Sony launching its e-reader around the world

Sony is eyeing a surge of worldwide launches for its e-book reader, with plans to introduce the device in Japan, China, Australia, Italy, and Spain. pOriginally posted at a href=”http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-20006138-93.html” class=”origPostedBlog”News – Digital Media/a/p

Hitachi and LG tease HyDrive: an optical reader with loads of NAND (video)

Want a speedy, drop-proof SSD in your laptop? In all but the largest of ’em, you’ve got just two choices: pay through the nose for a reasonable amount of storage, or settle for a cheaper boot drive at the expense of capacity. Hitachi and LG are pulling a Monty Hall by opening door number three — an optical drive with a built-in 32GB or 64GB SSD. Dubbed the HyDrive and currently being showcased at mysterydrive.net, the product is presently being labeled a “concept,” but a set of impressive demo videos already show the ODD / SSD combo booting, multitasking and error-correcting Keanu Reeves like a trained pro. We’ll have more details at Computex, at which point we’ll let you know whether to be hesitantly expectant or gravely disappointed. Personally, hybrid HDDs be damned — we want one of these suckers yesterday. Videos after the break.

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Ask Engadget: best backpack for holding a laptop and textbooks?

We know you’ve got questions, and if you’re brave enough to ask the world for answers, here’s the outlet to do so. This week’s Ask Engadget question is coming to us from Eric, who is just about ready to ship off to the “best years of his life.” If he can find a backpack, that is. If you’re looking to send in an inquiry of your own, drop us a line at ask [at] engadget [dawt] com.

“I am going to be attending college in the fall and am l looking for a good backpack that not only provides protection for my 15-inch laptop but also has space for accessories and books. I don’t care about brand; I want something that will last and I don’t have to replace for a while. Thanks for your suggestions!”

Look, this guy doesn’t need yet another thing on his plate when it comes time to get ready for college. The least you can do is provide him a name and model of a solid backpack for carrying around his LAN party rig and [Insert Course Here] 101 books. Bone throwing is encouraged in comments below.

Ask Engadget: best backpack for holding a laptop and textbooks? originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 27 May 2010 22:36:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Apple iPad launches globally: lines form to the left, gauche, izquierda, hidari… (updated)

Hey, it’s May 28th somewhere, and for all those places, the iPad is now officially launched — not that the UK cares anymore, cake was served early across the pond. Keep tabs on data prices, check out the app store, and be sure to let us know your launch day experiences below!

[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]

Update: We’ve got our first queue pictures popping up and are adding them in after the break. Keep them coming, guys!

Update 2: We’ve heard direct from Best Buy that the iPad is today on sale in its Thurrock branch, and also in the brand new Hedge End outlet, which opened today in Southampton.

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4 out of 10 iPhones sold to business users

Evidently, Apple has succeeded in overcoming enterprise’s early misgivings about the iPhone’s security and business-readiness. pOriginally posted at a href=”http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-20006234-37.html” class=”origPostedBlog”News – Apple/a/p

Qik charging $5 monthly for EVO 4G video chat (updated)

Last we thought, that mandatory $10 “premium data add-on” for Sprint’s EVO 4G would additionally include YouTube and Qik video chat, and well, we may have been only half right. The gang at Android Guys have what’s alleged to be a scan from Sprint’s training materials, and according to one image, Qik’s gonna cost you another $4.99 monthly via PayPal (not through the carrier) to use. We’ve reached out to see if we can confirm, but if true, it’s a bit of a bummer to see the premiums continuing to add up. At least Fring’s Skype video is still free, and as you can see in the video after the break, it works pretty well.

Update: We’re now privy to the official May 26th edition of the Evo 4G launch guide and can confirm the $4.99 fee. While Sprint hasn’t said anything publicly, it’s looking like that fee will stick saving a last minute call from the governor.

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Motorola to launch two smartphones on Verizon in July, says WSJ

Motorola‘s been making good with Verizon as of late, and according to the Wall Street Journal, the two just signed a deal to “ensure some of its upcoming smartphones will be heavily promoted” by the carrier.” The article goes on to say that Motorola is planning to launch a pair of such devices on VZW this year, with the obvious platform choice being Android for both. Our best guess would be the 4.1-inch Shadow / MB810 for one, but as for the smartphone? No clue. Even with great choices like the Incredible and EVO 4G on the market, like we said on last week’s Engadget Show, there’s never been a better time to wait on a new mobile purchase. Better yet, does this mean we can finally start retiring the original Droid from television? Thanks.

Motorola to launch two smartphones on Verizon in July, says WSJ originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 27 May 2010 21:19:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Japan building a robot moon base in 2020, and you’re not invited

Not content with the sheer badassery of sending a humanoid robot to the moon in 2015, Japan has just unveiled a mission for 2020 that will involve setting up a whole robotic moon base. It will be unmanned in the flesh-and-blood sense, but will be populated with a 660 pound rolling bot. The station will be self-powered, and will let its citizen roam over 60+ miles of terrain, gathering scientific samples that can be sent back to earth. While rocks are great, we’re even more excited about the HDTV the station will be beaming back as well. The whole project will run somewhere in the ballpark of $2.2, and will be developed simultaneously with Japan’s manned moon program. We’re going to get working on our “I’m 660 pound a scientific exploration robot” costume right away.

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Giveaway: xplorer² – Windows Explorer Replacement

This article was written on December 03, 2007 by CyberNet.

xplorer2 Dual Pane
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Managing files on a computer is something users do a lot of on a daily basis. Whether it be organizing music and photos or hunting down a document that you can’t seem to find…we all do this kind of stuff on a daily basis. Sure you could use Windows Explorer to do the dirty work, but many of the power users out there flock to the xplorer2 application because of its large feature set.

One of the most prominent features that xplorer2 offers is the dual-pane navigation of your computer (pictured above). As you can imagine this is extremely handy for copying and moving files from one location to another, and when you close xplorer2 it will remember what locations you had open in each of the panes. If the dual-panes aren’t enough to satisfy you then maybe the ability to have tabs in each pane will quench your power-hungry navigation:

xplorer2 Tabs

xplorer2 conquers one of the most annoying issues that I have with Windows Explorer: creating a new folder. In Windows Explorer there I always have to right-click, go to the New menu, and then click New Folder. Why is this not located at the root of the menu or better yet where’s the hotkey for it? xplorer2 not only puts it at the root of the menu but also assigns the F8 key to creating a new folder. Don’t like that hotkey? Assign a new one to it in the extensive keyboard customization utility:

xplorer2 Hotkey Customization

xplorer2 is actually offered in two different flavors: Lite and Pro. The Lite version is completely free for personal and academic use, but it lacks some amazing features that the Pro version includes. Here are some of the things that you can do in the Pro version that the Lite version doesn’t offer:

  • Save and restore tabs
  • Multi-column sort (using shift+column click)
  • Individual folder settings
  • Search for text in office and PDF documents using filters
  • Search within archives, FTP, webfolders, and more
  • Search for text using regular expressions
  • Customizable info bars (status bar for each pane)
  • Mini- and densely packed thumbnails
  • Deep synchronization (including subfolders)
  • Detect duplicate files & cleanup
  • Robust background file transfers
  • Color coding of filenames based upon a custom pattern (ex. by file extension)
  • Keyboard (hotkey) customization

–The Giveaway–

We have 10 licenses of xplorer2 (valued at $29.95 each) to giveaway today! All you have to do is drop a comment below providing both your name and email address in the appropriate fields. We obviously need your email address for contacting you in the event that you should win. Believe it or not we’ve actually had winners in previous giveaways get randomly selected, but since they didn’t provide an email address we had to pick someone else.

Just as with all of our giveaways we will be using a random number generator to determine the winners. For this round here is how we’re going to give out the licenses:

  • 1 winner will be picked from comment numbers 1 through 5
  • 1 winner will be picked from comment numbers 1 through 10
  • 8 winners will be picked from comment numbers 1 through however many comments there are.

Entries for the giveaway will be accepted up until December 4th at 5:00PM Central Time.

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ABC’s subscription video plans leaked in consumer survey?

At Engadget HQ, we take great care not to trumpet the claims of a web survey, as it’s always difficult to tell who’s actually doing the surveying — and even if we could, consumer surveys are all about a “what if” that may never actually come to pass. That said, it looks like maybe ABC is conducting a study asking folks whether they’d be interested in a subscription to an ABC.com streaming video service, and maybe that service might have a wide variety ABC shows, past and present, fully on-demand. Sound familiar? Interestingly, the subscription would seem to be offered alongside the existing free service, and both paid and free would have advertising, though reduced by 20 percent for those coughing up the fee. You can find a list of potentially potential shows included in the gallery below, forwarded to us by an anonymous tipster; we tried to take the survey ourselves, but were promptly rejected for our love of FlashForward.

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