The Japanese Prime Minister’s Office has launched an English-language Twitter account giving translated updates to the world on the situation quickly unfolding in Japan. Since the earthquake, registering 8.9 on the Richter scale, hit last Saturday, the media has been constantly updating the breaking news as it develops. This account, @JPN_PMO, offers translations from the official disaster Twitter account, @Kantei_Saigai.

@Kantei_Saigai gives news updates regularly primarily for the benefit of the media and citizens currently in Japan, offering times of press conferences and providing details for evacuations. The account also …

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Two major milestones for Linux, the open source and very popular operating system, have come to pass.  First, Linux turned 20 years old and the Linux Foundation released an infographic (below) to commemorate the event and the history of the OS.

Since its inception in 1991, Linux has literally come to dominate the computing world as we know it.  It’s in the servers that power some of the world’s most trafficked websites like Amazon.com, Facebook, and many others.  It also powers Android phones, which are the most-shipped phones on …

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The big buzz now is that Facebook has launched Deals, a new system for finding local deals on social events that could rival others in this space like Groupon and LivingSocial.  So will it?

Deals was announced last month, so its launch has been anticipated.  What was lacking were details, which we now have.

First, the launch of Deals (happening now) is limited to only five cities: Atlanta, Austin, Dallas, San Diego, and San Francisco.  Second, the Deals are limited to social events like concerts and seminars and …

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Unsanctioned, third-party app provider Cydia – sort of the store for those who don’t use iTunes – has landed a brand deal with Toyota.  The advertising deal is the first of its kind, where a major brand goes to a non-conforming provider for marketing.  The ads being run are part of Toyota’s advertising campaign to push its iPhone user interface app for select Toyota cars.

The app is focused (currently) on the Scion tC model, but Toyota has said they are likely to spread this to other vehicles in the future.  …

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One of the technologies and apps that is poised to really become disruptive in the mobile-meets-retail arena is Square.  This is a payment service that combines a small $10 card reader with an iPhone app that allows you to turn your iPhone into a point-of-sale machine.

Now, Apple is going to feature the startup’s technology in their stores.  After the huge coup they got when Steve Jobs showed it off in conjunction with the iPad 2, this is huge news and a gigantic marketing opportunity for the company.

The sale …

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The Internet Advertising Bureau that handles statistics for Internet advertising has released its figures for last year. They show a significant level of growth for online advertising in the US, growing a total of 15% up to $26 billion. Search advertising is still the largest form of advertising online, making up a total of 46% of the whole figure. Display advertisements seen on web pages in the form of banners also contributes significantly to all online advertising, sitting at 38%.

Display advertising indeed actually grew much faster than search advertising last year …

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As much as other options seem to be attempting to replace it, email is still the bread and butter of most of our Internet usage.  Thousands of applications and software suites have been created to make email more useful and manageable since its inception.

For the Mac user, however, the choices have usually been sparse and with the emergence of easy-access Web-based email, it’s even harder to really organize your inbox.  That’s where Sparrow comes in.  It’s a simple, minimalist email app for the Mac that goes a long way towards …

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AT&T announced a deal this weekend that would buy T-Mobile USA from its owner, Deutsche Telekom, for a cash and stock trade worth $39 billion.  This would be one of the largest telecom consolidations in history and will likely see a lot of scrutiny from the U.S. government before it would be allowed to go through.

The merger would make AT&T the largest U.S. wireless carrier by a very wide margin and given the Federal Communication Commission’s evil eye towards wireless carriers already, the companies were smart enough to …

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Following the recent Pwn20wn hacking challenge to crack the WebKit browser engine utilised in both Android and Blackberry OS6 powered devices, RIM, the makers of Blackberry handsets, have advised users to disable Javascript to avoid the loophole discovered during the challenge.

The hacking challenge took place during the CanSecWest conference last week. The exploit discovered allows users misdirected to a malicious website to hack the phone via the use of Javascript commands. While Google, the creator of the Android operating system, were able to act quickly enough to release a security patch to avoid …

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With the immense growth in tablet options since the launch of Apple’s iPad last year, many consumers anticipate a more open and customisable generation of tablets to appear during this latest tech boom.

Gigabyte have seen an opening in the market and are gearing up for a product launch in October 2011 that offers the user the option to dual boot into either Android or Windows 7. While Windows 7 may not be the best possible option for a tablet, it is useful to many potential users that a fully fledged home …

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Ping.fm, the easy to use service that lets you mass update several social profiles at once, has announced that they are now in open beta.?? As a member myself, I have been using ping almost everyday since I was grated access into use the system many months ago.

With Ping.fm, a user goes to the site, and leaves a status update/message and it updates numerous services that the user has set up.?? You can use it to update on sites like twitter, facebook, GTalk, AIM, identi.ca, friendster, hi5, myspace and the …

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Over the next several weeks Google’s Blogger will be rolling out some new features.?? These new features are being launched in an attempt to make the blogging platform a little more social.

Apparently Google is going to be providing a gadget that will enable writers using the Blogger service to be able to see the followers of their blogs.?? This gadget will also display those people following the writer on the actual blog.?? They will accomplish this by adding a Follow this Blog link on all Blogger blogs.?? A blogger will …

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Picasa, should be announcing right about now that they are lauching a new facial recognition software with their latest update today.?? Other features are also rumored to be launched, including a way to make movies from your photos, photo retouching and synchronization with your web album.

The new tag feature will display a group of photos that they deem to be the same person. The person can then attach a name to the photo, and once they do, that user can see the photos of the tagged person throughout their albums.?? …

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Following up to the inaugral post of my new focus for Rev2 — the entrepreneur — I received a great suggestion from Gonzalo Arzuago of KillerStartups: the entrepreneur and the deadline/time/launch date. Yes, any entrepreneur who is reading this knows what I am talking about, and if you haven’t worked on your own company yet, chances are that you’ve experienced this problem in at least some form of your life.

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So, here’s the deal: you have a huge idea — the company, the product, the business. There are some key components …

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As someone who lives in the Path of Hurricane Harm, I tend to spend most of the storm season with my eyes glued to the television, and weather websites. Up until recently, I frequented NOAA every 2 hours looking for updates in tracks. Then I would go to the sun-setinel looking at the computer models. That was before I found Stormpulse.

Back in 2004 Matthew Wensing, and Brad Wiemerslage (currently web developers at the Palm Beach Post, creating a geospatial site), met in Chicago. As …

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