Archive for May, 2008

I’ll be attending MobileCampSF2 on June 14th. I’m not on the list yet, just set things up however. So, if you’ve been wanting to see, well, me… head on over to the site and sign up to attend (it’s free).
I’ll be giving a presentation on Social Networking for Handset Manufacturers. And yes, I’ll be introducing something [...]

My half-hiatus from the site over the past couple of months, certainly hasn’t been a vacation. And, it also has meant that PhoneNews.com hasn’t met the high quality standards that I’ve come to define the site.
But, I do want to thank the team here for keeping things going. I wouldn’t have been able to do this [...]

Since migrating to WordPress in January, Akismet has blocked over 100,000 spam comments… as of today.
Total time that it took to achieve this? Four months and 19 days.
And yes, we’re paying members of Akismet… there’s no way that they would block that volume of spam for free.
It’s worth noting that the volume of spam didn’t [...]

We’ve made a few improvements to the mobile version of PhoneNews.com. Most notably, we’ve added a modified version of our navigation bar to the mobile page.
This means you can now jump type in PhoneNews.com, and have one-click (or touch) access to the Forums, and even our Blog.
So, once again, just type in PhoneNews.com into your mobile browser. [...]

Some argue that a small minority of phone users are interested in hacking. And, they’re right.
However, to say that phone hacking is not popular is something we now have empirical data against. See, our Phone Encyclopedia is the world’s leader in hosting firmware flash files for download. This gives us a lot of statistical data, [...]

A small glitch (embarrasingly small glitch) stopped the flow of email to me partially for the past few days. If you sent me an email, and got an email bounced message… I have your email (you don’t need to re-send it).
Please bear with me if it takes a day or two to respond, I’ve got [...]

After a (very, very long) hiatus, PhoneNews.com Video is making a comeback. This time, we have all new equipment that allows us to cut, prep, and upload video in under five minutes.
That’s hot.
So, expect to see a lot of video on PhoneNews.com. This time around, streaming in 720p High Definition (in H.264), 480p Extended Definition [...]

We’ve updated the PhoneNews.com Forums to IP.Board version 2.3.5. This fixes several core software issues with the forums, and makes various minor performance improvements.
We’ve also set up a known issues thread, which also doubles as a bug reporting tool for the forums. If you see a bug, post it there and we’ll get to the [...]

It seems that the WordPress spam bots are alive and well. Our servers are being hammered by thousands of spam requests right now. Akismet, combined with our server’s hardware firewall, are repelling most of the attack. Still, we’re having to pull up pages of spam that pass through the net.
Fear not however, even if you [...]