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News The survey of 1,000 business people found the main reasons for spending the day hunched over a laptop sipping skinny lattes at the local Starbucks include avoiding interruptions (24 per cent) and having more space to work and meet (18 per cent). [07 Apr 2008]
Starbucks Reduces Costs and Prepares for Growth With Server Upgrade
White Paper Starbucks Coffee Company is the leading roaster and retailer of specialty coffees in the world. In order to simplify its complex server environment, while still supporting its growth plans, Starbucks decided to implement a new domain structure and... [02 Apr 2008]
Location-based services set to boom
News When GPS fails the best fallback can have a range of 1km to 5km, he explained, hardly ideal for informing you where the nearest Starbucks is. This level of accuracy opens the doors to a "pretty endless list" of location-based apps, according to... [11 Feb 2008]
Top 10 retail IT stories of the year
News However, a spokesman for the company denied it was a response to the success of brands such as Starbucks, saying it was to provide an asset for the country - how generous. The fast food chain committed to rolling out free wireless internet... [19 Dec 2007]
Alsea S.A. de C.V. Consolidates Administrative Operations and Increases Productivity
White Paper Alsea S.A.de C.V.is a restaurant operations leader in Latin America that manages global brand-name franchises including Domino's Pizza, Popeyes, Chilis, Starbucks Coffee, and Burger King. The restaurant wanted to create an IT platform that can... [19 Dec 2007]
Dear silicon.com... petty cash, Vista sales, swelling SMEs...
Comment I've stood far longer in Starbucks waiting to pay when everyone in front of me pays with a card. have people never considered the possibility of making a backup or do macs never get hit by lightning or power surges or knocked off desks or have... [01 Nov 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 12.10.07
Round-Up Compare and contrast the company's initiative with Starbucks. McDonald's is trying to be the Starbucks of fast food, although it denies the aspiration strenuously. Laptops, coffee, muffins and light jazz. [12 Oct 2007]
McDonald's: 'Do you want free wi-fi with that?'
News The move is in line with McDonald's strategy to shift the brand into a more upmarket space, currently occupied by trendy coffee bars such as Starbucks. But Brooks denies the move is a direct response to the popularity of café bars such as Starbucks. [06 Oct 2007]
From CIO to consultant: Top tips for cutting the red tape
Comment You could spend your downtime drinking coffee in Starbucks and using their wi-fi. Unlike working in an office where you can have a nice, flat screen monitor at both ends of your commute, you are going to spend a lot of time looking at your laptop... [19 Apr 2007]
John L. Scott Agents Close Deals Faster With T-Mobile Wireless Internet Access at Starbucks
White Paper In partnership with Seattle-based Starbucks Coffee Company, a select group of John L. John L. Scott Real Estate in Seattle, Wash.is one of the largest independent residential real estate companies in the United States. [16 Apr 2007]
Editor's Blog: What a week for... Starbucks
Comment You may have seen and heard one or two stories relating to Starbucks this week. You might also have heard about the online campaign to get a Starbucks outlet moved from the Forbidden City in Beijing. I almost spurted out my beverage of choice when... [19 Jan 2007]
South Africa's Coffee Houses Set to Go Wireless in Seattle
White Paper Originated in the USA, the international Seattle Coffee Company organisation was taken over by Starbucks in 2003. Retaining the original brand name, Seattle Coffee Company now has 23 outlets. Seattle Coffee Company needed reliable hardware so that... [13 Dec 2006]
Bank extends contactless payment project
News According to MasterCard, which provides the underlying technology, a time-and-motion study of the Edinburgh trial - which covered six outlets including a Starbucks, a restaurant, a delicatessen, a chemist and a social club - found that Maestro... [09 Nov 2006]
Will's Web Watch: Why hotel web access should be free
Comment And by logging on in their rooms and eschewing other wi-fi destinations such as Starbucks it's far more likely they'll be eating from your overpriced room service menu while they work than choosing from Starbucks' overpriced coffee menu. [26 Jul 2006]
Dan's China diary - day 10
Comment It is said that westerners and expats prefer Shanghai to Beijing because it offers more home comforts such as bars, nightclubs and a culture that has welcomed Starbucks coffee onto its streets. In May 2006, silicon.com senior reporter Dan Ilett... [19 Jun 2006]
