Blogs
Purple WiFi appoints Lars Elbaek Kristensen Regional Manager Northern Europe
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…
Q&A with our CEO Gavin Wheeldon
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…
How to use WiFi to work out
There is a massive drive for health and wellbeing currently. The NHS website says that if exercise were a pill, it would be one of the most cost-effective drugs ever invented. How do we motivate ourselves to go to the gym? One of the reasons that people don’t go to…
Wood Green, The Animals Charity installs Purple WiFi
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…
The Internet of Things – are we at the tipping point?
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…
What type of social media personality are you?
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…
Smart Cities Guest Blog: I’m building a time machine by Alison Lee
I’m building a time machine Hurrah according to Google it’s the year of the automated car. I’m twitching the curtains waiting for it to arrive. Then again, I’m not sure I’d like to be driven around at 25 miles an hour, a speed just slow enough to feel uncomfortable when…
Case study: London Borough of Brent installs Purple WiFi
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…
A glimpse of what to expect from Purple Portal V4
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…
Internet trolls. How should you handle them?
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…
Purple WiFi appoint Eric Law, VP of Worldwide Sales
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…
We certainly turned Harvey Nichols Purple
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,…
Purple WiFi looking forward to WiFi (and really sore feet) at MWC 2015
It’s gonna be big. No, really big Did you know that MWC is the size of fifteen football pitches? A truly global event with over 85,000 attendees coming from 84 countries. Luckily it’s one of those properly smart cities with WiFi enabled services throughout. Their free internet access network is…
schuh and Purple work together to offer free social WiFi and mobile stock checking
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…
The history of online shopping
eCommerce sales for 2021 are expected to exceed $4.9trillion USD! The ability to go online and purchase what we want or need within a minutes is something that the world has become strangely acustom to, and is certainly something that over time will become even more integrated. Check out these…