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Some news articles on the subject , the general outlook of Greek technology companies for 2011-2012 was “bad’ with few exceptions http://www.kathimerini.gr/4dcgi/_w_articles_kathremote_1_29/03/2012_435325 http://www.kerdos.gr/default.aspx?id=1707043&nt=103 http://www.euro2day.gr/news/market/123/articles/690675/Article.aspx

The past week I started conducting a survey about Greek Software companies! Suffice to say , it is not over yet but I have reached some preliminary conclusions about the current situation..! Parts of the results , so far : -A trendy ( ) company name generation tool for a potential new software company -A [...]

In hindsight my Nintendo Gameboy and my first computer (1995) were a pivot point in my life and since then computer games have undoubtedly become my favourite entertainment medium. Great games made over 16 years ago still pop up in my mind as pleasant memories now and then , more vivid than books or movies..! [...]

With all the privatisation talk going on in Greece , I have been thinking about how if IT existed before lets say 100 years it could have been included on the public sector as a proven human need such as schooling , hospitals , police , fire fighters etc. Imagine a state-run search engine , [...]

Mozilla foundation just released a tool called collusion.. It makes a map of the sites that report and track information about your internet whereabouts..! I have made a small map of the sites that I frequently use and the interconnections are astonishing.! The major “spy entities” on the graph are Google and Facebook , something [...]

The free and open source group of AUEB ( and me along with it xD ) will join the worldwide protest against ACTA , this Saturday 11/Feb. The gathering in Athens will take place in Syntagma square at 17:00 Because of the recent economic developments concerning Greece the ACTA treaty is a topic which has [...]

After using up Cheetah , Puma , Jaguar , Panther, Tiger ,Leopard , Snow Leopard and Lion and having reached the king of the jungle ( the lion ) the MacOS marketing team has recently run out of cool animals for their Operating System. Since an Operating System without a big number and a cool [...]

In the last days I resurrected one of my older projects ( A project started at 2010 ) , FlashySlideshows..! It is an album/slideshow/picture viewer based on OpenGL.. While there are picture viewers that can perform slideshows , I don’t think there is any other Linux program available at this time that has this kind [...]