XS4ALL will discontinue the Webdisk service as of December 17th. All files stored online on that day will be deleted. Customers are referred to an alternative to the storage service, KPN Cloud from parent company KPN. XS4ALL clients can still access 10GB of storage per email address with KPN Cloud, although files in a Webdisk […]
Train strike causes confusion and frustration among tourists in Schiphol | Currently
A train strike on Dutch railways on Friday left many international travelers headaches. At Schiphol Airport, NS staff still working receive many questions about the remaining options for travel through the Netherlands. Taxi drivers are now reaping the benefits of this. Trade unions FNV, CNV and VVMC will organize regional strikes in the west and […]
Best Smartphone Buying Guide – Tweakers
Once every two months, we publish an update to the Smartphone Best Buy Guide. You can see that summer is in full swing, because apart from a few models and some mid-range devices, not many have come. However, there are enough hardware among the newcomers so good that they have eliminated some recommendations from previous […]
“It’s strange to ask a smoker if he or she has any advice to quit” | Chantal van der Leste
Behavioral psychologist Chantal van der Liss examines our behavior in the workplace: Who or what determines our daily decisions? Today: Best Advice Lately I’ve been hearing more and more of those old sayings. Ah well, you’ve got that too at your age,” I tell my younger colleagues. Stunned, I slapped my hand over my mouth, […]
Access to Schiphol does not suffer from fewer flights
q-online / Flickr / CC-by-nc-sa NOS . News•Today 07:02 Schiphol Airport could be reduced to 250,000 flights per year without affecting access to the Netherlands. This is the opinion of a working group of local residents based on data that originates in part from the Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management. The new calculations were […]
Omtzigt: The Netherlands lacks a gas strategy, but supplies abroad
Policy•Sep 7 ’22 18:50author: Mark Van Harriveld Not only does The Hague lack a plan to properly tackle the gas crisis, while gas prices are rising, the Netherlands appears to have concluded long-term secret contracts with third parties for the supply of natural gas. This is clear from the answers to the parliamentary questions that […]
CERN plans to shut down particle accelerators due to power shortages – IT Pro – News
Do you have the idea that it would take a wealth of space in the cramped Netherlands to create a wind farm that could power the entire country? One day, deep-sea floating wind farms will be a thing, but we’re not there yet. We should have had it the day before yesterday. @n00bs Just true […]
The slight rise in wages can’t keep up with the massive inflation right now
Workers are still dealing with spiraling inflation. Grocery stores in particular are more expensive and energy bills are on the rise. Meanwhile, wages are significantly delayed, causing many people to lose their purchasing power. So far, there has been no question about a possible wage wave and wages will rise further in the coming months, […]
How about a Vattenfall price increase?
Image Getty Images / Image source In the summer, Vattenfall proudly reported that it was able to keep the price increase within limits through “smart buying”. This does not work anymore? In the international market for natural gas, purchase prices rose further only due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the cessation of gas […]
Google critic Meredith Whitaker becomes Signal’s first head – IT Pro – News
A few euros a month? It sounds very stupid, but suppose you have to pay 2 euros per month (24 euros per year), do you think this is a reasonable price for the messaging service? Personally, I think that a service like Signal should be accessible to everyone everywhere in the world, and if I’m […]