Archive for February, 2007

Sprint’s last trials with outreach to the online community were a dismal failure. From the quid-pro-quo free phones to bloggers, to the Sprint Podcast for Dummies, to Sprint VP blogs that said a lot… yet at the same time said nothing at all. We don’t need to keep going with this. (Note to [...]

Tonight we rolled out MediaWiki 1.9.3 onto the Knowledge Base, this is mostly a security release so nothing else to note.
Tomorrow we’ll start rolling out wireless forum access, and we’re sure to have at least PDA-friendly access, if not full WAP access, up by week’s end. Also, if you’ve been using a desktop feed [...]

We’ve already bounced around Windows Live Search (please, please make a shorter name Microsoft) rankings, even hitting #1 for phone news. But, we’re even starting to get the recognition from Google.

Now, why is phone news an important search query for us? Gee, that’s a tough one, maybe you should check our name and [...]

We’re making a change in our article formatting today, so that when you click on links to other sites, they won’t open in new windows anymore. We did this years ago to cater to the tabbed-browsing community (so that external sites would open in new tabs). However, we think that people are now [...]

We’re hard at work on a cool new video service. It’s something that has been on the backburner for quite awhile, but we’re about ready to take it to the forefront. We’re more than ready to start serving up the video, and we have the bandwidth… but give us a week or so. [...]

In light of recent developments, we felt it necessary to publish our position on Windows Mobile updates. We believe that opening a dialogue about our policies and protocols about developments such as these, will avoid similar, unfortunate misunderstandings.
Users are legally licensed, by Microsoft, to install updates to the version Windows Mobile that comes with the [...]

Probably a foregone conclusion, but yes, we will be at CTIA Wireless 2007 next month in Orlando, providing live coverage. We’ll be there for the full expo, so feel free to give us a ring if you’re going to be there.

With a lot of work, tweaking, and testing, it’s done. We’ve completed the layout for our new Phones Section. And, we’d like to show it to you.

No, that’s not the whole thing. But, head on over to our Example Phone page to take a peek at what every phone will have listed [...]

Technical blog post… if you’re not making a web site with 1,000,000+ views monthly, you probably don’t need to read this.
There has been a lot of debate as to if Google is respecting 301 redirects. I am happy to confirm that as a part of the PhoneNews.com transition, we have proven that they do. [...]

The Knowledge Base was updated to MediaWiki 1.9.2 this morning. This is just a security release, no new features this time.