starbucks
Just In Time For Trenta: Send Your Facebook Friends Starbucks Card eGifts
Starbucks, the coffee giant, has just launched an electronic gift card program called Starbucks Card eGifts. There’s two primary ways to top-up your (or your friends’) gift cards. The first…
Starbucks Digital Network: Free, Exclusive In-Store Content Courtesy of Yahoo, iTunes & More
Yeah, today is Apple Day, but we still have a few hours till the big announcements. How to fill the time? Let’s start with this bit of news: Starbucks has…
Free WiFi Coming To All U.S. Starbucks Stores Beginning July 1
At Wired’s Business Conference in New York City, Starbucks’ Howard Schultz announced that the coffee giant is now offering free Wifi to customers beginning July 1. Currently, you can connect…
I'm Not Sure This Augments Your Reality, But Brightkite Gets Better AR Ads
Back in December, the location-based service Brightkite rolled out a new layer to its Augmented Reality (AR) view: ads. At the time, these were Google ads that showed up in…
Brightkite Teams Up With Starbucks For Deals, Branded Badges
When partnering with brands for you location-based network, it’s probably best to choose companies that are ubiquitous. As in, Starbucks ubiquitous. With over 17,000 store locations around the world (including…
In an age of free and abundant wi-fi, Starbucks takes a stand
Here in Seattle, there isn’t enough room to swing a cat without hitting an open wi-fi access point. During lapses in my own internet service (damn you, Comcast) I have…
Facebook COO Sandberg Joins Starbucks Board Of Directors
Sheryl Sandberg, the COO of Facebook, has joined the board of directors of Starbucks, her first public company board position. Sandberg, who’s generally shy of press (she’s done just one…
Reader Michael writes: I could not log onto my Starbucks ATT WiFi account today. I called ATT and they said it’s part of the Starbucks issue that they are tying…
Starbucks is giving out a free tall cup of its delightful brew today for anyone that asks for it. Originally, the coffee shop simply asked that you come in and tell…
The joy of walking into a Starbucks and buying a CD or copping an iTunes gift card along with a venti iced coffee is over! The coffee chain, which has…
Sleep easy now, friends, for the T-Mobile-AT&T-Starbucks lawsuit has been settled for an undisclosed sum, thought to be in the neighborhood of several venti ice coffees and a couple bottles…
T-Mo sues Starbucks for making its latte too frothy… wait…. for dumping them
T-Mobile is crying “collusion” in response to Starbucks’ decision to take on AT&T Wi-Fi service in its stores. Reuters writes: T-Mobile is seeking unspecified damages against Starbucks for breach of…
Flickr’d As reported yesterday, Starbucks is giving away two hours of free Wi-Fi to customers who purchase a $5 (minimum) Starbucks card. The two hours cannot be spread out from…
Starbucks will give away Wi-Fi starting tomorrow, June 3. Or: When you register your Starbucks Card and use it at least once a month, you’ll receive two consecutive hours a…
CrunchDeals: RIM offers BlackBerry owners $5 Starbucks gift card
Attention BlackBerry owners with addictions to terrible coffee- For a limited time RIM is giving BlackBerry Owner’s Club members a $5 Starbucks gift card. It’s worth the few minutes it…
The on-again, off-again Wi-Fi service that AT&T offered for free to iPhone users last week is now back on. The AT&T wireless site has been updated to reflect that iPhone…
AT&T officially rolling out nationwide Wi-Fi service at Starbucks
AT&T has already equipped a few Starbucks in San Antonio with its Wi-Fi service and today both companies have officially announced that the national rollout has begun. Beginning May 1,…
AT&T begins rolling out Wi-Fi service in San Antonio Starbucks
We knew AT&T was taking over T-Mobile’s hotspot service across all Starbucks, but I didn’t think it would happen this soon. I guess it’s spring. The first known Starbucks to…
Didn’t see this one coming at all. I thought everything was peaches and cream between Starbucks and T-Mobile. Apparently not. The coffee giant has announced they’ve inked a deal with…
Computerworld’s Mile Elgan predicts that within a year, Starbucks will offer free wireless internet access. I advise that if Starbucks does end up doing this, that it not make it…
iTunes Digital Release cards at Starbucks: Eddie Veder (and theft encouragement!)
Walk into a Starbucks lately? Walk into a Starbucks and hear a borderline emo song and think to yourself, damn, I need that song in my iPod, p-r-o-n-t-o? Who hasn’t!…
Contest: E-mail me and win today's free Starbucks-iTunes song [Update]
Who wants to win today’s free Starbucks-iTunes song, “Night of the Iguana” by Joni Mitchell? It’ll save you a trip to your local Starbucks and the $14.80 it costs for…
If a cup of coffee costs $4 at a Starbucks, how much do you suppose they’re going to charge for MP3s? We’ll find out in the next 12 to 18…
So I was at Starbucks the other day and while standing in line, trying to avoid eye contact from girls (they have cooties), when I saw this stare beaming back…
So I’m sitting in Chicago right now. Gavin’s web connection is worthless, so I’ve been planted in a Starbucks all day, listening to the most horrendous music ever (except for…