Tag: MCDONALDS

Don't worry, this one isn't quite as bad as the Gawker hack: McDonalds -- and over 100 other firms -- have had their marketing databases compromised, and summarily stolen. An email marketing company called Silverpop is to blame for the breach -- and fortunately, 'only' real names, interests and email addresses were breached; no passwords, and no Social Security or credit card numbers were stolen. ...

Starting mid-January 2010, McDonalds will be offering free wireless Internet access at 11,000 of its 14,000 fast-food joints. Whether it will be 'gated' via some kind of time code on your receipt, or really free remains to be seen. This opens a scarily interesting kettle of filet-o-fish: is this service going to be firewalled? Will usage be monitored? If the service is totally free -- as in, ...

McDonald's, effervescing with beefy, trans-fat-free goodness in every bite, has just given British iPhone users one more reason to mack a double-cheese: free WiFi. The move is designed to take a chomp out of rival chains which offer WiFi for a fee throughout the kingdom and is timed to coincide with the UK release of Apple's tremendously successful iPhone, a move somewhat contradictory to Apple's ...