E-readiness rankings 2009

Posted on 19th June 2009 in Industry | No Comments »

Economist Intelligence Unit has once again concluded with the E-readiness rankings of 2009 to measure the quality of a country’s ICT infrastructure and the ability of its consumers, businesses and governments to use ICT to their benefit.

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Elisa moves to the lead in the run for 3.5G coverage

Posted on 22nd May 2009 in Telecom | No Comments »

elisaAs of this week, Elisa has the largest 3.5G coverage in Estonia. This comes as a result of the 3.5G availability for all of Tartumaa, one of the largest counties in the country. Read the rest of this entry »

Bait-and-switch approach to force Internet Explorer update

Posted on 17th May 2009 in Browsers | 2 Comments »

Somewhat an interesting discussion took off on Twitter between me (@tekkie) and Jason Young of award-winning Virion (@virion_ca) about the IE6 Update technique. While the goal of such a technique looks decent, it’s mainly of benefit to developers. Read the rest of this entry »

Getting ImageAPI and ImageCache cope with Drupal 6

Posted on 29th April 2009 in Drupal | No Comments »

DrupalSetting up a gallery in Drupal may easily turn into a lot of hassle. While Drupal is one of the most flexible Content Management Systems out there, it’s also one of the most complex on top of million modules for pretty much everything including the functionality for the simple gallery.

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EstWin next generation wide-band project signed

Posted on 27th April 2009 in E-stonia, Telecom | No Comments »

On Friday Estonian minister of Economic Affairs and Communications and Estonian Association of Information Technology and Telecommunications (ITL) signed EstWin, a development project that makes 100 Mbps wide-band internet accessible to every citizen of the country by 2015. Read the rest of this entry »

EC antitrust case on the way for European iPhone operators?

Posted on 19th April 2009 in Telecom, iPhone | No Comments »

Skype in European UnionOn Friday, on the meeting of EPP-ED Group of European Parliament in Tallinn, Estonian Minister of Economic Affairs and Communication, Mr Juhan Parts, condemned telecom companies preventing the open use of Skype in their networks.

Shortly after Skype’s iPhone App launch, which allows people to make P2P free calls to their contacts on Skype, Deutsche Telecom AG announced they will prevent its customers from using Skype on Apple Inc.’s iPhone as in violation to iPhone subscription contracts.
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Microsoft to push IE8 into Automatic Update

Posted on 13th April 2009 in Browsers | No Comments »

Internet Explorer 8On April 10th Microsoft Program Management announced Internet Explorer 8 distribution in Automatic Update of Windows. The update will be optional on the opt-in basis with the options to Ask Me Later, Install and Don’t Install. Read the rest of this entry »

How to set up Skype Voicemail on iPhone

Posted on 21st March 2009 in iPhone | No Comments »

iPhone + Skype VoicemailDespite the fact that iPhone + Skype make a working platform for many smart people from various industries, official Skype app for iPhone is still nowhere to be found. It has given ground to Nimbuzz, IM+, fring and all the others trying to find hacks and linkages in between these two. The following How-to is no different in its ways to bring Skype Voicemail to iPhone. Read the rest of this entry »

Paul Neave launches his new Flash site

Posted on 13th February 2009 in Artwork | No Comments »

Neave Imagination

Paul Neave, London-based interactive designer, has launched a truly great Flash website to put his ventures on display. Very nice minimalist design, easy to use and functional.

Paul Neave has been on Flash for over 10 years both with Neave.com and for design agencies in Manchester and London. Visit Neave.com.

Gmail isn’t there for business users, yet

Posted on 8th February 2009 in Web 2.0 | No Comments »

GmailGmail, world’s leading free webmail by Google is undisputedly the best product of the kind on the market today, yet again, once it comes to corporate requirements, it fails in a number of aspects.
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