Operation Gadget
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Other Weblogs Discover the AT&T Wireless Downgrade Program
Reading Time: < 1 minuteOver the weekend, two of the media’s favorite gadget weblogs (I’ll let you guess which two) discovered that AT&T Wireless was offering free downgrades for many of their customers’ high end phones. One of the weblogs even suggested that their story was an “exclusive,” despite the fact that Operation Gadget published…
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March 1-7, 2004 Weekly Summary
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis is the Operation Gadget weekly summary for the tenth 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…
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What Alternatives to Garage Band Exist on Windows?
Reading Time: < 1 minuteEarlier today, Dan Iggers from Toronto asked the following question: I hope you are the right person to ask, or can point me in the right direction. My son would like to have, for his birthday, recording software akin to “Garage Band” and a microphone. We have a Pentium II or…
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TiVo Subscription Numbers Up Substantially
Reading Time: < 1 minuteCNET News.com reported that TiVo said its annual revenue was up 85 percent for the fiscal year ending December 31. More importantly, TiVo signed up 330,000 new customers in the fourth quarter, about three times the number of subscribers it signed up in the holiday period in 2002. Over 1 million…
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Manufacturers Ship 675,000 Series 60 Mobiles in U.S. in 2003
Reading Time: < 1 minuteRussell Beattie pulled together 2003 sales statistics for Series 60 mobile phones. According to him, 675,000 Series 60 phones were sold in the U.S. last year. That’s not bad considering how few models were on the market. The model that I’ve discussed on Operation Gadget is the Nokia 3650. It’s got…
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BargainPDA Editor Calls for Bluetooth in PDAs for the U.S. Market
Reading Time: 2 minutesBrian Beeler published a Note to Dell and Sony yesterday in which he called on the vendors to ship their PDAs for the U.S. market with Bluetooth installed. He cites the Dell Axim X3i and the Sony Clie TH55 as PDAs that are available with Bluetooth in Europe, but do not have…
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Samsung E715 is a Phone for People Who Want a More Usable Camera
Reading Time: 2 minutesEarlier today, I was in the McDonald’s in the West Belt Plaza in Wayne, NJ. While I was ordering, I happened to see the flash of a camera out of the corner of my eye. I took a quick glance and saw that this was not just a camera, but a camera…
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al Qaeda Operatives Observed and Apprehended Because They Kept Using the Same SIM Cards
Reading Time: 2 minutesA lot of sites have pointed out the New York Times article by that says that al Qaeda operatives have been tracked because they used the same SIM cards repeatedly. I don’t feel that the New York Times or any of the other accounts explain the story clearly and consisely enough for…
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“iPod and iTunes: Missing Manual, Second Edition” Fills Information Gaps for Recent Purchasers
Reading Time: < 1 minuteMacMinute reports that O’Reilly and Associates has released “iPod and iTunes: Missing Manual, Second Edition”, an important update to the best book about the iPod. Reportedly, J.D. Biersdorfer has deepened the coverage of iTunes and iTunes Music Store on both the Macintosh and Windows platforms. He has also added information about…