Rose Cantine

I was in Munich this week for the DLD conference and one of the first things I did was to head straight for the Gmund store on the Prannerstrasse next to the Bayerischer Hof hotel. Gmund is a Bavarian paper making firm that dates back to 1829. It is named after Gmund am Tegernsee, the [...]

If you pick up any of the financial papers like the Wall Street Journal and the Financial Times this week, you will see articles such as “Late Spending Spree Helps Europe’s Retailers” and “Retail Rush Appears to Fall Short”. Shopping, especially during the holiday season, is the barometer for how well [...]

Farhad Manjoo, Salon’s tech columnist, did quite a bit of research and showed that Macs are indeed cheaper than PCs. Moreover, their eBay resale value is higher:
Even for computers, brand matters. This week I compared prices of several machines from Dell, Gateway and other PC vendors against Apple’s lineup of Macs. In most cases comparable [...]

Stylefeeder.com is the latest personal online shopping site that allows you to bookmark items you like (an iPhone, Gucci shoes, Dior bag), find “style twins” (people who share your taste), get product recommendations specific to your taste and solicit advice from others in the community about items you are thinking of buying. It’s a social [...]