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Starbucks lets customers pay for coffee via iPhone

Starbucks is late to adopt the branded iPhone app trend, but now the coffee giant has entered the mobile market in a big way. Starbucks just announced two iPhone apps: myStarbucks and Starbucks Card Mobile. myStarbucks is pretty boring, unless you're completely addicted: it lets you know where nearby stores are located, when they're open, and what amenities they have. Starbucks Card Mobile, on the other hand, is pretty cool: it lets you pay for drinks using your phone.

Starbucks Card Mobile allows you to manage your Starbacks card from your iPhone. Anybody can enter the number of a physical Starbucks card to check the balance and reload the card with more money. Soon, you'll also be able to pay for your drinks without a card at all, just using the iPhone. This mobile payment feature is currently being tested in three major tech (and coffee) hubs: Seattle, Cupertino and Mountain View.

[via AppScout]

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Starbucks planning free AT&T WiFi this spring

Starbucks WiFiA lot of highly-caffeinated people were made very happy yesterday, when Starbucks announced it would be partnering with AT&T to provide free WiFi. About 7,000 locations nationwide will carry the new service. Now we can finally take our laptops into Starbucks without feeling like we're stepping through a time portal to the 90's.

There's a slight catch to the free WiFi deal: you get two hours free, but only if you buy coffee with a Starbucks card. This doesn't sound like a total scam to us, though: just put your coffee money on a gift card instead of handing it over directly. After the first two hours, you can get additional hours at a rate of $3.99 for two, and the unlimited monthly plan is $20. If you're already an AT&T customer, you can log in and use the new Starbucks hotspots for free.

T-Mobile, the current wireless provider for Starbucks, looks like the big loser in this deal. If you already bought a T-Mobile plan, though, you're not out in the cold: AT&T is allowing existing customers to use their accounts on the new hotspots. Welcome to the 21st century, Starbucks!


[Via Switched]

Filed under: Internet, News, Apple, iPhone

Free iTunes downloads at Starbucks



Beginning October 2, when you order your double latte, you can get a free "song of the day" iTunes download card at Starbucks. The coffee giant is giving away 50 million downloads to promote its new "Now Playing" service which displays the name of the song playing in the Starbucks store at that moment, and allows customers to buy and download songs or albums directly to their device.

The promotion runs through November 7 and is part of Starbucks exclusive partnership with Apple
that lets customers wirelessly browse, search for, preview, buy and download music from the iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store at Starbucks onto their iPod touch, iPhone or PC or Mac running iTunes while at a participating location.

The key here is "participating." The service will debut on October 2 at 600 Starbucks stores in Seattle and New York. It will then proceed
to 350 Starbucks stores in the San Francisco Bay area on November 7; 500 stores in Los Angeles in early February 2008; 300 stores in Chicago in March 2008; and additional markets throughout the later in 2008.

The good news (if you don't live in one of the above megatropolis') is you can still get the free download cards at over 10,000 Starbucks locations. You have until the end of the calendar year to use your card, and then it will expire.

[via http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2007709240563&source=email]




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