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A quick update to the forums will be deployed shortly, probably over the next 48 hours. That should address the spam attacks which the forum has been under for the past day or so.

The speed update has finally taken effect. If you’re on a very fast internet connection (greater than eight megabits), you should notice dramatically improved speeds. Enjoy, and post back if you feel like it with some speed results!

We’ve updated the Phone Encyclopedia with a couple of security updates from the core MediaWiki platform. We’ve also updated a few bits of WordPress code and made some under-the-hood changes.
Finally, a permissions glitch cropped up that caused some images to not load properly.
If nothing has changed, that means everything’s working great. If you see something [...]

We realize that bandwidth in America is just starting to take off. With fiber finally getting off the ground, DOCSIS 3.0 arriving next year, and even ADSL2+… it’s time to make things even faster.
So, we’re filling the switches right now to boost our bandwidth speed. We’re now able to push at least 20 megabits per [...]

One “genius” splogger decided to start stealing dozens of articles from PhoneNews.com, and putting them on his web site. Worse, he actually has his photo online:

If you see this guy, feel free to say “hello” from all of us. In the mean time, we’re serving the search engines with DMCA notices… which will shut him [...]

As you may have read, in past articles we noted (in multiple articles) that Verizon was going with QChat-style technology for its Push To Talk platform. We did note that a refreshed BREWChat was a possibility. Of course, since then it has come clear that Verizon is using Motorola’s new PTT platform.
We didn’t clear the [...]

We just finished the paperwork, and tomorrow we’ll start reviewing a game-changing device. While we aren’t allowed to say just yet which phone it is… there aren’t that many to chose from. Regardless, stay tuned next week for a full review of it.
And no, that won’t be the only review, we have quite a few [...]

As you may have been able to tell from the sluggish news this week, it has not been a good week for PhoneNews.com. Our (forced) perpetual moving, combined with my (forced) absence this week… has shown some of our weaknesses.
On top of everything else, I’ve encountered serious networking issues that occurred just after getting back [...]

I know that I said I would be back around Monday. Well, that didn’t happen.
Our new office has a few problems… gas and air conditioning both failed over the weekend. But, the real failures started Monday. First, our Linksys WRT350N failed. Then, I managed to brick my iPhone 3G (no, I wasn’t hacking it, simply [...]

Late last night, we had about two hours of downtime. This was due to a power outage in the datacenter which our server is housed in. Actually the power outage was longer than that, but battery backups kept us running for awhile.
As soon as the power came back online, we were back up and running. [...]