Rose Cantine

If you are a pajama entrepreneur like me, you don’t have the luxury of hiring an IT manager for the office, especially if you have a home office. That means YOU are the person in charge of setting up and maintaining your Wi-Fi network, securing it, etc. So, I am pleased to see that Glenn [...]

Ever since I’ve been using Microsoft Office, first on a PC and since 2002 on a Mac, I’ve bought every single upgrade from Microsoft. Not this time. Microsoft is selling the upgrade for $239.95.
Here are the reasons why I won’t be upgrading:

$239.95 is too much money to pay for - what? I use Word, Excel [...]

The city of Paris has begun offering free Wi-Fi access in public parks and gardens, museums, libraries, and other public buildings. To find out which areas have Wi-Fi, go to wifi.paris.fr. Inspired by San Francisco, the mayor of Paris, Bertrand Delanoë, issued a public tender last year, seeking a provider to deploy the hotzones. SFR [...]

Blyk has finally launched in the UK, with service coming to other European countries in 2008. I’ve been waiting for Blyk to begin its service because the model is totally different from that of other operators:

only 16-24 year olds can get the service
they get 43 minutes and 217 text messages free every month
they agree to [...]

(1) UK telecom company Noodle pays you when you use your phone (from the Times UK):
“Some customers are already making up to £100 a week, more than enough to cover a phone’s running costs, according to Noodle, the telecom firm providing the service. Noodle customers make 2p a minute if they make or receive a [...]

Skype has been down for 24 hours. There is an alternative to Skype. It’s called Gizmo Project. It allows the same free calls to other users of Gizmo (and other VOIP networks and devices that use SIP). You can also make very inexpensive calls to landline and mobile phones, and get a phone number in [...]

If there’s anything that ruins a good trip, it’s coming back and dreading the roaming charges on the next mobile phone bill. Since I live in a country the size of a postage stamp (the Netherlands), any trip I make will line the pockets of Orange Netherlands (now a T-Mobile subsidiary), for every phone call [...]