Yes, yes, the Internet is killing old media companies. But every once in a while, they take their revenge. They put us through agony over…

Burning Man is, in some ways, a virtual world. It's not unlike Second Life: a flat, empty plane onto which creator/participants build a…

Waiting for a Google Plus invite? Google is rolling out the service in waves and you can expect it to become a ubiquitous social option in…

We all know that cyberspace can be a nasty place, but a new study from Bitdefender shows exactly how easy it is to compromise personal…

The answer is to moderate our use of and dependence on social media, especially Facebook. Frictionless sharing, the act of passively…

At the end of this discourse, to borrow a phrase from my hero, Edward R. Murrow, a few people may accuse this reporter of fouling his own…

Over the past week I read Kevin Kelly's latest book, What Technology Wants. It's a highly ambitious and expansive book, which looks at…

While certainly not every business needs to raise venture financing, it is the path for many high-growth technology startups. Therefore…

"Blogging is largely dead." "There are a lot of stupid people out there ... and stupid people shouldn't write." "There needs to be a…

On April 3, 2010, Apple officially launched its much anticipated tablet: the iPad. It was the most hyped tech product of the year, but for…

The death of Steve Jobs has rocked people the world over, affecting everyone from the most hardcore Apple fanboy to Barack Obama to all…

I promise I didn't write this in advance, waiting for the appropriate moment to unleash it from the vault of pre-conceived, pre-digested…

Big data and sentiment analysis can do amazing things, whether it's in the enterprise or in the quest to create compelling applications…

In the last few months, Netflix has lost 800,000 subscribers and Redbox is being accused of "pulling a Netflix" due to price increases. From…

In the dead of night on Monday, November 14, Zuccotti Park in New York City was raided by police. In the preceding days, there were…

Hinds Hall, Syracuse University campus, 2:48 am ET November 11 - Three in the morning is a magical time. There's a certain…

For all the wonders of Apple's iPad, one feature that's always been a little underwhelming is its native Web browser. Like on the iPhone…

Facebook has the most downloaded native application of all time. It also has perhaps the most visited mobile website of all time with nearly…

After making the rounds on the Internet for a few days, a news story about research purporting to show that Internet Explorer users tend…

Baby trashes bar in Las Palmas One year ago a distributed DNS and content delivery network startup called CloudFlare launched at a…

Mobile payment has become a mainstream tech topic in the last couple of years, mirroring the rise of smartphones and application stores…

Final update: Three months after ReadWriteWeb first described these plans in detail, Google announces Google Circles as part of a larger…

In my last post on ReadWriteStart, I talked about how, in many cases, it wasn't an advantage to build your start-up in stealth mode. As a…

I spent part of this week with Hilary Mason, one of the smartest people that I know in Big Data. She works as the Chief Scientist for Bit.ly…