Estonian start-up stories by Toivo Tänavsuu
The winner of the Garage48 public services competition 112 Mobile allows emergency calls to be placed without calling the dispatcher centre. The new service is characteristic of a trend toward more innovative solutions in emergency response centres and in the area of administration of the Ministry of the Interior in general. The prototype for the [...]
From time to time we hear how one or another wireless operator claims to have the highest quality of service. It probably means that some “independent expert” has been driving a tech-filled minibus from city to city and established, based on objective parameters, that a particular operator has the best wireless signal and most reliable [...]
A number of companies in Estonia are developing services for the über-popular gadgets iPhone and iPad. Head and shoulders above the rest is former Skype employee Mikael Suvi (pictured with his wife), whose company CandyCane earned 140,000 euros of net profit in 2009 and has enjoyed good sales in 2010 as well. Suvi, who currently [...]
In: Mobile|New start-ups
20 Oct 2010An almost oven-fresh Estonian startup GoSpotIt, born during the Garage48 Tartu event, is preparing to launch their oven-fresh mobile services called SpeedCameraSpotter and PoliceSpotter. GoSpotIt calls itself a location-based service on mobile which allows you to spot and track interesting objects and persons at your location. Crowd-sourced and open platform for any kind of alert [...]