Archive for the ‘News’ Category

Hottest webapp of the year Dragontape goes live

Friday, July 16th, 2010

We are absolutely thrilled to announce the public beta release of Dragontape, a great new tool to create your own mixtapes of YouTube videos. We are extremely happy EU Edge had the chance to take part in the making of this hugely entertaining app. Dragontape is built on the charmingly simple ...

Budapest gets a bicycle traffic counter

Friday, July 2nd, 2010

As a group of IT specialists and biking enthusiasts we are doubly thrilled by the launch of Budapest's first automated bicycle traffic counter, a sort of meshup of our two favorite kind of cycles. The counter will help city planners better understand bicycle traffic habits and patterns, but even more ...

Congregatin’ just became easier!

Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010

We are very proud to announce a great new update to congregar.com, our free event organizer webapp. Congregar is a sort of house pet to us that we launched in November 2008 and in the past year, it has learned some nice new tricks we hope you'll enjoy. The new beta ...

Saddle Up Everyone!

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

We're proud to report that EU Edge received the 2009 Bike Friendly Workplace Award, distributed by the Hungarian Ministry of Environment and Water. Praise for winning the award should go to our avid bikers for being relentless in keeping our office's carbon emissions to a minimum (the fact that we cover ...

Getting some press attention. In Print!

Thursday, June 4th, 2009

We have just got hold of a recent (March) issue of Business Hungary, an English language monthly of the local arm of the American Chamber of Commerce, in which you can read a nice piece about the outlooks of IT startups in Hungary written based on interviews with two local examples: Hungarian-American startup Spearsong ...

Congregar launched!

Wednesday, November 5th, 2008

"What would be the best date for that weekend cookout with my friends? When is everyone available for a class reunion? Which night would work best for that company outing?" The usual pattern when organizing such events is a mass email to your friends, followed by a thread of 80 emails, ...

StartUP conference

Thursday, March 6th, 2008

I was invited as a panelist to a "business underground conference", called StartUP (link in Hungarian). The event was truly grassroots: it was organized in just two weeks and sponsors were not given publicity - despite (or perhaps due to) this it had a great lineup, with fresh startups, ...

The Widget Jones Library – released

Monday, February 4th, 2008

EU Edge is proud to announce the release of another Open Source project, called The Widget Jones Library. The Widget Jones Library is a lightweight, flexible, template driven widget build system. It is intended to simplify creating portable widgets. Write your code once, build it with WJL, then run it on ...

Google Android runs on Sharp Zaurus SL-C760

Thursday, December 6th, 2007

Yesterday we managed to get Google Android running on a Sharp Zaurus SL-C760. This seems to be the first documented success with this device. This article provides instructions on how to get it working, in case you would like to try it at home :) Google Android is a new ...

MD5 seems not safe for code signing

Monday, December 3rd, 2007

This paper presents a method for creating the same MD5 hash for different executables - thus beating the idea of identifying executables by comparing their MD5 hashes to stored values.