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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“IT projects, misrepresented and escape responsibility”
Silmät auki IT-etiikkaan (Eyes open IT ethics) book to raise in the IT industry ethical challenges. It was submitted Tivia (information and communications technology professionals Association) and the Parliamentary Committee for the Future
One of the authors has Reino Myllymäki, who has 20 years of experience in the management of information management. In his opinion the project in the world of non-ethical practices, including the purposeful misrepresentation, unsustainable koplauksia, partial optimization and cop.
“information system projects should not handle it-but as matters of organizational development issues.” Then they looked on with the same seriousness as the future performance of the economy and the attitude of the organization.
Source: http://www.tivi.fi/Kaikki_uutiset/2015-05-28/%E2%80%9DIt-projekteissa-v%C3%A4%C3%A4ristell%C3%A4%C3%A4n-ja-pakoillaan-vastuuta%E2%80%9D-3321253.html
Book pdf-version can be downloaded from Parliament’s website.
https://www.eduskunta.fi/FI/tietoaeduskunnasta/julkaisut/Documents/tuvj_12+2014.pdf
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Europe remained the nearby paying off the train – the cause of premature progressiveness
The Nordic countries and the rest of Europe have been left behind on the contactless or proximity payments. The reason that sounds strange: “Here was updated a few years ago based on the size of the chip and pin code payment infrastructure. It was very expensive, and an investment payback period is long,”
Europe were not met to ponder, why should once again make a big investment in new technology, the benefits of which receivables are limited.
“The chip and pin code are based on the technology works very, very well,”
The United States, which is not in use chip and PIN technology, the situation is quite different.
Not to mention Europe have been inactive. Rasmussen estimates that five years after the contactless payment infrastructure is operational across Europe. According to him, in 2017, each new payment terminal is an antenna system that can be used to make local payments and by the end of 2019, each terminal accepts contactless payment cards in Europe or in the nearby mobile payment.
Source: http://summa.talentum.fi/article/tv/uutiset/eurooppa-jai-lahimaksamisen-junasta-syyna-liian-aikainen-edistyksellisyys/165220
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Tampere OptoFidelity is one of today’s hottest Finnish success stories. Focused testing and machine vision solutions for touch screen devices the company grew in the first half incomprehensible pace of 244 per cent. President and CEO Pertti Aimonen praises profusely in Tampere mobile technology cluster, which has over the years emerged around Nokia.
OptoFidelity Human Simulator technology-platform-based solutions are used globally the world’s major operators, chipset and mobile phone manufacturers and auto industry giants in product development, production and quality assurance. The company’s customers and partners include National Instruments, Symbio, PKC Group as well as numerous mobile phone manufacturers and the slider.
Source: http://etn.fi/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2903:optofidelity-kasvaa-hurjaa-vauhtia&catid=13&Itemid=101
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Juniors is found, the experienced IT experts do not
Descom has hired this year for 30 new employees. Code base recruitment complicated by the fact that the company is recognized software vendor, says CEO Juha Harju.
“Juniors is easy to get to work, experienced professionals can not,” says Juha Harju CEO.
According to him, the hardest thing was to find the factors of online marketing, analytics, and software development activities.
“We would need, for example, customer analytics for experts, but they are not targeted training in Finland,”
“We have been working hard to ensure that we would be known as the java programming house”
The company is currently in places open to the usability, user interface design, and data integration for experts as well as technical project managers.
Retail dropped, services draw business
Source: http://summa.talentum.fi/article/tv/uutiset/junioreita-loytyy-kokeneita-it-osaajia-ei/165701
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Open source is gaining momentum in Finnish libraries
Library system libraries in the Oulu region is selected based on the open source Koha. Use is expected to be this year.
Koha was originally developed in New Zealand in 2000, the library system. It is expected to enable agile development methods as well as the use of open data and knowledge sharing libraries.
Koha has been in use for over a thousand libraries around the world. In Finland, it was the first to Joensuu Regional in June 2014. In many other Finnish library is also preparing to enter the Koha user.
Source: http://www.tivi.fi/Kaikki_uutiset/2015-05-29/Avoin-koodi-valtaa-alaa-Suomen-kirjastoissa-3321382.html
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Nobel Prize-winning economist Krugman: Finland’s problem is the euro, not debt
Debt is not a problem of Finland, but the common currency, the euro, writes well-known economist Paul Krugman in his blog.
Krugman, the single currency is the “straitjacket” that prevents the restoration of Finland’s competitiveness devaluation.
The award-winning Nobel Krugman points out that the deterioration in the external value of the markka helped the Finnish up in the early 1990s recession.
he economist wanted to emphasize how poorly the Finnish economy has done well. Finland suffers, even though the country is not over-indebted, and maintaining a good credit rating.
Krugman, the euro cause difficulties even outside the actual problem countries – even in economic policy should not be made on the basis of official indicators do anything wrong.
On Friday, Krugman noted that internal problems related to Finnish forest industry and Nokia’s difficulties, which have weakened productivity. For this reason, Finland, unit labor costs have risen. Because Finland has no longer has its own currency, the only way to restore competitiveness remains an internal devaluation, ie in practice, the reduction of wages.
Krugman consider to be exposed to Finland a typical asymmetric shock: at the same time part of the euro countries will go a lot better.
Krugman predicts that the euro will lead to crises in the future
Source: http://www.hs.fi/talous/a1433126226364
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HS: This basic information society skill makes a comeback in schools
Typing System of Education makes comeback in schools in 2016, coming into force in accordance with the curriculum, the HS to write.
Teaching is a need, as the President of the Association for class Matti Sippola by a student tapped the machine with just a few finger.
The ten-finger system could save over 60-year career up to six years. The time saved in addition to the faster pace of the writing can facilitate thinking, when writing happens automatically, says teachers.
Source: http://www.tivi.fi/Kaikki_uutiset/2015-06-03/HS-T%C3%A4m%C3%A4-tietoyhteiskunnan-perustaito-tekee-paluun-kouluihin-3322195.html
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Digitalisation taken into account in an excellent way in savings list
Digitalization is a key role in public savings in Alko shops but also in terms of Finnish competitiveness. Has been adequately position the promotion of the government program?
“Things have been recognized as a prime”, University of Jyväskylä, Faculty of Information Technology dean Pekka Neittaanmäki says.
He raises the target set by the Government Programme 2025: Finland is where taken productivity leap in public services and the private sector grabbing the opportunities as well as digitalisation dismantling unnecessary regulation and red tape.
“The program also requires that by 2025 public decision-making is made possible and created an innovative way to Finland for digital services and the Internet in industrial applications, as well as a favorable business environment for new business models,” says Neittaanmäki.
Government Programme, public services built on user-driven and primarily digital practice changing. Then the necessary budgetary point of view of productivity leap to his view of success.
“This means that the creation of the digitization of principles for all public services. In addition, the processes within the administration digitized and former processes are broken down, “Neittaanmäki says.
“Yes, the public administration IT costs are known, and they are declining. The state is going to a number of projects which will reduce costs. If society activities can be achieved cost savings, IT costs can add up. ”
Examples of such projects Neittaanmäki raise the digital school, and planned Sote solutions.
Source: http://www.tivi.fi/Kaikki_uutiset/2015-06-03/S%C3%A4%C3%A4st%C3%B6listan-laatija-digitalisaatio-huomioitu-erinomaisesti-3322238.html
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Elisa believes in programmable cloud networks
Elisa’s Chief Technology Officer Kalle Lehtinen says, that after five years the operator’s existing networks are significantly more flexible and effective. The reason is all over the world started development, will dispose of operators, network and IT infrastructure boundaries by doing everything for programming and virtual.
“The industry is going to a big breakthrough,” Lehtinen says.
Elisa has long studied the dawning of leading technologies. A turning point, for example, joined Monday’s announcement, Nokia Networks, which the company enters the operators of data centers.
Key concepts Elisa and the other operator business with operators in the future sdn and NFV. They are formed from the English words to acronyms, which sdn means of programmable networks and NFV functionalities network virtualization. These technologies are often linked tightly to each other.
“Sdn together and NFV has a key promise that the services can be implemented more efficiently and more flexibly, for example, in a given situation to ensure sufficient capacity for the customer,”
Nowadays, required a lot of pre-planning and manual work capacity to provide a timely manner. The fixed capacity also must be dimensioned according to peak traffic, so most of the time there is lots of unused resources.
“The new solutions will help to use investments more effectively.”
Sdn-NFV-a combination of the big advantage is the possibility to run in the same data center networks so as numerous services to clients.
“It aims that goes on generic hardware and same-infrastructure can take advantage of several needs.”
Elisa Production unit already having close feel of programmability and virtualization.
“We are currently building their own skills SDN and NFV’s point of view, and going on a variety of pilot projects.”
Elisa could in principle already applied to some of the latest fruits of programmability and virtualization. For example, the SMS services are already implemented in the data center-Infra, virtualization, and the change would not be very big.
“Broadly speaking, the solutions are not yet mature enough, even if found in areas in which to move and import of all types of services,” says Lehtinen.
However, he estimates that the development is brisk, and that the missing features will rapidly be made available.
“About five years after the SDN and NFV solutions have everyday life.”
One of the most attractive direction is to provide data center services to businesses.
Source: http://www.tivi.fi/Kaikki_uutiset/2015-06-04/Elisa-uskoo-ohjelmoitaviin-pilviverkkoihin-3322375.html
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VTT Technical Research Centre Ltd has emerged as the best player in Finland, and the fifth among the European research and technology organizations. The results are reflected in the “European Research Ranking” list, based on the EU Commission’s CORDIS database.
The criteria for evaluation were the organization’s performance in projects and in obtaining EU funding, the diversity of research areas, networking, cooperation and the quality and quantity of alliances. The report was included in the EU participated in the Seventh Framework Programme for Research actors
Source: http://etn.fi/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2927:vtt-rankattiin-euroopan-karkipaahan&catid=13&Itemid=101
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F-Secure and Nixu become competitors
Finnish security companies F-Secure and Nixu become significant competitors. F-Secure announced this week the acquisition of the Danish specialized cyber security services nSense Ltd, which has a significant operation in Finland.
So far, F-Secure has focused on providing information security products and Nixu cyber security services. In the future, F-Secure provides after acquisition, some of the same services as Nixu.
“Of course, competition is intensifying our point of view. I do not in themselves do not believe that life is changing rapidly, ”
In data security, cross product and service providers are becoming blurred. However, Nixu intends to remain strictly self-service building, which relies on technologies with its partners.
Source: http://www.tivi.fi/Kaikki_uutiset/2015-06-04/F-Securesta-ja-Nixusta-tulee-kilpailijoita-3322536.html
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Oulu based IoLiving broaden the range of our online store. The new devices are based on the IoT technologies and for example, they measure the quality of indoor air. New products were on display at Computex trade show in Taiwan.
IoLiving modules for measuring temperature, humidity and carbon dioxide concentration in the most accurate components in the market. The equipment and the service has been developed in Finland.
The new products have a clear need, as carried out in the traditional technique of carbon dioxide measuring devices, as well as restaurants, self-monitoring products are really expensive.
On the other hand IoT market is really tough area, to increase competition. Measures based on sensor solution is quite easy to develop, so they are doing well in the race, which developed applications can make the best use of data collected and further processed.
Source: http://etn.fi/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2931:oululainen-iot-firma-yrittaa-maailmalle&catid=13&Itemid=101
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Estonia’s model begins to be built – Finland’s national bus service implementer was selected
Finland is gaining access to a similar national service bus as Estonia has used for years.
The bus service is to develop and maintain the future by Finnish company Gofore.
The bus service is built support for the Finnish used in the IT environment (for example Red Hat -linux support).
The service bus is as if the data highway, which arm of different agencies and the state to connect the various services and information systems with relative ease. Finnish service bus is built in Estonia X-Road technology. The aim is to strengthen, especially data security and technical reliability of the bus. The bus service is scheduled to be operational towards the end of this year.
Source: http://www.tivi.fi/Kaikki_uutiset/2015-06-05/Viron-malli-alkaa-rakentua—Suomen-kansallisen-palveluv%C3%A4yl%C3%A4n-toteuttaja-valittiin-3322632.html
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Do you know what it is suomi.fi? Soon it is necessary to know
The next few years Finnish residents and businesses to deal with the public online one-stop solution, the so-called service view. Self-service by expanding considerably. At the same time renewed a strong electronic authentication.
Within a couple of years available to citizens is the brave new public services in view of the suomi.fi-Web-site. It brings plenty of self-service, which will save millions of euros a year. In this way believe in the project tendering the winning Cybercom leaders Timo Laaksonen and Veli-Matti Nurminen.
Once the user is authenticated to the service to appear citizen, he must immediately present their own information on public registers. For example, users can manage Kela and tax issues, book a day-care place or a new local library loans.
Current few familiar suomi.fi site has receded. The aim is to open a successor to the beta version at beta.suomi.fi by the end of this year.
In principle, the only limit is your imagination, everything that suomi.fi:n view, could be involved.
National service architecture save a lot of money. For example, the coil currently handles manually about 28 000 credentials per month, which would cost a few million euros per year. When proxies are brought to the service view of an electronic service, costs are expected to fall by half.
“Service Views enhance public administration, while citizens and enterprises to carry out self-service transactions, and authorities need to do our job so much as now”
Cybercom makes the whole service view critical electronic identification solution. The company also won the competitive bidding so-called role in the creation and authorization functionality by the end of 2017. Total value of transactions rising to EUR four, five million.
“Role and mandate is basically an electronic power of attorney to get the role of a particular business, and its mandate,”
When suomi.fi:ssä has earned entry into the role, gets at one time a comprehensive mandate the child’s affairs, including the right to redeem electronic prescriptions child.
‘Electronic identification Estonia, Denmark and Britain are long, but this role and authorization has not been done anywhere. If this succeeds, Finland gets the reputation of IT as a country, “Laaksonen enthuses.
All IT solutions are implemented the principle of agile development and open source. Open interfaces allow for various plug-ins type extensions.
For electronic identification Cybercom can not build anything completely new technical solution. Instead, Cybercom creates a frame which may have many different tunnistautumistapoja.
Initially intended to bring together the now occupied by strong authentication methods, ie banks Tupas identifiers, public hst-card operators and mobile certificates. Later, in principle, anyone can create a new kind of authentication method, as long as it meets certain criteria.
The new instrument identification may become passport. Even now, in the new passports has NFC chip, but it only contains the photo information. The plan is to increase the chip strong authentication data.
Authentication is also related to EU-level reforms. In the coming years the banks Tupas identification must in any case be changed because EU regulations are forcing to abandon paper-based key code lists.
Source: http://summa.talentum.fi/article/tv/uusimmat/tiedatko-mika-on-suomifi-pian-se-on-syyta-tuntea/132036
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Were you again left second to smartphone? 34% of young people fail to dating partner
Young people of 16-24 year olds 34 per cent of Finnish tells the attentive smartphone to better than love to.
With more than 55-year-olds, only 11 percent consider their phones more than love to. These data derive from Samsung Respons Analyse research company commissioned the poll.
The smartphone is an important part of Finnish life. Finnish, with 61 percent going to panic if the phone is lost.
The Finns are a shy people, so that the phone will facilitate interaction with others. 82 per cent of Finnish is a phone with a more social than without it.
Most phones use middle-aged 35-44 years.
Source: http://www.tivi.fi/Kaikki_uutiset/2015-06-04/J%C3%A4itk%C3%B6-taas-kakkoseksi-%C3%A4lypuhelimelle-34–nuorista-laiminly%C3%B6-seurustelukumppaniaan-3322613.html
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Will Finland digitalization leadership leading country?
Do you want to take over the digitalisation of management best practices? Please – a new IT model is freely available to you here https://www.itforbusiness.org/
Digitalization convergence of information management and business even further and force them to find a common language. The third ICT Standard version, we wanted to respond to this particular need. Another important reform model has a central role in information management as an enabler and partner in the development of the business.
Information management model would not exist without the courage and the transparency of CIOs and organizations belonging to ICT Standard Forum.
We have every opportunity to make Finland a leading country in terms of management digitalization. Information management are active in the development of best management practices, ready to learn from each other and to share their own knowledge to each other – and to the world.
The challenge for CIOs: a moment of decision
CIOs must have the nerve to make decisions every day. The descent from the tower is small compared to everyday life. Information society evolving business success may be attached to the courage of information management to try something new and unheard of. No pain, no gain, as Vesa says.
We must also have the courage to rely on colleagues and the community is the only way open, developing new things together is possible.
Source: http://www.tivi.fi/Kumppanit/Sofigate/2015-06-04/Tehd%C3%A4%C3%A4nk%C3%B6-Suomesta-digitalisaation-johtamisen-k%C3%A4rkimaa-3322459.html
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“Cyber-crime becomes industrialized, Finland lagged several years behind in protection”
Digitalization will bring new opportunities, but also requires more and more data security, warns of the network company Cisco. It has introduced new products, which protection is extended beyond the data center.
“Digitalization sue the updating of corporate information security. The longer it is not a mere office network, but security must be extended to the whole real-time environment for all parts of the “Cisco security expert says Juha Launonen in press release.
“Finland digitalised and globalized at a rapid pace. In data security, the speed must be the same. ”
“Reliable detection and combating today’s threats can not succeed without comprehensive capabilities,” says Launonen.
Source: http://www.tivi.fi/Kaikki_uutiset/2015-06-09/%E2%80%9DKyberrikollisuus-teollistuu-Suomi-vuosia-j%C3%A4ljess%C3%A4-suojauksessa%E2%80%9D-3323035.html
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Novice designed a mobile game to Apple
None of the government measures do not help, unless the product is of interest the consumer or customer.
Its wings to try a little unusual story of the game, when the App Store started selling trampoline man game Fall Mania this week. Creator of the game, Juho Glad had a web and mobile service design background, but no previous experience in the game industry.
- The whole canal beauty of it, but also those of the individual game developers have easy access to their games post. Sometimes they may arise in these viral hits, such as Flappy Birds or My Summer Car
Source: http://www.digitoday.fi/viihde/2015/06/07/noviisi-suunnitteli-mobiilipelin-applelle/20157285/66?rss=6
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Business applications are now being sold: “There is a need to end the existing work routines”
A number of large Finnish companies experimenting with new mobile applications to improve reachability and productivity of employees.
“Companies need to stop the old working routines that do not work anymore,” says CEO Appedin opener Peter Lindberg.
Cloud services have been introduced, but many are disappointed when nothing changed at all.
“The company’s infrastructure is largely the same, and email is dominated by too much work. For new applications, there is a need”, says Lindberg respondents’ business leaders answers.
Respondents were business executives expressed interest in pilot tests quickly.
For example, sickness absence may indicate one mobile app and at the same time directing the day meetings with a colleague.
“Such applications can help save a couple of hours, and the annual number of hours. It accumulates a big impact on businesses., Where there are thousands or tens of thousands of workers.”
Another nearing the app tells you how to work “buzzes”, that is how the staff can not.
“CIOs are hard pressed to show that information technology can enhance productivity.”
Applications based on Microsoft’s Azure- and log in through the Office 365 cloud services with a single user ID. They also use Azure cloud services interfaces that allow applications to recognize the close networks of the employee.
Source: http://www.tivi.fi/Kaikki_uutiset/2015-06-10/Yrityksille-myyd%C3%A4%C3%A4n-nyt-sovelluksia-On-tarve-lopettaa-vanhoja-ty%C3%B6nteon-rutiineja-3323170.html
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Oulu IoT-sensor solutions, will iProtoXi has invented a way to make use of milk cartons plastic caps products. Recycling soaring provide an excellent case in which the company’s sensor solution is ideal.
Founded in 2012 iProtoxi to base their products deploy an open bus standard, which has been named Sensory Bus 24 .. It is based on a small printed circuit board-mounted connector, which contains the most widely used in the printed circuit board bus technologies, such as I2C, SPI and UART.
IprotoXin that it is suitable for connecting various sensors, for example, the lighting elements and the like IoT network. Via the bus devices may also be connected to a radio modules and actuators.
iProtox way to re-use plastic milk jar bottle caps is an excellent idea.
Janne Kallio says that they discovered by chance that various sizes of milk and juice cans high to get together, printed in our product almost complete enclosure.
- When adding the cap to the housing yet I sense-our brand logo, the outcome seems to be enough good, considering that it is environmentally friendly.
IProtoX new product range is a set of Indiegogo-financing at the moment.
Additional information is available at http://www.igg.me/at/aistin and http://www.aistin.cc .
Source: http://etn.fi/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2954:oululainen-iprotoxi-kierrattaa-maitopurkkien-korkkeja&catid=13&Itemid=101
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Cybercriminals extorted suomalaisjättiä: pay for 2 Bitcoin or else …
Lift company Kone Australian operations hit last August, the virus is a case in which the machine’s Chief Technology Officer Kimmo Kujanpää to remember for a long time.
“It started as a spoof messages”
The virus began sabotage – it took to encrypt files. All text, images and tables will change instantly illegible. The worst part was that the virus hid illegible including network drives are located in the files.
Among the infected files found in only one working document. The requirement for ransom. Criminals require two Bitcoin – only about EUR thousand.
The virus struck at the worst possible moment. The plane had just changed global supplier of systems maintenance and was therefore most vulnerable.
“In such a changing security inevitably drops. It is a fact. And this attack occurred just to the discontinuity,” Kujanpää says.
Kone did not pay the ransom, even if the requirement was worth only EUR thousand. “We do not pay. It is not part of our processes. We decided to invest in it, that the situation is solved,”
Together with the security company Nixu they solved the problem.
Source: http://www.tivi.fi/Kaikki_uutiset/2015-06-13/Kyberrikolliset-kiristiv%C3%A4t-suomalaisj%C3%A4tti%C3%A4-maksa-2-bitcoinia-tai-muuten…-3323523.html
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A quick online price varies drastically – YLE: some places thousands of euros
High speed internet access may be the only remote area residents the opportunity to work in their home region. Finland is pulled fast high-speed fiber optic connections also in less populated areas. Yle South Karelia , says that, depending on the residential area of the fiber may have to pay thousands when elsewhere the same service can get for 100 euros.
YLE interviewed experts evaluated the cable excavation pay 12,90 EUR per meter without VAT.
Each time the fiber need not be expensive. The price can be calculated, for example, various construction subsidies or different way to open project (Cheap subscription fees are intended to attract the largest possible number of future monthly fee payers.)
Source: http://www.tivi.fi/Kaikki_uutiset/2015-06-15/Nopean-netin-hinta-vaihtelee-rajusti-%E2%80%93-Yle-joillain-paikkakunnilla-tuhansia-euroja-3323746.html
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Finland, a new game company accelerator – a significant factor in Europe
German game accelerator and production house Remote Control Productions to expand its operations outside the German-speaking area and to establish a subsidiary in Finland.
The gaming company has agreed with the Kotka-Hamina Regional Development Company Cursor setting up a joint venture to Kotka, where the company will begin operations in late 2015.
Source: http://www.tivi.fi/Uutiset/2015-06-17/Suomeen-uusi-pelikiihdytt%C3%A4m%C3%B6—merkitt%C3%A4v%C3%A4-tekij%C3%A4-Euroopassa-3323952.html
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F-Secure says have made a cooperation agreement with the luxury brand Tonino Lamborghini. The company’s very expensive phones (cost up to $ 6300) are protected with Finnish technology.
F-Secure’s consumer safety director Samu Konttinen estimates that the cooperation is conducive to familiarize luxury electronics users a well-functioning security products. “People do not want to use the odd-life applications, if they acquire a luxury device”.
The new appliance buyer gets for access to the company’s SAFE, Booster, Key-Freedom and services.
Nowadays most of the smart devices continue to be acquired without any special security software.
Source: http://www.tivi.fi/Kaikki_uutiset/2015-06-18/F-Secure-lupaa-luksusturvaa-uusi-sopimus-3324188.html
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The newspaper Karjalainen inquired about the ICT Service Centre Halti Guild police on expanded IT expenditure. Director Ilkka Haataja was according to the magazine unwilling to discuss the topic.
Information Technology eats Karjalainen says that each year approximately EUR 49 million in appropriations for the police.
Source: http://www.tivi.fi/Kaikki_uutiset/2015-06-18/Karjalainen-Virkamies-kyll%C3%A4styi-poliisin-budjettikyselyihin-Ota-t%C3%A4m%C3%A4-numero-pois-listoilta%E2%80%9D-3324192.html
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The Finnish Defence Forces to oversee the Finnish network connections? HS: The submarine cable Germany Santahamina
Traveling to Germany Sea Lion submarine cable will multiply completed moving abroad from Finland to network bandwidth. The testing phase and preparation for the cable project is expected to be reached next January.
Helsingin Sanomat writes that Finland is making its way from the cable administered area of the Defence Forces Sandhamn.
In Finland, legislation on cyber-surveillance is being prepared, which through the parliament would Entering the authorities the power to control the border limits of network traffic. In Sweden the Act came into force in the last decade. Most of Finland outgoing network traffic passing through Sweden.
The cable project is driven Cinia Group’s Deputy CEO Jukka-Pekka Joensuu says Helsinki Sanomat that “these are cyber secure, reliable and neutral networks”, which Cinia not install monitoring equipment. However, according to Joensuu is a matter for the States, what changes they make for their own purposes.
Construction of 25 years of sustainable use of the cable pays to 60-70 million. Cable majority owner is the Finnish state 78 percent share. The rest is owned by OP-Pohjola Group and Ilmarinen.
If the cable is disconnected at sea, the repair takes 3-5 days. The cable is also planned glimpse split towed Sweden branch.
Source: http://www.tivi.fi/Kaikki_uutiset/2015-06-18/Puolustusvoimat-valvomaan-Suomen-verkkoyhteyksi%C3%A4-HS-Merikaapeli-Saksasta-Santahaminaan-3324226.html
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Huawei’s director: “Finnish observing can predict the future”
“The Finnish market may not be the world’s largest, but all the more strategically interesting,” says Huawei Nordic and Eastern European Operations Director Kenneth Fredriksen. “Finnish observing, we see in what direction the global market is developing,” he says.
Finland is one of the only countries where mobile data is typically a fixed monthly fee. In the future, the user experience is the most important value to operators.
“The customer is only interested in the mobile device can be used easily anywhere, anytime – the details are unimportant. For this reason, I believe that a fixed monthly fee is the way of the future. ”
Fredriksen incense not only to the skills of Finnish engineers, including partners eagerness: “The whole Huawei, it is very important that we are part of the Finnish company ecosystem.”
Source: http://www.tivi.fi/summa/2015-06-21/Huawei-johtaja-Suomea-tarkkailemalla-voi-ennustaa-tulevaisuutta-3324200.html
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HS reported on Wednesday, the US welfare and health care services-producing Healthways published a study which mapped the global well-being.
According to the survey of Panama and other Central American countries, residents are most satisfied with their lives. Finland found counter-position to become 37. This situation is confusing, because a number of other well being listings Finns have been found to be one of the world’s happiest nations.
“Latino countries stand-out issues, which focus on the momentary happiness of experiences. Here, they will be answered by Finnish modestly, but when measuring longer-term life satisfaction, Finland is always at the forefront,” Weckroth explains.
“This was purely empirical well-being of exploratory research investigators is clearly a very American kind of idea of happiness -.. That it would be an individual member of the community the joy of the moment”
“Finns have a habit of telling willingly negative experiences and labors. The working health querying a third felt is suffering from a health problem, compared with Italy, the figure was ten per cent,”
Cultural Interpretation explains in large measure to the Swiss and Danish high investments. Especially in Denmark, there Simpura according to the image of the world happiest people that you want to maintain.
“The Finns again think that Finland is a poor country and therefore remains” Simpura laughs.
The current state of well-being of Finnish scientists agree – an American research is not worth too much to cling to. However, there is always room for improvement, even if the reason for concern with regard to the level of well-being is not.
“The feeling of being in the same boat, and trust in each other are at the moment the Finnish well-being is critical. High standard of living could be a bit of a bargain, if replaced to trust and income inequality leveling off,” Mikko Weckroth says.
‘Uncertainty about the economic and livelihood-related should try to remove. Finland’s strengths is definitely trust each other and to the state power. It supported the Finns have been able to survive the difficult times. ”
Source: http://www.hs.fi/hyvinvointi/a1305965216672
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Finnish software industry grew by 20.6% in 2014. Growth is now to pull the game industry, which is equivalent to two-thirds of the growth in the sector.
Finnish software and IT services sector grew by 20.6 per cent in 2014, survives Software Industry Survey 2015 report.
The main growth drivers were even small and medium-sized software companies as well as the game companies.
“A number of software companies are well managed to take advantage of digital distribution channel, and it’s consumerisation opportunities brought about by the” National Software Industry survey principal investigator Eetu Luoma says the University of Jyväskylä in the technology industry bulletin.
Finnish software industry growth to explain now, above all, the game industry, such as supercel success. Instead, listed companies in many industry turnover fell last year.
The software industry as a whole grew by 20.6%. It includes not only the game industry responded to two-thirds of the growth in the industry. The impact of the gaming industry has been reflected in the growth figures in the field for several years. Other software enterprises’ turnover grew by seven per cent, which is slightly more than the increase in the global software market average.
The software sector, successful Finnish companies to explain the growth of Software Industry survey, the principal investigator Eetu Luoma says digital distribution on a global market and consumerisation successful deployment.
“The game companies to bring the industry new business models,”
These include services for which the introduction is as easy as possible and in which the user is provided with additional features in his habits,. Also, the b-to-b services, the end user can only pay for the features that are used.
For larger IT enterprises’ turnover fell by 2.2 per cent. Many listed companies have difficulties to renew the software industry restructuring. Research and development programs have helped companies adapt to structural change.
Sources:
http://www.tivi.fi/Kaikki_uutiset/2015-06-25/Pelifirmat-vauhdittivat-ohjelmistoalaa—isot-firmat-sormi-suussa-3324593.html
http://summa.talentum.fi/article/tv/uutiset/pelibisnes-vetaa-ohjelmistoalan-kasvua/195368
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University of Jyväskylä Information Technology organizes for the seventh summer game programming courses for secondary school students summer. So far, my game has made more than 700 students and courses this summer almost 120 young people participate.
Week-long course, students will develop their own game ideas and stories functioning of the program code. Learned skills they can use in other programming. In addition, the price development of particular mathematical thinking and logical reasoning skills.
This topic is new to students, as most of the course participants have not previously tried programming. The aim is to give a taste of success and realistic picture of job and study opportunities in the information technology sector.
The results of long-term work will begin slowly to appear: first, students have already been transferred to the faculty and students who are now acting as mentors for self-summer courses.
Programming is becoming the primary schools. Also, teachers are welcome to explore the content and tools for young game programming course as well as educational material, which is free of charge, everyone benefits.
“Programming course as well as Teachers Provide continuing education courses prepare the ground for the digital school of the future, which is one of the key projects of the government,” says the dean Pekka Neittaanmäki.
Source: http://www.tivi.fi/Kaikki_uutiset/2015-06-25/Yl%C3%A4koululaiset-tungeksivat-peliohjelmointikursseille-3324642.html
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Increasingly large numbers of unprotected automation systems
29.06.2015 at 14:23
Finnish Communications Regulatory Authority Kyberturvallisuuskeskus is concerned about the large number of unprotected automation equipment. Mapping the Finnish networks doing during the Kyberturvallisuuskeskus spring 2015 is still found in thousands of different types of unprotected automation equipment. The survey discovered devices and device correspond to those observed in previous similar studies unit quantities.
The largest group consists of a single real estate related automation equipment on which thousands were observed even in this survey. Automation equipment affect the physical world, which can make security incidents related particularly serious. Unprotected automation device can be a threat to other Internet users, for example, if an attacker to harness easily frangible devices denial of service attacks. The owner may not notice inducing addition to their own vulnerability harm to others.
Source: https://www.viestintavirasto.fi/kyberturvallisuus/tietoturvanyt/2015/06/ttn201506291423.html
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Aiber Networks builds a high security data center to Tampere, Finland
https://www.aibernetworks.com/?p=8
Aiber Networks is a new Finnish-Israeli start-up company that has signed an agreement with the city of Tampere in Finland on building a new world class high security data center to a former military grade underground cave in the Tampere city’s Härmälä district.
Tampere city has granted on 19th May 2015 Aiber Networks (Datacore Oy) the right to rent the cave and surrounding areas. The city made the decision after competition between two companies.
The cave has previously been in use by the former Finnish government-owned aviation company Valmet since 1930 and it has been designed based on military standards.
“The aim is to build the Härmälä and city data centers ready for first parts in August and main parts in October 2015. This will be a fully modern and automated high security cloud platform. It will fulfill Tier3 and 4 levels and also the Finnish Vahti yellow, red and Katakri security demands”, says Jaska Kivelä, COO of Aiber networks.
“I see Finland as a secure location for an investor and as a gateway between East and West. With the Finnish-Israeli know-how of IT and security technology and with our understanding of Russian business we can make this into a unique company”, says Daniel Levin, chairman of the board of Aiber networks and CEO of Aiber group.
The new Härmälä data center will be built into an existing underground cave that offers excellent security with its several tunnels.
The new data centers will have the latest cooling technology based on liquid cooling and free cooling.
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The modest father of SMS, who had much to be modest about
Only the true inventor would deny his invention? Erm, well, not quite
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/07/08/the_real_history_of_sms/
Matti Makkonen died last week and was celebrated as the father of SMS. He’s been described as being too modest to acknowledge his involvement. It seems, however, that the story of how Short Messaging came to be is far more complicated than we originally thought, and the system has many fathers.
In fact, not only did Makkonen not invent SMS, he also reneged on an agreement with those who did to stop claiming that he did.
Makkonen’s lie – inadvertent or not – saw him recognised by the Finnish Government as one of the Great Finns, alongside composer Sibelius, and he was awarded the 1999 Economist Innovation Award alongside Tim Berners-Lee and Bill Gates.
It appears that Makkonen, then a local Nokia manager, went out for a pizza with a journalist from a local Finnish paper. During the interview, he made a casual remark that he had imagined the potential of sending text messages on mobile phones. The journalist then embellished the story that he was the “father of SMS”.
As much as he may have had that thought, it’s clear that he didn’t ever submit it to anyone working on GSM standards. As turgid as all the standards documentation is, it’s amazingly comprehensive on who attended which meetings, which are minuted in detail.
There is a huge irony in this: the true creators of SMS remain so modest about their invention that they have been usurped in the public eye by someone who didn’t do the work and yet has been accused of being too modest.
SMS Development and Standardisation Milestones
http://www.gsm-history.org/9.html
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Television viewing has changed in Finland
A large consumer research from Samsung shows that Finns televisonkatselu has changed. As many as 81 per cent of Finnish now use streaming services for television programs, films and videos. Streamed content also will be paid five times more than the year before.
The results show that the Finns consider now more television than last year. 95 per cent of households have a television. It is considered to be an average of 2 hours and 37 minutes on those days when it is opened. Viewing time has increased in recent years to 15 minutes.
The number streaming service users has increased in Finland last year by 9 per cent and we are now the most active in the Nordic countries streamers. Swedish streaming services used 73 per cent, 69 per cent of Norwegians and 64 per cent of Danes.
Finnish-fourth (24 percent) use video streaming services on a daily basis and more than half (57 percent) on a weekly basis. Finland also listen to streamed music from other Nordic countries more.
Despite the popularity of smartphones and tablet TV is once again the most popular viewing device for entertainment in the home. Europe has become more common also interspersed tweeting while watching TV.
The use of paid-for content is growing dramatically a year and it is now five times more popular in recent years. 57 percent of the Finnish pay TV, movies, or video streaming services, while last year the payers was only 11 percent
Source: http://etn.fi/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3035:television-katselu-muuttui-suomessa&catid=13&Itemid=101
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The software industry grew by more than a fifth
Finnish software industry grew last year by more than a fifth from the previous year. Alan turnover reaches EUR already close to 9 billion. Since 2009, the turnover of software industry has grown at a rapid pace and the next year the sales of Finnish companies are already almost twice as high as five years ago.
Software Entrepreneurs mapping of the turnover of the sector grew last year by exactly 20.6 per cent. The increase was due largely small and medium-sized as well as the game companies.
Many listed companies are still struggling trying to reinvent the restructuring of the industry, for example, the largest company, ie Tieto’s net sales shrank by a little more than five per cent.
For larger IT enterprises’ turnover fell by 2.2 per cent from the previous year. However, the decrease in sales seems to have stalled, and some of the Helsinki stock exchange listed IT services also increased its net sales.
Source: http://etn.fi/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3012:ohjelmistoala-kasvoi-yli-viidenneksen&catid=13&Itemid=101
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Microsoft’s latest job cuts to hit manufacturing, sales
http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsofts-latest-job-cuts-to-hit-manufacturing-sales/
MIcrosoft’s Finland offices and its Sales and Marketing Organization will both be impacted by the company’s 7,800 job cuts. Here’s COO Kevin Turner’s mail to the troops.
Microsoft will lay off more than half of the Microsoft staffers based in Finland, the home of Nokia, as reported by Yle. That means a maximum of 2,300 jobs will be cut in Finland “as the company shuts down its Salo operation and moves tasks from there to Microsoft facilities in Tampere and Espoo,” according to Yle. Currently, there are 3,200 Microsoft employees in Finland, Yle said.
A Microsoft spokesperson confirmed that this report is correct.
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Finnish Teen Convicted of 50,000 ‘Hacks,’ Receives Suspended Sentence
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/15/07/08/164208/finnish-teen-convicted-of-50000-hacks-receives-suspended-sentence
The BBC reports that Julius Kivimaki was found guilty of 50,700 “instances of aggravated computer break-ins.” Court documents state that his attacks affected Harvard University and MIT among others, and involved hijacking emails, blocking traffic to websites, and the theft of credit card details.”
Finnish teen convicted of more than 50,000 computer hacks
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-33442419
A teenager involved in series of high profile cyber attacks has been convicted for his crimes in Finland.
Julius Kivimaki was found guilty of 50,700 “instances of aggravated computer break-ins”.
Court documents state that his attacks affected Harvard University and MIT among others, and involved hijacking emails, blocking traffic to websites and the theft of credit card details.
Despite the severity of the crimes, the 17-year-old has not been jailed.
Instead, the District Court of Espoo sentenced the youth – who had used the nickname Zeekill – to a two-year suspended prison sentence.
It also confiscated his PC and ordered him to handover €6,588 (£4,725) worth of property obtained through his crimes.
Lizard Squad member convicted for Christmas attacks on PSN, Xbox Live
http://www.polygon.com/2015/7/7/8909347/lizard-squad-ryan-teenager-kivimaki-psn-attack-xbox-live-finland
A Finnish teenager who claimed responsibility for the cyberattack that brought down Xbox Live and PlayStation Network last year has been convicted of more than 50,000 instances of cybercrime.
His punishment, according to Finnish media, is a two-year suspended prison sentence and a requirement to speak out against cybercrime.
Published reports said Julius Kivimaki, 17, known as “zeekill” online, was part of the Lizard Squad group whose denial-of-service attack over the Christmas holiday culminated a monthlong war with another hacker group. Lizard Squad members justified the attacks saying “chaos is entertainment,” in a short email to Polygon at the time.
Both United Kingdom and Finnish authorities made arrests soon after the attacks, which were substantial enough that PlayStation Network later offered subscription extensions, purchase discounts and other premiums to compensate members for the lost time.
Finnish Decision is Win for Internet Trolls
http://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/07/finnish-decision-is-win-for-internet-trolls/#more-31471
In a win for Internet trolls and teenage cybercriminals everywhere, a Finnish court has decided not to incarcerate a 17-year-old found guilty of more than 50,000 cybercrimes, including data breaches, payment fraud, operating a huge botnet and calling in bomb threats, among other violations.
As the Finnish daily Helsingin Sanomat reports, Julius Kivimäki — a.k.a. “Ryan” and “Zeekill” — was given a two-year suspended sentence and ordered to forfeit EUR 6,558.
Kivimaki vaulted into the media spotlight late last year when he claimed affiliation with the Lizard Squad, a group of young hooligans who knocked offline the gaming networks of Microsoft and Sony for most of Christmas Day.
Kivimaki allegedly also was involved in calling in multiple fake bomb threats and “swatting” incident
“During the trial it became apparent that nobody suffered significant (if any) damages because of the alleged hacks,” he said.
The danger in a decision such as this is that it emboldens young malicious hackers by reinforcing the already popular notion that there are no consequences for cybercrimes committed by individuals under the age of 18.
Case in point: Kivimaki is now crowing about the sentence; He’s changed the description on his Twitter profile to “Untouchable hacker god.” The Twitter account for the Lizard Squad tweeted the news of Kivimaki’s non-sentencing triumphantly: “All the people that said we would rot in prison don’t want to comprehend what we’ve been saying since the beginning, we have free passes.”
It is clear that the Finnish legal system, like that of the United States, simply does not know what to do with minors who are guilty of severe cybercrimes.
“We’re talking about the Internet equivalent of violent crimes and assault,” James said. “This is serious stuff.”
Kivimaki said he doesn’t agree with the characterization of swatting as a violent crime.
As serious as Kivimaki’s crimes may be, kids like him need to be monitored, mentored, and molded — not jailed, says James.
“Studying his past, he’s extremely smart, but he’s troubled, and definitely needs a better direction,” James said.
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Finland does not know how to properly take advantage of an older workforce
Iceland, New Zealand, Sweden, Israel and Norway take advantage of the best older workers, is apparent from PwC’s Golden Age of the index. The index tracks the OECD countries according to how well they have managed to take advantage of the older workforce. Finland is among the 34 countries ranked 16.
The index has studied the situation of over-55s in the labor market various indicators, such as employment, qualifications and training form.
PwC’s Golden Age report contains a number of proposals to improve the employment of older people, and therefore the economy to grow States. Recommendations include the modernization of pension systems and the creation of more attractive financial incentives to continue their careers, developing new educational opportunities, as well as encouraging the recruitment of older employers.
Recommendations are also businesses. The attitude towards the provision of training may need modifying; training opportunities should also be available in more than 50 years of age. Rewarding may need a different approach: the need to emphasis the salary, pension and health care among the elderly is different from the younger generations.
Older people can report, to provide business opportunities. The older generation to the employment and utilization of their skills and experience can bring a competitive advantage in the customer base with increasing age.
By observing from 55 to 69 years more work to PwC’s report shows that to achieve considerable positive features of economic effects.
Source: http://www.tivi.fi/Kaikki_uutiset/suomessa-ei-osata-hyodyntaa-kunnolla-ikaantyneempaa-tyovoimaa-3325457
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Finns’ success online shop is closed in marketing expertise – IT is held well
Solteq combines Descom and 550 employees, magnitude of the digital commerce expert house. According to an interview with an analyst Tivi companies complement each other well.
“Solteq has traditionally had a strong trade control systems and information systems. Descom will work again for a digital marketing and sales areas. In that sense, companies have a pretty interesting synergies. They have the same customers, but because they operate in the same value chain in different locations, so they have very little overlap, “estimates Inderes analyst Petri Aho.
Both companies are strong in Finland.
For commerce revolution is underway and the digital market places are in demand. Finland has not yet been The starting greatly to conquer the international e-commerce market: successes are rather confined within Finland.
Is Finland fallen by the wayside e-commerce development?
Good ideas and concepts Aho sees to be always in demand abroad. In a technical sense, he sees the Finns to have good abilities of the competition, but more deficiencies in the commercial know-how, and ability to cope has been caught divested product.
“Yes, it will help the situation if Finland is an operator that can offer abroad, effective services,”
Challenging in terms of international growth is that Finland should not be large international trading companies.
Source: http://www.tivi.fi/Kaikki_uutiset/suomalaisten-menestys-verkkokaupassa-on-kiinni-kaupan-osaamisesta-it-on-hallussa-3325501
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These beads rose Nokia rubble
Nokia began offering in 2011, workers who have the so-called Bridge program to select for themselves a job, education or entrepreneurship pipe.
It is not yet clear how the dreams are becoming a reality, but now Nokia’s aftermath has created some interesting companies. Iltalehti presents Pebble Audio In addition to three interesting Nokia which rose from the ashes of the Phoenix bird.
1. PulseOn: measuring the heart rate monitor from your wrist
One of the most interesting innovations of the Bridge program was the wrist pulse measuring optical heart rate monitor.
2. Haltian: fearlessly wonder device
Things idea of the device is to facilitate the equipment, for example, on the Internet and it is povattu device “things Internet” creation.
The device can be used, for example, a burglar alarm, but its features allow the help of the Internet also means that it could warn of overheating, for example, a car or even a deterioration of food. Things to use open source
3. Jolla: The new Nokia? – one of the largest fruit of the Bridge program.
Born in Nokia’s MeeGo operating system around Jolla was launched in autumn 2011, when former employees started Sailfish operating system around the creation of MeeGo.
Source: http://www.iltalehti.fi/uutiset/2015071020012513_uu.shtml
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Did you study here? Information Processing taught in Tampere for 50 years
Data processing teaching has already been a surprisingly long tradition in Finland. Tampere is celebrated in the field of education 50 years today.
Information subject began at the University of Tampere 50 years ago. As soon as the first courses were hundreds of students, because education was an answer to society’s expectations.
Founded the University of Tampere in 1965, computer science professorship was the first Nordic.
According to him, data processing was 50 years ago, the future of an area: “This is it now. All sectors of the digital age. ”
Source: http://www.tivi.fi/Kaikki_uutiset/opiskelitko-taalla-tietojenkasittelya-opetettu-tampereella-50-vuotta-3328023
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Finland rise in industrial internet tip now requires the momentum
“Finland has a huge opportunity to become a world leader in industrial internet as a country,” says Jari says Collin, Eforan information director and professor of Aalto University.
Internet of things raises plenty of talk Finnish companies, but acts has taken only a small vanguard.
“Technology is not the bottleneck, but the application of it”
“In this race they are doing, who are able to lead the way and to bring tangible benefits. And to be fast. ”
Collin Efora the employer is a subsidiary of Stora Enso, responsible for the management and maintenance of paper and board mills. The strategic objective is the intelligent maintenance.
“Intelligence means that the production and maintenance processes can be utilized in real time.”
Fault Predictions machine learning
In order to achieve the strategic goal Efora has made three industrial-Fi pilot project very different types of plants. A key finding has been that the latest machine learning models enable real-time to draw a conclusion and a large data masses even richer analysis.
“In the control room is seen as real probability of the emergence of the disorder. We believe that this type of proactive solution can be added to the production line productivity and competitiveness, “Collins explains.
“When preventive maintenance is done by means of sensor data as needed and based on fixed-term, will save when you do not have to make unnecessary service calls.”
“Glory belongs to them. You should be very pragmatic. From the top down guidelines for, but when it comes to floor level, you should listen to the professionals, ”
Listening also means how the interfaces to be implemented. The installer knows best what information, for example, the mobile device’s screen is to appear.
“For example, in the banking and operator sectors, digitalization has already occurred, and now it comes out gradually, such as industry and the retail trade. Digitalization opens huge opportunities for Finnish companies, “Collins says.
Digitalization IT will not disappear, but its role will change. Basic Information Administration will be like electricity self-evident that only comes with the plug. What is new is born, alongside the need to support the business. Information technology integrates products and services partly for sale.
Information technology tools should primarily be to exploit the data.
“Data exploitation is the thing. It is essential that it is the quality and cost control will improve, “Collins says.
Source: http://summa.talentum.fi/article/tv/uutiset/suomen-nousu-teollisen-internetin-karkeen-vaatii-nyt-vauhtia/203769
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The number of visitors doubled -TubeCon was a huge success
Held on Saturday Tubeco attracted more than 10 500 guests at Helsinki’s Hartwall Arena.
The event was held for the second time, and it doubled number of visitors and was sold to the end.
The event was awarded the Finnish Youtube stars in eleven categories.
TubeConin success has been noticed widely and event concept for internationalization is ongoing, told TubeConin release.
Source: http://www.tivi.fi/Kaikki_uutiset/kavijamaara-kaksinkertaistui-tubecon-oli-jattimenestys-3328285
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Aalto University gains inauspicious world ranking, says better result a matter of time
http://www.feedspot.com/?dadj=1#feed/f_3745789/article/2451692867?dd=101985355
The University of Helsinki came out best in Finland in the renowned Shanghai ranking of worldwide universities released on Saturday – the 67th rated university in the world. Meanwhile, Aalto University fell far short of the peak, gaining an inauspicious ranking somewhere between 400th and 500th place. However, the university’s leaders claim it partly loses out because weighting is given to life sciences – areas of study that are not taught at Aalto.
Aalto University’s Provost, Deputy Rector Ilkka Niemelä says that the Shanghai-lists criteria includes, amongst other factors, Nobel Prizes and scientific articles. According to him, this emphasis means that universities that prioritise medical and life sciences are more likely to gain kudos, meanwhile Aalto offers education in engineering sciences, business and the arts.
“On the other hand, rankings are such that they are quite retrospective,” suggests Niemelä. “These results come from years ago.”
The Shanghai ranking compares universities not only in general, but also at a sectoral level.
“In these important areas we’re doing quite well,” says Niemelä. “We’re ranked between 150th-200th in the comparison in terms of technical sciences, and in economics we’re between 100th-150th.”
One third of professors foreign
Looking on the bright side, Niemelä believes that Aalto University will improve its ranking in coming years. He says that top foreign researchers are being draw to the institution and that the institution’s branding and interesting subject combinations have increased its pulling power — especially for international academics.
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This digitalization boost business
What is the future of a successful business?
We saw before us a different kind of world than what we were used to. In addition to the vision of the future, we had to understand how future business operates.
Three years later, I can say that the replacement of the new technology is a relatively small change, when the change relate to the common business culture and manner, which is success in the digitalization era requires.
Digitalization is progressing and will shape all sectors – are you ready?
Although the digital revolution produces a headache for the industry, challenging the old traditional business practices and business models, there is a change to be seen first and foremost as an opportunity which should seize aikailematta.
What’s more down, the greater the risk of losing.
1. The changing context
We believe that the future of the world consists of various networks or ecosystems.
To ecosystems can operate effectively together.
New solutions can not be based silos within the organization, and must in principle allow work from anywhere and by any terminal.
They also have to be safe, easy to use, cost-effective, and simple to maintain
Digitalization can be used to improve productivity and business efficiency.
2. Superior Customer Experience
Traditionally, information technology has been utilized mainly in the development of the company’s operations, such as improving processes, improving labor productivity and automation of the order-delivery chain.
The possibilities and the change in consumer behavior brought about by new technologies, however, are clearly shifting its focus from investment in the development of personalized customer service and customer experience.
Digitalization makes it possible for us to get closer to our customers and, at best, help them before they even feel that need help.
3. New Business Opportunities
Digitalization makes it possible that we can do things in a completely new way.
The emergence of new businesses, such as to distribute or Sharing Economy, where consumers are selling themselves to each other amenities.
Digital, in the era of the background of the most successful ideas are often found in someone from outside the industry a new player who does not have old patterns of behavior weight cargoes.
In order to also traditional actors to succeed, must build an organizational culture that supports innovation.
It is essential to create an internal innovation process, in which new ideas can be systematically collected from the grassroots level and can be taken forward.
In the future, IT will play a more important role in all sectors.
This causes that all organizations are required know-how and understanding of information technology innovations and the new opportunities they bring about.
Source: http://www.tivi.fi/CIO/cio_100/nain-digitalisaatio-vauhdittaa-liiketoimintaa-3328323
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15 hours rite: Finnish miracle ring exceeded USD 100 000 financial goals
Finnish health technology invention Oura has exceeded US $ 100 000 Financial targets a number of financial service Kickstarter offer .
Inside the ring sensors to measure body movements, heart rate and temperature. When all the measured data is combined with the mobile application, the ring is able to evaluate the user’s level of preparedness, as well as provide personal guidance and feedback on the benefits of sleep, relaxation and activity, the company says. During the day, the mobile application gives the user instructions.
It is therefore a measure of the wearer’s body until the sensor, which in this case is connected to a ring. The market has a variety of hyvinvointirannekkeita, which is connected to some of the same functions.
Fellowship of the Ring and the charger has been designed by Harri Koskinen’s Office Friends of the Industry, in close cooperation with one of the founders of Oura Kari Kivelä.
According to the company to apply the ring also used in the medical device, pulse oximeter familiar optical measurement technique that measures blood oxygen saturation.
Source: http://www.tivi.fi/Kaikki_uutiset/15-tuntia-riitti-suomalainen-ihmesormus-ylitti-100-000-dollarin-rahoitustavoitteensa-3328560
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Finland Considers Minimum Income To Reform Welfare System
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The Finnish government is considering a pilot project that would see the state pay people a basic income regardless of whether they are employed or not.
Finland considers basic income to reform welfare system
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The Finnish government is considering a pilot project that would see the state pay people a basic income regardless of whether they work.
The details of how much the basic income might be and who would be eligible for it are yet to be announced, but already there is widespread interest in how it might work.
Prime Minister Juha Sipila has praised the idea. “For me, a basic income means simplifying the social security system,” he said.
The scheme is of particular interest to people without jobs. In Finland, they now number 280,000 – 10% of the workforce.
With unemployment an increasing concern, four out of five Finns now are in favour of a basic income.
“Having a basic income would mean the bureaucracy I´ve encountered at the employment agency would decrease.”
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Working life will be revolutionized – this is expected at school
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Working life will be revolutionized – this is expected at school
Kimmo Taskinen
Työelämä mullistuu – tätä odotetaan koululta
The new basic education curriculum emphasizes, among other things, entrepreneurship and interaction. Experts agree that tomorrow’s school must pay attention to better students’ own interests.
Working life is changing rapidly and is more difficult to predict which occupations will remain and how the nature of work is changing in the future.
How schools can prepare for the changing world of work? One answer is that you should focus on to teach those skills in which the machines and artificial intelligence are not able – as interaction and creativity, flexible thinking.
- Interaction is the last bastion, which is a safe artificial intelligence. It requires the skills that can not be algorithmically present. Another human understanding, emotional intelligence, empathy, Saarikivi says Taloussanomat.
The key interaction skills include the ability to understand their own and others’ feelings and empathy. These can be to learn at school, for example, by working groups.
- Emphasized the importance of empathy in working life. The better you can identify with, for example, the customer’s status, the more relevant services can be created.
Now, school education is emphasized good memory. Saarikivi feels more essential is to know where to find information and what information is relevant and know how to evaluate what kind of information is reliable.
- Digitalisation consequence is that the complexity is increasing, all the time there are more options, and things change more quickly than in the past. It requires flexible thinking that is ready to change quickly if the situation changes.
Basic education in the new curriculum (pdf) highlights, inter alia, working life skills and entrepreneurial spirit, thinking and learning skills, interaction and self-expression and self care.
The curriculum of the pupils, for example, important to have experiences that will help realize the work and the importance of entrepreneurship and enterprise opportunities.
Students can, for example, a school project to study in small groups, air pollution or other natural phenomenon, to look at the bike road conditions or give feedback theatrical performance. In this case, the study is not just a loose curricular content cramming.
- Many young motivation, and for what purpose, and is being studied in the school, is somehow missing. When making is relevant and the results of work can take advantage of a wider, thus learning becomes more meaningful, Kumpulainen says.
He believes that while learning from your own motivation, the student commits to a better and it is not just the exterior of learning and performance.
Young people find their passion
For the future of young people to become successful in the labor market, the school should clearly more than before to help young people find their own strengths.
- Finland problem is that we have a significant number of young people, school-leavers attitude that I do not have any good and I can not correct anything. The school has provided knowledge and skills in all kinds of things, but at the same time your talent and passion has remained undiscovered
- When the government talks about the reform of education, one point should be that the trained decisively to the labor market for creative people who are able to become self-employed, and perhaps others. The attitude that if I can not find a job, figured it would be self-taught.
Source: http://www.taloussanomat.fi/tyo-ja-koulutus/2015/08/21/tyoelama-mullistuu-tata-odotetaan-koululta/201510637/139?rss=4
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The Finnish company made automatic simultaneous interpretation – Download to your phone
Sunda Systems announce an Android smartphone application, which allows two people to chat next to each other in different languages.
The Finnish company’s application will translate more than 60 languages to another immediately. Language support is available in Finnish, English, Swedish, German, Spanish, Russian, Thai, Chinese and Japanese.
The application also translate entire documents and web pages while preserving the original formatting. Compiler supports most common document formats such as PDF or Word files
Source: http://www.tivi.fi/Kaikki_uutiset/suomalaisyhtio-teki-automaattisen-simultaanitulkin-lataa-puhelimeesi-3328805
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