Archive for the ‘Mobile’ Category

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 [...]

Something noteworthy happened at the previous Garage48 event in February: a team of five IT enthusiasts took on the eKool (eSchool) academic information system – which has been in wide use for years in Estonia without a true competitor – mapped some of its major shortcomings and offered a new, more attractive solution – the mKool [...]

The Garage48 start-up project-building competition in Helsinki gave birth to an inventive mobile application called Ordimo that potentially makes service in cafes and restaurants a more pleasant, smoother experience. Imagine you go to a larger dining establishment during the lunch rush and manage to find a table. It turns out you wait ten minutes before [...]

The Garage48 competition traditionally produces a variety of strange cell phone games, albeit ones with distinct commercial potential. After all, people are thirsting for virtual entertainment that may be somewhat lowbrow but crinkles the corners of their mouth.  Last year’s Tartu Garage48 resulted in the ultimate anti-game – Smashr, which measured how fast players could [...]

A start-up project called Montroller is currently courting Lego at the toy company’s Danish headquarters, pitching the idea of using a smartphone as a remote control device. Actually, it’s already past the idea stage – Montroller is already now successfully using Nokia, Androids and iPhones to provide a remote control signal to the Lego Mindstorm [...]

Entrepreneur Valentin Ivanov (pictured below) is launching a service in the spring that will allow users to livecast HD video to computers, notebooks and smartphones. One aspect of the Yaika 2 HD video streaming service that Ivanov emphasizes most is that the simultaneous number of viewers can be over 10,000. Video will be streamed at [...]

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 [...]

An 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 [...]


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