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Mobilizing Voters: Estonia To Allow Citizens To Vote By SMS
Well, it certainly eliminates the problem of hanging chads. Starting with its 2011 election, the Estonian Parliament will allow citizens to vote by SMS, putting it on course to make it the first...
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Like Australia, Estonia Aims for Superfast Broadband for All
Weeks after Australia announced its grand plan to build a $31 billion super broadband network, tiny Estonia says it will spend $374 million to build a broadband network with speeds of 100 Megabits per...
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Infogram wants to help you make beautiful infographics
After a few months in beta, Latvian startup Infogram is now open to all — and hopes that its online toolkit for building infographics can really catch the imagination. The company foun… Oh, you know...
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GameFounders pushes deadline back after ‘big uptake’
GameFounders, a new games accelerator focused on Central and Eastern Europe, says it is extending its deadline for applications until this Friday. The group, which claims to be the first of its kind in...
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Estonia’s plan to get 6 year olds coding is a stroke of genius
Teaching people to code is the new hotness: startups like Codecademy and Bloc are all about helping people learn to program quickly and easily online, and they have helped spawn a cultural movement...
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Baltics to get a boost from new $250m innovation fund
In a somewhat unusual move, three neighbouring countries in the Baltics have pulled together to create a single innovation fund worth at least €200m ($257m). The Baltic Innovation Fund, announced on...
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Estonia opens up its e-voting system in push for transparency, security
For six years, Estonians haven’t had to set foot in a polling place or wait in line to cast their votes for President — instead, they can do it online. And on Thursday, the country’s Electronic Voting...
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Anonymous comments could suffer under European Court of Human Rights ruling
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has issued a decision that anti-censorship campaigners say could spell an end to anonymous website comments in the EU. The judgment came through on Thursday in...
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Fleep collaboration tool comes out of beta, gets premium option
Fleep, an asynchronous messaging tool for teams that was unveiled a year ago by Skype veterans, has come out of beta. The Estonia-based service is now freemium in nature – it has a fully-featured free...
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Europe’s big challenge: Creating a digital single market
Jean-Claude Juncker, the new European Union Council President, made expanding economic growth and jobs the number-one priority of his campaign platform. “The key ingredient,” he declared, is to “create...
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Verizon pushes Android 5.0 Lollipop to the Samsung Galaxy S5
Good news for Samsung Galaxy S5 owners on the Verizon network in the U.S.: Android 5.0 is ready for your device and Verizon has made it available. A notification should appear on your handset to...
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Motorola sales double in 2014 as the brand re-enters China
Lenovo reported its earnings for the past quarter on Tuesday. During the quarter, the company officially completed its $2.91 billion acquisition of Motorola from Google. Lenovo announced its smartphone...
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Check out Shadow: A portable panic button that phones for help
In an emergency situation, your best friend might be your smartphone. But what if your personal security is threatened and you simply don’t have time to dig for your handset, unlock the device and...
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No, it wasn’t just you: Netflix went down Tuesday afternoon
Netflix experienced an extended outage this Tuesday afternoon, with users reporting on Twitter that it went down around 3:40pm PT, according to Downdetector.com. Netflix’s website remained inaccessible...
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YouTube experiments with multiple camera angles for performances
Multiple camera angles are coming to YouTube, if only as an experiment: YouTube added a first live music performance with four camera angles to its site Wednesday, allowing users to switch back and...
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Apple spotted driving sensor-equipped vehicles in the Bay Area
San Francisco CBS affiliate KPIX has been following a mysterious minivan tooling around Concord, California, with a roof rack fool of advanced sensors. Checking in with the Department of Motor...
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Goodlatte revives Innovation Act to curb patent trolling
Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-Va) has reintroduced a patent reform bill, known as the Innovation Act, that enjoyed bipartisan support last year, but was killed by Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt). The prospects...
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Twitter beats on earnings but misses on user growth
Twitter’s stock rose slightly today after the company announced its fourth quarter earnings. It beat by a significant amount, although it missed in terms of what analysts expected for user growth. Here...
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Google advisory council: Right to delist should only apply in EU
To help it handle the EU ruling that forces it to delist certain results about people, Google assembled a team of expert advisors that travelled the continent, seeking out various opinions on how best...
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Facebook search tools take aim at Twitter’s relationship with news
Facebook is updating its search tool to make it easier for users to find things that interest them among the 2 trillion items archived by the company’s index. The update boasts personalized search...
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