Since Ingrid had to give back her old Nokia when leaving Tele2, she now needs a new phone. She would prefer a Nokia but she would also consider another one, such as Sony Ericsson, maybe Samsung. A very important criteria is the quality of the user interface. Also feeling of the keypad and battery life […]

If Skype has done a lot of publicity for Estonia, it has even done more for Luxembourg.
“The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg is a small landlocked state in the north-west of continental Europe, bordered by France, Germany and Belgium. On a per capita basis, it is the wealthiest nation in the world” (from Wikipedia).
It has […]

Russell Beattie writes how he isn’t impressed by the iPod nano.
I have to say I agree with him. The design of the iPod nano is amazing, it is really good looking. But from a practical aspect, these GB of flash memory would be better put in a phone. Carrying two devices is just one too […]

As you can imagine the acquisition of Skype by eBay has been heavily covered in the Estonian press.
In Äripäev, the Estonian business newspaper, Allan Martinson from Microlink (largest IT firm in the Baltics) wrote:

The acquisition of Skype Technologies SA by eBay for about $4.1bn may be more significant to the Estonian economy than Swedbank’s […]

What a year! Last September, when we decided to leave the French Riviera, TI and to move to Estonia, we couldn’t have hoped for a better outcome. Now we are both together, in Estonia, we have bought an amazing piece of land to build a house for our future family and we are now both […]

So, everyone is talking about the big thing of the day, except the Skype employees Indeed it was business as usual at Skype, after the announcement we just went back to work, as described also by Ross (which I happened to meet tonight, wow blogging and Skype get me to meet cool people).
But […]

E-Plus is Germany’s third largest mobile phone network, and they have deployed a 3G network, something (finally) not so uncommon anymore. Where it gets more interesting is that they offer a flat-rate data subscription, something that exists in the US but still very rare in Europe. And at 40 Euros per month, it’s a pretty […]

Today Skype launched the beta version of Skype 1.4. Call quality is improved in this version, it’s easier to import contact from other applications, you can buy some avatars and ringtones… but the feature I want to highlight here is call forwarding.
With call forwarding, calls made to your Skype name or to a SkypeIn number […]