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On trademarks

2008-07-11 22:33:34 by Tam Hanna, Site Founder in TamsPalm - the Palm OS Blog
 
An unnamed TealPoint employee recently posted the following explanation about the US trademark law to the palm-entrepreneurs mailing list. As it is excellently written, I felt like reposting it here - enjoy 1) Functionality A term cannot usually be trademarked if it is purely descriptive of its functionality. For instance, you cannot trademark...
 
Tags: trademark, trademark law, tracks mileage, mileage, trademark mileage log, log, potential trademark infringment, infringment, trip
 
 
 
 
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Commenting system broken

2008-07-11 18:27:13 by Tam Hanna, Site Founder in TamsPalm - the Palm OS Blog
 
Dear Readers the recent server move turned out to be more problematic than I originally expected it to be - the commenting system at TamsPalms currently doesnt operate correctly We currently work on fixing the bugs and hope to be back up soon All the best from Vienna Tam Hanna
 
Tags: recent server move, system, dear readers, tam hanna, correctly, hope, bugs, tamspalms, problematic
 
 
 
 
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AT&Ts Centro goes to Cheapo-Land

2008-07-11 18:03:02 by Tam Hanna, Site Founder in TamsPalm - the Palm OS Blog
 
After releasing an almost-Cobalt-blue version of the Centro a few days ago, AT&T gives Palms runt smartphone even more attention BrightHand claims that AT&Ts Centro is now down to 70$ (from 99) with a two year contract. As of now, no purchasing possibility is offered - click over to the BrightHand post above for updates
 
Tags: centro, palms runt smartphone, atts centro, days ago, brighthand post, brighthand claims, contract, attention, att
 
 
 
 
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Customer care hell: asking about specs

2008-07-11 12:14:23 by Tam Hanna, Site Founder in TamsPalm - the Palm OS Blog
 
...software manufacturer, described her problem and suddenly started screaming at the support rep as if he/she had been gravely insulted After interrogating her to see what the problem was, I found out the following mind.boggling truth The CS guy asked her: what computer do you have Our CEO didnt understand that this information was needed to...
 
Tags: major software manufacturer, manufacturer, customers, story, customer support hotline, true story, device, technical device, system specs
 
 
 
 
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MyPalm service shutting down September the 1st

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2008-07-10 18:15:54 by Tam Hanna, Site Founder in TamsPalm - the Palm OS Blog
...software and free phone support As of now, no information is available on why the service is closed down. I consider it very likely that we are looking at some sort of cost-cutting maneuver here: keeping a call center full of agents may be user-friendly, but costly The service itself will remain operational to the 1st of September and is...
 
Tags: mypalm service, service, mypalm, free, free phone support, 1st, september, inside track program, treo owners
 
 
 
 
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Palm Centro available in electric blue

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2008-07-10 14:04:50 by Tam Hanna, Site Founder in TamsPalm - the Palm OS Blog
AT&T customers are in luck - from the 11th onwards, the Palm Centro is available in a new color from their carrier The color scheme is dubbed electric blue and is somewhat similar to Cobalt blue (OS 6, pun intended) - other than that, the device is very similar to the Centro we had in our labs a few months ago I have requested a bunch of images...
 
Tags: centro, palm centro, electric blue, color, color scheme, 11th onwards, similar, cobalt blue, months ago
 
 
 
 
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Give a Tungsten C to Dmitry and get a LifeDrive back

2008-07-09 17:50:54 by Alexander Gratz, Administrator in TamsPalm - the Palm OS Blog
 
Dmitry Grinberg is currently developing an SDHC driver for Palm OS handhelds. While it supports almost any new Palm, the owners of other, especially older models, will still have to wait for a fitting version To add support the Tungsten C, Dmitry needs this device. So he is asking users which have this one to send it to him. In return, the...
 
Tags: dmitry, dmitry grinberg, lifedrive, palm, sdhc driver, support, handhelds, users, owners
 
 
 
 
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GSPDA - an obituary

2008-07-09 16:12:31 by Tam Hanna, Site Founder in TamsPalm - the Palm OS Blog
 
Now that GSPDAs Palm Os lineup seems to be dead for good, its time for a small obituary and a look at what went wrong. In Austria, its custom to start an obituary with a look at the past - here is a small image gallery about the GSPDA M28 . The devices really werent bad - why didnt they catch on Actually, GSPDAs G18 was very popular in Austria...
 
Tags: gspda, gspdas palm, palm, gspda m70, m70 displays palm, m70, gspdas, gspdas g18, company alive
 
 
 
 
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WooWoo! Watch your backs for the thieving mind control cult of Tamoggemon!

2008-07-07 19:15:46 by Tam Hanna, Site Founder in TamsPalm - the Palm OS Blog
 
The evil empire led by Tam Hanna the 1st and his slave Johnnis the 5th proudly announce their intentions to celebrate the two biggest mind control cult founders of the 20th century by announcing the immediate availability of two mystery products for Palm OS LRon and Sigmund are available from Tamoggemon Customer Care for 9.95$ each. Like with a...
 
Tags: evil empire led, evil empire, products, mystery products, care, tamoggemon customer care, 5th proudly announce, free licenses, chat protocols
 
 
 
 
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The Creative Digital Darkroom - the review

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2008-07-07 15:28:59 by Tam Hanna, Site Founder in TamsPalm - the Palm OS Blog
Stephen Johnson is considered an absolute authority on all things related digital photography - his book scored a rave review on TamsPalm a few months ago. Now, he wrote the foreword for another OReilly book with the bold title The Creative Digital darkroom: is it as good as his own Katrin Eismann and Sean Duggan divided their book into ten...