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The Weekly Round-Up: 20.06.08
Round-Up The future is wi-fi-equipped public conveniences with a coffee machine. You may not get an expensive luke-warm cup of coffee-flavoured milk foam and jazz-lite soundtrack of your favourite coffee shop in the loo but it does at least guarantee some... [20 Jun 2008]
Coffee Republic to offer free wi-fi
News Customers making a purchase at Coffee Republic will be offered a free wi-fi voucher giving them a login code to access the store's hotspot from any wi-fi-enabled laptop, mobile phone or PDA. Latte lovers who like to surf and work from the comfort... [14 Apr 2008]
Location-based services set to boom
News This level of accuracy opens the doors to a "pretty endless list" of location-based apps, according to Strickland - from finding out where the nearest coffee house is, to letting your friends know where you are, to keeping track of your kids... [11 Feb 2008]
How organized crime is profiting from the Internet
White Paper This report examines how international cyber criminals are moving away from homes and into public places such as Internet cafes and Wi-Fi enabled coffee shops. Cybercrime is no longer in its infancy. It is now big business. [16 May 2007]
How organized crime is profiting from the Internet
White Paper This report examines how international cyber criminals are moving away from homes and into public places such as Internet cafes and Wi-Fi enabled coffee shops. Cybercrime is no longer in its infancy. It is now big business. [16 Apr 2007]
Tech-savvy kids demand flexible hours
News The report also found 47 per cent already work outside the office - whether that's mobile-based, homeworking or in a wi-fi enabled coffee shop. Half of young employees reckon being able to choose when and where they work is more important than a... [03 Apr 2007]
RE:Viewing 2006: The year in financial services
News Financial services organisations also got in on the hubbub surrounding contactless payments with Barclaycard, TfL and Visa reviving the idea of creating an Oyster card for the London Tube that would also allow commuters to purchase low-cost items... [19 Dec 2006]
Leader: Set your workers free
Leader Or you get a good idea while sipping a coffee in the trendy 'break out' area, so you IM your boss on your portable, connected system. Enabled by portable PCs and ubiquitous net connectivity, it saves on property costs. [05 Dec 2006]
Visa to launch 'wave and pay' cards in UK
News The technology will allow people to pay for low-value transactions such as coffee and newspapers that total less than £10 by waving their debit card over a reader, without having to sign a receipt or enter a PIN number. [24 Nov 2006]
The Weekly Round-Up: 16.06.06
Round-Up The reason for our man enduring this chore was to launch silicon.com's guide to many of the capital's best wireless internet-enabled pubs, for any readers who find themselves out an about on business in the big smoke and fancy a pint, a glass of... [16 Jun 2006]
The Cloud offers "affordable" wi-fi
News If you have a working routine where you visit a certain coffee house every morning, and you have a couple of client locations where you have The Cloud hotspots, it'll work perfectly. This is due to the dramatic difference in cost between internet... [03 May 2006]
Leader: Making wi-fi a must-have
Leader Workers don't want to have to pay one company for access when they are surfing over a coffee in a West End café, then pay another company for access on a train and then a third back over in the City. In the last few weeks we've seen the appearance... [07 Mar 2006]
Netscape founder says PHP beats Java
News PHP is more limited in scope than Java, which runs not just on web servers but also on PCs, mobile phones, chip-enabled debit cards and many other devices. The simplicity of scripting language PHP means it will be more popular than Java for... [20 Oct 2005]
VoIP: Vonage to go mobile
News Vonage could also market the routers to hot spot providers such as Boingo Wireless for installation in airports, coffee shops and other such locations where wireless hubs have slowly begun to appear. In theory, someone should be able to walk into a... [16 May 2005]
Biometric ATMs give bank cards the finger
News Biometric-enabled ATMs have allowed us to target completely new market segments and provide groups such as pensioners and coffee growers with an easier and safer way of handling their money," said Sanchez. [29 Nov 2004]
