Rose Cantine

The US government recently decided to extend loans to US auto manufacturers so now it’s the European car makers who are lining up to get their share of our taxpayer money (Financial Times: Car makers ask EU for US-style loan). And you know they’ll get it from the spineless politicians in Brussels, who for all [...]

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

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 [...]

If you have been living in a cave for the past 24 hours, you just missed Apple’s release of the world’s thinnest laptop (no CD or DVD drive, finally) and the beginning of the end of the cable TV industry. Read these posts on Pajama Entrepreneur:

Apple releases world’s thinnest laptop
Did Apple kill the cable TV?

Unfortunately, [...]

Here’s a little tip I’d like to share with you. If you live in a city and use Wi-Fi at home, you will probably encounter interference from a lot of neighbors’ Wi-Fi networks. The intereference can have a significant effect on the performance of your network, slowing down the speeds at which you send files [...]

A few days ago I broke down and bought Apple’s latest operating system, Leopard, and the new Airport Extreme 802.11n base station. I’ve been thinking about upgrading for several months but reports of problems experienced by other users who upgraded, scared me into sitting on the sidelines. I have been fortunate in that I [...]

Stats: iPhone has 0.09 percent of Web usage — yes, that’s a lot: In this post Valleywag points out that iPhone users tend to use the Web more than non-iPhone users. Excerpt:
Windows CE, which encompasses every Windows Mobile device shipped, holds a 0.06 percent share; Danger Research’s Sidekick product family holds a tiny 0.02 percent [...]