Rose Cantine

Research firm In-Stat reports that there’s a substantial market niche for Wi-Fi enabled mobile phones:
A recent survey of US early adopters found that almost half of those respondents plan to replace their cell phones want Wi-Fi capability. To meet the growing demand, there is an avalanche of dual-mode phones in the pipeline. By the end [...]

I love Patrick Smith’s column “Ask the Pilot” in Salon. This time he has a list of the best, worst and weirdest airports. Among the best are Bangkok and Tel Aviv (efficient quiet security and free Wi-Fi). The worst are Dakar, New York JFK, Paris Charles de Gaulle, Cairo, London Heathrow, Chicago O’Hare, Houston and [...]

The launch of the TGV high speed train service to the eastern part of France and into Germany (Paris-Strasbourg-Frankfurt) is expected to cause property values to rise in these rural areas, according to Le Monde. This is not surprising. If there’s a TGV station close by, the region attracts people who want to buy a [...]

The member states of the European Union approved the cap on mobile roaming rates. The cap takes effect this summer. For enterpreneurs who travel a lot, the high roaming fees imposed by the operators when you leave your home country, have been a financial burden. Worse than that are the roaming rates for data (not [...]

I am heading back to Amsterdam from Boston after the Muniwireless New England conference. After two days of discussions about the quality of citywide WiFi services, I am confronted with Logan Airport’s absurd WiFi portal (note: Logan wins my vote for worst airport).
When I started my iBook, it detected a WiFi network and asked me [...]

Andy Abramson’s wish list is something those of us who travel a lot can relate to. As part of the work-from-anywhere crowd, I have suffered through hotels without double-glazed windows, slow (or non-existent) broadband service, and poor lighting. Hotels that advertise themselves as business hotels fail miserably when they don’t provide enterpreneurs with an environment [...]

As more startups use independent consultants (programmers, web developers, marketing, sales people, freelance writers) who are based in other countries, they need to find a way to pay them in various currencies without those nasty bank charges. This is where Paypal comes in.
Paypal does not charge you a fee to make a payment to a [...]