Facebook offers 'free' Wi-Fi in exchange for check-ins
More hotels, shops and other businesses will soon be offering free Wi-Fi to customers if they agree in return to "check-in" at the business from their Facebook account.
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Google Wallet now works with iOS devices
Google Wallet is now available as an app for the first time on iOS 6 and iOS 7 devices.
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Starbucks expands wireless charging, teams up with Google for faster Wi-Fi
Starbucks has teamed up with Google to offer faster Wi-Fi in U.S. stores and plans to expand its mobile wireless charging to its shops in San Francisco.
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Starbucks dumps AT&T for Google in Wi-Fi swap
Starbucks says that it will drop AT&T as a wireless partner in favor of Google, boasting that the change will provide a 10-fold speed boost to the millions of users that use the coffee chain's free Wi-Fi every day.
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Electricity's in the air: Powermat ties the knot with PowerKiss
Two leading wireless power companies, Powermat and PowerKiss, have announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement to merge.
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If you can't find a seat at Starbucks, blame IT
Unless you're a Yahoo employee, theres a very good chance you are working from home or at a coffee shop at least part of the week, according to Forrester Research.
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CES 2013: Diary of a CES Noob, Day 2
As old CES hands like our own Keith Shaw advised, Tuesday was orders of magnitude more busy than Monday. Now the show had a crush of people to go with its gargantuan physical scale. All the booths were put together and running, everyone's gear was on display - the effect was overwhelming.
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CHARGE: Power-related gift ideas for the holidays
While battery technology makes slow advances, at least we have other ways of keeping our gadgets up and running when either at home or on the road.
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17 Starbucks stores get wireless charging in Boston
Seventeen Starbucks stores in the Boston area are taking part in a wireless charging pilot program that will allow customers to recharge their phones by placing them on the charging surfaces of tables.
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Starbucks mobile payments perk past 26M transactions
Starbucks said 26 million smartphone transactions were made to buy its coffee and other products in less than a year since it started using a mobile payment app, making it the nation's largest mobile payment program.
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Five new Android apps you don't want to miss
This latest batch of apps for your Google Android smartphone lets you stream your favorite TV shows and films, pay for your morning caffeine fix or just kill some time...and maybe a few zombies too.
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NFC will be worth the wait, analysts say
Starbucks said this week it has seen plenty of customers interested in using smartphones to pay for their coffee.
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HTML5 isn't solving mobile dev issues yet
HTML5 will likely make mobile development easier but not for some time, a group of wireless experts said Monday.
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Starbucks shares lessons of going mobile
An Android app and the ability to order a drink from a mobile phone are coming soon, an executive from Starbucks said as he shared lessons and tips from his company's experience offering mobile applications.
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We'll pay by smartphone, but let's not pay for dumb security
It's a new dawn, people! As of today, you can walk into just about any Starbucks store and pay for your latte using nothing other than a (free) iPhone app, coupled to an existing Starbucks card account. That's right -- the day of mobile electronic payments is here at last! Ta-dah!
