McDonald's Tries Out DVD Rentals

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McDonald's Trying DVD Rentals... Again?

McDonald's Trying DVD Rentals... Again? 05/24/2004 05:37 PM
A year and a half ago we noted that McDonald's had decided to run a trial program in the Washington DC area, where they offered DVD rentals out of a large vending machine at their stores. There wasn't much news about the program, and it seemed safe to assume it wasn't going anywhere. However, today, McDonald's is announcing what sounds like an identical DVD rental program in Denver - without mentioning at all that they've already tried this. It's a bit odd that they would roll out a second "test" program so much later, and not even admit they had done an earlier test of an identical system.

McDonald's Does WiFi, Now DVD Rentals?

McDonald's Does WiFi, Now DVD Rentals? 05/24/2004 03:46 PM

Rentals, Rentals Everywhere, but Not a
Spam In Sight: Internet Rental
Directories

Rentals, Rentals Everywhere, but Not a
Spam In Sight: Internet Rental
Directories 07/02/2004 04:53 AM
Frommers.com - Fri Jul 2, 09:24 am GMT

Wal-Mart DVD Rentals

Wal-Mart DVD Rentals 07/15/2004 06:52 PM
“Sign up now, and you can try Wal-Mart DVD Rentals for 30 days, free! To get started, click ‘Begin Free Trial’ below. There’s no risk, and you can cancel anytime.”

On Moving Toward Software Rentals

On Moving Toward Software Rentals 09/06/2004 07:45 PM

Florida Vacation Rentals

Florida Vacation Rentals 05/12/2004 11:28 AM
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Blockbuster Star Wars DVD Rentals

Blockbuster Star Wars DVD Rentals 09/25/2004 09:09 PM
We heard from a reader he discovered the Star Wars DVDs they are renting at Blockbuster don't include the fourth disc. When asked about it, his Blockbuster manager said he only got the three movie discs for rental. Check before you rent, if you want to see the cool extras disc.

Tesco offers online DVD rentals

Tesco offers online DVD rentals 03/08/2004 11:03 PM
Classics by post at a price tba

Blockbuster testing online DVD rentals
for Q4 launch

Blockbuster testing online DVD rentals
for Q4 launch 07/19/2004 08:00 PM
InternetRetailer.com Jul 20 2004 0:42AM GMT

Online rentals creeping up on video
stores

Online rentals creeping up on video
stores 09/19/2004 06:29 AM
Twincities.com - Sun Sep 19, 10:40 am GMT

"Adventure New Zealand Motorcycle Tours
and Rentals"

"Adventure New Zealand Motorcycle Tours
and Rentals" 09/08/2004 04:23 PM

Texas Independent Filmmaker Signs with
First Look Rentals

Texas Independent Filmmaker Signs with
First Look Rentals 08/12/2004 02:51 AM
Independent filmmaker Dean J. Augustin has signed a distribution agreement with First Look Rentals of Los Angeles, CA. [PRWEB Aug 12, 2004]

DVD rentals blast off as old and new
forms of delivery unite (AFP)

DVD rentals blast off as old and new
forms of delivery unite (AFP) 05/21/2004 12:44 PM
AFP - DVD rentals are booming, boosted by the growing popularity of new Internet-based subscription services that bring the video shop into the home.

Siebel: Orders rolling in for software
rentals

Siebel: Orders rolling in for software
rentals 05/28/2004 01:56 PM

" Adventure New Zealand Motocycle Tours
& Rentals"

" Adventure New Zealand Motocycle Tours
& Rentals" 07/13/2004 03:22 PM

Blockbuster Launches Online DVD Rentals
(Reuters)

Blockbuster Launches Online DVD Rentals
(Reuters) 08/11/2004 09:23 PM
Reuters - Home-video chain Blockbuster Inc. (BBI.N), under competitive pressure from Internet rental service Netflix Inc. (NFLX.O), on Wednesday launched its own online DVD rental program.

Live Christmas Tree Rentals Fill Void
(AP)

Live Christmas Tree Rentals Fill Void
(AP) 12/24/2004 12:19 PM
AP - For years, Pat de Garmo's Christmas tree was her aging yucca plant. She doesn't like the idea of killing trees, and the size of her yard prevents her from getting a potted one. So year after year she strung lights and ornaments on the indoor plant, hanging toy drums and colored orbs from its stiff branches.

Blockbuster Takes On Netflix With Online
Movie Rentals

Blockbuster Takes On Netflix With Online
Movie Rentals 08/12/2004 05:44 AM
Article.wn.com - Thu Aug 12, 09:48 am GMT

In the Competition for DVD Rentals by
Mail, Two Empires Strike Back

In the Competition for DVD Rentals by
Mail, Two Empires Strike Back 03/31/2005 12:03 AM
Netflix pioneered the business of DVD rentals by mail, enlisting three million subscribers along the way. Now Blockbuster and Wal-Mart have gotten into the act.

Microsoft Unveils Software for Digital
Music and Movie Rentals

Microsoft Unveils Software for Digital
Music and Movie Rentals 06/08/2004 12:04 PM
In a major step in its efforts to deliver subscription-based music and video content for portable and networked devices, the company has unveiled the next version of its Windows Media digital rights management (DRM) software. Numerous online music and movie services, entertainment companies, and consumer electronics firms have lined up to support the software, code-named Janus. The new DRM software has a "time bomb" feature, which will allow users to rent music and movies only for short periods. The idea is that "you will be paying a low monthly fee to fill your portable music player with thousands of songs, or renting a dozen movies to take with you on a Portable Media Center," says Amir Majidimehr, Microsoft corporate vice president.

"Paul Rademacher's fusion of Google Maps
and Craiglist rentals"

"Paul Rademacher's fusion of Google Maps
and Craiglist rentals" 04/09/2005 03:02 PM

DVD sales and rentals generated $9.3 bln
in Germany, France, Italy, Spain and UK

DVD sales and rentals generated $9.3 bln
in Germany, France, Italy, Spain and UK 03/23/2005 08:19 PM
ZDNet Mar 24 2005 12:45AM GMT

Bluehandle Ltd (UK, Reading) announces a
new method of getting businesses online
with website rentals

Bluehandle Ltd (UK, Reading) announces a
new method of getting businesses online
with website rentals 06/29/2004 02:19 AM
Bluehandle, who specialise in new and redesigned websites for small/medium businesses, now offer rental terms on all websites it develops. [PRWEB Jun 29, 2004]

ICC Computer Rentals Wins Second
Consecutive Peer Award for Outstanding
Service

ICC Computer Rentals Wins Second
Consecutive Peer Award for Outstanding
Service 03/14/2005 06:10 PM
ICC Computer Rentals, a nationwide supplier of computer rental and audio-visual rental equipment, has received The Outstanding Service Provider’s Gold Award from the National Computer Rental Association (NCRA) during this year’s awards ceremony. [PRWEB Feb 16, 2005]

Online DVD rentals soarSome offer
obscure films, documentaries for buffs

Online DVD rentals soarSome offer
obscure films, documentaries for buffs 09/27/2004 07:30 AM
Thetimesonline.com - Mon Sep 27, 06:40 am GMT

Computer Rentals: The Best Classroom
Computer Training Solution

Computer Rentals: The Best Classroom
Computer Training Solution 02/01/2005 09:13 PM
For classroom training renting computers, sound systems and projectors from Rentacomputer.com is the easiest and most cost efficient way to coordinate corporate training initiatives with the least amount of headaches. Visit "The Rent Computer PC Software Training Equipment page at Rentacomputer.com: http://www.rentacomputer.com/training_rental.asp for details. [PRWEB Jan 22, 2005]

McDonald's Wants It Their Way

McDonald's Wants It Their Way 06/02/2004 10:12 AM
McDonald's wants to alter the makeup of its marketing DNA.

More on BT and McDonald's

More on BT and McDonald's 01/07/2004 02:37 PM
BT officially announced that it will build hotspots in over 500 McDonald's restaurants in Britain: BT will pay for the install and both companies will promote it and share revenues. BT expects to have 4,000 hot spots by this summer and said it will continue to make roaming agreements with other hot spot operators around the globe. This story offers slightly different details, including some more information on what's happening with McDonald's hot spots in the U.S. A recent survey of McDonald's hot spots in the U.S. showed that customers are predominantly male, many of whom said they would not have visited McDonald's if not for the Wi-Fi. So much for the campaign to encourage people to eat healthier....

UK McDonald's to get Wi-Fi

UK McDonald's to get Wi-Fi 01/05/2004 02:57 PM
Rumor has it that BT may build hot spots in U.K. McDonald's: In the U.S., McDonald's has hired three companies to build hot spots but may ultimately whittle down to just one vendor....

Interesting concept: peer-to-peer DVD
rentals

Interesting concept: peer-to-peer DVD
rentals 07/02/2004 01:21 AM
I haven’t had a chance to really look into this, but I stumbled across an original concept at http://www.peerflix.com. It’s difficult to tell how much it will be successful, given the inevitable reluctance that people are going to have to share their precious DVDs with others. Still, you have ...

McDonald's Is Worth It

McDonald's Is Worth It 01/27/2004 02:56 PM
McDonald's may be pricey, but it may also be worth it.

McDonald's: Bland No More

McDonald's: Bland No More 08/06/2004 11:23 AM
After a good run, will McDonald's continue to pay off for investors?

McDonald's on the Menu

McDonald's on the Menu 05/10/2004 11:32 AM
Despite April's tragic turn, the fast-food giant's same-store sales remain robust.

McDonald's Adds More Wi-Fi

McDonald's Adds More Wi-Fi 04/14/2004 10:37 AM
The fast-food chain seems to be lovin' its wireless strategy.

McDonald's and iTunes

McDonald's and iTunes 11/06/2003 09:59 AM
McDonalds plans to give away up to one billion iTunes Music Store songs to its customers. Like Pepsi, McDonald's will pay Apple 99 centers per song downloaded as a result of the giveaway. Because not all customers will take advantage of the offer, it is likely that the campaign will generate hundreds of millions of dollars of revenue for the iTunes Music Store. Apple and McDonald's were not available for comment. [Discussion]

iTunes and McDonald's?

iTunes and McDonald's? 11/06/2003 08:47 AM
The New York Post is reporting that Apple and McDonald's are close to announcing a promotional partnership, with McDonald's offering up to one billion free downloads from the iTunes Music Store. Like a similar deal announced with Pepsi last month, McDonald's will pay Apple the full 99 cents for each song downloaded. This, given that some will not redeem their prizes, puts the value of the deal in the hundreds of millions. The Pepsi deal, which offers 100 million free iTMS downloads, begins February 1, during the superbowl. The McDonald's promotion, still unofficial, has no current start date.

Sony and McDonald's

Sony and McDonald's 06/04/2004 05:35 PM
CNet confirms previous reports that Sony and McDonald's are teaming up to offer free music downloads through Sony's new music service. McDonald's w...

McDonald's Pushes C2

McDonald's Pushes C2 06/14/2004 01:02 PM
Coca-Cola's low-carb C2 gets a test-drive through McDonald's.

SBC deal to put Wi-Fi in up to 6,000
McDonald's (AFP)

SBC deal to put Wi-Fi in up to 6,000
McDonald's (AFP) 06/08/2004 12:17 PM
AFP - As many as 6,000 McDonald's restaurants will be equipped with wireless Internet or "Wi-Fi" access by next year under a deal announced with SBC Communications.
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Revenge Of The Brick

Revenge Of The Brick 04/12/2005 11:35 AM
Head over to Starwars.com for US broadcast news on this mini-movie from LEGO. British fans should read this story from March 21st before despairing.

Welcome to the Brick Apple!

Welcome to the Brick Apple! 12/08/2003 04:32 AM
The Brick Apple - New York City in LEGO .. Nova Iorque em Lego .. here .. nyc

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Town of Bourton's miniature model has a
miniature model of the model (and so on)

Town of Bourton's miniature model has a
miniature model of the model (and so on) 12/23/2003 11:30 PM
Mark Bourne says: So my wife Elizabeth and I are googling up possibilities for our long trip to England next year. Checking out London sites and so on. An acquaintance suggested staying for a few days in the Cotswolds, a scenic Middle Earthy region west of London. That's how we found a page about the town of Bourton.

You just gotta love this text, which blends Ye Olde Scepter'd Isle with sci-fi gee-wizardry:

You will probably have noticed that when you take a branch from certain trees (some conifers for example), the branch looks like a miniature version of the tree, and when you break a piece off the branch, that looks like a tree too. Mathematicians call this property self-similarity.

Bourton has a wonderful example of self-similarity: it contains a 1/10 scale model of itself. Because the 1/10 scale model is a complete model of the town, it must contain a model of itself, and it does, a 1/100th. scale model of Bourton, and because the 1/100th. scale model is also a complete model of Bourton, it must also contain a 1/1000th. scale model of the scale model of the scale model of Bourton.

And it does. It is only a matter of time before a team of nano-technicians turn up in the town to etch a sub-micron scale model of Bourton on a silicon wafer, complete with mill, waterwheel, and a highly imaginative interpretation of the River Windrush as a stream of electrons.

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Adwords Closes down CPM Model in Favor
of CPC Model

Adwords Closes down CPM Model in Favor
of CPC Model 09/10/2002 09:44 AM
"It's now PPC or nothing, $50 credit offered to those who swap."

Portraits in carbonite brick

Portraits in carbonite brick 01/19/2004 01:55 PM
Online gallery of super-geeky sculpture, from artist Nathan Sawaya :

I decided to make Han Solo frozen in carbonite. Life size. It took about 10,000 bricks, almost all dark gray, and about three months of on and off building. I built the sculpture so it can break down easily into smaller parts, thus making it mobile. Because, like most people, I like to take large sculptures of people frozen in carbonite with me whenever I travel.

(Thanks, David!)

another brick in the wall part II

another brick in the wall part II 04/20/2004 12:40 PM
I'm all about the higher education, and I'm also all about the helping people out. So check it: A graduate...

Another Brick in the Enron Wall

Another Brick in the Enron Wall 02/19/2004 03:35 PM
Prosecutors get their biggest prize to date: It's Enron executive Jeff Skilling's day in court.

Glow Brick Night Light

Glow Brick Night Light 03/19/2005 02:45 AM

The "glow brick" is a light bulb set in a clear solid brick. Simply set the bulb near sunlight and it'll soak up whatever juice it needs to make a decent night light once darkness takes over. Only $45 and available now (including shipping, no less!), this might be just the thing you need to add to your quirky light-toys collection.

Catalog Page [Gnr8 via Engadget]

Special Feature: Brick Polygons

Special Feature: Brick Polygons 04/01/2005 04:43 PM
In case you missed our latest addition to our Special Features page, we have an inside look at LEGO The Star Wars Video Game, which is the first part of a three part feature that Rebelscum will be running over the next week.

Brick, Dusty, Creamy, Silky

Brick, Dusty, Creamy, Silky 06/28/2004 04:30 PM
There’s an old rose in our front yard that we inherited with the place; it’s slender and spindly and not very tall, and produces only one or two flowers each year; its colour has, every year since 1997, defeated my photographic wiles. This year we have a partial victory...

Brick thrower jailed over death

Brick thrower jailed over death 04/19/2004 07:06 AM
A man is jailed for manslaughter after throwing a brick at a lorry driver's cab, causing him to suffer a fatal heart attack.

AFOL News: Brick Journal

AFOL News: Brick Journal 06/24/2005 05:51 PM
New from LEGO Fan is their quarterly newsletter for Adult Fans Of LEGO. The first issue of Brick Journal has a diverse array of articles including interviews with builders, such as expert builder Jason Allemann, Jake McKee of The LEGO Group, and The Rev. Brendan Powell Smith of The Brick Testament, as well as building instructions for some cool models, and is available now - just hit the thumbnail above and let your internet connection do the rest!

Airports Hit Brick Wall in Regulating
Unlicensed Radio

Airports Hit Brick Wall in Regulating
Unlicensed Radio 06/25/2004 12:01 PM
The FCC says landlords, associations can't regulate Part 15 use: The FCC's Office of Engineering and Technology says that the function of regulating and coordinating frequency use is reserved to the FCC itself. It's a clear refutation of mall owners, airports, and condominium associations to limit use of Wi-Fi and other wireless technologies. (Document as Word, PDF, Text.) The report says in part, the FCC has exclusive authority to resolve matters involving radio frequency interference [RFI] when unlicensed devices are being used, regardless of venue. We also affirm that the rights that consumers have under our rules to install and operate customer antennas one meter or less in size apply to the operation of unlicensed equipment, such as Wi-Fi access points - just as they do to the use of equipment in connection with fixed wireless services licensed by the FCC. And it's hard to put their conclusion any better than they themselves: The rules prohibit homeowner associations, landlords, state and local governments, or any other third parties from placing restrictions that impair a customer antenna user's ability to install, maintain, or use such customer antennas transmitting and/or receiving commercial nonbroadcast communications signals when the antenna is located "on property within the exclusive use or control" of the user where the user has a "direct or indirect ownership or leasehold interest in the property, except under certain exceptions for safety and historic preservation." Dewayne Hendricks notes in his post of this order that airlines only recourse now is to appeal this decision to the entire Commission. In other words, airlines, start your (Wi-Fi) engines. [link via Dewayne Hendricks]...

Wayport Metrics

Wayport Metrics 05/25/2004 04:20 PM
During Wayport's briefing yesterday, they shared key metrics about the company: It's rare to see this much data from any hotspot provider, which goes to show the confidence Wayport has in its current and future businesses. The old saying is, never write your competitor's business plan for them. Wayport fears no such animal, it's clear, especially with its Wi-Fi World partnership model ahead of it. In terms of core connections or 24-hour sessions, Wayport shows 124,000 in the first quarter of 2001, rising to 301,000 in first quarter of 2003, and 645,000 in the first quarter of this year. They estimate 714,000 connections for this current quarter, and over a million for third quarter. These connections include all direct and third-party pay-as-you-go and subscriber uses. Wayport also provided its raw revenue figures for the last three year. The company started with $1.5 million received in 2002's first quarter, rising consistently and steadily to $6.1 million in the first quarter of 2004. They estimate $6.7 million for second quarter, $8.7 million for third quarter, and over $10 million in the final quarter of 2004. The company's CEO expected to produce about $1.5 to $2 million per week within 12 months for an annual runrate of $75 to $100 million. Under Wi-Fi World, subscriber connections ostensibly won't be counted because Wayport will receive fixed fees per venue regardless of connections. However, Wayport will still collect walk-up fees for two-hour sessions ($2.95 for two hours) which they will share with the retail venue....

Wayport Raises $20M

Wayport Raises $20M 08/03/2004 12:47 PM
Wayport reports raising an additional $20 million in private placement: We try to avoid reporting on routine financial events such as funding rounds unless the company has critical importance to the industry or its financial well-being is in question. Wayport told me about a year ago that they were seeking additional funds in a round that would allow them to expand their sales force, among other purposes. That round just closed at $20 million. I'm not surprised that Wayport was able to raise these funds given their Wi-Fi World retail model of charging announced several weeks ago, which provides them a sustainable model from Day One for unwiring McDonald's locations, for which they have the exclusive franchise contract. Wayport was also selected as the managed services provider for SBC's FreedomLink to build out the several thousand UPS Store locations. In the wake of May's announced Cometa Networks shutdown due to lack of funds, it's useful to know that Wayport has these additional funds in hand. Wayport disclosed its revenue predictions in May when they announced their Wi-Fi World pricing model for partners....

Wyndham Re-Ups with Wayport

Wyndham Re-Ups with Wayport 06/21/2004 01:50 PM
Wyndham has long been the mainstay of Wayport's hotel market, and they've re-upped: The new contract will last three years, and comes at a time that Wayport is exploring new business models for providing flat-rate reseller access to their retail partners--hotels and other venues could follow, but not for months. Wyndham has both wired and Wi-Fi service, mostly in-room wired broadband and Wi-Fi in public spaces, and provides free Internet access at its 85 properties to members of its By Request affinity club. Membership in the club is free, but must be completed before checking in....

Online lamp seller goes brick-and-mortar
with news store

Online lamp seller goes brick-and-mortar
with news store 07/25/2004 06:00 AM
Sgvtribune.com - Sun Jul 25, 07:17 am GMT

Brick-And-Mortar Companies Convert Fewer
Online Shoppers

Brick-And-Mortar Companies Convert Fewer
Online Shoppers 04/08/2005 10:04 AM
TechWeb Apr 8 2005 2:04PM GMT

McDonald's Chooses Wayport for New Wi-Fi

McDonald's Chooses Wayport for New Wi-Fi 04/13/2004 03:05 AM
AP via Newsday Apr 13 2004 7:09AM GMT

Radio Free Wayport

Radio Free Wayport 03/14/2005 05:47 PM
Wayport streams music in Austin's airport: The streaming audio service is available to Wayport users at the Austin-Bergstrom airport through a relationship with the Texas Music Group, which features many local artists. The music service is free once you're connected to Wayport's network in the airport. The timing is perfect just before SXSW, which I'll be attending the interactive portion of....

McDonald's Chooses Wayport for New Wi-Fi
(AP)

McDonald's Chooses Wayport for New Wi-Fi
(AP) 04/13/2004 12:40 AM
AP - McDonald's Corp. has chosen Wayport Inc. to provide wireless Internet service in dining rooms and drive-through windows at several thousand of its U.S. restaurants.

Wayport Hits 6,300 Locations

Wayport Hits 6,300 Locations 01/04/2005 02:27 AM
Wayport has 6,300 locations equipped; 5 million sessions in 2004: Wayport announced that they have exceeded 6,300 hotspots between locations with which they have directly contracted and those that they operate as a managed service, primarily for SBC Communications's FreedomLink network. The company also said that they had 5 million connections in 2004, with 600,000 in October alone. Wayport had about 1,000 location at the end of 2003, and a significant subset included in-room wired broadband hotels with Wi-Fi just in lobbies. Virtually all new locations are Wi-Fi only in retail establishments. Dan Lowden, vice president of marketing at Wayport, said in an interview on Monday that Wayport believes they are now the biggest Wi-Fi network in the U.S., having exceeded T-Mobile's count, which is just under 5,300 according to T-Mobile's location finder. (This doesn't include T-Mobile's fee-based roaming partners.) "We're very very excited about it; it's a big milestone for us. We're excited to be the biggest in the United States," Lowden said. Lowden said that Wayport is adding about 150 locations per week. They expect to exceed 6,000 McDonald's restaurants by third quarter of 2005, pushing their total over 10,000 locations. Because certain large footprints have already been tied up, such as many coffee chains, and because of Wayport's exclusive deal for fast-food restaurants with McDonald's, Wayport is pushing into different kinds of spaces and services. For instance, their deal with Hertz gives them an alternate presence at airports. And Wayport will work with venues that may not need public Wi-Fi at all, or it's an adjunct to the real purpose: private services like cashless transactions (which they're doing with McDonald's) and security. Lowden also noted that even with the hotel market so widely built out with high-speed services, there's still a lot of room to grow or rebuild. "We continue to see opportunities where folks have had three or four service providers over the last three or four years," he said. Wayport's now an established firm with major partners making it easy for them to bat clean up in cases such as these. The company has grown fairly rapidly in the last year to handle the new contracts with over 330 employees now, with 150 hired in the last year....

Wayport Progress Report

Wayport Progress Report 01/09/2004 09:52 PM
Wayport has built Wi-Fi networks in over 800 locations, including 35,000 hotel rooms: The company has an additional 20,000 hotel rooms sold, soon to be built. In the last six months of 2003, Wayport logged a 113 percent increase in customer connections--defined as sessions of unlimited use in one location--over the same time frame a year earlier. Wayport's revenues for the fourth quarter 2003 grew 87 percent over the same quarter in 2002....

Linux Powers Wayport

Linux Powers Wayport 02/18/2004 05:18 PM
Newly liberated ex-Wayport, ex-Musenki, ex-Vivato engineer Jim Thompson outs Wayport's hardware secret: Jim notes in his new blog that Wayport's success is definitely partly dependent on its choice long-ago of 802.11b (radical at the time) and Linux. Jim imagines having to fly out and remotely fix thousands of Windows-based authentication and billing modules when Windows viruses and worms hit -- not a problem for Wayport because of their non-MS infrastructure. Jim was CTO at Wayport for several years, and his work at Musenki led to the bridging box that Vivato sells now....

Wayport to be Replaced at SeaTac

Wayport to be Replaced at SeaTac 02/10/2004 02:40 AM
The new Wi-Fi network that AT&T Wireless is building at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport will replace the existing network which is owned and operated by Wayport: Wayport appeared unaware of the new network or the impending cancellation of its relationship with the airport. The airport will own the network that AT&T Wireless is building and AT&T Wireless isn't charging the airport for the equipment or installation. The Wi-Fi network comes for free as part of AT&T Wireless's contract to install cellular equipment that will improve cell coverage inside the airport. Airport officials have not decided who will operate the new Wi-Fi network but they are clear about the future of Wayport's network. "Wayport will depart," said Bob Parker, a SeaTac spokesman. Wayport has operated the network at SeaTac for over four years. Its contract ended last year and since then it has been on a month-to-month contract with the airport. "Wayport owns those hotspots. We imagine they will come in and remove them," said John Faulkner, aviation business manager for SeaTac. He hopes that the Wayport network can be shut down at a time that will correspond with the completion of the new network to avoid a breech of service. The new network should be finished by early 2005, though an AT&T Wireless spokesman said he expects it to be completed before then. Wayport seemed unaware of the changes taking place at SeaTac. "We know they're talking to AT&T. We haven't heard anything official," said Dan Lowden, vice president of marketing for Wayport. "We look to continue to work with SeaTac in the way we are." Wayport could be in the running to operate the new network, though it's more likely that if Wayport is involved in the future network it would be through roaming deals with the company that ultimately will operate the network, Faulkner said. As part of the request for proposals to build the cellular and Wi-Fi networks, the airport gave participants the option of bidding on the Wi-Fi operations business as well. AT&T Wireless was one of the bidders that expressed interest in operating the network but the airport has not yet decided who will operate the network. "We want to do the business planning to figure out how to parcel out the network and structure the revenue model," Faulkner said. SeaTac wasn't unhappy with the service from Wayport but the decision to build a cellular network...

Brick Brewing extends PC Beer licensing
deal with Loblaws to Quebec

Brick Brewing extends PC Beer licensing
deal with Loblaws to Quebec 07/08/2004 12:10 PM
Canadian Press via Canada.com Jul 8 2004 3:53PM GMT

KORN: 'Another Brick In The Wall' Audio
Clip Posted Online - Sep. 23, 2004

KORN: 'Another Brick In The Wall' Audio
Clip Posted Online - Sep. 23, 2004 09/24/2004 07:43 AM
Roadrun.com - Fri Sep 24, 10:34 am GMT

A2ZCDS.com Partners with Bookworld
Trade, LLC to Offer First Ever Brick and
Mortar Product Distribution

A2ZCDS.com Partners with Bookworld
Trade, LLC to Offer First Ever Brick and
Mortar Product Distribution 04/04/2005 04:08 AM
A2ZCDS.com, a popular Internet library of historical and educational CDs, documentary DVDs and vintage films today announced that it will partner with Bookworld Trade, LLC in order to enter the offline marketplace. [PRWEB Apr 4, 2005]

Wayport fries competition for McDonald's
bid

Wayport fries competition for McDonald's
bid 04/13/2004 10:10 AM
The Wi-Fi company will be the sole provider of wireless Internet access at McDonald's restaurants in the U.S.

Wayport Plans to Serve McDonald's With
Wi-Fi

Wayport Plans to Serve McDonald's With
Wi-Fi 04/13/2004 01:58 AM
New York Times Apr 13 2004 5:55AM GMT

McDonald's Tries Out DVD Rentals