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Fossilized alien microbes have been discovered in a sample extracted from a meteorite, according to research carried out by a NASA/Marshall Space Flight Center astrobiologist.

Samsung may have been humbled by Apple’s iPad 2, but the company’s apparently not letting that affect its plans — without directly refuting statements by a Samsung VP that the upcoming Galaxy Tab 10.1 was “inadequate” or might be priced cheaper than originally intended, the company told the Yonhap News Agency that the tablet will be released on schedule. In other words, the Honeycomb tablet’s not getting any thinner or lighter, but something’s gotta give, and Samsung’s not quite ready to say just what that is.

Samsung says Galaxy Tab 10.1 is still on schedule, iPad 2 be darned originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 05 Mar 2011 18:11:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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We told you ARNOVA is ARCHOS’ new budget brand. Well, now we’re learning that ARCHOS has plans to take things up a notch and produce tablets on par with Apple’s iPad 2 and Motorola’s XOOM. According to a company rep. at CeBIT, ARCHOS will unveil a new high-end Android tablet at IFA this September. No […]

I’ll be back with new Chuck & Beans cartoons on March 18th. Until then here’s an old one you may have missed, posted back when the blog was getting tens of visitors every week. -brian

I feel the recent in-app-purchase issue where kids are charging hundreds or thousands of dollars in fees by buying game items in real-world money can best be expressed in animated video form. Luckily, the Taiwanese are happy to oblige. More »

Rovio’s Angry Birds has been copied by many other mobile game developers but none of them come close to the number of downloads. In 2010 Angry Birds topped Apple’s App Store as the top paid app. As for their Android app, Rovio’s Peter Vesterbacka announced at the annual Game Developers Conference (GDC) that the free-with-ads […]

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Whether you love or loathe Apple, you have to be happy with the company’s aggressive upgrade of the iPad. It has led to Samsung, purveyor of an Android 3.0 tablet by the name of Galaxy Tab 10.1, to look more closely at its own hardware and pricing model and, according to executive VP Lee Don-Joo, “improve the parts that are inadequate.” We don’t know what those are, specifically, however he notes that “Apple made [the iPad 2] very thin” and also goes on to say that Samsung will be rethinking its pricing strategy with the Tab 10.1. It was originally going to cost more than the 7-inch Galaxy Tab, but in light of Apple’s new product, Samsung might have to cut into its profit margins… or maybe even forgo profits altogether to make its new Tab a success.

Samsung finds parts of Galaxy Tab 10.1 ‘inadequate’ compared to iPad 2, reconsiders pricing originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 04 Mar 2011 07:34:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The US Air Force will today launch its second X-37B spaceplane from Cape Canveral to intesnse interest from Russia and China, which are suspicious about its secret payload.

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If you can use Thrutu on your Android phone, it's pretty neat. When you're on a phone call, the app gives you a sliding drawer on top of your dialer to give you easy access to send pictures, contact info, location, etc. to the person you're talking to. It's quick and painless—just think about how many times you've tried to track down a phone number or explained directions on the phone, none of those situations would be as easy as just directly sending what you need. More »

We’ve caught wind of many whispers about a Windows designed specifically for tablets, but the latest scuttlebutt states we won’t get to add them to our mobile arsenal anytime soon — Bloomberg‘s anonymous sources report that Microsoft won’t release a tablet operating system until the 2012 back-to-school season, and will only begin to publically test the OS at the end of this year. That suggests not only a timeframe, but also a likely plan — it’s not hard to imagine Microsoft would enjoy a slice of the educational market before iPads replace textbooks entirely at schools with cash to burn. Of course, Dell seems to think there’ll be a Windows 8 slate in January of next year.

Microsoft tablet OS not coming until fall 2012? originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 03 Mar 2011 21:01:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Android: Facebook’s official app isn’t a total suckfest anymore, but it’s still far from perfect. If you’re still waiting for push notifications, comment liking, and friend tagging in statuses, Flow adds these features and more for a great Facebook experience on Android. More »

We know that a Wi-Fi-only Xoom is out there, lurking. And according to Droid Life, it’s going to be showing up soon at Sam’s Club for the entirely reasonable price of $540. Assuming it’s a 32GB model, that undercuts iPad 2 by a cool sixty bucks. More »

Saskatchewan’s Brad Wall has taken over from Newfoundland and Labrador’s Danny Williams as Canada’s most popular premier, a new poll suggests.