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My week-long move is over. Unfortunately, it’s not the last move, we have one more to make… we’ve moved to an interim location while our final office is being finished right now.
But, the good news is, I’m here on-site at CTIA Wireless IT 2008, once again in San Francisco. Full coverage begins tomorrow.
The blog over [...]

As I noted on my own blog, I’ll be away from Friday until September 7. The news (and everything else) will be in the capable hands of the rest of the staff during that time.

While WordPress 2.6.1 is an optional update, we’re working on installing it as soon as this weekend. Hopefully it will fix some bugs that we’ve been having with version 2.6.
Also, we finally hope to deploy our planned roll-out of a minor layout update, which will help you better access our “latest” in-focus content, and better [...]

We’ll be at LinuxWorld 2008, providing on-site coverage. So, while we don’t expect there to be a ton of earth-shattering announcements, we’ll be there for all the Android, MOTOMAGX, and just about any other mobile Linux news you can think of.
So, stay tuned to PhoneNews.com all this week for complete LinuxWorld coverage!

This is one of those gray areas. Should we offer Apple’s bootloaders up for download? ZiPhone includes them, and Apple hasn’t objected.
Now, in the past, we’ve sided with hackers on Windows Mobile ROMs… for the most part. After all, those were firmwares that could only be run on the device licensed.
The bootloader is tangled in [...]

We haven’t reported on PwnageTool for iPhone OS 2.0. Why? Well, we’re having trouble with it. It’s not working with iPhone 3G.
We’ve re-written the coverage a good three times… because there have been three post-release developments. Each of them haven’t helped us get it working however.
We’re hoping that PwnageTool 2.0.2 will come soon. Version 2.0.1 [...]

Until about last Tuesday, I was out sick… but the fun didn’t stop there. This weekend got derailed by a gas leak (the second one this year to hit the office). Thankfully after the first one I installed a cabon monoxide/propane detector. And yes, it went off long before anyone could smell anything.
But, having to [...]

MediaWiki 1.12 is almost done testing, and will be deployed soon on the Phone Encyclopedia. This release, like many MediaWiki releases, will make the Phone Encyclopedia “faster and more reliable”…
Today, WordPress 2.6 came out. This release makes mostly backend and caching changes. We expect it to be a quick testing phase, we’ll have it deployed [...]

Live from an undisclosed location in Northern California, the AT&T Retail Store in Chico. Welcome to liveblogging coverage of iPhone 3G, or iDay 2.0 as AT&T employees know it unofficially (iDay was the official title for the iPhone launch internally).
4:15 AM - We’re a little over an hour in (okay, almost two hours in). I [...]

In the middle of last month I attended MobileCampSF2, and the photos that came back from it weren’t so stellar. Someone finally however sent me a photo that actually shows me (and not as either an ant, or make me look sound asleep).

Yeah, that’s me. Want to see the presentation I gave? It’s posted it [...]