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it's now time to swing off the vine I'm Bridget Carey and this is your CNET update the new vine app seems to have a porn problem vine a Twitter app that allows people to share 6-second looping video clips launched last week with a lot of buzz but it only took a couple of days before users started loading up clips that are not safe for work searches for hashtags like porn and sex bring up graphic results you'll even stumble on porn now just by browsing the most recent vines vines Terms of Service do not forbid sexually explicit content so the question everyone's asking now is how long will this app be available to download in Apple's App Store Apple has a strict policy over banning apps with adult content and nudity so will Apple ban the app or make an exception for a Twitter owned application perhaps it's giving Twitter a chance to clean up its act if you haven't heard of vine yet this new Twitter video app is getting buzz only because Twitter's behind it it's not actually something most people will get value out of using Instagram grew popular because it enhanced the photos you were already taking and became a community of people to tell stories of their life and snapshots browsing vines 6-second looping clips will just make you disoriented with bad editing and shaky recordings of trivial things like people making coffee at its best vine is a good way to express your creative side with artsy stop-motion animations but that takes time and currently 99% of vine posts are junk if you don't have an iPhone you shouldn't feel left out for now but if you think otherwise post a comment on the update blog or write me an update at cnet.com in other news there's talk of another Retina Display iPad model being readied for release that would have 128 gigs of memory the report comes from 9 to 5 Mac iPhone users can now download the iOS 6.1 update the software has a few minor features and bug fixes and if you've been considering an upgrade to Windows 8 these are the final days to buy it for a cheaper price upgrades to the pro version cost $40 per computer unless you just bought a computer after June 2nd in which the upgrade cost 15 dollars but after Thursday January 31st the price for the upgrade sky gets to 200 bucks for the pro version Microsoft will be releasing its next version of Office on Tuesday it's called office 2013 so look to see Nets full review on that one it launches and the big blackberry 10 revealed comes Wednesday researcher motion will unveil its two newest phones at an event in New York one phone will be a full touchscreen and the other will have a QWERTY keyboard scene it will be live logging the events starting at 10:00 a.m. Eastern on Wednesday so stay tuned for that it's the company's make or break moment that your tech news update for more details on today's stories and head to the blog cnet.com slash from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey