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Will's Web Watch: Let the train take the strain
Comment Grab a quick coffee (two minutes), get on train (no security, no hassle). Time, door-to-door (providing GNER doesn't succumb to it's own occasional delays): about five hours and 17 minutes (don't forget that coffee), during which there are at least... [04 Jun 2007]
The great working from home experiment
News Gemma comes back online after attending an event and once again finds a coffee shop with excellent wi-fi. She ends up in another coffee shop, once again paying through the nose for overpriced wi-fi and no plug socket. [21 May 2007]
Will's Web Watch: Glastonbury and lessons in uptime
Comment Drinking coffee, reading the papers, watching the early morning repeat of Match of the Day. Will Sturgeon is sure there's a better way. Why in this day and age does buying tickets online mean staring at error messages on overloaded websites? [02 Apr 2007]
Wi-fi: How do you eat yours?
News Wireless internet access is booming and nowhere more so than in public spaces such as airports, cafés, pubs and hotels. During the past year, wi-fi usage worldwide shot up 44 per cent and the UK was blazing a trail with 75 per cent growth. [06 Mar 2007]
Editor's Blog: What a week for... Starbucks
Comment Coffee. Sure, you might have heard about an Oxfam campaign to do with how much the coffee giant pays growers in places such as Africa. Wi-fi is ramping up all over the place and initiatives like The Cloud's upcoming mesh across the whole of the... [19 Jan 2007]
Will's Web Watch: To eBay or to FreeBay?
Comment I recently bought a fine coffee table on eBay which was an absolute steal at £50. But with many items often selling for nominal amounts, Will Sturgeon wonders whether you might be happier 'Freebaying' them instead. [02 Jan 2007]
Wi-fi users will vote with their feet
News An impressive 35 per cent of respondents to a recent poll run on silicon.com said the pub would be the hotspot location where they thought they would be able to work best, given a choice which also included coffee shops, fast food restaurants... [14 Jun 2006]
Ignorance rife among London's wi-fi pubs
News And it's not just about having a beer with your wi-fi, Hollier said pubs should be looking to erode the market share of the nation's coffee shop boom. She said: "Pubs need to realise they can generate more revenues by appealing to the coffee and... [09 Jun 2006]
Houses of Parliament IT "really sucks"
News He said for an airy atrium with coffee shops and general seating areas in which many staff work, it's unthinkable that it doesn't have wi-fi. A UK MP has hit out at the House of Commons IT infrastructure, saying there are schools in his... [20 Mar 2006]
Firms told CRM 'not just a switch you can flick on'
News Using the example of hotels, he said businesses must remember which newspaper each customer takes, whether they drink tea or coffee and which type of pillows they prefer. Companies are being urged to realise there is no such thing as a 'ready-made... [14 Mar 2006]
Business travellers 'have laptop, will surf'
News In total, 43.8 per cent of respondents to a silicon.com poll said they would access the internet via their own laptop but using public Wi-Fi, such as that offered in many coffee shops, hotels, train stations and a whole host of other public... [19 Apr 2005]
IT industry to take on 3 Peaks Challenge for charity
News A couple of hours later in the coffee shop at the end of the high street the queue for the one working toilet was extending out of the shop and winding its way down the street as our intrepid whiskey tippler is in there for two solid hours praying... [24 Mar 2005]
Wi-Fi 'hotspots' for web access and crime?
News Respondents were most confident using their laptops at a Starbucks Coffee shop, where just 3.7 per cent said they would feel least safe, while football stadiums (21.8 per cent), McDonalds (15.7 per cent) and pavement cafes (14.5 per cent) all seem... [15 Sep 2004]
Will's Web Watch: Do firms still know 'squat' about domains?
Comment Starbucks Coffee is one company that has clearly given this some thought. Interesting then that StarbucksSucks - which paints the coffee giant in a bad light and rather neatly rhymes - is available in its .co.uk, .net, .info, .biz and .name... [23 Jul 2004]
Wi-Fi 'the pits' as Grand Prix Café goes wireless
News The Mayfair venue is the latest in a string of hotels, coffee shops and even petrol stations to announce the move to Wi-Fi meaning the modern workforce is becoming increasingly mobile. If I want to get a coffee then I'm going to go to Starbucks... [15 Oct 2003]
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