Starbucks brewing up free Wi-Fi at all store

From CNET News.com: Starbucks is stirring up a few changes to its Wi-Fi access that should make Web-surfing coffee drinkers happy.

Starting July 1, the coffee brewer said it will launch free Wi-Fi access throughout all of its stores nationwide, with no special registration or...

RIM Fights to Retain or Regain BlackBerry Relevance

From PC World: Research in Motion (RIM)--makers of all things BlackBerry--is reportedly developing a new, more iPhone-like BlackBerry smartphone, as well as working on a BlackBerry OS tablet to compete with the Apple iPad, and the rest of the tablet onslaught. The BlackBerry product...

Firefox 4 upgrade ideas start becoming reality

From CNET News.com: Mozilla released a new Firefox 4 prototype late Monday that builds in support for Google's WebM video technology and several other changes planned for the open-source Web browser's next major version.

With WebM, Google hopes to liberate Web video from patent...

OCZ Launches Deneva Family of Enterprise Solid-State Drives

From X-bit Labs: OCZ Technology Group, a popular supplier of memory modules and solid-state drives (SSDs), on Monday unveiled the Deneva-series of SSDs that target enterprise market. The new solid-state drives feature SandForce's 1500 controllers as well as with MLL, eMLC or SLC...

HP Acquires Yet Another Operating System Specialist

From X-bit Labs: Just weeks after Hewlett-Packard announced plans to acquire Palm in order to get webOS operating system (OS) and other intellectual property, the company said it would also take over HyperSpace OS-related technologies from Phoenix Technologies. Even though HP is...

Google's problems with Android Market continue

From InfoWorld: After applications recently started disappearing from the Android Market, Google continued to have reliability issues with the online store as developers over the weekend experienced issues with erroneous download counts.

On Saturday, a number of developers started...

Samsung Launches Two Lower-priced Android-based Smartphones

From PC World: Samsung has added the Galaxy 3 and Galaxy 5 to its portfolio of Android-based smartphones, it said on Tuesday at CommunicAsia2010 in Singapore. Both phones are on the low-end of the scale when it comes to price and features.

The Galaxy 3 and Galaxy 5 will start...

Google music store could launch this fall

From CNET News.com: With the iTunes' banner waving supremely over the digital music landscape, Google continues to build its own music service, CNET has learned.

According to multiple music industry sources, Google could launch a music service that offers song downloads and...

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