Friday, August 29, 2014

Gear Årnäs Internet shakes Sweden – New Technology

Gear Årnäs Internet, IoT, will shake their own industry. It considers six of ten Swedish companies. They also ranked the problems.

60 percent of the Swedish companies are convinced that the gadget DEVICES Internet will change their own industry within five years.

But, 39 percent do not think so.

Var third company also believes that the technology is “critical” for their own businesses in five years.

100 Swedish manufacturing company answered questions about IoT, Internet of Things, as it is usually called in Swedish gadget DEVICES Internet, or M2M, Machine to Machine.

Resultatet of the survey are presented in the report, the Internet of Things in Sweden, Telenor Connexion has developed with the help of market research company Norstat.

Nearly a third of companies believe that it is the hope of creating a” new services “that operates on a bet on connected gadgets. More than 10 percent choose instead “new revenue stream” and almost as many points to “cost” as the main reason for a bet.

So far, only 77 percent of companies that use technology or plan to do so within two years.

difficulty and that makes many uncertain is the security and integrity. 17 percent of companies indicating this as the biggest challenge. Slightly fewer, 15 percent, pointing out the technical complexity of the systems.

Here you can read the full report. There are also brief interviews with companies that are already using the technology. Among large companies, Volvo, Scania, Electrolux and Verisure, but also start-up companies Narrative and Trax.

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Thursday, August 28, 2014

Extensive hacker attack unraveled in Norway – New Technology

Try to hacker attacks on over 50 companies in the energy and oil sector has been revealed in Norway. Now warns the Norwegian IT security authority for more attacks.

Norwegian IT Security Agency NSA (Nasjonal sikkerhetsmyndighet) revealed a week comprehensive attempt to hacker attacks. They should have been directed at over 50 companies in the energy and oil sector in Norway.

there are fears that many more businesses are threatened.

– About 300 businesses now receive alerts from us with concrete information where we ask them to look for specific things in their logs. It is the largest layoff that we’ve sent out, says Hans Christian Pretorius, Director of the NSA’s operational department to the Norwegian newspaper Dagens Industry.

NSM says the attacks made by employees opening attachments that are sent to them in email.

According to New Data Technology by data security experts with contacts in Norway, the move of targeted attacks exploiting a malicious spyware known under the name Havex, Energetic Bear or Crouching Yeti.

The perpetrators should have placed the program inside PDF files with a view to infect computers with Trojans. This has been possible through a vulnerability in Adobe Flash.

The program must have been active for at least four years. It is considered an advanced threat and may well sabotage, and retrieve information from computers. Main targets so far have been activities in high-tech industries, including machine companies. But also manufacturing, pharmaceutical and construction companies as well as companies in the education and IT sectors have been affected.

– There is a lot of data not be total lost of our members. There may be contracts, patents, trade secrets. It is about high-tech companies that are working on projects, and many of the companies are of course also listed and holds stock exchange sensitive information, says Maiken Ree, CIO in Norwegian branch organization “Norwegian oil and gas,” to today’s business world.

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Wednesday, August 27, 2014

Ikea invests in LED Sheets – New Technology


     Thin, low-energy sheet can provide new lighting design.

Ikea’s venture capital company has entered into a Scottish company that develops ljusark with built-in LEDs.

furniture giant Ikea venture capital firm investing in Greentech Design Led Products, located in the Scottish Livingston. The company has developed a patented technology for pressing thin transparent sheet of segments containing light conductors and LEDs. They can be cut, shaped and assembled in the desired shape.

– This technology opens up tremendous opportunities for innovative design with energy efficient lighting, says Christian Ehrenborg, president of Ikea GreenTech in a statement.

sheets are energy efficient because they are based on LEDs as a light source uses about 85 percent less energy than the old incandescent bulbs. The power consumption is between 25 and 100 watts per square meter, according to Design Led Products website. Although the weight is low: 2.5 kg per square meter.

How much Ikea Greentech investing in the company were not disclosed. Even when the new lighting products might reach the stores.

Så technology works.

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Tuesday, August 26, 2014

Bulk Giant gets crash protection in the hull – New Technology

A new type of plastic steel, which gives three times better crash protection than usual, used in a newly built bulk carriers.

Bulk Giant gets crash protection in the hull

     A bulk carrier of the same type as the crash protected settlement. Photo: Mitsui
     

Bulk Giant gets crash protection in the hull

     Red and yellow portions built with a durable steel. Photo: Mitsui
     

There are Japanese Mitsui OSK Lines, which had built a 300 meter long bulk carrier with a deadweight tonnage of 206,600 tons with the newly developed steel along the long sides.

steel plates called Nsafe-Hull, and has been developed of steelmaker Nippon Steel and Sumitomo Metal together with two sjöforskningsinstitut.

Panels of the new steel quality is arguably easier to shape and has good weldability. They have three times the strength of traditional steel used in shipping.

The plastic properties will prevent water ingress during a side impact, as well as oil from flowing out of the vessel.

3000 tons of steel typent Nsafe_Hull has been used along the sides and in the manufacture of fuel tanks.

The ship was launched in early August at Imarabis laps in Saijo, Japan. The shipyard will market the steel also for construction of other vessels than for bulk carriers.

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Monday, August 25, 2014

Requirements for fingerprints at the grocery store – New Technology

Technology sweep. Venuzuela imposing the fingerprints when purchasing the product. Here a selection of the technology news from the past day.

Compulsory fingerprinting system should be implemented in all supermarkets and supermarkets in Venuzuela. The measure is an attempt to stop uncontrolled smuggling of commodities out of the country, writes SvD.

space probe Rosetta looking for possible landing on the comet 67P / Churyumov-Gerasimenko, reports The Engineer.

A virtual cyclist is seen by car or bus driver when the cyclist is in the blind spot is successful in the market, writes The Guardian.

The retired fishing trawler MS Steel Holm has been given new life as wave power, reports the Technical Ukeblad TU.

Hip Implants, Teeth and new knees will be giving a boost to the market for 3D printers, writes The Guardian.

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C4 Technology forced the restaurant to close – Kristianstadsbladet

Text: Tor Gasslander
Published August 24, 2014 15:30 Updated August 25, 2014 7:50
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Kristianstad.

A restaurant on East Boulevard was forced to close on Sunday after construction workers blocked the entrance.

When Ponsinh Kong came to his restaurant on Sunday morning, he found to his surprise that the entrance had been turned into a construction site.

He is not happy about it.

– I do not want to come to work and get this kind of surprise. It’s like Christmas Eve, but the other way about, he says.

The construction work made it very difficult to get into the restaurant, according Ponsinh Kong, who early on was forced to make the decision to close for the day. Thus, he loses not only current customers, but also opportunities to prepare for tomorrow.

According Ponsinh Kong has C4 technology, which stands for redevelopment outside the restaurant, neither informed of the work is to take place or that the availability would be limited.

– I’m not against the construction and development, but there is no organization for dialogue and it feels as if they never take no account.

Rutger Swensson, Project Manager at C4 technology, believes that they have been informed about the renovation in a timely manner. According to him, the entrepreneurs on the street informed both by letter and staff who visited the stores and discussed the work and its consequences. Meanwhile, says Rutger Swensson that it is not impossible that they missed any.

– We are human and we can make mistakes. It is serious in this case.

C4 Technology expects that the operators concerned should be able to get into their stores on Monday.

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Sunday, August 24, 2014

“Is certain he chose to be first out” – Expressen

James Foley, 40, do not flinch. He kneels in the desert with their hands tied behind their backs. His usual ostyrliga hair is shaved and clothes exchanged for orange prison clothes.

He has just spoken to her family and friends, said that they have to turn to “his real killer” – the American state, and urged his brother who served in the American air fleet to reflect on who they really killer.

By all accounts, he reads before to from a script. A script written by his captors, the Islamic militant jihadistorganisationen State IS.

Beside stands a man, masked and dressed entirely in black. In his hand he has a knife. What happens next is so terrible that it is unbearable. At the end of the film is James Foley on belly in the sand with his own head on his back.

American intelligence immediately put their best techniques to investigate whether the film is genuine. But his family already know, they do not have official confirmation from the White House.

A week earlier, they have received a final e-mail message from the kidnappers.

James Foley grew up in Rochester, New Hampshire, with four siblings. He worked as a teacher before he trained as a journalist at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. He was a popular teacher, such as students came to the event, and thanked him for everything he taught them. Not necessarily school knowledge, but if that was all about life.

But it was the world that attracted. Or really the people, those who lacked their own voice. The oppressed people, the displaced, those without hope for the future, those who are the victims of the wars in Syria, Iraq or Libya. After graduating in journalism training in 2008, he traveled as a reporter embedded with American soldiers to Iraq and Afghanistan. In 2011 he was in Libya to report on what was to be Gaddafi’s case.

It was also in Libya Foley learned that his work was to the death.

James Foley was captured by Khadaffitrogna forces and had to watch his shot injured colleague Anton Hammerl left to die. Foley was released seven weeks later, but was forever changed. He could not stop thinking of his colleague, he fought for that he would be vindicated and that his death would be investigated. He thought too much of her own safety and told in interviews that he always considered the risks.

– I still want to be a war correspondent, but I understand that this is about life and death. The thing that was tough to take in after Anton died is that it could have been anyone of us, he told the Boston Post.

After that, he stayed home for a while.

James Foley’s brother Michael Foley can not help but laugh when he explains to CNN’s Anderson Cooper how it was to suddenly have its world correspondent to the brother at home in Boston – and how overjoyed his children were.

– My two boys looked really, really up to Uncle Jim, “the funny uncle with no rules.”

But there was no long-term stay. James Foley was unhappy and longed to return to the world.

Tuesday, August 12. It is James Foley’s father who discovers the new mail. The first feeling is relief. And new hope. Maybe it’s finally time to get home Jim. It has been almost two years since he disappeared on Thanksgiving in November 2012, the main American family feast of them all.

James Foley was in northern Syria, not far from the border with Turkey on behalf of the news agency Global Post. His close friend and colleague Nicole Tung would have met him that day, but he never showed up.

First, it was dead silent. One year later, the first e-mail. The kidnappers who held James Foley prisoner planned to use him for blackmail purposes against the United States. But they were prepared to release him – for € 100 million, almost a billion. Another option was to switch him to a suitable prisoner in the United States.

But the United States was not interested in such a solution. The policy is not to negotiate with terrorists, contrary to what recently happened when the American soldier, Bowe Bergdahl was changed to five foreign prisoners.

The family writes several emails back. They try to explain that James Foley is an independent, freelance journalist and that he was not in any way with the American government’s decision to make.

They beg for mercy. They tell personal things about her son Jim and his commitment to the people of Syria. They started a Facebook group called “Free James Foley,” they set up in TV interviews – and they weigh every word so as not to jeopardize the newly created contact.

In retrospect, says his father John that they misjudged the ferocity .

Several times described the process as it went forward. That’s why he gets so relieved when the last e-mail comes after having been quiet since December.

In the email it says straight out that their son is now going to be executed, and that it is a direct consequence of the United States bombing in Iraq.

– You did not spare our frail, elderly, women and children, so we will not spare yours! You and your citizens will pay the price.

The kidnappers also writes that the United States had their chances, but refused to negotiate as several other European countries have done.

– He will be executed as a direct result of infringements against us

Eight days later, Wednesday August 20, the film adds up on Youtube. The family sees it. Images that will forever be etched. James Foley’s dad tells afterwards how he is haunted by the thought of how his son was tormented. He can not stop thinking about how much pain you really have time to feel.

At the same time, in some strange way, the film gives the family strength. There’s something about his eyes. “He has the courage left,” as his brother Michael Foley tells CNN.

– He does not flinch. I’m sure that he chose to be the first (before his fellow prisoners) and that he wanted us to be strong. That’s the message he sends to us.

James Foley stood near his family. When he was captured in Libya in 2011 was the mother he thought most. In the interview with the Boston Globe, he explains that he appealed to the kidnappers to let him call home.

– Everything you want is to tell Mom that you’re okay. Maybe she thought I was dead, he said.

On Wednesday, just hours after the movie has been published, it is she who confirms the news on the Facebook page “Free James Foley.”

Diane Foley writes that she “never been prouder of his son.” She gives thanks for all the joy he has given them, and describes him as an amazing son, brother, journalist and human.

– He gave his life to show the suffering of the people of Syria.

The day after President Obama cancel his vacation and receive a large press corps on Martha’s Vineyard. He says he just talked to Foley family on the phone, that he is “devastated” and that the whole world is aghast.

He also takes this opportunity to once again explain the USA’s ongoing attacks in Iraq . He talks about genocide and about the Islamic state as an organization “that does not belong in the 2000s” and that must be stopped.

– Let’s be clear: the Islamic government kills innocent, kidnap women and children, use torture, rape and makes people into slaves.

And he is clear: it will never be possible to stop the United States policy using threats. The bombing of Iraq will continue, which he also proves the following days with several new attacks.

The president also promises that the United States will continue to do everything possible to protect its citizens.

– We will be proactive and be relentless.

What he does not mention is that the demand for ransom or emails that Foley’s family received. He says nothing about the failed rescue attempt of James Foley as the United States did as recently as July.

But the criticism most will be about the next few weeks is what he does immediately after the press conference – go straight back out on the golf course.

Islamic state n (formerly the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria and then shortened Isis), is a militant jihadistorganisation contrary to the governments of Iraq and Syria. The group’s terror stamped by the United States and proclaimed in June a caliphate, a state with extremely strict interpretations of Islamic law.

has previously been spoken of approximately 15,000 combatant members, but in recent years the number of grown rapidly. According to the Syrian Human Rights Observatory to be 6,000 new members have been recruited in Syria only in July. Christians and other minorities, many of them Muslim, have been persecuted, tortured and murdered. According to the UN, the situation in northern Iraq is now so serious that you talk about genocide.

When the United States Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel spoke in the week he termed ICE as an organization “beyond terrorism” and more dangerous than “anything else we have seen so far.” Well-equipped, well-trained, better-funded than, say, Al Qaeda.

The film showing the beheading judged rather as a way to further put IS on the map and attract more extremists than a sincere attempt to persuade the United States to stop their attacks.

It takes four minutes after Obama finished his press conference, and he’s back on the golf course. He’s out for four hours along with former NBA star Alonzo Mourning, they laugh and high-fivear after successful kind.

The criticism afterwards is massive. Obama’s political opponents do not think he is taking the situation seriously and that the message becomes twice, especially after Chuck Hagel tough pronounced. Meanwhile, the information that the United States failed a rescue attempt in July, but since then remained low, and that it refused to negotiate the ransom. When a French journalist says he was imprisoned along with James Foley, but was released along with several other European journalists after their governments paid, it is possible for the first time for many Americans that the United States could have done more.

James Foley’s family does not know what is right, to pay or not pay. But they are disappointed that the Western countries can not be consistent, and that the U.S. policy could put Americans in greater danger.

– As you can probably imagine how it felt to get information to journalists been released when we have built these walls, says father John Foley told CNN.

America’s role in Iraq from the beginning, and the ongoing air assault, however, is discussed relatively little. Neither the family takes up this aspect, even though it was the alleged motive behind the murder of their son. On the contrary, the United States must now move forward says John Foley told CNN when he talks about the cruelty that IS shown by the execution:

– Our government, other countries … How long will we tolerate this?

Decapitated. The horrific video on Youtube showing how the American journalist James Foley beheaded by a masked man. Foley’s brother, Michael, sees the film as a message. “He wanted us to be strong,” he says.

The parents’ grief. James Foley’s parents Joch and Diane Foley meets the press. “He gave his life to show the suffering of the people of Syria,” said Diane after news of his death .. Photo: Jim Cole / AP

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Gothenburg police have cordoned off an area outside the Liseberg amusement park. – Aftonbladet

Gothenburg police have cordoned off an area outside the Liseberg amusement park.

– There is a suspected rape that we are investigating, said Björ Blixer, press officer at the Gothenburg police .

On Saturday morning, police have cordoned off outside the main entrance to Liseberg. A green area outside the amusement park and right by a stream has been closed by the Örgrytevägen. According to the notification to the police were subjected to rape a woman in the area at 04 o’clock this morning.

– We are working on this. We are on-site with techniques and will eventually hear the plaintiff. We do not suspect that we are looking for at the moment, says Björ Blixer, press officer at the police.

The woman is under police at the hospital, but she will not be physically damaged.

The one who has seen something are encouraged to inform the police at 114 14th

The text is updated

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Forget lumps and holes in the breakfast sandwich – the ultimate butter knife is invented. – Aftonbladet

Forget lumps and holes in the breakfast sandwich – the ultimate butter knife is invented.

Super Tool river butter into strips before the bres on the sandwich.

– There was a flash of genius that struck down, says one of the authors.

Cold butter and soft bread is a combination that has always ruined breakfast sandwiches. Many have tried to solve it by cutting the butter into small pieces and heat it, but now the problem is history – the ultimate butter knife invented.

Australian designers have created super tool that tear the butter before it Bres on the sandwich. The strips lie down on the knife and becomes easy to then cross over the bread with all the different soft games.

– We went through different ideas, from new containers and alternative containers to the ancient technique of adding heat, but none of this had any great success, says designer Sacha Pantschenko, 29, from Sydney, to The Telegraph.

“A flash of genius”

He and Craig Andrews, 48, and Norman Oliveria, 27, worked out the knife that makes butter lumps on sandwiches in the future only can be found in the stories for the grandchildren.

– The idea to tear the butter was obviously something we thought about, but to build it into a butter knife was a flash of genius that struck down, he told the British newspaper.

The authors, who succeeded in what Swedish handicraft students tried for centuries, launched the product on crowdfunding site Kickstarter. There, inventors raise money for their ideas to be produced and ButterUp-knife has already collected over equivalent 920 000 SEK – 685 000 crowns above the target. When the blade mass production is estimated to cost between 70 and 90 billion, according to The Telegraph.

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Voices of aftonbladet.se – Aftonbladet

Marianne Schvarcz, 63, was web editor at aftonbladet.se between 1996 and 1998, since editorial development manager until in 2008.

What is your best memory from aftonbladet.se

– in 1997 we sent Rockbjörnen gala live on the network, and it was the very first live broadcast at all in the North. It was incredibly special. No one at the Aftonbladet could see the broadcast of our firewall would not let it through, and we had a very poor track of how many people could see it, but it was so fun, that pioneer thing. I chatted with the performers, including Kent who became this year’s Swedish team that time. I think we had 10 000 viewers on the first night and it was immensely.

Donald Jungkvist, 69, editor of aftonbladet.se 1999-2009:

What is your funniest memory from aftonbladet.se?

- entire development during my ten years at Aftonbladet New Media. There is nothing more exciting than to be part of that along with a bunch of incredible people build and develop a site that is now considered by many as the world’s best news site. It was the most enjoyable years of my journalistic career.

What is the biggest change that has occurred since you began?

– When it became clear that Aftonbladet was a primary news source was 9.11. Then we saw and that so many were told the news on aftonbladet.se but also that they not only wanted the news, but also background information about Osama Bin Laden, Al Qaeda and a variety of things, and they did not want to wait for the morning paper to know. It also changed journalism, in that it does not just have to be fast on the news but on providing background, analysis, video and everything that Aftonbladet is as good on the day.

Stay Hedin, 67, a co-founder who was on aftonbladet.se 1994-1996:

How did it all

– We saw an exciting development in which technology might make it possible distributing news in a different way-and to do it in real time. It was every journalist’s dream to suddenly escape comply with deadlines in the same way.

How does it feel to have been at the beginning of this 20-year journey?

– Aftonbladet’ve nurtured since I finished this baby great. The small lead that we once created’ve been well managed and it’s fun to see that Aftonbladet after 20 years is quite a leader in the field.

What is your strongest memory from aftonbladet.se-time

– We got the big world. It was very much the academic world who had access to the internet, since Ericsson was very big then, so much of our readers in the beginning was the Ericsson employees and students around the world. It was great fun, and when we did the news we received responses from them that the course was fantastic. Then it was of course a shock for them to suddenly get the news on your computer.

Jens Frejrud, 55, one of the pioneers behind aftonbladet.se 1990s.

What is your best memory from aftonbladet.se?

- A special memory is when we fall of 1995 in three months passed from 3000 to 6000 visitors online, and then to 12,000 additional three months later. Then we started to count – and concluded that, with the growth rate – a doubling of the number of readers every three months – would soon have more readers than the printed paper. Tank dizzy. It does not anymore.

What is your funniest memory?

– Eurovision Song Contest in Oslo 1996 It started at the point where I was being chased by Norwegian customs who discovered that my station wagon was chock full of computers and displays – they was a little bigger at the time. When we linked up all the equipment in a hotel room, we managed to get all the plugs to go as an entire floor was shut down. From that hotel room – where a variety of artists and curious media people crowded all week – we delivered since the first online coverage of a song contest, including motion pictures, the few thousand fans with the passage of slow modems.

Eva Hamilton, 60, CEO of Swedish Television:

How congratulate you aftonbladet.se the 20th anniversary

– Aftonbladet.se is the birthday child that provides a daily happy reminder that it is both possible to make money and do quality journalism in a digital world.

What is your strongest memory from this website

– title ” TV boss dachshund damaged by wild boar. ” My dog ​​Tassa survived.

Cilla Benkö, 50, managing director of the Swedish Radio:

What is your best memory from aftonbladet.se

– My best memory is the power and the courage they showed in the beginning when it really took a position and thus became the largest on the web.

What adds aftonbladet.se Media Sweden

– The fire is in the butt to all of us and operates in some parts thus on development.

How do you celebrate aftonbladet.se on the 20th anniversary?

– I want to wish you good luck with maintaining your status and position. Make sure you do not lose now that Aftonbladet also should focus on so many other things, such as terrestrial TV.

Jan Scherman, 64, CEO of TV4 2001 to 2011, now a Strategic Advisor at Aftonbladet:

What is your funniest memory from aftonbladet.se?

- I remember when aftonbladet.se long ago for the first time showed target images from hockey and the technology was so poor at that time you could not see the puck. I sat on TV, breathing calmly and said to myself that it would never become anything. But I was terribly wrong.

How have you seen aftonbladet.se grow?

– Aftonbladet had admirably put themselves on the front line and received a lot of doubt from us who was in the business, but was persistent, insolent, challenging, provocative, and took pole position, so hats off.

How do you celebrate aftonbladet.se on the 20th anniversary

– Bravely done, congratulations to you is by far the best in class.

You do not just say this to you now works at Aftonbladet

– It is clear that it is a little easier to say it when I’m sitting here, but I had, I hope, I said that if I sat somewhere else too. It can always say it’s not someone who can check.

George Scott, 47, the former boxer, the first celebrity who chatted on aftonbladet.se Autumn 1995:

What do you remember from the chat?

– It was something completely new. I was almost more impressed by the journalists thought it was so damn good. They wanted everything off fast as hell and they turned out very stressful there occasionally.

You asked among other things if you liked gap. It did not. Has it changed anything?

– No, it will be a sure no to. Chicken, couscous and lamb tastes better.

How does it feel to be the first in a long line of celebrities like Carol, Jonas Gardell and Per Gessle who chatted on aftonbladet.se

– It was cool. It was a totally new thing they came up with, which was so very big, so it was fun that was first and got his eyes on him.

Martha Stone, CEO of World News Media Network:

How do you celebrate aftonbladet.se birthday?

– Congratulations to Aftonbladet, which of course is a world leader in digital media innovation.

– Aftonbladet is far ahead of the rest of the newspaper world when it comes to digital storytelling and how to make money on it.

David Dinsmore, editor of English The Sun:

Why do you think aftonbladet.se been so successful 20 years

– The era we’re in right now is all about trying new things and creating products that appeal to consumers. Aftonbladet is apparently great progress in the field and produce something that we can all learn from.

– I have also been introduced to Aftonbladet’s smartphone app. I was particularly impressed with push notices and advertisement opportunities available inside the app. It is obvious that it has become a market leader in Sweden.

Alan Hunter, digital director at English The Sun and The Times:

What do you think has made a aftonbladet.se such a success these 20 years?

– What distinguishes Aftonbladet is that you long ago realized that digital quality journalism can – and probably should – be paid for. It is something that the rest of the world begin to make until now. You have also been constantly innovative with things like Tell and your focus on crime.

How do you celebrate aftonbladet.se on the 20th anniversary

– Happy birthday, I wish you another 20 years of success.

Wolfgang Blau, digital strategy director in English The Guardian and Vice President of the Global Editors Network, former editor of German Zeit Online:

What does aftonbladet.se for you

– Aftonbladet is one of those brilliant European success stories in digital publishing and living proof that the media organizations with a long history very well may succeed in the digital world – journalistically and financially.

What do aftonbladet.se to an international role model

– Aftonbladet is and has been a pioneer in so many aspects of online journalism and the technical tools for it, whether it is about online video, reader engagement or with its progressive use of social media. Happy Birthday, aftonbladet.se.

Scott Lamb, international vice president of Buzzfeed and one of the successful news site’s creator:

How congratulate you aftonbladet.se on the 20th anniversary?

– Congratulations to you been on the web longer than almost any other, and to all your successes.

What do you do to 2.3 million people visit daily?

– It feels like it’s very ahead of its time. The mix of visual elements, serious articles and lighter stuff feels very much like a modern social news feed. Even if you do not speak Swedish, you become eager to click around on the page.

Lisbeth Langwadt, senior editor at the Danish Ekstra Bladet:

What do you do aftonbladet.se so successful?

– Aftonbladet.se launched in the many years before ekstrabladet.dk and has been pioneering since then – for example, with paid content, Plus, you got ten years before us.

– This guarantees you success and results, which is unique and exemplary. And then you have some crazy talented people – both as Reporters and managers.

What can other Nordic media learn of aftonbladet.se?

- Very. Since you on several levels ahead of us and other media in the Nordic region as we seek often ideas in general, which has been very rewarding for us. Among other things, you have built up some very popular profiles, commenting, writing columns and analyzes. It can be many other media to get better at. On the whole, I think that you are good at getting an idea, make a plan and reach the goal within a very short time.

Espen Egil Hansen, editor of Aftenposten and former head of the VG’s Online activity:

What is it that made aftonbladet.se so successful?

– Aftonbladet, along with VG become the world’s most successful online magazine are the basis of a media house . They are the newspapers that have been most successful when it comes to reading and economy.

– The first editor Kalle Jungkvist is one of the most visionary media leaders I know. He had an incredible ability to combine traditional journalism with new technology. He realized early on that the web was all about communication rather than for publication.

How do you celebrate aftonbladet.se on the 20th anniversary

– I want to congratulate on the day and say that it’s always been incredibly fulfilling to work with Aftonbladet – it has been a great inspiration.

Kari Kivelä, editor of Finnish Iltalehti:

What is your relationship to aftonbladet.se?

- It is a model in digital media, absolutely world class. Today it takes publishers throughout the West after aftonbladet.se. Lately audacity Mobile inspired us a lot.

What do you think makes the site a strong online product?

– The bold and visionary strategy from www ‘s early days, a well-organized editorial and constant innovation seems to be the recipe.

How do you celebrate the anniversary aftonbladet.se

– Enjoy your successes. Continue to be brave, innovative, liberal – and keep your cocky attitude when we meet in hockey.

Minna Nissinen, director of the Finnish media group Alma Media Group:

How To you aftonbladet.se shelf on the 20th anniversary

– I would like to congratulate aftonbladet.se to have made it past adolescence and reached adulthood. It has been inspiring to follow the active job done on Aftonbladet to grow with the challenges and exploit the benefits of digitization. I wish aftonbladet.se a very long and successful life.

Pouya Vafaeian, 29, developer, Stockholm:

What does aftonbladet.se for you

– I usually surf the Aftonbladet when I have a bit boring. There is a good mix of fun and more serious news. I have heard that Aftonbladet is faster than others on posting news, since it’s a bit more entertaining.

Anette Bergkvist, 60, mattant, Oxelosund:

What does aftonbladet.se for you

– I watch a lot of hand on the internet. It’s easy and you can update all the time. The newspaper comes just once a day so I look now and then. I’ve always liked Aftonbladet best, it is easiest to read.

Elin Lindgren, 19, student, Bromma:

What does aftonbladet.se for you?

– I’m more in there than reading the papers. Is there anything I need to know so I check on the internet as I have in the phone. It’s not like I go and buy a newspaper then. It usually gets it happened something great or if someone shares something on Facebook.

How does it feel to aftonbladet.se actually older than you?

– I have not even thought of! I did not realize it was so old. It’s a pain to get it going on the system before.

Peace Eriksson, 60, works at the penitentiary, Gunnebo:

What does aftonbladet.se for you?

– This is my journal as I read online several times a day. It is extremely rare that I read the paper magazine now – only if I get on the train. I have just the mobile app and read on the computer when I want a little more. My parents read Aftonbladet and I have always done it, but now you are the more used to the media other than the printed paper.

Victoria Roth, 40, a massage therapist, Kista:

What does aftonbladet.se for you

– I’m not a big user of the news media and buy only paper magazine several times a year, but I have Aftonbladet’s mobile app and check the website when I have time. It’s more accessible and you get a larger view. Sometimes when I go to sleep and have checked all the text messages and emails, so I go in to Aftonbladet to get control of the situation.

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Thursday, August 21, 2014

525 kilovolts in a cable system – New Technology

ABB has managed to get to 525 kilovots voltage plastic insulated HVDC cable technology, the company states.
– A significant breakthrough in high-voltage engineering, says Spiesshofer, ABB’s CEO.

There is a new plastic insulated cable systems that ABB’s cable factory in Karlskrona has developed and self-proclaimed successfully tested.

A voltage of 525 kilovolts used for transmission of high voltage direct current (HVDC).

The method should make more efficient electricity interconnections and enable the connection of renewable energy from remote sources.

ABB promises a doubling capacity from 1,000 megawatts to 2,600 megawatts by the method. Transmission losses should be less than five percent when more than two gigawatts of electrical power can be transmitted through 1500 km long cable system.

– Compared with paper wrapped oil impregnated cables required less investment money and less operating money. It is simply cheaper, says Marc Jeroense, development manager for product cables to new technologies.

The system can, according to ABB used on the seabed and below ground and represents a voltage increase of 64 percent.

“This is a significant breakthrough in high-voltage technology that will be of great importance for the integration of renewable energy into the grid and electricity interconnections for power exchange between countries,” said Spiesshofer, ABB’s CEO in a press release. But what does the method for me specifically?

– Due to the threat of climate change, we want more renewable energy and we need to transport energy over long distances. Then it will be possible on this type of cable. It is better for the environment, says Marc Jeroense.

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The technology that prevents the next flood – New Technology


     A car stuck in flood waters on a road outside Getinge on Tuesday. The last few days heavy rain in Halland has led to major problems with flooding. Photo: TT
     

Three years ago hit Norrköping by torrential rains and flooded basements. New wastewater and stormwater systems to stop future flooding.

While the emergency services and the Home Guard is getting ready for more rain in flood-hit Halland, so demonstrating how Norrköping municipality strengthen its defense against flooding.

Summer 2011 was the rain cats and dogs in Norrköping and water entered the basement 800. This was followed by a study which showed that the water mains needed to be improved, type NT, Norrköping newspapers. A total of municipally owned NVA, Norrköping water and waste, invest SEK 150 million over ten years.

Yesterday, Wednesday, was demonstrated the first of the new facilities to be built, called a delay magazine with a översvämningsyta. In torrential rain the water will be able to flow into the delay compartment that can hold 110 to 120 cubic meters. It has also built a sedimentation pond and a trench filled with coarse aggregate. These measures will reduce the flow of Pjältån there the water flows more slowly in new storm sewers.

– The strategy is to reduce speed and to divert the water, says project manager Peter Jideström to NT.

Similar delay magazine will be built in four neighborhoods of the municipality.

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Wednesday, August 20, 2014

Shootout in Kalix – man with knife shot by police – Aftonbladet

A knife gunman should assaulting a police officer in Kalix on Wednesday afternoon. Then seized the other officers in – and shot against the person.

– The man is hit and taken to hospital, says Kristina Sjöström, CIO at the police unit in Norrbotten, Aftonbladet.

A police has shot against a knife gunman in Kalix, reports P4 Norrbotten. The man is hit and taken to hospital.

It was at 14:30 on Wednesday afternoon that police were warned that a man in their 30s behaved threateningly.

Police patrols were sent to the scene, a residential area in the village of Nyborg, and where the man went on the attack against the police officers and the police car.

– he had a weapon, but I do not comment on what type of weapon at the moment, says Kristina Sjöström, CIO at the police unit in Norrbotten, Aftonbladet.

According to P4 Norrbotten tillhygget should have been a knife. When the man went on the attack against the police officers shot the man.

– The police were forced to use their service weapons and shoot for effect against man, says Kristina Sjöström.

Villa neighborhood where the shooting incident occurred comprises seven properties and has been cordoned off, writes NSD. The road is completely sealed off and police technicians working on the site, there are also paramedics.

How Damaged The victim is the man wants Christina Sjostrom not comment.

– I can not give any details of the injury situation. The man is hit and taken to hospital, she says.

The man has been arrested on suspicion of, among other things, attempted aggravated assault, and the police have launched a preliminary investigation.

– He is known to police in the past. I will not comment more about it, says Kristina Sjöström.

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Marine Bacteria possible energy source – New Technology

Bacteria with a special pigments can absorb large amounts of carbon dioxide. The discovery may lead to environmentally friendly energy generation in the future.

There are researchers at Linnaeus University and Spain who have made the findings, recently published in the scientific journal PNAS.

– It has long been known that bacteria in the oceans act as decomposers, like fungi and other microorganisms in the soil. But, thanks to the light-sensitive pigment proteorodopsin also effectively capture carbon dioxide is a novelty, says Jarone Pinhassi, associate professor of marine microbiology at Linnaeus University, in a press release.

There are about a billion bacteria per liter of seawater. At sea level, approximately half of these bacteria pigment proteorodopsin.

The pigment was discovered in 2000 and Jarone Pinhassi and his research team have previously found that bacteria with this pigment grow better in the light than in the dark and they also survive starvation periods in better light.

– An attractive idea is that exploit marine bacteria’s ability to conserve sunlight and carbon dioxide for biotechnological applications. To ultimately utilize the knowledge of bacterial carbon fixation and metabolism in the context of the development of clean and renewable energy would be fascinating, says Jarone Pinhassi.

Research results show that bacteria with proteorodopsin growing in light can fix large amounts of carbon dioxide. Up to 30 percent of the cellular material in these bacteria come from carbon dioxide.

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Google’s self-driving cars will drive faster – New Technology

Technology sweep. Google’s self-driving cars are designed to exceed the speed limit. Here a selection of the technology news from the past day.

Google self-driving cars are designed to exceed the speed limit by up to 16 kilometers per hour BBC reports.

Steve Ballmer leaves Microsoft’s board of directors, writes The New York Times.

To hack traffic lights is surprisingly light, according to researchers at MIT.

Power outages have hit out both IP and mobile telephony in the Western Upland. The reason is that there is no automatic backup of backup power for mobile stations, reports the UNT.

Saab wants to hire recruit 200 in Malmo after Kockum purchase, writes Sydsvenskan.

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Tuesday, August 19, 2014

Here are new Flappy Bird – New Technology


     Swing Copters. Photo: Youtube
     

It was loaded home so many times that the creator picked it off the AppStore.
But now Dong Nguyen back with a new version of the hit game Flappy Bird writes theregister.co.uk.

 Here is the new Flappy Bird

     Flappy Bird. Photo: Youtube
     

With about 50 million downloads the app Flappy Bird became a super hit when it arrived. But the game’s addictive nature with an 8 bits-bird to get past obstacles in the form of tubes got creator Dong Nguyen to have a guilty conscience.

So even though he pocketed the money in the game so he chose to withdraw it from the AppStore, with the explanation that people spent too much valuable time on it.

But now, as promised, a modified version.

The new “Swing Copters”, a Flappy Bird-like figure to get past the barrier of the swinging hammer.

How bad conscience Dong Nguyen will get for this version is unclear.

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Our games are a way out of the grief – Swedish Dagbladet

In a blog post , dated June 26, 2014 Joakim writes about how his father hanged himself in a woodshed in 2009 and that the smell of wood and resin must have filled lungs in his last breath. Every time Joakim smell of wood he thinks of it.

It is beautifully told, directly and honestly, unsentimental but emotionally rich. In an obvious way, he weaves into external and internal events, his father’s life story portrayed in pithy details along with reflections on death, grief and consolation. The insert is part of an ongoing biographical trip blog shape; he calls the “Press Play On Tape”, and it is an attempt to understand a childhood and a life through video games history.

When Joakim did know that his father had died, he was at home with her little brother . They played “Gears of War 2″ and had just the last opponent left when the phone rang (the game then became associated with discomfort, the brothers played clear it until several years later, together, as a conclusion). He remembers that he played “Command & amp; Conquer “when his mother died in 1995 after many years of severe depression.

-tv- and computer games have been a comfort to me and followed me through life, but I have rarely used them as some sort of escapism, rather the opposite – I have related to them in a way that made me understand and accept life.

He faces me at the bus stop near the University of Karlstad. It’s a muggy, hot summer day and the air is stationary. We walk back to his apartment. Joakim limping, he has a rare neurological disorder that causes him to have chronic pain in my feet. As support, he has his father’s black cane in his right hand.

On the way, he warns me that the apartment is messy, but it is a grave exaggeration. In the living room stands games and movies in neat rows on shelves, on the table, a candy dish, next to the TV and a Playstation 4 to the left of the couch a computer. Outside the window echoes the playground empty.

– When I was little I took frequent until the knee because of pain. I still do. When the games were something that allowed me to move around freely, playing sports, running, without being forced to lie and scream of pain afterwards. Of course it was awesome.

He got caught early arcade game “Pac-Man” at the local diner. He reached almost up to the controls, but was of some obscure reason fascinated with the fascination and never released. Having let Nintendo consoles a period Joakim finally bought a personal computer, a Commodore 64, a friend.

– I really like the consoles but the strongest memories from that time are still computer games. They were so many odd, bizarre game that I appreciated.

Soon awakened love of adventure, especially those produced by the American developer LucasArts.

– I felt absolutely fantastic stories in many of their games.

Joakim’s mother was initially quite worried that he would not spend too much time watching the games. She had some kind of intuitive understanding of the widely-cited Canadian communications theorist Marshall McLuhan 60 talstes that “the medium is the message.”

– She had the shark in any way. That it really does not matter what we play, but that the technology itself is changing our behavior. But it need not be a bad thing.

Many of the funniest memories Joakim has with his parents is in no way associated with the game. He remembers that he and his father worked in the classic boxing game “Punch-Out” on Nintendo and can today play through it and barely get hit a single time. He played “Ice Climber” with her mother, and remember that she was very fond of “Side Pocket”, a “pig boring” billiard game.

– She was less worried about my playing over the years.

Even when Joakim was at elementary school, she had made several suicide attempts. Joakim has read the journals that she during a year tried to kill himself five times. She was temporarily admitted to a psychiatric ward, and at some point he saw that she had big scars, but he did not really understand what that meant.

– Parents are as unattainable in any way when you are little. Therefore, it became confusing. Dad was very stable and I thought he could do it all, but in fact, it took the fatal for him completely.

In a home where depression and threats of suicide were more or less normalized constituted games a constant in life . One December evening, after some calmer years, however, the mother fell asleep with his face in the plate at the kitchen table.

– She had taken a bunch of pills. I went in one in high school.

Joakim says he played much after she passed away. Partly fantasy games, and humorous favorite game “Day of the Tentacle” because it was so merry, it served as a counterpoint to the darkness.

– I’m the “Afterlife” pretty much also.

The “Afterlife” to be you which players manage and organize heaven and hell. On a meta level, it is easy to interpret the game as a satire of these two conceptual worlds because they are so grotesquely exaggerated. Joakim want to accept that his mother was gone, he wanted to see the loss of the eye, without romanticizing or imagining that she was an angel sitting on a cloud.

– For me worked, “Afterlife” as the reality reinforcement. It helped me come to terms with a lot of religious beliefs that I wanted to leave behind me, and was like a confirmation that I was right to accept that she simply was gone forever.

He was too engrossed in game “The Dig”, a dark sci-fi adventure in which you participate in a space mission, stranded on an asteroid. Gradually, it appears that the game in many ways is about accepting

death. In one scene, for example, brought a German archeologist to life after being killed. He gets mad.

– I think it is a clever illustration of that you have to let go, mourn and move on. You can not pretend that nothing has happened.

Joakim trained high school teacher in Swedish and English and works part time at a high school in Karlstad, which allows him to combine it with his role of gaming and music writer. At school, he sees how much young people play today, on their phones, computers and consoles.

He could wish that those who spend a lot of time on it also could try to think more about what they actually do and experience – students are often unaccustomed to organize themselves around their interest. When he tries to draw parallels with the literature he notices that it is difficult to make the connection. For pedagogical reasons, he usually let them play “But that was yesterday” on a large screen in the classroom. It’s a pretty abstract computer game that is about to move on after experiencing something terrible.

– Since we read Twilight’s “To kill a child” and Strindberg’s “A half-sheet of paper” and look at the points of contact these stories have. Then they usually understand.

Joakim says that the game medium is different from, for example, film and literature because it is an interactive experience, you are in control of the game world frames and your choice creates forward movement. In this way, they offer more freedom and to be more empathy-inducing than if you passively reading a book or watching a TV series.

– then it’s often damn fun. You have to play just for fun too.

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Chocoholic Engineer Wanted – New Technology

Technology sweep. Do you have what it takes to become Doctor chocolate? Here a selection of the technology news from the past day.

A German vindkraftsby may be the largest battery with a capacity of 5 MWh, writes Danish Ingeniøren.

One of the United States largest hospital groups, Community Health Systems, has been hit by a cyber attack from China. The data from 4.5 million patients have ended up in the wrong hands, reports Reuters.

Norwegian based Europe’s first mobile network neutral, says Technical Ukeblad.

world first ” Smartphone “celebrates 20 years, writes the BBC.

Chocoholic sought for research, according to ABC News.

German scientist manufactures artificial retina in super material graphene, according to The Engineer.

Hard to identify satire? Then perhaps a satire highlighting that Facebook is testing help, writes The Register.

Michael Mosley , the man behind the 5: 2-diet test how safe it is to eat meat in the BBC Horizon.

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German gust trying giant battery – New Technology

The German village of Feldheim is self-sufficient in wind power. Now, test that store electricity in Europe’s biggest battery.

The German wind power company Enercon and its partners Energiequelle GmbH will try to store electricity from wind turbines in a giant battery. It writes the Danish newspaper engineer today.

Electricity generated from 43 wind turbines in the German village of Feldheim, located near Berlin, to be stored in a battery which has a capacity storing five megawatts and a power of ten megawatts. The battery will be good to have cold winter days – when there is no wind – and is said to be able to provide the village with the power of an entire day.

Battery consists of lithium-ion components and manufactured by LG Chem. It will occupy a space of 500 square meters with a transformer. The plant will cost 97 million Danish kroner and construction began in June.

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Riding Lawn overturned – one dead – Aftonbladet

A man in 55-year-old was cutting the grass on a golf course this morning when something went wrong.

The machine overturned and the man was crushed beneath it.

He was so badly hurt that he died.

The alarm about the accident in Norrköping golf club arrived just before eight o’clock on Monday morning.

An employee of the 55-year-old who cut grass with a large riding mower ended up for unknown reasons during it.

– A coworker found him at the scene, there has been this big mower roller in any way, says Thomas Agnevik, spokesman for the police in Östergötland.

The man was seriously injured and taken to hospital by ambulance, but his life could not be saved. During the morning, police said that the man had died.

The police have launched a preliminary investigation by health and safety offenses and manslaughter. At present, there is no suspect.

– We will do a really thorough investigation into what happened, said Thomas Agnevik.

The mower has been seized for forensic examination.

The man’s next of kin have been informed of the death.

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NASA scientists secure: the particles are cosmic dust – New Technology

Seven particles of unknown origin have been able to be detected by the spacecraft Stardust. According to researchers at the American space agency Nasa will not from our solar system.

 The thin black line in the upper left reveals that the particle, called Sorok, has been captured and vaporized in the airgel. Aerogel consists two thousandths of silicon and the rest, & quot; nothing & quot; who slows down and captures star stuff without destroying it. Credit: Westphal et al. 2014 Science / AAAS

     The thin black line in the upper left reveals that the particle, called Sorok, has been captured and vaporized in the airgel. Aerogel is composed of two parts per thousand silicon and the rest “nothing” that slows down and captures the star stuff without destroying it. Credit: Westphal et al. 2014 Science / AAAS

One of the particles captured by Stardust airgel aboard. Credit: Andrew Westphal

     One of the particles captured by the airgel board Stardust. Credit: Andrew Westphal

For seven years, hoovering detectors aboard the Stardust Interstellar Dust Collector space for particles that do not originate in our solar system. Bid: NASA / JPL-Caltech

     For seven years, hoovering detectors aboard the Stardust Interstellar Dust Collector space for particles that do not come from our solar system. Bid: NASA / JPL-Caltech

In 1999 was sent Stardust spacecraft into space. The aim was to look for cosmic dust that traveled into our solar system. On board were detectors with airgel and aluminum foil where the particles, or traces of them, would be captured.

In 2006, Stardust returned to Earth and dropped the capsule with the detectors.

In the seven years since then, a consortium of 70 researchers and 30 000 volunteers studied 700 000 microscope pictures taken by the detector’s content. The recently revealed the results show that seven of the trapped particles are neither coming from our solar system or from the probe itself. According to NASA, the first cosmic dust that have been identified and studied here on Earth.

The largest particle has a diameter of 2 microns while the smallest being 200 nanometers. According to scientists, similar to some of those tiny snowflakes.

Together they weigh seven particles one trillionth of a gram. The low weight despite expected to reveal previously unknown details about what happened when the solar system was born.

Researchers evidence that the particles are not comes from our solar system are published in the latest issue of the journal Science.

Twelve additional articles about the findings published in the next issue of the journal Meteoritics & amp; Planetary Science.

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Make solar cells used car batteries – New Technology

Technology sweep. Make solar cells of old car batteries, suggest researchers at MIT. Here is a selection of the technology news from the past day.

Material from used car batteries can be reused in solar cells, according to MIT researchers.

Twitter has closed dozens of accounts where the jihadists of the Islamic State (IS) brags about atrocities and come with threats, reports The Telegraph.

Analysis Richard III bones reveals royal luxury life, according to Cnet.

Hundreds of millions pours into the Danish biogas, writes Jyllands-Posten.

The seismic activity is increased by Icelandic Barðarbunga, which may be signs of a volcanic eruption is coming. It reports Wired.

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