BeckerBiz — Larry's business blog

The latest Jawbone headset has been on the market for several months at this point. I’m a little late to the party here so my review won’t be packed with minutiae and all the cool little details. You can find those splashed all over the web. Instead, I just thought I’d share my impressions of [...]

Sales opportunities come out of thin air sometimes and if you’re ready for it, you might just get the sale. You run into people all the time, and if you’re instantly ready with a strong portfolio, you might just get a job or two you would otherwise never hear about. In Business, There’s No Such [...]

This applies to companies of all sizes but these few big examples will tell the story. It’s as straight forward as a few rules: 1) Understand why your customers like your product(s) or services and use that information to educate your target market; 2) Give customers more of what they tell you they like by [...]

As a dedicated Palm OS user since the Pilot 1000, I’m pretty much done waiting for Palm to step up and deliver in all of the important areas to business users, which made Palm famous. I’d go back to my Treo 755p but it’s big, the browser stinks, and the platform is only continuing to [...]

(iPhone Simulated Using Apple’s New 4G iPod Touch)

My [obviously fake] Review of Apple’s 4th Gen. iPod Touch (set in late Q-1 of 2010) — and how it would (will) be the biggest nightmare imaginable for Palm, Blackberry, Android, and anybody in competition with the iPhone, and why it makes AT&T’s stomach hurt By the way: I have no inside information and this [...]

Note: It takes a lot to get me annoyed with a company. It takes me even more to be upset enough to say something publicly. But as someone who wrote books about Palms and built a business traveling the country teaching people how to use them in business — as someone who had clients like [...]

The other day I posted in a forum thread about some of my thoughts about the Palm Pre. While it’s not really an “article” I thought that this might help some people understand why I like and will keep my Pre, along with reasons I think Palm, Inc. pretty much dropped the ball. Here’s what [...]

Friday evening update about the latest Palm Pre 1.0.3 update. Whew! I’m so relieved that Palm came through with an update. As much as I gave Palm grief for the bugginess in the calendar today, they came through with bug fixes and an update late this afternoon. Several of the biggest general complaints have been tweaked. So [...]

Over time the old Palm PDA screens would show wear and scuffing in the Graffiti writing area as a result of so much stylus traffic in the same spot. As a result, the screen protector business was born. Screen protector technology has changed a lot since then with numerous companies entering the market and custom [...]

Man! This thing is awesome! I absolutely love this phone!! — Holy Cr@%! I can’t believe Palm had the guts to release this piece of junk!! This has been the range of my emotions since standing in line at my local Sprint store to be the first person in my town to walk out the door [...]