tallinn
- n a port city on the Gulf of Finland that is the capital and largest city of Estonia
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- Tallinn: The Former Soviet City That Gave Birth To Skype
The Baltic city of Tallinn hardly looks modern with its blend of medieval towers and Soviet-era architecture. Smoke-spewing buses and noisy streetcars look as if they have been plucked from the past. Even so, the Estonian capital is one of the world's most technologically advanced cities. The...
June 13, 2013 - Georgia Public Broadcasting - Skype co-founder reveals service's origins as WiFi-sharing network
Everyone and their mother knows Skype as a call and chat messenger, but it would've been a completely different beast if its founders' original plans came to fruition."The initial idea was to develop a WiFi-sharing network, and then provide various 'telecom-like' services on top of that, such as TV and telephony," explained founding engineer Jaan Tallinn in a Reddit AMA. Tallinn compared the ...
June 9, 2013 - Engadget - Estonian believers shop a spiritual 'marketplace'
In Tallinn's medieval Old Town, the primary tourist attraction of the Baltic seaport capital, Estonia’s Christian heritage is ubiquitous. Gothic church spires and crosses are the architectural leitmotif.
June 7, 2013 - Christian Science Monitor via Yahoo! News
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- Robert Fico in NDTV.com
From midnight tonight, you can travel 4,000 kilometre from Tallinn in Estonia to Lisbon in Portugal without any border controls,said Fico. - Steve McClaren in Telegraph.co.uk
There are no ambitions nor clear development plan. They are opening and closing lines, then opening next lines. The state is interested that the airline operates efficiently and develops and that Tallinn has sufficient number of direct links to... Juhan Parts http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juhan_Parts&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNE2ys6QLK0wX0nE_f481ccRiEg2wQ Baltic Business News http://www.google.com/url?q=http://balticbusinessnews.com/Default.aspx%3FPublicationId%3Dd536ae3a-3669-48dc-813e-20047f2ead52&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNG5FKjEa_qQufGHq_7NaMeWYIVc4g Jul 9, 2010 98005 129999 tallinn The support the England team receive continues to be incredible," McClaren told fans. "No matter where we play, we seem to have the largest travelling support and this can genuinely be a 12th man for us. In Tallinn, for the game against...