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Captive portals ensure that only authorized users can access a given network and to provide a means of authentication for new users. We discuss burning questions and explain how captive portal software works within business processes.

Access to the internet has huge potential to improve the healthcare experience for patients, from appointment reminders to increasing connection to the outside world during hospital stays. WiFi in healthcare settings enhances communication with friends and family, provides entertainment, permits access to the workplace and generally reduces a feeling of…

Google Chairman Eric Schmidt says that “we create as much information every two days as we did from the dawn of civilisation up to 2003”. Schmidt also comments that the real issue contributing to the data mountain is the amount of user-generated content due to social media websites. Developing, sharing…

Facts and figures Today’s newly released ONS (Office of National Statistics) retail figures show a clear upward trend in the retail market, with an increase of 3.7% compared to February 2013.  Increasingly customers are more confident in spending their money and inflation in stores is at an all time low.…

Positivity breeds positivity Psychologists have long been aware that positivity breeds positivity in others. We also know that praise and reward has a greater impact on good behaviour than punishment has on stopping bad behaviour. It’s therefore no surprise that both of these psychological rules also apply in the online…

If you're looking to provide network access across your corporate campus, a Campus Area Network (CAN) might be useful. Click to read and learn about how CANs connect campuses.

With great data, comes great responsibility… Since Purple’s beginning in 2012, data security has been at the forefront of our business and we’ve always gone a step further by providing guests the moment they log in with an easy to read and digestible terms of business and privacy policy which…

If you run a cafe or restaurant, social WiFi could provide your business with actionable data. See how you can social WiFi in your cafe with the comprehensive guide.

Purple, the intelligent spaces company, has today announced that CAE, a long-standing partner, is now certified and set to secure new contracts with brands and venues worldwide. Purple specialises in delivering a WiFi solution that generates real-time analytics and marketing for brands that want to engage with visitors and understand…

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…

Bring your own device, or BYOD, is a phenomenon allowing personal laptops, tablets and smartphones into the workplace to gain online access and view company information. Initially met with trepidation, it is now firmly entrenched into the corporate world. Whether employers like it or not, it’s happening! So should you…

Media influences opinion… …there is no doubt about that.  But do we mindlessly follow what is presented to us?  Some media researchers used to argue that what we watch and read is fed into us like a syringe and there is little we could do to stop it.  Then along…

Ensuring that a business has no more than the correct number of occupants in a venue at any given time has never been more important.

Wireless internet. WiFi. However you refer to it, you simply can’t deny that it’s something we’re all familiar with now. A study in 2012 found a staggering 73% of UK homes had WiFi networks. The same study placed the UK second on worldwide household WiFi penetration, just behind South Korea…

If you're comparing business WiFi solutions, you need to read this article. We cover managed WiFi, WiFi as a service and more.