Operation Gadget
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His and Hers Treo 650s?
Reading Time: < 1 minuteMy wife and I are about ready to make the plunge into a new mobile phone era by each purchasing Treo 650s. To give you a little background on our gadget habits, Kathleen and I are Blackberry users from the Mobitex era. We each had separate TDMA mobile phones at one…
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Did You Know There is a Gadget Price Index?
Reading Time: < 1 minuteYesterday Reuters reported that gadget prices fell by 0.8 percent in January compared with retail prices in December 2004. Apparently NPD produces a statistic called NPD Consumer Electronics Price Watch which tracks a market basket of the “27 most popular electronics goods”. Reuters apparently considers the NPD Consumer Electronics Price Watch…
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Getting Back on the Road
Reading Time: 2 minutesToday I picked up my bike from the bike shop after its annual tune up and I hit the road for the first time. I get my bike serviced at Knapp’s Cyclery in Lawrenceville, NJ, one of the best bike shops in the area. I started using them about four years ago,…
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Looking for Make Magazine on the Newsstand
Reading Time: < 1 minuteMake is a new quarterly magazine about gadget modification and electronics-based hobbies from O’Reilly Media that’s mainly available at Amazon.com at the moment. I’m planning to subscribe but the subscription will not begin until Volume 2 (the second quarterly issue), so I looked for it at the Barnes & Noble in…
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Wish I Were at O’Reilly Etech
Reading Time: < 1 minuteA few weeks ago, I was talking to Derrick Story about attending the O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference and now I’m wishing that I had made the time to attend. Yes, I am behind on Movable Type consulting projects at Weblog Improvement and there are important things going on here at Operation…
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Rumors of TiVo’s Death are Greatly Exaggerated
Reading Time: 2 minutesReports are all over the Internet that Comcast and TiVo reached an agreement allowing TiVo to provide Personal Video Recorder software for Comcast’s existing settop boxes and network platforms. Such a deployment is expected to take until mid to late-2006 to hit the majority of the markets that Comcast serves. Most analysts…
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Bose SoundDock Reviewed by The Gadgeteer
Reading Time: < 1 minuteMeredyth Didier wrote an excellent review of the Bose SoundDock in which she compared the SoundDock to two other portable speaker systems that she previously reviewed: the Altec Lansing INMOTION Portable Speaker System and the Sony SRS-T55 Folding Travel Speaker. According to her review: I tested the sound using an audiobook,…
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Counterfeit LiveStrong Wristband Investigations Underway in New Jersey and New York
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI was contacted today by a representative of a law enforcement agency regarding the complaint I made in November 2004 about counterfeit LiveStrong wristbands that were on sale in Central New Jersey. He told me that he is investigating the complaints that the State of New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs…