We’ve seen blow-hard electronic music makers in the past (one particular didgeridoo hack comes to mind) but still, when one makes us take note we feel like we just have to pass it along. Onyx Ashanti is an American living in Berlin and a one-man band to boot. His instrument of choice is a Yamaha … Read More

As the mobile phone industry becoming more and more crowed, the competition keeps upping the bar on each other. With all the big manufacturers spending boat loads of money on R&D trying to develop the next trendy smartphone, everyone is after that golden ticket device. A leader in measuring the digital world comScore, has release … Read More

Today Target works its self into the cell phone news arena by announcing a scannable mobile coupon program today. Target is launching this new venture nationwide at all of their retail stores. As consumers will find there will be several different avenues to opt into this new program which are PC browsing, mobile browsing, and … Read More

Each week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On , a column about consumer technology. In the 10 billionth song that Apple sold through iTunes, Johnny Cash’s “Guess Things Happen That Way”, a man other than Steve Jobs famous for black attire bemoans the happenstance of his romantic misfortune. But nothing could be further from the story … Read More

Remember when Western Digital picked up SiliconSystems for a song during the height of last decade’s Great Recession? Here we are a year later looking at the first fruit of that relationship, as WD has just introduced its first consumer-oriented solid state drive in the SiliconEdge Blue and its enterprise-ready SiliconDrive N1x. Both 2.5-inch families … Read More

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More and more big movies— Where The Wild Things Are , to name the latest—are coming out in a single package that includes Blu-ray, iTunes-friendly Digital Copy and DVD. This proves DVD is still the best way to sell movies. I naively enjoyed the Blu-ray/Digital Copy combo for a while, during the period I was … Read More

Western Digital support forums are filled with comments on the latest WDTV Live firmware update, few of them good. Many users are reporting that firmwares from 1.0.11 up are giving them trouble, at least, and in many cases outright bricking their hardware. If you’ve got one, hold off on updating for a while. Check out … Read More

We reported yesterday about Twitter Japan’s plans to start charging followers to view tweets from certain users starting January and explained why this paid subscription model could work in Japan . Well, please forget it, this won’t happen. Just a few minutes ago, Digital Garage (the company responsible for Twitter operations in Japan), issued a … Read More

Netgear’s EVA2000 Digital Entertainer Live came packin’ a lot of promise for just $150, but according to a critique over at TrustedReviews , those into a thing dubbed “high-definition” may want to keep on saving and pass over this one. You see, the only 720p content it’s capable of playing back is MPEG-2; other than … Read More

Filed under: Odds and ends , Apple Financial , Steve Jobs , Apple Steve Jobs’ Disney stocks aren’t the only thing making him rich — AAPL has hit an all time high , according to MacRumors, thanks to the big announcements earlier this week, both on the online store and during the conference call . … Read More

The eReader market is about to get truly crowded, with lots of competition on deck for Amazon’s flagship Kindle. With the Barnes & Noble eReader slated to hit next year, LG’s solar powered device , and Spring Design’s Alex running Android all coming up to bat very soon, digital book reading is seriously heating up. … Read More

Filed under: Desktops , Hardware , Odds and ends , iMac Engadget is the latest to report a rumor that’s been circulating for months : tomorrow may be the day that we finally see those new Macs we’ve been waiting on. John Gruber claims we’re going to see new MacBooks and iMacs (which we’ll rate … Read More