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Articles tagged with: Tampere
Nokia Research Center extends partnership with University of Tampere
The Nokia Research Center (NRC) tampere has extended its open partnerships to include a new frame agreement with University of tampere. This new agreement will recognize and formalize the co-operation between the University of tampere and the NRC, especially in the areas of human-technology interaction, games research and context-aware media. more
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Smart alarm clock for mobile phones
Sleep disorders are very common in modern society. Mild forms are familiar to everyone and up to 10 - 20 per cent of adults suffer from related diseases (organic sleep disorders). Diagnosing sleep disorders often requires extensive and expensive sleep recording at a sleep laboratory. At the moment, there are hardly any good screening methods for detecting sleep disorders. more
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Telecoms Regulatory Conference Debates Infrastructure Sharing
The Global Symposium for Regulators (GSR) closed today, focusing on best practices in regulatory measures to foster and encourage sharing of infrastructure resources as a means of stimulating investment and growth in the ICT sector. more
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Nokia Staff Stage Walkout over Job Cuts
Thousands of Nokia staff walked out on strike last Friday in protest at the company's recently announced plan to cut up to 700 jobs. Up to 8,500 office staff was set to stop working at 2 pm at Nokia's tampere and Oulu offices, according to Susanna Konttinen, representative for the Union of Salaried Employees. The strike was to last the remainder of Friday afternoon, although it is not clear how many staff participated in the walkout. more
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Mobile phone to be tested as travel card in Tampere
The use of mobile phones in current public transport systems is being tested in tampere, the third largest city in Finland. The trial will also collect experiences to be utilized in revamping the tampere City ticket system. TeliaSonera, TietoEnator and Nokia have together developed a service entity where the mobile phone is used as a travel card in public transport. Current travel card technologies and the mobile phone are made compatible with the new Near Field Communication (NFC) technology. more
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Disaster zones get easier telecoms deployment
Victims of disasters will now be able to benefit from faster and more effective rescue operations, thanks to the tampere Convention on the Provision of Telecommunication Resources for Disaster Mitigation and Relief Operations that comes into force Saturday, 8 January 2005, following ratification by 30 countries. more
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Another 3G network launches in Finland
Sonera Corporation opened its Finnish 3G network on January 1, 2002. In line with the licence conditions, Sonera's UMTS network operates in the largest four towns in Finland, i.e. the Helsinki metropolitan area, Oulu, tampere and Turku. The network will be expanded in future based on commercial demand. Commercial service provision is scheduled to start when UMTS phones are available to consumers. Until then, the Finnish UMTS network will be in Sonera's own test use. Sonera estimates that the UMTS market in Finland will be launched on a wider scale in 2004 and 2005. more
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Radiolinja purchases GSM network
Radiolinja has purchased a GSM network from Soon Communications Plc in Finland. With this acquisition, Radiolinja has acquired ownership of the radiotechnical shares in its use in the tampere region, in the south of Finland. The masts, equipment facilities and transfer connections used in Radiolinja's network, which are located in the same region are owned by Soon Net, a subsidiary of Soon Communications. Radiolinja will continue to lease aerial and equipment facilities and transfer connections from Soon Net. Cooperation with Soon Net will also continue in the construction and maintenance of the GSM network." more
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Finland gets live GPRS in a couple of weeks
Sonera will launch the first GPRS service in Finland on December 11th. The GPRS service will initially operate in the Helsinki area and Turku, tampere and Oulu including their vicinities. The service will be initially limited to about 20kbps and will use Motorola handsets." more
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