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Google Replaces AT&T At Starbucks

Posted by samzenpus on from the new-and-improved dept.

coolnumbr12 writes "A new partnership between Starbucks and Google hopes to improve the lives of freelance writers around the country. Starting in August, Google plans to make Internet speeds at all 7,000 Starbucks locations in the U.S. 10 times faster than the current AT&T-powered service. For people in a city equipped with Google Fiber, Google says the speed in Starbucks could increase as much as 100 times."

5 of 100 comments (clear)

  1. Re:That'll be great until... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Says the man logging in through Google.

  2. Re:Soon they'll make hamburgers too by lxs · · Score: 5, Funny

    Would you like spies with that?

  3. Re:Oh well I guess that's it then by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Awww, wook at this cutsie-wootsie who thought AT&T wouldn't think to twack him "at the packet level" at Stawbucks! Who's my pwecious naive sillyhead? You are, yes you are!

  4. Re:This was definitely needed! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Starbucks coffee is pretty good. It's not the absolute highest end fine european coffee, but it's far better than the swill most americans drinks. Starbucks actually tastes like coffee, not just milk. I can drink starbucks black, it isn't bitter at all, because they extract it correctly. For most people, Starbucks is the best coffee around. Snobby fancy local coffee shops serving on fair-trade, organic, single origin, specialty coffee, are far and few between.

  5. Re:Uh oh.. by bickerdyke · · Score: 3, Funny

    My name was already written down and shouted through the room by that guy behind that effing huge coffeemaker...

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    bickerdyke