half, or 48 per cent is due to Microsoft’s programs. Fortunately, users of Microsoft places these holes one mechanism (Windows Update) through.
The bigger problem for the basic user are the 20 to 30 third-party programs, in which the patch is likely to take on their own, the other is different from the process. As a result, nearly half, or 45 percent of the users of java is running in your machine old with holes in it.
Cyber criminals know that the end-users experience programs and even operating systems, updating difficult. As a result, a large part of the machinery is relatively easy to capture the wrong use.
Source: http://www.etn.fi/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2349:raportti-antaa-synkan-kuvan-suomalaisesta-pc-kayttajasta&catid=13&Itemid=101
Secunia PSI Country Report – Q4 2014: Finland
http://secunia.com/?action=fetch&filename=PSI-Country-Report-%28FI%29-%282014Q4%29.pdf
Tomi Engdahl says:
Lover, who listens to – the Finns created smart sex toy
Finnish start-up company Studio48 Ltd has introduced the latest technology sex toys
The company created by the Nibble is a modern digital technology, the vibrator, which, among other things, obeys voice commands and pulsating music.
- Finally found a partner who understands you.
It’s advertised features include voice control and wireless music playback, in addition to 10 different vibration program, fingertip control and a USB charger.
Source: http://www.iltalehti.fi/digi/2015012719096625_du.shtml
Tomi Engdahl says:
TNS Gallup survey found that about 40% of Finnish people do not want to pay for content online.
Music is, after all the contents of the greatest willingness to pay-inspiring – as much as 23% of respondents would pay for online music services – the service should be able to use at a few euros a year price.
IFPI’s (Music Producers’ Association) statistics, for example, in 2012 recorded the retail value of sales as a whole was 67.9 million. For one of Finn, therefore, a little over 12 euros.
Music sales peak year in Finland was 2001, when the music was sold up to about 113 million!
(= one full-priced disc for every five million Finn).
One reason for the music sales decrease in the amounts shown in hardened competition in the consumer entertainment budget.
Movie popularity has at least been steadily on the rise. In 2006, Finnish-movie were 1.16 times a year – in 2011 it was 1.4
What about the turn games? Finnish people in 2013 spent money on games in Finland as high as 186 million. Physical products were sold in only 40% of the games, the rest were acquired by paying online content.
The music industry is therefore never in Finland is not the actual Eldorado. As well as movie and game are certainly eroded part of the pot, but the game industry has also shown potential for growth in terms of euros to be considerable.
Source: http://www.tivi.fi/blogit/2015-02-02/Shokkipaljastus-Mihin-katosivat-artistien-rahat-3215008.html
Tomi Engdahl says:
Economic Nobel laureate warns Finnish: “Completely irresponsible”
One of the world’s best-known economists, the American economy, the Nobel laureate and professor of economics Paul Krugman is concerned about the situation in Finland. In his opinion Jyrki Katainen (Nat.), The government has made a lot of mistakes.
- Finland has worked really hard on tightening policy, without any pressure on the market. Politicians have been really irresponsible, Krugman said the new Finland in Stockholm today.
- Do whatever, but do not, at least not tighten more. Do not make the situation worse, he continues.
Krugman, Finland’s worst headache right now is Nokia.
- All of Finland’s problems are rooted in one large operator, which has dominated the economy. By this I mean the operator of Nokia. It has not done very well and [change] has caused a large part of the Finnish problems.
Krugman’s view, the situation would be easier if Finland would not be involved in the euro area. Finland is the Nordic region unique among economic, because the country is unlike the other Nordic countries with the euro.
Finland is a very small and very regional economy.
Source: http://www.uusisuomi.fi/raha/65531-talouden-nobelisti-varoittaa-suomea-taysin-vastuutonta
Tomi Engdahl says:
Finland has a secret weapon – the law changes can ruin everything
Foreign investment in the central server can be imported to Finland for up to 50 000 person-years and 11 billion total economic impact within ten years, estimated research firm Oxford Research report published on Monday, which was handed over to Prime Minister Alexander Stubb and Foreign Trade Lenita Toivakka.
According to the report, Finland is well positioned to snatch himself a significant part of Europe tasks of data center investments. Europe, we are investing an estimated 60 new data center in 2020.
On a world scale data center investments moving EUR 110 billion in order of magnitude.
Finland’s strengths in data centers are attracting good energy infrastructure, developable land, a good network connections, the cool climate and safe environment. In addition, the data center builders attracts the Finnish legislation
Source: http://www.tivi.fi/Kaikki_uutiset/2015-02-03/Suomella-on-salainen-ase—lakimuutokset-voivat-pilata-kaiken-3215088.html
Tomi Engdahl says:
Finland challenge the United States?
In many species a small country can successfully challenge bigger. The right tactics, team work, as well as the realization have been so in ice hockey, in war and in the business world challenger trump cards, if any, could be used. Can Finland challenge the world’s economic and military power in conjunction with a hot issue in today’s security – cyber security? Let’s find out a ten-point comparison.
The strategic importance of cyber security awareness and importance of Presidents of the speeches, the score tied.
Resources do not solve everything, but they are needed.
Although the allocation of resources relate to the Finnish economy, is a social economic investment in cyber security development in Finland remained at very low levels, in spite of the many speeches. -> USA wins
The central part of the cyber society is clear and up to date legislation. Both the United States and Finland in terms of cyber laws lived for many years in a sort of “intermediate state” – both loose
Trust and security go hand in hand, including cyber security. If there is no trust, there is no security, and vice versa.
Confidence, however, point to Finland.
Cyber security is linked to the state digitalisation rate, ie how dependent (and thus vulnerable) society is the digital world activities.
Digitality rate both in Finland and in the United States and globally estimated high, but the social ability to tolerate both mentally and physically different cyber enviroment disruptions to give a point to Finland
Both countries are currently working hard to ensure that the country would be the world’s leading cyber-States.
Finland has a long tradition in the overall safety of the coordination and practical application. This allows for a smaller country to Finland in better agility and a better awareness of each other’s players
All activities, including cyber, needs leadership.
White House cyber coordinator acts as a government “Cyber Czar”. Point to the United States.
Even the United States can not build a strong cyber his country at national level. International co-operation is needed.
Relative to its size, Finland does not have to be ashamed of networking, although international cooperation networks must be able to create better. Scores for both.
Cyber security weakest – or the strongest – link is a man. Cyber security is a must in today’s societies, basic hygiene and civics.
The most serious cyber threats in the United States than in Finland is the people’s ignorance and lack of understanding. In my experience, I venture to say that the general level of know-how to act safely online, there is a higher, and the point of Finland.
The wide-ranging expertise, encryption tools, cyber security strategic consensus in both countries in proportion to its size, world class. It is the exploitation of knowledge as well as cyber-business promotion strength. In Finland, excellence is relatively more, but the weakness is our know-how, including parity solutions, pushing the world. Risk-taking ability and marketing are the latest expertise in the international success of a barrier. Competence point of Finland, the business promotion point to the United States.
Finland has all the prerequisites to be a world leader in cyber security. Comparison with the United States shows that the difficulties as opportunities are parallel to the two digitally networked and knowledge-based high-level country.
Source: http://blogit.iltalehti.fi/jarno-limnell/2015/02/03/suomi-haastaa-yhdysvallat/?ref=tp