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Starbucks Leadership Shake Up Signals In-Store Direction

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2008-04-24 15:01:48 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
Starbucks entertainment senior VP "left" the company today; its CTO subsumes the entertainment function: If you were wondering if Starbucks might provide even clearer signals about its future plans regarding in-store entertainment and its deal with AT&T to take over providing Wi-Fi services and back-end operations, today's brief announcement...
 
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T-Mobile Sues Starbucks over Premature Free Wi-Fi

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2008-06-06 19:18:56 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...Starbucks Card Rewards free Wi-Fi launched this week: T-Mobile spokesperson Peter Dobrow said this evening that his firm was surprised when the free Wi-Fi was launched in every market, because T-Mobile wasn't party to that deal. "Starbucks launched this promotion without involving T-Mobile," he said. Dobrow said that T-Mobile continues to...
 
Tags: free wi-fi, free, t-mobile, wi-fi, starbucks, t-mobile filed, t-mobile continues, provide free, subscribers
 
 
 
 
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T-Mobile, AT&T, Starbucks Make Nice about Wi-Fi

2008-06-11 10:07:54 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
 
Starbucks informed me that it, AT&T, and T-Mobile have signed a memorandum of understanding about the free Wi-Fi kerfuffle: T-Mobile filed a lawsuit a few days ago against Starbucks stating it wasn't involved in discussions about its network carrying free loyalty-awarded Wi-Fi via AT&T's authentication system. Now the three companies are...
 
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Starbucks Opens Up Free Wi-Fi to Cardholders

2008-06-02 22:55:53 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
 
...Starbucks Card, their stored-value plastic, entitles you to two continuous hours of free Wi-Fi service each day for 30 days in all their company-owned freestanding stores starting tomorrow, so long as you either add value or make a purchase every 30 days. Cards may be purchased with an initial value of as little as $5 This free Wi-Fi deal...
 
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Starbucks, AT&T Brick Loyalty Card Service Launch

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2008-06-03 13:34:56 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
Starbucks, AT&T biff day one of the card loyalty program: After several hours of occasional attempts to register my Starbucks Card (actually, two) with the company for free Wi-Fi and other rewards, seeing "Service Unavailable," long delays, errors, and a general failure to accept my card--now there's a message. "Due to overwhelming interest in...
 
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Starbucks Canada Frees Wi-Fi in Its Stores

2008-08-08 14:45:00 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
 
...Starbucks American stores are offering limited but free Wi-Fi in about 8,000 stores for its customers through a partnership with provider AT&T, Starbucks's northern brethren are opening its 650 company-operated locations that have Bell hotspots to free use by customers. Terms appear the same as in the states: 2 hours of free use per day with...
 
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AT&T, Starbucks Make Rollout Start Official

2008-04-25 10:02:47 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
 
...Starbucks last week , this press release makes it official: AT&T and Starbucks co-announced today that San Antonio--AT&T's corporate HQ town--is the first city to be unwired with AT&T's flavor of Wi-Fi in Starbucks stores. Other markets will follow this year, although, as before, there's no list of markets nor a time table beyond the notion...
 
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Wee-Fi: First Starbucks with AT&T? Plus, L.I.-Fi, Panasonic Camera, Corpus Christi Decision

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2008-04-16 12:03:00 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...Starbucks live in San Antonio? Alan Weinkrantz believes he's spotted the first transitioned Starbucks. He saw installers putting in gear, and the login screen shows AT&T Wi-Fi prominently, with T-Mobile's HotSpot logo relegated to a square in the upper right. He may be right. In Seattle and New York at least, the Starbucks login banner shows...
 
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Don't bank at Starbucks

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2008-02-21 12:32:00 by Mike Rothman in Security Mike's Blog
...Starbucks? You've got a couple of options. Personally, I use a 3G EVDO wireless service from Verizon (Sprint and AT&T also have competing services) to provide my connectivity when I'm out of the office Yet, the reality is that I do connect on some public WiFi networks. It's not frequent, but it does happen. To protect those sessions, I use a...
 
Tags: service, networks, public vpn service, public wi-fi networks, network, evdo wireless service, public wifi networks, public wifi network, wall street journal
 
 
 
 
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T-Mobile wants you to still pay for that access with your latte

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2008-06-07 10:07:13 by HASH0x8bbef18 in StillSecure, After All These Years
...Starbucks and ATT offering free wi-fi to customers. They have filed suit against Starbucks, claming that according an agreement between the three companies, the transition from T-Mobile's pay for access to the ATT free access was supposed to go at a much slower rate, only it seems ATT and Starbucks have rushed things through and T-Mobile is...
 
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