It was a busy social day yesterday. After the springboard, I went to an event at the Estonian Business School organized by the French Embassy and CAFE (”Club d’Affaires Franco-Estonien”, i.e. Franco-Estonian Business Club). It was a seminar about Innovative French Companies in Estonia. It was time well spent. Not only was the buffet after […]

Connect Estonia is a non-profit organization that helps new businesses. They run what they call “springboards”, which is a meeting where they get together some experts to evaluate the future plans of a company. It’s a great way for a small company to get feedback on their plans.
Yesterday I participated to such a springboard for […]

People generally assume that downloading movies in Emule or other file sharing networks is free. But this doesn’t take into account the cost of leaving a PC on 24/24, and Olivier Seres calculated this cost to be 30 Euros per month in France (for a 430W PC, 0.1057 Euro/kWH x 24 h * 30 days […]

I’m often asked how I like Estonia and my answers are always very positive I think. In my explanations I generally compare things to France and I sometimes feel bad for my home country, maybe I’m too tough with it… But then when I read such things I think it deserves it:

France may soon enact […]

I’ve written before how French broadband provider are innovative and have brought many triple-play offers (Internet, phone, TV) at very good prices. Now one of them, and others are likely to follow, is trying to add a fourth aspect to it, mobile telephony. Neuf telecom is testing a service that uses a Wifi - GSM […]