One year ago, a simple and very cool construction kit for children came out; called Strawbees, it lets kids develop their inner engineer by making all kinds of structures out of… Read more »
A trio of Swedish firms — car manufacturer Volvo, helmet maker POC and networking outfit Ericsson — have announced a collaboration around the avoidance of collisions between cars and cyclists. At… Read more »
The well-funded Swedish app is now using algorithms to suggest who its users should call, based on their call history, as well as time and place. Read more »
Bahnhof was the last Swedish ISP to resist the enforcement of a data retention law that is arguably illegal under EU law. Now it’s technically giving in, but it intends to… Read more »
Bahnhof is the only Swedish ISP to still be holding out against a local data retention law that should arguably have been struck down following a major EU court ruling earlier… Read more »
The European startup is building a crowdsourced network composed of members’ home and business Wi-Fi. Instabridge says it’s now hosting 20,000 sessions and adding 1,000 new access points to its network each day. Read more »
Truecaller’s no longer just an anti-spam service — now it wants to become the go-to service for contacts and personal information management. But, despite all the investment that’s pouring in, there’s… Read more »
The Swedish firm wants to use Ambient’s technology for allowing smart grid communication over different kinds of connection — and at a reported $7.5 million, the company was arguably a steal. Read more »
The OECD’s definition of broadband may be loose, but according to its figures the U.S. now has as many high-speed wireless links as it has people. Read more »
KnCMiner, a Swedish company that makes hardcore hardware for the Bitcoin mining crowd, is constructing a data center for that very purpose. As reported by Data Center Knowledge, the 10-megawatt facility… Read more »