Free WiFi Coming to Starbucks

Starbucks To Offer Free Wi-Fi at 6,700 U.S. Sites

Starbucks will be serving up a hot new treat: free Wi-Fi service at more than 6,700 locations. The move comes six months after Starbucks' competitor McDonald's began offering free Wi-Fi at 11,500 U.S. locations, along with a revamped coffee lineup. Starbucks also said customers will get free access to online content through its Wi-Fi.

Microsoft's Kinect for Xbox 360 at a glance

Kinect, which was formerly known by its code name Project Natal, is a motion control system that sits between the user and their Xbox and TV. The special sauce of the system is that it can both sense motion in 3D using 3D depth sensors and recognize user's speech, via a multi-array microphone. That means that it can react both to what a user does with any part of their body, and to their spoken commands. As a result, users can activate Kinect by waving their hand, and get things like game and movie playback to stop, pause, or resume with nothing more than a voice command.

FIFA World Cup 2010—3D, HDTV, Cell Phone & Web Viewer's Guide

We've compiled the best ways for all you soccer (football) fanatics to watch, listen or track all of the FIFA World Cup 2010 action—whether you're watching online, on your TV, using your phone, or something else.

12 Tips to Speed Up Windows 7 Tips, Solutions & How Tos

Sure, Windows 7 is much faster than slowpoke Vista, but there's still room for improvement. Here are a dozen tricks to that can make Windows 7 faster.

How To Permanently Delete Your Account on Popular Websites

We all have an increasing number of sites and online services we’re members of, and sometimes it all gets a little overwhelming. At times, we just need to delete our memberships to some sites, either in an effort to simplify our lives or just because we’ve grown tired of a particular site or service. What we often don’t realize when signing up for all these accounts, though, is how difficult it can be to permanently delete our accounts when we’ve had enough. Some require complicated, multi-step processes that can stretch over the course of days (or weeks). Others take less time, but still require multiple steps by the user.