Rose Cantine

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Now that EarthLink’s plan to deploy a citywide wireless broadband network is officially dead, who’s going to pick up where it left off? It appears that Meraki, a mesh equipment provider funded by Google and Sequoia, has come up with a plan to create a Wi-Fi cloud throughout the city by getting residents to install [...]

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 [...]

Walt Mossberg says that the amount of control that US cellular operators have over handsets and applications is terrible for innovation:
So it’s intolerable that the same country that produced all this has trapped its citizens in a backward, stifling system when it comes to the next great technology platform, the cellphone. A shortsighted and often [...]

Orange, Apple’s exclusive partner in France, is required to sell the iPhone unlocked, if requested by a customer. The reason: French law prohibits the tying of a device to a cellular service. Operators can sell phones for a lower price if they subsidize it, but if the customer just wants the phone, they have to [...]