I have written earlier on new Finnish mobile phone company Jolla at my Two new mobile phone companies from Finland and Mobile trends and predictions for 2013 articles. Jolla announces its first Sailfish OS smartphone which will be available in Europe by the end of 2013. The first Jolla phone: 4.5-inch display, Android app compliant, →
Finnish mobile game company Supercell has been on news lately with following kind of headlines: Supercell raises another round of funding at $130M on a valuation of $770M, sees revenues of $2.4M a day. The latest flow of news started when Forbes praises this Finnish game company in Is This The Fastest-Growing Game Company Ever? →
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 →
Sad trends news gain. Finnish electronics exports collapse continues. Finnish electronics exports shrank in the last quarter of 2012. This is largely due the fact that Nokia miracle seems to be in the end. When Nokia’s gold rush was booming phones and other communication devices were 20 per cent of all Finnish exports. They were →
It seems that smart phone business have evolved to point where even relatively small companies can start to make their own phones. This developments like: many people who know mobile phones are looking for new jobs (business of many mobile phone companies not going that well) architectural changes (application processor communicating with separate ready communication →
When Prosessori magazine ended last year I started writing articles to Tietokone magazine (press info). Actually I had earlier written some articles and news to web site. Now I write to Tietokone magazine more often. The magazine has published several articles already this year. Promo box →
I saw Avaruusrekka when driving by it in Espoo. I had to stop and see briefly what was going on. Avaruusrekka is a space exhibition on wheel that is moving around Finland just now (stops at eight locations from 3 to 17. October 2012). Next stops are in Helsinki and on weekend the truck is →
Finland is now the last eurozone country to hold a triple-A credit rating. So, why are things so rosy in the Scandinavian state? AAA to Y* of Finland article gives one picture what is special in Finland (the country I live in). →
Linus Torvalds Splits Tech’s ‘Nobel’ With Stem Cell Pioneer. What do Linux and stem cell research have in common? Answer: They’re both considered “life-enhancing technical innovations” by the Technology Acadamy Finland, a foundation that is awarding a prestigious award called the Millennium Technology Prize in Helsinki yesterday. Linux creator Linus Torvalds (King of Geeks) and →
Sanoma Magazines is to stop Prosessori magazine publishing in the November(English translation). At the same time Sanoma Magazine stopped publishing several other magazines. The last Prosessori issue will be the November 2011 issue. The web pages will be open to the end of 2011 (so now is the time to download if you need something →