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• Starbucks still grappling with fraud in online accounts, gift cards

  Starbucks is still grappling with fraud involving its customers' online accounts and gift cards, with some victims seeing hundreds of dollars stolen.

• Starbucks hit by major computer failure

  Starbucks suffered what appears to be a major computer system failure late Friday.

• Starbucks says 1 in 6 payments already mobile

  Starbucks says mobile payments are taking off in a big way and it's already handling almost 7 million a week at its U.S. coffee shops.

• Starbucks' new wireless charging won't work for most devices

  Starbucks plans to install Powermat wireless charging stations nationwide in all of its U.S. operated stores, but IHS says the technology is incompatible with nearly all enabled devices.

• Shout.tv Live Events App Ready to Tackle the Super Bowl

  Shout.tv wanted to attract millions of fans of sports and other live events to play sponsored trivia games for cash and prizes. But each game was like a DDoS attack on its data centers. As a solution, the company turned to a distributed database management system called NuoDB.

• CASE STUDY: Restaurant Brands NZ gets camera-friendly

  If you have eaten at a KFC, Pizza Hut, Carl’s Jr or Starbucks café in New Zealand anytime in the last week (or the last few years), then you have already had an interaction with the company behind it all.

• Facebook offers 'free' Wi-Fi in exchange for check-ins

  More hotels, shops and other businesses will soon be offering free Wi-Fi to customers if they agree in return to "check-in" at the business from their Facebook account.

• If you can't find a seat at Starbucks, blame IT

  Unless you're a Yahoo employee, theres a very good chance you are working from home or at a coffee shop at least part of the week, according to Forrester Research.

• CES 2013: Diary of a CES Noob, Day 2

  As old CES hands like our own Keith Shaw advised, Tuesday was orders of magnitude more busy than Monday. Now the show had a crush of people to go with its gargantuan physical scale. All the booths were put together and running, everyone's gear was on display - the effect was overwhelming.

• CHARGE: Power-related gift ideas for the holidays

  While battery technology makes slow advances, at least we have other ways of keeping our gadgets up and running when either at home or on the road.

• 17 Starbucks stores get wireless charging in Boston

  Seventeen Starbucks stores in the Boston area are taking part in a wireless charging pilot program that will allow customers to recharge their phones by placing them on the charging surfaces of tables.

• Starbucks mobile payments perk past 26M transactions

  Starbucks said 26 million smartphone transactions were made to buy its coffee and other products in less than a year since it started using a mobile payment app, making it the nation's largest mobile payment program.

• Execs from NASDAQ, HP Show Operations Some Love

  One of the great joys I have in serving the CIO community is witnessing the openness and transparency you have with each other-especially when given the chance to sit down face-to-face at one of our events. Whether the perspectives you share come from your experience with business, technology or overall leadership, I'm always impressed by how generous IT executives are in exchanging invaluable insights and guidance that ultimately improves everyone's performance.

• Starbucks begins BI trial on tablets

  Starbucks has begun a trial of business intelligence software on tablet devices for potential use by its executives making storevisits to help them make view real-time, location-aware data.

• NFC will be worth the wait, analysts say

  Starbucks said this week it has seen plenty of customers interested in using smartphones to pay for their coffee.