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Articles about the IT business and research environment of the Øresund Region.

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TAT: Pushing the visual limits for mobile phones
Small interface, big ideas: Sweden’s TAT - The Astonishing Tribe - continues to awe the mobile phone industry with its gonzo approach to mobile phone graphics.

Leading-edge nano research in the Øresund region
Smaller, faster and cheaper - rapid technological changes in the semiconductor industry have become a part of everyday life. Already there are components in our computers that are ten atomic layers thin. However, we are approaching the limit of conventional chip development as the components are becoming smaller.

From chips to end users
Industry in the Øresund region shows examples of both in-depth knowledge of hi-tech and the savvy to realise its potential in exciting products on the edge.

“We will absolutely continue to develop our own chips”
Being a market leader you need an edge. Axis Communications has in-house developed chips technology as a trade mark.

Hymite: Good things come in small packages
A state-of-the-art, cost-efficient solution for protecting microcomponents and lasers could revolutionise everything from camera phones to surgical equipment - and is already positioning Denmark’s Hymite as the silicon pioneers of tomorrow.

On the triple-play market, Enigma's switch is a hit
With the most advanced switch on the semiconductor market today, Denmark’s Enigma Semiconductor is set to capitalise on the next revolution in telecommunications.

Recipe for making a mobile phone
“Ericsson Mobile Platform's product is a recipe for making a mobile phone,” explains Michael Kornby, VP at Ericsson.

New IT hothouse strengthens R&D in the Øresund Region
A consortium of Danish R&D organisations will run a new incubator whose goal is to become the best place in Europe to start and develop an innovative IT company.

Hi-tech digital homes for the masses
Copenhagen's Zensys develops wireless networking solutions for digital home appliances. Becoming an Intel portfolio company has propelled Zensys and its Z-wave technology even further to the forefront of tomorrow's "digital home" revolution.

Øresund gamers in global playing field
From boys' bedrooms to boardrooms: the Øresund Region's computer game development market has burgeoned in recent years.

Handling tomorrow's semiconductor
Nilsson Materials is developing a new superconductor material with magnetic properties that can open the doors to the production of smaller, faster and energy-saving computers. Behind the company is the tireless Swedish entrepreneur Jan Nilsson.

Fail-safe biometrics right at your fingertips
Baby biometrics firm Quard has revolutionized smart-card technology with its Quard Card, a biometric fingerprint reader that generates a new pin-code with every use, making it virtually hacker-proof.

LYYN technology provides a better view
Combining imaging techniques from medical ophthalmology with business expertise from the IT and telecom industries, LYYN has successfully made the transition from science to boardroom.

SoftScan stops spammers in their tracks
SoftScan is Scandinavia´s leading consultant and provider of high-tech protection solutions against computer viruses and spam.

ComOpt follows where wireless leads
As second-generation GSM gives way to tomorrow's 3G net, ComOpt continues to shadow developments in the wireless telecom industry, providing optimisation-based solutions that make wireless networks run more smoothly.

Ludesi: imaging is everything
Thanks to a prestigious partnership with Sweden’s Karolinska Institute, image informatics company Ludesi may soon provide the preferred technological imaging tool for all proteomics-based cancer research in Sweden.

Precise Biometrics knows who you are
What's in a fingerprint? Sweden's Precise Biometrics develops biometric ID technology, which can say everything about you - without saying a word.

Fast, inexpensive and totally in control
The name is Nanion: technology developed in Denmark could provide a revolutionary cost-effective strategy for the semiconductor industry.

Sealed with a KiSS
How to bring consumer goods equipped with IT solutions into the family home? Keep business in the family, Hørsholm-based company KiSS Technology says.

Mapping the wireless ecosystem
Production outsourcing needs and the drive to maintain product diversity has paved the way for an "ecosystem" of wireless companies to emerge on both sides of the Øresund Strait.

Building tomorrow's city today
Billed as a hothouse for tomorrow's tech-based communications society, Crossroads Copenhagen is a network for cultural, media, and communications initiatives in the emerging Copenhagen's Ørestad quarter.

Bluetooth takes Parliament by storm
Copenhagen-based wireless pioneers BluePosition have taken technology to the floor of the Danish Parliament. Their fully-integrated mobile localisation system keeps digital tabs on MP's, keeping political movers and shakers well-connected - in more ways than one.

Decuma's stroke of genius
Mastering the art of digital handwriting recognition goes beyond mere algorithms and programming. Combining culture, science, usability and a flair for the individual's writing style, Decuma has put their signature on an emerging technology.

At Bluetooth’s home
The company behind Bluetooth has decided to place its development activities in Lund, where the wireless technology was born.

Widex takes digital ear worldwide
The world sounds different in the 21st century, and no one knows that better than Denmark's Widex. For the past decade, Widex has been at the vanguard in introducing high-definition digital technology to the more than 500 million hearing-impaired individuals worldwide.

Keep some shelves empty
Learning Lab Denmark seeks new ways of creating knowledge. The lab is focused on networking across countries, sectors and institutions.

Taking technology to heart
Skåne-based technology firm WeAidU has discovered that cutting-edge technology can offer crucial support to physicians when they need it most.

Cooperation brings MEMS to industrial production
Six partners have worked intensively together for three and a half years to develop four MEMS products.

A world of GSM capabilities in the Øresund Region
An enormous variety of GSM and other wireless technologies can be found in the Øresund Region, one of Europe’s most important clusters of wireless research and development.

World records in flashes per second
Researchers at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) have set several world records in optical transmission.

Nano brings science fiction into everyday life
Nanotechnology is becoming part of all our lives – if it isn’t already. At the heart of this fascinating development is Martin Magnusson, MD of ProNano, an institute serving as a bridge between research and application.

”The paperless society is a myth”
The digital pen from Anoto, a company based in Lund, southern Sweden, fuses old communication tools - pen and paper - with the latest digital technology.

Microsoft invests in freethinking Scandinavians
Klaus Holse Andersen, CEO Microsoft Denmark, tells why the software giant has decided to invest in the Øresund Region.

Reality Lab
A recently opened laboratory will strengthen the Øresund Region’s expertise in VR technologies.

Crossroads Copenhagen
Network wants to transform a new neighbourhood in Copenhagen into a gigantic test field of wireless communications.