Operation Gadget

Operation Gadget

  • Idokorro Mobile SSH Lets Blackberry and Nokia 6800-Series Users Remotely Administer Servers

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteIn our continuing quest to identify SSH clients for mobile devices, I want to point out Idokorro Mobile SSH. This is a $195 product allows Blackberry users to administer servers that support SSH-2 and Telnet. Apparently, users on the Nextel network are able to connect directly to the servers that they…

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  • Home Theater Sale on at Amazon.com Through April 11, 2004

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteAmazon.com is running sales in its home theater-related departments until April 11, 2004. The deals include: up to $500 off flat panel and tube TVs, and up to $100 off DVD players, recorders, and combo units. Now might be the time to spring for the upgrade you’ve been thinking about.

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  • Amazon.com Running a Good Sale on PDAs

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteAmazon.com is currently offering a $50 gift card with the purchase of a PDA valued at $299.99 or more. The offer expires on April 11, 2004. When you combine this with free shipping on all of these devices, it adds up to quite a good sale.

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  • Movie and TV Industry Fight to Limit Usefulness of Settop DVD Burners

    Reading Time: 2 minutesPVRblog points out that the movie and television industry are fighting against deployment of DVD burners in cable and satellite settop boxes. Since they have already decided that resistance to any sort of DVD recording capability in settop boxes is futile, they are working to cripple any DVD burner that is ultimately…

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  • Smartphone Thoughts Documents Carrier Switch to T-Mobile with an MPx200

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteIn one of the more interesting articles I’ve seen recently, David McNamee of Smartphone Thoughts recounts his switch-over to T-Mobile with an MPx200 originally put in service on AT&T Wireless. T-Mobile currently doesn’t sell the MPx200 for use on its network, but since it’s an 1800/1900 GSM/GPRS phone, it definitely works.…

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  • Nearly Back to Normal

    Reading Time: 2 minutesI spent my free time this weekend converting fully adopting Fedora Core 1 as my laptop’s operating system. I did this for a number of reasons: I had to rebuild my laptop last week because my hard disk was dying, I’d rather run a modern, up-to-date Linux distribution than Windows XP, I…

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  • March 29 – April 4, 2004 Weekly Summary

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis is the Operation Gadget weekly summary for the first week of April 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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  • The Importance of the Handset Unlocking Policies of U.S. Mobile Phone Carriers

    Reading Time: 2 minutesA lot of people thought that mobile phone number portability would allow them to freely move from one carrier to another without having to buy a new mobile phone. This has not proven to be the case for a couple of reasons: Incompatible Technologies: Although the number of mobile phone technologies in…

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  • Gateway to Shutdown All of its Gateway Stores

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteForbes Magazine and a number of other outlets reported that Gateway will shutter all of its Gateway Stores and layoff at least 2,500 sales people that it employs at these locations. A lot of people have looked at Gateway Stores and wondered why they lasted so long. “Big Box” electronics retailers…

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