Operation Gadget
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Challengers to the iPod mini Discussed in New York Times
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI forgot to point out a New York Times “Circuits” column from last week where David Pogue compared the iPod mini to several similar hard disk-based music players. The players compared were: Apple iPod mini Creative Zen Micro Virgin Electronics Player 5GB Dell Pocket DJ Rio Carbon 5GB MP3 Player This…
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SantaCross in Southern California Won by Lance Armstrong
Reading Time: 2 minutesLance Armstrong Wins SantaCross: Nice photos at CyclingNews.com. Good article at VeloNews.com. [ Photo: Dorothy Wong, CyclingNews.com ] VeloNews.com covered the reports that Lance Armstrong won the “A” Mens Race at the SantaCross cyclocross event over the weekend in Woodland Hills, California. CyclingNews.com has an excellent photo spread with plenty of shots…
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Seattle Times Discusses Amazon.com’s Holiday Shipment Effort
Reading Time: < 1 minuteMartin O’Donnell pointed out a Seattle Times article that discusses the performance of Amazon.com’s fulfillment centers during the 2004 holiday season. The article also provides some statistics about overall e-commerce sales: Consumers spent $2.03 billion online during the five days ending Friday {December 17}, a 49 percent jump compared with the…
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TiVo Distributed Almost 2,000 Free PVRs to Bay Area Comcast Customers
Reading Time: < 1 minuteIn case you didn’t see the outcome of the TiVo giveaway in the Bay Area, The San Jose Mercury News reported that nearly 2,000 TiVo PVRs were given away to Comcast customers who had wanted Comcast PVRs but had not yet received them. More than 2,000 toys were collected for the…
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Glofun Raygun Game Coming Soon For Nextel i710 and i730
Reading Time: < 1 minuteGlofun RayGun: a Java-based, GPS-enabled game coming soon for the Nextel i710 and i730.[ Graphic: GloVentures LLC ] GloVentures sent me a Nextel i710 mobile phone with a Java-based, GPS-enabled game called Glofun RayGun installed on it. Glofun Raygun is expected to be available early in 2005, initially for Nextel i710…
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December 13 – 19, 2004 Weekly Summary
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis is the Operation Gadget weekly summary for the third 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…
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Tour de France Will Feature New Millau Viaduct in 2006
Reading Time: < 1 minuteMillau Viaduct: To be part of the 2006 Tour de France. [ Photo: Stuart Isett, The New York Times ] The New York Times reports that the Millau Viaduct opened in southern France on Thursday. Billed as the highest road bridge in the world, it’s 2 kilometers (1.2 miles) long and…