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Kimpton Standardizes Its Business Centers on Apple Computers
Wednesday, June 21, 2006
Kimpton Hotels and Restaurants, the leader in the fast growing boutique/lifestyle hotel segment, announced today that it has partnered with Eleven Wireless to deploy the hospitality industry’s first dual-OS business center computers, running both Mac OS X and Windows XP simultaneously on a single Apple iMac. This deployment has already occurred at 25 percent of Kimpton properties and will continue across the entire Kimpton portfolio of 40 hotels in the U.S. and Canada, to create a more seamless work environment for its guests. [pdf download]
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Eleven Wireless Launches ElevenBC for Intel-based Apple iMac
Tuesday, June 20, 2006
Eleven Wireless, a leader in on-demand software for broadband networks, today launched the new version of its business center computer solution, called ElevenBC. This software update is optimized to take advantage of the Intel-based Apple iMac computers’ performance improvement. ElevenBC enables hotel properties to deploy a fully functional, managed computer for guests to use for business or personal use.
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Hotel WiFi: for free, or not for free?
Monday, June 19, 2006
[SelfServiceWorld Magazine] Two schools of thought conflict over selling public access WiFi
Internet at hotels. One side says free public WiFi is essential for
hotel customers’ convenience. The other side says giving it away is
giving away money. A 100-room hotel that keeps half its rooms booked
and sells Internet access for a typical rate of $10 per day makes
$183,000 in annual access fees.
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