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Rackspace, one of the world's largest hosting providers, announced two major acquisitions today: SliceHost and JungleDisk. Slicehost is a popular cloud computing and hosting provider with about 15,000 users, while

Davide Casaleggio sent a tip to Read/WriteWeb about a video his company produced exploring the future of media. It is a very cool 6-minute video, which takes some educated (and

Centuries of struggling by artists and musicians to make a living have come to this. While the rest of the music industry is fighting to figure out how to stay

Written by Alex Iskold and edited by Richard MacManus Lately Amazon has been introducing a raft of 'web 2.0' features to its e-commerce website. In this post we explore how

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/tech_news/Text_and_Banner_Ads_on_Amazon_Has_the_World_Gone_Mad'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; I was shopping for a digital camera this weekend and my first stop was naturally Amazon. While browsing pages I

According to a report in the New York Times this morning, Google is getting ready to enter the eBook market by providing publishers with an infrastructure for direct-to-consumer sales. The

Written by Alex Iskold and edited by Richard MacManus. WebOS services are going to be utilized by thousands of companies - and will power the next generation of web applications.

This week as part of our focus on Non-Profits, I did a Read/WriteTalk podcast with Brian Bailey - the author of The Blogging Church. While Brian's focus is obviously

Amazon's original video store, Amazon Unbox, is a lot like iTunes - you shop online and the files must be downloaded to your computer in order to view them. For

Amazon.com changed the retail world. In the process the company built up so much surplus computing power that it started a dirt cheap "computing in the cloud" business that changed