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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 [...]

I posted on Pajama Entrepreneur that Breednet wants to know whether I want 100 Mbps or 1 Gbps symmetrical service to my home office. It’s pricey: 1 Gbps costs 675 EUR per month. But if I can somehow cover my costs and enjoy the 1 Gbps life, I’m open to suggestions.

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The French don’t just have better food and clothes, they have faster, cheaper broadband too. In Paris you get 50 Mbps symmetrical for 30 EUR per month! Want to know how they got there? The French regulator comes down very hard on France Telecom (read here).
How’s Blyk (the free-mobile-calls-for-ads) doing? Not bad. Will this business [...]

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, [...]

I will resume posting on my other blog, Pajama Entrepreneur, about tech and entrepreneurship. I realized that dumping my tech obsessions into this blog together with food and shoe obsessions, was not a good idea. So, from now on, check out www.pjentrepreneur.com for posts on Wi-Fi, gadgets, Web 2.0, etc.

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