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Loans by text message send young Swedes spiralling into debt

2008-03-13 12:30:00 by Maximus in Just Another Mobile Phone Blog
 
...Swedes, renowned for high consumption habits and enthusiastic early-adapters for new technologies The huge success (of the SMS loans) caught the authorities by surprise, and ... they did not know how to handle it," Rosenbaum said, explaining the criticism He insisted that the average age of his company's customers was 32, that their...
 
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Swedes in debt through SMS loans

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2008-02-02 11:17:03 by dusanb in IntoMobile
...Swedes are landing debt thanks to the easy borrowing through SMS. Last year over 20,000 cases were reported to the Swedish Enforcement Agency, responsible for collecting debts. According to the Agencys spokeperson, they were surprised with the number theyve predicted there would be some 10,000 cases Those between 18 and 25 are worst hit and...
 
Tags: sms, sms loans, sms trojan virus, debt, ethiopia restores sms, people land debt, poor credit checks, swedish enforcement agency, swedes
 
 
 
 
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iPhone 3G reception just fine say curious Swedes with engineering degrees

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2008-08-25 05:40:00 by Thomas Ricker in Engadget
...Swedes decided to apply a little scientific method to the argument and found something interesting: the iPhone 3G performed just as well (or just as poorly, depending upon your mood) as a Nokia N73 and Sony Ericsson P1 when compared head-to-head in a mobile communications test chamber. The test was conducted by real-life antenna engineers...
 
Tags: iphone, real-life antenna engineers, nokia n73, scientific method, reception issues, contrary opinion, industrious swedes, sony ericsson, test
 
 
 
 
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Reminder: World Ends Tomorrow, Have Sex, Don't Do Your Homework Update: Apocalypse Delayed to September 10 [T Minus 24 Hours]

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2008-08-08 05:42:00 by Jesus Diaz in Gizmodo
...Swedes (yes, they came with methe trip to Miami is too long Steal a supersonic jet Fly to Cupertino Break into Apple's secret vault with the help of the two Swedesby their looks, they have to be ninjasand Uma dressed with her Kill Bill yellow suit Have sex with the two Swedes, Uma, and Steve Jobs Have Jason liveblog the whole thing while...
 
Tags: hours, ninjasand uma, uma, world, uma thurman address, jason liveblog, bed tootrust, secret vault, jason
 
 
 
 
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Sweded Tron Movie Is Probably Best Sweded Movie Ever [Greetings, Programs!]

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2008-03-27 07:45:00 by Jesus Diaz in Gizmodo
...swedes, some of my best friends are swedes, and I want to move to Sweden . I can't have enough of the TIE Fighters here either StarWars Blog
 
Tags: swedes, entire history, favorite movie, lightcycle scene, tie fighters, tron, entire movie, cardboardish cheesiness, war games
 
 
 
 
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People in Norway buy the most expensive and advanced mobile phones

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2008-04-24 15:12:14 by dusanb in IntoMobile
...Swedes are especially concerned with the music-listening functions On average Norwegians and Danes replace their phones on every 22 months, while the Swedes keep theirs for an average of 31 months. However, the main reasons that Scandinavians get new phones are that their old phones are either destroyed or lost The bad thing about the survey...
 
Tags: mobile phones, phones, mobile, mobile phone, phone, mobile phone users, people, norway, average norwegians
 
 
 
 
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'It hurts to be beautiful' Guess what? They lied

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2008-01-02 10:01:00 by bookofjoe in bookofjoe
 
...Swedes) to examine the candidates' campaign photographs and rank them for beauty. They then compared those rankings with the actual election results. They were able to eliminate the effects of party preference because Finland has a system of proportional representation that pits candidates of the same party against one another. Lo and behold,...
 
Tags: beautiful, beautiful executives, beautiful people earn, people, ugliness, ugliness penalty, beauty, beauty trip, unfairly beauty
 
 
 
 
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Should Sony Ericsson buy Motorolas bleeding Mobile Devices division?

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2008-01-26 16:04:05 by Stefan Constantinescu in IntoMobile
...Swedes and Japanese to try and take on the Finnish or will the barbarians rip each other to shreds as they try to take on each other instead of the number one guy Related Articles at IntoMobile Rumor Alert: Ericsson looking to buy Motorola European Union approves Sony Ericsson, Motorola deal Motorola announces business reorganization plan -...
 
Tags: sony ericsson, ericsson, sony ericsson users, sony ericsson smartphones, sony ericsson employees, mobile devices, motorola, motorola deal, platform
 
 
 
 
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Hands on With the Sony Ericsson Xperia X1

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2008-02-11 07:17:33 by Charlie Sorrel in Gadget Lab
...Swedes have packed in a full QWERTY keyboard, a 3" display, a touch screen, a 3.2 MP camera, WiFi and GPS. The phone is a slider, and "bends" as the keyboard slides out, like the old Nokia banana phone, only twisted through 90ยบ On the inside, the X1 runs Windows Mobile, but skinned to look better. In the picture above (sorry about the blur....
 
Tags: sony ericsson, nokia banana phone, phone, runs windows mobile, qwerty keyboard, icons swoosh, slimline smartphone, application launcher, xperia