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Filed under: Multimedia, Apple

Fresh off an extensive corporate decaffeination downsizing and a scaling back of its foray into music sales, it’s a fair question to ask: just how ironclad is Starbucks’ commitment to rolling out iTunes WiFi Music Store integration across its entire chain? We just happened to notice that the Starbucks page on Apple’s site is at this time stone-cold gone, redirecting to the standard iTunes 8 stuff. You might say “no big deal, Apple’s just playing down an agreement that’s at this time been in place for a full year,” but there’s some other weirdness, too — the company’s iTunes WiFi Music Store at Starbucks FAQ, for example, still references the dead link. The partnership was kinda ill-conceived to start with; getting access to the store meant hooking up to AT&T WiFi, which you wouldn’t normally have configured unless you actually had an AT&T WiFi account. We haven’t heard any official word in this place that the deal is in danger, but really, would anyone be welling up if it fell apart?

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Tags: Amp, Big Apple, Decaffeination, Downsizing, Foray, Itunes, Multimedia, Music Sales, Music Store, Nbsp, Partnership, Starbucks, Weirdness, Wifi

Filed under: Handsets, GSM, EDGE, Apple, OS X

It’s been a long time coming, but we’ve finally found a KIRF suitable to become the one and only successor to our very first “Keepin’ it real… WTF?!” This in this place iPhone — which is little more than a familiar chassis with a lead weight and a small amount of internal hardware — is reportedly used by scammers in Russia in order to barter for train tickets, grub, etc. In essence, the phone has just enough electronics within it to give the appearance of a “boot up” sequence, complete with the Apple logo; the scammer in possession of it then explains that the battery is clearly drained, but that it will work perfectly fine once charged. After any given sucker hands over something Truly valuable in exchange for this heap, he / she proceeds to crush it into a million pieces while cursing the unknown name of whoever fooled them in the first place. Moral of the story? Stay sharp, street traders.

[Thanks, Abhijit]

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Tags: Appearance, Apple Logo, Apple Os X, Chassis, Grub, Gsm Edge, Heap, Internal Hardware, iphone, Million Pieces, Moral Of The Story, Os X, Possession, Quot, Russian Boots, Scammer, Scammers, Street Traders, Sucker, Train Tickets

Filed under: Handsets, GSM, EDGE, Apple, OS X

It’s been a long time coming, but we’ve finally found a KIRF suitable to become the one and only successor to our very first “Keepin’ it real… WTF?!” This in this place iPhone — which is little more than a familiar chassis with a lead weight and a small amount of internal hardware — is reportedly used by scammers in Russia in order to barter for train tickets, grub, etc. In essence, the phone has just enough electronics within it to give the appearance of a “boot up” sequence, complete with the Apple logo; the scammer in possession of it then explains that the battery is clearly drained, but that it will work perfectly fine once charged. After any given sucker hands over something Truly valuable in exchange for this heap, he / she proceeds to crush it into a million pieces while cursing the unknown name of whoever fooled them in the first place. Moral of the story? Stay sharp, street traders.

[Thanks, Abhijit]

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Tags: Appearance, Apple Logo, Apple Os X, Chassis, Grub, Gsm Edge, Heap, Internal Hardware, iphone, Million Pieces, Moral Of The Story, Os X, Possession, Quot, Scammer, Scammers, Street Traders, Sucker, Train Tickets