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Marketwatch columnist Chris Plummer makes several arguments as to why high gasoline prices are good for the US. It’s one of the more lucid articles on the subject.
As oil prices climb, we’ve seen politicians call for a moratorium on the gasoline tax. In Europe, they’re calling for a lowering of the high benzine tax, too. [...]

Mapplr’s favorite Berlin hotels
Free Wi-Fi service on trains in Denmark
FON’s global wireless ambitions: what’s taking so long?
You guys are cheap: WiMAX service for no more than $20 per month
Public transport Wi-Fi is hot: SF BART to be unwired

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An entrepreneur’s honest assessment of what went wrong
Apple has 66 percent of market for $1000-plus computers

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As if the experience of flying weren’t bad enough already with lousy (or non-existent) airline food, precious little leg room, massive delays, packed flights and idiotic security “theater” measures, here comes Ofcom, the UK telecoms regulatory authority, with a deranged plan to make the flying experience completely unbearable: Ofcom is allowing UK-registered airlines to let [...]

It’s been raining for two days in Amsterdam. That’s probably why I’ve been blogging so much. Here are a few blog posts I’ve written across a variety of blogs.
Brunch, lunch, dinner in SF: Absinthe does all three quite well
Why having WiMAX in your device won’t necessarily make you get WiMAX service
FCC finally agrees that 200 [...]

There is a fascinating article in the Canadian Financial Post on Geosign, a company that took in $160M in venture capital funding in March 2007 only to fall apart a year later because their business model consisted of gaming the search engines, known as “search arbitrage” which is nothing more than sending people who click [...]

I’ve been traveling a lot in the past two weeks so posting has been light. I went to Barcelona for the Mobile World Congress (formerly known as 3GSM and still called 3GSM by most people). Here are my posts from the conference:
Must have: Nokia’s cool N96
Nokia Maps 2.0 is a killer app for mobile phones
Barcelona [...]