Operation Gadget
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Happy Birthday Dad!
Reading Time: < 1 minuteNovember 6 is Ernie Aiello’s 75th birthday. I want to take this opportunity to wish my father a happy birthday and many more.
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Getting Back Online
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI took an unplanned, long vacation from writing on Operation Gadget. It began when I unexpectedly changed jobs back in September. I don’t want to go into what happened. I’m glad to leave that job behind and move on to a new one. Shortly after I left my job, I participated…
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How to Get Your $100 Credit for an Early iPhone Purchase
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI received my $100 credit at the Apple Store today to compensate me for purchasing the iPhone when the price was $599. To get the credit, I did the following: I visited the Apple Web Site iPhone Store Credit page at: http://www.apple.com/iphone/storecredit/, and clicked the Get Started button. I entered my…
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Handhelds from Palm Still Make Sense in Medicine
Reading Time: < 1 minuteLast night I solved the syncing problem that had limited Kathleen’s ability to use her Treo 650 with her new MacBook. I owe a lot of credit to the book Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual, Tiger Edition, which explained the details of the interaction between Palm Desktop for the…
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One Million iPhones Sold in 74 Days
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI’m glad to hear that Apple sold its one millionth iPhone today. I think the $200 price cut will put holiday sales on the trajectory where Apple needs them to be in order to achieve the goal of 10 million iPhones in the first year on the market.
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Why the $100 Credit Makes Sense for Early Adopters of the iPhone
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI’m one of the people who should receive the $100 credit that Apple is offering to early purchasers of the iPhone. I think this is a reasonable move on Apple’s part to reduce the shock associated with the $200 price cut for the 8-Gigabyte iPhone. It certainly won’t cost them $100…
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Apple Cuts the Price of the 8G iPhone to $399
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWow. I had no idea that Apple was planning to announce a $200 price cut on the 8-Gigabyte iPhone to $399. Since the media event ended, I’ve read a number of comments on technology blogs about how much the price of previous “hot phones” dropped in the first 90 days. The…
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NBC’s Videos Leaves iTunes for Amazon.com’s Unbox
Reading Time: 2 minutesPVRblog pointed out that NBC has decided to pull its programming out of iTunes and move it to Amazon.com Unbox, a fairly new service from Amazon.com that competes with iTunes for video download sales. I think this is a mistake on NBC Universal’s part, and it has little to do with the…
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I’m Planning to Use the iPhone to Review Ice Hockey Rule Changes
Reading Time: 2 minutesEvery year or two, the hockey organizations for whom I officiate go through rule change cycles. USA Hockey, the major organizing body of amateur ice hockey in the United States, is changing their rules this year. The National Collegiate Athletic Association changes their ice hockey rules every year. Even organizations like The…