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Liu Jun, Senior VP and President of Lenovo’s Consumer Business Group, has revealed his company’s intention to deliver an Android tablet by the end of this year. To be known as LePad, this apparent resurrection of the Skylight / U1 Hybrid R&D effort seems destined to follow LePhone in seeking its fortunes in China first before expanding out to the rest of the world. Lenovo’s chairman did recently note that Apple’s relative inaction toward mainland China creates opportunities for others, so this may well represent the IdeaPad maker’s play for that burgeoning market. Of course, we’d love to be wrong and see a simultaneous release around the world — it’s about time the iPad got some legitimate competition in the slate realm.

Lenovo promises LePad Android tablet for the end of the year originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 20 Jul 2010 04:36:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Nobody can resist Waldo. Especially Saskatchewan Roughriders fans of the Canadian Football League. If you feel as if nobody talks to you in life, just dress

Windows: It’s all too easy to brush your laptop’s touchpad while typing and inject what should be at the end of the current sentence into a previous one. TouchpadPal disables the touchpad while you type for fewer cursor-created errors. More »

Two-thirds of iPhone owners are holding off upgrading to the iPhone 4 because of the device’s antenna problems.

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The body of an 84-year-old man from Yorkton, Sask. was recovered from the Whitesand River Saturday afternoon, RCMP said.

Verizon told CNET the company had “done everything possible” to ensure adequate supply of the Droid X, but there’s apparently no anticipating the demand for a top-tier smartphone — like the Droid Incredible before it, the giant 1GHz Motorola handset is already out of stock, both online (today’s orders suffer a ten-day delay) and in many brick and mortar stores. Verizon confirmed the shortages in a communique to Android Central, saying the company was pleased with initial sales, and that though they were “successful at keeping up with early demand” supplies are presently “low or out.” Tomorrow’s just not going to work out, our anti-gravitational friend — can we take a July 27th raincheck?

[Thanks, Haitham]

Droid X sold out online and scarce at retail originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 17 Jul 2010 22:10:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The Canadian government says it plans to spend $9 billion to purchase a new generation of fighter jets, the F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter.

There is a problem with the iPhone 4. It is not something that somebody just made up. So even though Apple has reversed its very strict policies on no free bumper cases and no restocking fee waiver, somehow Steve Jobs was still able to present himself as superior to everyone else and that any problems anyone had weren’t his fault.

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In case it wasn’t obvious enough from Apple‘s agitated response to our question during today’s iPhone 4 Q&A session in Cupertino, there’s no software fix in the pipeline for the antenna issues that are plaguing users today. A prior report in the New York Times seemed fairly confident that the troubles could (and would) be solved in the near term by a simple software update, but the company’s own Scott Forstall called said report “patently false.” So, there you have it — the only thing that’ll be fixed via software is how big your smallest bar of signal is. Beyond that, you’ll need to grab some Duct tape, a free case or a white glove if you’re looking to avoid attenuation entirely.

Apple affirms: no software fix for iPhone 4 antenna issue originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 16 Jul 2010 17:38:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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I haven’t been into the whole Old Spice Guy ad campaign but … gotta admit, I love the ending of this:

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Windows only: You’ve probably tested your internet connection speed (I’ve always preferred Speakeasy’s Speed Test) and have a pretty good idea of your broadband speed, but free Windows app LAN Speed Test measures the speed of data transfers on your home network. More »

With analog TV signals to be shut down in most Canadian cities in just over a year, nearly one million Canadians aren’t ready for the switch, says the CRTC.

Honey bee venom may be the key to treating diseases like muscular dystrophy, dementia and depression.

Proving once again that in this world it’s more important what you look like than what you do, the Xbox 360 has cruised to the title of best-selling console in June on the back of a sexy physical redesign. The latest numbers from NPD show that Microsoft shifted 451,700 units in the US, which ousts the Wii’s tally of 422,500 and comfortably dwarfs the PS3’s 304,800. Still, if Sony wants any consolation it need only look back to the results of its own console Slimmification last year — US sales were said to have tripled in the immediate aftermath of the new SKU’s release. So Microsoft might have a little bit of catching up to do yet, and let’s not forget that the king of all hardware sales remains the DS, which somehow managed to sell more than half a million devices in June, in spite of the whole world and its dog already owning one.

Xbox 360 sales increase 88 percent in June, give it US console crown for the month originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 16 Jul 2010 01:26:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Visitors to China’s Green Dream Park—not far from the 2008 Olympics' "Bird’s Nest" stadium—are currently being greeted by a 40-foot tall, six ton Optimus Prime made from five truckloads of car and truck spare parts. Take that, Gundam. More »

Kim Walker, the Saskatchewan man who shot and killed his daughter’s drug-dealing boyfriend, will be free on bail as he awaits a new trial.

Well, it may not come as a huge surprise considering all the steam Android‘s picked up over the past few years, but it’s a landmark nonetheless: according to AndroLib’s data, the Market now has 100,000 apps available for download. It’s also interesting to note that it took just under three months to get from 50,000 to the 100,000 mark. An even more impressive number, however, is the fact that over one billion applications have been downloaded. While it’s not clear if this number includes app updates or not, the number is massive either way, and they’re growing pretty steeply each month. AndroLib’s data also notes that over 14,000 applications became available during the month of June, and over 10,000 have appeared already in July. Hit up the source links for more stats, and a chance to see the numbers update in real time.

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Update: By Google’s official count, they’ve only just passed 70,000; this isn’t the first time AndroLib and Google have had different numbers, so we’re figuring the discrepancy might be thanks to the international Markets. More on this as we get it.

Android Market now has 100,000 apps, passes 1 billion download mark (update: Google says 70K) originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 15 Jul 2010 16:24:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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There may be more to Mel Gibon’s latest embarrassing rants than meets the eye.

Although the tests are still ongoing, the new cap appears to be preventing oil from gushing into the Gulf.