Archive: Technology

Hoping to Dial Into Cell Phones' Future

Read Robert G. Kaiser's story on how Finland's Nokia how to regain the lead by marketing mobile phones that play music and connect to the Internet. "This (in case you missed it) is the year of music -- the cell...

By Scott Anderson | July 26, 2005; 02:42 PM ET | Comments: (6) | Trackbacks: (0)

Seeing Growth Potential in Being Green

OULU, Finland -- Lassi Noponen, chief executive of Finland's Proventia Group, has his eye on General Electric Co., a firm thousands of times bigger than his own that recently announced plans to remake itself with "ecomagination," emphasizing ecologically friendly research...

By washingtonpost.com | May 31, 2005; 11:49 PM ET | Comments: (90)

Moving Out of Nokia's Shadow

JYVASKYLA, Finland -- What does a little country with good technical skills and a lot of imagination try to sell to a fast-changing global economy already crowded with entrepreneurial ideas from much bigger economies? Finland's first answer for a decade...

By washingtonpost.com | May 26, 2005; 11:30 PM ET | Comments: (77)

 

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