Japan is probably one of the biggest markets for portable TVs in the world, but because the digital standard used in those devices (1Seg) has only been adopted by Japan and a few South American countries so far, I usually don't cover new models coming out. But Panasonic's SV-ME970, announced [JP] today, is different: it has Android 2.1 on board and lets users surf the web.

Read More: Via Android 2.1: Panasonic Adds Web Browsing To Their Japanese Mini TVs

Pulse, an app that delivers news content to mobile phones and tablets including Android devices, the iPhone, and the iPad, will add fare from msnbc.com under terms of an agreement between the two parties, announced Wednesday.

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An update to the Android version of the official Twitter app is now available in the Android Market, and the update adds two important features, support for multiple accounts and notifications. Updates have also been made to the appearance of the two widgets included with the app, and several bug fixes have also been implemented.


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Social network measurement service Klout has unveiled a new metric to better calculate its users' overall social reach, adding Foursquare checkins alongside its existing Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn metrics.Klout measures social influence by using data collected from supported social media accounts, incorporating following counts, follower counts, retweets, list memberships and the influential people that interact with those accounts – combining them all to award the user with an o [...]

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One of the distinguishing features of Google+ is its simplicity for grouping people who you follow by simply dragging and dropping their names into circles. Facebook's Groups has the same functionality without the fancy UI, but the problem is that Groups didn't appear until after most of us accumulated dozens, if not hundreds, of friends, and it is too much work to put hundreds of friend into groups. Katango is an iPhone app that scans through your Facebook friends and automatically [...]

Read More: Katango Adds Google+ Circles Behavior To Facebook On iPhone

Japan is probably one of the biggest markets for portable TVs in the world, but because the digital standard used in those devices (1Seg) has only been adopted by Japan and a few South American countries so far, I usually don't cover new models coming out. But Panasonic's SV-ME970, announced [JP] today, is different: it has Android 2.1 on board and lets users surf the web.

Read More: Via Android 2.1: Panasonic Adds Web Browsing To Their Japanese Mini TVs