Operation Gadget
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AT&T Wireless Reportedly Offering Flat Rate Annual Plans to Federal Government
Reading Time: < 1 minuteinfoSync World reported that AT&T Wireless is offering the U.S. Federal Government annual flat-rate wireless service contracts for voice and data. Prices vary depending on the type of device and services provided. According to the article, most data-centric devices, including versions of the RIM BlackBerry 7280 and the palmOne Treo 600…
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RIM BlackBerry Sales Growing Faster than H-P’s and palmOne’s
Reading Time: 2 minutesEd Hardy of Brighthand published an editorial documenting the surprisingly rapid growth in Research in Motion BlackBerry shipments in recent quarters. I’ve been working with a RIM BlackBerry 7230 for the past few weeks, and I can see why people are buying them. One reason why is that the 7200 series handsets…
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inMotion iMmini Speaker System to Be Available from Altec Lansing in Late Summer
Reading Time: < 1 minuteA couple of weeks ago, I talked about the inMotion Portable Speaker System after seeing it on an episode of The Lance Chronicles. A miniaturized version of this system has just been released by Altec Lansing called the inMotion iMmini Speaker System. The iMmini Speaker System is optimized to work with…
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eBayers Hoarding LiveStrong Yellow Wristbands
Reading Time: 2 minutesEarlier today The Wall Street Journal reported that eBay is hosting the auction of hundreds of individual LiveStrong yellow wristbands because they do not have a rule against profiting on the resale of them. [ Paid subscription required to access the article. ] I visited eBay today and saw that eBayers are…
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Sam’s Club to Begin Selling Humax TiVo DVRs
Reading Time: < 1 minuteCNET News.com reports that Sam’s Club plans to begin selling TiVo Digital Video Recorders beginning with the HUMAX T800 Digital Video Recorder, a TiVo Series 2 model with 80-hour video storage capacity. TiVo is also planning to offer a $100 rebate on TiVo DVRs purchased between August 11 and September 30,…
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Hexlet Releases HBlogger 2.0
Reading Time: < 1 minuteHexlet LLC just released HBlogger Version 2.0, a weblogging client for PalmOS version 3.5 and higher. The new version has come out quickly after the initial release, and includes the following new features. Support for weblogs based on TypePad, UJournal, DeadJournal, Blurty, NeedlessPanic, Plogs, Caledia, and GreatestJournal, Upload of images, Better…
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Tried a Recipe from “Chris Carmichael’s Food for Fitness”
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI’m continuing to read Chris Carmichael’s Food for Fitness, a book provides nutritional guidance to athletes of all ages. Over the weekend, I decided to make Road Trip Cookies, a recipe that’s included in the book. These cookies are made with bananas, butter, eggs, white and brown sugar, flour, baking soda,…
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August 2-8, 2004 Weekly Summary
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis is the Operation Gadget weekly summary for the first week of August 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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Picked Up a “Jaune, Tete de Course” T-Shirt at Niketown in New York
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI was in New York City yesterday for some meetings. After they were over, I swung by Niketown on East 57th Street to look for Tour de France-related souvenirs. This is always a good place to find fairly unique T-shirts and hats that people in the suburbs rarely get a chance…