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Today, Google confirmed to us that we’ll be showing up on Google News in the next few weeks.
That means that when you run a search on Google News, you’ll now get the best, most comprehensive wireless industry coverage out there… straight from PhoneNews.com.
While it took longer than it should have, we’d like to thank Google [...]

We’ve posted this on a few other web sites… but I felt important to post it here as well:
Hello Everyone,
I realize that the events of these past days about SERO may have left a bitter taste in your mouth, both to Sprint and to PhoneNews.com.
I want to personally clarify that we have simply been updating [...]

The fires raging across California have impacted our operations. Namely, the smoke is the problem. I’ve been treating it as an extended weekend… but now reports are that the smoke won’t start to clear for another 48 hours.
Just to give you an idea of the state of things, at the high point, there have been [...]

There’s a lot of chatter about Motorola working on some super phone, and if that single device doesn’t sell well, then Motorola is going to sell their whole mobile phone division.
Uh, no. This is one giant Internet rumor that other sites have wrong, and continues to grow out of control.
What likely happened was this story [...]

As you know, we don’t like needing to register on sites. And, we compliment this on PhoneNews.com. We don’t require registration for posting comments, despite that taking hours out of our lives each month to control the spam and such.
Of course, when abuse happens, and things get out of hand, we have to shut that [...]

I know I’ve said I won’t be available, and that basically has wound up being doing everything but writing articles. However, this last leg of my half-hiatus will involve me going really, really dark. After today, I probably won’t be available until the middle of the month.
But, I promise, I’ll be back with a vengeance.

I’ll be attending MobileCampSF2 on June 14th. I’m not on the list yet, just set things up however. So, if you’ve been wanting to see, well, me… head on over to the site and sign up to attend (it’s free).
I’ll be giving a presentation on Social Networking for Handset Manufacturers. And yes, I’ll be introducing something [...]

My half-hiatus from the site over the past couple of months, certainly hasn’t been a vacation. And, it also has meant that PhoneNews.com hasn’t met the high quality standards that I’ve come to define the site.
But, I do want to thank the team here for keeping things going. I wouldn’t have been able to do this [...]

Since migrating to WordPress in January, Akismet has blocked over 100,000 spam comments… as of today.
Total time that it took to achieve this? Four months and 19 days.
And yes, we’re paying members of Akismet… there’s no way that they would block that volume of spam for free.
It’s worth noting that the volume of spam didn’t [...]

We’ve made a few improvements to the mobile version of PhoneNews.com. Most notably, we’ve added a modified version of our navigation bar to the mobile page.
This means you can now jump type in PhoneNews.com, and have one-click (or touch) access to the Forums, and even our Blog.
So, once again, just type in PhoneNews.com into your mobile browser. [...]