Comments on: What is Estonia?

By: Roman

Roman — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 21:46:59 +0000

As far as I know there are none
The Estonian local stock market however is owned by Nasdaq

By: David

David — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 23:58:51 +0000

Neat Article. Never thought that Estonia was so technologically advanced.

In terms of investment opportunities, are there Estonia stocks that trade in the US?.

By: Nick

Nick — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 01:56:14 +0000

If nothing else, just little snippets of information from time to time. Or if something news-worthy happens, let us know and give us some background information about the event and how that sort of thing works there.

By: Roman

Roman — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 16:15:48 +0000

Sorry, but there isn’t a lot of info here about Estonia! Hopefully I will add some new interesting stuff over time!

By: Nick

Nick — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 02:14:45 +0000

Wow! I did not know anything about Estonia before, but now think it might be someplace I might want to visit sometime.

I’ll have to dig around this site and see if I can find some more stuff about the country that is not related to technology.

By: OnuJack

OnuJack — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 21:49:55 +0000

That might be true but the fact is that for a person who is not living in Tallinn and goes there with a car is in trouble when he/she wants to park. It could easily be made more user friendly. I have used EuroPark parking spaces in Tallinn in the past and they don’t have a problem writing the necessary information for starting/ending mobile parking… The problem is that EuroPark’s are not very common there…

For you as a person living in Tallinn it is not a problem because mobile parking is everyday business. I would not mind using a parking machine but there were not any around - the only option seemed to be mobile parking and that was ridiculously difficult to figure out - this only shows that customer is not king… And since there is no real competition there is no real motivation for improving things but hopefully it will improve. How difficult can it be to arrange some extra information on the parking information tablets?

By: Roman

Roman — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 21:25:03 +0000

You probably need to register before you can use the mobile parking system. Im pretty sure you could have found the mobile phone number with your mobile through WAP or your mobile’s webbrowser!

By: OnuJack

OnuJack — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 10:11:09 +0000

I don’t know about other cities in Estonia but in Tallinn it is pretty difficult to find the necessary information for using mobile parking (at least in some areas). Just last week I searched for a parking zone code and a phone number in the heart of the town so I could park my car without it being towed away - found nothing. Even talked to locals and they have never seen any such information… The idea is good but the implementation is not the best. There were signs up everywhere telling in which rate zone you are but nothing about what number to send the sms and in which zone you are exactly. So I just took the risk and parked my car without paying for it because did not have all day to figure out where to get the right information… It was the area around the US embassy.

The NATO cyber defence headquarters were established there after these attacks. Some of the attacks were told have come from Russian institutions servers - as usual Russia does not cooperate on matters that not a threat to them :p

About wireless internet - I can give you a couple of examples where there is no free Wifi in public places such as coffees and diners :p But the wireless coverage is true - nowadays you can buy a special modem even for your car and have high speed internet access wherever you are

The picture in header of the post is from the island where I come from - a town called Kuressaare. Beautiful nature all the way

more news about Estonia: Microsoft is building it’s innovation center in Estonia - that says it all about the potential of Estonia in terms of technological advancements :p