Porn has long been one of the leading content sectors of the Internet. Yet, it is getting shut out from the latest cutting-edge mobile device coming down the pike, Google Glass. Google updated its developer policies for creating Google Glass apps (called Glassware) over the weekend to ban sexually explicit material, building an Apple-like walled [...]

With the release of yet more data showing Windows 8′s dismal performance in the marketplace, we have to ask: Is Windows 8 failing to gain traction because it sucks, or because there’s no demand for it? That is a key question that must be on the minds of the execs at Microsoft right now, but [...]

Most social network founders want to make money. Ijad Madisch, the scientist-CEO behind ResearchGate, has a higher goal: He wants to win a Nobel Prize for the network.  Five years after its founding, Madisch’s plan doesn’t seem so far-fetched. ResearchGate, which has been described as “LinkedIn for scientists,” has 2.9 million users — about half [...]

Twitter cofounder and chairman Jack Dorsey has either lost his mind, or he’s just showing the obsessive devotion to his company’s products he’s famed for. About an hour ago, Dorsey tweeted a six-second Vine video where he said he was ”about to do something very interesting.” In the video, he followed some men in construction-worker uniforms. [...]

IBM is undeniably eager to get its cloud mission off the ground, which is why it just dropped some serious coin to pick up the cloud computing company SoftLayer today. No one is sure what the price tag for SoftLayer will be when the deal is finalized sometime in the third quarter, but the Wall [...]

Oracle is still trying to get its Java house in order with some new policy changes to the application development platform that will hopefully lock down the ever-present security vulnerabilities plaguing Java. In a blog post late last week, Nandini Ramani, head of the software development team that builds the Java platform, acknowledged the problems [...]

App.net, the ad-free social network and blogging service, is a fascinating experiment in community-building when all outside influence has been stripped away. Limiting messages to 256 characters and relying an exclusive invite-only growth process, App.net has steadily become a destination for those looking to avoid the clutter of Twitter and Facebook. Starting right now, ReadWrite [...]

Today, Twitter finally released its popular short-video Vine app for Android. Within minutes, Samsung had hijacked the app’s release for its own purposes.  Samsung started hitting the Vine release hard through its Twitter account a little less than an hour after the new Vine app was announced, using the hashtag #GalaxyVine to promote the download [...]

Zynga, the social gaming company that rode the Facebook wave on its way up, is finding the way down brutal. The company is laying off 18% of its staff – 520 employees, to be precise – in yet another move to slow its rapid decline. The company is also closing its New York, Los Angeles, [...]

Apple has signed an agreement to bring Warner Music into the fold of its new streaming radio service, according to a CNET report. Though previously thought to have been inked a few weeks back, terms with Warner apparently weren’t finalized until Sunday. The deal brings Apple closer to having the service, possibly to be called [...]

The struggle to figure out how social media and smartphones can best fit into the daily news cycle seems never-ending. Considering the torrent of reporting fiascos surrounding the Boston Marathon bombing - most of which centered, as they often do in the age of social media, on erroneous tweets and the virality of misinformation – it’s still [...]

Your friends are having a party. You’re not quite sure where it is, but all the details are in a Facebook Event invite. To get there, you’ll have to log into Facebook, find the invite and the address, load it into Google Maps and follow the directions.  Social driving app Waze wants to make that [...]