As if the experience of flying weren’t bad enough already with lousy (or non-existent) airline food, precious little leg room, massive delays, packed flights and idiotic security “theater” measures, here comes Ofcom, the UK telecoms regulatory authority, with a deranged plan to make the flying experience completely unbearable: Ofcom is allowing UK-registered airlines to let [...]
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UK will allow mobile phones on airplanes
Posted: 26 March 2008 in Current events, Technology, TravelTags: cellular, mobile
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Links of the day (20 March 2008): Absinthe review, WiMAX on a chip, 200 Kbps not broadband
Posted: 20 March 2008 in Restaurant reviews, TechnologyTags: broadband, fcc, wimax
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 [...]
How a startup blew $160M trying to game the search engines
Posted: 19 March 2008 in TechnologyTags: Advertising, google
There is a fascinating article in the Canadian Financial Post on Geosign, a company that took in $160M in venture capital funding in March 2007 only to fall apart a year later because their business model consisted of gaming the search engines, known as “search arbitrage” which is nothing more than sending people who click [...]
Help me decide what to do with 1 Gbps broadband service
Posted: 8 February 2008 in TechnologyTags: breednet, broadband, fiber, FTTH
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.
