Operation Gadget
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OLN Strikes Deal with Yahoo! to Bring Selected Sports Programming to the Web
Reading Time: < 1 minuteEarlier this week I asked why the National Hockey League has not followed the NBA into Internet distribution of game-related video content? That same day OLN announced a deal with Yahoo! to distribute a fairly large selection of its major sporting events via the Yahoo! Sports website. I heard about this…
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GE Debuts “One Second Theater” to Get TiVo Users to Study Their Ads
Reading Time: < 1 minuteLast night Kathleen and I watched the latest episode of The Apprentice that we had recorded on our TiVo. The program originally aired on Monday, but we just freed up enough time to watch it. During this program, GE aired one of its ads in its One Second Theater series. These…
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Is the NBA Deal with iTunes the First Move in a New Direction for Sports Marketing?
Reading Time: < 1 minuteOn Monday, Paid Content reported that the NBA struck a deal with iTunes to provide next-day highlight packages to subscribers paying fees between $1.99 and $8.99, depending on the packages selected. I think this is a brilliant move to keep fans in touch with games that they may have missed, and…
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Verizon Running Ads Against Optimum Voice in New York City Radio Market
Reading Time: < 1 minuteOver the past few days Verizon has been running ads on powerful New York Radio stations such as Sports Radio 66 WFAN suggesting that small businesses shouldn’t switch to Optimum Voice, the VoIP service from Cablevision. The ads suggest that Optimum Voice is unreliable, causing small businesses that switch their phone…
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About to Complete Physical Therapy
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI have good news to report on the rehabilitation of my left leg. (I broke my left fibula in a collision with a player during a hockey game that I was officiating on January 24.) My trainers at NovaCare Rehabilitation have decided that I’m almost ready to stop physical therapy. I…
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Successful Executives Building “Treadputers” to Work While They Exercise
Reading Time: 2 minutesBrad Feld’s Treadputer: Venture capitalist Brad Feld added a 3.2-GHz IBM ThinkCentre to his Vision Fitness T9450HRT Treadmill. This lets him get his runs in while he’s on conference calls. [ Photo: Brad Feld ]. Brad Feld is a managing director at Mobius Venture Capital based in Boulder, Colorado. He challenges himself by running…
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A Bike Storage Rack to Organize the Garage or Basement
Reading Time: 2 minutesEver since I got my Trek 1500 at Christmas, I’ve been looking for a bike rack that supports more than two bikes and can handle a lot of biking-related gear as well. Until then, Kathleen and I were a two-bike family: I rode a rock-solid Marin Bear Valley SE that probably had…
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First HD DVD Players Don’t Wow the Reviewers
Reading Time: 2 minutesMy wife Kathleen spent yesterday afternoon at our friend Jen Colangelo’s house watching The Chronicles of Narnia on Jen’s big, new plasma television. When she got home, Kathleen said the movie (which was played on a progressive-scan DVD player) looked “amazing” compared to movies on our old, analog, 480i TV. All a…
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Some Excellent Tips on Setting Up Your First Home Theater System
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAlan Lofft of Axiom Home Theaters wrote a great piece for eCoustics.com that offers do’s and don’ts for setting up your first home theater surround system. The tips I particularly liked were: “Don’t turn the levels of your surround speakers up too high because you can’t “hear” them. You aren’t supposed…