US government launches Distraction.gov, wants to scare you straight (video): "

European countries may have long ago banished the use of cellphones while driving to the dark side of the law, but many of the United States persist in allowing their citizens to talk while driving. One reason for their reluctance may be that outlawing something that has become second nature to most people would be both unproductive and tough to enforce. So what do you do? The natural alternative to forcing people to drive attentively is educating them of the reasons why. Never mind the fact that we all kinda, sorta know the risks we undertake while operating a Droid and a Dodge concurrently. The newly minted Distraction.gov is chockfull of scaremongering statistics, topped by a truly epic video which we've handily stashed for you just after the break. Go get it while it's hot.
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Best Apps of 2009: "

The App Catalog has seen impressive growth since it first went live a little over 6 months ago. Palm's Early Access program brought in dozens of developers who have created over 1,000 applications in that time frame, and while we don't have access to as many apps as other smartphone platforms do, there are a number of high quality ones that fit into all of the important categories.

With that in mind, we've created a list of the must have applications that have come our way in 2009. If you're new to webOS (you should also see our getting started guide), or have been with the platform for awhile and are unaware of how the Catalog has grown over these last few months, this is a guide for you.

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Palm App catalog hits 1,000 apps... okay, 946: "

Hey, good news everybody! The Palm App Catalog, which has lagged far behind its peers, has reached the 1,000 app milestone as of this morning. Well, to be precise, it's hit 946, as pointed out by Electronista, but still, it's a nice little sign of growth for the webOS apps, whose development was hampered by very restricted initial access to its Mojo SDK. In comparison to contenders such as Android, whose catalog numbers around 20,000, and Apples iTunes store, which boasts over 100,000, Palm's numbers are extremely modest -- but progress is progress, especially considering it launched its App Catalog in June with just 30 apps. We look forward to hearing Palm's CES keynote, that's for sure.

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Orange plans to bring 'HD Voice' calls to UK next year: "We've had some indication that Orange planned to expand its 'HD Voice' technology beyond the hot testbed of Moldova sometime in the coming year, and it looks like the carrier is now starting to get a bit more specific about when the UK will finally have an alternative to standard definition calls. Apparently, Orange will begin trials of the new and improved, 3G-facilitated service early in the new year, and fully roll it out along with a 'range of handsets' before the end of the year.

AT&T is latest to end Tiger Woods sponsorship: "AT&T Inc. said Thursday it would no longer sponsor Tiger Woods, joining Accenture in dropping support for the golfer after numerous allegations of infidelities."

Ten gadgets that defined the decade: "

As 2009 winds down and we try to come up with new and clever ways of referring to the early years of this century, there's really only one thing left to do: declare our ten favorite gadgets of the aughts and show them off in chronological order. It's arguable that if this wasn't the decade of gadgets, it was certainly a decade shaped by gadgets -- one which saw the birth of a new kind of connectedness. In just ten years time, gadgets have touched almost every aspect of our daily lives, and personal technology has come into its own in a way never before seen. It's a decade that's been marked the ubiquity of the internet, the downfall of the desktop, and the series finale of Friends, but we've boiled it down to the ten devices we've loved the most and worked the hardest over the past ten years. We even had some of our friends in the tech community chime in with their picks on what they thought was the gadget or tech of the decade -- so join us for a look back at the best (gadget) years ever!
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2009 Year in Review: Android gains mainstream acceptance: "
The news: At the beginning of 2009, there was one Android handset on the market, the T-Mobile G1. By the end of the year, Google's mobile platform could stake a claim to being the most talked-about, buzz-worthy smartphone platform--and the one poised to grow the fastest in 2010. How did it get to that point?

I could write an entire book on successfully managing a sales team, but I will fit just a few pointers into this one post.

One thing you need to keep in mind is ,that many forget about in business, that the people you work with are like another family.  If you think about it, you give minimally 8 hours of your day to your business.  Some simple math tells us that if you sleep 8 hours a day, work 8 hours a day , and have 8 hours of personal family time each day.....you are spending at least half of your conscious time at work.  This doesn't include personal errands, work calls, and travel.  In the world of retail, 8 hours is not really truth.

If you have been in the wireless business for while you know that it changes at a rapid pace.  One of the most important things we can do is KEEP LEARNING every day.  We need to all make sure that we keep up on industry changes and follow new trends for our customers.  KNOWLEDGE IS POWER.


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Palm Updates webOS to 1.3.5 (Phone Scoop): "Palm Updates webOS to 1.3.5

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Palm today released a system software update for the Palm Pre and Pixi for Sprint. The new version of webOS significantly improves the downloading and storage of apps, supporting multiple simultaneous app downloads, downloads in the background, and control over downloads in progress.

This is a great article I read at Engadget Mobile, one of my favorite sites.  

By Chris Ziegler  posted Dec 28th 2009 3:00PM

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The year is 1999. Bill Clinton is the President of the United States, gas is 94 cents a gallon, Bondi Blue iMacs are a staple in dorm rooms across the country, and Microsoft is trying to bring the desktop Windows experience to the pocket, pushing its Palm-size PC concept (after Palm had quashed the original "Palm PC" branding) on a world still feeling jilted by the failures of the Apple Newton. 3Com subsidiary Palm and its heavyweight licensee Handspring have figured out something interesting about the still-nascent PDA market, though: people like simplicity. If an electronic organizer does what it says it's going to do, keeps your information in sync with your PC, runs for forever and a day on a single set of batteries, and does it all with a minimum of fuss, people will buy. It's an exciting, challenging, and rapidly-changing era in the mobile business.

A few years ago, I was in charge of sales training for a pretty large indirect dealer.  I had the pleasure of training 100's of salespeople throughout my years and its probably some of the greatest times I would have in my career.    Besides the in-store training that was mandatory, classrooms were beneficial to getting new sales people started off right. My classes were known for being easy to understand and they promoted class interaction.

One of the first things I taught them was one of the first things they would ever do on the sales floor....Greet customers.  Doesn't sound that hard does it?  It's not, but you can ruin an entire transaction by not performing this fundamental task correctly.