Archive for June, 2008
Starbucks Restores Bold Blend, Yielding to Its Customers – WSJ.com
It’s a train wreck in slow motion. First they make this blend (which is not so good in my opinion), then when old loyal customers like me stop going the company brings back the “bold” blends. The damage is already done to the brand. I am starting to believe that Starbucks will never regain its [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )PC World – Business Center: Starbucks Wi-Fi Comes with AT&T Limits
Starbucks’ not free “Free” Wi-Fi is a good plan? According to several news reports first day demand overwhelmed the system. Could I have been wrong? No. I still say this scheme is a big stinker. It turns out they even limit what you can do with your not free “free” access.
Activities not allowed:
Video [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )AT&T offers free Wi-Fi at Starbucks | Tech news blog – CNET News.com
Free internet with a catch. Starbucks still doesn’t get it. My guess is that it will take less then six months for Starbucks’ latest overly complicated Wi-Fi scheme to fail. Is anyone counting how plans for internet access have failed so far? It’s almost amusing to see how many bazaar and unwieldy plans Starbucks can [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Time Warner Launches Bandwidth-Capped Internet Plan – Yahoo! News
I can’t believe that companies are actually considering metering Internet users, again. This reminds me of AOL’s reign back in the 90s. A bad idea is still a bad idea ten years later.
Time Warner Cable will begin testing a new pricing plan that caps bandwidth usage. Kevin Leddy, Time Warner Cable’s executive vice president, said [...]
