It sounded too good to be true.

Free wireless while you're enjoying a java decaffe latte supremo bean grande with whip cream. (Ok, I made the drink up. I'm an instant whatever's on sale high caffer myself).

A news release said AT&T would be deploying free wireless to AT&T subscribers at 7,000 Starbucks nationwide as of May 1st. I wrote about it on Feb. 13th.

Well, it's May 12th.

The Starbucks near me doesn't have it. People have come in for it, tried logging on and had no luck getting in. The baristas don't know anything except it was supposed to be on, and now it isn't, and they don't know when it will be.

AT&T, when contacted today, said it wasn't commenting on reports that the service wasn't available. I'm waiting on further clarification. Starbucks hasn't returned my call or email as yet.

Meanwhile there's no mention on the Starbucks site, though AT&T still has its official release up on its site.

So something hit a snag. What's the big deal in just saying what and why and when it's coming?

Think enterprise storage and visions of white boxes, tall server farms, sprawling data centers come to mind.

I doubt the iPod, a MP3 player or that cute blue USB flash drive hanging around your colleague's neck come to mind.

But given the results of a new report from Credant Technologies, they all should pop into view as all could be posing the newest threat to data today.

Take a gander at some top findings from a Credant study about these little technology terrors:

86% polled say the USB flash drive is most often used to store data exchanged between computers, data-centric phones with SD cards came in second.

Yet, when it comes to serving as a source of data leakage, the iPod is emerging as a main threat, with data-centric phones just slightly ahead.

While the iPod is used to store lots of data, it seems enterprises don't seem too knowledgeable about the posed threat as 61% have never heard of “pod slurping� — the downloading of corporate data to an iPod.

Most surprisingly, though, is while tech leaders acknowledge the threat the devices pose, nearly half polled -- 49% of all respondents -- aren't ready to take any preventative action until they know that the devices are more widely used to store business data on them.

Hmmmm.