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Starbucks mobile order-ahead usage doubles from last year, now up to 8M transactions per month
Starbucks said today that usage of its mobile order-ahead feature doubled year-over-year during the most recent quarter.
The company’s Mobile Order...
One month with the Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge: Can the gimmicks help set this phone apart?
The smartphone market is getting boring. Great cameras, killer screens and powerful processors abound, making it easy to find a phone that will fit your needs, but also overwhelming you with options that are hard to tell...
Chariot for Women, an Uber-like service, set to launch this month
(credit: Chariot for Women)
A new Boston-area startup hopes to be a new on-demand ride service that will only offer rides to women, and children of any gender under 13.
Chariot for Women, which was founded by a husband-and-wife team from Charlton, Massachusetts, is set to launch nationwide on April 19. Its pricing will be much more...
What’s stupid this month: Xerox patents sharing documents online
(credit: Ohio University Libraries)
Once a month, the Electronic Frontier Foundation's crack team of patent lawyers reaches deep into the US Patent Office's giant sack of freshly issued patents. Then they pull out one of the shadiest, saddest, painfully obvious, never-should've-gotten-even-close-to-issuance patents and subject it to public scrutiny.
This month, EFF attorney Vera Ranieri selected a highly questionable Xerox...
HTC shows off 12 Vive virtual reality games in Seattle a month before preorders start
The HTC Vive is coming to consumers soon, but some members of the media got to try out a handful of games being built for the virtual reality headset at...
Starbucks mobile order-ahead program reaches 6M orders per month
Starbucks continues to see growing adoption of its mobile order ahead feature as the coffee giant posted yet another strong quarterly earnings report on Thursday. The Seattle company reported a record $ 5.4 billion in revenue last quarter, up 12 percent from...
Is cheater site Ashley Madison actually growing by over a million users per month?
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In one of 2015's most sensational hacks, a group called Impact Team dumped the real names and credit card information associated with 39 million accounts from cheater dating site Ashley Madison. And yet, despite the public shaming of prominent men who paid to join the site and several lawsuits against the company, Ashley Madison claims that it...
Microsoft patents a slider, earning EFF’s “Stupid Patent of the Month” award
The Electronic Frontier Foundation's "Stupid Patent of the Month" for December isn't owned by a sketchy shell company, but rather the Microsoft Corporation. The selection, published yesterday, is the first time the EFF has picked a design patent as the SPOTM. The blog post seeks to highlight some of the problems with those lesser-known cousins to standard "utility" patents, especially the damages...
Comcast data caps cost this consumer $90 a month extra; more fees for more users coming in January
While Comcast moves ahead with its plan to add cell-phone-like data usage fees to home Internet service, consumers like Kimberly Richardson are feeling the pain. And if you are a heavy user and part of Comcast’s new fee trial, expect your bills...
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