Starbucks swamped by wi-fi users
PURVEYOR OF OVERPRICED COFFEE, Starbucks' scheme to get punters into its shop with a wi-fi bribe seems to have backfired.
The company's wizard wheeze involved getting caffeine junkies to sign up to its Starbucks' Card Rewards Web site, pay $5, sign up and get two hours of free Interwibble access per day.
However, the site was flooded and users got a pop-up window saying that there was too much interest.
AT&T has famously taken over from T-Mobile as the provider for Starbucks. But a red-faced Starbucks spokesman said that it was not the problem of the company's but the coffee outfit's.
Basically, customers overwhelmed the site when joining Starbucks Card Rewards. Punters in the US and Canada trying to sign on to Starbucks.com with a user name and password and other users trying to sign up for the program also saw the error message. ยต
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Overpriced coffee and overpriced Wi-Fi.... quick lets empty out my bank account!

Plenty of places offering FREE wi-fi and coffee just as good and cheaper than Starbucks AND you don't have to use AT&T whose new privacy policy (put into place after the NSA spying program fiasco and possible lawsuits) says (essentially) all your data belong to us to do with as we deem fit.

If people REALLY thought about all the personal and private data that they beam across the net and then thought about this AT&T policy they might be shocked by the implications. 

Time to find a Transfair shop then.

http://www.transfair.org/
http://www.fairtrade.org.uk/
http://www.transfairusa.org/