UMTS + US – or: problems finding a right prepaid data plan when traveling to the US
As you might know, I have switched from using a global data plan for my mobile phone to buying local prepaid cards to use in my smartphones. This is also the reason why I don’t use the BlackBerry anymore and over time, I’ve colleced a stash of them. Not many, but the collection is growing:…
Oh, that's cheap. Or: how to increase ARPU as a mobile provider
This topic might feel a bit “off topic”, as it is not very personal to me, but it resulted from a posting I made at gutefrage.net, a Q&A platform where you can answer random questions, hopefully in your own field of expertise. And since I love feeling superior (and miss answering questions in my holidays…
What Apple to pick – or: reduce weight while traveling
No, this blog post is not about a diet based on apples, it’s rather about which financial diet to take after buying an Apple; the technical product that is. As most of you are well aware of, part of my job is to travel a lot. And traveling most of the time means spending an…
Tempting Christmas time
Almost two years ago, I decided to not display any advertisements on the Küchenserver (see https://www.kuechenserver.org/tag/werbefrei/#/archiv/2009/01/16/werbefrei/ for the German post about this). However everytime I’ll have a look at my stats around Christmas, I get tempted once again to break with my intentions. I once published a post titled “funny xmas mailing” and since then…