Operation Gadget

Month: April 2004

  • March 29 – April 4, 2004 Weekly Summary

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis is the Operation Gadget weekly summary for the first week of April 2004. I’m experimenting with a weekly summary so that readers who want to receive a periodic email with Operation Gadget headlines can receive the links to all of the articles published each week. I will post a mechanism…

  • The Importance of the Handset Unlocking Policies of U.S. Mobile Phone Carriers

    Reading Time: 2 minutesA lot of people thought that mobile phone number portability would allow them to freely move from one carrier to another without having to buy a new mobile phone. This has not proven to be the case for a couple of reasons: Incompatible Technologies: Although the number of mobile phone technologies in…

  • Gateway to Shutdown All of its Gateway Stores

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteForbes Magazine and a number of other outlets reported that Gateway will shutter all of its Gateway Stores and layoff at least 2,500 sales people that it employs at these locations. A lot of people have looked at Gateway Stores and wondered why they lasted so long. “Big Box” electronics retailers…

  • No Joke

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteI haven’t posted much, but I feel obligated to point out that the information that has appeared on Operation Gadget today (April Fool’s Day) has been, to the best of my knowledge, entirely factual.

  • PuTTY SSH Client Ported to Symbian OS for Series 60 and Nokia Communicator Series Mobile Phones

    Reading Time: < 1 minutePetteri Kangaslampi and Sergei Khloupnov have ported the PuTTY SSH client application to the Symbian mobile phone operating system. The Putty for Symbian OS project currently supports the following phones: Series 60 mobile phones including: Nokia 3650, Nokia 6600, and Nokia N-Gage, as well as phones from LG Electronics, Lenovo, Panasonic,…

  • Rebuilding My Laptop

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe hard disk on my laptop started making noises like it was sick last night. It got worse this morning. I copied as many of my laptop’s files off to my file server as I could. But, I still probably lost a few. We’ll see in a couple of days. In…