I really didn't think that this site would work either but I'm hoping that it actually leads to some innovative changes.

Quoted: Hundreds of coffee-obsessed consumers chimed in moments after Starbucks Corp. launched a Web site asking customers to pitch changes the company should make to revive its struggling U.S. business.

Good news!

Quoted: Apple Inc said on Thursday it will start supporting Microsoft Corp's Exchange product for corporate email, opening a potential new market for the popular iPhone. ...

"The iPhone can now work directly with the Exchange server," Schiller said, adding that it would enable corporate e-mail, contacts and calendars.

Schiller spoke at an event to discuss a software kit that would let outside developers can create software programs for the iPhone.

The purchase of gift cards is a loan to the company? I always thought of it as a pre-payment.

Quoted: You know that Sharper Image gift card you got for Christmas? Right now, it's worthless. And other gift cards in your wallet could lose their value, too. ...

That is typical of businesses that reorganize under Chapter 11 bankruptcy, which treats gift cards as a loan to the company, not as cash.

Yippee! The $20 a month for unlimited wouldn't be too bad either ...

Quoted: Starbucks Corp. and AT&T Inc. will start offering a mix of free and paid wireless Internet service in most of the international coffee retailer's U.S. shops, beginning this spring.

Starbucks said it will give customers who use a Starbucks card two hours of free wireless access per day. More time than that will cost $3.99 for a two-hour session. Monthly memberships will cost $19.99 and include access to any of AT&T's 70,000 hot spots worldwide.

Wow ... I can be a sugar mama in 2 years? I love that a 35 year old is now an "older woman". Now I just have to get some liquid assets or a nice fatty divorce settlement.

Quoted: NEW YORK (Reuters) - Wanted: rich older women interested in hot younger guys. Applicants must be over 35, earn at least $500,000 a year or have a minimum of $4 million in liquid assets, entrusted assets or divorce settlement.

Beware ... worst joke ever coming up ...

I warned you!

Can't touch this startup ...

Quoted: MC Hammer hasn't topped the music charts since the early 1990s, but the former rap star says he has another hit in him _ only this time around he'll produce it as a Silicon Valley entrepreneur.

So WWU assumes that its students are guilty while UW is backing them? Go UW!

Quoted: University of Washington and Western Washington University have taken different approaches to lawsuits against students accused of illegally sharing digital music.

Western has forwarded 15 letters to students, but the UW is holding 16 letters to be more certain about who is responsible for using university connections for downloading.

This is ridiculous. Next they are going to tell us that when you buy a cd, you have to listen to it by yourself or you could be prosecuted for sharing.

Quoted: Now, in an unusual case in which an Arizona recipient of an RIAA letter has fought back in court rather than write a check to avoid hefty legal fees, the industry is taking its argument against music sharing one step further: In legal documents in its federal case against Jeffrey Howell, a Scottsdale, Ariz., man who kept a collection of about 2,000 music recordings on his personal computer, the industry maintains that it is illegal for someone who has legally purchased a CD to transfer that music into his computer.

The industry's lawyer in the case, Ira Schwartz, argues in a brief filed earlier this month that the MP3 files Howell made on his computer from legally bought CDs are "unauthorized copies" of copyrighted recordings.

This is a bit worrisome ... I don't know that surrogacy is exactly the field where you want to give your business to the lowest bidder.

Quoted: Every night in this quiet western Indian city, 15 pregnant women prepare for sleep in the spacious house they share, ascending the stairs in a procession of ballooned bellies, to bedrooms that become a landscape of soft hills.

A team of maids, cooks and doctors looks after the women, whose pregnancies would be unusual anywhere else but are common here. The young mothers of Anand, a place famous for its milk, are pregnant with the children of infertile couples from around the world.