Archive for the ‘Social Media’ Category

CHALLENGE: Is mSchool a solutions to the problems of eSchool?!

In: Companies|Design|Mobile|New start-ups|Social Media|Software

14 Mar 2011

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 [...]

Mobile waiter Ordimo looking for innovative restaurants

In: Companies|Mobile|New start-ups|R&D|Social Media

16 Feb 2011

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 [...]

Blow’em – yet another bizarre but fun mobile game made by Estonians

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14 Feb 2011

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 [...]

Developers of the “Facebook of Humanitarian Aid” come calling at UN Headquarters

In: Companies|New start-ups|Non-profit|R&D|Social Media

9 Feb 2011

  Imagine that you are rich and want to give a poor African nation a library with an Internet hotspot to improve the local quality of life. You make a large donation and six months later the site is up. An honorary plaque with your name on it goes up. Then it turns out that [...]

Montroller looks to become remote controller for Lego and Disney toys (VIDEOS)

In: Companies|Hackers|Mobile|New start-ups|R&D|Social Media

7 Feb 2011

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 [...]

Yaika to enable livecasts to computer and smartphone

In: Companies|Mobile|New start-ups|R&D|Social Media|Software|Venture Capitalists

24 Jan 2011

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 [...]

The new social network MyHistro: a personal, interactive lifebook

In: Companies|New start-ups|Social Media

12 Jan 2011

Entrepreneur Jaanus Vihand (pictured) recently launched a social network called MyHistro, which should be more private, in-depth and – says Vihand — less “tabloid-like” than the world-famous “competition” led by Facebook. MyHistro, developed by the Webmedia team, is a unique environment where it is possible to chat and share stories with friends, with a timeline [...]


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