Fifty of Sweden's 60 biggest web sites are partly or completely inaccessible to groups with visual difficulties, motor problems and other disabilities, according to a new study.
Swedes will spend more on video games than on music for the first time in 2006, according to forecasts from the two industries collated by Swedish Television.
A Swedish web site where members of the public can upload their own video clips claims to be more popular than the much-hyped YouTube - at least in Scandinavia.
Around 380,000 customers of Swedish broadband supplier Bredbandsbolaget have been told they must change their internet password after the company sent out the details as part of a direct mail campaign.
An employee of the Young Liberals has admitted accessing the Social Democrats' computer system without authorization over a three month period earlier this year.
Swedish-Finnish telecommunications operator TeliaSonera on Monday unveiled the world's first UMA technology, enabling users to access mobile and Internet (IP) telephony on the same phone.
Anglo-Dutch technology services firm LogicaCMG on Monday launched a recommended takeover bid for WM-data, valuing its Swedish peer at 882 million pounds.
The sale of personal computers in Sweden fell by 11 percent in the second quarter of 2006, compared with the same quarter last year. In total, 344,520 computers were sold in April, May and June according to statistics from IT Research.
Sweden, which once boasted one of the highest rate of broadband uptake in Europe, has now fallen behind most other countries in northern Europe in terms of the proportion of households subscribing to fast Internet services.
The Pirate Bay, one of the world's most popular websites for illegal downloading of movies, has doubled its number of visitors after Swedish police shut down the site for three days, according to an Internet monitoring site, Swedish daily Dagens Nyheter said on Sunday.
Denmark, Norway and Sweden plan to force Apple Computers Inc to break the exclusive link between its iPod music players and online iTunes store, the Swedish Consumer Agency said on Friday.
Sweden could introduce a charge on all broadband subscriptions to compensate music and film companies for the downloading of their work, while legalizing the downloading of copyright-protected material, justice minister Thomas Bodström has said.
The majority of young people who will be allowed to vote for the first time this September during national elections are in favour of file downloading - despite the fact that it is illegal.
A man has been found guilty of file sharing by a court in Gothenburg, after making a film available for download online. Gothenburg district court ruled that the 26-year old man had shared the feature film 'Rånarna' ('The Robbers') with other Internet users, fining him 16 000 kronor.
A Swedish filesharers' group has condemned Sweden's "repressive" Internet laws as police search for hackers who allegedly disabled government and police websites at the weekend.
The Swedish Security Service has been called in to investigate a suspected hacker attack that crashed the government's web site on Sunday, amid speculation that it was revenge for the closure of a popular file sharing site.
File sharing site The Pirate Bay, which was closed down following Wednesday's raid by the Swedish police, opened again on Saturday morning under a different name: The Police Bay.
The system designed to disrupt mobile signals coming into Sweden’s high-security Hall prison is not working as it is supposed to, allowing prisoners to use mobile phones, Dagens Nyheter has reported.
The American film and music industry rejoiced over the raid by the Swedish police on The Pirate Bay. But reports that the US government was behind the action against the Sweden-based file sharing site have now resulted in the Swedish government being reported to the country's Constitutional Committee.
When police raided the company hosting file sharing site The Pirate Bay, they also closed down a number of sites that have nothing to do with music or film sharing, it has emerged.
