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Capgemini, one of the world’s foremost providers of consulting, technology and outsourcing services, and Fortum Distribution AB have signed a ten-year contract worth 94 million euros. The contract assigns the management of Fortum’s existing portfolio of 860,000 smart meters in Sweden to Capgemini. Data centre hosting will be delivered from...
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Director Klaus Härö’s Letters to Father Jacob has received the Best International Film Award at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival in California, USA. The film has also been given a cinema distribution license for the US, which was announced recently at the Berlin International Film Festival. The film has already received a number...
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VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland has developed a new automatic method for analysing magnetic resonance images in diagnosing Alzheimer’s disease. The analysis takes only three minutes, when the fastest automatic MR image assessment methods available currently take 15 to 20 minutes, or in some cases even several hours. The accuracy of...
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Global leaders Intel Corporation and Nokia merge their Moblin and Maemo platforms. The new product, MeeGo is a Linux-based software platform that will support multiple hardware architectures across the broadest range of device segments, including mobile devices, miniature notebooks, mediaphones and in-vehicle infotainment systems. According to...
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Helsinki ranked sixth on the Economist Intelligence Unit's global liveability survey, which assesses the world’s most liveable cities. Helsinki was the only Nordic country to rank among the world top liveable cities. The survey assessed living conditions in 140 cities around the world. A rating of relative comfort for 30 indicators was...
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The first of the Allegro high-speed trainsets ordered for the service between Helsinki and St Petersburg has arrived in Finland from Alstom factory in Italy. Fine-tuning and static testing of the brand new train have begun at VR’s Ilmala depot in Helsinki. The three remaining trains will be delivered to Finland by the end of the year. Track...
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The brand new factory of Lacell Oy, the producer of airlaid fibre fabric, was opened in Iitti, Finland on the 10th of February. The construction of the factory was completed in the end of 2009. The factory’s produce is exported mainly to the Baltic countries, Central Europe and Russia. Airlaid fibre fabric is used as a raw material for...
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The new electric concept vehicle of Valmet Automotive gets its world premiere at the Geneva Motor Show on March 2–14th. The “Eva” concept vehicle is a 2+2 seat full-electric city car with a range of up to 160 km per charge. In engineering the vehicle, lightweight and safe body structures have been combined with electric and recharging systems...
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Pöyry, a global engineering and consulting company headquartered in Vantaa, Finland, has been awarded an extensive hydropower plant engineering contract for Sri Lanka. The 6.1 million euro contract includes feasibility studies, tender design, detail-design and construction supervision of the Uma Oya hydropower project. The project comprises...
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The Swedish Energy Agency Energimyndigheten has given a 139 million kronor investment grant for the wave power project of Fortum and Seabsed Industry, which has been designed for Smögen in the municipality of Sotenäs in Sweden. The amount equals to 14 million euros, which is a significant part of the project’s total budget of 25 million euros....
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Finnish Internet security provider F-Secure and Vodafone have signed a global framework agreement to provide Internet protection for Vodafone’s business and consumer customers as a monthly subscription service. The new agreement will expand the 2008 signed global framework agreement between the two companies, and covers now also PC protection....
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The month of May will see Koskenkorva’s grand entree on the American market. The famous Finnish clear spirit drink will be marketed as a pricey premium-product. Koskenkorva has been sold in Finland since 1953, and the traditional label is embellished by an Ostrobothnian landscape sketched by artist Lasse Linnanmäki. – At first Koskenkorva will...
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Karelian language texts are now available in digital format. The service is intended for language researchers and the Karelian-speaking people in Finland and Russia. The digital library hosts fifteen rare research works on the Karelian language. The next addition to the library will be birch bark letters from the 13th and 14th centuries, as...
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The Baltic Sea Action Summit held in Helsinki on February 10th brought together heads of states and governments, representatives of the business sector and NGOs to a new kind of summit. President of the Republic of Finland, Tarja Halonen signed a personal commitment for improving the conditions of the Baltic Sea. Halonen proposed for instance...
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Tourism companies in the Ruka-Kuusamo region will boost their international marketing by joining forces under a new brand, St. Lapland. The export network, which is organized by the internationalisation expert association Finpro, consists of eight companies offering different travel services ranging from accommodation to recreation and food....
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