Pajama Entrepreneur

I just posted a long essay and video of Judy Estrin, former CTO of Cisco, on how the quick-buck, pump and dump mentality in the US is destroying innovation and resulting in lousy service (not to mention long term market share decline).

Go to Muniwireless to read my post.

Guido van den Elshout, owner of the glam boutique hotel, Haagsche Suites in The Hague, interviewed me and posted my responses to ten questions ranging from my favorite travel destinations to top three tips for visitors to San Francisco. Find out where I like to hangout in SF and Amsterdam, what I love and despise about traveling and why you should put www.mapplr.com on your RSS newsreader:

10 Questions (6) for: Esme Vos of Mapplr

My goodness, what has Andy Abramson been doing while the Pajama Entrepreneur was away in Peru, trekking to Macchu Picchu — what else? Making VOIP calls on the Wi-Fi service of American Airlines. While I was away in the wilds of Peru without a laptop, mobile phone or any other way to communicate with the outside world, Andy set out to prove that one could make VOIP calls on Aircell, the Wi-Fi provider on the airline. I take it from his thrilling post that Aircell had said the one could not do this.

Read Andy’s post: Who Says You Can’t VOIP on Aircell, I Just Did It

One had giveth, the other taketh away. Delta Airlines announced it will be providing Wi-Fi service on all US domestic flights by the end of the summer. That’s good news. The bad news: expect service levels to decline on all US airlines as they penny-pinch their way to bankruptcy. I’ve read in the news that some airlines are charging for water, soda, coffee, blankets, pillows and extra baggage. Soon they’ll have coin-operated toilets.

Meanwhile the European rail experience just got better with St. Pancras station in London adding free Wi-Fi service. Note: they have the longest champagne bar in Europe!

I’ve been using the Nokia E71 for the past two weeks and I like it very much. It’s a slim, stylish smartphone with a QWERTY keyboard, which is necessary for writing emails. And it has Wi-Fi! The E71 is much faster than other Nokia smartphones I have used. It logs onto a Wi-Fi network more quickly, sends and receives data faster too.

I have been using Nokia’s native push email program and I am impressed. Darla Mack posted a thorough review of Nokia Email, which supports POP and IMAP. It is fast and simple to use.