Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Avast antivirus, one of the best

The statement that the Czech Republic is a software super power might surprise some. But the claim rings true especially when it comes to anti-virus programs. And the Prague company Alwil is the best example.

Its anti-virus program avast! Is one of the most successful and wide-spread products of any Czech company on the global market. It is currently used by some 70 million people around the world. Avast history includes local versions of typical garage stories, in which talented students founded now giant computer companies.

Alwil founders, Pavel Baudiš and Eduard Kučera, met in the 1980s as fresh technology graduates in the Research Institute for Mathematical Machines. This institute, legendary in the computer circles, represented an oasis for its employees in the communist times. Software pre-history used to intertwine with the then uncommon freedom of thought. A number of Charta 77 signers worked there (such as Jan Sokol or Václav Žák) since the communists obviously did not consider the software development to be an ideologically essential field.


Alwil started up as a family company with a few employees. There are now 70 people employed and in a year this number should reach 120.
The company was the first in the world to offer anti-virus protection for Windows 95.
Avast is currently putting together its fifth generation in more than 30 languages and this product is one of the most popular security programs in many countries such as France and Brazil.

http://praguemonitor.com/2008/12/22/edit-avast-anti-virus-stra%C5%A1nice

Thursday, December 18, 2008

Mobile phones in Czech republic

Tarrifs, companies, plans, costs, information
Prepaid, contracts.

at http://prague.tv/articles/relocation/
mobile-telephones-in-the-czech-republic

Czech Airlines best

Czech Airlines has earned the award as the "Best Airline in Central and Eastern Europe", from the prestigious American magazine Business Traveler.

to buy cheap tickects - "letenky" - www.cestovani.nexo.com, lists the best Czech and world ticket search engines
More about Czech, czech search, czech news websites at www.Cechy.nexo.com and www.Czech.nexo.com .
World news sites at www.myNews.nexo.com , best tech news sites lists at www.geek.nexo.com .

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