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TeliaSonera launches 4G in Stockholm and Oslo

The very first operator in the world, Finnish TeliaSonera has launched its 4G services commercially to customers in Stockholm, Sweden and Oslo, Norway. The event took place on November 14th. At the same time Sonera opened Finland's first genuine 4G connection. 4G opens up new possibilities for customers to use and enjoy services on their... Read more

Sunvoima Oy builds Finland’s first megawatt-scale solar power plant

Kotka-based Sunvoima Oy will begin the construction of Finland's very first notable scale solar energy plant. The construction will start next year and the energy production is expected to begin in the spring of 2011. The energy output from the plant has been set at one megawatt, but capacity can be expanded to meet demand. Despite the... Read more

Teknoware illuminates emergency exits on board the world’s biggest cruise ship

Teknoware, a Lahti-based international lighting technology company, which designs, manufactures and markets solutions for vehicle interior lighting and emergency lighting for buildings and passenger ships, delivers tailor-made emergency exit luminaires to the world's largest luxury cruise ship, the Oasis of the Seas. The company equipped the... Read more

Outotec acquires nearly a fifth of Australian smelting technology company

Finnish Outotec has acquired 19.9 per cent of the shares in the Australian public company Ausmelt Ltd from the company founder Dr John Floyd. Outotec has also launched an off-market takeover offer to acquire all the remaining shares in Ausmelt Ltd. In the offer Ausmelt is valued at 34 million Australian Dollars, which is equivalent to... Read more

Electric discharge method purifies drinking water energy-efficiently

Researchers from Lappeenranta University of Technology and Tomsk Polytechnic University in Russia have coalesced in order to develop a more energy efficient and environmentally friendly device for water purification. The device applies a purification method, which is based on technology utilizing electric discharge. According to research this... Read more

Here comes Blobo – the spherical game console

Blobo, a small, soft and spherical game console, is throwing out a challenge to the popular Nintendo Wii. Throw it, press it or put it in your pocket. With Blobo you can practise basketball, karate, archery, ski-jumping, running and long jumping. It has been possible to make an online order for Blobo, which was developed by the Finnish company... Read more

Growth and interest in games research

Unique expertise in games research can be found in Finland. – We’re world leaders in research into pervasive games, says Professor Frans Mäyrä from Game Research Laboratory. Games are a relatively young but rapidly growing target for research. In Finland this research, which has forged an international reputation, is carried out in several... Read more

Moomin trolls take part in saving the Baltic Sea

Tove Jansson's Moomin trolls will turn 65 next year. To commemorate the event, the beloved Moomins will begin a Nordic campaign together with numerous companies, proceedings from which will be donated to World Wildlife Foundation's Baltic Sea -work. The Moomin anniversary celebration will start in December with the moomin65.com - website's... Read more

Koli National Park to attract international nature tourism

The brand new activity and service centre designed for Koli National Park will be built to meet the needs of international nature tourism. The project has been boosted by an architectural competition organized by the City of Lieksa. Two of the competition's winning designs are taken into consideration in the implementation of the project. -... Read more

Finland well on track to meet its Kyoto goals

According to the Minister of the Environment Paula Lehtomäki Finland has started very well in meeting the obligations set by Kyoto Protocol. The national inventory report 2008 published by Statistics Finland indicates that Finland's green house emissions were about 1.2 per cent below the Kyoto obligations. Finland was under the Kyoto Protocol... Read more