https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Norway in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Net surfers in Norway have the second fastest speeds in the world, according to a new report. https://www.thelocal.no/20160930/norway-has-europes-fastest-internet-report Fri, 30 Sep 2016 12:22:36 +0200 norway-has-europes-fastest-internet-report SAS has announced plans to install high-speed internet on its European routes. https://www.thelocal.no/20160908/sas-unveils-plans-for-fastest-wi-fi-in-europe Thu, 08 Sep 2016 13:24:25 +0200 sas-unveils-plans-for-fastest-wi-fi-in-europe Children in Norway feel like the adults in their lives spend too much time at work and online and not enough on being parents. https://www.thelocal.no/20160527/norway-kids-and-parents-tell-each-other-to-log-off Fri, 27 May 2016 16:05:24 +0200 norway-kids-and-parents-tell-each-other-to-log-off Norwegian start-up entrepreneur Magnus Jepson has sold WooThemes, his Wordpress template company, for a rumoured price of around $50m (400m Norwegian kroner) making him an instant multi-millionaire.. https://www.thelocal.no/20150522/norway-start-up-founder-in-50m-sell-out Fri, 22 May 2015 02:47:17 +0200 norway-start-up-founder-in-50m-sell-out Norway has the slowest internet in Scandinavia and has even slipped behind former eastern block countries such as Romania, the Czech Republic and Latvia, according to a new global report. https://www.thelocal.no/20150519/norway-has-slowest-internet-in-scandinavia Tue, 19 May 2015 15:42:17 +0200 norway-has-slowest-internet-in-scandinavia A music teacher from eastern Norway has been charged with abusing nearly 20 young girls, with the youngest alleged victim only ten years old when the offence took place. https://www.thelocal.no/20150204/music-teacher-charged-with-abusing-20-girls Wed, 04 Feb 2015 12:08:00 +0100 music-teacher-charged-with-abusing-20-girls For the Swedish journalist Tobias Norström, visiting the webpage of VG.no, Norway's most visited news site, feels like "surfing on a news page from the late 1990s." https://www.thelocal.no/20140520/why-is-the-internet-so-ugly-in-norway-swedish-journo Tue, 20 May 2014 16:20:00 +0200 why-is-the-internet-so-ugly-in-norway-swedish-journo Meet Eirik Høyme Rogn, the man who is trying to turn a tiny mountain village in central Norway into a hub for internet entrepreneurs. https://www.thelocal.no/20140214/the-internet-hub-in-the-middle-of-the-norwegian-mountains Fri, 14 Feb 2014 16:00:00 +0100 the-internet-hub-in-the-middle-of-the-norwegian-mountains Most books published in Norway before 2001 are going online for free thanks to an initiative that may have found the formula to reconcile authors with the web. https://www.thelocal.no/20140117/feature-literature-goes-online-for-free Fri, 17 Jan 2014 07:28:00 +0100 feature-literature-goes-online-for-free Norway has received no assurances from Sweden that it will not monitor and record the country's phone and internet traffic, despite a high-level meeting on Tuesday. https://www.thelocal.no/20131204/no-promises-from-sweden-on-norwegian-email-snooping Wed, 04 Dec 2013 14:15:00 +0100 no-promises-from-sweden-on-norwegian-email-snooping Norway comes second only to web-savvy Sweden in the way it uses the internet to improve lives, according to a ranking by a foundation headed by Tim Berners-Lee, the founder of the World Wide Web. https://www.thelocal.no/20131125/norway-second-only-to-sweden-in Mon, 25 Nov 2013 14:28:00 +0100 norway-second-only-to-sweden-in Norway has challenged the entire world to a game of chess on the Internet Chess Club in a stunt organised by the Aftenposten newspaper to mark Magnus Carlsen's world championship bid. https://www.thelocal.no/20131118/norway-challenges-the-world-in-internet-chess-gimmick Mon, 18 Nov 2013 14:21:00 +0100 norway-challenges-the-world-in-internet-chess-gimmick Norway has jumped four places in a ranking of the world's most competitive countries compiled by the World Economic Forum. https://www.thelocal.no/20130904/norway-leaps-four-places-in-world-competiveness Wed, 04 Sep 2013 21:44:00 +0200 norway-leaps-four-places-in-world-competiveness The increasing presence of oil companies in the Arctic region has Norwegian telecom companies pondering whether it is time to introduce a satellite-based solution to internet connection problems up north. https://www.thelocal.no/20130710/norway-to-introduce-arctic-satellite-broadband Wed, 10 Jul 2013 15:43:00 +0200 norway-to-introduce-arctic-satellite-broadband More and more Norwegians are finding their way to social networks like Facebook and Twitter, new figures show. https://www.thelocal.no/20120912/norwegians-get-more-active-on-facebook-and-twitter Wed, 12 Sep 2012 13:25:00 +0200 norwegians-get-more-active-on-facebook-and-twitter A Norwegian student has been fined 15,000 kroner ($2,450) after he admitted to making large numbers of subtitle files available for download from the internet. https://www.thelocal.no/20120604/norwegian-student-fined-for-subtitle-piracy Mon, 04 Jun 2012 14:14:00 +0200 norwegian-student-fined-for-subtitle-piracy One third of all voters in local elections in Norway has changed loyalties and will vote for another party after taking an online test of their views versus those of party candidates. https://www.thelocal.no/20110912/norway-vote-salutes-couch-potato Mon, 12 Sep 2011 15:55:19 +0200 norway-vote-salutes-couch-potato