Surf safely and invest in a VPN
If you travel or use public WiFi you must invest in an VPN. Andrew Grill explains why.
More digital disruption examples in retail – Starbucks London stores jammed with people on laptops
Below is a now very common sight on any day at my local Starbucks on Kensington High Street in west London. Most of the people there (11 out of 14 that I counted) are on laptops, notebooks, [...]
Digital fulfilment is the future
Update 2014: Starbucks in the UK now send your free drink to the mobile app. Perhaps they read my blog? Some months ago, Starbucks told me (on their website) that I had qualified for a free [...]
How to pay for your Starbucks on a Blackberry
Recently you may have started to see people like me using their phones to pay for coffee at Starbucks outlets in the UK. This is a very simple procedure using the iPhone app or Android app. [...]
The twitter tax and what it really says about your business
Both Lucy Kellaway (whom I have never met but would like to) and Jonathan Salem Baskin (with whom I shared an enjoyable dinner in London a few months ago) have written excellent pieces on the use [...]
Foursquare and the opportunity for location based social media
Foursquare seems to be in the news a lot recently, and is starting to exhibit a similar hype curve to that of Twitter. Update 15 March 2010: with one tweet from @mrskutcher (aka Demi Moore) the [...]
Why are clients still scratching their heads about Social Media?
Practical Futurist Andrew Grill looks back at why clients were struggling to understand the benefits of social media way back in 2009.
Will the 3G mobile broadband “dongle” kill the WiFi hotspot market? – published 2008
The picture on the left (taken late December 2007) shows a more common sight than a few years ago. I have been using WiFi in Starbucks and other coffee shops for nearly 8 years now, and for [...]