Archive for January, 2009

Wikipedia + Google Earth + Computer Games = Histrodamus!

In: Companies

28 Jan 2009

An Estonian entrepreneur Jaanus Vihand (pictuted) has come up with a clever idea – he wants to blend the best features of Wikipedia, Google Earth and computer games. And establish a fun, entertaining and interactive historical online-environment called Histrodamus. One of the ideas is to popularise history among fun-loving teenagers and students. Although the history is often considered dull and overloaded with facts, it [...]

Sten Tamkivi: Skype has had Great Impact on Estonian Start-ups Market

In: Companies

26 Jan 2009

Together with my Nordic colleaques from ArcticStartup.com we have interviewed The Chief Evangelist at Skype, Sten Tamkivi. Tamkivi told us about how there’s a lot going on in Skype and how they are doing really well in terms of revenues. He also gave his opinion about Skype’s influence on Estonian start-ups market (that has been significant) [...]

Skype Founders to Make Marine Navigation Safer and Easier (Demo VIDEO)

In: Companies

21 Jan 2009

There’s an interesting technology evolving in the incubator of Ambient Sound Investments – the investments vehicle of the Estonians who founded Skype. The company with the initial name InkSpinTwo is developing digital forward-looking sonar, that would make marine navigation safer and easier. Arno Rannaste, the CEO of InkSpinTwo explains that the competitive edge ot this technology [...]

Keep Your Pledge or Donate to Charity!

In: Companies

19 Jan 2009

Three Estonians, two of them working for Skype – Andrus Purde, Priidu Zilmer and Joonathan Mägi, have founded a funny start-up called Pledgehammer – a website, that helps you keep your promises. The project that was launched just weeks ago allows you to make a public pledge – for example “I will stop smoking” – and [...]

Estonians Make Text Fonts of Caviar and Cigarette Smoke (VIDEO)

In: Companies

15 Jan 2009

Vladimir and Maksim Loginov – two Estonian brothers (pictured) fire up their inspiration by creating and selling the hand-made text fonts. Believe it or not, but their company HandMadeFont has even text types made of caviar, toaster-bread, Lego bricks, hair, cheese, pancakes, cigarette smoke, clouds etc in its 130-types collection. Every object is a possible [...]

Webmedia Sets Foot in the Middle East (VIDEO)

In: Companies

12 Jan 2009

For typical software houses like Webmedia, Nordic and Baltic markets are not at all flattering. They’re boring and congested. “Everything is in place here,” Priit Alamäe, CEO of Webmedia bewails. Webmedia is one of the biggest software houses in the Baltics and, to large extent the architect of Estonian banking, telecom and public IT services infrastructure as we [...]

GuardTime: Timestamping our Digital Life

In: Companies

9 Jan 2009

The digitized world screams for technologies that would help to prove the validity of any digital data. One such timestamping infrastructure solution is provided by GuardTime, a company founded in Estonia. The technology invented by digital data security experts and cryptology specialists Märt Saarepera (in upmost picture) and Ahto Buldas (in middle picture) has almost unlimited [...]

How Intelligent can be Your House? (VIDEO)

In: Companies

6 Jan 2009

Imagine your house being really smart one day. Almost as smart as you! Not only it would be extensively “furnished” with sensors and easy-to-use as your cappuccino machine, but it would also think independently. And realize what are you comfortable with. That’s Yoga’s dream. Reduce costs by 50% Yoga is an Estonian undertaking that develops self-learning intelligent building system. It controls everything [...]




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