Operation Gadget
-
Using Mobile Wireless Data Services in Lieu of WiFi
Reading Time: 2 minutesMartin O’Donnell has been talking to me about getting mobile phone service exclusively for connecting his laptop to the Internet while he’s out of the office. He wants access in lots of different locations, so simply signing up for a public access WiFi service like T-Mobile HotSpot will not be sufficient for…
-
Handy Summary of U.S. GSM Mobile Carriers
Reading Time: < 1 minuteSome Operation Gadget readers may already know that AT&T Wireless has decided to rebuild its U.S. mobile phone networks that run on the 850-megahertz radio frequencies to use the GSM protocol. The so-called GSM 850 system is not compatible with most GSM phones already on the market here. O’Grady’s PowerPage published…
-
Wal-Mart Readying Private Label Brand of Flat Panel TVs
Reading Time: < 1 minuteDigiTimes.com appears to be the ultimate journalistic source of the report that Wal-Mart intends to sell a line of flat panel televisions (plasma display panels and LCDs) to be manufactured by Tatung. Here are a few examples Tatung’s their existing LCD TVs. It’s safe to assume that Tatung will make a…
-
Panasonic Toughbook Laptops Making a Name for Themselves in Iraq
Reading Time: 2 minutesBusinessWeek published an article about increased reliability of semi-rugged laptops and how the Panasonic Toughbook series is proving itself in Iraq. Toughbooks have been around for a long time, but they rarely get this kind of press in mainstream publications. Usually I read about them in industry automation and manufacturing IT publications.…
-
Design Concepts Based on Toshiba 0.85-inch Hard Disk Debut at CeBit 2004
Reading Time: < 1 minuteToshiba’s Storage Device Division is displaying design concepts for devices that could be built based with its 0.85-inch hard disk drive at CeBIT 2004 in Hannover, Germany. Reportedly, the 0.85-inch drives will have a capacity of 2 to 4 Gigabytes and begin quantity shipment in the third or fourth quarter of…
-
March 15-21, 2004 Weekly Summary
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis is the Operation Gadget weekly summary for the twelfth week of 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 for…
-
Lost in Migration
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI’ve been helping our provider rebuild its network this weekend, and sometime late last night we lost network connectivity. This afternoon, we realized that some really strange problem occurred with the firewall. After I spent two or three hours on the phone with Federico Bockel from Checkpoint, we got the network…
-
Doc Searls on Laptops and the Possibility of Mainstream Use of Linux
Reading Time: 2 minutesDoc Searls’ latest SuitWatch column for LinuxJournal talks about what it will take for Linux to become a viable option for mainstream laptop users. At first glance, pointing to this article might seem a little bit off-topic on Operation Gadget, but Doc makes a number of good points in this article that…
-
New Sony Clie TH55 Review from Palm Infocenter
Reading Time: < 1 minuteKerry Lannert delivered a good review of the Sony Clie TH55 over at Palm Infocenter. The review is fairly long and full of decent quality pictures. The review was very positive, with the TH55 winning 8.5 stars on a 10-point scale. The best features of this handheld are its size, battery…