Archive for March, 2007

Yes, we’re going to start offering PhoneNews.com apparel. But, we don’t want to be lame and turn you into a walking billboard like others… who’s sprintless users shall remain nameless.
So, we want you to come up with some cool tag lines to go on the front of our shirts, hats and other apparel. Just pass [...]

We’ve been trying to work behind-the-scenes to try and cool the tension between Microsoft and XDA-Developers. We’ve received promises from Microsoft that have, well, fallen through. We’re not satisfied with the participation on either end to try and reach a resolution to this disagreement. Yes, that goes for the XDA-Developers web site [...]

Yes, just for fun, we stayed up until 3 AM to make sure the site was still alive. It is, and that’s a good thing.
But, we’ve been busy. The Phones Section is about ready to be handed over to the data-entry people. What does that mean? It means we’ve started our [...]

In case you’re not a blogger, you probably don’t know what trackbacks are. Essentially, they allow bloggers to link to pages where they are getting news. The original news source (that would be us) then keeps track of the sites that are linking to a particular article.
The benefits here are enormous when implemented [...]

If, on March 11, I announce I won’t be available until CTIA at the end of the month, here’s why. Essentially, I ran TZMOVE, the tool Microsoft says you may need to run, but isn’t publicizing hardly at all. That was supposed to correct all our calendar data to conform to the Congressional [...]

The latest Joy of Tech is one you shouldn’t miss. What happens when you put Sculley back in charge of Apple…
History Note: If you haven’t been following Apple for the past 15 years… Apple CEO John Sculley was responsible for the creation of the Apple Newton MessagePad. Steve Jobs unceremoniously killed the Newton. [...]

Unfortunately, software updates have impeded our progress on the Phones Section yet again. We take pride in deploying software as quickly as possible, unfortunately, this means other tasks have to take a backseat.
Four major components of the site all had to be tested, updated, and deployed. Hope you enjoyed your Sunday… here’s what [...]

We’ve opened up a forum dedicated for PhoneNews.com-related feedback. We thought this would be a good idea if people had an idea or suggestions that they wanted to discuss with other users (as well as the staff, of course). This is of course in addition to our feedback form which you can use [...]

I hear this a lot in discussions out in the world. People think at first that we’re competing with sites like Engadget (Mobile), Gizmodo, and other sites. People that have pulled up the site know these two types of sites are complimentary, but also certainly not in competition.
Gadget blogs focus on the same [...]