The iPhone 3G is here and almost everyone on R3 gets one. Vince, Chris, Scott, and me gets the black iPhone 3G while Satsuki gets the white one. We have posted an iPhone 3G review at SlashGear – Japanese readers can see the quick hands-on video on SlashGear Japan. We encountered problem activating the iPhone [...]
If you have not heard of miniBB, it’s a very lightweight forum web application – we use it on SlashGear discussion forums. Prior to WordPress 2.5, miniBB integration to WordPress was fairly straightforward and easy. WordPress 2.5 introduces new password hashes, phpass and it breaks many 3rd party application integration, including miniBB. While you can [...]
June has been a great month for us, aside from hiring new staff members, our revenue and traffic increased by over fifteen percent. Blogging professionally and running it as a business is no overnight task; We put so much effort, time, and sometimes burning both side of the candle to achieve where we are today. [...]
After last week’s pilot (introduction), we received several feedback for SlashGear TV’s week in review video. We taped the first episode on Saturday and aired them early today. Vince, Ashley and Bree covers everything that we published on our network between June 23rd to June 27th. As always, feedback are always welcome.
I’m a guy who will throw in more hardware to keep up with server load and traffic demand, but from time to time, being able to squeeze every little bit of performance worth the hassle of mingling into applications and server configuration. WordPress is quite MySQL resources intensive when you are not using file-based cache [...]
Several of my relatives were curious about what I do for a living. Seeing me working from home on my PJ and almost every single day – they raised questions of many. So what is R3? Simply put, we are an online media company that operates several popular technology sites including SlashGear, PhoneMag, SlashPhone, and [...]
We had a informal meeting with HTC in New York two days ago and were given the opportunity to play around with the HTC Touch Pro, formerly known as Raphael. It is basically a thicker version of HTC Touch with QWERTY slide keyboard. Read the full hands-on and watch the video.
I’ve got a pre-production unit in from Asus earlier this week and been using it since. While not all features is in this unit. I’m quite impressed with what Asus has been able to put inside this extremely portable machine – not saying that MSI Wind and others are similarly impressive. Go ahead and hop [...]
