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

Filed under: Humor , Cult of Mac , Odds and ends , Apple Happy weekend! Google may have won some hearts with its Super Bowl ad a little while back, but we all know that Apple is the king of advertising when it comes to technology, so YouTuber allenmonroeiii decided to make a little parody … Read More

February has not been a good month for the Apple supply chain. After the assault , the arson, and the poisonings , now Apple’s annual supplier report reveals that 11 minors were found working in their factories this year. The 24-page report is full of bad news. The worst of it: three different factories hired … Read More

MOG , an on-demand music streaming service with backing from both Universal Music Group and Sony Music, has raised $9.5 million in a new round of funding. MOG, which has already raised over $10 million in angel and Series A rounds, launched in December with the goal of muscling into the subscription music business, with … Read More

Here’s to the crazy one . The mercurial. The rebel. The market maker. The lucky guy with the new liver. The one who sees things differently. He’s not fond of rules and bad typography. And he has no respect for mediocrity.

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I sat down with MySpace CEO Owen Van Natta at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland earlier this week to talk about his first eight months on the job. This is one of Owen’s first video interviews since taking the job last April . We talk about Van Natta’s vision for the once-mighty MySpace. … Read More

Books published by Macmillan mysteriously poofed from Amazon yesterday. The reason, according to the NYT , is that Amazon is punishing the publisher for arguing that the price of Kindle books should go up to $15. This won’t end well. It feels like a repeat of the same shit Universal Music , and later, NBC … Read More

Over in Europe, the most downloaded iPhone app is the music-detecting Shazam. In the US, it’s the Facebook app. And those soggy Brits…? In the UK, the Carling branded iPint has snagged the crown of most popular app, according to ComScore’s Alistair Hill’s presentation at the Mobile Games Forum in London.

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As we begin 2010, there are over 100,000 iPhone apps available for download — an overwhelming array of choices, but plenty of gems if you know where to look. To help you out, we’ve compiled all of Mashable’s iPhone app reviews in a definitive list to kick off the year . From social media, to … Read More

It’s a relief to finally lay hands on the Nook. The dual-screen reader was just a prop at its unveiling so I’m happy to report it works (pretty) well. It can’t kill Kindle yet, but it’s an alternative worth considering. A Two-Horse Race Do this now: Disregard all other ebook readers on the market besides … Read More

Frustrated with the fact that Pandora does not provide its streaming service in Canada, Vancouver-based Jeff Anderson set out to build a community-driven Internet radio service of his own along with other music fanatics, and dubbed the project Listen.fm . Currently still in private beta, Listen.fm is not going to be a ‘revolutionary’ service, says … Read More

Even if you don’t have a favored fighter in the browser wars , you have to admit Microsoft’s Internet Explorer has been looking mighty unfit over the last few years. Younger and fitter contenders like Mozilla’s Firefox and Google’s Chrome have arguably overtaken the old stalwart, and now Microsoft is making some much-needed noise about … Read More

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion , Audio , Hardware , Multimedia , Music Sonos , best known for wireless music systems that link to your iTunes library and internet services like Pandora, Rhapsody and Napster, is offering a one piece, 5 speaker system that can be placed in any room. It’s called the Zone Player … Read More

It’s November 2009 and we’re nearing the end of a decade. It’s been a tumultuous time of change for many industries, much of it driven by the Internet. With that in mind, over the coming weeks ReadWriteWeb will look back on the defining Web trends of the past 10 years . From the dot com … Read More

While the hardware on the outside looks to hardly be a departure from the norm for HP’s TouchSmart line , there’s some exciting stuff going on under the hood. Of course, multitouch is the big buzz this season with Windows 7 onboard and those fancy Surface apps are fine to play with, but more important … Read More