Tag: Japan

Miyazaki Fans In Japan Set New Tweets Per Second Record
Japan, Japan, Japan. You rock. In case any of you didn't already agree, Japan offered up another example of their awesomeness by blowing away the record for tweets per second ov...
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See The Japan Earthquake / Tsunami Damage Through Before & After Street View
Back in March, a devastating earthquake and subsequent tsunami caused massive damage to a large part of eastern Japan. A few months later, Google...
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Take A Swim With This Waterproof Tablet
How many times have you had the urge to take your tablet device with you in the shower? Or maybe take it for a swim? I'd sure like to catch up on Breaking Bad while hanging out i...
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This Spherical Flying Machine is One Little Ball of Awesome
Did you ever wonder what it would look like if you mixed a helicopter with an airplane and then wrapped it up inside a spherical cage? Well, you're in luck. This spherical flyi...
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Women’s World Cup Final Breaks Twitter Record
There's a new champion in the books, and not just in the Women's World Cup, either. During Japan's win-for-the-ages performance against a valiant United States squad, the tweets w...
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Visualizing Twitter Use During the Japanese Earthquakes
Twitter's role during, well, anything worth talking about has been pretty well defined. Whether it's the Vancouver riots, natural weather disasters in Missouri and Alabama, discus...
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Google Launches Messages For Japan
In the aftermath of the earthquake and subsequent tsunami in northern Japan, there has been an outpouring of support from people all over the world - both emotionally and financial...
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The Japan Quake Maps Are Useful, Educational
If there's some good that comes from the kind of natural disaster that hit Japan, aside from seeing people put aside their petty differences for a moment in favor of assisting thos...
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YouTube Person Finder Introduced
Since the devastating earthquake and following tsunami in northern Japan, technology has played a...
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Apple Store Helps Japanese In Need
We are constantly being inundated with reports on how technology is making the world a cold, desolate place. That is why it is so nice when a story comes along about tech and soci...
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FIRED: Gilbert Gotfried No Longer Voice of Aflac Duck
Comedian Gilbert Gotfried is known for his censor-less humor when it comes to delicate subject matters, we all remember his infamous 9/11 joke, right? Now his crass sense of humor,...
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Facebook Has Mapped Status Updates Relating To Disaster In Japan
The Global Disaster Relief is an initiative started by Facebook to help raise awareness of natural dis...
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Telecom Companies Offering Free Communication To Japan
For those who have friends or family in Japan, this past week has been stressful, and worrisome. Lines of communication have been hard to come by, specifically with calls and text....
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Japan’s Earthquake Shows The Strength of Social Networking
In the US, we can only imagine the devastation which occurred in Japan, and continues to occur as reports roll in concerning higher death tolls and more people missing. One of the...
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Amazon Web Services Launches In Japan
 Amazon Web  Services (AWS) said today it has launched data centers in Japan for its cloud computing platform. Japan is the fifth region where Amazon h...
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