Lauri Pappinen

Swedish utility company Sydkraft recently began using its power lines to feed end users with high-speed Internet connections, providing a permanent connection at a flat rate. The company is using Digital PowerLine technology from NOR.WEB, a joint venture between Nortel and British company United Utilities. PowerLine allows users to connect to a permanent connection without […]

In an effort to challenge established media companies, three Swedish firms have combined their services. Spray Ventures, Vision Media and former Bonnier news organization 25timmar.se announced a merger earlier this month to form Neutron. Spray Ventures is a partner with digital company Razorfish, Inc., owning 40 percent of its Swedish operation, Spray Network. The company […]

Realizing the potential of the cable ISP market, Stjarn-TV, a major cable television network operator in Sweden, is introducing a flat rate for high-speed Internet connections in Stockholm for $45 per month. The number of cable modems in Sweden has so far been few and in scattered places. The bigger cable operators have so far […]

Nearly 3 million people, 33 percent of the population, are connected to the Net in Sweden, with a growth rate of 36 percent in the past year, according to RelevantKnowledge and its Swedish partner, Sifo Interactive Media. More than 800,000 more people connected in 1998, the firms said. More than half of those who use […]

Swedish company Icon Medialab International AB revealed that its proposed deal to acquire German Net firm Kabel New Media GmbH is off. Hamburg’s Kabel New Media, one of Germany’s leading multimedia firm with customers like Dresdner Bank, BMW and the ATP Tour, terminated the final discussions last week. Several sources speculate that the deal was […]

The merger of Swedish telcos Telia and Norway’s Telenor this past week created a northern European telecom that controls the main Scandinavian Internet service provider market and has the makings of a monopoly. Both telcos are market leaders of Net traffic in each country. Telia in Sweden has about 37 percent of the dial-up market […]

A new Swedish search engine, Allt.com, is being touted as a “new generation search tool,” and with an index of 2.5 million Swedish Web pages, is one of the most comprehensive search site in the Swedish language. Allt.com is considered “the 5th generation of search engine,” according to co-creator Jan-Olof Granlund. Visitors can search the […]

Looking to expand its culture to an international audience, the Swedish government recently launched CultureNet Sweden, a new portal with over 2,500 links on the Net in English. The main navigation selection gives visitors 48 categories to choose from. Under Recommended Sites you find selected sites of interest for the international visitor. The ambitious project […]

Net company Icon Medialab International AB, a quoted Swedish group, extended its presence internationally this week by acquiring Britain’s Module Communications Group Ltd. and Neo Interaktiv AS in Norway. Icon Medialabhas made a name for itself as a fast growing European provider of interactive digital communication. Its strategy is to reach critical mass in each […]

Scandinavian IT firm WM-data is working with artists in Stockholm to bring an international photographic exhibition online to visitors who can’t get to Sweden. Running until January 3, 1999, Under/Exposed is a unique photographic exhibition in which billboard ads in the Stokholm Underground are replaced by over 700 photos from more than 200 international photographers. […]

The number of Swedish users registering its country code (.se) has decreased by over 40 percent in the past year due in large part to restrictions on its usage. NIC-SE, the Swedish organization that handles registration, introduced a policy in January permitting only incorporated companies to use the .se-code. All other enterprises must register under […]

Internet users in Sweden are organizing to more effectively campaign against governmental control of the Internet. BitoS, a trade organization composed of online content providers and distributors, works to monitor the state of copyright, ethics, marketing, infrastructure, e-commerce and education in the country. It recently made headlines with the formation of “Do Not Touch My […]