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Starbucks app update perks up coffee customers

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Jun 30th, 2011)

MyStarbucks is no more. Starbucks rolled out version 2 of its official app today, combining the functions of myStarbucks and Starbucks Card Mobile into a single program. The new app has a redesigned interface with the company's new logo. Performance is much faster and having the Starbucks ...

Paying with your iPhone at Starbucks: hands-on

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Jan 25th, 2011)

Last week, Starbucks updated its Starbucks Card app to handle payments through your iPhone and iPod touch at most Starbucks locations throughout the country. It was originally part of a pilot program when the app debuted in 2009, then expanded to Starbucks locations inside Target stores, and now ...

Starbucks now accepting payments through iPhone app

by Steven Sande (Jan 19th, 2011)

The world's largest purveyor of coffee with that just-burnt taste, Starbucks, is now accepting payments at company-owned outlets throughout the United States with their free Starbucks Card Mobile iPhone app. We've covered the green lady's apps before, and it was about eight months ago that the ...

Starbucks expands pay-by-iPhone pilot

by David Winograd (Apr 19th, 2010)

About six months ago, we wrote about two free Starbucks apps for the iPhone and iPod touch. myStarbucks got you to the nearest caffeinated outlet and let you build your coffee, and The Starbucks Card Mobile app replaced your physical card, allowing you to have a bar code scanned and pay for your ...

First Look: iDisplay

by Erica Sadun (Apr 2nd, 2010)

iDisplay is one of those apps that you receive as a press release in your inbox and just when you're about to move on, it suddenly hits you exactly what that app does. And you go "Oh man! Yes!" In this case, iDisplay transforms your iPad or iPhone into a second monitor for your Mac. I haven't ...

Apple ranks third in BusinessWeek customer service survey

by Mike Schramm (Feb 22nd, 2010)

Apple has nailed down the number three spot on BusinessWeek's fourth annual customer service awards, falling in right behind LL Bean and insurance company USAA, and way above companies like Amazon and Dell. The awards were based on survey results from a few different places, and Apple scored an A+ ...

Caffeinated apps: Starbucks intros myStarbucks, Starbucks Card Mobile App

by Steven Sande (Sep 23rd, 2009)

The Microsoft of the coffee biz, Starbucks, announced this morning that they've introduced two new iPhone / iPod touch apps to help customers make the most of their coffee addiction. myStarbucks and the Starbucks Card Mobile App [iTunes links] are free apps available in the iTunes App Store today. ...

iPhone customers report AT&T sending WiFi SMS reminder

by Michael Rose (Oct 29th, 2008)

Several readers are reporting that they've gotten SMS messages from AT&T reminding them of the long-awaited "free wireless at Starbucks" plan. First announced in February with a target launch of 'spring 2008,' the service has been quietly running on and off since April, including two hours of ...

Life.Lab's Colony brings location-specific art controller to the iPhone

by Mike Schramm (Sep 30th, 2008)

Colony is a new free application that showed up on the iPhone App Store just recently, but it won't do much of anything if you download it -- unless you're hooked up to the WiFi at the Life.Lab building in Digital Harbour in Melbourne, Australia. The app is actually part of an art installation by an ...

AT&T WiFi portal for iPhone users shows up at Starbucks

by Cory Bohon (Apr 18th, 2008)

It was only a couple months ago that Starbucks announced that AT&T would take over hotspot services from T-Mobile. Now the WiFi hotspots are rolling out to some of the Starbucks stores. David Chartier, of previous TUAW and now ArsTechnica fame, recently posted an article on his personal blog ...

Starbucks offers free iTunes "Pick of the Week"

by Mat Lu (Apr 15th, 2008)

Apple and Starbucks are at it again, this time with a new Pick of the Week iTunes offer. Basically each week Starbucks will distribute cards good for a free download of a hand-picked song from the iTunes Store. Starting this week the first such song is the Counting Crows' "Washington Square." It's ...

TUAW on the Spot: Secret Barista to report on Starbucks 'retraining'

by Erica Sadun (Feb 26th, 2008)

Wanting to get the scoop on the new coffee generation, I put in a call to my secret barista, Ms. Coffee. "Quick, tell the dish about the nationwide Starbucks retraining this afternoon!" "Wish I could -- got nothing to tell. All the stores close at 5:30 pm local time, no matter where they are. We ...

Apple, Starbucks sued over iTunes promotion cards

by Cory Bohon (Feb 22nd, 2008)

AppleInsider is reporting that Apple and Starbucks are being sued because of their recent iTunes promotion cards. James and Marguerite Driessen claim to hold a patent on, what they call "RPOS" (or retail point of sale for online merchandising). The patent in question allows customers to buy a gift ...

Not a "people person?" Get an iPhone

by Brett Terpstra (Feb 14th, 2008)

Anthropophobic* iPhone users have something to look forward to. You may remember that Apple filed a patent for an iPhone-based payment system back in December. The system would not only allow payment without interaction, but could be used as a full ordering and fulfillment notification system. But ...

Got AT&T? Starbucks delivers Wi Fi

by Erica Sadun (Feb 11th, 2008)

Good news, iPhone lovers. Starbucks is dumping T-Mobile and serving you up a fresh heaping venti of Wi-Fi goodness. And what's the crema on that espresso? Why, it's this: "AT&T will soon extend the benefits of Wi-Fi at Starbucks to its wireless customers". The press release says spring 2008 -- ...