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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 [...]

RCR Wireless closed its doors yesterday, after 25 years in the wireless business. With over five times the tenure, I have to admit, we enjoyed the competition.
The publication tried to stay hip to the times, but when the Web 2.0 economy met the Global Recession economy, they had to shut down. This isn’t a post [...]

Shortly after we posted all the old iPhone firmware download links on our Apple Phone Encyclopedia section, Apple has taken them offline.
It’s pretty clear why they did this… old iPhone firmwares are only useful to those who hack the iPhone. And, by taking them offline, Apple ensures that it’s one step harder to obtain the [...]

They’re being mailed! We’ve gotten quite a few emails from people that didn’t read the details… and didn’t notice that we had to hold the gift cards for 30 days.
To review, we had to begin holding the Best Buy gift cards for 30 days, because some took it upon themselves to return the free phone. [...]

Some may be thinking that just because MechaWorks is growing, means that PhoneNews.com is going to be set in its ways.
We’ve certainly not given off that impression, with the launch of PhoneNews.com Cashback kicking the year off. But, I can certainly understand why some people might be thinking that we’ve aimed at locking down the [...]