Word processing has come a long way since helping to drive the adoption of personal computers in the early 1980s. For writers, even early word processors offered amazing gains in productivity. I started using AppleWriter II on an Apple II+ in the summer of 1982. The switch from an electric typewriter cut my newsletter production [...]

In Silicon Valley, the true sign of success has been to build one’s own data center. As the theory goes, once you hit a certain size, owning your infrastructure becomes essential to achieving the design and deployment flexibility for outpacing rivals. Importantly, very few companies get to play in this Data Center Club and, hence, [...]

Apple CEO Tim Cook will kick off the company’s biggest event of the year at 10am Pacific Time on Monday, June 10. Join us here for ReadWrite’s live coverage of the company’s announcements, which are likely to include a big revamp to the iOS interface, updates to Mac OS X, new Mac launches and the [...]

Guest author Rand Wacker is VP of Products for CloudPassage. It is no coincidence that sports analogies are boardroom favorites. Sports metaphors can offer a great way for people to engage with business or technology. Right now, as sports fan obsess over the NBA Finals, seems like a great time to look at what basketball [...]

Tim Cook and Apple may be constructing their “grand vision” for television but I’m not waiting, not even if Cook announces something awesome at the company’s WWDC next week. I’ve switched from Apple TV to Roku 3 and am happy I did. More options, more content, slightly better terms, a remote control that doesn’t feel like a [...]

Guest author Joe Levy is CEO of clearCi, which helps companies collect, analyze manage and share intelligence. What was once only science fiction is now becoming a reality. Robots, touch screens and iPads could become passé as Google’s latest invention, Google Glass, begins to change the world forever. Google’s wearable technology – already available for [...]

Editor’s note: This post was originally published by our partners at PopSugar Tech. “You probably spend more time in your browser than in bed,” Johnathan Nightingale, VP of Firefox Engineering, said recently. And he’s right: spending lots of time on the Internet is our reality — guilty as charged. We (as in you, me, and [...]

Amazon wants to help you produce your next indie movie hit. Today, Amazon announced Storyteller, a free online tool that will automatically turn movie scripts into storyboards – with characters and dialogue – that can be shared with others for feedback.  Storyteller works by uploading a script to Amazon’s production suite, Amazon Studios. It will [...]

The high-profile documentary We Steal Secrets:The Story of Wikileaks expanded into wider release in theaters and video-on-demand on Friday. Which would seem to be fortuitous timing, given this week’s revelations that the NSA has been rifling through email and personal documents stored by Internet giants like Google and Apple and collecting months of call-related data from Verizon. And [...]

Guest author Seth Payne is a senior product manager at Skytap. Big Data, just like Cloud Computing, has become a popular phrase to describe technology and practices that have been in use for many years. Ever-increasing storage capacity and falling storage costs – along with vast improvements in data analysis, however, have made Big Data [...]

U.S. tech firms who have built their business on a free-flowing Internet just got a huge smack in the face. Leaked government documents seemed to reveal the existence of a top-secret program with the capability to mine their users’ data at will. Right now, the debate is over exactly what data’s being collected and how—and [...]

Apple has signed Sony Music on to its iRadio streaming music service, according to AllThingsD. The deal puts all three major music labels on board with Apple’s new service ahead of Monday’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) keynote address, where the service is now likely to be announced. Apple is also expected to unveil a redesigned [...]