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Using public WiFi
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Using public WiFi, security tips and Passpoint

WiFi access is everywhere. And with millions of public WiFi hotspots there’s no excuse for not staying connected. WiFi hotspots are great for when you’re out and about and need to access the internet to reply to your emails, check the train times or simply stream some music. Public WiFi…

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C2i Woking Digital and Woking Shopping turn Purple
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C2i Woking Digital and Woking Shopping turn Purple

Purple have teamed up with Arcom IT to provide services to C2i Woking Digital and Woking Shopping (managers of Peacocks and Wolsey Place Shopping Centres). Together the partnership has delivered: Project objectives 1. To realise C2i Woking Digital’s vision of making Woking a key economic and digital hub in the south-west of…

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Young coders set to conquer Purple challenge in local hackathon
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Purple IoT Hackathon – the results are in

Our dedicated tech team gave up their weekend to come into the Manchester headquarters to take part in the inaugural Purple Hackathon. The night owls worked 24 hours straight to explore how we can harness the Internet of Things to help our customers better understand and interact with their physical…

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Purple A/NZ show 500% growth of customer base in just one year||
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Purple A/NZ show 500% growth of customer base in just one year

Painting it Purple in A/NZ Purple has been recruiting like crazy following a $5m investment announced in January 2015. We raised the investment to accelerate our product development and also to recruit a global sales team. One of the key regions in our expansion plan was Australia and New Zealand,…

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What’s next for the Internet of Things?
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What’s next for the Internet of Things?

“So why is it called the Internet of Things?” Was the question from my five year old when I told him what I was writing about –” it sounds awesome”. Maybe he’s been watching too much YouTube, maybe he’s right? It is pretty ‘awesome’, by giving objects, animals or people…

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Purple's top 6 digital marketing trends for 2016
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Purple’s top 6 digital marketing trends for 2016

2016 is the year of the customer. But wait a minute, wasn’t 2015 the year of the customer? In fact, for several years it’s been all hail customer centric marketing. But 2016 really does feel as though it could be the year we begin to put the customer up front…

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Visitors and residents can now enjoy FREE unlimited WiFi in Newport city centre
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Visitors and residents can now enjoy FREE unlimited WiFi in Newport city centre

Newport’s City Centre public wireless network has been officially launched, thanks to a partnership between North, Ruckus and Purple, the intelligent spaces company. NewportCityConnect will provide users with unlimited 24/7 free WiFi access across key city centre locations including Upper Dock St, Corn St, Skinner St, Riverfront Theatre, train station,…

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Top 5 Tech Trends from CES 2016
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Top 5 Tech Trends from CES 2016

176,000 attendees and almost 3,7000 companies including 400 start-ups. It can only be CES (The International Consumer Electronics Show), where trends at the very cutting edge of the tech industry are brought to life in the deserts of Nevada. Amidst the sea of awesome gadgets and gizmos on display, making sense…

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Our 4 key takeaways from the 2015 Mobile Shopping Report
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Our 4 key takeaways from the 2015 Mobile Shopping Report

According to Tech 21, 50% of consumers would rather leave home without their wallet than without their phone. And it’s not surprising when we consider what mobile devices are now capable of. We can browse online stores, compare prices and make purchases online all via our phones. We can even…

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Baroness Lane-Fox drives digital transformation for the NHS
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Baroness Lane-Fox drives digital transformation for the NHS

This week Baroness Martha Lane-Fox suggested serious technological changes to the NHS in her detailed review for the government. In July 2015, Jeremy Hunt tasked Baroness Lane-Fox with job of considering the digital future of the NHS. Released on the 10th December, the document makes recommendations which included free WiFi…

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Guest blog: The Future of Hospitality
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Guest blog: The Future of Hospitality

Guest blog: The Future of Hospitality – Purple WiFi Whether you are scared from the plethora of dystopian science fiction films depicting a dark future or confident you have everything in hand, digital and societal changes are disrupting every business engaged in hospitality. The customer service model can now utilise…

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How to Properly Secure Your Smartphone
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How to Properly Secure Your Smartphone

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…

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Are you WiFi Aware?
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Are you WiFi Aware?

The Wi-Fi Alliance recently launched a certification program for a new technology and standard called Wi-Fi Aware. But what does this mean? What is Wi-Fi Aware? Wi-Fi Aware is an always-on technology that enables devices to discover other nearby devices, applications and information. We think this short video from the…

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Purple WiFi at the movies with Cineworld
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Purple WiFi at the movies with Cineworld

Last week Purple WiFi were feeling glamorous as we got to attend the Cineworld Exhibition at Silverstone race track, along with our partner, TFM Networks, a preferred supplier of the Cineworld group. With five Cineworld cinemas already up and running with TFM, Cisco Meraki and Purple, it was the perfect…

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The Dawn of the Physical Web – by Gavin Wheeldon

The Web is an incredibly complex thing.  Although it may feel virtual – we talk about things being ‘in the cloud’ – it is in fact scattered on real life servers all over the physical world. There are sites and apps living everywhere from back bedrooms to state-of-the-art data centers.…

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