Starbucks to close your favorite Morning Coffee Place?

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Starbucks announced to close 600 coffee shops and cutting 7% of its workforce.

Starbucks has grown too fast and its shares have fallen more than 50% in the past two years. Something has to happen, but what if it is hitting "your Starbucks" on the way to work? Better buy five tall Starbucks Doubleshot on Ice today to save your Starbucks, but maybe it is too late already as Starbucks already identified the 600 underperforming shops. Read more

Posted on Wed, 2 Jul 2008 05:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Starbucks and AT&T reach Deal with T-Mobile

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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Starbucks Corp , AT&T Inc and T-Mobile have reached a deal to resolve T-Mobile's claim that the coffee chain secretly colluded with AT&T to offer free Wi-Fi Internet access in its cafes despite an exclusive agreement with T-Mobile, Starbucks said in a statement on Wednesday.
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Posted on Thu, 12 Jun 2008 00:10:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Starbucks offers Free Wi-Fi

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Starbucks is giving you 2 hours of free AT&T powered Wi-Fi service a day.

As reported in April, Starbucks switched their Wi-Fi service from T-Mobile to AT&T. Read more

Posted on Tue, 3 Jun 2008 10:55:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

AT&T and Starbucks Launch In Store Wi-Fi

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AT&T and Starbucks announced that they are beginning the roll out of the AT&T Wi-Fi service in company owned Starbucks stores nationwide. The implementation of the AT&T service will continue throughout 2008.

"With the power of our Wi-Fi network, and through our partnership with Starbucks, we're strengthening our ability to meet the needs of today's mobile consumer virtually anywhere and everywhere," Stephenson said. "Expanding our reach across company-operated Starbucks locations nationwide helps us bridge the gap between our wired and wireless offerings and affirms AT&T's commitment to connect people with their worlds, everywhere they live and work." Read more

Posted on Mon, 28 Apr 2008 12:32:21 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

BMW designed Starbucks Sirena

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Starbucks offers a cool looking espresso machine designed by the German car people at BMW.

The Starbucks Sirena is based on a Saeco machine. It comes with the ability to "auto-tamp" the coffee, pull a shot, and then with a proper heat time, steam your milk. Read more

Posted on Fri, 9 Nov 2007 13:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Starbucks to give away Music as new Service starts

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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Starbucks Corp said on Monday it will give away millions of songs via downloads starting next month as it launches a wireless music service with Apple Inc. Read more

Posted on Mon, 24 Sep 2007 00:10:06 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

MoodBlurbs: Social Lubricant for Notebook Users Sitting at Starbucks

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MoodBlurbs are one of those low-tech product inventions that are kind of cool and could be mega successful - maybe.

I4U Reader Michelle R. explains MoodBlurbs like this:
"It attaches to your laptop and displays messages for you. Say, you are at the coffee shop and just updating your blogs. A hot chick in a tight sweater has been staring at you all afternoon but you had no idea because your nose was stuck inside your laptop. She did not want to interrupt the serious work you are doing, with these you can tell her its ok."
Michelle could have chosen a more real world example, but it explained well what MoodBlurbs are. Read more

Posted on Mon, 12 Dec 2005 12:46:51 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr