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Samsung announces Galaxy Tab 10.1 and 8.9 availability for Nordic countries; 10.1 available today in US

  Samsung’s second larger-sized iteration of Galaxy Tab is now available across United States. The Galaxy Tab 10.1 comes in two variations – 16GB Wi-Fi and 32GB Wi-Fi and are priced at $499 and $599 respectively. Meanwhile, Samsung also announced pricing and availability details for few European countries like Sweden, Finland, Denmark and Norway. All [...]

Broadband access is a legal right in Finland

  Finland became the first country in the world today to make access to broadband a legal right. Starting today, 5.3 million Finnish citizens are now legally eligible to have a broadband connection with a speed of at least 1Mbps. The move came considering internet had become an integral part of everyone’s life, which the [...]

Finland gives nod to snooping e-mail law

Finland gives nod to snooping e-mail law

  It seems Nokia’s unofficial threat worked for them as well as other companies too in Finland. The Finnish Parliament has passed the legislation that will allow Finnish companies to spy their employee’s emails. However, the new law does not permit companies to spy on all the email contents. Instead, a company can go through [...]

Nokia wants to snoop employees or threatens to leave Finland

Nokia wants to snoop employees or threatens to leave Finland

  Nokia’s biggest concern is its trade secrets and it looks like they are trying every ploy to protect it. According to a Finnish newspaper, Nokia is trying to approve a snooping law on employees, also referred to Lex Nokia and has threatened the government to leave the country if it is unapproved. As a [...]