This is the Operation Gadget weekly summary for the second week of August 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 readers to sign up for this service when I work out the details.

The headlines:

August 15

• NBC Shows its Respect for Olympic Cycling By Using Liggett and Sherwin as Commentators
  

August 13

• Mobile Carriers Ready "Cells-On-Wheels" in Case of Outages or Network Overloads
  
• Verizon Offers Storm Preparedness Tips for Mobile Phone Users
  
• Met Doc and Joyce Searls, and a Number of Other Interesting People
  

August 12

• DVD Slideshows are an Excellent Way to Use Digital Photos
  
• "Doping to Win" Discusses Recent Doping Cases and USADA
  
• Samsung SGH-E316 Released in Time for 2004 Summer Olympics
  
• AT&T Wireless Reportedly Offering Flat Rate Annual Plans to Federal Government
  

August 11

• RIM BlackBerry Sales Growing Faster than H-P's and palmOne's
  
• inMotion iMmini Speaker System to Be Available from Altec Lansing in Late Summer
  

August 10

• eBayers Hoarding LiveStrong Yellow Wristbands
  
• Sam's Club to Begin Selling Humax TiVo DVRs
  

August 9

• Hexlet Releases HBlogger 2.0
  
• Tried a Recipe from "Chris Carmichael's Food for Fitness"
  

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