A 28 year old from Västerås will make Swedish IT history on Tuesday as the first person to be tried for file sharing. The outcome of the case will have a great impact on Sweden's battle between determined file sharers and the anti-piracy organisation, Antipiratbyrå, (APB).
Two-thirds of Swedes secretly read their partner's mobile phone text messages, in particular when he or she nips off to the loo, a study published on Wednesday showed.
Jens of Sweden, an mp3 player company, has filed for bankruptcy in the face of tough competition from abroad, problems with defective players and miscalculated import duties.
At 9.45am on Monday, all channels except SVT1 vanished from televisions on the island of Gotland as the analogue network was switched off. Throughout the day, viewers installed their new digital boxes and at 6pm digital transmission began.
Two senior figures in Sweden's computer industry have claimed in a national newspaper that the country's public organisations illegally copy computer software.
A law introduced a month ago banning the downloading of copyright-protected material without the owner's permission appears to have had no effect on downloaders' behaviour, according to Swedish internet providers.
The Swedish police is to be investigated by the Data Inspection Board after allegations that the force has been keeping an illegal register of people's views.
Sweden's anti-piracy group, Antipiratbyrån (APB), broke the personal data act in its hunt for illegal file-sharers, the country's Data Inspection Board has ruled.
Sweden's justice minister, Thomas Bodström, has called for record companies to stop copy-protecting CDs. In a move which will stoke up the country's increasingly heated copyright protection debate, Bodström has said that if the industry continues to put blocking technology on new music CDs, the government will make it illegal.
Scandinavians can at last start legally downloading music from the world’s largest mp3 site. iTunes is selling a song for 9 SEK online in Sweden, starting today.
<i>(The Local/AFP)</i> A 16 year old boy from Uppsala is at the centre of an FBI investigation into a major spate of hacking attacks on the US military, NASA and IT companies.
A controversial German job website, on which the advertised jobs are given to the person offering to do them for the lowest salary, is on its way to Sweden. The site, <a href="http://www.jobdumping.de">jobdumping.de</a>, was developed by young German entrepreneurs who want to cash in on the record levels of German unemployment.
This weekend sees the opening of the launch window for the last ever Skylark "sounding rocket", which is planned to be launched from the Swedish launch facility at Esrange near Kiruna in the north of Sweden. This will bring to an end almost 50 years of space science using the Skylark rockets.
The largest Swedish sites for file sharing of films - Pirate Bureau, Networks United and The Pirate Bay are demanding a total boycott of the Swedish film industry.
Swedish online gambling company Ongame is to launch interactive poker for mobile-phones. The company, which already has a database of 3.8 million players around the world with an average of 7,000 playing at any given time, claims it is the first in the world to offer such a service.
Classified-ads' site Blocket.se is currently running a limited service after a hacker attacked the site last week. The popular website's technicians are now trying to track the hacker and improve their site security.
Japanese 3G-operator KDDI has sold 5 million songs for downloading onto mobile phones since November. The company's music service "EZ Chaku-Uta Full" uses Stockholm company Coding Technologies' sound software Mpeg-4 aac-plus.
Northern teenagers are the biggest culprits when it comes to illegally downloading movies and music from the Net. According to a study by Lunarstorm, 84% of all teens download files from the Net without paying. After northerners, it's the teens from Småland who are busily building their Mp3 collections.
The public feud between Sweden's anti-piracy group, Antipiratbyrån (APB), and internet service provider Bahnhof has fizzled out after both organisations agreed to stop legal actions against each other.
