Been a busy week, working on the Gift Guide, scheduling CES meetings, and getting the site ready for CES. Had to do emergency work on SlashGear forum with some XSS vulnerability hole to cover and interface makeover. SlashGear blog should run much speedier now, ironed out several useless MySQL queries. Heading to a local pizzeria [...]

Building an active community is a daunting task and many times we scratch our head to figure out what made a community successful. Android Community is our fastest growing community site; and credit goes to the team of droids for making it happen. With the big push of first Android device from T-Mobile and HTC [...]

The iPhone 3G is here and almost everyone on Aradius 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. [...]

Our Ajax live coverage system has been updated today. New look, faster backend and better data handling using Amazon S3. We decided to change the name to Live! rather than LiveCast, after all the subdomain said live dot – LIVE.SLASHGEAR.COM, LIVE.IPHONEBUZZ.COM and so on. Our next Live! will be on the 9th of this month, [...]

It has been 30 months since we started SlashGear and today we’ve posted our 10000th entry. Vincent and I would like to thank our readers, staffs (Chris Davies, Chris Barr, Abby McVay, and Daniel Lim), and our sponsor Quartics for the support and hard work.

We’ve recently launch a new site on our network. No, it’s not another tech related site on Aradius Network – this time it’s a food site. Simply Craving is our latest blog that focuses on food from different culture and places. So fire up your browser and type simplycraving.com.