Estonian technology stories
In: Companies
28 Jan 2009An 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 [...]
In: Companies
12 Jan 2009For 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 [...]
In: Companies
19 Sep 2008Last week I posted a story about Estonian start-up Programeter, that develops a programmer performance measuring software. But there’s another great tool, made in Estonia, that could give a fair boost of productivity for software developers. I am talking about ZeroTurnaround – a trademark of Webmedia Ltd. ZeroTurnaround focuses on improving developer productivity. Its flagship product JavaRebel [...]