Starbucks Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

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 -- ...

Apple patent reveals plans for more iPhone wifi purchases

by Mike Schramm (Dec 28th, 2007)

I'd just like to say that I called it. Way back earlier this year when Apple first announced that you'd be able to use your iPhone to buy iTunes songs at Starbucks, I commented that this was only the beginning, and now Forbes publishes news about a patent that confirms exactly that: Apple is working ...

Gear Live reviews Starbucks on Wi-Fi iTunes

by Dave Caolo (Oct 2nd, 2007)

Today is October 2nd, the official launch of the Wi-Fi iTunes Store for Starbucks in Seattle and New York City. The folks at Gear Live live in Seattle, and were among the first to try the new service. It seems to work well. Upon launching iTunes on a laptop, they were automatically connected with ...

Starbucks to distribute iTunes "Song of the day" cards

by Dave Caolo (Sep 24th, 2007)

When the iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store at Starbucks launches in New York and Seattle on Tuesday, October 2nd, the coffee giant will be armed with promotions. First of all, they'll distribute 1.5 million "Song of the day" cards across 10,000 locations. Each card will provide a free single from artists ...

PC Mag gives iPod Touch an Editor's Choice

by Mike Schramm (Sep 13th, 2007)

PC Magazine has given the iPod Touch a 5/5 score and their Editor's Choice award. High praise even from a definitely non-Apple source. Tom Gideon calls it "a thing of beauty," and says it's the best iPod ever. Well, no duh. He does say a major drawback is that the WiFi store doesn't contain movies, ...

Apple and Starbucks, sitting in a tree

by Dave Caolo (Sep 5th, 2007)

The most surprising announcement to come out of this afternoon's press conference was Apple's partnership with Starbucks. The new iPods and WiFi iTunes store were always possibilities. The Starbucks deal was unexpected. My initial reaction was amusement: Well, that's a silly thing! But now I get it. ...

Not one but three new Apple stores

by Mike Schramm (Sep 5th, 2007)

Apple is heading out on a store-opening spree in the next few days (hopefully populated with brand new iPods). If you're in Louisville, San Jose, or Boston, here's three new places you can hang out with Geniuses and play with the iPhone. As Dave noted yesterday, the store at Oxmoor in ...

Starbucks launches record label

by Erica Sadun (Mar 13th, 2007)

Building on the success of its iTunes-based "Hear Music" page, Starbucks has decided to launch its own record label. Hear Music will sign its own artists, and sell its recordings through Starbucks stores and iTunes. According to the AP, Ken Lombard, president of Starbucks Entertainment, says the ...