Archive for November, 2007

PhoneNews.com is currently suffering from extremely high server loads. Our servers are being overloaded, and we have technicians looking into it right now. This has been happening for several hours, so we apologize if you (continue to) have trouble loading pages. As soon as we get to the bottom of it, we’ll let you know.
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We certainly had a fun experience with Digg today. And by fun, I mean, informative and not fun at all.
We beat pretty much everyone to the punch with Google Maps for Mobile 2.0 coverage today, and so we thought it would be a good idea to add the giant Digg button to the article. We’ve [...]

We’re drawing some lines in the sand today, to ensure that PhoneNews.com moves forward, and… well… doesn’t get stuck in the sand.
First off, reviews are suspended until the middle of December. We don’t have the resources to give proper reviews with the workload (and lack of a few good people), to balance that along with [...]

As noted below, we’ve moved forward with tweaking lots of site code tonight. First, we pulled the (now unnecessary) bridge between IP.Board and Joomla (dig through the old blog posts for details on why and the future of that). We’ve updated IP.Board to the latest version (2.3.3, up from 2.3.1). Finally, we also deployed some [...]

We will be running giveaways at midnight from now on. This means that giveaways will end at 11:59 PM Pacific, and that will make it easier for us to post new giveaways on-time. It also will help you know when to check back for a new giveaway (though, no promises… we’re understaffed and that means [...]

Joomla and Firefox are no longer getting along very well. Every time we type the & character, it attaches a semi-colon at the end of the word. For example, AT&T becomes AT&T;
We believe this to be a Firefox bug, but it could be a Joomla bug as well. See, we aren’t using any WYSIWYG editors… [...]

After feedback from people about the blog’s temporary look, we switched it to match the blog at another familiar site. There are a few bugs with the look because of that, they will be fixed shortly.
Again, this is only temporary, next month the blog and news components of PhoneNews.com will be running an all-new, consistent, [...]

So, the friendly folks at CTIA decided to send out a mailer about the 2008 show in Las Vegas. Gee, thanks (not).
We know about the expos well in advance… but the last thing we like doing, is booking travel so far in advance. It’s a pain to do, schedules change, and then you have to [...]

Since the next giveaway will roll into Thanksgiving… we’re going to put them on hold until after Saturday. That will allow everyone to enjoy Thanksgiving (staff included), and of course, tune into the liveblogging of Black Friday (you know you’re either camping out or reading about folks like us camping out).

We’re having some issues with the DNS migration of our new server. ISPs that have already made the switch to the new DNS are not having problems, but ISPs that are still out-of-sync are having issues. The server team has been alerted, and will have things fixed shortly for all connections.
Unfortunately, the server switch pretty [...]