Tag archive: Stockholm

To some, The Pirate Bay is evil personified. To others, including its founders, it’s just a service that does nothing wrong. But the truth is about to be hammered out in a Stockholm courtroom as the three men behind the site and a dotcom millionaire who gave money to support The Pirate Bay go on trial for assisting copyright infringement, according to the Guardian. The Pirate Bay co-founders, Fredik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg and… Read More

Swedish mobile technology developer Ericsson has announced its results for its fourth quarter of 2008, and while the company tries to put a bullish face on the results, it has also announced it is cutting 5,000 positions in an effort to cut costs and improve its bottom line. Ericsson blames poor global economic conditions for the layoffs, but especially a “dramatic drop” in revenue from its mobile phone joint venture Sony… Read More

Speaking at the European Computer Audit, Control and Security Conference in Stockholm, Ericsson's chief marketing officer Johan Bergendahl predicted the days of Wi-Fi hotspots are numbered as mobile broadband technologies become consumers' preferred method for accessing information and the Internet. Bergendahl noted mobile broadband is growing faster in Europe than cell phones or traditional phone service ever did, and likened… Read More

Electronic Arts used the International Developers Conference in Munich on Monday to unveil not just a new game, but a new business model. Battlefield Heroes will follow in the footsteps of previous Battlefield games save for one enormous difference: it will be completely free to download and play. The game will be the first in EA’s new Play 4 Free business model, which the company says will generate income through advertising and… Read More

These days many people accept mobile phones as a fact of life, but most of us still think of them as being somehow a “new” thing, and the truly wise among us might be able to dredge up memories of purse-sized portable phones from (gasp!) the early 1990s. So did you know Ericsson introduced fully automatic mobile phones 50 years ago? Ericsson's early system, called Mobile Telephony A (or MTA) was built for the Swedish… Read More