Rose Cantine

I was having breakfast yesterday with Alexander Casassovici, a young entrepreneur from Paris, who was in Amsterdam for the Nextweb conference. Alexander’s startup Wavestorm develops technology for the “Internet of Things” — machine to machine communications via Wi-Fi. We were talking about how this tech “bubble” is different from the first one in the late [...]

I love email but when you get hundreds everyday, you begin to hate it. You spend more time responding to email than doing your work.
1. Smart Folders on the Mac
If you are on a Mac and using Apple Mail, create Smart Folders: one called Urgent for emails from people you need to respond to right [...]

I was in London this week and in Brussels a week ago attending conferences. I do a lot of work when I am traveling. I respond to emails, use Skype to return calls, write blog posts for Muniwireless, Rose Cantine and this website, and search for interesting stories on the Internet. So I need a [...]

I am in London Gatwick waiting for my flight back to Amsterdam. So I decided to log onto the BT OpenZone network. I am on the second level at Pip having coffee. The results were almost the same as KPN’s hotspot in Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport, just as pathetic. A true race to the bottom. Web [...]

I am in London for the Wireless Event. It’s a beautiful summer day so I’ve decided to work outdoors and use The Cloud’s Wi-Fi hotzone which covers The City of London — not London in general, but that little district that encompasses the Inns of Court and St. Paul’s Cathedral.
First, I went to Gray’s Inn, [...]

I am in London for the Wireless Event UK, organized by Piers Bearne. I’m staying at the K West Hotel and Spa, a design hotel in Shepherd’s Bush, not far from the Olympia Convention Center in Kensington. This hotel charges 10 UK pounds per day for Wi-Fi, which is high, considering they already charge 160 [...]

If you travel a lot and need to get work done, you need fast Wi-Fi service. Unfortunately, even the best of airports, Schiphol, has terrible Wi-Fi service. Today, I tested the connection while waiting for my British Airways flight to London. The KPN (our beloved telecom incumbent in the Netherlands) Wi-Fi airport service delivered 1.4 [...]