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By now I’m sure you all know the Palm Pre is finally out on the shelves. It’s been reported to have sold 100,000 units on the first weekend with sellouts at many locations. Not bad…not bad. Mere mortals have finally had a chance to get their hands on them and play with them. I too [...]

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It’s official! No more rumors or speculation as to when the Palm Pre will be released. Sprint will begin selling the Palm Pre on June 6th. It’s about time!
The details of such glorious event are as follows

When: June 6, 2009
Where: Sprint stores, Sprint.com, Best Buy, Radio Shack, some Wal-Mart stores
Cost: $199.99 with [...]

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Twitter? What’s that? For most of the faithful Chia Town readers Twitter is old news. Oddly enough Twitter is still not known by some and not understood by others. This post will be mostly for people that have heard about Twitter, know what it is (a quick way to send quick updates as to what [...]

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Ha! You’ve gotta love it. I just read this article on Engadget. Based on this leak of an AT&T internal document I’d say AT&T execs are fearing the release of the Palm Pre. They put out this little memo to their peeps pretty much saying the iPhone is vastly superior to the Pre. That’s fine…I [...]

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Many of us dream of going big. It was just announced that Oracle is buying Sun for $7.4 billion. Gee, wouldn’t it be nice to sell off your company for a few BILLION dollars? We keep seeing news blurb after news blurb about companies recording record profits (Exxon Mobile anyone?) or being bought for billions [...]

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Being the dork that I am I just had to download Apple’s Safari 4 public beta release yesterday. I’ve already got a few “good for you Apple” and a couple “why…why would you do that?” items with just one day’s worth of use but my initial reaction is “I like it!”
First off, Apple claims that [...]

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When I first started up Chia Town I already had a couple ideas of what I wanted to write about. One of the first things was the importance of customer service within a business. It doesn’t matter what business you are in, customer service is king. It’s a no-brainer if you’re in a service industry, [...]

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So there I was with my new job and I had the “joy” of going through the process of choosing a new cell phone for work. They have a cell phone plan that pays $50/month for a voice plan so we could have a work line. I’ve already got a Palm Treo 755p with Sprint [...]

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So it’s official, Walmart and Sam’s Club will be selling the Apple iPhone. Yes, I know I’m a little late to the game but maybe some of you haven’t heard the news yet. So here I am…keeping my readers informed.
Anyway, a few days ago it was confirmed that select Walmart and Sam’s Club stores will [...]

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And there you have it…Apple’s iPhone has just overtaken Palm for the number two spot in business for smartphone penetration. We already knew the iPhone was taking the consumer market by storm, but this jump to number two in the enterprise is big news for the people up there in Cupertino.
Palm is making it [...]

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