The Prime Minister of Japan has decided to open a new Twitter account in English that will give official updates from the earthquake struck regions and will let the world know about the latest in relief efforts that are currently in progress. This seems a very wise move on the part of the administration as much of the world is anxiously glued to what is happening in Japan and the extent to which relief and rescue measures are reaching those in need. The @JPN_PMO Twitter account has already gained more than 7000 followers in just the first hour and obviously that number will

This is an interesting piece of news that has been denied as quickly as it surfaced. There was a report on Readwriteweb about Google in the midst of developing a social sharing site that would be out soon at SXSW this week. The report talked about Chris Messina from Google leading the team that is currently developing ‘Google Circles’. This would be an online sharing network that would be more sensitive in sharing information among your contacts depending on your level of acquaintance. It seems that as soon as the report surfaced, Google was pretty quick to kill the idea

It seems like trustworthy sources are fast disappearing! Those people who were supposedly in the know are becoming know-nots, at least when it comes to speculations on the release date of the HTC Thunderbolt. Remember, we had stumbled upon talk of the HTC Thunderbolt launching on February 24th and then later on the date was pushed by another week.  Then again, yesterday, we had found Roseville Best Buy’s Twitter post that said the Thunderbolt could be released on March 4th – a Thursday! The funny part of this tweet was that the retail store ended up confusing the day when

Well, what is surprising about this is that there is still that “might be” in the sentence and to be honest we and many of those who placed pre-order for the HTC Thunderbolt 4G are starting to get a bit sick of this pushing around of dates. The annoying part is that you ask people to ‘pre-order’ and never tell them when it is confirming and keep pushing the launch back. If the Thunderbolt 4G was not ready in the first place then Verizon Wireless should have waited and not rushed this whole process. This is almost as if companies are hoping that we would pre-order it

Sprint might not have said it aloud, but we well might see the official launch date and price details of the HTC 7 Pro out very soon. It seems that ‘February 24th’ is becoming the date for everything these days. Official releases, rumored launches and pre-order beginnings- everyone wants everything to be out in the open this Thursday. Obviously most of them are simply baseless rumors, but this one is coming from Sprint themselves. The company confirmed on Twitter that they will indeed be announcing something big and important this Thursday and by the looks of it, the HTC 7

If you want the official launch news first, then the place to be these days is Twitter. That is where all the biggest new, views and rumors start and end in recent times. And that is exactly from where we have confirmed that another ‘Android Update’ is going to be out for sure. Remember that earlier today Epic 4G got a Froyo update and while it will not happen immediately, Three UK has confirmed that HTC Desire will indeed be getting Gingerbread. Answering to a tweet asking if Three would indeed bring out Gingerbread for the HTC Desire, this is what the guys at Three had to

Developer Virender Ajmani has given a new face to Google Maps and an idea that in itself could be a more permanent feature of social networking sites in the future. By integrating Twitter feeds with Google Maps, he has created a mapping system for the tweets. This allows you to take a glance at the latest Twitter from the mapped region and also locates the place from which it has originated. This is a wonderful and effective way of using Google Maps and by interpreting this to the strife-stricken Middle East, he has provided an innovative new way of sharing information with

We did tell you a couple of days back that Twitter had pulled the plug on Twidroyd, UberTwitter and UberCurrent. Now we can confirm that the ban on the Twitter Apps of UberMedia have been lifted completely and they are back up and running again. The initial ban from twitter came because of a policy violation from UberMedia in ways more than one. Uber Media was quick to act on the complaints that twitter had and even changed the name of UberTwitter to UberSocial as the term of ‘Twitter’ in their name was something which was found unacceptable. The initial release from

If you are using UberTwitter, Twidroyd or UberCurrent to make Twitter easy, then you will have to now find another way to on your mobiles (For a little while, atleast). This is irrespective of whether you are using the iOS, Android or Blackberry as Twitter has just pulled these off thanks to policy violations. Al three have been shut down after Twitter found that they were using the data on Twitter in a way that didn’t sit well with the company’s policy. The official announcement and the reasons for the ban were given by Twitter in the following release: “violations

Windows Phone has become one of the topics at the first day of the Mobile World Congress 2011, with Steve Ballmer enthusing over the details of the Nokia partnership and revealing details about not one but two updates for the platform in 2011. To begin with the Windows Phone NoDo update – this is the one that adds copy and paste functionality – will be made available to users in March. This update has already “gone gold” and been sent out to the various Windows Phone manufacturers for testing, and along with copy and paste this minor update includes