Archive for July, 2006

Apple Caves… Months Later

Apple has finally caved to our original reports of early MacBook Pro battery problems. They are now recalling MacBook Pro batteries from original revisions.
No pithy remarks required.

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Again and Again and Again

PCS Intel broke all prior records we’ve held for hits in July… thanks for making us the best, if not most watched, name in wireless news.

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Site Upgrades

We apologize for some downtime yesterday. We took the forums offline for about a half-hour to deploy updates to the forum software and some underlying code. PCS Intel is now fully up-to-date on all components.

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Motorola, Don’t Do That Again

At PCS Intel, we aren’t going to play Motorola’s game. Every time we have been all set in the past week to report on their phones, they roll out more phones.
This is obviously an attempt to boost Media PR by tricking out a product wave announcement over several days. First by officially announcing [...]

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Coffee Anyone? More Wiki Updates

Early this morning, we updated the Knowledge Base to MediaWiki Version 1.6.8, which should fix some bugs and improve support for upcoming versions of Internet Explorer. Later this week we’re also going to be applying some updates to the forums as well.
Updating to MediaWiki 1.7 has proven more difficult than expected. Our servers [...]

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Searching Improved

We’re happy to announce that our Google Sitemap support is out of beta (though, you couldn’t really beta test it directly). Every single page covered on PCS Intel (and Sprint PCS Info) is now dynamically submitted to Google for indexing. This includes our Forums and the Knowledge Base.
So, what’s next (search-wise)? We’re going [...]

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It’s Quiet… Too Quiet…

We’ve been working behind-the-scenes these past couple of weeks, nothing major to announce right now.¬† We have finalized our Google Sitemaps support, and other server changes that have been, for lack of a better word, dysfunctional.¬† Those problems are now solved.¬† This week, we’re looking forward to updating the Knowledge Base, and putting MediaWiki 1.7 [...]

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PCS Intel Widget Tops 500 Downloads

I’m happy to report over half a thousand people have decided to “just say no” to RSS readers and are tuned in via the Yahoo! Widget.¬† Feel free to tune into PCS Intel on your desktop at any time on Mac or PC.¬† To download, just use the very anti-RSS image below:

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PCS Intel Turns One, SPI Turns Three

Okay, we’ve been busy, but on June 23, PCS Intel turned one year old. While not the easiest transition ever, PCS Intel is now much larger than Sprint PCS Info ever was. We’ve achieved our primary goal of opening our coverage up to an audience that’s “more than Sprint”.
In addition, today marks the [...]

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