Rose Cantine

Businessweek has posted a long article on how technology has changed the way people work on a daily basis, how goods are produced and services delivered. Laptops, the Blackberry, the iPhone, Skype, instant messaging, cheap data storage, broadband and video conferencing have allowed people to work remotely. The article fails to note, however, how large [...]

Skype has been down for 24 hours. There is an alternative to Skype. It’s called Gizmo Project. It allows the same free calls to other users of Gizmo (and other VOIP networks and devices that use SIP). You can also make very inexpensive calls to landline and mobile phones, and get a phone number in [...]

If there’s anything that ruins a good trip, it’s coming back and dreading the roaming charges on the next mobile phone bill. Since I live in a country the size of a postage stamp (the Netherlands), any trip I make will line the pockets of Orange Netherlands (now a T-Mobile subsidiary), for every phone call [...]

It’s been a week since the launch of the iPhone. Walt Mossberg (Wall Street Journal) and David Pogue (New York Times) have posted their very positive reviews. A lot of people in San Francisco rushed out to buy it including my friends. At dinner the other night, I had a chance to play with the [...]

Here’s a photo I took at 6:00 pm in front of the Apple store in downtown San Francisco. The crowd in front of the store cheered as the first customer came out with an iPhone. The queue extended around the corner. I want an iPhone - eventually - but this version does not have 3G [...]

Even if you aren’t a Mac fanatic, watch this 20 minute video of the Apple iPhone’s functions. It’s a phone, an iPod and a portable browser at the same time. It has Wi-Fi and cellular wireless connections (although no 3G until the 2008 version comes out). The Apple iPhone is revolutionary. Because it makes browsing, [...]

Check out this list of top 10 digital cities: Seoul, Singapore, Tokyo, Hongkong, Stockholm, SF and Silicon Valley, Tallinn, New York, Beijing and New Songdo City. The ranking is based on broadband speed, cost and availability, wireless Internet access, technology adoption, etc. I can’t imagine why they did not add Paris to the list. This [...]