Posts Tagged ‘Denmark’
Angry Danish iPhone fans threatens to let the iFists do the talking
Just read at Dorte Toft's blog (which you have to follow if you understand Danish and like techology :-)) that employees in Telia here in Denmark are getting threatened.
Yes, threatened. As in »I'll beat you up«. That's what the head of PR here in Denmark is saying in Danish podcast KommunikationsCast. Both he and other Telia employees have been threatened, and some people has told him, that they know where he lives.
The reason for the threatening? The pricing scheme that Telia has chosen for the Apple iPhone in the Danish market. Admitted, it is expensive but how do people imagine dropping the cost by punching people?
I guess it shows that the iPhone is so much more to some people than just a phone. Maybe a little to much?
Related postsTags: Apple, Denmark, iPhone, Mobile
All signs point to more e-shopping in Denmark
In a recent press release (in Danish) The Danish Distance Selling and E-business Association can see and predicts more e-shopping in Denmark.
According to the analysis 57 percent of all male internet users in Denmark have shopped online within the recent month in 2007. In 2006 that number was 43. The ladies are a bit behind with 49 percent in 2007 and 33 percent in 2006.
The numbers match those of studies elsewhere:
Another recently announced English analysis from it company Fujitsu shows a significant growth in e-shopping and a stagnation in the physical shopping. The consumers will do more shopping online expecting to do a good deal.
Let's just hope that the Danish postal service doesn't get any worse than it is now, cause that could seriously pull the carpet away under online shopping - providing that you buy goods and not software, of course.
Related postsTags: Businesses, Denmark, News, shopping
YouTube is number 5 in Denmark
The Danish Union of Internet Media (FDIM) has recently conducted a quite thorough survey on the Danes online behaviour in January 2008.
Number 1 is Google (surprise surprise!) with 15 millions visits(!) in January. But what's interesting, for me anyway, is that YouTube is at number 5! YouTube had b little over 1.1 million Danish visits in January, which is more that any of the online newspapers here in Denmark.
The only ones to beat YouTube (apart from Google, of course) are:
- Krak (a service which lets you look up addresses and phone numbers and view the results on a map (think white and yellow pages))
- DR.dk (the Danish Broadcoast Association, which gets a lot of visits, apart from the news service, from people viewing the online TV-guides, listening to internet radio, downloading podcasts and reading more about the various shows)
- TV2 (the largest private television channel in Denmark, which (just like DR) gets a lot of visits from people viewing other things than news and watching online television (their main product) - TV2 also offers online games)
So considering all of this, I think it's a fairly good result for YouTube. I for one use YouTube all of the time, sometimes just for listening to music. I had no idea that the service is that popular in this country, though.
My good friend Kim has the entire list [in Danish] (taken from Danish media news site MediaWatch) [also in Danish]. You can download the entire report from FDIM [it's a PDF file and yes, it's also in Danish].
Related postsTags: Danish media, Denmark, Google, Internet newspapers, News sites, Video, YouTube
Worst IT practice in public sector to be exposed on Facebook
According to computerworld.dk, a Danish IT professor at Copenhagen Business School, Kim Viborg Andersen, has created a group on Facebook.
In this group he wants to post examples of the worst IT practice in the Danish public sector, from unanswered emails, to half-finished payment solutions and a public sector in general, that is focused on turning itself away from the citizens.
No suprise, KL (The Municipal System in Denmark) would have preferred if the focus was on the best examples.
Professor Andersen somewhat agrees but also points out, that we need to show some of the worst examples, hoping that they will teach the public sector a lesson.
Note: I would have loved to link to the Facebook group, but for some reason it doesn't show up in my search results. The name of the group is: "Den dilettantiske digitale forvaltning".
Related postsTags: Denmark, Politics, Public sector
Danish ISP forced to block access to The Pirate Bay
Wow.
The Danish part of IFPI (who claims to be "representing the recording industry world wide") has forced the Danish-Norwegian internet ISP Tele2 to block the access to The Pirate Bay (article in Danish).
Other ISP's are expected to follow, since IFPI went to the Danish County Court, in Danish called "Fogedretten" and got their word for the blockade.
IFPI is very happy with the result, saying this shows ISP's that they have a certain responsibility in preventing their customers from being able to download pirated material. I personally think, that IFPI has a role to play here as well, instead of just going to the court everytime. Wouldn't it be possible to create a filter, that sorts the pirated stuff away?
IFPI has previously made sure that ISP's blocked access to Russian MP3 site AllOfMP3.
Just saw somewhere that Denmark, Turkey and China are the only countries block The Pirate Bay.So much for the free internet, I guess.
Related postsTags: Censorship, Denmark, File Sharing, ifpi, the pirate bay
Denmark is an "extensive surveillance society"
My friend Jeppe just showed me a report on "Leading surveillance societies in the EU and the World 2007", where Denmark, where I live, is listed under "extensive surveillance societies".
Read the report and judge for yourself. Quite a scary bit of reading, if you ask me…
Related postsTags: Censorship, Denmark, Internet, surveillance
Firefox Mobile — and Mozilla in Denmark
Via the Danish version of Computerworld I've found out that Mozilla is opening development offices in Copenhagen, Denmark. Exciting!
What's more exciting is, that they'll begin working on a mobile version of Firefox, when Firefox 3 is released.
Read more at Mike Schroepfer's blog
Related postsTags: Browsers, Copenhagen, Denmark, Firefox, Firefox 3, Mozilla, Software