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Update 2: It's yet another Apple (AAPL) iPhone 5 release date rumor, although it's sounding more like an Apple iPhone 4S now. Anyway, some deep-throats in Taiwan confirm previous rumors that it's shipping in September. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers wonder how much more of this nonsense they can take. Not to mention an Apple Store employee attempts to explain Twitter to a buffoon...

After the Japan earthquake and tsunami, come the nuclear meltdown fears. All this is causing DRAM and NAND chip spot prices to rise rapidly. While the world mourns, it's adding to worries about the Japanese economy.
DRAM and NAND flash memory chip prices are rising, after last week's 9.0Mw earthquake and tsunami in Japan, and subsequent nuclear meltdown fears. Aside from the quake's terrible human tragedies and the acute damage to the Japanese economy, we also may have to pay more for our computers and gadgets. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers fear for the future. Not to mention Super Mario with Real-Life Sound Effects...

Honda technology aimed at helping drivers find their most fuel-efficient routes is being put to a different use following the devastating earthquake and tsunami.

Even as Apple [AAPL] plans tenth birthday celebrations for its retail stores, a little rain falls on the Cupertino parade, with another iPhone 5 release rumor, with FBR Capital Markets jumping into the fray with its own speculation, claiming not only that iPhone sales are slowing but that the next-generation device won't appear until Q3, broadly in line with consensus expectations.

Apple's iPad 2 has sold at least half a million units across its launch weekend, but manufacture and distribution could be impacted by the appalling disaster unfolding in Japan, which has bought production at some key silicon and memory makers to a halt.

Konnichiha! It's Friday's IT Blogwatch, Richi Jennings watches bloggers watch Nokia pull out of the Japanese cell phone market. Not to mention the vegetable of mass destruction...

iPhones, iPads and other Apple products may be in short supply as the impact of the terrible tragedy that hit Japan in March begins to be felt across the company's supply chain. Confounding the problem, labor sufficient to meet Apple's aggressive iPad 2 and iPhone production orders is also in short supply.

Hajimemashite! IT Blogwatch noh. Richi Jennings desu. Dozo yoroshiku. Looks like Steve Jobs is trying to get the iPhone into Japan: possibly the world's most difficult mobile phone market for foreigners to enter. Not to mention 30 years of LucasFilm Christmas cards...

In today's podcast: Google says censors blocked search service in China; PayPal halts personal payments in Japan; and Intel launches eight-core Nehalem-EX chips.

In today's podcast: Computer problem strands Japanese air passengers; Berners-Lee to establish Web foundation; and anti-spoofing measures raise privacy concerns.

In today's podcast: Intel complains EU antitrust investigation is discriminatory; bloggers help get out information about Mumbai attacks; and Nokia says sayonara to Japan.

In today's podcast: Japan gets taste of iPhone 4 fever; Khronos ratifies OpenCL 1.1; and Twitter scrambles to keep its servers running.

In today's podcast: Japan mulls adding iPod tax to offset piracy; Best Buy takes 50 percent stake in Carphone Warehouse; and Microsoft ponders using Windows Mobile to expand IT access.

In today's podcast: Pakistani ISP's error takes down YouTube; Microsoft stops making HD DVD drives for Xbox 360; and Japan launches Internet satellite.

In today's podcast: iPhone 3G sales start in Japan; Australian PC maker leaks Intel's quad-core laptop chip; and Rambus sues Nvidia over memory technology.