Blogs

Ingram Micro launches partnership with Purple WiFi
Ingram Micro brings resellers further Advanced Solutions benefits with high margin opportunities through Purple WiFi’s Cisco-integrated Enterprise Solutions Ingram Micro (UK), a division of Ingram Micro Inc, the largest global wholesaler of technology products and supply chain management services, will launch a new partnership with Purple WiFi by showcasing its…

Information Security: Why is it so important?
While a short-term hit to a business's revenue may not seem all too damaging, the real consequences of a breach come over time.

Industrial Connectivity: A Deep Dive into Industrial WiFi Solutions
Industrial WiFi solutions can connect your workers across your workplace campus. See why you need WiFi in your industrial environment.

What is an Indoor Positioning System (IPS)
An Indoor Positioning System (IPS) is used to locate equipment and/or people inside a building. Click here for an in-depth review.

What is Indoor Mapping and Wayfinding?
Indoor mapping can help users navigate complex places. Click on this article to get the 101 on indoor mapping and wayfinding.

Indoor Location Tracking to reach $5BN by 2018
Online has for many years been spoilt with the wealth of information available to understand visitor behaviour, one of the really interesting developments was in-page analytics. What this allows you to do is understand user behaviour and how they journey through your site, a few small tweaks with positioning, size,…

Indoor Location Tracking to reach $24BN by 2027
Indoor location technology has rapidly grown to become a significant market and shows no signs of slowing.

In-Store WiFi: Are you using it to it’s full potential?
Every day, millions of us use our smartphones, laptops, tablets, and wearable technology to connect to public WiFi access points (WAP). Ultimately, we expect to be connected wherever we go, and rely on established venues like shopping malls, department stores, and chain stores to provide us with reliable and secure…

In Store WiFi : Turning Browsers Into Buyers
A guest blog post by Lina Arseneault, Senior Director of Marketing at AirTight Networks. The brick-and-mortar store experience has remained remarkably unchanged in the past 50 years. Since the days of the shopkeeper, people wander around shops looking for goods and then wait in line to pay. All that is about to…

Improve your guest WiFi access journey with social login
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…

Improve patient experience through healthcare digitalization
This is a summary of a private healthcare webinar, which Purple ran alongside University Hospital’s Managing Director of Innovation and Design in May. You can find the full recording of the webinar here or take a look at the transcript here. Dean quickly kicked off the webinar by introducing Shaun…

iCloud+ Private Relay – An introduction to Apple’s new privacy service
Apple's iCloud+ works differently from a regular VPN as it only works with Safari, this means app traffic is not protected when using alternative browsers.

How will IoT affect Marketing in the future?
How the Internet of things influences the marketing landscape The Internet of things, in case you haven’t heard, is the interconnectivity of digital devices. This gives marketing a great power since the IoT is an opportunity for real-time engagement and customer service. It is such exciting news for the industry…

How will 4G affect free WiFi usage?
At the moment the only network in the UK to offer 4G is EE in 95 towns and cities across the country, with plans to expand their offering to 98% of the population by 2014. The next two networks, Vodafone and O2, will both launch their 4G network on 29th…

How WiFi & IoT can be used for marketing
With each passing day, the internet expands further, providing savvy digital marketers with fresh possibilities. Sticking to the methods that got results 5 years ago isn’t going to have the same potency today. If you want to gain some traction when promoting your products, you need to think ahead and…