Subjects covered this week: Free WiFi at Starbucks, finally; Amazon acquires Woot.com, and its rapping puppet monkey, launches test of new AmazonTote service, and reprices and makes over the Kindle DX; Apple offers new explanation of iPhone 4G reception issues, and Microsoft abruptly axes its Kin phone. With special guest, Seattle-based freelance technology journalist and wireless guru Glenn Fleishman.

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Starbucks rolls out free WiFi: Is this thing on? Yup, free WiFi at Starbucks, even the original store.

Amazon news galore: Rapping puppet monkey says Amazon is buying Woot.com ... Amazon cuts Kindle DX price to $379, improves e-ink display ... Shades of Webvan? Here comes delivery service AmazonTote ... Woot Video Channel on YouTube. Archive of our February 2009 post on U.S. Postal Service Amazon investigation that we mentioned randomly during this show.

iPhone 4: Letter from Apple Regarding iPhone 4 ... L.A. Times: Apple admits iPhone's signal bars give incorrect readings ... AnandTech's iPhone 4 review, mentioned by Glenn during the show ... Report: iPhone coming to Verizon in January ... Bloomberg: Verizon said to start offering iPhone in January.

Microsoft Kin: Confirmed: Microsoft Kin is dead ... One keeper from Microsoft Kin ... Taking Microsoft to school: A teen explains why the Kin flopped ... The problem with Microsoft Kin.

Glenn Fleishman: Home Page ... Twitter ... isbn.nu ... Recent piece on femotocells in Ars Technica: Small is beautiful: put a cell tower in your house ... Practical Mac columns in the Seattle Times ... Articles in TidBITS.

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