Sitting down to a frothy coffee and checking your email can be a pretty expensive affair, but soon the only expensive thing you'll be shelling out for is the cappuccino as one chain of premium coffee merchants is offering free Wi-Fi to all its customers (and presumably to anyone in range of the signal).

Sony has been forced into an embarrassing u-turn following the decision by the company to charge its laptop customers for the priviledge of removing software they neither want or need. 

Anyone that's bought a computer (come on you must have - what are you reading this on?) will know that they all come with a ton of software that most of us either use or need. The reason that manufacturers put the stuff on is to make a bit of extra money from people that might actually buy the software. But Sony has decided that if you don't want this tat-ware you can have it removed for a small(-ish) fee.