Ex-Apple hardware chief named CEO of Palm

Jon Rubinstein, the computer engineer credited with building both the iPod and the Palm Pre, has been named chief executive officer of Palm (PALM).

He replaces Ed Colligan, who led the company for 16 years.

Rubinstein, 52, once one of Steve Jobs’ closest advisors, left Apple (AAPL) in 2006 with stock holdings reportedly worth $26 million. He is said to have clashed with Jobs over the wisdom of building the iPhone.

He was recruited as executive chairman to help turn around Palm, once the leader in hand-held personal digital assistants, after the private equity firm Elevation Partners made a significant investment in the company.

The Pre, which Rubinstein introduced in January to great fanfare, is considered the strongest competitor to the iPhone to date.

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Customer Service Hall of Shame and Fame‏

Somehow I got included in a press release that informed me of the latest Customer Service Hall of Shame and Fame companies.

Here’s the Hall of Shame
#1 AOL
#2 Comcast
#3 Sprint
#4 Capital One
#5 Time Warner Cable
#6 HSBC
#7 Qwest
#8 Abercrombie and Fitch
#9 Bank of America
#10 Citigroup

I did contact Sprint the other day to gripe about my new data plan, but I also complimented them on the excellent customer service I received at the store.  All in all, they gave me a considerable credit to my account.

And here’s the Hall of Fame

#1 USAA
#2 Trader Joe’s
#3 Netflix
#4 Amazon
#5 Nordstrom
#6 Publix
#7 Whole Foods
#8 Apple
#9 Costco
#10 Southwest Airlines

I’m proud to be working for one of these companies, and I’m a USAA loyalist to the end.  As a matter of fact, I remember when my father was in the hospital, about to die a few months later, and one piece of advice he gave me was to stay loyal to USAA because they won’t disappoint.

I know for sure three of the Hall of Fame members are Texas based, with two of them based in DFW.

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100+ Portraits of Iconic People of All Time

Today we bring you a great collection of portraits of the most iconic people throughout history.

Portraits explore the relationship between the subject and the photographer or artist and usually continue to impress the viewer years after they have been created.

The common thread running through all of these portraits is superlative design. Each is a masterpiece in its own right, from the medieval painted portraits right up to the most current photographs.

This collection is arranged in alphabetical order and is by no means complete.

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