Rose Cantine

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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I was in Munich this week for the DLD conference and one of the first things I did was to head straight for the Gmund store on the Prannerstrasse next to the Bayerischer Hof hotel. Gmund is a Bavarian paper making firm that dates back to 1829. It is named after Gmund am Tegernsee, the [...]

I am tired of office supplies stores and catalogs that sell the same ugly office accessories - pens, pads, calendars, pen holders . You know the ones I’m talking about: cheap and ordered by the bulk and totally depressing to look at. Fortunately, there are alternatives. Check out See Jane Work, an online shop where [...]

Since everyone is making a list at the end of the year, I decided to create one, too. Here’s my top 10 most useful applications — things I couldn’t live without in 2007. Some are online apps, others are software that you download to your computer. I have a Mac Book Pro running Leopard (Mac [...]

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 [...]

In the past few weeks, I have attended two conferences, Mobile 2.0 in San Francisco and Nokia’s Mobile Mashup in Palo Alto, on the supposedly new world of mobile Internet, a paradise where everyone can use these incredible applications on their mobile phones AND access the Internet in all its glory. Unfortunately we’re stuck with [...]

Microsoft launched a unified communications platform (merging email, instant messaging and telephony) that Business Division President Jeff Raikes claims will put an end to telephone tag:
“The era of dialing blind, the era of playing phone tag, the era of voice-mail jam…that era is ending . . . I don’t want to get in touch [...]