Coffee Shop Archive

  • Starbucks moving to free, no-registration-needed WiFi on July 1st

    Starbucks moving to free, no-registration-needed WiFi on July 1st

    This isn’t so much mobile news as it is news that mobile users should probably know about. That coffee company, Starbucks.. maybe you’ve heard of them? If not, open the blinds at whatever location you’re currently sitting at, and look across the street (or, at most, down to the corner). Surprise! It’s a Starbucks! Well, [...]

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  • Protect your iDevice from theft. Sorta

    Protect your iDevice from theft. Sorta

    So you're at the coffee shop, and you've walked over to the counter to order another half-frap-double shot raspberry no fat mocha, and left your iPad (or iPod) plugged into your laptop. Suddenly, that skeevy looking fellow who was sitting two tables away makes a grab for your iPad, and runs for the door! You don't see him because you were looking away, but you still know your kit has been boosted! How do you know? Well, you had the PadLock installed.

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  • The iPad Supreme Edition is worth its weight in gold

    The iPad Supreme Edition is worth its weight in gold

    The iPad Supreme Edition is for the guy that doesn’t feel self-conscious pulling out his iPad in a coffee shop. He also probably also feels inconspicuous driving his droptop Rolls-Royce through London. This man likely has timepieces worth more than many houses and this iPad will be used for the same complementary purposes as yellow [...]

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  • Daily Crunch: Desk Edition

    Daily Crunch: Desk Edition

    Binder clips apparently work great as cable organizers Low-tech coffee: it’s the way to go Instant Pocket – yes, an instant pocket Heatswell cups – coming to a coffee shop near you? TED talk: To save the world, we have to play 21 billion hours of video games per week

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  • Heatswell cups – coming to a coffee shop near you?

    Heatswell cups – coming to a coffee shop near you?

    So this is pretty cool; inventor Scott Amron has come up with a really interesting product for the hot beverage industry. We've told you about another product Scott came up with, the split ring key, which didn't seem quite so useful.

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  • Contest: Show us your remote office

    Contest: Show us your remote office

    Are you a road warrior? A coffeeshop telecommuter? A co-working aficionado? If so, today is your lucky day. We want to see photos of your home away from home! Whether it's your favorite comfy chair at the local coffee shop, the departures lounge at your favorite airport, or even the front seat of your car, take a picture of it for your chance to win a fabulous gift set!

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  • Review: WristOffice mobile device holder

    Review: WristOffice mobile device holder

    “I will wear the WristOffice all day today.” That was the promise I made to company president Walt Froloff. He was sitting behind Matt, Nicholas, and me in the Sahara’s coffee shop this morning and overheard that we were powerful, handsome, world-famous technology bloggers. He started showing off his $80 WristOffice system, which was born out [...]

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  • Top 10 MobileCrunch Posts of 2009

    Top 10 MobileCrunch Posts of 2009

    Ever wonder what stories of 2009 the people of the Internet found most interesting? I can’t really help you there, but I can tell you which stories on MobileCrunch got the most pageviews. Now, you might assume that most of our popular stories involved the iPhone, but — well, actually, you’d be right. The iPhone [...]

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  • Adobe engages Apple in passive aggressive warfare with iPhone’s Flash message

    Adobe engages Apple in passive aggressive warfare with iPhone’s Flash message

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    Adobe's seemingly tried everything in its fight to get Apple to tear down enough development barriers to get Flash ported to the iPhone, culminating in a native compilation option in CS5 that... well, really doesn't solve much of anything. So far, nothing's worked. What's next? Get the masses fired up with some old-fashioned propaganda and let 'em riot down at One Infinite Loop, of course! Visiting Adobe's Flash download page from an iPhone now shows a pretty tersely-worded message informing the user that they're getting short-changed simply by Apple's refusal to budge, so yeah, if you hear an occasional cry of "this is outrageous, I'm writing Apple immediately!" while sitting at an airport gate or a coffee shop, you can safely guess what just happened.

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  • Get ready for more of those TSA body scanners!

    Get ready for more of those TSA body scanners!

    Oh, dear. The TSA will expand the use of those body scanners we've talked about time and time again. This will no doubt freak out a certain segment of the population, but I have something even more terrifying for y'all: adjustable rate mortgages!

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  • Microsoft To Open Cafe In Paris To Build Windows 7 Buzz (Pics)

    Microsoft To Open Cafe In Paris To Build Windows 7 Buzz (Pics)

    Microsoft is close to opening retail stores in several major cities across the planet, but in Paris they’re doing something special in anticipation of the real shops and the imminent launch of the Windows 7 operating system. Microsoft France has surprised inhabitants and visitors of the French capital with the public preparation of a genuine coffee shop / cafe situated in the heart of the city (47 Boulevard Sebastopol). The Windows Cafe, which will only be open to the public for a couple of weeks starting October 22nd, will boast a number of Microsoft products that visitors can play around with (Xbox, mobile devices and more) but they will not be able to purchase anything there besides snacks and drinks.

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  • Jajah Brings Voice Calls To Twitter

    Jajah Brings Voice Calls To Twitter

    Starting today, Jajah is rolling out a brand spankin’ new service – Jajah@call, a Twitter user-to-user phone call solution. That’s right, ladies and gents. Jajah, the self-proclaimed “world’s most innovative IP communications company,” is bringing this new feature to the wildly popular microblogging service. This is not too much of a surprise, really, in light [...]

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  • Sprint begins to roll out 4G routers

    Sprint begins to roll out 4G routers

    Sprint currently only offers its 4G services in Baltimore, but that’s going to change this month when it rolls out the wicked fast service in Portland, Atlanta and Las Vegas. To harness the power of the new network, Sprint announced two new 4G routers today, the Sprint Personal Hotspot PHS300S and Cradlepoint MBR-1000. (There’s also [...]

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