STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) — She is a latecomer to the information superhighway, but 75-year-old Sigbritt Lothberg is now cruising the Internet with a dizzying speed.

Lothberg’s 40 gigabits-per-second fiber-optic connection in Karlstad is believed to be the fastest residential uplink in the world, Karlstad city officials said.

In less than 2 seconds, Lothberg can download a full-length movie on her home computer — many thousand times faster than most residential connections, said Hafsteinn Jonsson, head of the Karlstad city network unit.

Jonsson and Lothberg’s son, Peter, worked together to install the connection.The speed is reached using a new modulation technique that allows the sending of data between two routers placed up to 1,240 miles apart, without any transponders in between, Jonsson said.

“We wanted to show that that there are no limitations to Internet speed,” he said.

Peter Lothberg, who is a networking expert, said he wanted to demonstrate the new technology while providing a computer link for his mother.”She’s a brand new Internet user,” Lothberg said by phone from California, where he lives. “She didn’t even have a computer before.”
His mother isn’t exactly making the most of her high-speed connection. She only uses it to read Web-based newspapers.

I have met Hans Rosling from Gapminder.org back in 2003. But it was ultimate that Hans wanted to sell Trendalyzer Gapminder to Google and here goes how he made fun of the Top Swedish students and professors. A Funny and rich presentation where Gapminder should be the tool that each school can use around the world.

That’s how the word pliable comes to its vast meaning. Watch Hans Rosling From Gapminder.

Read more about Gapminder and Trendalyzer’s acquisition by Google.

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We will list some great deals by Swedish IT & Internet companies that has been sold:

Playahead
Founder: Jonas Frost and Leif Carlsson
Amount: Sold for 102 million Swedish Crowns SEK to MTG in 2007

OnGame – Bwin Games AB
Founder: Hörnell Family Oskar & Karl Hörnell with Claes Lidell
Amount: Sold for 4,5 billion Swedish Crowns SEK to Bwin

Tradera
Founder: Jonas Nordlander
Amount: Sold for 365 million Swedish Crowns SEK to Ebay in 2006

Lunarstorm
Founder: Richard Ericsson
Amount: Sold for 170 Million Swedish Crowns SEK to Sten Mörstedt in 2006

Skype
Founder: Niklas Zennström & Janus Friis
Amount: Sold for 30 Billion Swedish Crowns SEK to Ebay in 2005

Blocket
Founder: Pierre Siri
Amount: Sold for 183 Million SEK to Aftonbladet in 2004

Pricerunner
Founder: Kristofer Arwin
Amount: sold for 220 million SEK to Valueclick in 2004

Lensway
Founder: Daniel Muhlbach
Amount: sold for 100 Million SEK to Coastal Contacts in 2004

The Swedish company SES Sirius will launch the biggest HDTV high definition television satellite for Europe.

It will be Sirius 4 that transmit up to 120 HDTV Channels and will cover a great HDTV antenna waves.
Sirius 4 will orbit at 36000 km from earth about 100000 km further away than the ISS International Space station.

WEEK 47 – Unique visitors Norwegian Schibsted Owns Sweden’s Online Space
Aftonbladet 3 759 990
Blocket.se 2 906 198
Hitta.se 1 613 809
SvD Nya Medier 975 280

Source : www.ecentric.org