Operation Gadget

Month: August 2005

  • WSJ Article on VoIP Focuses on Embedded Voice in Applications

    Reading Time: 2 minutesI forgot to mention that yesterday’s Wall Street Journal had a free article called Talk of the Internet that surprisingly focused on computer applications that support voice communications between users. The article begins by describing how users of Battlefield 2 from Electronic Arts can communicate with each other via a Voice over…

  • Busy Working on a Client’s New Blog

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteI’m hard at work on a new blog for one of my Weblog Improvement clients. I hope to be done with the first production-ready version of their templates and style sheet early this afternoon. In the meantime, you won’t see much posted here….

  • Armstrong to Appear on Larry King Live to Address Doping Allegations

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteFrank Steele over at TDFblog.com pointed out that Lance Armstrong will appear on CNN’s Larry King Live tonight (August 25, 2005). He’ll be appearing to discuss the article that appeared in L’Equipe on Tuesday, which claimed that he used the performance enhancing drug EPO during the 1999 Tour de France. Larry…

  • Dine with the Pros and Support the Phinney Foundation in San Francisco on September 2

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteVeloNews reports that a charity dinner benefitting the Davis Phinney Foundation will take place on Friday, September 2 at 7:30pm at the San Francisco Italian Athletic Club, 1630 Stockton Street, San Francisco. “An Evening with Davis Phinney and Friends– Dinner with the Pros” was organized by Scott “The Tour Baby” Coady…

  • TVPredictions Discusses the Features of the New DirecTV Plus DVR

    Reading Time: < 1 minutePhillip Swan of TVPredictions.com obtained a copy of the manual for the forthcoming R15 DirecTV Plus Digital Video Recorder. The DirecTV Plus DVR is going to be marketed instead of the DirecTV DVR with TiVo that’s currently being marketed by DirecTV. The sales and marketing switch-over is expected to take place…

  • PhoneGnome Straddles Regular Phone Line and Broadband Connection to Provide a Hybrid Phone Experience

    Reading Time: 2 minutesEarlier today, I was talking to Martin O’Donnell about a plug-and-play VoIP terminal called PhoneGnome. PhoneGnome is a small appliance that you can use to make Internet telephone calls, but you “buy and own it” and no monthly subscription fee is charged. A lot of the VoIP services encourage you to use…

  • VeloACE Is Ideal for Palm Zealots Who Want a Bike Computer

    Reading Time: 2 minutesVeloACE: An Open Source Bike Computer System for PalmOS. For when you absolutely want to have your bike speedometer be a PDA. [ Image: Mark Hammerling ] Sammy and the other folks over at PalmAddict don’t normally scoop us on fitness gadget news, but you’ll see why they did in a moment.…

  • Lyon, France’s Rent-a-Bike System Loaded with Technology

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteVelo’v Grand Lyon is a bike rental network in Lyon, France. Wired News published a great little article about the system works and how technology is being used to try to ensure that it stays solvent. To use Velo’v in Lyon, you have to make a €150 deposit via check or…

  • Study Says Handheld Communicators Help Doctors Respond Faster than Pagers

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteE-Health Insider reports that a study published in a journal called BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making indicates that handheld communicators helped surgeons at a London hospital respond to calls more quickly than they did with pagers. The study also indicated that communication between clinicians was improved. According to the article:…