Operation Gadget

Month: December 2004

  • British Gadget Users Said to Be Becoming “Digitally Obese”

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis has been a great week for attention grabbing headlines in market research reports. The BBC reports that a Toshiba-sponsored study characterized 60 percent of British gadget users as “digitally fat”. This means that they carry with them 5 to 10-Gigabytes of digital music files wherever they go. The study further…

  • Asians Generally Have More and Better Gadgets to Choose from than Americans

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteMartin O’Donnell pointed out this San Francisco Chronicle article from late last week that says there’s a gadget gap between Asia and the United States and if there’s any day-to-day change, the gadget gap is widening rather than closing. Of course Jeff Yang (the author of the piece) is right. He…

  • Glen Fleishman is Writing a New Digital Radio Blog for Weblogs, Inc.

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteI learned yesterday that Glenn Fleishman has signed on to write a new digital radio weblog for Weblogs, Inc. that’s called Droxy.com. It formally launched today, although it has content that’s dated back to November 22. According to the first posting, the site will focus primarily on satellite radio services such…

  • Most U.S. Mobile Phone Users Do Not Take Advantage of Mobile Data Services

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteA few days ago, Operation Gadget pointed out that T-Mobile USA will not roll out high speed wireless data services for about two years. This flies in the face of strategies being pursued by competitors Verizon, Cingular, and Sprint PCS who are each commiting major resources to a deployment effort. An…

  • Toshiba SD-H400 is the Cheapest “TiVo Basic” Device Available

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteToshiba SD-H400 Combination Progressive-Scan DVD Player and TiVo PVR: Currently the least expensive device with TiVo Basic service. [ Photo: Amazon.com ] Some people who are interested in owning a Personal Video Recorder don’t want to pay for value added services from companies like TiVo. Earlier this year, TiVo rolled out…

  • December 6 – 12, 2004 Weekly Summary

    Reading Time: 1 minuteThis is the Operation Gadget weekly summary for the second week of December 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 for…

  • Playing with Konfabulator for Windows

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteI downloaded a copy of Konfabulator for my Windows 2000 blogging workstation. Konfabulator is a JavaScript runtime engine that lets you place widgets on your Mac OSX or Windows desktop. There are a number of neat widgets available and creation of others is simple if you know JavaScript, XML, and a…

  • Panasonic Lumix FX7 Reviewed by Digital Photography Review

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteDigital Photography Review published a Panasonic review of the Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX7 by Simon Joinson. This review has particularly good photos of the camera, providing a good idea of how the Lumix FX7 would fit in your hand. The top features of this camera are a 5-megapixel CCD with 3x optical…

  • Amazon.com Offering a Good Selection of Unlocked Mobile Phones

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteAmazon.com has started selling a variety of unlocked mobile phones including the following models: palmOne Treo 600, Nokia 7610, Sony Ericsson K700i, and Motorola V400. These phones represent an opportunity to trade up in terms of features without making an additional commitment to your current mobile phone carrier. If I can…