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LGD, the leading supplier of LCD panels, appears to be having some manufacturing issues when it comes to the 9.7″ LCD panels that are used in the iPad 2. After receiving several defective units, Apple has reportedly pulled them until the issue can be sorted out.

LGD fell 1 million units short of their projected estimate of panel shipments. These defective units could have a lot to do with that. It will no doubt continue affecting them until the issue is resolved.

In the mean time, Apple will continue using Samsung and CMI for iPad 2 LCD panels. Apple has also had their issues with Samsung as well. But if you’re in a tight spot, I guess you do what you need to in order to meet demand in the mean time. Digitimes’ source seemed certain that LGD would remain the top panel supplier if the issue was rectified.

Digitimes

yap.TV Social TV Guide is an iPhone and iPad Twitter client for TV. In addition to browsing TV shows, yap.TV allows you to connect with other fans of your favorite shows through Twitter and Facebook as well as read the Twitter feeds and browse photos of your favorite stars.

Details and screenshots after the break.

[App Store link]

yap.TV is your personal, social TV guide. We make surfing for stuff to watch on TV fun, and make it easy for you to mingle with friends and fans around any show on TV. Get your gossip on and be entertained by the most smoking-hot TV guide available!

• True HDTV resolution show guide and user interface — optimized for both iPad and iPad 2
• Revolutionized visual navigation with browsing by category, time of day or week
• TV-aired movie listings now included in our full national and local programming guide
• Full nationwide TV programming for all major networks, as well as local channels in your region
• Instant live chat for every show and program
• LIVE Show Cards for instant tweets, polls and live chat
• Enhanced photo galleries with exclusive cast pictures for thousands of shows

yap.TV Social TV Guide – Twitter client for TV is available for free on the iPhone and iPad.

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Longtime TiPb reader and law enforcement officer, Mike, sent us this tale of a poor iPod touch that got caught up in a sordid tale of crime, survived being run over by a car, and lived to play music about it all.

Story after the break!

[Thanks Spanishcop!]

Early this morning I was patrolling when I heard my Sergeant call out a foot-pursuit. I responded to assist, 3 male subjects had left running on foot in different directions and my Sergeant was chasing one of then. One of the other suspects circled back and jumped into a Pontiac Grand Am and left the area just as I was about to arrive.

While checking the area, I found a lighter, evidence of drug abuse, and an iPod touch 8 gig.

What is funny (to me) and yet amazing… One of the suspects dropped the ipod when they saw my Sergeant arriving to their location. Then the one suspect that got into the Pontiac ran over the iPod touch with the front tire.

Amazingly… As you can see in the video the iPod touch still works. I was able to power it on and off. I recorded a short video to show it. Because it is password protected by the suspect I was not able to gain access to it. But I double clicked the home button and I was able to play music on it. So it appears it is in working order aside from some cosmetic issues.

It’s a amazing that a car can run over it and still work.

Just thought I would share it.

Also I have never jail-broken my personal iphone… So I don’t know what to expect… But The suspects iPod has an apple on power on that turns into a skull. I figure that it is jail broken.

You’re more than welcome to share the story.

P.S…. NOTE TO SUSPECT: if you want your iPod touch back, come to the police department to claim it, and we can have a chat… You know who I am and where to get it…. lol.

Every day, TiPb gets flooded with announcements for new and updated iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad apps and games. So every day we pick just a few of the most interesting, the most notable, and simply the most awesome to share with you!

• Slide-N-Glide: Tilt the device to get the green sliders through the hole in the center of the game grid while leaving the blue sliders on the grid. [$0.99 for iPhone and iPad - App Store link]

• Smash football – the ultimate arcade soccer: Only the best and bravest of animal teams meet their counterparts, the human team, in a spectacular and unparalleled soccer campaign, the Ultimate smash tournament! [$0.99 - App Store link]

• Crazy 4 Ball: Crazy 4 Ball is hung-over, grumpy, and full of unexpected responses. His bad teeth and strange voice have made him a bitter character. Don’t be shocked if he hurts your feelings. [Free for iPhone and iPad - App Store link]

• Insecticide: A refreshing new take on the classic "Match 3" style of game, Insecticide has a greater freedom of movement allowing a new type of strategy to be used in pursuit of that perfect high score. [$0.99 for iPhone and iPad - App Store link]

• Safari Party: A new genre of match-4 action puzzle game where you become a photographer travelling around the globe: Safari, Ocean, North Pole, Forest and Metropole. Take as many photos as you can of more than four animals of the same kind. [$0.99 for iPhone and iPad - App Store link]

Any other big apps or game releases or updates today? If you pick any of these up, let us know what you think!

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Meta

• TiPb on TUAW TV Live
• ZENandTECH 10: In the moment
• Iterate 4: SourceBits
• Mobile Nations 4: From boardroom to bedroom

iPhone 5

• iPhone 5 renders [Speculation]
• Another probably fake iPhone 5 spy shot

iOS 5 beta 5

• Apple releases iOS 5 beta 5 for iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Apple TV, Xcode 4.2 DP 5, iTunes 10.5 beta 5
• Screenshot of speech-to-text activation key found in iOS 5 beta 5 hidden keyboard

The competition

• Can RIM's 2011 BlackBerry line-up hold off iPhone 5?
• iPhone 4 vs. BlackBerry Bold 9900 (and Nexus S) browser battle!

News

• Verizon to stop jailbreak tethering on its network from today?
• Epic already imagining iPhone 8 gaming
• Apple the most valuable company in the world… briefly.
• How to smuggle iPhone, iPad back into China if all you have are crossbows and cables

Apps

• Developer Spotlight: Paul Haddad of Tapbots
• Introducing Facebook Messenger for iPhone
• Google+ app updated, can now be installed on iPad, iPod touch, doesn't crash on iOS 5
• The Federal Bureau of Investigation releases FBI Child ID app
• Cut the Rope: Experiments for iPhone, iPad now available

Tips

• Daily Tip: How to turn on the battery percentage meter
• Daily Tip: How to transfer your MobileMe account to iCloud [Developers]

Measures HD, by Neuwert Media, is an iPad utility app that converts between currency and units of measure.

Screenshots and details after the break.

[App Store link]

In addition to all features available in the iPhone version, Measures for iPad supports unlimited number of favorites and wikipedia look-up feature providing additional information for the units you choose. The UI for the iPad version was created from scratch to provide the best user experience.

Features:

• Eye pleasing design with changeable themes
• Very intuitive user interface
• Unlimited number of favorites
• Built-in calculator
• Rounding slider allowing to change precision on a category basis
• Extensive search capability inspired by spotlight
• Lookup of wikipedia articles for currently selected conversion
• Configurable library with over 1000 different units grouped into 40 categories
• 170 currency exchange rates updated via the internet
• Copy and paste support
• Result can be presented in scientific format (1.094E+2)
• Support for combined units as result (mi+ft, ft+in, lb+oz etc.)
• Localized in English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Russian and Japanese

Supported conversions:

• Common conversions: length, area, mass, temperature etc.
• Currency and precious metals exchange rates
• Cloth and shoes sizes
• Physics: charge, magnetic field and flux, density etc.
• Engineering conversions: viscosity, radio transmission power, sound pressure, am. wire gauge etc.
• Data amount conversions including IEEE1541-2002 standard
• And many more

Measures HD is available on the iPad for $1.99.

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No sooner did Apple win a preliminary injunction against the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 in Germany (which carries over to most of the rest of the EU), then they’ve gone and sued Motorola over the same trade dress/design infringement grounds for the XOOM tablet. (And a local German company called JAY-tech for good measure.)

It’s generally considered a more noble, Zen-like achievement to grow your own line rather than cut the line of a competitor. Apple seems to think it’s smart to do both. To innovate AND litigate, and unlike Microsoft, they don’t seem to want to make Android more expensive — they want to make it less usable.

It’s clear that Apple is determined to assert its different intellectual property rights — hardware patents, software patents, and design-related rights — against Android device makers. While Apple appears to place particular emphasis on lawsuits over tablet computers in its European design-related lawsuits, I believe the reason is that a preliminary injunction can’t be requested in Germany if the right holder has been aware of an infringement for too long. There isn’t a clear statutory limit, but German lawyers usually discourage such motions unless they are filed within one month of finding out about an infringement. It’s possible to get permanent injunctions even against older products, but for preliminary ones there must be a particular sense of urgency. It’s possible that Apple has also been aware of the Xoom for too long to file for a preliminary injunction at this stage.

Preliminary injunctions seem easy to get, settlements usually harder to negotiate. We’ll see what happens.

[FOSS Patents]

Add Walmart’s VUDU streaming video service to the growing list of content companies creating HTML5 web apps for iPad to neatly step around Apple’s revenue sharing requirements.

Beginning today, iPad users can go to VUDU.com and browse through VUDU’s entertainment content library, which includes more than 20,000 blockbusters, Hollywood classics, independent films and TV episodes, then rent or purchase and watch them instantly. For one touch access to VUDU, customers can add a VUDU icon to their iPad desktops by clicking the “Add to Home Screen” button when on VUDU.com.

No word yet on whether or not it works with AirPlay, and as our commenters repeatedly — and rightly — point out, if you do “Add to Home Screen” you don’t get multitasking background support, so it’s not yet an ideal solution.

Still, Apple and Steve Jobs have repeatedly said that HTML5 is iOS’ second great development platform. Nice to see more and more companies calling them on it.

Will you do the VUDU that you do over web app for iPad?

[VUDU.com]

MacRumors commissioned CiccareseDesign to make some renders of what the iPhone 5 just might look like based on the case leaks we saw earlier this month. And… I like it. It gets rid of the glass back of which I was never a fan, and adds back in some thin new — and yes, sexy — curves.

The designs show manufacturers what areas need to be open or exposed for cases, but reveal little else. In the past, this has caused some misunderstandings about future features. iPad 2 cases seemed to suggest an extra port at the top of the device, but that turned out to be a space for a microphone hole. Similarly, there are a few areas on the iPhone 5 case designs that are open to interpretation.

As MacRumors says, basing a render on a case design is tough. Are the screen and home button bigger or is more finger room simply being left around the edges for new gestures? I know what I’m wishing for, how about you?

Check out the rest of the renders via the link below.

[MacRumors]