Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category

The French don’t just have better food and clothes, they have faster, cheaper broadband too. In Paris you get 50 Mbps symmetrical for 30 EUR per month! Want to know how they got there? The French regulator comes down very hard on France Telecom (read here). How’s Blyk (the free-mobile-calls-for-ads) doing? Not bad. Will this [...]

If you have been living in a cave for the past 24 hours, you just missed Apple’s release of the world’s thinnest laptop (no CD or DVD drive, finally) and the beginning of the end of the cable TV industry. Read these posts on Pajama Entrepreneur: Apple releases world’s thinnest laptop Did Apple kill the [...]

I will resume posting on my other blog, Pajama Entrepreneur, about tech and entrepreneurship. I realized that dumping my tech obsessions into this blog together with food and shoe obsessions, was not a good idea. So, from now on, check out www.pjentrepreneur.com for posts on Wi-Fi, gadgets, Web 2.0, etc.

Here’s a little tip I’d like to share with you. If you live in a city and use Wi-Fi at home, you will probably encounter interference from a lot of neighbors’ Wi-Fi networks. The intereference can have a significant effect on the performance of your network, slowing down the speeds at which you send files [...]

Think all those Facebook widgets are so cool? Watch out for this one which installs the Zango adware / spyware, says Fortinet: Fortinet Global Security Research Team discovered a malicious Facebook Widget (officially, a “Platform Application”) actively spreading on the social networking site which ultimately prompts users to install the infamous “Zango” adware/spyware. Click here [...]