Archive for January, 2009

Yes, Cashback is Down

PhoneNews.com Cashback went offline early this morning, we hope to have it patched and back online later tonight. We’ll keep you updated.
Don’t worry if you placed an order, but didn’t fill out the cashback form. You can just fill it out when finish tweaking things.
Update: We’ve pinpointed a couple of issues. We could fix them [...]

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Toning Back RSS, Hopefully Just for Awhile

When we started offering full RSS feeds, we did so because we had great partners at FeedBurner. Over the past several months, FeedBurner has been acquired and integrated into Google. We’ve migrated all our services over… but, there is a problem.
With the decline in the economy, Google has really done a number on RSS feed [...]

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Cashback Payments Half-Day Delay

Because the staff is all moving around, mostly due to CES, cashback payments from PhoneNews.com Cashback may be delayed today. We just wanted to give folks a heads up, we’ll have cashback payments at the normal speed later today, hopefully before the evening.

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Benchmarking CentralGadget.com

We’re still integrating CentralGadget.com into the MechaWorks network of sites. Why does that matter to you? Well, we’re still shaking up the coverage… so hang in there while we’re sorting things out.
Ideally, we’re going to have all mobile news on PhoneNews.com, with key mobile news on CentralGadget.com. But, especially with the brutal back-to-back Macworld and [...]

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