Operation Gadget
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Panasonic Announces X700 Mobile Phone, its First Series 60 Model
Reading Time: < 1 minuteEarlier today, PhoneScoop reported that Panasonic announced its first Series 60 mobile phone called the Panasonic X700. It is expected to ship in Europe in Fall 2004. Panasonic made the announcement at the 3GSM World Congress in Cannes, France. Operation Gadget does not normally cover product announcements of this sort, but…
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TiVo Hosting a Survey Aimed at Determining Final TiVoToGo Features
Reading Time: < 1 minutePVRblog reported that TiVo is soliciting customer opinions before completing the feature set of the TiVoToGo system that was previewed at the Consumer Electronics Show in January. The PVRblog article contains a pointer to the survey, which I urge all TiVo users to complete. But, the article also has some interesting…
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FujiFilm FinePix S5000: Great Looking Mid-Range Digital Camera that Feels Like an SLR
Reading Time: 2 minutesOver the weekend, a bridal shower was held for my sister, Julie Aiello, who will be married to Robert Howson in April. I “made an appearance” in order to help setup the party room, entertain the groom-to-be while the shower was taking place, take photos at the end, and probably most importantly,…
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District Court Ruling Jeopardizes Availability of DVD Backup Software
Reading Time: < 1 minuteMartin O’Donnell pointed out that Judge Susan Illston of the U.S. District Court in San Francisco ruled that 321 Studios must stop making software that allows users to make archival copies of DVDs, a ruling aimed at halting the sale of a 321 Studios product called DVD X Copy. According to…
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February 16-22, 2004 Weekly Summary
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis is the Operation Gadget weekly summary for the eighth 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 is a Series 60 Mobile Phone?
Reading Time: < 1 minuteOne of the concepts thrown around by some of the other gadget websites and never properly defined is the Series 60 Mobile Phone. When I first saw the term used, I thought it meant some set of Nokia mobile phones, perhaps the models with numbers 6000-6099. Now thanks to an article…
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William Gibson is Proudly Behind the Curve on Use of Technology Gadgets
Reading Time: 2 minutesSlashdot pointed out a brief but excellent interview of William Gibson by David Hiltbrand in the February 17 edition of the Philadelphia Inqurirer. The interview was done in advance of an appearance he made that night at the Free Library of Philadelphia. The visit to Philadelphia is part of a book tour…
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Joel McNamara Wrote a Great Review of the Garmin Forerunner
Reading Time: < 1 minuteJoel McNamara wrote a really thorough review of the Garmin Forerunner 201, including a comparison with the Garmin Geko 201with the Forerunner. This is a well-researched piece by someone who definitely shares my interest in fitness gadgets. Joel has also pointed out a product and a service that I had not…
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Hope You Noticed Our Server Problems
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI hope that all of the devoted readers of Operation Gadget noticed that the site was off the air for about 24 hours, ending at about 3:00pm Eastern Time today. The timing of the outage (yesterday at 3:00pm) couldn’t have been much worse. My wife and I were in mid-flight from…