BROWSING: Earthquake

Natural and manmade disasters are always going to overload wireless networks as frantic people try to contact loved ones, find out what the hell is happening and in today’s society, update their status, comment and upload video to social-media networks. Yesterday’s earthquake along the East...

BBC News | July 15, 2011 The mobile phone maker said the quake last March had caused "supply chain constraints", which meant that about 1.5m phones were not ready for sale. Read the full article here via BBC News

BBC News | July 15, 2011 The mobile phone maker said the quake last March had caused "supply chain constraints", which meant that about 1.5m phones were not ready for sale. Read the full article here via BBC News

Mobile broadband is critical in a time of disaster according to Norwegian browser maker Opera which claims Japanese usage of its software skyrocketed in the days following the earthquake. Last month Japan was hit by one of the largest earthquakes in modern history, as well...

Mobile broadband is critical in a time of disaster according to Norwegian browser maker Opera which claims Japanese usage of its software skyrocketed in the days following the earthquake. Last month Japan was hit by one of the largest earthquakes in modern history, as well...

AUSTIN, Texas-Due to irreparable damages incurred from the recent 9.0 magnitude earthquake on March 11, officials from Freescale Semiconductor confirmed the closing of its wafer fabrication plant in Sendai, Japan. After a lengthy assessment of equipment and infrastructure damage and ...

Bloomberg | April 3, 2011 | Pavel Alpeyev Softbank Corp. (9984) President Masayoshi Son, Japan’s richest man, pledged to donate 10 billion yen ($120 million) and his remaining salary until retirement to help support victims of the nation’s biggest postwar disaster. Japan’s third-largest wireless carrier will donate...

Japanese carrier NTT DoCoMo Inc. released some stats about its network's restoration following the massive earthquake which hit the country last month.

Reuters | March 28, 2011 | Gowri Jayakumar Hurt by Japan's devastating earthquake and tsunami, IT vendors NEC Corp and Fujitsu Ltd have decided to refrain from making personnel and organizational changes, previously scheduled for April 1, the Nikkei business daily reported. NEC, which had planned to reassign...

There’s a lizard napping peacefully on top of my mosquito net as I type. He looks rested – almost as rested as I did this morning after a blissful seven hours of sleep.

iSupply | March 21, 2011 | Len Jelinek The Japanese earthquake has resulted in the suspension of one-quarter of the global production of silicon wafers used to make semiconductors. Manufacturing operations have stopped at Shin-Etsu Chemical Co. Ltd.’s Shirakawa facility. MEMC Electronic Materials Inc. also...

Wall Street Journal | March 22, 2011 | Yoree Koh Masayoshi Son is not a member of the fearless Tokyo Fire Department’s Hyper Rescue Squad that departed Monday for the troubled northern pocket of Japan. But the famously energetic chief executive and founder of Softbank...

AUSTIN, Texas-Austin-based Freescale Semiconductor (Freescale) and Dallas-based Texas Instruments Inc. (TI) announced this week that the catastrophic earthquake in Japan has disrupted manufacturing operations for both companies, which have facilities in Japan. Soon after the disaster, prices of semiconductors for...

Qualcomm Inc. says it does not foresee any significant impact to its semiconductor supply chain after last week’s earthquake in Japan and says it shouldn’t have a problem in continuing to supply product to its customers.

Reuters | March 16, 2011 | Niklas Pollard and Tarmo Virki * Possible tech sector equivalent of Lehman Bros -analyst * Ericsson sees no material impact on Q1 sales * Alcatel-Lucent says has enough inventory for now * Chipmaker STMicro sees possible Q1-Q2 revenue hit (Adds STMicro sticking to...

Austin American Statement | March 14, 2011 | Kirk Ladendorf Texas Instruments Inc. said Monday that one of its three semiconductor manufacturing operations in Japan suffered "substantial damage" from last week's massive earthquake and that it will affect the company's revenue in the first and...

ABC News | March 15, 2011 | BRETT LEVY and RONNIE REISS Google has set up a new service to help people reunite with those missing since Japan's earthquake and tsunami. Google Person Finder allows people all over the world to set up profile...

ABC News | March 15, 2011 | BRETT LEVY and RONNIE REISS Google has set up a new service to help people reunite with those missing since Japan's earthquake and tsunami. Google Person Finder allows people all over the world to set up profile...

This week marks Twitter's fifth birthday. Since it was first launched to the public, the micro-blogging service has noticeably changed the way we broadcast, organise and digest information.

Reuters | March 14, 2011 | Noel Randewich (Reuters) - Automakers, shipbuilders and technology companies worldwide scrambled to replace supplies after the disaster in Japan shut down production plants there and disrupted the global manufacturing supply chain. Technology companies were especially affected since Japan accounts for...

Associated Press | March 14, 2011 Japan's stocks plunged Monday on the first full day of business after the massive earthquake and tsunami. The Nikkei dropped more than 6 percent and Japan's Central Bank injected nearly $200 billion into money markets. (March...

New Zealand Herald | March 14, 2011 | Hamish Fletcher Christchurch's phone and internet providers are restoring, upgrading and remapping their infrastructure to meet the needs of quake-struck businesses and residents. Vodafone, Telecom, 2degrees and TelstraClear say they were impressed with how their...

Wall Street Journal | March 14, 2011 | Owen Fletcher and Juro Osawa Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES BEIJING (Dow Jones)--Asia's major telecom operators scrambled on Monday to eliminate the impact on their operations from damage to several submarine cables following the massive earthquake and...

Mobile electronics accessory and design firm AViiQ has started a solidarity campaign for Japan with donations to the American Red Cross for every user that likes its Facebook page.