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A major forum upgrade is coming to the PhoneNews.com Forums. We’ve been waiting… and waiting… and waiting… for IP.Board 3.0 to ship. And, that has finally happened. We’ll burn some more midnight oil (which we’re doing right now, but that’s for a future blog post), and have it ready to go within the week.
Our goal [...]

We haven’t forgotten about the migration from PhoneNews.com Cashback to PhoneCashback.net. The road to E3 for us was long, and filled with a lot of technical stuff (we’ll be mostly behind-the-scenes at E3, but coverage will be there as well).
So, we are going to wrap up the migration to PhoneCashback.net when we get back from [...]

We will be distributing parts of the Phone Encyclopedia across multiple servers, starting today.
This will result in parts of the Phone Encyclopedia being offline, in rolling phases, over the next week.
As we’ve warned in the past, do not hard link to files on the Phone Encyclopedia. Only link to Phone Encyclopedia articles themselves. Links to [...]

We don’t like the animosity in the mobile media. Really, we don’t.
But when Phone Scoop’s Eric Lin publicly made a foul-four-letter-word-strewn commentary about PhoneNews.com nabbing the first review of the Palm Pre, we realized animosity was alive and well in the mobile media.
And while it’s true, many don’t like our review style, it’s different… not [...]

You’ve asked, and we’ll be delivering. Trackbacks will be separated from comments this week, enabling you to sort through the discussion easily.
Tabbed comments are something else we’re looking into, but won’t be coming this week.
Update: Ran into a few issues, but fear not, it will be coming when we get back from E3…

Gotta love Murphy’s Law. Well, since CTIA has sucked, we’re going to make up for that shortly.
However, this downtime was caused by a set of hard drive failures, following the failure of a RAID head right before the show.
This reminds me of all the crud that broked during CES. Murphy’s Law… but hey, it’s only [...]

Stay tuned later today, for a double dose of photos. We wanted to get some photos in, but our 10 AM product announcement has taken priority.
Don’t worry, you’ll see all the photos the other guys won’t have period. And, as usual, they’ll all be in beautiful HD.

We’re having new server issues today (Murphy’s Law). We’ve been working on them since 3 AM. We’re still working on it.
Update: Fixed.

Sorry for the outage this morning, which lasted between 90 minutes and two hours.
No, we weren’t testing anything coming soon. It was a RAID card that failed on our off-site server. Card was replaced, server’s back.

Cashback mailings and payments will likely be delayed for a few days over the next week. This is due to the previously-announced move that MechaWorks is making, to new offices located in Silicon Valley.
But, when we do touch down in the Valley, we’re going to make getting cashback up to speed a priority.
If there are [...]