Rose Cantine

(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 [...]

It’s Labor Day in the US, the traditional end of the summer, and beginning of a new school year. Over here in Amsterdam, it’s just another working day, but this week marks the first week that everyone is really back from holiday. I have posted several articles recently about what it means to be an [...]

The Financial Times has an article on the growing number of startups in Europe, a region known for bureaucracy, high taxes and lack of entrepreneurial spirit, but now blessed with the arrival of . . . Seedcamp!
The FT article talks about Saul Klein, a UK-based British ven­ture capitalist and entrepreneur, who created Seedcamp (”a week-long [...]

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 [...]

Businessweek has posted a long article on how technology has changed the way people work on a daily basis, how goods are produced and services delivered. Laptops, the Blackberry, the iPhone, Skype, instant messaging, cheap data storage, broadband and video conferencing have allowed people to work remotely. The article fails to note, however, how large [...]

Mashable has just created a Web 2.o marketplace for entrepreneurs who want to find software developers, sell or buy companies, provide development services, etc. Mashable was inspired by the recent trend of companies listing themselves for sale on eBay but apparently, they claim they got more leads from Mashable. Among the categories are websites for [...]

iPhone hacked, takes European SIM card: “The Sim-Clone hack enables people to use all the functionality of an iPhone in Europe, with both incoming and outgoing calls, as well as SMS and edge internet.” Everyone knows it was just a matter of time before someone hacked the iPhone to allow consumer choice.
Real businesses make money: [...]