Nearly all Swedish over 65s own and use a mobile phone and are at the forefront of the technology's use in comparison with European counterparts, a new report published on Tuesday shows.
Swedes received a lesson in the internet’s power for deception when a Facebook group claiming to support heart research suddenly changed into one aimed at scrapping women’s right to vote.
A Swedish company has been fined 25,000 kronor ($3,000) after a malfunctioning robot attacked and almost killed one of its workers at a factory north of Stockholm.
The average Swede spends 18 hours a week surfing the internet, according to a new report, and students and university graduates are no longer the ones spending the most time in front of a computer screen.
Sweden's largest music rights organization has proposed making file-sharing legal by including the cost of music downloads in packages offered by Internet Service Providers (ISPs).
A man suspected of spreading a computer virus that caused chaos for Swedish public authorities and media companies in 2002 failed to appear in court in Härnösand, northern Sweden, on Wednesday.
A Swedish company believes it may have discovered a lawful solution to the movie industry's long-running file sharing quandary. By merging peer to peer file sharing methods with advanced watermarking technology, Stockholm firm Headweb hopes to beat the internet pirates at their own game and offer consumers a legal alternative.
The controversy surrounding Microsoft's comprehensive victory in a ballot held earlier this week has taken a new twist with the Swedish Standards Institute (SIS) now deciding to nullify the vote.
Foreign Minister Carl Bildt has become first high-profile Swedish politician to set up a page on popular networking site Facebook. But there's not much politics on his page.
British telecoms company Omnifone on Thursday launched MusicStation, a new music download service for mobile phone users in Sweden, beating Apple's iPhone to the global marketplace by two weeks.
Swedish search company Eniro has bought Danish firm Krak for 500 million kronor ($70 million). According to Eniro, Krak presides over one of the five largest websites in Denmark.
China will soon have its first cash-based virtual world, where millions of people can work, socialize, learn and fall in love, Sweden-based Entropia Universe announced on Wednesday.
The Maldives has pipped Sweden to the post by unveiling the world's first virtual embassy in Second Life just days before the Scandinavian country's planned launch.
Thousands of broadband customers in Malmö have been able to view each other's internet traffic, including email. They have also been able to see which web pages other people in the same network have visited.
The number of cases of libel on the internet reported to the Swedish Data Inspection Board has soared from four in 2000 to 157 in 2005 - but that is only a fraction of the total number of complaints received, according to Sveriges Radio.
Check Point Software Technologies Ltd., an Israeli maker of security software, has said it will buy Protect Data AB, a Swedish company, for $586 million.
Over the last two weeks, ten households in Sundsvall in northern Sweden have been charged with the task of evaluating a state-of-the-art e-paper prototype that may come to revolutionise the newspaper industry, Dagens Nyheter reports.
