Steve Wozniak in Hungary · 26 November 2007 by Alex Beregszaszi
Today at 16:30 Steve Wozniak will held a presenation and answer questions at the Millenar Park.
DoubleTwist Ventures and SpiceFlow · 2 November 2007 by Alex Beregszaszi
DoubleTwist Ventures launched with a big echo caused by the offering: reverse engineering for money. In the USA.
Now they look like going more mature and relocated the core business to Norway, where it is a legal thing to do reverse engineering. (DoubleTwist job offers)
SpiceFlow AS is the Norway counterpart to DoubleTwist. See the company registry information.
labs.siqon.com · 19 September 2007 by Alex Beregszaszi
That was a hard day. Writing so many posts, while doing real work is not easy.
We have now set up gitweb and designed a clean (does it reminds you the main site?) layout for our labs quartier.
Currently only an initial legacy x86 PC BIOS code is available there, but more to come.
Cuill update · 19 September 2007 by Alex Beregszaszi
I already wrote about Cuill, and most of my then thoughts look to be true.
Interesting is that people are only writing about it now, when Techcrunch released an article, altought it has been mentioned 7 (!) months before in Venturebeat.
Rumor is that Cuill works at 1/10th cost of Google, when speaking about indexing. Venturebeat looks to be the first to start this rumor:
We’re told they claim they can crawl the Web at a tenth of the cost Google can.
(And greetings to Schweizweit for linking.)
ING uses GoogleMaps · 3 August 2007 by Alex Beregszaszi
ING uses GoogleMaps for ATM search
It is a bit unusual to see such mashups or at least using outbound web services in banking, instead some internally written unusable heap.
Cuill, the next Google? · 2 August 2007 by Alex Beregszaszi
While browsing the access logs, an unfamiliar entry made me to search.
This entry was: Mozilla/5.0 (Twiceler-0.9 http://www.cuill.com/twiceler/robot.html)
It looks like a friendly start up, “Yup. We’re working on it.” is the first to see on the site, reading further reveals this: Our offices are located on a quiet street in Menlo Park, CA. Menlo Park? The same place where Google opened.
The about page tells the whole story, two of the three founders worked for Google. What are they going to do? And what is Google going to do? Or is this going to be an in-house rival?
Well, the last unusual crawler who visited us back in 2005 is still nowhere: Topicblogs is not yet launched.
Fonera pricing · 8 November 2006 by Alex Beregszaszi
Fon started selling wireless routers for $5 / 5€, with an own firmware. First they shipped Linksys WRT54’s, later they changed to some Buffalo’s and finally they created the La Fonera.
This is a small wireless router, based on an Atheros SoC which supports multi-ssid broadcast, thus you will have a public and a private network. The device is small and cute. It ha been sold for the same price ($5 / 5€) as the others.
Everyone can order only one Fonera with that discount price, every other order will take $50/50€. At least this is what they stated.
It has been said that the 10% price will be abandoned this week, but then a new promotion price appeared: $29.95 / 29.95 €.
I wonder if they will get back to the $5 price. Anyway, the $30 isn’t that much either.
A different note: Fon is backed by Skype and Google. Skype is owned by eBay, just as Paypal is. And the Fon order site uses Paypal. Google minus.
Kirowski · 5 September 2006 by Alex Beregszaszi
Kirowski is one of the biggest web and “new media” foundries in Hungary (carnation being the other big player?). Kiro (the nickname of it) had its 10th birthday party a few weeks ago, thus gained some appearence in blogs.
Why do I write about this? Do you notice the name? Its a bit Polish, but the people behind it are Hungarian and noone of them have a similar surname or nickname.
The light came when reading Pollner’s (again, a nickname) mediablog. An insider revealed that when choosing the name, their pointed to a map, and selected the name of a city nearest to that point. The city was the Russian Kirovsk.
That’s it.
Update: pictures of the city and its mine