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The Wellington Centre in Aldershot has chosen Wireless Social to provide free, family-friendly and secure WiFi for visitors, powered by Purple WiFi technology. The partnership means that the Wellington Centre will benefit from detailed customer insights and analytics, whilst visitors will get more value from their shopping experience. About The…

1) What is your very first memory? Two of my first memories were to do with my grandad.  Us girls could get away with anything with him and I remember doing his hair for him using a corkscrew and a fork (as you do!) the other was washing his beer…

July 6, 2015: Purple WiFi, the cloud-based Social WiFi software company, today announced the appointment of Roberto Aguirre as Service Provider Director, EMEA, reporting to Eric Law, VP of Worldwide Sales. Working out of Madrid, Roberto will be responsible for positioning Purple WiFi in Europe, the Middle East and Africa…

With the July update of our portal coming up, we want to let you know about some of the great new features you can expect, and also give you the opportunity to sign up to one of our preview and training webinars. Below is an overview of some of the…

Connector Systems New Zealand announces an exciting new partnership with Purple WiFi, a leader in guest WiFi marketing and analytics to the New Zealand market. Purple WiFi provides marketing and analytics technology for the retail market. They have numerous case studies and customer examples where they have enabled shopping centres…

Your WiFi network has never been so important.  Most organisations are getting ready to implement a WiFi network ready for the Internet of Everything with many asking how they can be fully prepared. Intrinsic and Cisco are hosting a free workshop on Thursday 2nd July at CityLabs, Manchester. Register for…

June 22nd, 2015: Purple WiFi, the cloud-based Social WiFi software company, today announced the appointment of Collin Tan as Regional Manager, ASEAN reporting to Allen Pan, VP Asia Pacific.  He will be based in Singapore and will be responsible for all Purple WiFi’s business in the ASEAN region. He will…

June 1, 2015: Purple WiFi, the cloud-based Social WiFi software company, today announced the appointment of Lars Elbaek Kristensen as Regional Manager Northern Europe. Based in Copenhagen, Denmark, Lars is set to expand Purple WiFi’s strategic expansion into Denmark, Sweden and Netherlands before branching out to Northern Europe. Considered a pioneer…

Retail systems, the leading technology title for the UK retail sector, were keen to interview our CEO Gavin Wheeldon for their Retail Worlds section. So we managed to find out what Gavin thinks about technology in general and technology in the retail sector. What technology can’t you live without? I’m…

Wood Green, The Animals Charity have recently installed a new, hard working WiFi system.  The solution was rolled out across two locations, Wood Green London, and Godmanchester in the UK. Godmanchester is spread across 52 acres of beautiful countryside and multiple buildings, with WiFi access throughout.  The installation was completed…

About Brent The London Borough of Brent (LBB) is located in North West London, forming part of Outer London. Its population is estimated at 312,200 people. Trial stages David Boyd of Unified Consultancy provided the borough with the Purple WiFi solution to match their needs and Xirrus high-density access points. The…

We’ll very shortly be releasing an updated version of our portal, so we wanted to give you a glimpse of what to expect. Platform architecture rewrite with improved performance and access speeds As a direct result of the massive Purple WiFi deployments we’ve seen across the globe, we’ve rewritten the…

Purple WiFi are expanding globally following a $5m investment announced earlier this year. The investment, led by a group of high net worth individuals in influential positions, was raised in order to accelerate product development and recruitment of a truly global sales team. Introducing Eric Law. Our new VP of Worldwide…

Future of Customer Engagement for Retailers Event at Harvey Nichols Fantastic turn out (in fact, standing room only!) for our event last week, which took place on the 5th floor of Harvey Nics in London and was all about the future of retail. Lovely to see so many trusted partners,…

Thanks to an initial introduction from Ingram Micro, a partnership has formed between Purple WiFi,Egton and Cisco Meraki, meaning schuh now has a new free, family-friendly, secure WiFi service available in store for customers. Why did schuh choose Purple WiFi? Having offered free WiFi for some time, schuh have tailored…