While the chances of regular consumers being able to purchase an HP TouchPad from retail is quite slim, HP employees will be able to grab the tablet very soon. According to an internal email, HP employees will be able to purchase TouchPads on the morning of September 28 online. HP is describing this as a “one last chance” opportunity before the well dries up.

As we get closer to the Pre launch (whatever day that may be), AT&T has fired out an internal memo citing many biased facts about the Pre when compared with the iPhone. To me, this serves two reasons. One, AT&T wants their employees to be knowledgeable about the Pre so they can persuade customers to go with the iPhone. And two, it means the Pre is going to be launched soon, otherwise why would they send out of a memo if the Pre is months off?

The interesting part is how the memo bashes the Pre. For example, it states the Pre has an “unproved App Catalog app store”, while the iPhone has over “25,000 available apps” and “almost 1 billion apps downloaded.” With those few statements, they are trying to prove to their employees the iPhone’s app store is definitely better than the Pre, which is yet to be determined at this point in time. In terms of the touch screen, the Palm Pre “Touchscreen control gestures not intuitive” and for the iPhone, “Patented Multi-Touch screen” and “Fast and responsive navigation.” That seems pretty biased to me. It goes on to talk about a few more aspects of each phone in a neatly setup compare and contrast chart. See the picture above, or the link below for additional points of comparison.

A week ago, you may recall an article I wrote about Best Buy employees not honoring price matches. They gave some pretty bogus reasons such as the competitor store was running a limited time sale, and they do not honor limited time sales. It seems that most of these incidences are occurring in New York, more »

The current economic conditions have begun to take its toll on US companies. Among them is AT&T, which is in the process of cutting 1.5-percent of their workforce. This news was revealed by a ruling filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. AT&T employees who will be hit by the layoffs are those who have more »

This is bad for Cingular…very bad. Check out the video above of some Cingular store employees beating the crap out of each other. Obviously we can assume this is all in good fun, but it’s generally a bad idea to record yourself at work yelling out racial slurs. It’s just not good for the career, more »