A report from the Financial Times earlier this week revealed that McDonald’s restaurants in Europe will provide customers with an alternative ordering method. Instead of walking to the register and being forced to interact with a human being for 30 seconds, customers will have the option of using a touchscreen ordering terminal. These terminals are destined to appear in 7,000 McDonald’s restaurants across Europe. Is the United States in for a similar fate? That’s what we wanted to find out.

McDonald’s will provide a new way for customers to order food at its 7,000 locations in Europe. A Financial Times story states that this new method involves touchscreen terminals with built-in credit card readers. On the surface, this change could expedite the process of ordering fast food. On the other hand, it could cost a lot of jobs.

While the US government mulls over it’s case against Julian Assange and WikiLeaks over exposed embarrassing State Department cables, WikiLeaks has moved on to exposing the truth of another giant in the world: restauranteur McDonalds. McDonalds is the world’s largest food chain, serving over 58 million people every day from over 31,000 stores. WikiLeaks has more »

McDonalds and AT&T have just announced a new partnership that will soon give those choosing to dine-in free Wi-Fi. Yup, that means the days of having to pay $2.95 for two hours of access are gone. The free access is expected to take effect sometime in mid-January and will be available at roughly 11,000 of more »

Hulu’s a great way to catch up with shows you’ve missed. Their advertising breaks are even somewhat bearable. Tonight will be different though. Tonight, McDonald’s McCafé promotion starts on Hulu. Together they are bringing commercial-free Hulu programming from 7PM EST to 3AM EST. That’s a pretty cool deal. I’d assume that we would see and more »

Today, MySpace unveils the all-new MySpace Music alongside new BFFs: EMI Music, SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT, Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group (NYSE:WMG), and Sony ATV/ Music Publishing.

Users can do all the playlist making, swapping, downloading, streaming, etc. to their hearts’ desires. Expect to be enticed by MySpace Music partners McDonald’s, Sony Pictures, State Farm, and Toyota. We can expect free downloads from Mickey D’s, State Farm playlists and Toyota Tuesdays where anything can happen.

Once again we are back on the AT&T free Wi-Fi offer, however in a refreshing twist (except for this mention) it has nothing to do with an iPhone. In fact this latest offer is giving all Laptop Connect customers, who are on a service plan of $60 or higher free access to Wi-Fi hotspots at more »

AT&T has just upped their free Wayport Wi-Fi offer, previously it had been available only to premium customers but now will be available to anyone with a 1.5Mbps plan or higher. To take advantage of the access users will have to sign up through AT&T’s website. AT&T’s partnership with Wayport will give users access to more »

McDonalds recently ran a contest for winning a free MP3 player for text messaging a code. It appears that 10,000 people won an MP3 player and couple free songs. What they didn’t account for was winning some free spyware with their player. It seems that McDonalds didn’t think to carefully when choosing the vendor that more »