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There Corporation, a spin-off from Nokia, has joined the Z-Wave Alliance and is focussing on pushing the development and market launch of the smart meter, smart grid and smart home solutions that are based on ThereGate " formerly known as Nokia Home Control Center .

In August, two representatives of the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design paid a visit to the Finnish capital in order to discuss the city's prospects for becoming World Design Capital in 2012.

British no-frills carrier easyJet said in a statement Tuesday it would launch a daily Helsinki-Paris service and fly four times a week from Helsinki-Vantaa to Manchester, adding it would begin flying the new routes in early February next year.

Finland's largest employer, the City of Helsinki, faces an unprecedented generational change in the early part of the next decade.

Osmo Vaenskae, the Finnish music director of the Minnesota Orchestra in Minneapolis, is looking forward to the opening of a new music center in Helsinki.

In a study for a doctoral degree by geophysicist Kai Rasmus, University of Helsinki, Finland, measurements were made during three Austral summers to study the optical properties of the Antarctic system and to produce radiation information for additional modeling studies.

MSc Vaino Virtanen has developed a method for analysing snoring sounds by using a PC with a microphone connection and a wireless microphone.

Swedish police have arrested two North Korean diplomats on suspicion of smuggling 230,000 cigarettes into the Nordic country, the Swedish Customs Office said Friday.

According to new plans, ten high skyscrapers are to be built in Helsinki's district of Pasila, on the southern side of the Pasila railway station.

HardcoreSounds.net conducted an interview with vocalist Mike Hranica of the Dayton, Ohio Christian metalcore band THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA prior to the band's November 9, 2009 concert at Nosturi in Helsinki, Finland.

Mikko Paatero, Finland's national police commissioner, was quoted as saying by national daily Helsingin Sanomat on Thursday that the supreme police command would look into the Security Police's actions over a Finnish citizen deported from Sweden.

HardcoreSounds.net conducted an interview with guitarist Jason Hook of Los Angeles metallers FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH prior to the band's November 16, 2009 concert at Nosturi in Helsinki, Finland.

An outline plan for the regeneration of Helsinki's central Pasila district unveiled Wednesday features a 40-storey high-rise as the centrepiece of a cluster of ten tall buildings that towering above all other residential buildings in the Finnish capital.

The first Somali refugees arrived in Finland 20 years ago. Thus far in 2009, the figure for Somali asylum-seekers has been more than 1,000, of whom the number of minor asylum-seekers without a parent or guardian is nearly 200.

The number of international cruise ships arriving and leaving Helsinki was again at a record level over the recent summer season.

TOPICS: History KEYWORDS: milhist ; realtime ; worldwarii First session: September 1, 2009.

Finnair pilots went on strike a minute past midnight on Monday, grounding most of the Finnish flag carrier's fleet.

Helsinki was bombed from the air quite extensively in the Winter War of 1939-40 and again in the Continuation War of 1941-44, particularly in the later phase of the Continuation War, when the Soviet Union launched a number of massive raids in February of 1944.

The 16-country eurozone has officially joined the United States and Japan out of recession, after figures showed its economy grew by 0.4 percent in the third quarter from the previous three-month period.

Handset sales saw sharp drops earlier in the year as consumers around the world cut back on spending in the economic downturn Tarmo Virki HELSINKI, FINLAND: The fall in the handset market stopped in the third quarter, helped by clearing of inventories of unsold phones and booming sales on the so-called grey market in countries like China, research ...