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This is a guest post by Märt Ridala, head of the MicroLink Incubator program. In 2007 the students of Tallinn Technical University and Tartu University joined to build the first ever Estonian satellite. Student satellite is a new thing for Estonia but a rather usual project in the world. Actually tens of student satellites are [...]

Estonian president Toomas Henrik Ilves did the first EU’s presidential videocast, when he launched his video blog on YouTube last week. His first post was five-minute rebuking chat to the nation on Estonian economy and budget issues. Following posts will propably also have English subtitles. People in Estonia say Ilves did OK, but (unfortunately) he [...]

NATO wants to be well prepared when facing cyber-terrorists, so the alliance has established a think tank called the Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence in Estonia. Let’s just call it NATO Cyberbrain. I paid a visit to Alliance’s Cyberbrain and were somewhat surprised  – instead of a bunch of computer freaks sitting behind screens and being clinged into cyberspace [...]

Now, that’s not a tech story, but … last week I visited Iraq – the conflict zone. And I was amazed how beautiful and exciting this country is. Hopefully the terror will soon be over and things get on track. I’d like to share some photos with you. This is what you should wear when [...]