Operation Gadget
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Provided Emergency Road Service Today
Reading Time: < 1 minuteOne of my relatives had car trouble in Trenton, NJ (about 10 miles from The Home Office) today. As a result, I was gone for about four hours. Of course that was the part of the day I was planning to do my blogging….
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January 17 – 23, 2005 Weekly Summary
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis is the Operation Gadget weekly summary for the third week of January 2005. 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…
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Television Producers Try New Techniques to Market Products to DVR Users
Reading Time: 2 minutesDid other Operation Gadget readers see the first episode of the third season of The Apprentice last night on NBC? The goal in the first episode was to promote one of six new hamburgers that Burger King has announced and sell it at one of the Burger King franchises in Manhattan. The…
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Canon Powershot A510 Announced as Successor to A75
Reading Time: < 1 minuteCanon USA announced the Canon PowerShot A510 yesterday as a replacement for the inexpensive PowerShot A75 that has been one of the most popular digital cameras at Amazon.com for most of the last year. The A75 has been a good performer in the 3.2-megapixel range and the A510 seeks to build…
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Salon Calls Flickr “The Friendster of Photo Sites”
Reading Time: < 1 minuteSalon published a really good article about the many uses of Flickr, the on-line photo sharing site that I’ve been using for the past 10 days. The article points out some interesting statistics: 176,000 members, 2.2 million photos, growing at a rate of 30,000 per day, 82 percent of those photos…
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UneasySilence.com Provides Box Unpacking Photos of the Mac mini
Reading Time: 2 minutesI should have placed an order for a Mac mini with a SuperDrive on the day of Steve Jobs’ keynote at MacWorld, but since I didn’t I’ll have to get my Mac mini fix today with the box unpacking photos that were posted on UNEASYsilence.com yesterday. There are two things that I…
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“Apple Tipping Point” Visualizes the Sweet Spot in Recent Product Pricing Developments
Reading Time: < 1 minuteApple Tipping Point: Paul Nixon explains Apple’s pricing strategy in a chart. While browsing Philip Torreone’s Flickr Photostream, I came across a really effective infographic developed by Paul Nixon of Nixlog. It explains the evolution of the pricing of Apple computers and iPods in terms of all the products that they…
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“Verizon One” Intended to Be a Home Telecom Hub
Reading Time: < 1 minuteA number of sites have reported that Verizon has chosen Westell as the supplier of the equipment for their Verizon One service. This is intended to unite voice, video, and data services into a single device in the home. The Verizon One appliance includes: a DSL modem, 802.11g wireless router, 5.8…
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Treonauts Obtains First-Known GSM Version of Treo 650 for Review
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe folks at Treonauts published an article with the first photos of a working GSM/GRPS version of the Treo 650. The photos were shot in Paris, where Andrew Carton has been speaking at a SixApart-related blogging conference. Andrew wrote: At long last we have a unit that we can hold, work…