Tag: STARBUCKS

In August, we told you about Starbucks' plan to offer free Web content for anybody connected to its in-store Wi-Fi network. Today, customers can finally browse the Starbucks Digital Network, which features exclusive movie clips, weekly musical picks, digital reading material and more content -- all for free -- to any customer on the coffee chain's connection. Created by Yahoo!, the website seems ...

Highlights from this morning's big tech headlines The Ping social network-infused iTunes 10 finally landed last night, and it's available for download. [From: Apple] The ever popular 'Angry Birds' game has been confirmed as being released to Android phones this Friday. [From: TalkAndroid] Also late last night, Twitter launched its official free app for iPad, bringing multiple account ...

Yuppies in expensive suits and college kids who pretend to study rejoiced last month when Starbucks rolled out free Wi-Fi for its caffeinated legion of customers. But keeping them in the store so they'll buy overpriced coffee and Norah Jones CDs wasn't enough. According to Mashable, Starbucks will launch a Digital Network chock full of exclusive, premium Web content for your ...

Latte-sipping techies rejoice! Today is the day that Starbucks changes forever. No, a cup of Starbucks brew will still taste like cigarettes. And, yes, you'll still pay exorbitant prices for it. But from now on, at least, you can do so while surfing the Web for free. As promised, the ubiquitous chain will tear down its Wi-Fi pay wall today, effectively paving the way for millions of fair trade ...

Finally, free Internet access will be available at Starbucks stores across these United States. According to Tech Crunch, chief executive Howard Schultz announced Monday in New York that, starting July 1st, customers can access AT&T W-Fi networks for free while they sip their coffee. Before this move, Starbucks customers could only use AT&T Wi-Fi for two hours with a registered ...

Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines.... The iPad arrives in just a few days, and Apple is apparently trying to reveal a few unattractive contract specs inconspicuously while the media is occupied with the grand public unveiling. According to the iPad licensing agreement, owners will be eligible to receive one free OS upgrade, but will be forced to pay for any ...

Share Coffee giant Starbucks has joined forces with mobile social networking site Foursquare to offer its customers rewards and gain feedback about its service. According to The New York Times, Foursquare users who frequent enough Starbucks coffee shops will gain a 'Barista' badge on the social-networking site. Thankfully, this doesn't mean you'll have to become an actual coffee slave. Instead, ...

As iPhone users know, you're never too far away from a Starbucks and its sweet, free (to iPhone users) Wi-Fi when you need to get your data on. The rest of us can jump online for virtually free as well. Sign up for a free Starbucks Rewards card, put at least $5 on it, and you'll get 2 hours of free Wi-Fi every day, so long as you use your card for a transaction (from loading up more money to ...

In an effort to ruin everything good about coffee, Starbucks has bought out what many consider to be the greatest evolution in coffee since espresso, The Clover. "What's a Clover?" you might ask. Well, it's an $11,000 coffee brewing machine that controls the precise time, temperature, and amount of beans that go into an individually brewed cup of Joe. This machine's unique ability to replicate ...

Despite AT&T's best attempts at completely failing its free Wi-Fi promises eternally, iPhone owners can finally fire up Mobile Safari in their local Starbucks, or, um, that one other place we heard about with AT&T Wi-Fi, and get browsing. Of course, that's not to say the service won't crash horribly in the next 10 minutes, but at least AT&T stuck by its word, and can now move on to ...

With file sharing, the death of independent radio, and out of touch record labels, the music industry hasn't exactly been flourishing lately. CD sales are way down, and while online music sales are way up, they're not exactly filling the gap. Unsurprising, then, that coffee uber-franchise Starbucks is scrapping its foray into the music distribution business, focusing instead on what it does best: ...

Starbucks customers looking to get their Wi-Fi fix along with a caffeine kick found themselves stymied for a few hours yesterday while the Web site the coffee company set up to handle free wireless Internet access buckled under the influx of new jittery customers. The ubiquitous coffee retailer announced this Spring that it would be switching its in-store Wi-Fi access from a paid model with ...

It all looks legit and final. AT&T and Starbucks have finally rolled out their free WiFi plan to Starbucks Card users registered with AT&T. In exchange for letting AT&T send you up to 4 emails per year, you get a single WiFi session of up to 2-hours per day at any of Starbucks' 7,000 or so US-based stores. Now get out of here, and don't forget your MacBook for some conspicuous posing ...

Wherever people go, from airports to hotels to coffee shops near home, Wi-Fi access is being offered for free, for a price. A contradiction, you say? Let's take a look. As an answer to the consumer expectation that wireless Internet access be given for free, many business that previously charged a fee for hourly or daily Wi-Fi use have been switching over to service models that combine a kind ...

Starbucks, the chain that showed the world there is more to coffee than drip or perk (then proceeded to abuse our trust by dumping an overrated coffee hut on every corner), just announced that it will be switching its for-pay Wi-Fi hotspot service from T-Mobile to AT&T, and that it will offer up to two hours of free Wi-Fi a day. The switch will take place in 7,000 U.S. Starbucks locations by ...