Rose Cantine

I am shocked to read that Business 2.0 is having trouble getting advertising and that its parent, Time Inc. may have to stop the publication. I say shocked because we are in a booming tech market after all. Or are we? Conventional wisdom says that when an industry is booming, companies are spending a lot [...]

Marc Andreessen regrets he did not start blogging years ago and among his observations is this:
Writing a blog is way easier than writing a magazine article, a published paper, or a book — but provides many of the same benefits. I think it’s an application of the 80/20 rule — for 20% of the effort [...]

I was thinking about business models today because my company, Muniwireless is releasing a study next week about the business models behind citywide Wi-Fi networks. Wi-Fi uses unlicensed spectrum and has the advantage of being in every laptop and increasingly more mobile phones. Wi-Fi chips are inexpensive and people keep squeezing more out fo the [...]

Here’s an article in Wired about Michael Arrington’s rise from blogger to mini-media empire. When he started Techcrunch, he had no idea it would turn out to be one of the most influential technology blogs. Unlike boring tech websites run by large media companies, Techcrunch has personality (like its founder) and passion. It’s not written [...]

In Clash of the Titans (what’s really different about the Apple iPhone), Senior Analyst Robert Syputa says: “How much and quickly incumbent networks operators will be willing to give up the assurance of revenues derived from captive control of cellphone services versus how much they can capitalize on the popularity of new services is galvanized [...]

It’s been a week since the launch of the iPhone. Walt Mossberg (Wall Street Journal) and David Pogue (New York Times) have posted their very positive reviews. A lot of people in San Francisco rushed out to buy it including my friends. At dinner the other night, I had a chance to play with the [...]

The Wall Street Journal reports that Sprint Nextel, a US mobile carrier, is sending letters to 1000 subscribers, terminating their contracts because they had the temerity to call customer service “too often”. They called customer service 25 times in a month, mostly on billing matters. The article did not go into detail about what “billing [...]