IT and telecom news of the Øresund Region

September 2004

hot news
Last chance to be at Nordic Unwired 2004
Representatives of almost 100 companies and organisations from 11 countries have already guaranteed their presence at Nordic Unwired 2004, which combines matchmaking activities and a conference. It is still possible to register at:
Nordic Unwired

wireless
Appium gets 6 million euro
The investment, made by Danish Nordic Venture Partners, Swedish Innovationskapital and French Innovacom, shall be mainly employed in the company's expansion in Europe and Asia.  
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1200 Tetra buses in Copenhagen
The company TetraNet has concluded the installation of Tetra radio equipment in more than 1,200 buses used in Copenhagen's public transport system.
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Ericsson and Teleca announce new jobs in Lund
Ericsson Mobile Platforms and Teleca Mobile Technologies look after people to fill positions such as project managers and development engineers.
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imaging
Ludesi opens office in the US
The new office, in Washington, is expected to facilitate the company's marketing in the US and increase the possibility of cooperation with the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
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Imacon and Hasselblad merge
Together, the companies plan to be the leading single source suppler for digital photography at the top end of the professional photographic market.
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Scalado attracts new investment
The Lund-based company has received approximately 1.7 million euro for the development of digital imaging for mobile phones.
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micro & nano
Nano components from DTU
Thanks to an investment of approximately 13.5 million euro in new facilities, the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) will soon be able to produce nano components.
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business
Dell Denmark will employ 90 more people
The company has already hired the first 25 of a total of 90 new employees, who should be appointed before this Christmas.
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IBM acquires Maersk Data
The IT giant has also bough the IT services company DMdata, jointly owned by Maersk Data, Danske Bank and WM- data and signed a major IT services agreement to provide Danske Bank with IT services.
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R&D
Swede gets award for webometric breakthrough
Lennart Björneborn, from Copenhagen's Royal School of Library and Information Science, is the first European to get the renowned ASIST PhD-prize.
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