Here’s some good news for all of us internet addicts. Starbucks’ Howard Schultz has announced that the coffee mega-chain will begin offering free Wifi to customers starting on July 1. As it stands right now, you can connect to an AT&T WiFi connection in all Starbucks stores, but it’s only free for two hours IF [...]

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Ready for the ultimate in green energy? If you watched 60 Minutes last night, you possibly caught a glimpse of the future. The Bloom Box is a small, block-shaped power supply. Two of them can power your average American home, according to K.R. Sridhar, founder of Bloom Energy, who was on the popular news magazine [...]

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Do you love coffee?  I mean, really, really love coffee? We certainly drink more than our fair share of it here at Blippitt.  Here’s how you know you’ve gone too far: More LOLs here: Lists Juan Valdez named his donkey after you. You grind your coffee beans in your mouth. The only time you’re standing [...]

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Got a craving for a nice, big latte? You could be in luck. Starbucks is one of the few stores open on Christmas Day 2009. If, on the other hand, you were hoping for a Big Mac or a doughnut, no soup for you! McDonald’s and Dunkin Donuts are not open today. Other big retailers [...]

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Carly Simon has filed a lawsuit against Starbucks, saying that the coffee giant’s music venture did not sufficiently promote her 2008 CD, causing the album to bomb before it even came out. Simon is seeking unspecified damages corresponding to the release of “This Kind of Love” in April of 2008. In the lawsuit, which was [...]

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A 17-year-old male is now being held in New York City in connection with the May 25th bombing of a Starbucks on the city’s Upper East Side. Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly issued a statement alerting the media that Kyle Shaw was arrested on Tuesday night in his Manhattan apartment after police discovered that the boy [...]

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A small bomb was likely the cause of an explosion in New York this morning that blew out the windows of a Starbucks coffee shop in an Upper East Side neighborhood. The blast occurred at Third Avenue and East 92nd Street just before 4am EDT. Police are still looking for the person who may have [...]

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As if the juggernaut that is Starbucks needed any help. Four days ago, Miley Cyrus posted the following tweet from her cell phone to her Twitter account: “helplessly and hopelessly wondering around ny trying to find a starbucks.” She then went on to supplement her tweet by uploading this picture to her TwitPic account: “Found [...]

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