These days I’ve got my own 4G access so I don’t connect to “wild” wifi hotspots. If you have connected to the Starbucks Digital Network I’d love to have your feedback

Beginning Wednesday, Starbucks customers who use the free Wi-Fi at more than 6,800 U.S. company-operated stores will be greeted with the Starbucks Digital Network (SDN) — an exclusive content network curated by the company and designed to enhance the customer’s in-store experience.

Starbucks has been teasing SDN for months, but now that the network is about to go live we have a much clearer idea about the type of content provided and the purpose behind the digital endeavor.

Starbucks’s Vice President of Digital Ventures Adam Brotman sat down with Mashable () in advance of the October 20 launch day for a complete tour.

“The vision,” he says, “is for Starbucks Digital Network to be a digital version of the community cork board that’s in all of our stores.”

The Tech World, like a majority of Americans, went for Obama hook, line, and sinker in ’08. How does the tech industry view him now? Pretty much like the majority of Americans do: harmful to business

Executives say they’ve gotten little but lip service from the White House on a number of issues. | AP Photo Close

By KIM HART | 10/19/10 4:34 AM EDT Updated: 10/19/10 9:07 AM EDT

They called him the first “tech president.”

But two years after they rallied behind his campaign and helped put him in the White House, technology industry executives give President Barack Obama mediocre reviews.

I’ve been evaluating these “mobile app builders” and will add this to my list of companies to try out. So far I’ve had mixed results. The services that seem to provide rich apps cost a lot and the ones that are cheap have crappy apps. You get what you pay for. However the fact is that this niche is booming and will continue to do so. Just like the early days of the Web required deep techies to build a rudimentary web site, today’s mobile apps are expensive and complicated. But this will go away very soon as the mobile market continues to explode and the demand for mobile apps skyrockets

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Forget Android, iOS and the rest of the mobile operating systems.

Sometimes you don’t need to spend weeks building the sleekest mobile apps for native environments. And depending on your business, something a little bit more quick and simple can do the job just fine. That’s the theory behind Widgetbox Mobile, a new offering from the team behind ClickTurn ads, which aims to help businesses build mobile web apps in minutes.