Operation Gadget
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“Linux Unwired” Finally Ships from O’Reilly
Reading Time: < 1 minuteBack in January, I mentioned that Linux Unwired was just about ready to ship from O’Reilly and Associates. It turned out that Amazon.com‘s product availability information was wrong, and this book just came out. You can get it now through Amazon and many other booksellers. If you followed the progress of…
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Cingular and AT&T Wireless Report GSM Network Improvements
Reading Time: < 1 minutePhoneScoop posted an article about the recent announcements by Cingular and AT&T Wireless touting GSM infrastructure improvements. This is a good step, but I am still upset about the way the transition to GSM 850 is being handled. For instance, when AT&T Wireless announced GSM America, the release said: During the…
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Studios Complain about Piracy While Raking in Money from DVDs
Reading Time: 2 minutesAn article in the New York Times today documents the huge profits that movie studios are generating from the rental and sale of DVDs. According to the article: Not since the advent of the videocassette in the mid-1980’s has the movie industry enjoyed such a windfall from a new product. And just…
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Are Gadgets Shipped in the USA Inferior to Those Shipped Elsewhere?
Reading Time: < 1 minuteFazal Majid asked an important question on Saturday in an entry on his weblog entitled Are Americans becoming second-class consumers? He cites several situations where manufacturers shipped products with the same name in two different markets, but the U.S. version had fewer features or lower quality components than the equivalent product…
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Pocket RSS 1.3 Reviewed by Pocket PC Thoughts
Reading Time: < 1 minutePocket RSS is one of the RSS aggregators for the Pocket PC platform. Ed Hansberry of Pocket PC Thoughts wrote a good summary of the new features and added several screenshots to provide a sense of what it’s like to use the program. This is the latest in a series of…
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San Jose Sharks Employing Digital Video on Players’ Bench
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWired News reports that the San Jose Sharks of the National Hockey League are the first U.S. professional sports team to use digital video technology on the players’ bench during official games. The Sharks are using XOSketch, a Tablet PC-based wireless video playback and telestration tool from XOS Technology. Wired News…
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Runner Art Project Launched by Phillip Torreone
Reading Time: < 1 minutePhillip Torreone of /run fame told us that he is beginning a “Runner Art” project. He is doing a series of 10 mile runs in different cities, collecting data with his Garmin Forerunner 201, and producing map satellite map overlays using an application called USAPhotoMaps. Phillip has already done the runs…
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Om Malik: Only Way to Profits is to Have Cool Phones
Reading Time: < 1 minuteOm Malik believes that mobile phone handset manufacturers that make cool phones are going to be most profitable over time. The evidence he cites is Sony Ericsson’s year-over-year profit increase. Handset manufacturers with the greatest recent sales increases are Sony Ericsson and Samsung. They are apparently taking share away from Nokia,…
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AT&T Wireless Self-Destruction Largely Blamed On IT Strategy
Reading Time: 2 minutesCIO Magazine published an outstanding article called AT&T Wireless Self-Destructs. The article blames much of the recent bloodletting at AT&T Wireless on a streak of strategic Information Technology policy mistakes. It points to the botched upgrade of AT&T Wireless’ Siebel customer relationship management system as the major reason that customers ended up…