NEW: Starbucks is recognizing the value of coffee and connectivity. It's doing partnerships with major news providers, with Apple for music and others to offer its customers premium content available on the free web whenever they are connected via a Starbucks location, according to this Mashable story. Add a dollop of local information, too, Starbucks thinks.
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A footnote: The phrase "News Cafes" seems to becoming rather a generic term. But News Cafe of Miami Inc. actually has a U.S.-registered servicemark on both the words and mark. At what point will they object to -- or capitalize on -- the use of their name for a growing phenomenon? Does Kimberly Clark send cease and desist letters every time you call something Kleenex? The patent office rejected this one as conflicting with the Miami show, and we abandoned the name as a result. But . . . UPDATE . . . on June 15, 2010, the Patent Office allowed registration of "A News Cafe."
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Coffeehouses and news... Not
Coffeehouses and news... Not exactly a new idea, is it? Next year will be the 300th anniversary of The Spector, founded,
"...to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality... to bring philosophy out of the closets and libraries, schools and colleges, to dwell in clubs and assemblies, at tea-tables and coffeehouses."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spectator_%281711%29
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