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If you're in the centre of London and need an instant office...

posted by [personal profile] sbisson at 02:52pm on 18/01/2006 under , , ,
...the big Starbucks on the corner of Tottenham Court Road and New Oxford Street now has desks with power. I'm currently sat there in a gap between meetings, writing my monthly column.

(The wifi is still pay for, but at least you won't chew batteries).
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posted by [identity profile] jaq.livejournal.com at 03:37pm on 18/01/2006
Can you not go to the Apple store?
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posted by [identity profile] ajshepherd.livejournal.com at 03:42pm on 18/01/2006
Does the Apple Store do coffee? Bet it doesn't do cake!
Besides. How can they call it a 'Genius Bar' when it has no beer?
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posted by [identity profile] spride.livejournal.com at 11:10pm on 18/01/2006
No power, wrong end of Oxford St. Also using a PC in the AppleStore is coming it a bit much, frankly :-)

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posted by [identity profile] sbisson.livejournal.com at 12:35am on 19/01/2006
Actually I think sitting in there working for 3 hours would be more of a problem!

(I've seen several people sat in the cinema section with non-Apple machines leeching the wifi...)
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posted by [identity profile] ciphergoth.livejournal.com at 04:13pm on 18/01/2006
How much is wifi in these places?

And why don't hotels have free WiFi in the rooms, the moneygrubbing bastards? Actually I think I've just answered my own question.
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posted by [identity profile] sbisson.livejournal.com at 04:14pm on 18/01/2006
What gets my goat is that the cheaper the hotel, the more likely it is to have free wifi.
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posted by [identity profile] neilf.livejournal.com at 10:31pm on 18/01/2006
http://www.tmobile.co.uk/Dispatcher?menuid=business_im_hs_ctl&tab=cost for Tmobile's pricing. Starts at £5 for an hour and goes down from there the longer chunk of time you buy.

It's a little cheaper if you are a Tmobile customer as you can have the charges added to your bill. it's 75p per 10 minutes, which works out at £4.50 an hour but you only get billed in the 10 minute chunks.

Basically all of these hotspots are a complete rip-off.

- Neil.
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posted by [identity profile] spride.livejournal.com at 11:09pm on 18/01/2006
Starbucks uses T-Mobile - fiver an hour.
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posted by [identity profile] sbisson.livejournal.com at 12:36am on 19/01/2006
I use a 3G card :-)
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posted by [identity profile] budleysalterton.livejournal.com at 09:53am on 19/01/2006
and my local pub (here outside the sigil odegra) has free wifi.
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posted by [identity profile] ccomley.livejournal.com at 02:09pm on 19/01/2006
Hey that's great. Now you just need a decent supply of coffee!
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