Archive for July, 2008

This is one of those gray areas. Should we offer Apple’s bootloaders up for download? ZiPhone includes them, and Apple hasn’t objected.
Now, in the past, we’ve sided with hackers on Windows Mobile ROMs… for the most part. After all, those were firmwares that could only be run on the device licensed.
The bootloader is tangled in [...]

We haven’t reported on PwnageTool for iPhone OS 2.0. Why? Well, we’re having trouble with it. It’s not working with iPhone 3G.
We’ve re-written the coverage a good three times… because there have been three post-release developments. Each of them haven’t helped us get it working however.
We’re hoping that PwnageTool 2.0.2 will come soon. Version 2.0.1 [...]

Until about last Tuesday, I was out sick… but the fun didn’t stop there. This weekend got derailed by a gas leak (the second one this year to hit the office). Thankfully after the first one I installed a cabon monoxide/propane detector. And yes, it went off long before anyone could smell anything.
But, having to [...]

MediaWiki 1.12 is almost done testing, and will be deployed soon on the Phone Encyclopedia. This release, like many MediaWiki releases, will make the Phone Encyclopedia “faster and more reliable”…
Today, WordPress 2.6 came out. This release makes mostly backend and caching changes. We expect it to be a quick testing phase, we’ll have it deployed [...]

Live from an undisclosed location in Northern California, the AT&T Retail Store in Chico. Welcome to liveblogging coverage of iPhone 3G, or iDay 2.0 as AT&T employees know it unofficially (iDay was the official title for the iPhone launch internally).
4:15 AM – We’re a little over an hour in (okay, almost two hours in). I [...]

In the middle of last month I attended MobileCampSF2, and the photos that came back from it weren’t so stellar. Someone finally however sent me a photo that actually shows me (and not as either an ant, or make me look sound asleep).

Yeah, that’s me. Want to see the presentation I gave? It’s posted it [...]

Back in the same place I was a little over a year ago. But, there’s no line outside the door for iPhone 3G.
Now, it’s not why you might think. See, fires in Northern California are so bad, that the smoke has actually gotten much worse from the last time I blogged about it. So bad, [...]

Today, Google confirmed to us that we’ll be showing up on Google News in the next few weeks.
That means that when you run a search on Google News, you’ll now get the best, most comprehensive wireless industry coverage out there… straight from PhoneNews.com.
While it took longer than it should have, we’d like to thank Google [...]

We’ve posted this on a few other web sites… but I felt important to post it here as well:
Hello Everyone,
I realize that the events of these past days about SERO may have left a bitter taste in your mouth, both to Sprint and to PhoneNews.com.
I want to personally clarify that we have simply been updating [...]