Those following the mobile gaming industry paid notice that the Finnish gaming studio Universomo was shut down (in Finnish) by its owner THQ Wireless, which acquired the Finnish firm back in 2007. Rumors started to spread on Tuesday this week and pretty soon THQ confirmed the liquidation of the studio. This is part of a bigger shift in the game industry.

While much of the attention at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona is on new handsets and software, Suntrica from Finland silently announced that they got their Solar Strap approved by Apple.

ArcticIndex, our directory for Nordic and Baltic startups, people, startup jobs and events, just got iPhoned. ArcticIndex iPhone app is developed by Arun Prakash Rajendran, a passionate mobile entrepreneur living in Göteborg, Sweden. You can check out the App at Prakash’s app gallery, or get it directly here.

I try to figure out what will happen this year?  The entire industry is waiting to see if Apple really is going to make a tablet this time. People say that we can watch TV in your bathroom, access our audio and video collection from anywhere in the house, control the big screen TV and route video to it from our desktop, laptop or the Internet."

Apple will come out with a new Tablet that will be competing with Kindle, according to Twit. The user interface will provide more interactivity. We can probably read more than books. Is this is going to be the last Steven Jobs project? Insiders seems to know that this project has been going on for years.

As the region’s reigning consumer web champion, there can never be enough stories about Spotify. And since today they’ve released a verison for Android and some new user & track figures, it’s a good time as any to wonder what the future might hold for them. Especially in light of Apple’s recent acquisition of US based La La Media.

That's good news for the Future Store Concept. I've to get more information about price and availability.New Apple Multitouch Patent Enables Typing on a Large Screen: "Most sci-fi fans remember the movie Minority Report, and the scene where Tom Cruise manipulates data on a large, vertical, virtual screen using only his hands and fingers. Although I prefer to do my computer work sitting down, it was the stuff geek dreams are made of, and now Apple has applied for a patent that sounds eerily similar.

We have heard from inside Nokia that the ex-CEO of Dopplr, Marko Ahtisaari has been appointed to head Nokia’s Design department. This comes just after Nokia acquired Dopplr for undisclosed sum and a long silence that preceded the official announcement yesterday (see our story here).