Operation Gadget
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June 21 – 27, 2004 Weekly Summary
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis is the Operation Gadget weekly summary for the fourth week of June 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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Radios Used by U.S. Postal Service Cycling Team During Races
Reading Time: < 1 minuteLast October, Men’s Journal did a cover story on Lance Armstrong that recapped his fifth Tour de France and his life at that time. A side bar to that article called The Innovator: The Winning Gear discussed many of the components that Armstrong and the U.S. Postal Service team used in…
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Where to Buy a LiveStrong Yellow Wristband
Reading Time: 2 minutesLiveStrong Yellow Wristbands are available from the Discovery Channel On-Line Store or the Lance Armstrong Foundation. It’s pretty obvious that some people are visiting Operation Gadget looking for information on the availability of LiveStrong yellow wristbands. The Get It Here link prominently displayed on the Wear Yellow website, sends you to the…
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H-P Releases Bluetooth Security Driver for iPAQ 1900 and 2200 Series Pocket PCs
Reading Time: < 1 minuteHewlett-Packard has released a Bluetooth Security Driver for the iPAQ h1900 and 2200 series Pocket PCs, such as the H-P iPAQ 2215 on sale at Amazon.com. infoSync World says that the significance of this Bluetooth security upgrade is that it: …adds support for Combination Key pairing with other Bluetooth devices, which…
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palmOne Reportedly Acts to Squelch Fourth-Generation Treo Rumors
Reading Time: < 1 minuteBoth BargainPDA and Engadget report that palmOne has begun issuing cease-and-desist orders to some websites that broke the latest stories about the design of the fourth-generation Treo. BargainPDA chided palmOne, saying: …This is NOT how you keep something secret. The only worse thing you could do is issue a signed affidavit…
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Books to Accompany the 2004 Tour de France
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Tour de France starts next Saturday in Liege, Belgium. I will be there only in spirit. Regular readers of this website may know that the Tour is something of an obsession for me. I saw it in person with my wife in 1998 and 2001. Whether you are a returning viewer…
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TreoCentral Wins the Award for Most Plausible Next-Generation Treo Rumor
Reading Time: < 1 minuteRegular Operation Gadget readers know that I treat rumors of new devices with suspicion. Nevertheless, the rumor floated by TreoCentral of the fourth generation palmOne Treo nicknamed the Treo Ace is pretty interesting. All of the specifications that are mentioned seem reasonable considering where the Treo 600 is now and where…
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Treo 600 GSM Version Finally Available from Amazon.com
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI haven’t mentioned this yet, but earlier this week Amazon.com began selling mobile phones in association with Cingular Wireless. As a result, Amazon.com is now selling the GSM version of the palmOne Treo 600, one of my favorite mobile devices. I’m recommending the Treo 600 for use on the Cingular Wireless…
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This German Comment Spammer is Pretty Dumb
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI love running Operation Gadget, but one of my daily chores is going through the comments posted overnight to find and delete any Comment Spam that made it on to the site. One comment spammer posts comments on a daily basis that say something like this: Really one of the most…