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Love it or loathe it, Christmas is literally around the corner (again, yes I know!) and if you’re like me and left it until the last minute, it’s probably time to rush around like a madman looking for presents and as a lover of both Christmas and technology, I find…

Social login capabilities on captive portals are a great way of increasing login rates. By using pre-existing social network logins such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn, you allow users to seamlessly connect to your guest WiFi network. Simply speaking, social login takes all the effort out of signing into…

Countdowns with gin advent calendars and wish lists a mile long bring joy to adults and children each year for Christmas. Tis (almost) the season to be jolly and take care of last minute good deeds to secure your place on the Nice List. Although, John Lewis’ London Canary Wharf…

Purple, the intelligent spaces company, today announced its collaboration with Unico Data AG as part of a guest WiFi and analytics deployment at various locations on the cableway and mountaintop of Schilthorn, Switzerland. The famous Swiss peak can be reached by boarding the longest aerial cableway in the Alps and…

Like it or not, children and the internet go hand-in-hand and the digital world plays a massive part in most youngsters day-to-day lives. Most kids know how to answer a question by completing a Google search instead of asking their parents and most toddlers know how to swipe a screen on a smartphone.…

The strangest WiFi locations are everywhere. It’s almost a year since Purple published one of our most popular blogs – the Top 6 Weirdest Places with WiFi. Think donkeys, the moon, cemeteries, the North Pole and mountains. With that in mind, and a collection of our favourite WiFi headlines to…

We recently invited all of our global partners to an exclusive webinar with Purple WiFi investor and former CEO of Best Buy International, Bob Willett. “Bob Willett is an example of an executive who started on the shop floor.He began at Marks & Spencer in his native United Kingdom in…

If you’re like me (and a lot of other people), you keep a lot of your personal information on your smartphone—things such as Social Security numbers for your family, passwords, financial data and more. Obviously this isn’t information you want just anyone to have access to, but it’s incredibly easy…

In January this year, there were more than 50 million public WiFi hotspots across the world – that equates to one WiFi hotspot for every 150 people on the planet! But where are the world’s most unusual WiFi hotspots? 1) Mountains In July it was announced that visitors to Japan’s…

8 things we’ve learnt about selfies 1 ) A picture tells a thousand words Thanks to connectivity and being ‘always on’ we can take a picture almost any time, any place, anywhere and immediately post it to one of many social media accounts. Hence the current fascination and trend for…

Social media is an amazing platform for both individuals and businesses alike and there are so many to choose from. However, after posting our blog on the language of email, we really got thinking about how we may come across when ‘writing’ on social media sites and decided to investigate.…

Yippee I’m off on holiday for two weeks, my car is parked on the drive and I’ve just changed my money at my bank (the branch that’s two doors down from my house). My mother’s maiden name is Jones and my first pet was called Floppy! These are just some…

The definition of the Internet of Things is “intelligent interactivity between humans and things to exchange information and knowledge for new value creation.” Try saying that after a glass of wine! There’s been a lot of talk about the IoT in the business world, and with good reason. It’s chock…

In one of our earlier blogs, The Psychology of Social Media, we looked at how we may or may not be showing our true self when we are posting online. The total pieces of content shared per month on Facebook currently stands at 70 billion and the average amount of…

The sole purpose of an internet troll is to provoke a reaction from the recipient. Trolls are happiest when a person reacts with great emotion and upset. The best solution is this – don’t feed them! Who are the trolls? Online trolls are people who don’t belong on the person…