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| McDonald's to offer free Wi-Fi in restaurants
Rebecca Smithers, consumer affairs correspondent, The Guardian - Saturday October 6 2007
The fast food chain McDonald's is to introduce free high speed wireless internet access at most of its 1,200 restaurants by the end of the year in a move which will make it the UK's biggest provider of such a service.
Customers will be able to go online via their laptops, compatible mobile phones and games consoles for hours on end if they wish. The initiative goes a step further than existing services offered by some coffee shops and cafes, which provide Wi-Fi hotspots but charge users a fee.
McDonald's said its service would benefit a wide range of customers, from business people making a "pit stop" to check email between meetings to those looking for a leisurely break at the weekend to download music. It claimed a hotspot user who pays to log on for just an hour a week in a coffee shop could stand to save as much as £260 a year on premium Wi-Fi charges by using McDonald's free service. It has already introduced the free scheme in 8,000 of its 13,000 outlets in the US. | Internet Privacy Standards (According to Google and Microsoft)
The big news in the tech industry this week is the fight over the future of Yahoo. But there's a sideshow worth watching for those interested in Washington tech policy: Today is the last day of the Federal Trade Commission's public comment period on online privacy principles and behavioral advertising.
Not surprisingly, the two biggest figures in the wheeling and dealing over Yahoo's future play a big role here, too. Both have submitted comments on the FTC rules, and the differences between them may demarcate the future lines of the debate.
First a very quick definition: Behavioral advertising is the collection and use of information about Internet users’ web browsing behavior to target them for advertising purposes.
To use a very extreme example, behavioral advertising could mean that advertising companies could compile databases detailing whether someone visits web sites focusing on religion, medical, or sexual-orientation matters — and then use that information to tailor ads to that person, even after he has moved on to other web site | Realpeoplerealstuff - World's first Web 3.0 site. The new way to buy and sell
It leverages all the features of Web 2.0 including media-rich content, adds the social networking and commerce of CraigsList, then it goes a step further than YouTube by incorporating a proven revenue model – making it the world's first Web 3.0 site. | Cloned Pet Puppies - Order yours today.
Tuesday, August 05, 2008 By Emily Singer
If you really love your dog and have about $150,000 to spare, you can now order a clone from Korean biotechnology company RNL Bio. Geneticists revealed earlier today that they have created the first dogs cloned for commercial purposes: five puppies created with DNA from Booger the pit bull terrier. (Dogs have previously been cloned for scientific and government purposes.) | Prospective buyers now shopping for department stores
By Robert Galbraith
MILAN: After years of tough trading, department stores are beginning to reap the benefits of restructuring and a tighter focus on the luxury end of the market. And one of those benefits has been an increased interest from prospective buyers.
"Many department stores are finding ways to reinvent themselves to become more compelling to consumers," said Darrell Rigby, head of the Global Retail practice for the Boston-based consulting firm Bain & Co. "Those chains that have not yet made the transition are seen as improvement opportunities and potential acquisitions."
Macy's, the biggest U.S. department store operator, is being perceived as one such target. Its attempt to integrate the Marshall Field's chain, which it bought last year, may not be working, and its recent sales figures have not been strong. In May, for example, Macy's sales dropped 3.3 percent; other chains had increases. | Search eBay, Google, Yahoo!, Flickr and Images all in one 3D space
Coming Soon! Amazon, YouTube, Email, MySpace, Music, RSS, Live and Hundreds More! | Pressureworks is a website for a TV/consumer generation that’s tired of being lied to. Packed with ironic comment, black humour and savage indignation, Pressureworks is about being active - mentally, politically, creatively. (It says here.) It’s about using the tools of popular culture – comedy, drama, satire and even bad taste – to wake the world up. | Oceans Alive - Best & Worst Seafood Choices
Our guide can help you choose fish that are healthy for the oceans and safe to eat. (Learn about seafood and your health and fish to avoid.) | GreenBlue is a nonprofit institute that stimulates the creative redesign of industry by focusing the expertise of professional communities to create practical solutions, resources, and opportunities for implementing sustainability.
GreenBlue uses design as a leverage point for effective action. Many of society's challenges are caused by poorly designed industrial systems ... systems that are providing alarming feedback at all scales, from toxic mothers' milk to holes in the ozone layer. GreenBlue asks: How can we design, prototype, and realize better products and systems? GreenBlue asks this question in specific contexts to reveal practical design and business opportunities. | Business Incredible Shrinking Packages
By CLAUDIA H. DEUTSCH - Published: May 12, 2007
More companies are cutting down on packaging to reduce expenses and address growing environmental concerns. | Shopping Villages.com, Outlet Villages, Outlet Stores, Factory Shops, Factory Outlets, there are many names but only one concept, and that is to bring you designer products at discount prices. There are many Shopping Village Outlets throughout the United Kingdom, and every one has a variety of shops that offer up to 70% off the retail price of the products they sell. ShoppingVillages.com is here to help you save money and plan that perfect day out. | The Stylehive is a global social shopping community, dedicated to discovering and sharing the most exciting products, the stores that sell them, and the people that find them. You don't have to join the hive to enjoy it. Casual readers can just browse, search or subscribe to it via RSS. You'll discover and share what you find in the hive by exploring tags, individual people's hives, popular or recent bookmarks, and popular sites in the hive. Or, you can simply check out our blog, a publication that constantly covers what trends our editors are seeing emerge in the hive. | Comcast CEO shows off 150 megabits per second download on next-gen modem. Tuesday, May 08, 2007 - LAS VEGAS (AP) -- Comcast Corp. Chief Executive Brian Roberts dazzled a cable industry audience Tuesday, showing off for the first time in public new technology that enabled a data download speed of 150 megabits per second, or roughly 25 times faster than today's standard cable modems. The cost of modems that would support the technology, called ''channel bonding,'' is ''not that dissimilar to modems today,'' he told The Associated Press after a demonstration at The Cable Show. It could be available ''within less than a couple years,'' he said. | Media Predict challenges users to put their virtual money where their
mouths are with a prediction game, where players buy shares based
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